Authors Note: Well, this is episode 5, and in this episode, the story
really kicks off.
This episode focuses around a "small" problem with a Mudkip and it's mother
Marshtomp.
And I'm sure that I've messed up almost every sentence in the entire
episode, but I hope you at least can read it without getting mad...
Enjoy!
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When Jason finally stopped to rest, he was almost 18 kilometres from Altare Town according to his PokéGears digital map.
The distance to the next town, Asale, were almost 8 kilometres, and he would try to reach it before dawn.
Teddyursa climbed a tree nearby in it's eternal search for honey. Jason lied down on the grass, dreaming away as he dozed off.
He dreamed about great victories, great battles and great adventures. But he soon woke up.
He looked on Teddyursa. He needed to train him hard from now on.
He let out a sigh, and decided, that it was time to catch another Pokémon.
"You better clean those" he said to Teddyursa, pointing on it's paws. "We're gonna get you a friend."
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Jason had walked for half an hour, when he suddenly reached a rope-bridge crossing a deep canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, there was a river, flowing with incredible speed.
"Don't look down" he said to Teddyursa as he set his eyes on the other side. He slowly started to walk on the wooden steps.
The whole bridge trembled when he walked, and suddenly, Jason could hear a sharp sound.
Jason got completely paralyzed, when he saw that one of the ropes where about to break.
"Hang on, Teddyursa" he said to his Pokémon as his grip around the ropes tightened.
The moment after, the rope went off the other side, and the rope bridge fell over, hanging in just one rope.
Jason climbed towards the other side, and he prayed that the other rope would hold.
It didn't.
The bridge fell, smashing to the canyon wall on the opposite side, where the ropes still was undamaged.
Jason slipped down the steps, and in the last moment, he managed to get a grip on the very last one.
Teddyursa buried it's claws in his shoulder and he cried in pain as his grip loosened.
"We're gonna fall" he said, and felt the panic raising inside him. He looked down. It was about 50 metres to the water. If it was shallow, they would die immediately.
Suddenly, Teddyursa started to slip down his back, still with it's claws buried in his skin.
And then his Pokémon fell, down towards the water.
"No!" Jason shouted and let go. With enourmos speed he fell towards the water, and he closed his eyes and prayed.
The second after, he smashed through the water surface, losing his breath.
He fought himself back to the surface to catch some air, and he felt how he was carried down the river by the strong currents.
" Teddyursa!" he shouted, as he saw a small figure floating down the river, only a few metres in front of him.
He started to swim to make it go even faster, and with all his willpower, he managed to get a grip around Teddyursa.
He put the little bear on his head, to keep it from drowning.
Suddenly, Jason saw the river ending fifty metres ahead.
"No. No, this can't be true."
A waterfall.
"Hang on tight, Teddyursa. And don't use the claws!"
Suddenly, he saw a tree, lying over the river as a small bridge, only a few metres before the waterfall.
That was their only chance.
Jason jumped out of the water like a splashing Magikarp, and with one hand, he managed to get a grip around it.
With all his remaining strenght, he pulled his heavy, tired body onto the tree.
For a moment, it looked like the tree was going to break of the sudden weight, but it didn't.
Jason still had his feets in the water, and he felt the strong current, which was trying to drag him down the waterfall.
But he held on tight.
He didn't know for how long he sat there.
"Are you OK?" he asked Teddyursa, who still was sitting on his head like a bicycle helmet. "I don't know how the hell we're gonna get out of this situation, but somehow, we will. I guess we can wait until the river dries up..."
He smiled without happiness.
Suddenly, he spotted a small, blue Pokémon, attempting to walk over the "bridge".
Jason started to panic. The already weakened tree would break if it attempted to walk over it.
"No!" he shouted. "Stay where you are! The tree will break if you come here!"
But the little Pokémon didn't listen to Jasons desperate warning, and it slowly started to walk towards Jason.
The thin tree trembled, as the Pokémon kept going.
"It's gonna get us all killed!" Jason said with anger, and held his still functional PokéGear towards the little blue creature.
"Mudkip!" The voice said. "A waterpokémon, who mostly spends it's time hunting fish in little ponds. It's swimming ability is so good, that it can swim towards the current."
"Little ponds, yeah sure," Jason muttered.
Mudkip continued it's little walk, and despite it's small weight, it made the whole tree tremble.
But suddenly it stopped, and Jason let out a deep sigh of relief.
And everything had worked out well.
If Mudkips mother hadn't arrived.
Jason suddenly spotted a Marshtomp at the river-side, and it was heading towards the tree.
Mudkip looked at it's mother, but it refused to follow it.
"Just go with it!" Jason shouted.
But Mudkip didn't listen, and Marshtomp climbed onto the tree to get it's son. It was just about to grab Mudkip and drag it back, when the tree suddenly broke.
Jason, Teddyursa, Mudkip and Marshtomp splashed into the river, and a few seconds after, they fell down the waterfall.
Jason hit the surface so hard, that he nearly fainted.
He managed to grab Teddyursa, who had lost it's grip under the fall.
With all his remaining willpower, Jason swimmed to land.
He crawled up the grass, and he made an attempt to stand up.
But he was to weak, and he sank to his knees. The world started to spin before his eyes.
Suddenly everything turned black.
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He was still lying next to the water when he finally woke up. Teddyursa was licking his forehead.
Jason remained on the ground for a while, to make sure that he was really alive.
He felt like a sandbag, which had been beaten up by a furious Machamp.
With great effort, he got on his feets.
He grabbed his PokéGear. It still worked, but the digital map didn't show anything.
"The map doesn't cover this area" he said to Teddyursa, as he let his eyes wander around.
He let Teddyursa climb onto his bleeding back, and then he stumbled into the forest.
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He dried quickly in the hot sun.
He spent his time cursing Mudkip and it's mother with every word he could come up with.
Thanks to Mudkip and Marshtomp, they were lost, tired and completely exhausted.
And all they was supposed to do, was to walk over a bridge. ............................................................................ .........................................................
He walked for an hour, before he was forced to rest, to prevent another collapse.
All his food were destroyed, except for the Pokémon Food which was kept in water-proof bottles.
He gave Teddyursa a large meal, and then he went out in the forest to get some berries.
And when he finally sat down on the stone next to a large tree, he was overwhelmed by exhaustion.
He was nearly falling a sleep, when he spotted a blue little creature, walking in the grass.
Mudkip.
The little mischiever would be his from now on.
"Teddyursa!" Jason shouted and got up from the stone. "Let's show that little trouble-maker!"
Teddyursa threw itself towards Mudkip, but Mudkip dodged the attack and answered by sending a waterbeam towards Teddyursa, knocking it backwards.
"Teddyursa! Scratch!"
Teddyursa avoided the next waterbeam, and he scratched Mudkip over it's forehead.
Mudkip took a few steps back, shaking it's head in pain.
"Tackle it! Now!"
Teddyursa tried to tackle Mudkip but the little water-pokémon jumped aside and smashed Teddyursa over it's back.
"Come on, Teddyursa! We're not losing this!"
Teddyursa tackled Mudkip, who replied by sending a beam of bubbles towards the little bear.
Teddyursa landed on it's back, but it got up quickly.
"Lick!"
Teddyursa licked Mudkip over it's forehead, and Mudkip became paralyzed.
"Now it's ours!" Jason shouted. "It's nothing without it's mother. Quick Attack!"
Teddyursa dashed with incredible speed towards Mudkip, who was unable to move.
Teddyursa tackled Mudkip with all it's power, the attack would have brought a Rhyhorn to it's knees. But Mudkip withstood the attack, and Teddyursa bounced back like a jojo.
"It's strong" Jason mumbled. He realized that Teddyursa wouldn't win this fight either.
Mudkip sent out a new bubblebeam, who knocked Teddyursa to the ground once more.
"Come back, Teddyursa.You're not strong enough."
But the little brown bear got up on it's feet. The following minute was Teddyursas own show.
It tackled around Mudkip as if the little water-pokémon were nothing but a ball, and when Teddyursa performed it's fourth tackle in a row, Mudkip couldn't continue the fight.
Jason threw a Pokéball, and it sucked Mudkip in. It wiggled for a moment, but it stopped.
"Yes!" Jason shouted, waving his hands in happiness. "You did it, Teddyursa!"
The sun sank behind the trees, but Jason didn't care. They had won their first battle!
Jason smiled as he walked down the path with Teddyursa on his shoulder. He still held Mudkips Pokéball in his hand.
Nothing could stop them now!
............................................................................ .........................................................
When Jason finally stopped to rest, he was almost 18 kilometres from Altare Town according to his PokéGears digital map.
The distance to the next town, Asale, were almost 8 kilometres, and he would try to reach it before dawn.
Teddyursa climbed a tree nearby in it's eternal search for honey. Jason lied down on the grass, dreaming away as he dozed off.
He dreamed about great victories, great battles and great adventures. But he soon woke up.
He looked on Teddyursa. He needed to train him hard from now on.
He let out a sigh, and decided, that it was time to catch another Pokémon.
"You better clean those" he said to Teddyursa, pointing on it's paws. "We're gonna get you a friend."
............................................................................ .......................................................
Jason had walked for half an hour, when he suddenly reached a rope-bridge crossing a deep canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, there was a river, flowing with incredible speed.
"Don't look down" he said to Teddyursa as he set his eyes on the other side. He slowly started to walk on the wooden steps.
The whole bridge trembled when he walked, and suddenly, Jason could hear a sharp sound.
Jason got completely paralyzed, when he saw that one of the ropes where about to break.
"Hang on, Teddyursa" he said to his Pokémon as his grip around the ropes tightened.
The moment after, the rope went off the other side, and the rope bridge fell over, hanging in just one rope.
Jason climbed towards the other side, and he prayed that the other rope would hold.
It didn't.
The bridge fell, smashing to the canyon wall on the opposite side, where the ropes still was undamaged.
Jason slipped down the steps, and in the last moment, he managed to get a grip on the very last one.
Teddyursa buried it's claws in his shoulder and he cried in pain as his grip loosened.
"We're gonna fall" he said, and felt the panic raising inside him. He looked down. It was about 50 metres to the water. If it was shallow, they would die immediately.
Suddenly, Teddyursa started to slip down his back, still with it's claws buried in his skin.
And then his Pokémon fell, down towards the water.
"No!" Jason shouted and let go. With enourmos speed he fell towards the water, and he closed his eyes and prayed.
The second after, he smashed through the water surface, losing his breath.
He fought himself back to the surface to catch some air, and he felt how he was carried down the river by the strong currents.
" Teddyursa!" he shouted, as he saw a small figure floating down the river, only a few metres in front of him.
He started to swim to make it go even faster, and with all his willpower, he managed to get a grip around Teddyursa.
He put the little bear on his head, to keep it from drowning.
Suddenly, Jason saw the river ending fifty metres ahead.
"No. No, this can't be true."
A waterfall.
"Hang on tight, Teddyursa. And don't use the claws!"
Suddenly, he saw a tree, lying over the river as a small bridge, only a few metres before the waterfall.
That was their only chance.
Jason jumped out of the water like a splashing Magikarp, and with one hand, he managed to get a grip around it.
With all his remaining strenght, he pulled his heavy, tired body onto the tree.
For a moment, it looked like the tree was going to break of the sudden weight, but it didn't.
Jason still had his feets in the water, and he felt the strong current, which was trying to drag him down the waterfall.
But he held on tight.
He didn't know for how long he sat there.
"Are you OK?" he asked Teddyursa, who still was sitting on his head like a bicycle helmet. "I don't know how the hell we're gonna get out of this situation, but somehow, we will. I guess we can wait until the river dries up..."
He smiled without happiness.
Suddenly, he spotted a small, blue Pokémon, attempting to walk over the "bridge".
Jason started to panic. The already weakened tree would break if it attempted to walk over it.
"No!" he shouted. "Stay where you are! The tree will break if you come here!"
But the little Pokémon didn't listen to Jasons desperate warning, and it slowly started to walk towards Jason.
The thin tree trembled, as the Pokémon kept going.
"It's gonna get us all killed!" Jason said with anger, and held his still functional PokéGear towards the little blue creature.
"Mudkip!" The voice said. "A waterpokémon, who mostly spends it's time hunting fish in little ponds. It's swimming ability is so good, that it can swim towards the current."
"Little ponds, yeah sure," Jason muttered.
Mudkip continued it's little walk, and despite it's small weight, it made the whole tree tremble.
But suddenly it stopped, and Jason let out a deep sigh of relief.
And everything had worked out well.
If Mudkips mother hadn't arrived.
Jason suddenly spotted a Marshtomp at the river-side, and it was heading towards the tree.
Mudkip looked at it's mother, but it refused to follow it.
"Just go with it!" Jason shouted.
But Mudkip didn't listen, and Marshtomp climbed onto the tree to get it's son. It was just about to grab Mudkip and drag it back, when the tree suddenly broke.
Jason, Teddyursa, Mudkip and Marshtomp splashed into the river, and a few seconds after, they fell down the waterfall.
Jason hit the surface so hard, that he nearly fainted.
He managed to grab Teddyursa, who had lost it's grip under the fall.
With all his remaining willpower, Jason swimmed to land.
He crawled up the grass, and he made an attempt to stand up.
But he was to weak, and he sank to his knees. The world started to spin before his eyes.
Suddenly everything turned black.
............................................................................ .........................................................
He was still lying next to the water when he finally woke up. Teddyursa was licking his forehead.
Jason remained on the ground for a while, to make sure that he was really alive.
He felt like a sandbag, which had been beaten up by a furious Machamp.
With great effort, he got on his feets.
He grabbed his PokéGear. It still worked, but the digital map didn't show anything.
"The map doesn't cover this area" he said to Teddyursa, as he let his eyes wander around.
He let Teddyursa climb onto his bleeding back, and then he stumbled into the forest.
............................................................................ .........................................................
He dried quickly in the hot sun.
He spent his time cursing Mudkip and it's mother with every word he could come up with.
Thanks to Mudkip and Marshtomp, they were lost, tired and completely exhausted.
And all they was supposed to do, was to walk over a bridge. ............................................................................ .........................................................
He walked for an hour, before he was forced to rest, to prevent another collapse.
All his food were destroyed, except for the Pokémon Food which was kept in water-proof bottles.
He gave Teddyursa a large meal, and then he went out in the forest to get some berries.
And when he finally sat down on the stone next to a large tree, he was overwhelmed by exhaustion.
He was nearly falling a sleep, when he spotted a blue little creature, walking in the grass.
Mudkip.
The little mischiever would be his from now on.
"Teddyursa!" Jason shouted and got up from the stone. "Let's show that little trouble-maker!"
Teddyursa threw itself towards Mudkip, but Mudkip dodged the attack and answered by sending a waterbeam towards Teddyursa, knocking it backwards.
"Teddyursa! Scratch!"
Teddyursa avoided the next waterbeam, and he scratched Mudkip over it's forehead.
Mudkip took a few steps back, shaking it's head in pain.
"Tackle it! Now!"
Teddyursa tried to tackle Mudkip but the little water-pokémon jumped aside and smashed Teddyursa over it's back.
"Come on, Teddyursa! We're not losing this!"
Teddyursa tackled Mudkip, who replied by sending a beam of bubbles towards the little bear.
Teddyursa landed on it's back, but it got up quickly.
"Lick!"
Teddyursa licked Mudkip over it's forehead, and Mudkip became paralyzed.
"Now it's ours!" Jason shouted. "It's nothing without it's mother. Quick Attack!"
Teddyursa dashed with incredible speed towards Mudkip, who was unable to move.
Teddyursa tackled Mudkip with all it's power, the attack would have brought a Rhyhorn to it's knees. But Mudkip withstood the attack, and Teddyursa bounced back like a jojo.
"It's strong" Jason mumbled. He realized that Teddyursa wouldn't win this fight either.
Mudkip sent out a new bubblebeam, who knocked Teddyursa to the ground once more.
"Come back, Teddyursa.You're not strong enough."
But the little brown bear got up on it's feet. The following minute was Teddyursas own show.
It tackled around Mudkip as if the little water-pokémon were nothing but a ball, and when Teddyursa performed it's fourth tackle in a row, Mudkip couldn't continue the fight.
Jason threw a Pokéball, and it sucked Mudkip in. It wiggled for a moment, but it stopped.
"Yes!" Jason shouted, waving his hands in happiness. "You did it, Teddyursa!"
The sun sank behind the trees, but Jason didn't care. They had won their first battle!
Jason smiled as he walked down the path with Teddyursa on his shoulder. He still held Mudkips Pokéball in his hand.
Nothing could stop them now!