Sparky the Great: This is where we get to see maybe one or even two of the other 'Little Leaguers'. It might not make sense right away but it'll be real adventure-ish. Take pleasure in reading.
Ch2:Runaway House Pets
"Why me?" Tedy questioned. He was miles away from home, carrying a glowing green ball, without food or water and now, he was lost. "Why couldn't the legend have picked a big strong pokemon, like a granbull, or even a houndoom? Why me?" He looked at the sign hanging from what looked like a train. He could read the symbols on the Relic Stone like they were plain English, but human words were hard to understand. Tedy tried his best. "O-out sk-kirt S-stand…Outskirt Stand?" He'd heard of this place. It was where bad humans came in normal and went out acting stupid. Tedy had no idea what alcohol was, so he thought that a pokemon was using confuse ray on all the people. "Maybe I could ask one of the humans to tell me where I'm supposed to go." Tedy was about to walk into the bar when someone, or something, knocked him out of the way. "OOWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" The infant screeched as he tumbled into the dirt, dropping the Sky Orb. Whatever had hurt him must have been strong.
"What do you think you were doing?" A voice called. It sounded like a girl, but not at all feminine. "Do you know what could have happened if a human in there had pokeballs?" She sounded like a mother scolding her son. No response came from Tedy. "Izzi, get over here quick. I think the kid's knocked out."
"Of course he's knocked out. How could you bulldoze an infant like that?" This voice sounded very worried. She bounced over to the other.
"He'd be worse off if I'd let him walk on in. Let's bring the poor fella to the shelter." She picked him up and carried him off.
"What about this weird thing?"
"I've already got my paws full, you bring it."
"If you haven't noticed Prissy, I HAVE NO HANDS!"
"It's a ball, roll it."
A FEW MOMENTS LATER
"Come on kid, wake up." Tedy stirred. His slightly bruised body was covered in makeshift bandages. "The kid's coming around!" He slowly opened his eyes. Two very strange looking creatures came into view. The first was a snubull, or that's what it looked like. She was backwards; she was blue with pink spots when snubulls are supposed to be pink with blue spots. The second was an azuril. Her eyes had black rings around them with thin stripes on the sides of her head; giving her the appearance of glasses. "You ok kid?" Tedy slowly stood up.
"I'm ok but…" He looked around the shelter. It was a bunch of cardboard boxes put together. Above it was the bottom of the ramp that led to the tavern. It was bare except for a small pile of berries in the corner. He started to panic. "WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT?"
"Settle down, you just woke up, don't over do it." The azuril tried to calm him down, but it was no luck.
"IF I DON'T BRING IT TO A BUILDING IN THE OCEAN AND GIVE IT TO A BIG DRAGON THE WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED! Where is it?"
"You mean this?" The oddly colored snubull pointed at the green orb near the front of the shelter.
"Ya!" Tedy exclaimed, racing over to the Sky Orb. Just as he was with in an inch of the ball, a large hand picked it up. It turned out to be the hand of one of the two men just leaving the saloon. They were wearing identical black shirts, red vests and black cargo pants. Black head sets hung from their ears.
"Look at this weird thing, must be worth a pretty penny."
"Ya, pity the poor sucker who dropped this." The man and his friend had a good chuckle over it. "Come on, let's get back to base."
"Give it back!" Tedy screeched. Both men turned around. Neither of them understood what he was saying.
"Well wadaya know, a weird looking ball," He picked Tedy up by his neck. "and a weird looking bear. We're gonna be promoted for this." Tedy cried his lungs out. The men feared that someone would hear it. If that happened then they could kiss their promotions good-bye. "Shut up you stupid creature." The grip around the infant's neck tightened.
"You idiot! We won't get promoted if it's dead."
"Then how do we shut him up?"
"Got a tranquilizer handy?" The man holding Tedy reached into his pocket and pulled out a small dart. The cub's eyes widened in fear. The two standing near the front of the shelter watched the horrendous scene.
"Think we should help him Prissy?" The azuril inquired.
"No we should let him get kidnapped; of course we should help him! Come on Izzi, on the count of three we charge 'um. Ready?...THREE!" With that, the attack began. Prissy gnawed on one man's leg while Izzi slammed into the other's head with her tail.
"What the heck's going on? OOWOWWOWOWOW, get off me you stupid mutt!"
"Apparently the kid's got friends. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH that hurts! Stop hitting my face!" Izzi took his advice. She aimed a little lower. "OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" The man fell to the ground, curling up in a ball and holding the spot Izzi's tail whammed into. "I didn't know I could use iron tail." The mouse thought. The man holding the cub was now being double bashed.
"Careful, we might hit the kid." Prissy warned. She crunched the man's arm until he dropped Tedy and the Sky Orb. He fell to the earth, shaken but ok. "Kid, get back to the shelter. Hurry!" He did as was told and ran, holding his precious orb in one paw.
"You made me drop my ticket to Ardmin, the mouse is gonna pay." Izzi, who was using agility trying to confuse him, got a swift kick in the face and was flung a good twenty feet. "You're next mutt." He was about to send Prissy soaring over the horizon, when he looked at the dog. She was glowing red, fiery sparks surrounding her body. A blaze in her eyes glowed with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. Prissy was ticked. "Not good."
"Next time you do that to my friend," The mongrel leapt at the man, tackling him and sending him flying a good ten feet. Then she cruched his arm until shook her off and ran screaming.
"Let's get outta here!"
"No way! Do you realize that those two are worth a million dollars?"
"I don't care if they're worth a bazillion dollars, let's get outta here!" The two men ran off into the distance, yelling "HELP HELP, MUTATED MILLION DOLLAR DOGS AND MICE ARE ATTACKING!"
"don't forget about me."
A WHILE LATER
"Tell me again why we're walking all the way to Phenac city?" Tedy questioned.
"Because I have a friend there who knows all about these legendaries you speak of." Izzi responded.
"How do we know the kid's not crazy? I mean he claims to have seen Celibi, have traveled all the way from Agate Village, thinks he's the chosen one, tried to…"
"I'm not crazy, Prissy!"
"Ok, jez don't have a miltank." Prissy didn't like the idea of this new kid just barging in and taking over. The desert was calm that afternoon. All there was to see was sand, rocks, the occasional bare tree and more sand. Tedy'd already passed through Phenac city, so he was looking forward to it.
"By the way, how come those two humans said that you guys were worth a million dollars? I don't know what dollars are but it sounds like you're valuable." That stopped the odd looking creatures dead in their tracks.
"We'll tell." Prissy sighed. She hated telling this story. "You see, we were the pets of this really rich woman. She dressed us in these bizarre outfits, gave us exotic food and pampered us like we were as rare as dragonites."
"That sounds great!"
"Ya, it sounds great, but it wasn't." The blue mouse confessed. "We had no freedom. We were stuck in the mansion all day and night. We never got to go outside, not even in the back garden."
"So one night we snuck out and ran off."
"She missed us so much that she put up posters of us that said she's give whoever found us and brought us back a million dollars. If you're wondering dollars are what humans use to buy things like houses, clothes and food." At the mention of food, the young bear's stomach growled like a wolf. "Don't worry, once we reach Phenac city we can stop for supper." The gang just laughed. "Why'd you travel all this way?"
"I told you guys already, I have to give the Sky Orb to a big green dragon at the top of an abandoned building in the middle of the ocean before a big war starts up."
"I told you this kid was crazy."
"Knock it off."
"So what are we goona call our group?" Tedy questioned.
"How about Tiny Titans?"
"Or Petite Heroes?"
"Or maybe Little Leaguers?" Izzi pondered.
"Why that?" Prissy inquired.
"Cause back home we used to watch this sport called baseball and they called it the big leagues. Since we're little, why not Little Leaguers?"
"Sounds good to me, though I have no idea what baseball is, how about you Prissy, sound good to you?"
"What's alright with you is alright with me." She put her hand out. "To the Little Leaguers!" The others put their hands in the circle.
"To the Little Leaguers!" The group raised their paws to the sky.
"Does that mean you're coming with me?"
"Why not, that tavern was gettin' kind of dull. I'm ready for some adventure!" Just then the sound of tires in the distance came to the groups ears. The trio turned around. A white stretch limo was headed at top speed straight for them. An old woman had her head stuck out one of the windows waving.
"Prissy, Izzi, is that you?"
"RUN!" The three friends dashed like thunder.
"Is that who used to own you?"
"Come to mommy my sweeties." The elderly women called pleasantly. "Step on it Jives!"
"Less talking, more running." Prissy couldn't believe she'd tracked them down. "I wanted a bit more action and adventure," The exhausted snubull thought. "but not like this."
Sparky the Great: The authoress apologizes for her poor attempt at action. She's trying real hard to make this story exciting. Read and review please.