Better and Tougher, the Real Adventures
Chapter 14: Chin-Chow-Carl-Wow
We join Carl back in the present day. and it's 'still' raining! Well, it has only been less than an hour time passing since last chapter, and Carl is still filling his journal with the recent stories. Let's take a peak into the past, and cue that good old flashback.
***
We join our pals in the past as Carl and Yetis have just dealt a 'trade'. Carl received a Magnemite by luck of the draw and Yetis promised to take care of Carl's old Furret, and promised not to mistreat him ever. Now, we find that it is the dawn of a new day, and our friends are awakened by the bright sunny morning.
"Good morning!" Kim greeted with a slight yawn.
"Morning!" Carl replied, but then jumped to the important agenda of the day, and more importantly, "When's breakfast?" (The most important meal of the day, no less.)
***
Well, Carl's stomach was easy to satisfy, and it didn't take long for them to start their day in Tenor City. First, Carl decided to call home, or at least Oak's lab. In the meantime, the gang's pokemon were let out to eat and do whatever they wanted, so long as nothing gets broken! Carl was fortunate to find Oak at the lab so early. "Good Morning Professor." Carl greeted.
"Oh, hello Carl." Oak said, regaining composure, obviously not having had his first cup of coffee, or rather, in the middle of drinking it.
While this was going on, Carl's Sudowoodo became a bit curious. 'Sudo?' it said, looking into the videophone screen.
This woke Oak up faster than a Thunder attack during a rain dance, "Carl! You have a Sudowoodo?" he was obviously amazed by this. "I have a bit of a favor to ask of you."
"What is it Professor?"
"Well, I was hoping to do a bit of a study on the Sudowoodo, but I can't find any good specimens to work with. Now I'm not going to do anything harmful or intrusive, just a study on its skin tone. I want to observe its behaviors." The professor began to ramble.
"Oh, I believe that I can safely say that Sudowoodo is a rock type. I've heard a few reports of you guys trying to determine it for sure." Carl smiled feeling very sure of himself.
"Of course, but that was a year or so ago." The Professor responded with a laugh. "We don't know its behavior in the wild however, which is what I wish to study it."
Carl looked to the pokemon for the final word in this matter, and the rock pokemon gave it! 'Sudo.' It happily replied with a nod. After all, he trusted that Carl had rather good judgment. Even if he was captured, he began to like it. Carl was after all, caring, and loving, and a good friend. He would be glad to help a friend of Carl's, who would therefore become one of Sudowoodo. It's simple logic, really.
"Ok. I'll miss you while you're gone Sudowoodo, but I'll call you back as soon as I can." Carl replied. He was going to miss his rock pokemon greatly.
***
Now, we find our heroes beginning their adventure as they leave the pokemon center with hopes and dreams. It is Yetis who decides to bring in the good adventure at the reading of a road sign. "'This way to Tenor Park.' Hmm." he thinks, "I bet this will be a good chance to find some neat pokemon!"
"I like the sound of this." Carl stated as they made their way towards the park. It was nicely sized, and it even had a lake that was brimming with life. Our main man liked the lake "Wow! I could use a good water pokemon!" Carl exclaimed. He honestly did need one. Then from the water jumped a weird looking fish. It had yellow glowing antennules. It was blue, and had big, yet strange looking eyes.
Pokedex had the info (as always), 'Chinchou, the angler pokemon. The glow produced from its glowing antenna are used for magnetic pull and lighting up the abysmal ocean depths.'
"Ocean depths?" Yetis questioned, "But this is a pond with no way to the sea."
It seems his question would be answered, but by who? "The Chinchou here migrate each and every year." Came a new voice, feminine, and the owner of the voice would be enough to send most men off the deep end, as it almost just did to Yetis and Carl, who quickly regained composure before making themselves seem stupid.
"Migrate?" Carl asked, "Where could they possibly migrate to?"
"I don't really know." The beauty responded. "There's an underwater tunnel, but it's much too narrow to try to follow it to the ocean, and we have a feeling it is much too long." She paused, "Well, where are my manners?" she then proceeded to, with a cute giggle, "I'm Elise." "I'm Carl, and this is Kim, and he's Yetis." Our main man greeted, but his eyes went back to the stream. and the chinchou. 'A water pokemon like that would be perfect for my team. I have to have 1!'
"Well met Elise!" Yetis said, shaking her hand, happily.
***
Meanwhile, back at Pallet Town, we join Carl's good friend Sheryl, who as you might or (if you haven't been reading carefully, shame-shame!) might not know, really has a crush on Carl. She's also been helping out in the lab with Professor Oak. Now back to our story.
"Professor Oak," the girl stated to get the professor's attention, "How goes the study on the Sudowoodo?"
"Huh?" the Professor asked, dumbfounded, "Oh, yes. Well, it's going quite well. We were fortunate to find such an obedient candidate." He paused and added a bit more detail "Carl sent him to me!"
This was enough to get Sheryl's attention more fully than it already was. "Cool!" she said, in slight fascination, as our scene changed back to our main man, and his friends.
***
Back with our main man, we get back to the action. Carl seems to not want to waste any time trying to catch a Chinchou. "Magnemite, let's go!" He exclaimed, releasing the flying magnet from its pokeball.
"Magnemite, lets start out with attract!" Carl commanded, and by attract, he didn't quite mean the seductive move of love. After all, a genderless hunk of metal with a few screws loose isn't very sexy to most creatures. Instead, he meant to do what magnetic forces do best.
Meanwhile, Yetis and Kim decided to converse with Elise a bit. Yetis started, "So, what might a lady like you be doing here?" he asked with a slight smirk.
"Me, oh, I live here." She responded. "I help my sister out with running the gym sometimes, but it can be very boring." She sighed. "I want to go see the world!" she said with a giddy smile, "I need adventure and excitement. I feel like it would make everything more fun!"
Meanwhile, Carl's plan to lure out the Chinchou didn't work quite like he planned. 'Magnemite.' went the floating magnet, with slight dizziness. The plan to lure the Chinchous out worked, but it lured too many of them.
"I'm sorry Magnemite. Don't worry. You did what you could, I didn't know there'd be so many." Carl replied a bit upset.
The tone Magnemite used could obviously be determined as saying 'Aw, don't worry bout it. I forgive you.'
"You earned a good rest." He said recalling the flying metal orb. Around him, a few Chinchous were still staring at Carl, watching, and waiting to see his next move.
Carl decided to try another move. "Weepinbell go! Use Razor Leaf!" commanded Carl. This move had the leafy pokemon tossing sharp, pointy leaves at his foe. A few hit some designated targets, but they didn't seem to stop the angry Chinchous, who began to counter with electrical voltage!
"Look at Carl!" Kim stated, "He really seems determined to get one of those Chinchou."
Yetis nodded, "Well, it is good to have determination. I have a feeling that it will lead Carl to greatness some day."
The electrical assault didn't phase the bell pokemon at all, and Carl decided to assault again. "Weepinbell, use Sleep Powder!" he commanded, causing the bell to leap into the air, lunging towards the group of Chinchous, like a suicide bomber, and stop before he hit the ground, and spun around unleashing a powdery substance that brought about an early curfew.
Unfortunately, unlike the mighty 'Spore', Sleep powder was less accurate, as a several of the sparked up fish fled to the deep water to try to escape the snooze to lose. One however, didn't seem to make it back to the holy water of salvation known as the pond. It was now that Carl had his chance. "Pokeball, go!" he shouted, as he tossed it right at the sleeping fish. It didn't really have enough will to fight, spending most of its time in nap world. It would be a bit until wake up time. "Yes! I got the Chinchou. I'm exhausted" He exclaim. well, yawned. He was happy, but he must have breathed in a bit too much powder.
***
It wasn't too much later, but it was as though only a few seconds had passed in Carl's mind. At the current time, he was at the Pokemon Center with his friends, and this new girl Elise. "Hey guys. How'd we get here so fast?" he asked with confusion.
"We didn't. We had to drag you back to the pokemon center because you managed to breathe in some of the powder you had Weepinbell make." Yetis replied. Weepinbell was there too, right at Carl's side. He had a look of sorrow.
"Don't blame yourself Weepinbell." Carl reassured with a smile, as the pokemon leaped right into the air and embraced his trainer, and true friend. "Wait a minute. What happened to the Chinchou I caught?" he asked, suddenly remembering things a bit clearer now that he was fully awake.
"Here Carl. Chinchou is just fine. I don't know if it likes that you took it from the wild, but he's perfectly healthy." Kim stated, as she held up a pokeball and released the anglerfish from its compound.
"Hi Chinchou!" Carl said in a friendly tone. "I'm Carl. Welcome to the team!" he greeted with a warm smile. The blue and yellow pokemon was taken aback a bit though, and was just a bit confused about all this. After all, it was in captivity, but this human was being nice to it? Was it possible? Chinchou of course had no clue. 'Chin?' it asked, holding one of its arm fins to its mouth, feeling completely dumbfounded.
"I think they'll get along just fine." Yetis smiled, as Carl and Chinchou became part of the background for the time being.
"Are you sure?" asked Elise.
"Of course. It may not look it," Yetis began, "But Carl really cares about his pokemon. He knows that they are our friends. He is by far a skilled trainer." He paused. "I only wish I realized that love was an important factor in training pokemon, but I learned too late." he let hang a chance at a flashback. After all, we're not ready to hear Yetis' story 'yet'. It would ruin the suspense! Speaking of suspense, the outside weather looks cloudy at this time, and it looks ready to rain. Just about time to end our flashback.
***
'And so, that's basically how my day ended. I called Professor Oak again, and he said he was going to need Sudowoodo there for a little while longer, but I trust that he knows what he's doing. Anyway, as soon as this rain stops, I'm going to try my luck at the gym. However, I don't need luck to win. I have trust in my pokemon, and that's all that is needed.' He completed his writing with a flick of his pen cap. The rain didn't seem to show any signs of stopping any time soon.
"Well, I guess that we better hope things turn out better in the morning." Carl shrugged as a bolt of lightning crashed through the skies, and our story comes to an end for now.
A/N: Is this a cliffhanger? Nah! Just a chapter ending. See how reviews help shape the story. A reviewer asked for Chinchou, and Carl has it. (Simple theory, isn't it.) so send reviews, and do whatever in the review, anything at all! As always. I want 25 by the time I have added 2 newer chapters, or there might be some great delays.
Chapter 14: Chin-Chow-Carl-Wow
We join Carl back in the present day. and it's 'still' raining! Well, it has only been less than an hour time passing since last chapter, and Carl is still filling his journal with the recent stories. Let's take a peak into the past, and cue that good old flashback.
***
We join our pals in the past as Carl and Yetis have just dealt a 'trade'. Carl received a Magnemite by luck of the draw and Yetis promised to take care of Carl's old Furret, and promised not to mistreat him ever. Now, we find that it is the dawn of a new day, and our friends are awakened by the bright sunny morning.
"Good morning!" Kim greeted with a slight yawn.
"Morning!" Carl replied, but then jumped to the important agenda of the day, and more importantly, "When's breakfast?" (The most important meal of the day, no less.)
***
Well, Carl's stomach was easy to satisfy, and it didn't take long for them to start their day in Tenor City. First, Carl decided to call home, or at least Oak's lab. In the meantime, the gang's pokemon were let out to eat and do whatever they wanted, so long as nothing gets broken! Carl was fortunate to find Oak at the lab so early. "Good Morning Professor." Carl greeted.
"Oh, hello Carl." Oak said, regaining composure, obviously not having had his first cup of coffee, or rather, in the middle of drinking it.
While this was going on, Carl's Sudowoodo became a bit curious. 'Sudo?' it said, looking into the videophone screen.
This woke Oak up faster than a Thunder attack during a rain dance, "Carl! You have a Sudowoodo?" he was obviously amazed by this. "I have a bit of a favor to ask of you."
"What is it Professor?"
"Well, I was hoping to do a bit of a study on the Sudowoodo, but I can't find any good specimens to work with. Now I'm not going to do anything harmful or intrusive, just a study on its skin tone. I want to observe its behaviors." The professor began to ramble.
"Oh, I believe that I can safely say that Sudowoodo is a rock type. I've heard a few reports of you guys trying to determine it for sure." Carl smiled feeling very sure of himself.
"Of course, but that was a year or so ago." The Professor responded with a laugh. "We don't know its behavior in the wild however, which is what I wish to study it."
Carl looked to the pokemon for the final word in this matter, and the rock pokemon gave it! 'Sudo.' It happily replied with a nod. After all, he trusted that Carl had rather good judgment. Even if he was captured, he began to like it. Carl was after all, caring, and loving, and a good friend. He would be glad to help a friend of Carl's, who would therefore become one of Sudowoodo. It's simple logic, really.
"Ok. I'll miss you while you're gone Sudowoodo, but I'll call you back as soon as I can." Carl replied. He was going to miss his rock pokemon greatly.
***
Now, we find our heroes beginning their adventure as they leave the pokemon center with hopes and dreams. It is Yetis who decides to bring in the good adventure at the reading of a road sign. "'This way to Tenor Park.' Hmm." he thinks, "I bet this will be a good chance to find some neat pokemon!"
"I like the sound of this." Carl stated as they made their way towards the park. It was nicely sized, and it even had a lake that was brimming with life. Our main man liked the lake "Wow! I could use a good water pokemon!" Carl exclaimed. He honestly did need one. Then from the water jumped a weird looking fish. It had yellow glowing antennules. It was blue, and had big, yet strange looking eyes.
Pokedex had the info (as always), 'Chinchou, the angler pokemon. The glow produced from its glowing antenna are used for magnetic pull and lighting up the abysmal ocean depths.'
"Ocean depths?" Yetis questioned, "But this is a pond with no way to the sea."
It seems his question would be answered, but by who? "The Chinchou here migrate each and every year." Came a new voice, feminine, and the owner of the voice would be enough to send most men off the deep end, as it almost just did to Yetis and Carl, who quickly regained composure before making themselves seem stupid.
"Migrate?" Carl asked, "Where could they possibly migrate to?"
"I don't really know." The beauty responded. "There's an underwater tunnel, but it's much too narrow to try to follow it to the ocean, and we have a feeling it is much too long." She paused, "Well, where are my manners?" she then proceeded to, with a cute giggle, "I'm Elise." "I'm Carl, and this is Kim, and he's Yetis." Our main man greeted, but his eyes went back to the stream. and the chinchou. 'A water pokemon like that would be perfect for my team. I have to have 1!'
"Well met Elise!" Yetis said, shaking her hand, happily.
***
Meanwhile, back at Pallet Town, we join Carl's good friend Sheryl, who as you might or (if you haven't been reading carefully, shame-shame!) might not know, really has a crush on Carl. She's also been helping out in the lab with Professor Oak. Now back to our story.
"Professor Oak," the girl stated to get the professor's attention, "How goes the study on the Sudowoodo?"
"Huh?" the Professor asked, dumbfounded, "Oh, yes. Well, it's going quite well. We were fortunate to find such an obedient candidate." He paused and added a bit more detail "Carl sent him to me!"
This was enough to get Sheryl's attention more fully than it already was. "Cool!" she said, in slight fascination, as our scene changed back to our main man, and his friends.
***
Back with our main man, we get back to the action. Carl seems to not want to waste any time trying to catch a Chinchou. "Magnemite, let's go!" He exclaimed, releasing the flying magnet from its pokeball.
"Magnemite, lets start out with attract!" Carl commanded, and by attract, he didn't quite mean the seductive move of love. After all, a genderless hunk of metal with a few screws loose isn't very sexy to most creatures. Instead, he meant to do what magnetic forces do best.
Meanwhile, Yetis and Kim decided to converse with Elise a bit. Yetis started, "So, what might a lady like you be doing here?" he asked with a slight smirk.
"Me, oh, I live here." She responded. "I help my sister out with running the gym sometimes, but it can be very boring." She sighed. "I want to go see the world!" she said with a giddy smile, "I need adventure and excitement. I feel like it would make everything more fun!"
Meanwhile, Carl's plan to lure out the Chinchou didn't work quite like he planned. 'Magnemite.' went the floating magnet, with slight dizziness. The plan to lure the Chinchous out worked, but it lured too many of them.
"I'm sorry Magnemite. Don't worry. You did what you could, I didn't know there'd be so many." Carl replied a bit upset.
The tone Magnemite used could obviously be determined as saying 'Aw, don't worry bout it. I forgive you.'
"You earned a good rest." He said recalling the flying metal orb. Around him, a few Chinchous were still staring at Carl, watching, and waiting to see his next move.
Carl decided to try another move. "Weepinbell go! Use Razor Leaf!" commanded Carl. This move had the leafy pokemon tossing sharp, pointy leaves at his foe. A few hit some designated targets, but they didn't seem to stop the angry Chinchous, who began to counter with electrical voltage!
"Look at Carl!" Kim stated, "He really seems determined to get one of those Chinchou."
Yetis nodded, "Well, it is good to have determination. I have a feeling that it will lead Carl to greatness some day."
The electrical assault didn't phase the bell pokemon at all, and Carl decided to assault again. "Weepinbell, use Sleep Powder!" he commanded, causing the bell to leap into the air, lunging towards the group of Chinchous, like a suicide bomber, and stop before he hit the ground, and spun around unleashing a powdery substance that brought about an early curfew.
Unfortunately, unlike the mighty 'Spore', Sleep powder was less accurate, as a several of the sparked up fish fled to the deep water to try to escape the snooze to lose. One however, didn't seem to make it back to the holy water of salvation known as the pond. It was now that Carl had his chance. "Pokeball, go!" he shouted, as he tossed it right at the sleeping fish. It didn't really have enough will to fight, spending most of its time in nap world. It would be a bit until wake up time. "Yes! I got the Chinchou. I'm exhausted" He exclaim. well, yawned. He was happy, but he must have breathed in a bit too much powder.
***
It wasn't too much later, but it was as though only a few seconds had passed in Carl's mind. At the current time, he was at the Pokemon Center with his friends, and this new girl Elise. "Hey guys. How'd we get here so fast?" he asked with confusion.
"We didn't. We had to drag you back to the pokemon center because you managed to breathe in some of the powder you had Weepinbell make." Yetis replied. Weepinbell was there too, right at Carl's side. He had a look of sorrow.
"Don't blame yourself Weepinbell." Carl reassured with a smile, as the pokemon leaped right into the air and embraced his trainer, and true friend. "Wait a minute. What happened to the Chinchou I caught?" he asked, suddenly remembering things a bit clearer now that he was fully awake.
"Here Carl. Chinchou is just fine. I don't know if it likes that you took it from the wild, but he's perfectly healthy." Kim stated, as she held up a pokeball and released the anglerfish from its compound.
"Hi Chinchou!" Carl said in a friendly tone. "I'm Carl. Welcome to the team!" he greeted with a warm smile. The blue and yellow pokemon was taken aback a bit though, and was just a bit confused about all this. After all, it was in captivity, but this human was being nice to it? Was it possible? Chinchou of course had no clue. 'Chin?' it asked, holding one of its arm fins to its mouth, feeling completely dumbfounded.
"I think they'll get along just fine." Yetis smiled, as Carl and Chinchou became part of the background for the time being.
"Are you sure?" asked Elise.
"Of course. It may not look it," Yetis began, "But Carl really cares about his pokemon. He knows that they are our friends. He is by far a skilled trainer." He paused. "I only wish I realized that love was an important factor in training pokemon, but I learned too late." he let hang a chance at a flashback. After all, we're not ready to hear Yetis' story 'yet'. It would ruin the suspense! Speaking of suspense, the outside weather looks cloudy at this time, and it looks ready to rain. Just about time to end our flashback.
***
'And so, that's basically how my day ended. I called Professor Oak again, and he said he was going to need Sudowoodo there for a little while longer, but I trust that he knows what he's doing. Anyway, as soon as this rain stops, I'm going to try my luck at the gym. However, I don't need luck to win. I have trust in my pokemon, and that's all that is needed.' He completed his writing with a flick of his pen cap. The rain didn't seem to show any signs of stopping any time soon.
"Well, I guess that we better hope things turn out better in the morning." Carl shrugged as a bolt of lightning crashed through the skies, and our story comes to an end for now.
A/N: Is this a cliffhanger? Nah! Just a chapter ending. See how reviews help shape the story. A reviewer asked for Chinchou, and Carl has it. (Simple theory, isn't it.) so send reviews, and do whatever in the review, anything at all! As always. I want 25 by the time I have added 2 newer chapters, or there might be some great delays.