Better and Tougher, the Real Adventures
Chapter 11: One Tough Chika
It is a new day of adventure, as our main man, Carl, continues along his set path, supported by his 2 friends Kim, and Yetis. It is, as always, a day that is far from normal, (but if you think about it, what 'is' normal anyway?), and new adventures are around every turn.
Of course, it's just a friendly conversation between friends that get things started. "So Yetis," Carl began, "Why don't you take the pokemon league challenge? After all, you seem to be a very skilled trainer, especially with that Swinub of yours."
"I have!" he responded rather uninterested in talking about it. You could tell he did not want to talk about it. "I suppose it isn't good to keep secrets, but I've been collecting badges for quite a bit now." He stated, showing Carl a small cloth with a few badges attached to it. "I have 5 so far."
"You must have been traveling for a while now." commented Kim. "How come you only have 3 pokemon?"
"I have been traveling for a while. Ever since I was 12, I've been collecting badges to compete in leagues. It's been 7 years of competing and training." He paused slightly, "As for Swinub, I've known him for 5 years. It all happened while I got trapped in a sudden climate change while crossing a mountain pass." At this point, the feel of a flashback overwhelms Yetis as well as the scene.
* A scene shows a harsh windy snowstorm blazing with great razors of wind cutting everything down to the bone, filling it with ice and chill, and then covering up again, with frostbite. Only a fool travels through this kind of weather, and lo and behold, there he is! It's Yetis, as an adolescent teen. Much growth both horizontally and vertically will be in order before he becomes today's Yetis. He looks hardly dressed for such weather, and has been frosted over. It looks like it will be the end. if not for a lone snow pokemon wandering the snowfields. This pokemon, despite looking coated in warm brown fur, seems to struggle as well. The winds seem too strong, and by fate, Yetis notices this poor defenseless pokemon. He lunges for it, to try to help it along, but it is no use. The winds pick up, and the 2 of them get swept off in a cloud of billowing violent snow. When it clears, they are in a cave, both weak and wounded, but it is slightly warmer within and hardly windy. Yet in the cold, they wont live without higher temperature. At that, they stay close; trying to provide each other with much needed body warmth. *
"And since then, Swinub and I have become good pals. We knew we could depend upon each other, and we still do. I don't think either of us would be here if it weren't for fate letting us meet." He finished, sniffling slightly to add to the feeling of touchy moments.
"You have other pokemon though, right?" asked Kim, "I mean, you have only 3 with you. Wouldn't you have more if you traveled so long?"
"I did," Yetis replied, letting it drop. "But I prefer if we don't talk about it."
"Ok." Shrugged Carl, admiring the greenery around him. It is peaceful, and calm and serene, at least until the sound of an enraged beast pierces every ear in the universe. Out from a nearby bush pops a leaf headed pokemon that Carl happens to know about. "It's a Chikorita!" he stated, while pulling out a pokeball. "I think Charmander would be best suited for this!" he stated as he hurled the pokeball, releasing the fire- tailed reptile.
'Charmander' it yapped as it formed from its pokeball.
"Charmander, scratch attack!" Carl pressed the attack; only to have it repressed immediately. "Huh?"
It seems that this Chikorita wasn't going down without a fight! It pressed its assault against Carl's Charmander immediately, with a few sharp leaves, and a head-butting slam. Within range, it began lashing its scented leaf as a weapon, causing some interesting injuries. In the end, this proves that advantage isn't everything. Carl had no choice but to recall Charmander.
"That is one angry Chikorita!" stated Kim. "I have a Chikorita, and I know they aren't that aggressive."
"Maybe its upset." Thought Yetis, "Let's follow it, but we should be careful."
They followed the angered pokemon as it wandered through the wooded wilds. It seemed to walk with its head defiantly upright, and avoiding contact with anything, highly antisocial obviously. It seemed that nothing would get this pokemon to snap out of its superiority complex, except for maybe an eloquent trap, and that seems to be just the catch!
***
"Let's hope this trap works." Came an evil voice. One that hasn't been heard for a few chapters, dear lord help me if I'm mistaken, it's Team Rocket! William, Bonnie and Jay are still up to evil tricks.
"Relax Wilbur. We made a good deal of captures ever since we managed to stay away from that twerp." Stated Bonnie.
"Stop calling me Wilbur!" he nearly screamed his lungs out. It was at about this point that the trap had snagged something.
"If you 2 would stop arguing, we might as well see what we caught, so we can present yet another success." Casually stated Jay as he walked out from behind the tree where the trap sprung out.
"Wow! A Chikorita! We're in luck!" cheered William with over exasperated joy. "Look how it fights the trap. It's got spirit."
"Yes," calmly stated Jay, "We should hurry before someone spots us."
***
"Look!" stated Carl as he saw the net trap that held the small grass pokemon. "Let's get it out of there!"
"Not so fast!" came the voice of a much too familiar character.
"You guys, again?" he said with more agitation than anger. After all, they were more of an annoyance than anything else at this point.
"Yea!" William sneered, "We just had to run into 'you'! We were doing so well until we did."
"Huh?" came the voice of Kim from Carl's left.
"It's like this," stated Bonnie, as another wonderful flashback began.
* The open grasslands, and a few random kids, mostly guys, standing around a giant bird, it's a Fearow. It seems that they are abusing the poor bird. Then enter the 3 rockets (to the rescue), looking angrily at the kids. At this, they run away from the imposing larger people, fearing that they'll beat them up. Jay approaches that the saddened and injured bird, and gives it a caring pat on the head. Hey, Team Rocket catches pokemon, not kill them. After that, it is in a pokeball. After that, the scene ends, but a few more random flashbacks briefly fill the good guys in on what's happened with the rockets. Then it ends right there. *
"So." began Jay, "If you don't mind. We'd like to make our capture now, so buzz off!" He stated while he tossed a strange disk at the 3 heroic people. In seconds, they were within, bound together at the waist, together in one capturing disk thingy.
The Chikorita however, wasn't hanging around waiting to be towed off. It was going to escape and defend itself. No matter what! It kept thrashing within its captive state, and despite its material, the net was no match for the fierce Chikorita. The rockets themselves weren't going to stand up to its anger either, and in but 3 slam-packed tackles, the rockets were sent flying.
"We're blasting off like before!" they shouted in perfect unison.
"Chikorita!" stated Carl, straining from the tight breathing space of the confinements of his capture device. "Help us, please!"
The Chikorita merely stared, no longer with an angry glare upon its face, but a look of concern. These people wanted to save it. That's strange, for Chikorita never recalled anyone caring about it. It decided right there and there what it would do, and in a swift motion, it body slammed the contraption constricting the humans, and it fell off of them. They were free. It leaped for Carl, and into his lap where he sat, licking his face with affection and as a way of thanking him.
"Are you ok Chikorita?" asked Yetis.
Chikorita was confused to the fact that these people seemed to care about it. 'Chika?' it asked.
"Chikorita. What's wrong?" asked Carl, but got no answer. Instead he got a sad, downtrodden facial display. It seems Chikorita was upset about something. "How about you join me?" asked Carl.
The verdant quadruped merely stared at him blankly, but in the end, it nodded in agreement. It was at that that Carl tossed it a pokeball, but it was whapped away with its leaf head. The green pokemon seemed to want to put up a fight.
"Well, I guess you should battle." Suggested Yetis. "Maybe Chikorita feels that it needs a strong trainer."
"Very well. I'll start this battle off with Ekans. I choose you!"
'Ekans!' it hissed, poised and ready to attack.
"Start out with Leer!" commanded Carl, to which the snake pokemon tried to intimidate the grass pokemon with a threatening glance, but the grass pokemon was not scared, and it instead ran right towards the snake with a razor slash from its leaf, followed promptly with a skull bash.
Ekans wasn't done for yet however. "Acid!" Carl continued, getting the pokemon he owned to comply with a poisonous murky liquid aimed straight for the green pokemon, but to little avail. The grassy pokemon was too berserk to care, and dealt the finishing blow to Ekans in a tackle. The snake had fainted.
Carl was a bit worried, this Chikorita had already fainted Charmander and Ekans, it wasn't likely that it would stop there, but he didn't want to lose a chance to get a new friend, and a powerful one at that. Carl decided to take a wager, and chose his next friend to pit into the battlefield, "Rattata, go!"
'Rattata,' shouted the tiny rat, as the Chikorita eyed it angrily, but Rattata didn't seem to be afraid in the least.
"Rattata, use Quick attack!" Carl began, but he was soon caught up in the fact that neither pokemon was doing anything. "What's going on?"
"Looks like a staring contest!" Kim joked, watching as the 2 pokemon glowered and glared at each other, with their teeth showing, both very enraged and angry.
"But Rattata is ignoring me!" complained Carl. He was worried something was wrong. He sighed audibly, and his head was hung downwards in defeat and shame, but then his rat pokemon pressed the attack, and lashed at the pokemon with great speed. Chikorita couldn't compare to the purple rat's nimbleness. "Tail whip!" shouted Carl, coming to as he saw his pokemon beginning to attack at long last.
The rat actually listened to him, and went beyond lashing its tail in the grass pokemon's face, and followed up with a nice deep incision of Rattata. Chikorita couldn't take any more it yielded, and Carl quickly grabbed for a pokeball. It was then hurled at the leafy menace and it was sucked inside. It was official!
"Alright, I caught Chikorita!" he exclaimed in joy. The ball however disappeared after Carl made his catch, vanishing into a small white energy composed of thin air. Our capturer in question looked on in confusion.
"You did know you could only carry 6 at a time, right?" stated Yetis.
"I do now." Replied Carl, as he learned something new that day.
"Slowly but surely, you learn more and more each day." Commented Kim. Carl merely decided to follow better judgment, and not retaliate.
A/N: This ends another adventure of our main man, Carl. His new catch was not bad, and it may come in handy. As always, I ask, no I 'tell' you to review. Please. As always, don't skip on the bad news. I fix things if there's a problem.
Chapter 11: One Tough Chika
It is a new day of adventure, as our main man, Carl, continues along his set path, supported by his 2 friends Kim, and Yetis. It is, as always, a day that is far from normal, (but if you think about it, what 'is' normal anyway?), and new adventures are around every turn.
Of course, it's just a friendly conversation between friends that get things started. "So Yetis," Carl began, "Why don't you take the pokemon league challenge? After all, you seem to be a very skilled trainer, especially with that Swinub of yours."
"I have!" he responded rather uninterested in talking about it. You could tell he did not want to talk about it. "I suppose it isn't good to keep secrets, but I've been collecting badges for quite a bit now." He stated, showing Carl a small cloth with a few badges attached to it. "I have 5 so far."
"You must have been traveling for a while now." commented Kim. "How come you only have 3 pokemon?"
"I have been traveling for a while. Ever since I was 12, I've been collecting badges to compete in leagues. It's been 7 years of competing and training." He paused slightly, "As for Swinub, I've known him for 5 years. It all happened while I got trapped in a sudden climate change while crossing a mountain pass." At this point, the feel of a flashback overwhelms Yetis as well as the scene.
* A scene shows a harsh windy snowstorm blazing with great razors of wind cutting everything down to the bone, filling it with ice and chill, and then covering up again, with frostbite. Only a fool travels through this kind of weather, and lo and behold, there he is! It's Yetis, as an adolescent teen. Much growth both horizontally and vertically will be in order before he becomes today's Yetis. He looks hardly dressed for such weather, and has been frosted over. It looks like it will be the end. if not for a lone snow pokemon wandering the snowfields. This pokemon, despite looking coated in warm brown fur, seems to struggle as well. The winds seem too strong, and by fate, Yetis notices this poor defenseless pokemon. He lunges for it, to try to help it along, but it is no use. The winds pick up, and the 2 of them get swept off in a cloud of billowing violent snow. When it clears, they are in a cave, both weak and wounded, but it is slightly warmer within and hardly windy. Yet in the cold, they wont live without higher temperature. At that, they stay close; trying to provide each other with much needed body warmth. *
"And since then, Swinub and I have become good pals. We knew we could depend upon each other, and we still do. I don't think either of us would be here if it weren't for fate letting us meet." He finished, sniffling slightly to add to the feeling of touchy moments.
"You have other pokemon though, right?" asked Kim, "I mean, you have only 3 with you. Wouldn't you have more if you traveled so long?"
"I did," Yetis replied, letting it drop. "But I prefer if we don't talk about it."
"Ok." Shrugged Carl, admiring the greenery around him. It is peaceful, and calm and serene, at least until the sound of an enraged beast pierces every ear in the universe. Out from a nearby bush pops a leaf headed pokemon that Carl happens to know about. "It's a Chikorita!" he stated, while pulling out a pokeball. "I think Charmander would be best suited for this!" he stated as he hurled the pokeball, releasing the fire- tailed reptile.
'Charmander' it yapped as it formed from its pokeball.
"Charmander, scratch attack!" Carl pressed the attack; only to have it repressed immediately. "Huh?"
It seems that this Chikorita wasn't going down without a fight! It pressed its assault against Carl's Charmander immediately, with a few sharp leaves, and a head-butting slam. Within range, it began lashing its scented leaf as a weapon, causing some interesting injuries. In the end, this proves that advantage isn't everything. Carl had no choice but to recall Charmander.
"That is one angry Chikorita!" stated Kim. "I have a Chikorita, and I know they aren't that aggressive."
"Maybe its upset." Thought Yetis, "Let's follow it, but we should be careful."
They followed the angered pokemon as it wandered through the wooded wilds. It seemed to walk with its head defiantly upright, and avoiding contact with anything, highly antisocial obviously. It seemed that nothing would get this pokemon to snap out of its superiority complex, except for maybe an eloquent trap, and that seems to be just the catch!
***
"Let's hope this trap works." Came an evil voice. One that hasn't been heard for a few chapters, dear lord help me if I'm mistaken, it's Team Rocket! William, Bonnie and Jay are still up to evil tricks.
"Relax Wilbur. We made a good deal of captures ever since we managed to stay away from that twerp." Stated Bonnie.
"Stop calling me Wilbur!" he nearly screamed his lungs out. It was at about this point that the trap had snagged something.
"If you 2 would stop arguing, we might as well see what we caught, so we can present yet another success." Casually stated Jay as he walked out from behind the tree where the trap sprung out.
"Wow! A Chikorita! We're in luck!" cheered William with over exasperated joy. "Look how it fights the trap. It's got spirit."
"Yes," calmly stated Jay, "We should hurry before someone spots us."
***
"Look!" stated Carl as he saw the net trap that held the small grass pokemon. "Let's get it out of there!"
"Not so fast!" came the voice of a much too familiar character.
"You guys, again?" he said with more agitation than anger. After all, they were more of an annoyance than anything else at this point.
"Yea!" William sneered, "We just had to run into 'you'! We were doing so well until we did."
"Huh?" came the voice of Kim from Carl's left.
"It's like this," stated Bonnie, as another wonderful flashback began.
* The open grasslands, and a few random kids, mostly guys, standing around a giant bird, it's a Fearow. It seems that they are abusing the poor bird. Then enter the 3 rockets (to the rescue), looking angrily at the kids. At this, they run away from the imposing larger people, fearing that they'll beat them up. Jay approaches that the saddened and injured bird, and gives it a caring pat on the head. Hey, Team Rocket catches pokemon, not kill them. After that, it is in a pokeball. After that, the scene ends, but a few more random flashbacks briefly fill the good guys in on what's happened with the rockets. Then it ends right there. *
"So." began Jay, "If you don't mind. We'd like to make our capture now, so buzz off!" He stated while he tossed a strange disk at the 3 heroic people. In seconds, they were within, bound together at the waist, together in one capturing disk thingy.
The Chikorita however, wasn't hanging around waiting to be towed off. It was going to escape and defend itself. No matter what! It kept thrashing within its captive state, and despite its material, the net was no match for the fierce Chikorita. The rockets themselves weren't going to stand up to its anger either, and in but 3 slam-packed tackles, the rockets were sent flying.
"We're blasting off like before!" they shouted in perfect unison.
"Chikorita!" stated Carl, straining from the tight breathing space of the confinements of his capture device. "Help us, please!"
The Chikorita merely stared, no longer with an angry glare upon its face, but a look of concern. These people wanted to save it. That's strange, for Chikorita never recalled anyone caring about it. It decided right there and there what it would do, and in a swift motion, it body slammed the contraption constricting the humans, and it fell off of them. They were free. It leaped for Carl, and into his lap where he sat, licking his face with affection and as a way of thanking him.
"Are you ok Chikorita?" asked Yetis.
Chikorita was confused to the fact that these people seemed to care about it. 'Chika?' it asked.
"Chikorita. What's wrong?" asked Carl, but got no answer. Instead he got a sad, downtrodden facial display. It seems Chikorita was upset about something. "How about you join me?" asked Carl.
The verdant quadruped merely stared at him blankly, but in the end, it nodded in agreement. It was at that that Carl tossed it a pokeball, but it was whapped away with its leaf head. The green pokemon seemed to want to put up a fight.
"Well, I guess you should battle." Suggested Yetis. "Maybe Chikorita feels that it needs a strong trainer."
"Very well. I'll start this battle off with Ekans. I choose you!"
'Ekans!' it hissed, poised and ready to attack.
"Start out with Leer!" commanded Carl, to which the snake pokemon tried to intimidate the grass pokemon with a threatening glance, but the grass pokemon was not scared, and it instead ran right towards the snake with a razor slash from its leaf, followed promptly with a skull bash.
Ekans wasn't done for yet however. "Acid!" Carl continued, getting the pokemon he owned to comply with a poisonous murky liquid aimed straight for the green pokemon, but to little avail. The grassy pokemon was too berserk to care, and dealt the finishing blow to Ekans in a tackle. The snake had fainted.
Carl was a bit worried, this Chikorita had already fainted Charmander and Ekans, it wasn't likely that it would stop there, but he didn't want to lose a chance to get a new friend, and a powerful one at that. Carl decided to take a wager, and chose his next friend to pit into the battlefield, "Rattata, go!"
'Rattata,' shouted the tiny rat, as the Chikorita eyed it angrily, but Rattata didn't seem to be afraid in the least.
"Rattata, use Quick attack!" Carl began, but he was soon caught up in the fact that neither pokemon was doing anything. "What's going on?"
"Looks like a staring contest!" Kim joked, watching as the 2 pokemon glowered and glared at each other, with their teeth showing, both very enraged and angry.
"But Rattata is ignoring me!" complained Carl. He was worried something was wrong. He sighed audibly, and his head was hung downwards in defeat and shame, but then his rat pokemon pressed the attack, and lashed at the pokemon with great speed. Chikorita couldn't compare to the purple rat's nimbleness. "Tail whip!" shouted Carl, coming to as he saw his pokemon beginning to attack at long last.
The rat actually listened to him, and went beyond lashing its tail in the grass pokemon's face, and followed up with a nice deep incision of Rattata. Chikorita couldn't take any more it yielded, and Carl quickly grabbed for a pokeball. It was then hurled at the leafy menace and it was sucked inside. It was official!
"Alright, I caught Chikorita!" he exclaimed in joy. The ball however disappeared after Carl made his catch, vanishing into a small white energy composed of thin air. Our capturer in question looked on in confusion.
"You did know you could only carry 6 at a time, right?" stated Yetis.
"I do now." Replied Carl, as he learned something new that day.
"Slowly but surely, you learn more and more each day." Commented Kim. Carl merely decided to follow better judgment, and not retaliate.
A/N: This ends another adventure of our main man, Carl. His new catch was not bad, and it may come in handy. As always, I ask, no I 'tell' you to review. Please. As always, don't skip on the bad news. I fix things if there's a problem.