Welcome to the third chapter of The Journey of Dale Gaines. This chapter will be the conclusion of Weststring Forest arc (if you can consider two chapters an arc). In this chapter Dale encounters a gang that wants to rob him and challenge him to an unwinnable match in the process.
The Journey of Dale Gaines
Chapter 3-The Stone Street Gang
For quite literally being on my journey for barely an hour Trapinch and I are doing quite well. So far Trapinch has been able to fend off a Metang, quite a feat, and I captured an Inkay. So far so good.
"I wonder what else will happen now Trapinch? We are only halfway through this forest and it's still the first day of the journey." Trapinch smiles at me and walks around excitingly, looking at all the movements of the forest around us. "I'm so excited for anything else now."
Up in a tall tree not far away are three people, 2 men and a woman all in their early 20s. The woman has long brown hair with a slender body, average height, but a stern face. One of the men is tall with shoulder length blond hair and blue eyes covered up by sunglasses. The last man is shorter than the other two with short brown hair and had a beard that covered his face.
"Bruno, this kid has to be an idiot to be walking in the woods all by himself." The woman said to the man with the sunglasses while setting down a pair of binoculars that are wrapped around her neck.
"He's a new trainer, Roxanne, so he's bound to have a ton of items and money that we can steal off him. Plus it's not like he's got any pokemon that can do any worthwhile harm to us. What do you think Chris?" Bruno, the man with the sunglasses, looks at the third member of their group.
Chris scratches his beard before answering, "This kid made a Metang run away from him. He's bound to have something on him that will be worth it. I say we go after him before he gets out of this forest."
"Agreed," Roxanne says. The three members look at each other with sinister smiles on their faces.
"I think we should be out of this forest in about an hour. I can't wait to see my aunt soon." I notice there is a rustling in the trees and soon objects fall from the trees in front of us. Those objects happen to be 2 men and a woman, the woman being on one side of the men.
"Kid, we aren't going to make this difficult for you so we'll say this as simply as possible. There are three of us here and only one of you. So be a good little boy and empty out all your belongings and we will take what we feel is worthwhile." The woman says out loud to me.
"What? Who are you people?" I ask extremely confused and thinking this is all one huge joke.
"Kid, you will soon realize your mistake in coming through this forest," the man in the middle states while taking off his sunglasses. "You will soon know the true terror the name the Stone Street Gang comes with." Wait the Stone Street Gang, that sounds like the name of some wannabie gangsters.
"Who do you think you are? I'm not just going to hand over my stuff go away." I say in a serious tone. While I think they take themselves too seriously I do see them actually intending to harm me if I don't comply.
"Kid, you would do best to do as we say." The man with a beard says. The whole team takes two steps towards me. Trapinch immediately gets in front of me and has an angry face indicating that it doesn't like what these guys are threating to do.
"Oh look, you're wimpy new pokemon wants to defend you. How cute. But can it defend against three attacks at once?" All three of the gang in front of me pulls out a pokeball from their belts. I don't know if Trapinch can defeat three pokemon at once. It was barely able to stop a Metang. "Sewaddle, go!" The woman says with power in her voice as she throws the pokeball.
"Help me out Hoppip." The man with the sunglasses states also throwing his pokeball out.
"Oshawott, you are up." The final man says while throwing his pokeball.
All three pokemon appear from their pokeballs and stand next to their trainers. I should have expected this but wasn't expecting such a brutal line up. All of these pokemon have types that are quite effective against Trapinch. But maybe I still have a chance.
"Trapinch, use Bulldoze. Try and hit all of them." I command to Trapinch. Trapinch raises its foot, while it glows white, and pounds it on the ground, releasing a shockwave that was sent towards the gang's pokemon.
"Sewaddle, dodge." The woman commands.
"Oshawott, dodge as well." Both Sewaddle and Oshawott jump over the shockwave while Hoppip just floats over it. Rats I forgot that Hoppip is part Flying type and so Ground type attacks have no effect on it.
"Sewaddle, Use Razor Leaf." Sewaddle sends out a whole bunch of leaves from its body at Trapinch.
"Trapinch, show that you can dodge attacks as well." Trapinch easily maneuvers away from the leaves and comes back in front of me unharmed.
"Hoppip, Fairy Wind." Hoppip, from its leaves, sends out a pink wind. I don't even need to tell Trapinch to dodge since it dodges away from the attack.
"Oshawott, Water Gun." Damn, do these people let up? I can barely get an attack in.
"Trapinch, dodge. Then go after Oshawott with Bite." Trapinch dodges the attack and rushes towards Oshawott and chomps right on its head.
"Hoppip, use Tackle on Trapinch." Hoppip starts rushing towards Trapinch and slams its whole body into Trapinch, effectively disabling the attack and saving its partner. I can't seem to do anything. I'm either dodging attacks or if I am able to land an attack on one of my opponents, the other pokemon save them. I have one other option but was hoping to test it out later on. I pull out Inkay's pokeball.
"Inkay, I need your help." I throw the pokeball and out appears Inkay who I just captured barely half an hour ago. Inkay looks quite surprised to be out. "Inkay, Trapinch needs your help with our opponents." Inkay looks over and sees the three pokemon in front of us and suddenly looks quite scared at what it is facing. Oh no.
"It doesn't matter if there is now two pokemon we still have the advantage. Oshawott, Water Gun." Oshawott fires off water from its mouth.
"Inkay, counter with Psycho Cut." I command. Inkay, looking like it would do anything at this point, raises one of its tentacles and fires off a vertical stream of pink energy. The energy collides with the water and cancels each other out. The woman looks annoyed at that.
"Chris, it's a simple pokemon it's not that difficult to take out. Sewaddle, Razor Leaf." Once again Sewaddle fires off a bunch of leaves from its body.
"Inkay, Psycho Cut again." I say. Even though it had no problem countering the attack before it still looks scared when it releases the same pink energy in a knife like swiping motion at the leaves. The energy easily makes the leaves stop and fall to the ground. The woman looks pissed at the fact that my Inkay is defending against the attacks so easily.
"Ok, Stone Street Gang special attack time. Sewaddle, Razor Leaf." The woman yells.
"Hoppip, Fairy Wind" The Hoppip's trainer yells.
"Oshawott, Water Gun," Chris yells.
All three attacks are fired off simultaneously but the Water Gun hits Inkay first and sends it backwards. I manage to catch it in between my hands in midair. The Fairy Wind and Razor Leaf attacks hit Trapinch and send it flying and knocking into me.
"That is the power of the Stone Street Gang kid. So it's about time you give us what we want." The man called Chris says to me as he starts walking towards me.
"Inkay, use Psycho Cut on the tree branch above us." I point to a tree branch that is sticking out above us. Inkay, in a frightened attitude, launches the attack right at the tree branch and cuts it so it falls in between us and Chris so his pathway is blocked off. "Let's go!" I yell and pick up both my pokemon and start running through the woods, off the path we were on.
We keep running for a minute or at least until I feel we are a significant distance from the gang. I realize that while we aren't on a path we are still completely surrounded by trees and it gives us a bit of cover to hide incase those people come after us.
"Who were they?" Trapinch and Inkay both shrugged but I can tell the incident has shaken up Inkay a bit. "Hey, it's ok. I was quite frightened as well. But I can see now why you were so frightened of that Metang." I realize now that Inkay is a more delicate pokemon than I originally thought. I was under the impression it was more of a jokester and while that may still be true, it certainly doesn't like to face any type of danger. "How about a new plan? Let's try getting through these woods without encountering those people again." Inkay looks really happy about that. "But if we do encounter them we more than likely will have to battle them." Inkay looks a bit disappointed at this but understands that this has to be done in order for us to get out of here.
We start walking towards where the exit to the forest is. Inkay keeps close to me and Trapinch looks around at every tree. I keep expecting to get ambushed by that gang at any moment. Soon enough after fifteen minutes of following parallel to the path I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
"There's the exit." The path and forest end about twenty feet in front of us. We get back on the path and I'm just about to start running when I see leaves start flying out at us. "Look out!" We all dive to the ground as the leaves pass over us.
"We figured you would try to get to the exit without confronting us so it was easy enough to figure out where you would end up." The woman from the gang appears in front of us, along with the rest of her team and all their pokemon. Now we really had a fight on our hands. They were in between us and the exit.
"Inkay, use Psycho Cut on Hoppip." I command. Inkay uses the move and the energy is sent towards Hoppip.
"Hoppip, use Reflect." Hoppip's trainer commands. Hoppip's eyes glow and it surrounds itself and its other teammates in a pink shield. The Psycho Cut hits the shield and barely makes a dent in it.
"Inkay, use Topsy-Turvy." Inkay flips its body over and starts having a dark aura surrounding it. This same dark aura surrounds the shield and our opponent's pokemon. The shield completely shatters due to the aura.
"Oshawott, Water Gun."
"Hoppip, Fairy Wind."
"Sewaddle, Razor Leaf."
All three attacks are sent directly towards us but I don't know if the gang knows about the effects of Topsy-Turvy. "Inkay, dodge. Trapinch, Endure." Inkay dodges around the leaves and Water Gun that try and hit it and Trapinch gets hit from the Fairy Wind but is able to keep the damage as minimum as possible. "Now Inkay, Psycho Cut on Hoppip and Trapinch use Bulldoze on Oshawott and Sewaddle." Inkay fires off its knife life motion of energy and Trapinch unleashes its shockwave into the ground. The Psycho Cut hits Hoppip knocking it down onto the ground and the Bulldoze hits both its targets as well. All three pokemon are unable to battle at this point.
"What? But how did this happen? It's three on two. We have the advantage." The woman looks hysterical.
"How could a newbie beat our pokemon like that?" The man with the sunglasses looks quite mad at the thought of himself losing.
"Guys I think we have a bigger problem." Chris seems to understand the situation as I start moving forward on them.
"So who is going to take orders from who now?" I say threateningly. My pokemon on either side of me give their most intimidating looks. The gang actually looks scared now.
"Ok ok we are going now." Chris says. The gang returns all their pokemon to their pokeballs. After that they run away through the exit and away from any impending "danger".
"Well I am proud of both of you for handling that situation so well. Your battling skills are quite impressive." I turn solely now to Inkay. "See, if you just have a bit of faith in yourself battling isn't so difficult." Inkay looks a bit worried at the concept of having faith but seems to perk up at having a win in a battle. "Alright then, let's get out of this forest now." I return Inkay to its pokeball and Trapinch and I make our way out of the forest.
Finally we are in Westwend Town and onto my first assignment.
Thank you for reading and please review and tell me what you thought of the chapter. After this the chapters should be a bit longer and filled more instead of quick things like this. I hope you enjoy it though and what is to come.