The Nido King

Chapter 4

You continue to walk alongside Pluscuam and follow the path to Frank's house. It is still a beautiful night outside. You can't help not to dilly-dally. You either stop to observe an interesting pokemon or stop to observe the beautiful scenery. Pluscuam taps your shoulder.

"Hey, we shouldn't dilly-dally. You want to get to Frank's soon right?" You nod to show you agree. "Then don't dilly-dally."

The two of you now pick up speed. You can see Frank's house in the distance. You and Pluscuam soon reach the house's front door. It is now beginning to become light outside. All the cars, pokemon, and people have now vacated the area. You and Pluscuam walk inside to see an empty bed. Pluscuam turns to you.

"Where's Frank?" He said. "Last I saw him, he didn't look well enough to go anywhere."

You hear a rustle coming from beneath the empty bed. A familiar figure soon crawls out from under it. The figure rises. It's Frank, or at least it looks like Frank. The figure is dressed in the same outfit as Frank usually is dressed in. He also looks similar to the way Frank looks. The figure turns to you and Pluscuam.

"Umm…hello." The figure says.

"Umm…hello yourself. Why aren't you in bed?" Pluscuam asks. Frank's face turns a bright red.

"Aha ha ha!" Frank laughs. "One of my poke balls rolled under the bed." Frank said. Frank turns away from you and Pluscuam for a moment. "They actually think I'M Frank. Ha ha, might as well get something out of this." Frank says to himself in a whisper. He turns back to them. "Why don't we have a little battle?" Frank asks Pluscuam.

"I don't think you're well enough to battle." Pluscuam said. "I know," Pluscuam turns to you. "YOU should battle Frank."

You look at Pluscuam with a look of confusion.

"You see I'm a very strong pokemon trainer. Right now, since Frank is still weak, I think he needs to be in a battle with a weak trainer. As far as I know, you aren't a trainer at all. YOU battle him."

You don't know whether you should be happy or insulted. Pluscuam tosses you his only ball in his belt. It was Tart. You nod to show you will battle Frank. Frank runs to the door and turns to you.

"We will battle right outside my house." Frank rushes to the lush green grass in front of his house.

It is now sunny outside. After a minute or two of setting up for the battle, both you and Frank are ready. Pluscuam told you that Tart's moves consist of toxic, moonlight, sleep powder, and giga drain. He also mentions that you want the opponent's pokemon to faint before yours. Frank is now opposite of you and shows you a grin and a nod, indicating that the battle shall now start. He reaches for one of the many balls clipped to his belt. You are so excited to finally get to experience a pokemon battle. You also can't wait to see Frank's nidos in action. Frank pulls the bluish ball from his belt. Funny, that's not the same type of ball his nidos are in. Frank tosses the ball out onto the field.

"Shelby, GO!" Frank calls out. Soon, where the bluish ball used to be, now stood a giant clam-like thing. It opened and closed its giant shell a couple of times. "Like Shelby, my cloyster?" Frank said with a laugh. "We will battle with one pokemon each." He states.

You look at Shelby with a confused look. You toss out the ball containing Tart. Tart pops out of the ball and does a little dance. You and Tart then turn to Pluscuam.

"Start the battle with Tart using toxic on Shelby!" He shouts to you two.

You look at Tart and Tart looks at you. You both nod simultaneously, indicating that Tart should use the toxic move. Tart brings its head back and spits a purple goop at Shelby. Shelby winces every now and again, indicating that the poison is slowly lowering the creature's health to make it faint.

"Supersonic!" Frank calls out.

Shelby shoots a ray of yellow rings out of its horn. The rings separate and circle around Tart's head. Tart gets a little dizzy, spins around in confusion, and slaps it's self. You turn back to Pluscuam.

"Use giga drain!" He shouts once more to you.

Tart hears the move being called out by Pluscuam and tries to focus well enough to do serious damage to Shelby. Strange green bubbles are being sucked out of Shelby and being sucked into Tart. After the bubbles clear, a happy and unconfused pokemon is now present. The giga drain healed Tart and got rid of its confusion.

"ICICLE SPEAR!" Frank shouts seeing as how Shelby looks like it could faint any second.

The cloyster closes its shell allowing it's horn to stick out. It aims its horn at Tart and shoots many spikes from the horn. As the spikes go flying, they turn into icicles. Five sets of icicles hit Tart, causing Tart to wince. After a few seconds since the last attack both pokemon drop. Pluscuam, Frank, and you look on to see if any of the pokemon rise. In about a minute, Tart finds the strength to rise. You win the battle.

You and Frank call back each of your pokemon.

"I'm tired of pretending to be Frank." Frank says. Frank removes a mask from his head to reveal that he actually isn't Frank. "I'm Rovert." The stranger says. "Let me explain why I'm here and impersonating Frank."

All of you walk back inside Frank's house.

"You see, Frank allows me to spend time at his house and raise my own pokemon."

"Why?" A confused Pluscuam says.

"Simple, because I'm not allowed to have any fun. Pokemon and such have a bad connotation where I'm from."

"That horrible." Pluscuam says. You nod to show you agree.

"Well, that's ok. My friend Frank helps me out there. He gave me that costume so I can carry out my business in secret." Rovert puts on a big smile. "I know my secrets safe with you." He nods.

"Well, if you're not Frank, and he's not here, where is he?" Pluscuam asks.

"Oops, I should have told you right away." Rovert gets all serious like. "The officers flew him out to his sapphire house in Hoenn."