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Chapter Six: Confronting a Rival.
When Jessica, Purge, and Rita stepped into Cerulean City, their surroundings turned blue.
"Wow! Everything's blue!" Jessica yelled in excitement.
"Yeah, it's Cerulean City." said Rita, "Every city has a different color. When you first step in a city, everything turns a different color."
"Coolness!" Jessica stepped out of Cerulean City and the surroundings turned back to normal. Then she went back into Cerulean City, where everything became blue again. She stepped back out and back again, changing the colors.
"Cut that out!"
"Okay!" Jessica squeaked happily.
"Pika." (Weirdo.) Purge muttered.
After Jessica and Rita healed their Poke'mon at the Poke'mon Center, they went into the house next door. There a baby Oddish with a band-aid on the side of its head and a cute little Sandshrew with an arm wrapped up in a bandage greeted them. While Rita bent down to pat the Oddish and the Sandshrew, Jessica jumped in front of the lady who lives in the house.
"Hello!" Jessica yelled, startling the lady and the Bulbasaur next to her. The Bulbasaur was wearing small reading glasses and holding a very thick book with his vines.
"Ba, Bulba Bulbasaur!" (Hey, I'm trying to read!) The Bulbasaur cried.
"Er-I take care of injured Poke'mon. I nursed this Bulbasaur back to perfect health. It needs a good trainer to take care of it now," said the lady, then she brightened up, "I know! Will you take care of this Bulbasaur?"
"Sure!" Jessica replied happily. Purge was glad that they were going to have a new friend on their team, "How do I capture it?"
The lady, Bulbasaur, and Purge facefaulted.
"You throw a Poke'ball at it!" Rita shouted from where she was sitting and she continued to pat the Oddish and the Sandshrew.
Jessica immediately threw an object at Bulbasaur, which hit him in the head, but nothing happened.
"I am not a Poke'ball! I am your Poke'Dex!" the Poke'Dex shouted at its owner.
The Poke'Dex showed a picture of a Poke'ball on its screen. Jessica studied the picture for several minutes before finally reaching into her pack to take out an empty Poke'ball. She held up the Poke'ball and looked back at the picture on the Poke'Dex's screen to confirm that she had the right object. When Jessica decided that the object in her hand was a Poke'ball, she threw it at the annoyed Bulbasaur and captured him.
"Yay, I caught it!" Jessica began dancing like an idiot. No guessing why she did it so masterfully.
"Good, let's go now." Rita pulled Jessica out of the house after retrieving Bulbasaur's Poke'ball and her Poke'Dex.
"Please take good care of Bulbasaur." the lady said as Jessica, Purge, and Rita left, "Why do I have a feeling that I made a big mistake?"
"Come, Rita! Come, Purge! Let us follow the Yellow Brick Road!"
"Pi?" (What?)
"You mean the Nugget Bridge?" asked Rita.
"What's a McNugget Bridge?" replied Jessica.
"I guess that means yes."
"Pi." (Yeah.) Purge agreed.
As they neared Nugget Bridge, weird music played in the background and a spiky-haired boy appeared.
"Yo, Jessica, how's it going? You still struggling along back here?" he sneered. It was William, Jessica's rival.
"No, I'm fine. Thank you for asking."
William blinked, "Right... I'm doing great! I caught a bunch of strong and smart Poke'mon! Let's see what you caught!"
"Okay!" Jessica took out two other Poke'balls and was about to release the Poke'mon contained in them.
"No, I mean a battle." William sweatdropped.
"Oh, why didn't you say so?"
"You have to be specific with her." Rita said to William.
"I know. I live next door to her." William replied.
"Sorry to hear that."
"I guess... Anyways, let's battle!" William turned back to Jessica and he released a Spearow.
"Go, Purge! Thundershock!"
"PikaaCHU!" Purge's attack knocked out William's Spearow in one hit.
"Spearow, return!" William recalled his Spearow and released a different Poke'mon, "Go, Rattata!"
"Rattata!" (I am great!) Rattata cried.
"Purge, come back!" Jessica ordered and she sent out another Poke'mon, "Go, Bazaar!"
"Bazaar?" Rita said confusedly.
"Pika?" (Bazaar?)
Bulbasaur was released. The Bulbasaur was wearing his reading glasses and reading an encyclopedia on dead languages held in his vines and he was holding in his teeth a pretty bookmark with a cute dolphin charm dangling from it on a piece of blue silk thread.
"What the?" said William.
"Ba?" (Huh?) the Bulbasaur placed the bookmark in his book and put it and his glasses away in a dimension hole, "Bulba." (Sorry.)
"Go, Rattata!" yelled William, "Hyper Fang!"
"Ra, Ra!" (Yes, sir!) Rattata bared its large fangs and leaped at Bulbasaur.
"Bazaar, use Tackle!"
Bazaar charged at Rattata and they crashed into each other before Rattata could use Hyper Fang.
"Bazaar, Tackle again!"
"Bulbasaur, Bulba!" (Take that, dummy!) Bazaar recovered from the crash and tackled Rattata.
"Ra!" (Ow!) Rattata cried in pain.
"Rattata, Quick Attack!"
With super speed, Rattata struck Bazaar with a Quick Attack. Bazaar fell back from the impact and he groaned in pain.
"Bazaar? Can you get up?" Jessica asked her Bulbasaur with concern.
"Bulba." (Yeah.) Bazaar slowly got to his feet, ready to continue the battle.
"Alright, Bazaar, use that one attack when the seedy little vine thingies think they're leeches!" Jessica ordered.
"Leech Seed?" Rita asked.
"Yeah, Leech Seed!" Jessica replied.
Bazaar rolled his eyes and released the hungry seeds from his bulb. The Leech Seed bound Rattata and drained its energy.
"Tackle, Bazaar!" Bazaar finished off Rattata with one final Tackle attack.
"Lucky." William muttered and he recalled Rattata, "Go, Eevee!"
"Ohwee." (Hello.) Said Eevee.
"Go, Bazaar, Tackle!"
"Eevee, Quick Attack!"
Eevee struck Bazaar hard before he could even charge. Swirls replaced Bazaar's eyes as he laid on his belly and groaning with pain.
"Bulbasaur..." (I surrender...)
"What happened? Rita, is Bazaar alright?" Jessica grabbed onto Rita's shoulders and shook her violently. Rita grabbed Jessica's wrists and stopped her from turning the cottage cheese in her stomach into a sour milkshake.
"Bazaar will be fine. He can't battle anymore."
"Y-You mean he's..." Jessica's eyes welled up with tears, "But he's too young to die!"
"He's not dying! He'll be fit to battle after he's healed at a Poke'mon Center!" Rita bellowed into Jessica's face.
"Oh, now I understand. So... should Bazaar go into his Poke'ball?"
"YES!"
"PIKA!" (YES!)
"Alright, Bazaar, come back." Bazaar was withdrawn into his Poke'ball, "Now what?"
"Send out another one!"
"Heh, now you know what I had to put up with everyday growing up with her." said William.
"I'm surprised you haven't gone insane."
"Well... unlike some people, I have patience."
"What is that suppose to mean!" Rita roared at William.
"You know what I mean."
"Grrrr... Jessica, kick his butt!"
"Yes, Ma'am!" Jessica released another Poke'mon, "Go, Lakota!"
"Lakota?"
"Pika Pi?" (Lakota?)
It was Nidoran and she was eating one by one, sugar cubes that were piled up on a tray into the shape of an upside-down pyramid.
"I gave Lakota her nickname when I noticed that she was my only Poke'mon without one."
"When was that?"
"Just now."
"Pikachu." (Should've known.)
"Lakota, Double Kick!"
"Great strategy, Jessica!" Rita exclaimed, "Normal-type Poke'mon are weak against fighting-type moves!"
"Pi Pika Pi Pikachu Chu." (I don't think she's aware of that.)
"Normal-whats are what against what-type whats?" Jessica asked.
"Nothing."
"Pikachu." (I told you so.)
Lakota leaped into the air after eating the remaining sugar cubes and delivered a kick upon Eevee. Lakota recoiled back and launched another kick on Eevee, knocking him out.
"Hooray!" Jessica and Purge rejoiced.
"Take that!" Rita shouted at William.
"Eevee, return!" William scowled as he released his last Poke'mon, "Go, Sandshrew! Slash!"
William's Sandshrew scraped his sharp claws across Lakota's neck.
"Ni!" (Ow!) Lakota took a lot of damage, but she was still able to fight.
"Lakota, quick, use Tackle!"
Lakota charged at Sandshrew and rammed into him with sugar-driven strength. Sandshrew used Slash upon Lakota once more and knocked her out.