Ketchum Pack
Chapter 4 Don't Poke just Joke
The next morning, Raku Ichijo, Jin Mazama and their Pokémon woke up from their sleep in the cave from the rain. The injured Pichu, that Raku Ichijo and his Bellsprout were caring for, was recovered and Raku Ichijo ask it if it wants to come along with him and his Bellsprout. The Pichu thought about it and it decided to join Raku Ichijo and so Raku Ichijo caught the Pichu. Soon then Raku Ichijo with Bellsprout and his newly caught Pichu with Jin Mazama his lycanroc and his Pokémon continue to finding Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu.
On the way to finding Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu, Raku Ichijo and Jin Mazama were amusing themselves by telling some funny moments that Jin Mazama was telling about. Raku Ichijo wanted to make some funny moments to amused Jin Mazama. He saw a chance by see some wild forest Pokémon and want to fool around with them. Raku Ichijo wasn't aware that the wild forest Pokémon can be fearfully provoke when a human comes to close to them. So then Raku Ichijo was tackled by a wild Turtwig, pecked by a wild Pikipek, pinched by a wild Gligar, and so on.
After the wild Pokémon were done attacking Raku Ichijo and went away, Jin Mazama explains to Raku Ichijo that wild Pokémon can be very cautious around with people who get to close to them and will defend themselves. Raku Ichijo asked Jin Mazama to teach him how to approach Pokémon. Jin Mazama taught Raku Ichijo his methods how to approach Pokémon, but for Raku Ichijo to use those methods had failed many times. Raku Ichijo tries to offer berries to those wild Pokémon but the Pokémon avoid him. He tries to be playful around them, but then got battered.
No matter how many methods Raku Ichijo tries to used to being friendly towards the wild forest Pokémon, the wild forest Pokémon keep beating him up. Soon then when Raku Ichijo was about to give up, he slowly laugh at his mistakes. Jin Mazama was confused then Raku Ichijo explains his mistake to him. Raku Ichijo then used his way to the wild forest Pokémon with his Pokémon. Right when the Pokémon were to approaching Raku Ichijo, they were all snatched up by two Pokémon hunters.
Jin Mazama told Raku Ichijo about Pokémon hunters that they are bad guys that steal Pokémon and sell them on the black market. Raku Ichijo then was determined to save the wild Pokémon from the Pokémon hunter with his Bellsprout and Pichu with Jin Mazama helping out as well. But the Pokémon hunter was armed with a Tyranitar and an Aggron which made it difficult for Raku Ichijo and Jin Mazama. Jin Mazama chose his Lycanroc and Raku Ichijo chose his Bellsprout and Pichu to battle with.
Jin Mazama and Raku Ichijo would know that it is a tag battle against the Pokémon hunter. Jin Mazama tell Raku Ichijo that they need to work together as a team if they want to defeat the Pokémon hunter, when the battle was going on and they were having troubles in the mist of the battle. So Jin Mazama and Raku Ichijo did work together and it seems to work. That is until the Pokémon hunter is able to Mega Evolved their Tyranitar and Aggron which Jin Mazama forgot to mention it to Raku Ichijo.
Right when Jin Mazama's Lycanroc was near collapsed and Raku Ichijo's Bellsprout was near fainting plus his Pichu, Raku Ichijo encouraged both his of his Pokémon and Bellsprout started to evolve. Raku Ichijo's Bellsprout evolved into Weepinbell and it help Jin Mazama's Lycanroc by using Aromatherapy on it, but then was taken down by Mega Tyranitar's fire punch. Raku Ichijo return Weepinbell in its Pokeball and he was left to battle with his Pichu.
Jin Mazama with his Lycanroc manages to defeat one of the Pokémon hunter's Mega Tyranitar with a Z – Move Continental Crush and Raku Ichijo had to face against the remaining Pokémon hunter's Mega Aggron with his Pichu. While Raku Ichijo with his Pichu battle the remaining Pokémon hunter's Mega Aggron, Jin Mazama with his Lycanoroc seized the chance and freed the wild forest Pokémon but still held hostage. Just when Raku Ichijo's Pichu wan exhausted from the battle and Raku Ichijo was about to give up, Raku Ichijo remember what Jin Mazama's advices.
Raku Ichijo cheer more to his Pichu and then his Pichu evolve into Pikachu. Then Raku Ichijo with his newly evolved Pikachu defeated the remaining Pokémon hunter's Mega Aggron and the hunters flee in terror. Raku Ichijo aided Jin Mazama and the wild forest Pokémon. After see how Raku Ichijo and his Pokémon Weepinbell and his Pikachu were trying to save them, some of the wild forest Pokémon which are the Turtwig, the Pikipek, and the Gligar decide to join Raku Ichijo and his team by capturing them.