Antithesis: Thanks, I did work hard to make the battle somewhat intriguing. I agree with you though, most of the battles in fan fiction are kinda… meh… boring to read. I always try to make something odd/interesting go on besides the actual attacks.
Digi Fan: Thank you! I appreciate your kind words.
neogirl7900: Yeah! Why would you want to be eaten? I certainly would not. Anyway, thanks for another review! Yes, poor Charmander, he's like a Jigglypuff; how do you act intimidating when you're just so cute? And I agree about Misty's sisters! I was soooo ticked-off when I found out that they made her leave. They always just act like she's some sort of toy to make do what they want. Too annoying.
Maia's Pen: Heh, thanks for reading! Yes, I enjoy giving Gary things to say. I totally think he deserved a bigger part in the anime. And now he's like not Ash's rival anymore… or whatever. And he's like… nice. Ugh. I liked old, snide, never impressed Gary.
MorriganFearn who is too lazy to login: Thanks for another long review! (Really, I do like those). And thanks for the compliments. Mike and Gary's arguing is something I do enjoy writing so there'll always be some of that to read (well, as long as they're with Kayla). Charmander evolving indeed. We'll see about that… someday. (Tee hee) Anyway, hope ya' like the next chapters as well.
Disclaimer (Hey! I remembered it again!): I DO own Pokemon! No, actually that was just a joke, I don't own it, Nintendo, Game Freak, and something else I can't remember does. Oh wait! Creatures, that's who else owns it. And I think there's even a Pokemon Company now if I'm not mistaken.
The Glass Half Full
Ch.8 Zephyr and Marilu
"Well guys… do you think maybe I should catch a pokemon?" asked Kayla, surveying the land around them. It was early morning, and the trio was still in the dense Viridian Forest. Tress surrounded them, and the few light rays that were making it down to the forest floor were dim and gave the appearance of a heavily cloudy day.
Kayla had been remembering that Gary had caught his fifth pokemon; which suddenly reminded her that she hadn't caught any yet. There was Cubone, but he wasn't caught; he willingly joined her. She shook her head slowly as she thought about it. She didn't really want to force any pokemon to join up with her if it didn't want to. She decided to bring it up to see what her pokemon thought. After all, they would know better than her.
(I think you should catch at least one!) squeaked Charmander, his energy had obviously improved since the night before.
(I agree. Pokemon training is not just about battling, but about catching as well,) spoke Cubone, nodding his head as he did so.
Kayla nodded reluctantly, "So you guys think I should? I can't really understand you."
Cubone and Charmander both nodded.
As they finished nodding, a flapping sound was heard. Kayla and the others turned to where the sound was coming from, just in time to see a brown and sandy colored lump of feathers crash land onto Charmander's head!
(Aaahhh! Get her off! Get her off!) panicked Charmander. He began running around in circles, reaching with his short arms to the top of his head.
(Stop jumping around you fool; it's only a Pidgey,) warned Cubone, as he put down his bony weapon on top of a clump of grass.
(Easy for you to say!) yelled Charmander, the Pidgey still flapping wildly on his head.
Cubone gingerly placed his thick, brown arms around the Pidgey's body, careful to mind her wings, and removed her from the top of Charmander's head. Kayla kneeled down to see the three pokemon.
"Are you okay Charmander?" she asked the tiny lizard, who had collapsed onto the ground and was now panting from the excitement.
Charmander nodded, then looked over to the Pidgey that Cubone had removed. She had calmed down a lot, and was now sitting peacefully, looking up at Cubone with giant blue eyes.
Kayla had always been amazed at how smoothly the light brown feathers on Pidgey blended into the dark brown feathers. Most trainers considered them 'beginning' pokemon, but Kayla thought that they were beautiful, potentially powerful pokemon. This was also how her grandmother had always felt as well. Obviously this one was a young Pidgey, that had just begun to learn how to fly, and had experienced an unexpected fall.
"H-Hi there," said Kayla, addressing the Pidgey.
(Hi!) she responded, turning her head to look at Kayla; but as soon as she had answered, her head turned back to Cubone.
(Thank you so much for saving me from that big, scary Charmander!) she chirped loudly to the skulled pokemon.
(Your welcome,) said Cubone, picking up his bone. He turned away from the Pidgey, becoming uninterested.
The Pidgey hopped over to face Cubone again. (You know, I'm all alone out here, and it's been a long time since I've had a friend…. Hey I know! Guess what I'm thinking!)
Cubone blinked, he didn't like interacting with new people, and he certainly didn't like interacting with children.
(What?) he said gruffly, hoping that once the Pidgey told him, she would go away.
(Maybe your trainer could catch me, and that way I wouldn't be alone anymore! I could be with, um, you--I mean, uh, you're so strong, and maybe you could protect me and stuff!) she finished, batting her eyes at him.
(Ewww! She likes him!) said Charmander, looking disgusted.
(I-I do not!) she snapped back, looking very bothered by Charmander's comment.
(I… you're too young for me little one…,) said Cubone, caught off guard a bit. The concept of love was something he had always tried to stay far away from.
The Pidgey ignored his response, and hopped up to Kayla. She threw a determined look at the human, and flapped her wings to show she wanted to battle. Kayla blinked.
"Well, I guess this is the pokemon I'm going to try and catch. Um…," she thought quickly of who to use. Cubone was at such a high level, he would probably knock out the thing after one attack.
"Charmander, would you like to battle the Pidgey?" she asked the lizard, smiling a bit.
Charmander jumped, (Sure! As long as she doesn't fly on my head again. That kinda freaked me out.)
Cubone sat down nearby and looked at the soft ground below him. (Love,) he mumbled, thinking deeply, his old memories playing back to him like a movie……
A bright-faced Pidgey sat beside him nervously and peered at him out of the corner of her eye nervously.
(Yes…?) he asked, turning to look at her.
(Oh! Um, well, I-I was just kinda wondering if maybe I could ask you a- a question?) she responded, her voice going quickly and shakily.
(What is it?) he said plainly. He had little desire to be bothered with answering trivial questions.
(Why- why did you save me from the Kadabra?) she asked, her shaky voice now mixing with curiosity.
His eyes widened. Why did she care to know? And what business of hers was it anyway? She should just be grateful and leave him alone. (Because my Master would have been how you say, ' saddened' if you had died,) he lied.
He trailed off into silence, beginning to think to himself again. The truth was, he didn't really know why he had saved her. Before, he would have let any pokemon die; and wouldn't have cared either. Why was it that this Pidgey would be any different?
She smiled at him. (Well, thank you. I'll tell you the truth though. When I first met you, I thought you were, um, evil. But now; now I see that there's a side to you I didn't see before. Again, uh, thank you, Cubone….)
She gave one last look, then flapped her beautifully graceful wings, and took off to go over to her master that sat a few feet away, eating lunch with Cubone's master. Cubone watched as she left. (Another side…?)
"Okay Charmander, could you please use a Scratch attack?" Kayla's voice rang out, "Oh, and could you try and be extra careful? She's probably not at as high a level as you."
Cubone looked up to see Charmander nod. Why was it that he was spending time focusing on the past when he should be thinking of the future?
Charmander curled his tiny claws and leaped over to the Pidgey.
(I don't wanna hurt you too much, so I'll hold back a bit!) he called as he prepared to swipe at the Pidgey.
Pidgey just stood there, letting the attack come at her. Charmander stopped abruptly before he could swipe her. Why didn't she move?
(Hey! What's up? Are you okay?) he asked, stopping his attack and feeling confused.
(Yes. Now hurry! I want you to give it all you've got!) the Pidgey said to him, glancing quickly at Cubone.
Charmander shrugged, (Okay… weird,) and leaped at the defenseless bird. He still didn't want to give it his all; he was afraid to knock her out. As his nails grazed the top feathers of the Pidgey, she flew up with a velocity that was unexpected of a young Pidgey.
She landed back on top of the fiery lizard's head, and perched herself there calmly as if waiting for someone to bring her some food. Charmander didn't like this, and began flailing his arms in a panicked attempt to get her down. She flew off a second later.
(That's for holding back!) she said, winking at him with a smile. Charmander ignored his previous orders of going easy on her, and curled his claws to swipe. He ran up to her with all his speed, and this time took a harder swipe at her. But she jumped back at the last second, and all Charmander's claws scratched were a few feathers…
(He's never going to weaken me with that kind of speed!) the Pidgey thought to herself, (I'll have to help him along a bit….)
Charmander shook his head. (Oh, I missed!) he cried, hitting himself on the head, but then he heard a cry.
(Ahhh!) the Pidgey cried loudly. She twirled around after with her wings spread out, and cried in agony.
Charmander blinked. (I barely hit you…,) he said softly, wondering if he had gotten stronger than he thought.
The Pidgey threw herself to the ground, crying out as she did so and covering her head with her right wing. (Oh the agony!) she yelled out, (I-I can't go on!) And with that, she heaved one last deep breath, and then went unconscious.
"Oh my…," gasped Kayla. She didn't know that capturing pokemon would be so horribly dramatic. She reached into her pack for a pokeball to catch the Pidgey with, but suddenly to her horror she realized that she had no pokeball!
"Ah! I don't have anything to catch her in!" she said, her face growing worried.
The Pidgey opened an eye halfway. (What's taking so long! Catch me already!) she whispered, awaiting the feeling of going into a pokeball for the first time.
"Here, take one of mine!" a voice said from behind Kayla. She turned around to see a familiar face. Mike stood behind her, apparently watching the whole battle take place. Kayla blushed. Great, now she looked both inexperienced and unprepared….
"T-Thank you…," she said nervously, taking the pokeball that Mike had extended out to her.
She tossed the shiny red and white ball toward the Pidgey; then magically it corrected its course so that it would come in contact with the bird pokemon. The ball didn't shake once, and immediately the small white dot stopped glowing a red color. The Pidgey had been caught. Kayla walked over to pick up her new pokemon.
She raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know I could throw that good," she said, looking surprised.
Mike laughed a bit, "Heh, it wasn't you. Pokeballs automatically know where to go. Cool, huh? I guess technology has come a long way. Well, congrats on catching the Pidgey. I just got through catching a Pikachu over there myself," he finished, dusting off his shirt trying to look impressive.
Kayla congratulated him for catching his Pikachu, and asked him how his battle with Samurai went.
"Oh that. Well, I won him. But it wasn't easy. Lucky you got his Caterpie, because I got stuck with his Pinsir. Man was that hard! Bulbasaur almost didn't make it. But after he woke up, things got a lot better. Gary went up against him last and had to deal with the same Caterpie you did. The guy used a revive on it so that it could battle, and the little bug ended up evolving halfway through the battle with Gary's Squirtle. Too bad you didn't see it. Anyway, Gary didn't seem to care that it was a Metapod, and almost underestimated it. It's too bad he didn't! Then I would have looked better…."
Kayla nodded, not really listening. She was thinking of Gary's horrible Squirtle. She shook her head, hoping to never have to deal with a pokemon like that again.
"Well, I'd better get going. I promised Bulbasaur that I'd give him some training today for sure. Besides, I wanted to find Gary and show him my Pikachu. He hasn't caught one yet!" he said with a childish ring to his voice.
He waved to Kayla, and she watched as he walked off onto a small dirt path back into the eastern part of the woods.
(Hello…? Earth to Pops, Earth to Pops!) said Charmander, waving a claw in front of Cubone.
(I am fine. Please remove your hand from my face,) replied Cubone, giving Charmander a threatening look. Charmander stopped.
Cubone walked up to Kayla, and gave her a look that said he wanted to retire to his pokeball for a while.
"What is it Mr. Cubo-- oh! You want back in your ball?" she asked, getting the picture.
Cubone nodded, and soon enough was engulfed by the bright red light and sent back into his ball. Kayla looked at Pidgey's ball.
"We'll have to get her to a Pokemon Center before I let her back out. I don't want to make her any more tired than she already is; I think…," she said to Charmander. She smiled as she put away the two pokeballs. "Well, looks like it's just us two again," she said, looking down at her starter pokemon.
(Yep,) said Charmander, looking back up at her, (Shall we?) He pointed his arm to the path they had been following.
"Let's go," said Kayla happily. She sighed. Things were really going quite well. And here she thought that her journey would be failure after failure. The sun was shinning brightly through the trees now, and Kayla was feeling truly happy for the first time since leaving home.
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"Let's steal their pokemon!" whispered a girl's voice. It sounded almost like a snooty, excited hiss.
"What! But Marilu… that's not our job," said a boy's voice. He sounded astonished that she would even suggest such a thing.
"So what if it's not our job!" she yelled, standing up, "I'm tired of doing this grunt-work and kiddy stuff! I want to show them all that we are ready to be an essential part of Team Rocket! Just because we're not old enough doesn't mean we can't handle it!"
She was dressed in a black skirt that went down to her knees. She wore small ankle-high black boots on her feet, and short black gloves on her hands to match. The long-sleeved black shirt she wore came to an arrow shape at the bottom that seemed to point to her legs. The deep auburn "R" on the front of her shirt looked a much browner shade of red than the usual Team Rocket uniforms. But the dark clothing seemed to match her icy blue eyes and sharp, spiky, forest green ponytail centered on the middle of the back of her head. Her eyes glowed with a malicious stare.
"If we screw up though, and they find out; we'll be in big trouble!" said the boy dangerously, standing up too.
His clothes were also black, but he wore pants and a short-sleeve shirt. No gloves were on his hands, but he did wear the short black boots. The auburn "R" on his shirt was a match to the "R" on Marilu's. His eyes were a cold and unforgiving lavender color, and he brushed his fluffy, spiked, dark purple hair back with his hand as he faced Marilu.
"No, I think we could take 'em! They're only beginning trainers! What're they going to attack us with? A Weedle? Come on Zephyr! After all, we got that rare Butterfree!" Marilu said, rolling her eyes in defiance.
"I don't know; and the Butterfree was from an unconscious trainer! That doesn't count… Especially since we weren't the cause of her unconscious state," replied Zephyr. He was not convinced.
"Well, I say we do it. Giovanni will be very pleased when we bring him all three Kanto starter pokemon. He loves it when he gets a complete set all at once!" exclaimed Marilu excitedly; she gave a sideways glance at Zephyr, "And think of how our families will react when they see how the youngest of their offspring can already carry on the family business." She was not about to let him ruin her chances at success.
Zephyr sighed; she had a point. He always had reservations about doing these things, and was perfectly content doing what they were supposed to be doing. "Alright," he said reluctantly, "But how shall we do it?"
"Well, from the looks of things, the two boys will be together shortly, and the girl is all alone. We'll split up and lure them back to the base. Then, we'll paralyze them with Jolteon, tie 'em up with your 'little brat', and nab their pokemon! It'll be a cinch!" she said, licking her lips excitedly.
"Okay… but there's one problem; Chikorita is not a little brat. Stop calling her that!" he said dangerously, glaring at Marilu. He paused for a moment, and then nodded, "Right. So who will you be manipulating?"
"I'll take the boys. It's easy to manipulate them! I'll just cry all wimpyish, and they'll be like putty when I get through with 'em! And I'm sure you could deal with that wimpy girl. Just make up some sob story or something and get her to follow you," Marilu said, waving her hand to show how simple it would be.
"Right," answered Zephyr. He didn't really care, as long as it would work. He would not jeopardize his chance to earn his family's respect because of a failed plan of something they weren't even supposed to be doing yet….
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Kayla hummed quietly to herself as she walked along the diminishing dirt road in the forest. The trees were starting to get thinner; so they were probably almost out of the woods. She watched Charmander waddle along beside her and smiled to herself.
Charmander looked up and realized that he could see more of the sky. (Wow, pretty clouds!) he said happily, pointing up to the sky.
Kayla looked up too. "Oh look at the clouds Charmander!" she said as she noticed the large, fluffy cumulus clouds.
The two continued to look up as their pace slowed a bit from their attention shift. Kayla wasn't watching where she was going, nor did she notice the large rock in the road.
"What a nice da-- aaayyyy!" she yelled, tripping on the rock in the road. She began to fall down when something caught her arms. She looked up from the two arms that had caught hers and saw a young teenage boy with cold lavender eyes looking at her. He looked around her age, but she couldn't really tell for sure without asking.
Charmander walked over to her quickly and eyed the boy in black pants and a dark purple jacket suspiciously.
"Ah!" she mumbled, blushing with embarrassment, "I-I'm sorry--I didn't!"
"Oh that's okay," said the boy, pulling her up, "I would've done the same thing. I'm always so clumsy!" He was still holding her arms.
"Uh, oh…" she said, still unsure of what to say, and feeling nervous that he was still holding her.
"But I'm glad I ran into you. You see, I've lost my pokemon Chikorita around here… She got spooked by some Spearow and ran off somewhere. I'd try looking myself, but I just can't beat two pairs of eyes. Please help me; she's all I've got," his eyes warmed a bit, "If anything ever happened to her, I don't know what I'd do."
Kayla felt so sorry for him. She would probably be just the same if her Charmander or Mr. Cubone, or even her newly caught Pidgey, were missing. She nodded.
"Sure, I'll help you. Um… my name's K-Kayla," she said timidly. She gave a weak smile to the boy.
"My name's Bryant," he said, smiling back, "And thanks for helping me. I just know we'll find her."
Bryant led them in the direction of where he claimed Chikorita had run off in. The three of them stepped into a more secluded area of the forest. Bryant looked around, listening softly.
"Okay, I think she'd probably be somewhere over here," he said, peering around.
"Charmander, you'll help too?" Kayla asked the orange pokemon, who had said little since Bryant had come.
(Sure. Chikorita are supposed to be very friendly,) he replied, trying to shake of a sudden feeling of unease.
"W-wait! I don't think that's such a good idea. My Chikorita doesn't take to kindly to fire pokemon. She's had a, um, bad experience," he said, waving his hand not wanting to explain it.
"Well… uh, okay," said Kayla, though she didn't want to be alone with someone she barely knew. But the boy's smiling, kind face didn't look threatening at all so….
(I don't like this Kayla! At least bring out ol' Pops!) said Charmander, but his request fell on deaf ears.
Kayla was too worried about being alone to think of Mr. Cubone; and she wouldn't have wanted to bother him when he so clearly wanted time alone. She brought out Charmander's pokeball.
"Sorry Charmander… return! Maybe later you can come back out and we can have a snack together," she said, holding out the red and white ball. Charmander shook his head with a worried look, but soon enough the red light had engulfed him and he was gone.
Bryant watched as Kayla returned Charmander with an odd expression on his face. It was a mix of confusion and curiosity. Kayla stared back for a moment.
"Y-yes?" she said shakily.
"N-nothing…," replied Bryant. He looked away, and then his head jerked up.
"Hey! I think I heard her!" he said, holding his hand up to his ear.
"Really?" asked Kayla, hoping that they would find the little pokemon soon.
"Quick! This way!" said Bryant urgently. He began to run towards an even more remote and wild part of the forest, Kayla at his heels.
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"What do you want Mikey?" said Gary, wondering why on Earth losers always managed to find him.
"I came ta' show you my Pika--," he began, but was cut off by some sort of wailing noise.
They both turned around to see a girl in a skirt running up to them.
"Help me! Oh someone help me!" she wailed, tears streaming down her face. Her black knee-high skirt shook with her shaking legs, and she shook the green ponytail on her head as she yelled.
"Woah, hold on girl! What's wrong!" said Mike, looking concerned.
Gary scoffed, "Huh? Pfft, she's probably overreacting."
"Gary!" yelled Mike, shooting an angry glance at him. He patted the girl on the shoulder. "It's okay, now, tell us what's wrong."
"M-my Jolteon. She was over there, and then we saw it. An Articuno! It flew over us and then doubled back and landed right in front of us! I battled it with my Jolteon, but it was too strong. I was so close to beating it, but it got angry and flew off a few feet. I know it hasn't flown away, which means it must be hurt somewhere. I need help finding it!"
Gary quaked with laughter, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! Ah ha ha! An Articuno! Oh yeah! Right!" He continued to laugh.
"Oh Gary! Really, could ya' be any more insensitive!" yelled Mike, giving Gary another glare, "I believe her!"
Gary looked up, his laughter stopping, "Oh yeah? Well if you believe her then you're a fool! And besides, what's in it for me? I spend all of my time helping some girl catch a legendary pokemon, that may or may not exist, and I get what?"
The girl looked like she was thinking quickly. Then her saddened face returned. "Here, just look at what I found on the ground after it fought with me!" she said tearfully, reaching into her pocket and bringing out a large, silvery blue feather.
Mike awed over it as Gary remained looking skeptical.
"I don't know, why would you want us to help you anyway? Wouldn't you want to catch it yourself?" he asked, folding his arms.
"Look, I don't want the stupid pokemon; you could catch it for all I care! I just want to make sure that it's not tramping around all hurt! Are you going to help me or what!" she said, her voice becoming a bit more impatient.
Gary raised an eyebrow; but he just couldn't pass up this chance to catch such a rare pokemon if she really was telling the truth.
"I'll do it!" he said.
"I'll come too. Gary might not be able to catch it after all!" said Mike, grabbing the girl's hand; "Let's go!"
The girl gave an evil smirk that went unnoticed by the two boys. "Thanks you guys."
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As Kayla and Bryant walked into what appeared to be a small campsite; Gary, Mike and the girl also came from the other side.
Kayla perked up when she saw Mike and Gary. "It's Mike and Gary!" said Kayla. The two groups met by the remnants of a small fire, and Bryant and the girl turned to stand side-by-side. The three trainers all stood in a line, facing the two.
"Hey! What's goin' on here!" yelled Gary, feeling uneasy. These two looked as if they knew each other.
"Sorry to burst your bubble boys, but there's no Articuno!" the girl said, a dark grin on her face.
Gary glared angrily at Mike, "This is all your fault Mikey; you idiot!"
"Bryant…?" said Kayla, feeling a little scared.
Bryant was about to answer, when the girl cut him off, "Heh, Bryant!" she gave a side glance to the boy, "That's not his name! His name's Zephyr, and mine's Marilu little girl; and we're members of Team Rocket!"
"What!" yelled the three trainers, shocked from the revelation.
"Jolteon go!" yelled Marilu, her voice commanding and angry sounding.
Kayla watched as a flash of black light appeared from the pokeball. The black light formed the shape of a spiny mammal as it disappeared, a yellow and white spiny dog-like creature standing in its wake. Its eyes were small and lifeless, and it growled at the three trainers as it stepped forward.
Kayla gasped as she suddenly remembered Cubone's first appearance out of a pokeball.
Mike's shaking hand managed to pull out his PokeDex.
Beep! Jolteon, the Lightning pokemon. Jolteon are known to be fearless. However, if something does scare or anger them, they will release the spikes on their bodies in a round of electrified projectiles known as a Pin Missile attack. Jolteon is the evolved form of Eevee. This can be accomplished from using a Thunder Stone. This Jolteon is at level 38. Its attacks are: Thunder, Pin Missile, Thunder Wave, and Double Kick. This Jolteon is unreadable by this PokeDex in the area of stats.
Zephyr tossed down a pokeball too, and it opened with the usual white light. As the white light faded away, a small light green pokemon was left in its place. She shook the green leaf on her head, and gave a happy look up to her trainer. Her bright red eyes looked soft and pleasant.
Mike moved his PokeDex to point to the green pokemon.
Beep! There is no data on this pokemon. It is from the Johto region.
"T-That's a Chikorita?" asked Kayla, looking at Zephyr.
He nodded, and Marilu stepped forward. "Very good! Now, time to give us all your pokemon!" she yelled at them, smiling still.
"No way!" yelled Gary and Mike at the same time.
Kayla started to feel tears form. Why was this happening when everything was going so well?
"Oh, you don't want to? Well, I'm sure Jolteon here can change your minds! Jolteon! Thunder Wave!" Marilu called, pointing to the trio.
"What! You're insane! You can't use an attack on a human! It's against the rules!" yelled Gary angrily; he reached for one of his pokeballs.
But Jolteon was too fast for him. It growled deeply and tiny sparks of electricity sprung up all over its body. Soon Jolteon was a glowing ball of sparks, and when it let out a loud cry, the many sparks shot out towards the three trainers.
Marilu chuckled darkly while Zephyr nervously looked away.
Mike tried to run away, but five or so sparks caught him in the back, and he fell with a thud on the hard ground. Gary was about to throw his ball, when the sparks caught him and he doubled over onto the forest floor; so he dropped the ball onto the ground. It didn't open. Kayla gasped in horror, but she knew there was nothing she could do. She was frozen with fear as a good deal of the sparks hit her in the mid-section. She screamed and fell to the ground.
Kayla had never felt an electric attack before, and now she knew what people meant when they said it felt like your skin was moving. She tried to move her legs, but they wouldn't move. She couldn't get up….
The three looked on through blurred vision as Zephyr stepped up. He pointed to the trio also, and spoke softly to his pokemon, "Chikorita, use your Vine Whip to tie them up."
Chikorita looked absolutely stunned that her trainer had been part of such a terrible thing. She looked up at him with wide eyes, (Bryant? I don't want to hurt people….)
Kayla and the others twitched on the ground, helpless.
Marilu rolled her eyes. "Oh my gosh, just whip the insolent little--."
"Shut up!" cried Zephyr. He looked back to Chikorita. "I'm sorry Chikorita, but I was going to have to do this sooner or later. You knew that. Now please, tie them up."
Chikorita nodded reluctantly, and light green vines extended from the round green bumps on her neck. They wrapped up around the three and tightly grouped them together. Then she made her vines wrap around a few more times, and tightened them. Kayla's arm was pinched a bit.
"Ow…!" she squealed, feeling some tears run down her right cheek.
Chikorita blinked and looked sorry for Kayla. She loosened her vines in that spot a bit.
Kayla looked over to the small, green pokemon. "Thank-thank you…," she breathed, feeling her energy leaving her.
"Jolteon! Another Thunder Wave to knock 'em out!" commanded Marilu. Jolteon did as it was told with an evil smile to match it's trainer's, Chikorita resisted being paralyzed, Zephyr looked away again, and once again Kayla felt the skin-crawling effect of the electric sparks. Unfortunately, that was the last thing she felt, for her body couldn't take any more, and she slipped off into darkness.
Marilu sighed. "Wow, that was so much fun!" she cheered, practically glowing with excitement. She paused and gave another side glance to Zephyr, "So what's the deal with using your real name as an alias?"
"What?" said Zephyr, giving an uncaring look to Marilu, "Who cares. I'll never even see her again. Besides, I couldn't think of anything else."
Chikorita looked at the three trainers that were tied in its vines.
(I'm sorry… I had hoped that Bryant wouldn't have wanted to do this when the time came. I tried my best, but I guess I failed.)
A/N: Whew! See, I told you there would be longer chapters coming up. Anyway, hope you liked it and hopefully Marilu and Zephyr/Bryant were fairly interesting to read. I know it might be a bit overused to have a Rocket pair in a story, but they do always come in pairs. At least I didn't have a talking pokemon as their team member. Anyway, how will the trio from Pallet get out of this one? Stay tuned!