Don't Bite More Than You Can Chew
Red stepped into the cool morning breeze. The grass was still wet as Red stepped on them under his red sneakers. He took a deep breathe in and felt great to be outside. He was feeling good since he had the most important meal of the day, breakfast.
"Today is an awesome day to continue my journey," Red remarked. "I will have to go south to get to Saffron city, which has the gym closest to here." Red looked towards a path that lead out of the city as he spoke. He then noticed a young girl was staring at him. Her slowpoke, which was lying next to her, let out a loud yawn.
"Who are you talking to, mister?" the girl asked Red.
"Uhh…to the egg in my backpack. They like it when you talk to them," Red lied. The girl just shrugged and walked away from the Red, who she thought was crazy, with her slowpoke trotting behind her.
"That was awkward, but I can't let this ruin my day. Time to go…and I'm talking to myself again," Red sighed, and went to the path that he was looking at earlier. His hat blocked most of the sun rays as he got on the path. It was fairly quiet, with a few wild pokemon scampering around.
While Red walked on Route 5, a young boy was looking at Red with curious eyes. He fixed his blue baseball cap and crept in the tall grass to provide cover. When he saw Red bend over to tie his shoes that came undone, the youngster jumped out of the grass.
"Shorts are Awesome!" he shouted as he landed on top of Red. Red fell flat on his face when the extra weight landed on his shoulders. Red got a mouth full of dirt and immediately spat out the dirt. The boy jumped off of Red and landed directly in front of the fallen boy.
"I challenge you to a battle," he shouted, waving a pokeball in the air. Red slowly picked himself up, and quickly grabbed his backpack from his back. Unzipping the bag, Red took out a glass case with a brown, circular object inside.
"The egg is still safe," Red sighed as he put the case back into his backpack. "You got to be more careful, kid." Red carefully slung the yellow bag unto his back.
"I have a name Rookie," the young boy smirked. "My name is Kevin and you should remember it because I am part of the 'Boy's Shorts Club' or BSC for short."
"You are in a club that is for short boys?" Red asked, scratching his head. Kevin puffed up his cheeks before answering.
"It's a club for boys that like to wear cool shorts, like mine," he retorted, pointing to his yellow shorts.
"That's kind of weird for a club," Red remarked.
"You will not insult the Boy's Short Club, Spanter," Kevin yelled back.
"Spanter?" Red lifted an eyebrow in confusion.
"That's what we called boys that wear pants," Kevin explained. "So how bout a battle, Spanter." He shoved his pokeball into Red's face and pulled back.
"My name is Red and I will show you some manners," Red said, plucking a pokeball from his belt. "Nidorino, standby for battle." Red's pink pokemon appeared before him and a purple rat soon appeared.
"My Rattata will defeat your weak pokemon," Kevin retorted, jumping up and down.
"We will see. Nidorino, Rock Slide," Red commanded. Nidorino got onto his hind legs and slammed his front feet in to the ground. Large chunks of rocks came loose and were fired at the small rat. The rocks crashed on top of Rattata, letting a loud squeal.
Good thing I used that TM on Nidorino Red thought. Red smirked, thinking that he won the battle, but to his surprise, Rattata squirm out of the rocks. His body was covered in bruises and scratches, but was still ready for more.
"My Rattata is very sturdy," Kevin smirked. "Rattata, Endeavor." Red stared in shock, when he heard the attack being called. A harsh, red aura surrounded rattata's body. The purple rat broke into a sprint and tackled Nidorino. After knocking Nidorino down with a powerful attack, Rattata got of him and ran back to his side of the field.
-"That was very painful,"- Nidorino grumbled as he slowly got on his feet. He now had the same amount of damage as Rattata has thanks to Endeavor. He ignored the pain that was coursing through his body.
"Now let's finish with a Quick Attack," Kevin ordered, pointing his index finger at the weak nidorino. Kevin's Rattata crouched down, getting ready to take off. When he was about to run, the small rat let out a squeak before falling on the ground unconscious. Kevin gaped in horror as he saw his pokemon faint. He shook his head to regain his cool and pointed his finger at Red. "You are very smart. You knew I was going to attack physically, so you let me attack. You also knew that I didn't know that your nidorino had the ability Poison Point. You were planning this from the beginning."
Red didn't understand what the boy with an obsession with shorts said, but he went along with it. "Of course, that was my plan," Red lied for the second time this morning.
"You're good at battling. You might be good enough to defeat the monster of the Underground Path," Kevin remarked, returning his beaten up Rattata.
"A monster?" Red said his comment more like a question. Red returned his weak nidorino for some rest.
"Yea, it's a monster that is attacking trainers that use the Underground Path," Kevin informed Red. "Well I got to go to the pokemon center. Later, Spanter." Kevin took off after his last comment; heading towards Cerulean City, which was where Red came from.
"Monster," Red mumbled, but then chuckled to himself. He continued his way down the route, when he heard a rustle in the bushes nearby. Red stopped to listen. Another bush rustled, and it came from behind him. Red quickly turned around, but sees nothing.
"There is no such thing as monsters," Red quietly said to himself. To his right a couple of small bushes move, and Red caught the glimpse of a small, blue thing dashed from the bushes to behind a large tree. Red, being the curious type, walked up to the large oak tree that he saw the creature run behind. He stepped into the grass, grabbed the bark of the tree and slowly poked his head out of the side of the tree. Everything seemed normal, except for a small hole that stood next to a large boulder with a huge chunk taken out of it.
What pokemon could have done this? Red thought bewildered. Either a giant ekans got hungry and bit the rock, which looked like an egg, or a rock-eating monster really exists. Red slowly retreated his head behind the tree and took a few steps back, until he felt the crunching feeling of dirt under his feet, Red stopped. No! There is no such thing as monsters. He decided to forget what he saw and continued his way towards Saffron City.
After fighting some trainers in his way, Red soon got to a building that was in way of getting to Saffron City. He went through the large glass door and was greeted with refreshing, cool air. The air condition room felt good on his skin, since outside it began to get hot during the afternoon. Looking around, the trainer saw a couch with a couple magazines on top of a coffee table. He didn't know what the purpose was for furniture, but he didn't thought on it much. He saw another pair of doors across the room and moved his legs to move forward.
"Hold it," an unfamiliar voice stopped Red, before he even got halfway to the other door. Red turned his head to the source of the voice. A man, who looked in his twenties, stood behind a large desk and had on a red bellhop man uniform. His red bell hat bobbed around on his head as he stood up to his full height. "You can't go to Saffron City," The man proclaimed.
"Why can't I?" Red asked.
"I was ordered it was strictly off limits and to not let anyone enter," the man replied, fixing his fancy hat with a white gloved hand.
Red wasn't going to let a man in a funny suit stop him from getting his next badge. So he did the only thing he could, which was to ignore the man and continued to walk towards the exit.
"I told you not to go," the man muttered, pressing a button that was hidden under his desk. Two muscular pokemon immediately reacted to the emergency button, by appearing out of nowhere and ran in front Red. "This is the last time that I will tell you this. Please get out." The two machokes glared at Red, but Red didn't stir. He reached out to get a pokeball from his belt, but two pairs of strong hands grabbed him.
"I warned you," the man told Red. Red was taken back to the way he came from and the strong pokemon threw him outside. Red twisted around in midair and fell on his stomach, sliding across the dirt road. He slowly came to a painful stop and he heard the sound of a door closing.
"Who does he think he is? The pokemon champion," Red spat dirt that entered his mouth. Red opened his eyes, when he noticed that he had them closed the whole time. When he opened his eyes, he saw the glass container, which contained the egg, rolling away. The container was headed towards the woods nearby. Red grunted when he got up and ran after it. The container kept on rolling until it rolled into bush and got caught in the tangled branches. Red quickly saw it and grabbed it. He checked the egg for any damage.
No damage? This egg is very sturdy Red thought. He safely put the egg back into his bookback. While he was slipping his bag, the bush, the one that Red retrieved the egg, began to move back and forth. This startled Red making him jump back. The bush then began to violently shake, making Red nervous. He sent out his Pikachu. Pikachu appeared in front of the moving bush.
"Pikachu, there is something in the bushes," Red informed Pikachu. Or the Bush is a pokemon Red thought. Pikachu nodded and glared at the moving bush. Pecha berries littered the bush, but they still didn't look ripe, yet. The bush came to sudden halt and Red shouted, "Now!" pointing at the bush that moved.
-"Take this moving bush!"- Pikachu shouted as he fired a Thunder Shock. The electric attack shocked the bush, and stopped after a few seconds. Tension began to build up in the air as Red and Pikachu watched the bush. No movement came from the bush for the exception of a few burned berries falling off the bush. Pikachu relaxed his muscles thinking that he defeated the pokemon and turned around to give his trainer a thumbs up. Letting his guard down, a large blue flame fired from the bush and threw Pikachu into a tree.
That was a Dragon Rage Red noticed the attack. "Pikachu are you ok?" Red asked. Pikachu slowly peeled himself off the tree like a sticker being pulled off the wall. He landed near the base of the tree and turned to the bush that attacked him.
-"How could you ask that question when I just got my ass kick by a stupid bush?"- Pikachu angrily shouted at his trainer. Another shockwave was fired from bush and this one engulfed Pikachu. This was too much for Pikachu and he fainted on the spot.
"That was a good try," Red said returning his pokemon. "Charmeleon, standby for battle." The fire lizard was released and he had a smug smile on his face.
-"Who is my opponent?"- Charmeleon asked, scanning for anyone that will be a good opponent.
"Charmeleon, our target is that bush right there," Red pointed his finger at the plant that has caused his misery. "Don't underestimate it. That is one strong bush."
"Or maybe the enemy is hiding in the bush," Charmeleon sigh, breathing out a puff of smoke. He crouched down, having formed a plan in his head, and broke into a sprint. His claws were lowered as a metallic sheen covered his claws.
"What are you doing? Going in close combat will…" Red trailed off when he figured his pokemon's plan. In a blink of an eye, Charmeleon slashed at the bush with his Metal Claw. Shredding the bush into pieces, Charmeleon found a hole in the middle. He peered into it but could barely see anything due to the darkness even though he had excellent vision in the dark. Out of nowhere a Dragon Rage hit Charmeleon's right side and was sent sprawling on the ground.
-"Come out you coward!"- Charmeleon yelled, getting up. Ignoring the pain in his right side, Charmeleon got up and glared in the direction where the attack came from. Another bush was standing there, only this one had Oran berries growing on it. The fire pokemon began to build up fire in his mouth and released it. The Ember attack was intercepted by a Dragon Rage. The fire began to push back at the blue flames. Charmeleon was doing well, until he felt a sharp pain in the side of body. This made him lose his concentration and the Dragon Rage overpowered his attack. Dragon Rage did massive damage to charmeleon and nearly knocked him out.
"Charmeleon, don't do anything you will regret," Red warned his pokemon when he saw the anger in Charmeleon's eyes. Charmeleon paid no attention to Red's comment and a red glow surrounded him. With his new power, charmeleon began to form a powerful fire attack in his mouth. Something popped out beneath Charmeleon's feet and a blue blur slammed its head into Charmeleon's stomach. As fast as it appeared, it disappeared back into the hole it made. Clutching his stomach, Charmeleon fell forward knocked out.
"Damn this," Red cursed under his breathe. He returned his starter pokemon. If this pokemon could defeat my Charmeleon then it must be strong. Now I MUST catch it! Red thought as he returned. He absentmindedly got a pokeball and threw it. His weak nidorino materialized, trying his hardest to stand up.
-"Why am I sent out since I am still weak?"- Nidorino asked, looking around.
Red soon realized his mistake. "Sorry Nidorino, I wasn't thinking. I better get you in your pokeball before-." A Dragon Rage knock out nidorino before Red could return him. Now I need to return you Red thought. He put Nidorino back in his pokeball and sent Pidgeotto in his place.
"Pidgeotto, let's attack that bush…wait his over there now…now he is over there." Red pointed to every bush that moved and it soon confused Pidgeotto. "Just use Aerial Ace, since it heightens your accuracy." Pidgeotto flap his wings and went into a steep dive. White streaks of light formed around him as he headed to a bush. His increase accuracy helped him pinpoint where the enemy is. Flying into the bush, branches scratching Pidgeotto's body, he flew straight into the hole. His body was big and got stuck with his lower body outside and his upper body inside the hole.
-"What the? I just saw him in here and he escaped,"- Pidgeotto struggled to get out. He started to squirm but to no avail.
-"What are you doing in my hole?"- A voice asked somewhere in the tunnel and startled Pidgeotto. –"I will help you get out. Dragon Rage!"-
-"Wait! I can…"- Pidgeotto stared in horror as he saw blue flames coming towards him.
"Pidgeotto are you okay in there?" Red asked, getting worry that his pokemon hasn't come out of the bush. Red then heard a huge explosion in the bush, and then saw his flying pokemon being shot in the air. Pidgeotto soon fell on the forest floor with swirls in his eyes.
"So you also got knocked out," Red sighed. Well I guess this is my cue to leave Red thought, slowly beginning to back away. After taking a few steps back, something underground began to tunnel towards Red. A blue fin pooped out of ground, like a shark's fin in the sea, and easily sliced through the dirt.
Now it's time to runaway Red thought, spinning around to start running. The unknown creature sped up to keep up with Red. Red got on the path again and changed his course to head towards Cerulean City. Red looked back and could see the dirt lifting a little when the fin went through it. This could mean that the creature was small or it had long fin and the real creature was deeper underground. He turned back to his destination and saw two young boys in his way.
"Watch out kids!" Red shouted as he cut through them. The boys back away when they saw Red and gawked at the blue shark fin as it passed by them.
"That was weird," one of the boys said.
"Must be some rookie trainer who can't control his pokemon," the other boy suggested.
Red felt relieved when he caught sight of the city. He didn't notice that he slowed down, which was an opportunity for the unknown creature to strike. It slammed its fin into the back of Red's foot, which caused Red to fall backwards, and kept on going.
"Why am I always falling today?" Red grunted in pain. Lying down, he looked in the ground in front of him and saw the creature was making a u-turn. Red let out a cry as crossed his arms in front of his eyes, even though it would be useless. He waited for the creature to tear him apart, but it never came.
Red slowly lowered his arms and saw the creature was heading towards an apple that might have fallen of a tree. When it was very close to the fruit, the apple in second disappeared underground.
It ate an apple in a second Red thought in disbelief. Wait! I can distract it by throwing fruit at it and it can give me enough time to escape. Red raised his legs in the air and used his hands and upper body to propel his body into the air. He perfectly landed on his feet and did the stunt like Jackie Chan would do it. He thought people who would saw him do the stunt, they would have think he was badass, but sadly no one was around. He reached into his bookback with right hand and pulled out a large, juicy apple. He winded up to get ready to throw the apple.
"Go get it you…shark fin?" Red lamely said, and threw the apple as far as he can. The creature soon began to follow the fruit like moths are attracted to a light bulb. Red took advantage of this and began to run towards the city. He made to the entrance to the city in less than a minute, and when he turned around he didn't see any shark fins slicing through the dirt. He then proceeded to go to the pokemon center to heal up his pokemon.
Upon entering the pokemon center, Red went straight to the main desk. Nurse Joy was at the desk and ready to help him.
"I will like to heal my pokemon," Red kindly said, and remembered about his egg. He took out the container and handed it to the nurse. "Can you also check on this egg? I had a pretty nasty fall on my way in." Red sheepishly asked, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Will do," Nurse Joy replied, giving the container to her helper, Chansey. "Will be back in a moment." With that said, she left with the tray with pokeballs and her pokemon following with the egg.
Red took a seat in the waiting area. He sighed and then took out his Pokedex. Wait a minute! Why didn't I use the pokedex to see what kind of pokemon that was? Red mentally slapped himself for not thinking of that sooner. He got into the search section of the pokedex and tried to look for the pokemon that he encountered. He spent a few minutes looking, but he didn't get any matches, which frustrated him.
"Sir!" Nurse Joy called from her desk. Red got up and went to the desk. Nurse Joy placed the pokeballs on the desk and Chansey carefully put the egg on the desk. "Your pokemon are all healed up and your egg is in perfect health. I do want to now how your pokemon got in the bad state they were?"
"Well…we got attack by this creature that was hiding in the bush. And Allofmypokemonwerefightingand-." Nurse Joy cut Red because he starting to talk too fast.
"I think I know what attacked you. It's the Monster of the Underground Tunnel," Joy guessed and Red nodded. "I have been getting a lot of trainers that have been talking about that creature. The sightings started like a week ago."
"Did anything strange happen last week?" Red asked, furrowing his eyebrows.
"Nothing out of the ordinary happen…" Nurse Joy tried to remember anything strange. "It began with a few sightings in the Underground Path and soon attacks have been reported from a strange creature."
"Well thanks for healing my pokemon," Red thanked the nurse.
"No need to thank me. It's my job after all," Nurse Joy shrugged off the comment. Red nodded and left the center.
Red wandered around in the woods, searching for the 'monster' that attacked him. He decided to look in the forest, since it was where he was attacked first.
"Now where should I look first to find this monster?" Red asked himself.
"Ahh its back! The Underground Path Monster is back! It ate my donut!" voices shouted from deep in woods. A group of people who looked like trainers, Because they had pokeballs on their belts, were running away from something. They ran right pass Red, not paying a bit of attention to the young trainer.
Guess I know where to look know Red sweatdrop. He easily traced the steps of the trainers that ran away. Red could see the trampled plants and uneven dirt left behind after the group's stampede. The path led him to a small shack in the middle of the forest. The door was left open, so Red walked in.
To his surprise, the room was a lot bigger than it looked on the outside. In the middle of the place were a set of stairs that led underground, which Red thought was the Underground Path. He then heard the sounds of someone sobbing. He scanned the place and then saw a young girl, in yellow dress, the corner of the room, who was sitting down and crying.
Red crouched in front of the young girl. "What are you still in here? It's not safe in here." The girl stopped her sobs and looked to Red. She whimpered a bit, as a few tears fell from here eyes.
"The monster is down there and it took my favorite Nidoran DOLL!" the girl began to wail again and louder this time.
"Don't worry I will get for you," Red assured the girl. She stopped again and looked up to Red. Red stood up and began to descend down the stairs.
"The monster is going to eat him," she muttered.
Red took the last step and looked at his surroundings. The room was as long as the eye could see and the lights above were flickering, which gave the tunnel an ominous feeling. The floor below was basically wood and on the wood walls was covered in holes. Many holes littered the sides of the tunnel and all were big enough for his Nidorino to crawl inside.
"What the hel-," Red was cut off by the sound of something digging underneath him. Red jumped back in time, when a blue creature jumped out. Red sent out his Charmeleon to fight it. The lights flickered of,f but soon came back on. In front of Red and Charmeleon, a small blue pokemon with a large fin on its back stood on two short legs. Its mouth took up most of its body gave it the look of a fierce pokemon, but the look in its eyes were those of a jolly pokemon.
"You're the one that caused me a whole lot of trouble. I thought you will be bigger," Red exclaimed, taking out his pokedex.
"Gible, land shark pokemon. It lives in the deep caves of Sinnoh. It hides in holes on the side of the cave and attack any wandering prey. They are usually very playful and won't attack trainers, unlike other violent dragon pokemon. "
"Land Shark…suits you well but it says here that you are from Sinnoh. Why are in Kanto?" Red asked Gible, knowing he won't get an answer.
-"You came to play with me?"- Gible asked in a jolly tone, not noticing the hostile looks that Charmeleon was giving him.
-"You attack me while you were hiding. You coward,"- Charmeleon hissed, though the gible didn't paid attention.
"Take it down with Dragon Rage, Charmeleon," Red cried. Charmeleon was more than glad to comply with Red's command. He fired his Dragon Rage that successfully hit its target. Gible was sent flying backwards and landed far away. "Now get in close with a Mega Punch."
Gible hopped back onto his feet, but his face was met with a powerful punch. The fire lizard smirked when he saw the tiny dragon pokemon slam into a wall. Gible slowly regain his posture, and put on his best mean face.
-"You hurt me and now you must pay!"- Gible shouted, flailing his tiny arms, which made him look ridiculous. He jumped at charmeleon and then clamped his giant mouth on the lizard's head.
"That was Bite," Red shouted. Charmeleon tried his best to pry off the gible of his head.
-"Thanks for stating the obvious,"- Charmeleon muttered, but went he took in a whiff of air; he found a new reason to quickly get the gible of his head. –"Your breathe smells like rotten berries! Haven't you heard of yache berries."- The smell in gible's mouth was so strong; Charmeleon thought he was going to pass out.
"Just fire a Dragon Rage," Red shouted. Charmeleon mentally slapped himself for not thinking of it sooner. He released his dragon type attack at point blank range and Gible let go of his tight grasp.
"I got you now," Red announced and threw a Great Ball. The pokeball snapped open and sucked in the troublesome pokemon. The pokeball rolled around as Gible tried to escape. It was about roll into a hole but it abruptly stopped at the edge of the hole. Red grabbed the pokeball and threw it in the air to celebrate his victory. "We got a gible that is very rare in Kanto and I don't know what's it doing here, but I don't care!"
Red then got sight of a small, blue plush toy in one of the many holes in the side of the tunnel. He grabbed it and he saw it was a female Nidoran toy.
"My Nidoran!" the little girl squealed from the top of the stairs. She ran up to Red and snatched it from Red. "Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!" The girl shouted in Red's ear.
"No need to thank me. I couldn't just let this pokemon roam freely," Red replied.
"Well, you can take this path to head to Vermilion City. My great grandpa built this tunnel to use as path for trainers who needed a quick way to get to Vermilion City, when gangs in Saffron City caused problems to the trainers."
"Uhhh…thanks I guess," Red thanked the girl.
"No problem," the girl said, cuddling with her plush to and skipped back from the way she came from.
"Well this is the best reward I will get for now," Red said to his fire starter. Charmeleon nodded and turned around to walk. Red soon followed him, then something on the floor glint in the light of Charmeleon's fire tail. Red bent down to get a closer look.
This is a wired pokeball. It's all white and has a red line through the middle Red thought. He looked around to see if anybody was around. Only his Charmeleon was standing next to him, so Red pocketed the pokeball on his belt.
"Well let's keep on going and get to Vermilion City," Red said, and led the way with Charmeleon's fire lit the way when the lights when off.
