Better and Tougher, the Real Adventures
Chapter 2: Bide Your Time to Sprout Good Growth
We last left off with Carl leaving his house after one last goodbye before hitting the road to adventure. He's about to get a little bit more than what he bargained for though.
Carl Spacro is walking to the edges of Pallet Town with a eager mind ready for adventure. It took a bit, but he is finally ready. 'This is gonna be so fun!' WHAM!
"Oh my, I'm sorry!" came a voice that sounded familiar. It was Professor Oak, and he looked like he had a small plant in his hand. "Oh Carl, I was hoping I would run into someone who was leaving town. I have a small favor to ask of you."
"Sure thing Professor!" said Carl, looking at the small plant with curiosity.
Oak was pretty sure that he knew what Carl was thinking, continuing to explain, 1I have this wild Bellsprout that lives in my garden that isn't feeling very well. My garden is a place where I allow many pokemon to roam freely. Trainers leave their pokemon here too sometimes. Normally it isn't any big deal and nature takes its course, but this is not something I usually find to be a natural sickness. After speaking with Nurse Joy, who works in a pokemon center in Viridian City, I found that they might have a cure there. I know this may delay you a bit, but I really can't leave my lab for too long." 'Bellsprout...' stated the creature weakly.
"Sure Professor, I'd be happy to help." Said Carl, taking Bellsprout in his hand, to which the flytrap looked up with curious eyes.
"You should be careful though, Bellsprouts can be poisonous. I'm sure you can handle this though. I'm counting on you Carl."
"I wont let you down Professor," he said as he ran off, holding the Bellsprout in his hands, and when he was out of the Prof's range of hearing, he spoke in a low tone, "More importantly, I wont let you down Bellsprout!" 'Sprout! Bell, Bell.' it said meekly.
***
The Route from Pallet to Viridian was very fascinating, and bustling with pokemon! There was no time for that now though. Bellsprout was sick and Carl didn't want to let him down. "I wish I had the time, but you're much more important Bellsprout," 'Sprout,' replied Bellsprout with a bit of fear in its eyes. Anyone who didn't know any better thought it might try to bite you out of self defense, but it wasn't feeling too well to want to.
It seems though, that life wouldn't let Carl have things be so easy, for after some time running, a large purple snake jumped up from the ground, looking at Carl and sniffing him as if he were food, "W-what is that?" said Carl with a bit of fear, 'I don't have time to fight, but if I must!' Carl opened his Pokedex for the first time ever, and pointed it at the snake on the ground which held its serpentine tongue out as it sat in a coiled form, waiting for it's humanoid prey to make some sudden movement.
The Pokedex piped up with a robotic voice, 'Ekans, the Snake Pokemon. This pokemon has a wide jaw that is filled with an unending amount of venom. It may not have very long fangs, but its said to be able to swallow a large person with its stretching jaw.' "Oh No! Looks like there's no choice. Go Charmander!" He said all so quickly as he released his starter pokemon. 'Charmander,' went the flame-tailed lizard.
All too quickly though, the giant snake began to slither quickly towards Charmander, as he hissed in his snakelike voice, 'Ekans!' "Charmander, Scratch it now!" called Carl, while his starter complied as she scratched the other reptile that was about to attack, but not before getting gripped by the snake's tail, "Charmander, Fire Attack!" called Carl as his pokemon easily hit the snake at such a point blank range, at which the ekans was beginning to think of searching elsewhere for his next meal, but also wasn't exactly feeling very fit to go hunting any more.
Pokedex Piped up again, 'When a trainer weakens a wild pokemon, it is often a good opportunity to try and capture them,' to which Carl commanded one more scratch attack. 'I promised to go right to Viridian, but I just cant leave it lying there injured. It was only getting a meal, besides it looks strong.' It took a minute, but Carl soon found a conclusion, "Poke-ball, Go!" With that, the snake was sucked in, and the ball shook a few times, before it made a small sound. "Alright, we caught Ekans! Charmander I'm proud of you." To this, Charmander seemed very happy, and didn't seem too hurt at all. "But we don't have time to party, we have to get to Viridian City!" he said, 'Char!' it said with a nod from its head as Carl called it back to its poke-ball.
***
It took nearly 2 hours from when Carl caught Ekans, to reach the town. "Finally! Don't worry Bellsprout, you'll feel good as new." 'Bell.' it replied meekly. In the short time it had been with him, Bellsprout had grown accustomed to the fact that its health was in Carl's hands, or so it seemed. There was only one problem now that he was in town, "I wonder where the pokemon center is." He said to the sickly pokemon in his hand. Bellsprout pointed his leafy hand in a direction, and it was pretty accurate.
***
The Pokemon center looked just like a hospital, and seemed like just what would be best for his pokemon to recover at. Inside, it was what seemed a 'not too hospital-like to make you nervous' sort of setting. Instead, it seemed like it would be a rather comforting environment. "Hello, I'm Nurse Joy," called a young woman who was dressed like a nurse. She seemed to be the kind of person that didn't get saddened too easily. She noticed Bellsprout in his hand. "Oh, you must be Carl. Professor Oak told me you'd bring the bellsprout. Thank you so much!" She said as a few small pink pokemon with eggs came out. 'Chansey' it said in a cheery voice.
Carl looked at the nurse with a smile. "It was nothing. Would it be too much for me to ask you to heal my pokemon?" He didn't want to sound too demanding.
***
It was a short later that Joy came back with Carl's pokemon. "You're pokemon are all healed." At that, Carl took the poke-balls in his hand.
"Thank you, Nurse Joy." He said as he released the 2 pokemon from their poke-balls. Charmander seemed happy to see his master, but Ekans seemed to be disappointed. 'Ek.' it mumbled. It wasn't too happy to miss out on a meal and wind up captured. "What's wrong Ekans," asked Carl, "Are you still angry about being capture." to which the snake hissed 'Ek,' in a tone that obviously is saying 'Humph'! "Well, I'm not angry at you for what you did." He said as he put a hand on the snake's yellow neck. "I won't make you stay here with me if you don't want to." Charmander seemed to notice the discomfort too, 'Char, Char! Mander,' was the fire tailed one's response.
Carl then remembered, "Say, Nurse Joy," he called, as she snapped to attention, "How's Bellsprout?"
"Bellsprout is still healing. It's going to be ok." Replied Joy, which really brightened Carl's mood, but the good mood wouldn't last, for smoke began to fill the room.
"Why is there smoke in here?" Asked Carl, sounding a bit worried, as he began to cough.
At that, the sound of laughter could be heard. The smoke faded as suddenly as it had come, and the laughter subsided, and 2 figures could be seen. They both looked like they were older than Carl, and both wore suits with the letter R in the middle of the shirt.
"Prepare yourselves for lots of Trouble," came a wicked sounding feminine voice. The owner of the voice stood at about Carl's height, and had Curly Orange hair. She looked like she was a few years older than Carl too.
"Better yet, just make it double," came sly sounding male voice, which belonged to a guy with short, slick black hair, standing an inch or 2 above Carl in height.
"To make you sad and cause you pain!" Came the female voice.
"To steal your work and make our gain!" went the guy again, and the he quickly went again, "William!"
"Bonnie!" went the woman, as they both got dramatic, "Team Rocket blasts away for all that hear!"
"Give up now or face your fear!" finished the guy again.
"Huh?" asked Carl with a confused look on his face, "Who are you?" 'Char?' asked as he scratched his head in confusion.
"We're team rocket! We're here to take all the pokemon here!" explained William, in a not too pleasant tone.
"So just hand them over!" went Bonnie as she pulled out a poke-ball.
Nurse Joy meanwhile didn't like the sound of this one bit, as she ran over to a phone to do whatever people do when there's an emergency. Of course, that wasn't about to happen so soon."
"I don't think so!" went Bonnie as she threw the poke-ball, "Cyndaquil! Fire Spin around that phone." 'Quil'
From the poke-ball came a small pokemon that Carl recognized. Soon he realized that this pokemon could be deadly, as a fiery ring surrounded the one hope of finding backup.
"That does it! Ekans, Charmander! What do you guys say we battle?"
"Oh goodie! More pokemon to take." smirked William, "Go Paras! Give them some poison powder!" To which the small mushroom bug began to produce a purple powder that looked very unpleasant.
"Charmander, burn that powder! Ekans, stay behind Charmander!" commanded Carl as Charmander began to shoot fire at the oncoming poisonous air. It began to disintegrate, but wasn't quite enough, as Charmander and Ekans both got sprayed. 'Char!' 'EKANS!' yelped Carl's pokemon. "Oh no!" shouted their trainer.
***
Bellsprout was sitting there, listening to the troubling sounds and attacking of team rocket. Bellsprout began to like Chris. After all, he protected him in his time of need. Bellsprout wasn't fully healed, but he didn't care, 'Bell!' said Bellsprout as he lowered his eyes in an angry slant as he wobbled out towards Carl and the battle under way.
***
"Oh this is too easy!" shouted Bonnie, as they began to take pokemon that were left behind at the center. "Cyndaquil, Ember!"
'BELLSPROUT!' called a slightly meek voice as it came around the corner. Slowly and surely, Bellsprout was going to help Carl save the day.
"What's this, a Bellsprout?" mocked William, "Paras, Slash!"
"Bellsprout, you still need to heal!" Then he heard what sounded like a shout of scream from Charmander "Oh no! Charmander, return!" He called back his fire pokemon. Be careful Ekans!" The snake pokemon nodded. "Bellsprout, don't do it."
"Paras! Get that Bellsprout." Commanded William, making Paras crawled towards the flytrap pokemon. 'Paras!' was the sudden yelling as the mushroom bug began to slash at Bellsprout.
Ekans wasn't holding out too well either. Cyndaquil was beginning to gain the upper hand. Bellsprout wasn't really handling the slashes and attacks that Paras dished out. "Bellsprout. Please, don't fight them!" called Carl as Ekans went flying across the room. But Bellsprout suddenly began to get bigger. "Huh? What's it doing?" asked Carl as he refered to Pokedex for advice.
'Growth: Many plantlike pokemon use this ability to grow in size and grow stronger for a short time.' Said the Pokedex, seeming to be rather accurate. 'BELLSPROUT!' boomed the voice of the 4x larger grass pokemon.
"Cyndaquil! Flame Wheel attack!" hissed Bonnie. "It's just bigger, it should be even easier to hit." As her pokemon obeyed her wishes. But the fire didn't seem to be fazing Bellsprout.
"What now?" thought Carl as he looked at Pokedex again, 'Bide: When performing this move, a pokemon will absorb all damage dealt, and then counters double the dealt damage.' "Wow!" stated Carl, as Bellsprout began to open its mouth to unleash a stream of energy. The beam went straight for where team rocket was standing.
"Oh no." said Bonnie weakly. About a few seconds later, there was a bit of an explosion, and the Team Rocket Members went flying.
"Looks like we're blasting off!" both rockets said in unison as they went flying far, far away. Their pokemon went flying with them too.
"Bellsprout, you did it!" said Carl, running to hug the flytrap, as he became his regular size once more, to which Bellsprout cheered.
"Carl! You saved the Pokemon Center! Thank you so much!" said Nurse Joy, happy for the safety of the Pokemon Center.
***
"Carl! I see you made it to Viridian City." Exclaimed Professor Oak, "Did Bellsprout make it ok?" he asked over the videophone.
"Sure did." Said Carl as he showed Bellsprout to the screen, 'Bellsprout!' it said with glee waving its leafy hands in the air. "You saved the day Bellsprout. Are you ready to go back to the Professor's Garden?" he asked the plant pokemon in his hand.
Bellsprout merely shook his head, "Hmmm." thought Oak, "It sounds like that Bellsprout wants to go with you, Carl." Bellsprout merely nodded with a smile on it's flowered face.
"Really Bellsprout?" Carl asked to be sure, to which another nod was given. "Ok then." He said with a smile, holding an empty Poke-ball. "I'm glad I met you bellsprout, you're a true friend." He said, placing Bellsprout within the poke-ball. "Alright! I caught bellsprout!"
"Congratulations Carl! By the way, have you caught any other pokemon?" asked Oak from the phone.
"Yea, I caught an Ekans." Said Carl as he told Oak about all that has happened to him thus far.
Well it looks like Carl is beginning to learn how Pokemon Training is no easy job? What challenges and hardships are waiting in the future? There's only one way to find out, and that's Reviewing this fic!
Chapter 2: Bide Your Time to Sprout Good Growth
We last left off with Carl leaving his house after one last goodbye before hitting the road to adventure. He's about to get a little bit more than what he bargained for though.
Carl Spacro is walking to the edges of Pallet Town with a eager mind ready for adventure. It took a bit, but he is finally ready. 'This is gonna be so fun!' WHAM!
"Oh my, I'm sorry!" came a voice that sounded familiar. It was Professor Oak, and he looked like he had a small plant in his hand. "Oh Carl, I was hoping I would run into someone who was leaving town. I have a small favor to ask of you."
"Sure thing Professor!" said Carl, looking at the small plant with curiosity.
Oak was pretty sure that he knew what Carl was thinking, continuing to explain, 1I have this wild Bellsprout that lives in my garden that isn't feeling very well. My garden is a place where I allow many pokemon to roam freely. Trainers leave their pokemon here too sometimes. Normally it isn't any big deal and nature takes its course, but this is not something I usually find to be a natural sickness. After speaking with Nurse Joy, who works in a pokemon center in Viridian City, I found that they might have a cure there. I know this may delay you a bit, but I really can't leave my lab for too long." 'Bellsprout...' stated the creature weakly.
"Sure Professor, I'd be happy to help." Said Carl, taking Bellsprout in his hand, to which the flytrap looked up with curious eyes.
"You should be careful though, Bellsprouts can be poisonous. I'm sure you can handle this though. I'm counting on you Carl."
"I wont let you down Professor," he said as he ran off, holding the Bellsprout in his hands, and when he was out of the Prof's range of hearing, he spoke in a low tone, "More importantly, I wont let you down Bellsprout!" 'Sprout! Bell, Bell.' it said meekly.
***
The Route from Pallet to Viridian was very fascinating, and bustling with pokemon! There was no time for that now though. Bellsprout was sick and Carl didn't want to let him down. "I wish I had the time, but you're much more important Bellsprout," 'Sprout,' replied Bellsprout with a bit of fear in its eyes. Anyone who didn't know any better thought it might try to bite you out of self defense, but it wasn't feeling too well to want to.
It seems though, that life wouldn't let Carl have things be so easy, for after some time running, a large purple snake jumped up from the ground, looking at Carl and sniffing him as if he were food, "W-what is that?" said Carl with a bit of fear, 'I don't have time to fight, but if I must!' Carl opened his Pokedex for the first time ever, and pointed it at the snake on the ground which held its serpentine tongue out as it sat in a coiled form, waiting for it's humanoid prey to make some sudden movement.
The Pokedex piped up with a robotic voice, 'Ekans, the Snake Pokemon. This pokemon has a wide jaw that is filled with an unending amount of venom. It may not have very long fangs, but its said to be able to swallow a large person with its stretching jaw.' "Oh No! Looks like there's no choice. Go Charmander!" He said all so quickly as he released his starter pokemon. 'Charmander,' went the flame-tailed lizard.
All too quickly though, the giant snake began to slither quickly towards Charmander, as he hissed in his snakelike voice, 'Ekans!' "Charmander, Scratch it now!" called Carl, while his starter complied as she scratched the other reptile that was about to attack, but not before getting gripped by the snake's tail, "Charmander, Fire Attack!" called Carl as his pokemon easily hit the snake at such a point blank range, at which the ekans was beginning to think of searching elsewhere for his next meal, but also wasn't exactly feeling very fit to go hunting any more.
Pokedex Piped up again, 'When a trainer weakens a wild pokemon, it is often a good opportunity to try and capture them,' to which Carl commanded one more scratch attack. 'I promised to go right to Viridian, but I just cant leave it lying there injured. It was only getting a meal, besides it looks strong.' It took a minute, but Carl soon found a conclusion, "Poke-ball, Go!" With that, the snake was sucked in, and the ball shook a few times, before it made a small sound. "Alright, we caught Ekans! Charmander I'm proud of you." To this, Charmander seemed very happy, and didn't seem too hurt at all. "But we don't have time to party, we have to get to Viridian City!" he said, 'Char!' it said with a nod from its head as Carl called it back to its poke-ball.
***
It took nearly 2 hours from when Carl caught Ekans, to reach the town. "Finally! Don't worry Bellsprout, you'll feel good as new." 'Bell.' it replied meekly. In the short time it had been with him, Bellsprout had grown accustomed to the fact that its health was in Carl's hands, or so it seemed. There was only one problem now that he was in town, "I wonder where the pokemon center is." He said to the sickly pokemon in his hand. Bellsprout pointed his leafy hand in a direction, and it was pretty accurate.
***
The Pokemon center looked just like a hospital, and seemed like just what would be best for his pokemon to recover at. Inside, it was what seemed a 'not too hospital-like to make you nervous' sort of setting. Instead, it seemed like it would be a rather comforting environment. "Hello, I'm Nurse Joy," called a young woman who was dressed like a nurse. She seemed to be the kind of person that didn't get saddened too easily. She noticed Bellsprout in his hand. "Oh, you must be Carl. Professor Oak told me you'd bring the bellsprout. Thank you so much!" She said as a few small pink pokemon with eggs came out. 'Chansey' it said in a cheery voice.
Carl looked at the nurse with a smile. "It was nothing. Would it be too much for me to ask you to heal my pokemon?" He didn't want to sound too demanding.
***
It was a short later that Joy came back with Carl's pokemon. "You're pokemon are all healed." At that, Carl took the poke-balls in his hand.
"Thank you, Nurse Joy." He said as he released the 2 pokemon from their poke-balls. Charmander seemed happy to see his master, but Ekans seemed to be disappointed. 'Ek.' it mumbled. It wasn't too happy to miss out on a meal and wind up captured. "What's wrong Ekans," asked Carl, "Are you still angry about being capture." to which the snake hissed 'Ek,' in a tone that obviously is saying 'Humph'! "Well, I'm not angry at you for what you did." He said as he put a hand on the snake's yellow neck. "I won't make you stay here with me if you don't want to." Charmander seemed to notice the discomfort too, 'Char, Char! Mander,' was the fire tailed one's response.
Carl then remembered, "Say, Nurse Joy," he called, as she snapped to attention, "How's Bellsprout?"
"Bellsprout is still healing. It's going to be ok." Replied Joy, which really brightened Carl's mood, but the good mood wouldn't last, for smoke began to fill the room.
"Why is there smoke in here?" Asked Carl, sounding a bit worried, as he began to cough.
At that, the sound of laughter could be heard. The smoke faded as suddenly as it had come, and the laughter subsided, and 2 figures could be seen. They both looked like they were older than Carl, and both wore suits with the letter R in the middle of the shirt.
"Prepare yourselves for lots of Trouble," came a wicked sounding feminine voice. The owner of the voice stood at about Carl's height, and had Curly Orange hair. She looked like she was a few years older than Carl too.
"Better yet, just make it double," came sly sounding male voice, which belonged to a guy with short, slick black hair, standing an inch or 2 above Carl in height.
"To make you sad and cause you pain!" Came the female voice.
"To steal your work and make our gain!" went the guy again, and the he quickly went again, "William!"
"Bonnie!" went the woman, as they both got dramatic, "Team Rocket blasts away for all that hear!"
"Give up now or face your fear!" finished the guy again.
"Huh?" asked Carl with a confused look on his face, "Who are you?" 'Char?' asked as he scratched his head in confusion.
"We're team rocket! We're here to take all the pokemon here!" explained William, in a not too pleasant tone.
"So just hand them over!" went Bonnie as she pulled out a poke-ball.
Nurse Joy meanwhile didn't like the sound of this one bit, as she ran over to a phone to do whatever people do when there's an emergency. Of course, that wasn't about to happen so soon."
"I don't think so!" went Bonnie as she threw the poke-ball, "Cyndaquil! Fire Spin around that phone." 'Quil'
From the poke-ball came a small pokemon that Carl recognized. Soon he realized that this pokemon could be deadly, as a fiery ring surrounded the one hope of finding backup.
"That does it! Ekans, Charmander! What do you guys say we battle?"
"Oh goodie! More pokemon to take." smirked William, "Go Paras! Give them some poison powder!" To which the small mushroom bug began to produce a purple powder that looked very unpleasant.
"Charmander, burn that powder! Ekans, stay behind Charmander!" commanded Carl as Charmander began to shoot fire at the oncoming poisonous air. It began to disintegrate, but wasn't quite enough, as Charmander and Ekans both got sprayed. 'Char!' 'EKANS!' yelped Carl's pokemon. "Oh no!" shouted their trainer.
***
Bellsprout was sitting there, listening to the troubling sounds and attacking of team rocket. Bellsprout began to like Chris. After all, he protected him in his time of need. Bellsprout wasn't fully healed, but he didn't care, 'Bell!' said Bellsprout as he lowered his eyes in an angry slant as he wobbled out towards Carl and the battle under way.
***
"Oh this is too easy!" shouted Bonnie, as they began to take pokemon that were left behind at the center. "Cyndaquil, Ember!"
'BELLSPROUT!' called a slightly meek voice as it came around the corner. Slowly and surely, Bellsprout was going to help Carl save the day.
"What's this, a Bellsprout?" mocked William, "Paras, Slash!"
"Bellsprout, you still need to heal!" Then he heard what sounded like a shout of scream from Charmander "Oh no! Charmander, return!" He called back his fire pokemon. Be careful Ekans!" The snake pokemon nodded. "Bellsprout, don't do it."
"Paras! Get that Bellsprout." Commanded William, making Paras crawled towards the flytrap pokemon. 'Paras!' was the sudden yelling as the mushroom bug began to slash at Bellsprout.
Ekans wasn't holding out too well either. Cyndaquil was beginning to gain the upper hand. Bellsprout wasn't really handling the slashes and attacks that Paras dished out. "Bellsprout. Please, don't fight them!" called Carl as Ekans went flying across the room. But Bellsprout suddenly began to get bigger. "Huh? What's it doing?" asked Carl as he refered to Pokedex for advice.
'Growth: Many plantlike pokemon use this ability to grow in size and grow stronger for a short time.' Said the Pokedex, seeming to be rather accurate. 'BELLSPROUT!' boomed the voice of the 4x larger grass pokemon.
"Cyndaquil! Flame Wheel attack!" hissed Bonnie. "It's just bigger, it should be even easier to hit." As her pokemon obeyed her wishes. But the fire didn't seem to be fazing Bellsprout.
"What now?" thought Carl as he looked at Pokedex again, 'Bide: When performing this move, a pokemon will absorb all damage dealt, and then counters double the dealt damage.' "Wow!" stated Carl, as Bellsprout began to open its mouth to unleash a stream of energy. The beam went straight for where team rocket was standing.
"Oh no." said Bonnie weakly. About a few seconds later, there was a bit of an explosion, and the Team Rocket Members went flying.
"Looks like we're blasting off!" both rockets said in unison as they went flying far, far away. Their pokemon went flying with them too.
"Bellsprout, you did it!" said Carl, running to hug the flytrap, as he became his regular size once more, to which Bellsprout cheered.
"Carl! You saved the Pokemon Center! Thank you so much!" said Nurse Joy, happy for the safety of the Pokemon Center.
***
"Carl! I see you made it to Viridian City." Exclaimed Professor Oak, "Did Bellsprout make it ok?" he asked over the videophone.
"Sure did." Said Carl as he showed Bellsprout to the screen, 'Bellsprout!' it said with glee waving its leafy hands in the air. "You saved the day Bellsprout. Are you ready to go back to the Professor's Garden?" he asked the plant pokemon in his hand.
Bellsprout merely shook his head, "Hmmm." thought Oak, "It sounds like that Bellsprout wants to go with you, Carl." Bellsprout merely nodded with a smile on it's flowered face.
"Really Bellsprout?" Carl asked to be sure, to which another nod was given. "Ok then." He said with a smile, holding an empty Poke-ball. "I'm glad I met you bellsprout, you're a true friend." He said, placing Bellsprout within the poke-ball. "Alright! I caught bellsprout!"
"Congratulations Carl! By the way, have you caught any other pokemon?" asked Oak from the phone.
"Yea, I caught an Ekans." Said Carl as he told Oak about all that has happened to him thus far.
Well it looks like Carl is beginning to learn how Pokemon Training is no easy job? What challenges and hardships are waiting in the future? There's only one way to find out, and that's Reviewing this fic!