Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, I only own Violet Hawke as my OC.
Summary: Violet Hawke wanted nothing more than to be a Bug Pokemon Trainer, but with how people viewed those types all she got was ridicule until the day she bumped into the local Professor. Now on a journey, she tries to make her goal a reality, but with an Organization coming out of the shadows she has to decide just how much she's willing to risk to realize her goal.
Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest
"Use String Shot! Violet ordered as she was having her first battle against a fellow Bug Catcher who was in the forest, having just entered there with her Weedle versus his Caterpie.
"Counter with your own!" The Bug Catcher, his name being Rick as Stinger was a bit weakened from battling his own Weedle a little bit ago.
Violet frowned in thought while Stinger was covered in silk, trying to think of a way to get out of this situation right as Rick ordered a Tackle.
So with a grin, Violet ordered a Poison Sting aiming for the ground right in front of Caterpie, leaving for the green caterpillar Pokemon to run over it, being poisoned immediately if the purple hue it took on was any indication.
While it flinched with poison running through its veins, Violet ordered one more Poison Sting that scored a crit, downing the Caterpie with relative ease.
"Aw man." Rick complained at seeing his two prized Bug Pokemon go down, though he didn't mind as much considering it was another Bug Pokemon that took them down.
He'll have to see about remembering that Poison Sting trick in the future, that was pretty smart though.
"Alright Stinger, that was amazing!" Violet Cheered as she ran towards the weedle who looked to be shaking. "Stinger? What's wrong?"
Her concern was cut off when Stinger exploded in a flash of light as he stood up, spraying silk into the air.
Rick whistled in awe. "Nice job on evolving your Weedle."
Violet gasped at that, not taking her eyes off of Stinger as he continued to change, growing a foot taller before a yellow cocoon took his place with a domed shaped head and black triangle eyes that shone with excitement.
Slowly, Violet picked Stinger up, realizing he was a bit heavier than when he was a Weedle, but she didn't care.
He evolved.
Stinger gave a low cry making Violet realize she was beginning to cry, making her quickly use one arm to wipe the tears away while Rick who was watching look a bit unsure.
"Hey, are you alright?"
Violet gave a nod, sniffling a bit. "I'm fine, just happy."
When she was by herself, Violet quickly checked Stinger's new information with the Pokedex.
"Pokemon Registered. Kakuna the Cocoon Pokemon. Kakuna has learned Harden. Ability has changed."
'Pokemon #14
Species: Kakuna
Gender: Male
Current Level: 7
Height: 2'0
Weight: 22 lbs.
Ability: Shed Skin-Can get rid of a status effect by shedding its skin.
Nature: Naughty
Characteristic: Capable of taking hits
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot and Harden.
Information: Able to move only slightly, this Pokemon can stick out its stinger when threatened as it awaits evolution. When the shell is hot to touch, evolution is near.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 10
Next Form: Beedrill
Registration Complete.'
"Just a bit more and you'll be a Beedrill." Violet said putting the Pokedex up while carrying Stinger who remained silent. "Now we just need to find a Caterpie to train up and we'll be doing great."
It shouldn't be that hard to find a Caterpie as the Forest was always crawling with them and Weedles.
With that in mind, she began to walk through the forest, staring in awe at just about everything, this being the first time she's been in the Forest.
While there weren't any Pokemon to catch at the moment, Violet could see the beauty of nature inside of this forest with everything from the dew on the grass to the leaves changing colors to signify spring.
Taking a moment to admire the scenery, Violet smiled and continued onward, ready for whatever the Viridian Forest had to offer.
…
It was Evening by the time Violet decided to make camp, her legs feeling pretty sore from all of the walking she did.
But she's also had other battles against fellow Bug Catchers that she used Stinger for, giving him a bit more experience and to test her hypothesis on using String Shot to zip around the field, though she didn't win all of them.
One of them had a Butterfree that practically decimated her in a fight using psychic attacks, she didn't even know Butterfree could learn psychic attacks showing that despite her love for them, there was a lot about bugs that she didn't know.
She didn't complain because it just made her want to get a Butterfree of her own one day. And even a loss was a good experience. She did learn some things from it after all.
Unrolling the sleeping bag, Violet turned to the small campfire she made, having gathered some wood when it became clear that the sun was beginning to set.
"What a day." Violet said, readjusting her straw hat while Stinger was currently in his Pokeball, asleep having already eaten his dinner.
Even as a Kakuna he was liable to be attacked by predators.
She didn't know how long she had to go before she was out of this forest, but Violet knew it would take a few more days. It was a huge forest after all.
Without another word, she pulled out one of the sandwiches she's prepared for her journey to munch on, looking up at the clear sky that could be seen through the trees, a full moon right now while the stars were a lot more visible then they were back in Viridian City.
It was breathtaking.
She could sit there and watch the stars for hours, but Violet knew she needed her sleep if she wanted to keep going tomorrow.
So she took her Straw Hat off and undid her pigtails only to hear rustling in one of the branches.
Thinking it was just a Pidgey, she glanced up only for her eyes to widen when she saw a Caterpie that was giving her a curious look, though the worm did tense up at being spotted.
Violet stared, her mouth dropping open.
Seriously, after spending all day looking for one this happens?
She wasn't going to let this chance go to waste.
But unlike other trainers who would just throw out a Pokemon to battle it, Violet decided another route because Stinger was most likely asleep right now.
So she slowly reached into her bag, the Caterpie's eyes following her movements before she pulled out a Oran Berry before holding it out to him.
"Hey there, are you hungry?" Violet asked curiously as the Caterpie slowly made his way down the branch, sniffing the berry before accepting it.
Violet watched the Caterpie eat it pretty quickly showing she was right on the fact that it was starving before it decided that Violet was trustworthy and crawled down until it was on her shoulder.
"You're a friendly little guy-," Violet began only for the Caterpie to glare as its pink feeler on the top of its head shook, a bad smell now surrounding her making Violet cough. "Girl, girl got it."
Just like that, the Caterpie calmed down looking rather content.
"Remind me not to get you angry." Violet said still coughing from the bad smell.
Reaching into her bag, Violet produced another Oran Berry that the Caterpie accepted showing her straightforward personality that made Violet grin.
"You want to come with me?" Violet offered now pulling an empty Pokeball out. "The only Pokemon I have is Stinger, a Kakuna, I'm putting together a team of Bug Types."
The Caterpie tilted her head to the side at the offer, glancing from Violet to the bag where more berries were sure to be.
That sealed the deal as she crawled down Violets arm until she was right next to the offered Pokeball and poked it, catching herself.
Violet's smile was extremely wide at this point as she had her second Bug Pokemon and this one joined her of her free will just like Stinger.
"Alright, welcome to the team-er…" Violet paused and went through different nicknames in her head before snapping her fingers. "Silk! I hope we'll get along."
With that she pulled out the Pokedex and used the see through feature on the top part of the Pokeball to snap a picture.
"Pokemon Registered. Caterpie the Worm Pokemon."
Just like that the information showed up on the screen.
'Pokemon #10
Species: Caterpie
Gender: Female
Current Level: 5
Height: 1'0
Weight: 6.4 lbs.
Ability: Shield Dust- Blocks the added effects of attacks taken.
Nature: Bold
Characteristic: Thoroughly cunning
Moves: Tackle and String Shot.
Information: For protection this Pokemon will use the feeler on the top of its head to release a horrible stink that repels enemies. It is also a voracious eater that will devour leaves and berries bigger than its own body. As it can grow quickly, this Pokemon is easily recommended for novice trainers.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 7
Next Form: Metapod
Registration Complete.'
"Level five? Silk is definitely stronger than when I caught Stinger," Violet mused to herself as she sat down on her sleeping bag after putting Silk's Pokeball right next to Stinger in her backpack. "It'll take her no time at all to catch up and become a Metapod, but Stinger is close to becoming a Beedrill too, so perhaps I should focus on him first and then on Silk, or should I let Silk evolve first and then do both?"
She sat there mumbling to herself before yawning.
"I should probably sleep first then decide otherwise I'll be here all night." She decided, checking the small fire to make sure it wouldn't leave the circle of stones and dirt she had.
The last thing she needed to do was start a forest fire.
Now while Violet did end up sleeping well despite how her body ached the next morning from all of the travelling and sleeping on the ground, her morning did not start off so well as she woke up with a sword in her face.
Eyes widening, her mind waking up rather quickly at this development, Violet gave a scared look as she followed the sword to see a figure dressed up like a samurai. "Are you from Pallet Town?" He asked while Violet shook her head.
"V-V-Viridian City." She stammered out, hoping her journey wouldn't end here as she wouldn't be able to get to Stinger and Silk's Pokeball in time if he tried anything.
"Ah-," The Samurai actually looked rather awkward as he withdrew his sword much to Violet's immense relief. "Apologies, I've been on a bit of a losing streak to the trainers of Pallet that I wanted to regain my honor."
"... You're not going to rob me?" Violet asked letting out a sigh of relief while the Samurai looked rather offended.
"As if I would stoop so low."
Violet just tilted her head and looked from him to the sword. "Really?" She asked, not too sure about that and after a second the Samurai realized the message he might've accidentally set before coughing to regain his composure.
"I'll continue on my way."
But before he left, Violet quickly stood up, getting out of the sleeping bag. "W-Wait, I wouldn't say no to a battle if you won't." She said grabbing her bag while the Samurai glanced at her. "I'm not going to be a good bug trainer if I don't battle."
That sentence grabbed his attention. "You're a bug catcher?" He asked not expecting that while Violet nodded. "Interesting then I accept your challenge as a fellow Bug Trainer."
So they both got ready and sent their Pokemon out at the same time.
"Stinger get out there!" Violet ordered right as Samurai sent his out.
"Let's regain our honor Pinsir!"
Hearing the name Pinsir made Violet gape as the large brown stag-like beetle with sharp, thorny pincers on the top of its head landed on the ground, roaring a challenge to Stinger who glared defiantly.
This was her first time seeing a Pinsir in real life and it was a good nine inches taller than she was.
"Whoa, a Pinsir?" Violet had stars in her eyes. "You have a Pinsir?! That's awesome, where did you get him?!"
Samurai looked taken aback by how she reacted while the Pinsir was beginning to look weirded out.
Stinger hopped in place until he was looking at her with a deadpanned expression, as if asking if now was the time to be doing this.
"The pincers look incredibly sharp, you must help him sharpen them everyday and the shell looks shiny, with some dirt on it showing how often he cleans himself by burrowing into the ground, he is well taken care of-."
"Hey are we battling or what?" Samurai finally asked as the mumbling was kind of freaking him out.
Violet snapped out of it with a mortified look at what she did and gave a sheepish laugh. "S-Sorry," She said before getting ready, subtly taking out the Pokedex to see that this Pinsir was at least level 8 much to her surprise, though she wasn't complaining. "Let's do this."
"Start with Sword Dance!" Samurai ordered much to Violet's surprise as that was a TM move. "Now use Vicegrip!"
"Pull yourself out of the way with String Shot and use Harden!" Violet ordered with the Kakuna listening latching onto the branch, barely dodging as the pincers on Pinsir cleaved the ground.
"Hm, so you're upping your defense to counter Sword Dance?" Samurai mused before drawing his sword, getting in synch with his Pokemon. "Snatch it out of the air with Seismic Toss!"
Pinsir roared and jumped pretty high into the air while Stinger was still moving and gripped him, spinning to throw him to the ground.
"String Shot to coat the ground quick!" Violet panicked.
Stinger listened, firing a rapid barrage of String Shot, making a web for soft landing on the ground, even if he took a bit of damage.
But it was enough as Pinsir also landed on the makeshift web, the silky strings a bit too sticky for his liking until Samurai ordered for him to use his pincers to tear them off of him.
Violet however took advantage of his current situation. "Poison Sting!"
With that, Stinger fired a few barbs from its shell right into Pinsir's mouth making him hack before glowing purple showing the status condition.
"That's a cheap move!" Samurai exclaimed at the dirty tactic which made Violet glare.
It was strategy.
But the Pinsir manage to tear free of the silk and grab the Kakuna in its claws, moving to crush him with Vice Grip.
Though he would be injured it wouldn't be enough to kill him, but Violet panicked immensely, ordering a Harden.
A loud crack was heard with Violet expecting the worst only to looked relieved as the crack turned out to be because of Pinsir's pincers breaking as Harden looked to be enough before the effects of the poison made him fall to one knee while Stinger fell from his grip, rolling across the ground.
Gritting his teeth, Samurai quickly returned Pinsir, forfeiting him from the fight as while the damage wasn't too severe, he knew that continuing it would have a chance at making it worse.
"Very well let's finish this cocoon to cocoon." Samurai said now sending out a Metapod, the green Cocoon Pokemon standing upright facing Stinger.
Tilting her head, Violet smiled. "Stinger return, I want to send Silk out."
That made Stinger look at her in surprise, reminding Violet that he hasn't met the Caterpie yet while Samurai quirked a brow at the interaction.
"I caught her last night you were asleep, I think it's only fair for her to get some battling in too, right?" Violet asked with Stinger going quiet before using String Shot to latch onto the tree behind her and pulled himself to his trainer.
"Your Kakuna is… Peculiar, I've never seen a cocoon Pokemon move like that." Samurai said after a few seconds of silence.
He doesn't mean it as an insult, if anything it's rather smart.
"Thanks." Violet said taking it as a compliment before priming her second Pokeball. "Go Silk!"
The Caterpie gave a cry as she was let out, looking around before seeing she was in a battle against a Metapod, though she tilted her head at how the nearby Kakuna was giving her a judgmental look.
Stinger for his part was giving her a chance as if this Caterpie was traveling with them, she would be a part of this hive.
"Alright Metapod, use Harden!" Samurai ordered while Violet had Silk use Tackle.
It was going like that for a bit before Violet finally asked after the fifth time. "You caught him as a Metapod didn't you?"
Samurai coughed a bit embarrassed by that.
It was recently discovered that with Bug Pokemon usually following a Hive Mind they can only remember the move Harden in their cocoon state while being in the wild, but if one was caught and raised by a Trainer they would retain their past moves as a cocoon as they weren't a part of the hive mind anymore.
Seeing his embarrassment, Violet took that as confirmation and kept ordering a Tackle until the Metapod was unconscious while Samurai groaned at that. "Once more I've lost my honor."
Violet actually felt a little bad, it was like kicking a baby Growlithe. "Why did you send Metapod out if he only knew Harden?" She asked curiously while Silk slowly crawled towards Stinger, making some small talk to get to know each other.
"I was hoping he had enough experience to become a Butterfree," Samurai explained with Violet nodding at that answer. "He's close he just needs a push."
Stinger rolled his eyes at how Silk was boasting over her win despite how it was against a Pokemon that literally couldn't fight back while he despite being a cocoon, took down a Pinsir which was said to be one of the stronger bug types by himself.
When he said that, Silk narrowed her eyes as she was a bit proud of her strength.
"Well you trained your Pinsir pretty well, I was surprised you had one." Violet said while her two Pokemon were now arguing. "Where did you get him?"
"The Safari Zone, my Dad took me there on my tenth birthday to catch my first Pokemon." Samurai said with a smile at the memory. "That was about a week ago."
Violet squashed down a feeling of jealousy for both the rare bug Pokemon and the fact that this Samurai had a good memory of his own father in regards to her own.
Instead she turned only to stare as both Stinger and Silk covered each other in String Shot, now glaring while they were immobilized. "What in the world?"
"Hm looks like they were challenging each other, you might want to deal with that as soon as you can." Samurai advised as despite being a cocoon his Metapod was the same way with his Pinsir at first.
Feeling her shoulders slump a bit, Violet smiled and returned them, making a promise to get them something good for Breakfast after that victory. "Thanks for the Battle, it was fun."
"Indeed, though I lost I will train to challenge you again to regain my honor." Samurai vowed, sheathing his sword that was still out before giving a slight bow that Violet found a bit awkward before he was gone.
After he left, Violet blinked as she realized she never asked for his name, but decided she could do that if she did run into him again.
Now it was time to eat.
The next few days passed by rather quickly, if not a bit tame compared to the first few days as the deeper she got into the forest the less trainers she ran into, not that there were many to begin with.
It was a shame because both Stinger and Silk were pretty close to evolving.
Speaking of which, Violet was pretty unsure of how to deal with the bout of competitiveness the two of them seemed to have gained as they were always trying to one-up each other.
Perhaps she could call Professor Oak and ask once she's in Pewter City?
Ducking underneath a low hanging branch, Violet grimaced as she wiped her brow of sweat, feeling some dirt there.
She also needs a shower soon, sure she knew that traveling would make it a rather rare thing to do but this was ridiculous.
It was so bad that her hair was currently tangled in knots right now as she didn't have them in pigtails anymore.
Frowning as she checked the time on her Pokedex, Violet muttered at the fact that it was around three in the afternoon, she's been travelling for a good four hours today and she hasn't run into a single wild Pokemon?
That can't be a good sign, the forest was supposed to be full of Bug Pokemon, yet this part was empty.
So where were they-?
The Pokedex started to beep making Violet jump as she looked at it to see a radar-like feature appear with a dot nearby.
A dot that seemed to have paused and began heading her way.
What was this? Since when did the Pokedex have a radar?
The beeping became more frequent the closer the dot got as Violet primed Stinger's Pokeball just in case only for her to hear footsteps before the bushes rustled as a kid her age walked out.
Green Oak quirked a brow at seeing Violet. "Hm? So this was why my Pokedex was acting up," He was holding his which made Violet realize just who this was. "I didn't think Gramps would give his second Pokedex away."
Turning from Green to her Pokedex, Violet was relieved when the beeping stopped. "What was that about?" She asked thinking he would know.
"A feature Gramps put in there, the Pokedex's can track each other, he had it in case one of them were ever stolen." Green answered looking her up and down before frowning.
He didn't see anything remarkable about her. So why did Gramps give her a Pokedex? … Or did he?
"Um, so I'm Violet." Violet held out her hand to be nice after putting the Pokedex up, filing that function to the back of her mind for the moment. "Nice to meet you."
"That's debatable." Green didn't accept the handshake, not one to be friendly with anyone while she slowly lowered her hand. "How did you get that Pokedex?"
The question confused Violet until she realized Green didn't know and with his explanation about the built-in tracker he probably thought she stole it.
"H-He gave it to me a few days ago." Violet stammered out, really hoping this wouldn't turn into a misunderstanding.
Green frowned, not sure if she was telling the truth of not before deciding to take her at her word for now.
He'll ask Gramps when he gets to Pewter City, if he tells a different story he would take her down and turn her in to the Police.
"So if he gave that to you," Green stressed the word if to show he didn't really believe her. "That makes us rivals in a way."
Violet was silent before giving a nod, seeing his point as she primed Stinger's Pokeball while Green primed his own already seeing that he would want a battle.
But before either of them could start, Green paused and looked to the side. "You hear that?"
"Hear wha-?" Violet began only to realize the problem.
It was quiet.
During her whole time in Viridian Forest it was never quiet, she could always hear the leaves rustling, the fluttering of Pokemon flying overhead and even the soft pitter-patter of footsteps but never silence.
Green held his Pokeball warily as he looked around with Violet feeling some fear.
The ground shook as a loud stomping was heard, the two barely catching themselves before the stomping was repeated with increased frequency showing that whatever this was that scared the Pokemon it was getting closer.
Green however smirked as he had an idea of what it was. "Kept me waiting." He said as he's been searching for this Pokemon.
Violet gave him a confused look before the bushes nearby rustled as a large bipedal Pokemon with a brown hide that had several raised patches and a cream colored stomach that held a pouch, large cream colored ears and red eyes narrowed in fury came stomping out.
"A Kanghaskhan?" Violet asked not expecting that.
What was it doing here?
"Don't care I'm here to catch it, don't get in my way." Green ordered while Violet blinked before shrugging but being a little excited at seeing it.
Kanghaskhans were said to be pretty peaceful, even to humans-. The Kangaskhan quickly proved to be the exception to that as it roared, shooting forward with a Comet Punch.
Eyes widening, the two ten year olds dove to the side right as the Kangaskhan punched the ground where they were, creating a crater.
"The heck?!" Green asked in disbelief as he's seen Kangaskhan's due to Professor Oak having one and this wasn't anything like that one or any other one he's studied before Violet noticed something that made her pale.
"The pouch is empty."
Green gave a start and took a wary step back, a frown showing on his face.
They were dealing with a pissed off Kangaskhan that didn't have its baby which would probably explain the actions of this Pokemon.
"Come on out!" Green ordered as he sent out his Eevee along with a Rattata and Pidgey with them immediately springing into action with Eevee and Pidgey doing a double Sand Attack while Rattata began to lower its defense with a Tail Whip.
"Double String Shot!" Violet ordered sending both Stinger and Silk out with the two Bug Pokemon doing so immediately on seeing the threat to their trainer, not wasting any time with their little competition.
"What the-?! Are those the only Pokemon you have?!" Green asked in disbelief while Violet held Stinger and Silk sat on her hat with the Kangaskhan being blind from the sand and covered in silk, struggling to move.
"Yes." Violet said while Green made a face of annoyance.
"Gramps gave the Pokedex to a Bug Catcher." He couldn't believe it while Violet glare but the Kangaskhan roared, reminding them of the situation while it broke through the string shot and ran towards their voices. "We'll continue this afterwards."
'What a jerk.' Violet seethed silently as they both dodged another Comet Punch while Violet finally scanned the Kangaskhan only to be surprised as it couldn't measure its level for some odd reason.
Instead it was saying error and from how Green frowned he got that too.
"Something isn't right." Green muttered watching as Stinger used String Shot to launch himself into the air and fire a barrage of Poison Stings at the Kangaskhan while Silk covered him by using String Shot.
Eevee was now using Growl to lower this Pokemon's attack power with Pidgey keeping the Sand Attack up, adding Gust to make a bit of a sand twister that surrounded the Kangaskhan who began to glow purple showing that Stinger managed to poison it.
"You think it's using Rage?" Violet asked with Green considering that as it would explain the strength it was showing.
She did take the time to scan Green's Pokemon, especially the Eevee but she was surprised to see their levels with the Pidgey and Rattata being 14 while the Eevee was 16.
"Perhaps, if we can weaken it we should be able to catch it."
That earned an incredulous look from Violet. "You still want to catch that?!" She asked thinking this was the worst possible time to be adding it to a team.
Even if they do catch it, this Pokemon was too strong to respect them at their current level.
"I didn't say it would be easy and quiet, just because its eyesight is impaired doesn't mean its hearing is." Green hissed with Violet clamming up. "If we catch it we can turn it over to the authorities and prevent anyone else from stumbling on it if we manage to escape, but plain Pokeballs won't work."
"So what's the plan?" Violet whispered with Green furrowing his brow in thought before he searched through his bag and pulled out an Ultra Ball. "Where did you get that?!"
Ultra Balls were notoriously hard to get and were very expensive.
"Gift from Gramps, I was saving it for an emergency which this certainly qualifies as." Green said while the Kangaskhan was proving to still be dangerous as it spun its tail around to catch Eevee and Rattata to send them flying. "We need to immobilize it."
"Leave that to me." Violet said getting an idea. "Stinger launch yourself into the air again and fire String Shot at the ground all around Kangaskhan! Silk you fire directly at her."
As the two Bug Pokemon moved to follow those orders, the Kangaskhan finally located them due to their hushed voices and charged forward for what looked to be another Comet Punch.
However something unexpected happened before they could carry out the plan.
The Kangkaskhan's eyes widened as she gripped her chest in pain, shivering before falling over with quite a thud.
"Did she-?" Violet couldn't finish her sentence in shock while Green frowned and took out the Pokedex, scanning the unmoving Kangaskhan to see that there were no more vitals.
"She died." Green stated in a simple tone, leaving for Violet to nod. "But why did she die? There's no way we were the cause of it."
"So what happened?" Violet went to ask only for both Stinger and Silk to glow bright showing that some good came from this situation.
Stinger began to change shape as stingers pierced the skin of the cocoon to rip it open showing a bipedal yellow wasp-like Pokemon with red eyes and a yellow body with black stripes having three cone shaped stingers. Two silver ones on its arms and a sharp yellow one on its lower body, a buzzing noise emitted when its wings began to move.
Silk on the other hand changed into a Metapod that wasn't so different from Samurai's.
Violet almost wanted to cheer at this happening.
Finally Stinger was fully evolved and Silk was in her second stage. She was really becoming a genuine Bug Catcher.
But given the situation, Violet felt that cheering wouldn't be right.
Green however scoffed with an eye roll given how he's already fought Beedrills and Butterfrees belonging to other Bug Catchers.
Instead, he glanced back at the Kangaskhan with narrowed eyes, wondering what happened. Why did this Pokemon attack them? Why did she suddenly die?
He had so many questions and not enough answers.
So he turned to walk off, only to stop as he passed by Violet, giving her a cold look. "If you want to be a trainer worthy of using the Pokedex you need to rethink your team." He said to her which made Violet tense, having some mild flashbacks to the teasing from when she caught Stinger. "Bug Pokemon won't get you far."
Stinger seemed to take offense to that from how he was buzzing, with his forearms twitching, but Green's Eevee, Rattata and Pidgey gave him a warning growl making him tense as he knew how strong they were to him currently.
"You can take my advice or leave it, I don't care which." Green left it at that as he walked off, not caring how Violet glanced down at the ground.
Unknown to them, a figure was watching from a few trees, using Binoculars to keep track of everything. "Admin this is Proton," The figure said wearing a black uniform with a red R on the front, a black hat covering his green hair. "The subject is deceased, it would seem that the serum was too much for it."
A sigh was heard on the other end. "Unfortunate but not unexpected, the experiment still provided some unique results and now we know that recently hatched Pokemon won't be able to handle the sudden increase in power, anything else?"
"Yes, it attacked two trainers, some kids who are most likely rookies."
"... And they survived? Interesting," The Admin sounded intrigued before shaking it off. "But inconsequential, fall back to base Grunt."
Proton made a face at being reminded of his rank before giving a nod, taking another look at the two kids before deeming them nothing to worry about.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 12
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: ?
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden and Fury Attack
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Metapod
Type: Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 8
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves: Tackle, String Shot and Harden
Heh a lot happened huh? First things first Stinger is fully evolved now so the battles should be a bit more fun and Violet now has a Metapod so her team's coming along nicely.
Not just that but we had her meet Samurai-who will appear again in this story which is why I didn't add too much of him this chapter, but the big factor of this chapter was Green who is as cold as his Manga counterpart, possibly a bit colder, why will be explained in future chapters. He'll get quite a bit of development in the future be assured of that.
The Pokedex having a built in radar to track other Pokedex is a thing in the Manga, it was shown in the GSC arc I believe and so was the Kangaskhan from the first few chapters of the Manga, but I obviously went in a different direction than that.
The first death seen in this fic being the Kangaskhan and yes from that part at the end it was a baby Pokemon, Team Rocket were known to be experimenting from the game lore which was why I added that part at the end, as well as to introduce Proton as a Grunt long before he's an executive.
Alright time to answer Reviews.
Rmarcano321: Yes the anime is pretty good, but I love the Manga for its darker nature. And thanks, I'm glad Violet is interesting so far. I was inspired by both my Mono Fire Red Bug Run I played recently and by another bug centered story by Colbi Chibi that I've read. Oh and I'll get to reviewing some of your stories soon, sorry for how long its taking to do that.
M3G4N5H059: *Facepalms* How the hell did I mess that up when I've played the game for years?! Strange I could've sworn Weedle always had that ability that I didn't think to check that was my bad. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and it's fixed.
CitrusChickadee: I know what you mean, doing a bug run was pretty fun in the game and I was honestly surprised that not many people do stories like that. Or many of their favorite types now that I think about it? I need to try and find some mono-type stories to look into. I'm happy you enjoyed the world-building too.
Guest1: Ask and you shall receive with her having two now. Though there are only six in Kanto and getting them will be stretched out in the story considering how far after Mt. Moon the other three are.