" Gust" and "Ember" have been the only commands Phillip had to call upon entering the Viridian Forest.
How could he not? The place was full of Bug-Type Pokemon, and not one trainer had shown anything except those types. It was easy sweeping through the forest, and even easier to defeat the trainers.
However, Phillip had kept an eye out for anything else. While the occasional Caterpie appeared and Weedle was encountered, they were immediately blown away. Kakuna and Metapod? They left with burns. No, Phillip was aiming for a different Pokemon. He had already saw it before, but believed it to be a good addition to the team, seeing as no Grass-types were available.
He turned his head right and left, keeping all sights on large grass surrounding him. Charmander's torch of a tail kept the path illuminated on the dimly lit forest. Said Pokemon was only a Lv. 11 now, but there was definitely more Pokemon to fight in the area. Especially the one Phillip was looking for.
Phillip grumbled a bit. " It's not here either. Let's go farther in."
They returned to the main route as a way to avoid walking through the endless trees to someplace he wouldn't want to be at. The dirt road was given lights at both sides to help Trainers out, but some stayed back to either find rare Pokemon or to pick on new recruits.
Like this one. " Hey! You have Pokemon! Come on! Let's battle 'em!"
Phillip looked at the bug catcher. " I could finish you in a second. Do you really want to walk this road?"
The bug catcher shrugged. " We don't know if we try." He tossed a ball forward and out popped a Weedle.
Phillip sighed. " Charmander, you need the training. Take him out."
The battle didn't last a second. The Weedle was taken care of by one measly Ember. The " Trainer" threw out a Caterpie next, only to follow the route of the Weedle.
The bug catcher stomped his foot onto the ground. " No! Caterpie can't hack it!"
Phillip pulled Charmander back into the ball. " I told you this last time. And the time before that."
The bug catcher blinked a bit before placing a finger under his chin and saying, " Oh, yeah. I remember you now."
Phillip shook his head. " I bet in the next ten seconds you don't." Phillip just moved on, ignoring the outburst behind him. He immediately started walking along the higher grass in hopes of seeing his wanted Pokemon. Unfortunately, Phillip walked out of the grass empty-handed. He passed another bud catcher, but this one didn't even move from his spot to fight Phillip. He just stood there, waved at Phillip, before watching the grass intensely.
Phillip then met an fork. One side went into high grass before returning to the main path while the other want past a patch of trees, before arcing back to fuse with the first.
Phillip walked over to the high grass, only to walk through without seeing a single Pokemon. Maybe the Weedle and Caterpie sent the word that the new trainer didn't want to see them.
He kept going to another patch of grass. He walked through and only to Weedle and Caterpie. Maybe the word wasn't fast enough. With this in his thoughts, Phillip brought out Pidgey to Gust them away.
If, at that time,he didn't hear a girlish scream echo through the forest.
If you knew Phillip, which no one truly did, you know of his defensive mechanism for others. Thus, upon hearing the scream sounding by, he took several steps back, turned, and bolted. He kept running, never stopping, especially when that bug catcher tried challenging him again. Eventually, he found the thing that was screaming: that girl from before had a Caterpie rubbing against her leg. Phillip never really caught the girl's name.
Anyway, the girl fell to her knees and yelled, " Get this disgusting bug away from me!"
Phillip brought himself to view. " Now, that's just mean." Ash and the girl turn to him.
"Ha!" Ash said before running up to him. " See, Misty? I told we'd get to him!"
Misty, however, had a different reaction. She stomped over to Phillip and tried swatting at him. " Why did you leave us back there?!"
Phillip ducked under the blow. " I'm a Trainer. I have to place my Pokemon before all others. Now, what's with calling the Caterpie ' disgusting'?" Misty realized that she was willing moved away from the bug, which was now crawling up to her. It didn't take her a second to pull her foot back, turn around, and slammed the poor bug away.
Now if only she could have seen Phillip take her foot back and pressed it against her back.
" Hey!" she yelled. " Let me go!"
" Not until you apologize to Caterpie about that unneeded violence." Phillip replied.
She turned her head to him. " Not a chance! I hate-" She saw the light when Phillip added pressure to the to disturbingly positioned leg. " Okay! I'm sorry! There, I said it!"
Phillip looked back at her. " Say it to Caterpie, not me."
She looked back at the bug and gave the quietest and quickest " I'm sorry" known to man kind. She returned her attention to him. " There, I said it! Now let me go!" Phillip sighed and let go. Misty, now with her leg back, scampered away from both Caterpie and Phillip. However, Caterpie followed her to her hiding spot.
She nearly scream, " Ash, put that slimy thing back it the Poke Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world!"
Ash was more than reluctant. " Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things?"
" Very funny. Carrots, peppers, and bugs! Everyone hates something and I hate bugs!"
Phillip paced over to her. " Yes, that's true, but that doesn't give you the right to use those hates to cause damage to another being, especially Bug-Type Pokemon."
She twisted her head away from her. " Who made you a philosopher?"
" The people like you." She looked at him with more rage at this.
Ash, however, was looking at Caterpie. " I don't think you're ugly or disgusting at all, Caterpie. Here: climb up my shoulder." Caterpie looked at Pikachu, who nodded at this. Ash said that Caterpie won't be scaring Misty anymore. When asked by Misty, Ash just told Caterpie that the three would go on without Misty. Misty didn't take this lying down and ran after the group.
Phillip shook his head at this. " And I'm still certain those two are a married couple." He then shrugged. " Oh well. Let's get going." With a running start, he entered the forest once more.
However, once he entered the place, he noticed at the dark forest was getting darker every second as he walked. He knew that night was coming and gathered nearby sticks to start up a campfire. He asked Charmander to start up the fire, who did so without much resistance, much to the shock of Phillip. However, he didn't waste time thinking; Phillip fell asleep as soon as the warmth hit him.
_Mind-scape: Enter_
Phillip opened his eyes to Lightning, Black, and Gabriel, who stood above him. " May I help you?"
Gabriel shrugged. "Nothing really. Just wondering about something."
" And what would that be?" Phillip asked.
" You consider yourself a follower of chivalry, yet you tend to harm women as well. May I ask why?" Gabriel said.
Phillip sat up before answering. " Chivalry also states that I protect the weak, and I have met two girls that have hurt the weak so far."
Gabriel sighed at this before looking over to the wall. A clock molded itself from the work and, if it was showing the correct time, hours were zooming by at a high rate. " It seems you'll be awakening in only a little while from now."
Phillip stared at the clock. " You can read that thing?"
Gabriel smiled at Phillip. " You forget: times differs inside your mind. A second in here could be a little more than a hour out there or vice versa." He looked looked at the clock once more. " And you're about to wake up in 3, 2, 1" With that, darkness took hold once more.
_Mind-scape: Exit_
Phillip removed the iron grip that his eyelids had for each other and stared at the canopy of the forest, light of the sun barely breaking through. However, that wasn't the thing that caught his attention as he woke. It was the feeling that something was sleeping onto his stomach.
He looked down to the object and found the Pokemon he was looking for during his exploration of the forest; a Pikachu was curled into a ball on his stomach, breathing softly.
Phillip swiftly moved his right hand to his belt to pull an empty Poke Ball off. The Pikachu hadn't moved from it's position, nor awoken from it's sleep. With another swift movement, the Poke Ball touched the Pikachu's forehead and pulled it into it's enclosed space. The ball wiggled three times before giving a puff , signaling a successful capture.
Phillip placed the ball in front of the PokeDex for a scan.
Pikachu:The -
Phillip moved down the list, as usual.
Pikachu
Lv: 5
Moves: Thundershock, Growl.
Phillip looked at the ball as he put the Dex up. " Seems we'll need to get your training started soon, huh?" The ball shook slightly in response, but stop soon afterwords.
That was when the Rick character came rushing by. " Hey, you!"
Phillip was both happy and agitated. Happy that he could start Pikachu's training, and agitated because it was this guy. Again. " Yes, I'll battle you."
Rick shook his head. " That's not what I want! There's some weird people and a Meowth at the entrance attacking these two people!" Phillip shot past Rick for the entrance, believe the instincts that he knows these people.
As fate would have it, he found Misty, Ash, James, Jessie, and...
" Meowth!" the cat yelp as he dodged another one of Phillip's Poke Balls. " Will you stop that?!"
Phillip stared at the Pokemon. " Do you have a trainer?"
Meowth pressed both paws behind his head. " Nope! And that's just the-" A Pokeball rammed into Meowth's head. However, he was hit with the back of the ball, causing the Meowth not to be caught.
" Darn it." Phillip said, shaking his arm before catching the returning ball. " I knew I felt my throw slipping."
Meowth ran back to his " cronies". " Don't just stand there! Attack!"
" Go, Ekans!"
" Koffing, let's go!"
The two signature Pokemon of Team Rocket's members came into being in front of Ash and Misty. Ash looked over at Phillip, who nodded at the untold plan. Ash tossed one of his Poke Balls on to the field, which released an avian Pokemon with brown feathers and a cream-colored face and underbelly. There was a red comb at the top of it's head, and it's tail feathers alternated between red and yellow. Black streaks went behind it's eyes and wielded two powerful looking talons.
Phillip pulled out the PokeDex.
Pidgeotto: The-
Phillip shut it up just as quick. With a toss of his own Poke Ball, his Pikachu appeared onto the field.
Jessie and James looked at with slight surprise. Ash was more vocal however. " You got yourself a Pikachu too?"
" Less talking, more battling, Ash." Phillip said, causing the rookie trainer to return his attention to the fight in progress.
Koffing followed Pidgeotto into the air, causing an air battle to form. Pidgeotto weaved around, dodging Koffing as the two nearly hit each other and avoiding Koffing's sludge attacks. Ekans tried taking a bite out of the Pidgeotto, but Pidgeotto slipped through the jaws and returned with a Quick Attack that included a flaming aura to the bird. However, Ekans was ordered to go underground, forcing Pidgeotto to stop just before the ground. Koffing appeared behind it and sent out a smokescreen, but Pidgeotto was warned in time and clapped it's wings together to dissipate the smoke. Koffing then summoned some sludge to shot at Pidgeotto, but it dodged them all like the others.
Ekans took this point to jump back out of the ground to attack, but Pidgeotto took back to the sky. Phillip looked at the battle with interest. He truly believed Pikachu wouldn't have to lift a finger in the fight.
That was when there was an accident.
Ekans and Koffing followed Pidgeotto into the air. Ash called for a Gust, but Koffing weaved away from the attack, leaving Pidgeotto open for attack. Phillip saw Ekans fall toward Pidgeotto and knew he needed to do something.
" Pikachu, Thundershock!"
The bolt of lightning hit just in time. Ekans was pushed out of its course, allowing Pidgeotto to survive the battle, at least for a longer period of time.
Phillip looked over to Ash. " Summon out Caterpie. It's gonna get a wallop of Experience of this fight."
Ash smiled. " I gotcha. Pidgeotto, return! Caterpie, go!" The bird was pulled back into its ball by a red beam and Caterpie was brought out to the ground. It was slightly bruised on its green skin and cream underbelly. The pink antenna was also bruised, but less than the yellow circles that trailed down the insect's skin. Its yellow eyes and large black pupils showed it's scared expression, which was also seen in it's quivering yellow tail.
Team Rocket screeched with laughter at this before having Ekans and Koffing attack.
Phillip held out a hand and counted down from five, waiting to give Ash the signal to have Caterpie attack.
5...
4...
3... Caterpie placed it's head onto the floor upon seeing the approaching forces
2...
1...Only then was Ekans and Koffing were close enough. Phillip pointed forward.
Ash called immediately. " Caterpie, Stringshot, now!" Caterpie pulled its head from the floor, faced the opponents and released a white silk from it's mouth.
Koffing was closest, thus causing it to be covered with the silk. It sunk to the ground, now not being able to use keep itself levitated.
Ekans kept going, but had its head covered in the silk within an instant. It reared back in confusion. Both Caterpie and Pikachu charged forward to hit the balled Koffing, causing it to go flying into Ekans and sending them both back to their trainers.
Team Rocket wasn't laughing anymore. " Beaten by a Caterpie." " That really bugs me." Phillip nearly laughed at Jame's and Jessie's reactions.
Meowth decided to step up to the plate. " Now watch a real Pokemon in action." His claws shone from the sunlight.
However, Pikachu just shot a Thundershock at him, paralyzing him for a bit so Caterpie encased him with a Stringshot. Jame and Jessie picked Meowth up and ran of their, yelling that they'd be back.
Phillip pulled Pikachu back into the Poke Ball and walked off, having all that he wanted out of the fight, even if he could catch that Meowth yet. The other two never noticed until he was already long gone.
_Scene Change_
Once back in the forest, he scanned Pikachu's stats once more.
Pikachu
Lv: 10
Moves: Thundershock, Growl, Tail Whip, Thunder Wave.
Phillip smiled at the Poke Ball. " That's better, isn't it?" The ball shook. " But we're still behind, if I remember correctly. Just a few more levels before we reach the Gym's highest Level."
Phillip looked over his shoulder, waiting for Ash and Misty to appear, but they didn't. Not yet, anyway. With a sigh, Phillip stood up again and began walking, hoping to clear the area before night fell once more.
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