Blue Mountain League: Prologue
Disclaimer: This is the only story I do these for, since it's hard to say I don't own it a million different ways…
Chapter 10: The Symbiosis
During John's last adventure, he and his pokémon met a group of Nincada and Ninjask that served an aggressive Shedinja. A wayward Shadow Ball hit Totodile in the middle of his Bite attack, and Charmander used his Blaze ability to defeat the weak Ghost pokémon. A new, friendlier Shedinja now leads the group, all thanks to John, Charmander, Totodile, and Treecko.
Our heroes are now near a small grove. Between the forests behind them and the looming mountains before them, such an oasis should seem to be quite the wonderful vacation spot. However, they are weary in their journey under the mountain, in this odd world. Seeing a small creek just outside the trees would be enough to excite them, but there is no such joy to be found.
Food! Treecko spotted a banana hanging from the trees. He ran forward to get one, but was attacked by a white blur. "Vigo! Vigoroth vigo Vigoroth!" This translates roughly into Hey! What are you thinking? Treecko landed, mostly unharmed, as the blur slowed and showed itself to be a Vigoroth. John pulled out the pokédex.
"Mankey, the spur ball pokémon. It enjoys having its sensitive organs smashed between a pair of stone boulders and…" John put it away, remembering that it was broken. "Oh well… Why is a Vigoroth so aggressive, anyway? I know they can't sleep, but it just attacked for no reason!"
No reason? Are you stupid? You aren't the first fools who tried to take food, but you're the first who doesn't get it quickly! Vigoroth shouted more at John, but since the Wild Monkey Pokémon had never met a human, he didn't know that humans can't understand pokémon. "Oh, right. Why didn't I think of it before? Vigoroth don't like it when people take their bananas. No one likes having their bananas taken, after all. I'm not fond of bananas, but I never thought of what Treecko might like."
I don't like it when people take my bananas, that's for sure! said the tree. Treecko, Charmander, and Totodile looked at the tree in shock as the grove started moving. John knew the pokémon from the sight of them. "Tropius…" The large Flying/Grass pokémon made sense, since they grew bananas on their body to feed themselves. However, the pokémon themselves seemed weak.
From the backs of the Tropius came the Slakoth. One climbed the neck of a Tropius and grabbed a banana. Others imitated this motion, and one Tropius lowered her head so John and his pokémon could have some. We're very kind, most of us, but Vigoroth is very protective.
John remained more or less oblivious to the verbal exchange, instead looking over the Tropius and Slakoth. 'Slakoth look a lot like Vigoroth, but just have less energy. If the pokédex is ever fixed, I hope it can tell me more about them…' Nostalgia hit John as he remembered Pallet Town as it was. The pokédex slipped out of his pocket, guided by clawed hands. He barely felt the moment, but heard the device beeping as a Slakoth pressed buttons on it.
"Hey! Give that back!" Taking the red machine back from the pokémon, John saw that the Slakoth data was entered, and that there was a growing bar. It said 'Auto-Repair 1 completed'. Looking on the back, he saw the Auto-Repair button. Turning it back over, he noticed the Help button for the first time. The button was sunken into the machine, but when the Auto-Repair meter reached 2, it popped out from the system. Pressing it, John saw the 100 features of the pokédex.
Aside from the programs he knew about, there was one called 'Strategy Memo'. He tried to activate it, but it didn't work. Meanwhile, his pokémon were busy entertaining the Slakoth and Tropius.
Totodile was dancing, holding his fingers up while making the accompanying music. The Slakoth and Tropius were astounded by the miracles of Totodile, such as his creation of fingers merely by touching, and the ability to separate his index finger and thumb when in the form of a circle. Vigoroth looked on disgusted until a sight covered the horizon.
Vigoroth shouted loudly, warning everyone that the shadow of the horizon could be seen. John looked and saw more Dustox than most people saw in their lifetime. Each beat of their wings sent thousands of tiny poisonous particles into the air. Every pokémon who inhaled them would feel pain and slowly…
One of the more aggressive Tropius flew towards the Dustox, but inhaled the spores. He choked and fell to the ground, seemingly dead. John ran to the Tropius and found that it was snoring. Charmander used Ember without being told to, and the Dustox noticed his tail. One of the faster ones hit the Ember attack head-on, and fainted. Vigoroth entered the fray, slashing all the Dustox he could reach. Several times the spores reached him, but still he did not fall. John saw this, and began to understand. 'Vigoroth's Vital Spirit keeps him from falling asleep! But why are the Dustox here?'
The Tropius began to sleep, and the Dustox descended upon them. As they left the sky, one Tropius woke up and shouted, You cannot eat my bananas!
The battle raged on, until John was put to sleep by the spores. And then he knew no more as his world went black.
To be continued…
AN: I recently realized that the method of noting Pokémon speech wasn't working, so I'm trying a new method. Hopefully it works better.