Arriving at Pewter City
Chapter 5
Arriving at Pewter City
The next Morning
As dawn broke at the trio's campsite, everything was calm and peaceful. The silence only breaking due to the sound of twigs snapping as wild Rattata moved from bush to bush and flapping as flocks of Pidgy woke up and started to take flight. Softly the wind blew, blowing away the last feint bits of smoke coming from the burned-out twigs of the campfire. The smell and smoke made it way to a small fox-like Pokémon that was lurking in the trees, the Pokémon loved the smell and started to make its way to the camp while its trainer ran after it.
The peaceful and quiet dawn was broken by a loud snap and crashing noise as fell out of the trees and into Nathan's, Yuudai's and Verde's campsite.
Thud!
"Damn that hurt!" shouted the trainer that had fallen, waking up the trio. The trainer that had fallen into camp was a teenage girl, she had blonde hair and blue eyes, she was wearing a black t-shirt underneath an unzipped red jacket with black leggings and a pair of white boots. Inside her jacket pockets were two Pokéballs, after getting up she grabbed the fox-like Pokémon and held it in her arms. The three teenage boys who were disturbed had all got to their feet and were staring at the girl with confusing looks on their faces.
"Who the hell are you and what are doing in our camp!" Verde said as the young girl finally noticed the three boys looking at her, the young girl after turning red with embarrassment quickly bowed to show respect. "I'm sorry!" she exclaimed. "I'm Jade and I fell out of a tree while chasing my Eevee that thought it'd be funny to run away from me…again" jade said tilting her head to the floor and letting out a sigh.
Yuudai scoffed. "A bad Pokémon makes for a lousy trainer. A Pokémon is as only good as it's trainer lets it be." The boy recited these words as they were learned off by heart by now. "Come on we don't have time for messing around with tree people. I have a gym battle to win." The brown-haired boy walked off leaving the other two behind. He soon came back once he realised, he left his bag which had his bag case inside. Picking these items up and putting them on placing the case inside his pocket he looked at the others. "Come on we gotta beat the queue of trainers. There's gonna be a whole bunch by now."
Yuudai seemed more hot-headed and rushed than usual. Something was on his mind and there was a definitive reason he wanted to do this battle as soon as possible. Click. His Pokéball opened and Squirtle appeared on his shoulder. Yuudai preferred Squirtle out in the open, by his side instead of being in its Pokéball. "What's up with you today?" Verde asked Yuudai who wasn't acting like himself, Yuudai looked at Verde. "It's nothing it doesn't matter. Just...stress" the boy said trying to make an excuse.
"Who do you think you are calling me tree people and a lousy trainer, especially when you literally just left your Pokémon behind!" Jade shouted at Yuudai, Verde and Nathan both stepped in to stop the two hot headed trainers from killing each other, Verde focused on Yuudai while Nathan focused on trying to calm down Jade "just calm down, we don't need any trouble".
"Get out of my way!" Jade shouted while pushing Nathan out the way which only angered Nathan and made Yuudai even more angry, "how about a double battle?" Verde suggested sensing the growing anger and hostility, "that way all three of you can let out your anger without hurting each other".
"I think that's a great idea" Nathan said while staring down Jade. "As much as I'd love to battle the tree person, we really should go battle Brock..." Yu realised that he wasn't going to win this argument and just nodded. "Fine. Let's battle, Pikachu stand by for battle!" As the words left Yuudai's mouth a ball was sent spinning. A flash of light busted from the ball as it slowly materialised into a yellow rodent. "This is your big debut, do me proud."
Nathan walked over to Yuudai and threw out a Pokéball "Charmander let's go", a fire like light appeared and slowly materialised into an orange lizard like creature. Jade just smiled with a smug like smile before calling out her two Pokémon "Squirtle, Eevee let's get it done!". Two Pokéballs got thrown into the air releasing a white light that turned into a small fox-like creature and bubbles that formed into a bipedal turtle.
Yuudai pulled out his Pokédex to examine the fox-like creature "Eevee, the evolution Pokémon. Eevee has an unstable genetic makeup that suddenly mutates due to the environment in which it lives. Radiation from various stones causes this Pokémon to evolve."
Yuudai took interest in this. This girl even had a Squirtle. "Interesting team you got. You ready Pikachu? Use thunder shock on her Squirtle!" With that the rodent leaped into the air with an intense battledore look. A bolt of lightning raced from the creature heading directly towards the tiny turtle.
Jade reacted quickly to Yuudai's commands and countered with her own. "Squirtle use withdraw to protect yourself and Eevee use quick attack on Pikachu!", jade's Squirtle withdrew into its shell to protect itself while Eevee used Squirtle's shell as a steppingstone to leap into the air to attack. Nathan joined in by commanding his Charmander to react "Charmander, protect Pikachu by using ember on the ground followed by tackle on Eevee!". Nathan's Charmander obeyed and quickly used ember on the ground allowing it to become airborne, Charmander followed it up by using tackle on Eevee scoring a direct hit knocking Eevee to the floor and allowing Pikachu to fire off its thunder shock.
The mouse's electric hit the shell of the turtle. Yuudai clenched his hand his teeth gritted into a smirk. "Follow it up with a quick attack on Squirtle !" The Pikachu came out of the electricity field moving at incredibly high speeds against the Squirtle, its body ramming into the turtles.
"Good now bite attack Squirtle!" Jade shouted while Pikachu finished its quick attack, "Make sure you keep hold of it, and Eevee use your quick attack on Pikachu!". Jade's Squirtle withdrew from its shell and bit Pikachu's tail holding it in place allowing Eevee to ram into pickachu with great force. "Quick Charmander, use metal claw on both Eevee and Squirtle to help pickachu escape then use smokescreen!" Nathan commanded reacting to save pickachu from any follow up attacks.
Yuudai's eyes widened as Pikachu was grasped by Squirtle's strong jaw. As Pikachu was rammed by Jade's Eevee the rodent was knocked down but still Squirtle held on tight. Charmander slashed the pair using metal claw and then smokescreen for the two to run back and get distance. "You saved me there. Let's wrap this up quick!" Yuudai punched the air. "Pikachu thunder shock maximum power!" With that the rodent sent a strong current of electricity flying towards Squirtle.
"Don't mention it Yuudai, and I was thinking the same thing" Nathan said looking at Yuudai "Charmander blind them with smokescreen to protect pickachu and then get in close at use ember on Eevee, full power!". Charmander obeyed locking on to Eevee and got ready to strike as to not blind itself, it used smokescreen blocking both Eevee, Squirtle and jade's view allowing Charmander to get in close and Pikachu to land a direct hit while being protected.
"Nice one Nath! Let's wrap this up! Pikachu, thunder shock!" Yuudai called as the yellow mouse obeyed, leaping into the air, is cheeks sparking before it surrounded itself in the electric current as a high voltage electricity attack was sent directed at the tiny turtle. "Don't let up Pikachu!"
After moving closer to Eevee and Squirtle, Nathan's Charmander obeyed his trainers' commands and started to gather flames in its mouth, allowing the flames and heat to rise to the point that stones started to melt. Finally Charmander let loose the full power ember attack on Eevee while Yuudai's pickachu continued to electrocute jade's Squirtle with thunder shock not letting up.
Yuudai looked over at Nathan with a smirk. "We're not doing half bad. In fact I'd say this is where the fight ends" Yuudai grinned as Pikachu's thunder shock died down as an electrocuted Squirtle fell to the floor. "Not bad, for a tree person." Yuudai taunted his opponent again. "Nathan, I'll leave the rest to you." Yuudai told Nathan as Pikachu ran back to standing in front of Yuudai in case he was needed. "Not bad for your first battle Pikachu." Yuudai complimented his Pokémon which was just brushed off by the yellow rat.
Charmander Finished using ember on Eevee and jumped back to Nathan waiting for his next command, Eevee slowly struggled to its feet due to the damage it had taken as Jade shouted, "Come on Eevee, please get up!". When Eevee finally got back to its feet its legs were shaking, struggling to stay up, "Eevee use tackle!" Jade shouted desperately. Eevee slowly started running towards Charmander, not being able to pick up speed due to the damage it had already taken, "Charmander end this with metal claw!" Nathan said while looking at the struggling Eevee. Charmander listened and raced towards the struggling Eevee as its claws became sliver and metallic, jade's Eevee despite struggling still ran towards Charmander getting ready to ram into Charmander using tackle. As the two Pokémon came within striking range, Charmander let Eevee ram into it allowing Charmander to strike Eevee at very close range with metal claw sending it flying into the air and crashing down to the ground knocking Eevee out.
Yuudai smirked as he watched the Eevee fall. "Guess we win. Not bad though. You're impressive." The boy complimented jade as if all hostility had vanished during the battle. "Thank you?" Jade said with a confused look on her face wondering if this nice teenage boy as really the same one that insulted her not too long ago, "You heading to Pewter City as well? You should come along." Yuudai said after looking at Nathan, he looked back to his opponent. "And...sorry" Yuudai said being barely audible. Nathan and jade also apologised. "Yeah, I'm heading to pewter city, so I'll tag along" Jade said. All three trainers returned their Pokémon to their Pokéballs and started to take down the makeshift campsite they had slept in the night before, once taken down Nathan, Yuudai and Verde now joined by jade all turned to the direction of Pewter city and started walking. "Come on let's go to Pewter."
As the group trailed through the forest the trees became thinner and thinner, a light could be seen at the edge. "I think that's the exit" Yuudai pointed out. As group came to the light the scenery changed from green grass and trees to a small dirt trail leading towards Pewter city's outskirts with buildings in the distance, two building could be seen with red and blue roofs from the dirt trail. "The red roof is the Pokémon centre and the blue roof is the Pokemart, they painted the roofs so trainers couldn't get lost" Jade said. As the group of young trainers entered the city, they looked around in awe, "This is a lot bigger than I expected..." Yuudai said as it was the first time he or Nathan and Verde had been in a big city, shaking it off Yuudai turned to Nathan. "Right let's get some supplies, then we'll take down Brock!" Yuudai said moving deeper into the city heading towards the Pokemart.
As they approached the blue roofed building jade started asking what supplies the trio were after, "we're after camping equipment, food for both us and Pokémon, Pokéballs, medicine for both Pokémon and us and lastly maybe a guide book to direct along each route between city's so we don't get lost." Nathan said, the group then entered the Pokemart to see aisle upon aisle of different items just waiting to be brought. A member of staff spotted the group and walked over to them with a smile "Hi, I'm Grant welcome to the Pokemart, can I help you today?
Yuudai examined the shelves some of these things were expensive. "Uh yeah we just need supplies, mainly food for us and our Pokémon, some potions and lastly we need a guide to help us." Yu turned to Nathan. "Let's get the Pokéballs after we kick Brock's ass." The clerk nodded and handed the items over. "Let's see that should bring the total up to..." Yuudai froze as the cogs in his head turned. He started counting on his fingers.
"5000 Pokedollars!" Exclaimed Nathan, "we're gonna have to pull our money together until we beat Brock" suggested Verde. "Nobody said being a trainer would be this expensive!" Yuudai scoffed "I'm glad that the Pokémon centre isn't this expensive" Yuudai said reaching into his pocket and pulling out what funds he had, both Verde and Nathan did the same with shocked looks on their faces handing their funds to Yuudai to buy the supplies.
"Now that you're done at the Pokemart if you want, I can take you to the Pewter city gym?" Jade said with a smile, Yuudai who was desperate to get to the gym and defeat the gym leader turned to face Jade "yes take me there now please" Yuudai demanded. Jade turned away from Yuudai and started to lead the way to the city's gym, "Excuse me Jade, but how do you know your way around Pewter city so well?" Verde asked with a puzzled look on his face. Jade looked over her shoulder towards Verde and responded with a smile on her face "I grew up here".
As they neared the gym, the trio was still asking Jade questions after finding out she grew up in the city. "If you live in the city, then why were you in the forest?" Yuudai asked, "I use the forest for training and for early morning walks as the forest is quite peaceful" Jade responded as the arrived at the doors of the Pewter city gym. "Oh we should decide who's going first, now shouldn't we?" Yuudai asked after turning towards Verde and Nathan, they took one look at each other before in unison saying, "you should go first". "Everyone knows how desperate you are to beat Brock so you should go first" Verde said as Nathan nodded in agreement, "okay then, I'll go first" Yuudai said opening the doors and walking into the pewter city gym.