Chapter 2, Reignta Jet side, First Match
Soon after leaving Prof. Marco's lab after the two trainers received their first pokemon, Eevee, they made their way to a nearby forest and stopped at a small clearing in the forest that they had made their secret spot. Both Eevee took their places in front of their trainers and began to glare at each other as a gentle breeze blew through the forest.
"You ready to be beat Riku?" Chase shouted tauntingly.
"Only if your ready to lose!" Riku shouted back.
Chase whispering something to Rush and Riku decided to give Dash a battle strategy.
"Okay, here's the plan." He whispered. "Make every attack as powerful as possible, keep attacking as hard as you can and we should win." Dash was a little questionable about the plan, but obeyed looked straight at Riku.
"Let's go Dash!" Riku said to Dash. They were both done with their preparation and gave the order.
"Go, use Tackle!" Both trainers ordered at once. Both Eevee obeyed the command and dived at each other at full speed. They collided into each and both fell to the ground.
"Dash, use sand-attack!" Riku ordered.
Dash jumped to his feet and kicked up a cloud at dust as Rush using his hind legs.
"Don't let it hit you, Tail Whip it away!"
After getting up, Rush quickly turned around and deflected the sand-attack with one swing of his tail.
"Not bad, but not good enough! Dash, Tackle!" He called quickly.
Rush didn't have the time to dodge since he was turned around as Dash tackled him from behind and pushed him to the ground.
"Argh! I can't lose!" Chase said as Riku noticed he had turned around. He looked at Rush who looked tired. "Rush...are you okay?..come on..." He said
"No strength left huh? Dash, let's wrap this up with tackle!" He said grinning as Dash charged at Rush.
Chase timed his counter as well as he could before shouting, "Sand-attack!"
"What?" Riku shouted in shook.
When Dash ran close enough, Rush kicked up another cloud of dust at Dash. He yelp as he tried to shake it off.
"Now tackle!" Chase followed up on his combo move. Rush dove into Dash and sent him into the ground. Riku was infuriated.
"Arggh! You tricked me again!" He shouted angrily.
"You let your guard down again." He replied with a sharp glare.
"Oh yeah? Dash full power, tackle!" He shouted.
"Full speed ahead Rush, Tackle attack!" Chase shouted just as loudly. They both charged rapidly and collided head first with each other as they both fell to the ground unconscious.
"Whoa! Are they ok?" Chase shouted out
"Dash…they're out cold…" Riku said checking his Eevee.
"I'm sorry buddy...let's get them to the center Riku." Chase said while picking Rush up.
"Ok." Riku agreed, looking worried.
"Wow, didn't see that coming...I hope they don't hate us for this..." Chase said, slight fear in his voice.
"Yeah...they should be okay after Nurse Joy checks them out." Riku said as they reached the pokecenter.
"Excuse me nurse joy..." Chase said quietly, Nurse Joy turned around and saw the boys holding the knocked out Eevees.
"What happened to them?" She asked.
"Um...a snorlax did it!" Riku lied, not wanting to be yelled at.
"Don't lie Riku, they were a little overzealous in their first battle." Chase admitted.
"Fine! They got hurt fighting each other! Happy now?" Riku said, feeling angry again.
"Well don't let them get so carried away! Young pokemon don't know when to stop!"
"Well, we're still young too..." Chase said, sounding intimidated
Nurse Joy Sighed "That's true...Just try to show more restraint next time alright?
"ok..." Riku said, calming down.
Joy looked at the eevees. "They're only are unconscious, I can fix heal in just a few minutes." Riku just replied with a worried stare,
Nurse Joy then took them into back room. "You two stay out here, I'll be back in a minute."
Chase and Riku headed into the lobby, Chase went to the vending machine and got some soda and handed a can to Riku. "Here man, this'll calm you." he said.
"...Thanks..." Riku said and took a drink, still thinking about the two eevees.
"She said they'd be ok." Chase said trying to make his friend feel better.
"Yeah but, we got carried away..." Riku said, showing signs of regret.
"I'm sure they got just as lost in their first battle as we did..." Chase said looking down.
"Maybe..." Riku said while taking another sip.
They remained silent for a few minutes, when Joy walked in followed by dash and rush, looking fully recovered.
"Dash!" Riku said excitedly as he picked up Dash.
"Rush! Are you ok? I'm so sorry." Chase said while picking up Rush.
"Yeah, me too Dash." Riku said
"It's ok." Rush and Dash said even though Chase and Riku couldn't understand them.
Both trainers, seemed to know what they said, then they soon started talking about the future. "Well Riku...it seems that we're soon gonna head out, huh?" Chase said
"Yup, the whole gym challenge thing..." Riku said.
"Well we need only eights badges, perhaps it's best if we went our separate ways..." Chase said
"...Yeah, I guess so..." Riku said, they were soon interrupted by a voice.
"Riku! are you here?" came the voice, Chase and Riku instantly knew who it was.
"Oh no..." Riku said in fear.
"Brat alert!" Chase whispered.
"There you are..." She Stopped when she noticed Chase. "Hi Chase!" She says in that girly tone, it was Jasmine, and she has a crush on Chase.
"Uh..." Chase Deepened his voice "I have no idea who you are talking about young lady...I'm not any Chase."
"You can't fool me Chasy!" She said giggling.
"Don't call me that Brat!" Chase shouted.
"Aw, you thought up a name for me too...how sweet!" She said then hugged him. Riku started laughing his head off.
"Get off me!" he shouted futilely trying to push her off "Riku help!"
Riku was laughing on the ground by now. "my ribs!" he shouted while still laughing.
"What are they doing?" Dash asks Rush staring at their trainers confused about their behavior.
" I have no idea..." Rush said, Jasmine heard their mewing and looked down at them.
"Aw! They're so cute!" she said picking them up and started hugging them althought they felt like she was squeezing them to death.
"She's crazy!" Dash shouted, struggling to break free.
"Ack! why won't she let go?" Rush said doing the same.
"Hey sis! Put them down!" Riku shouted at Jasmine while getting up from the floor.
"Leave Rush alone!" Chase shouted.
"Aw...they're so cute though..." she said and put them down.
"Your bad enough strangling me, but leave my eevee out of this!" Chase shouted
"They're called Eevee? There so cute, just like you!" She said and ran up hugged Chase again.
"No! Urgh..." was all he could get out.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha!" Riku balled out in laughter again. "So, when's the wedding?" Riku asked.
"Your...not...helping!" Chase struggled out.
"A wedding?" She said as her eye's light up.
"No!" Chase shouted and started struggling even harder "Stupid...death...grip!"
"This is rich! Ha ha ha, you can call it payback for that untied shoe thing!" Riku said And continued laughing "He says he like you too.." he lied.
"I'm...gonna...get...you...Riku!" Chase squeaked "Let go you leech!"
Riku laughed evilly then noticed both Eevee's are gone. "Hey! Where did Dash and Rush go?" he shouted.
"What!" hearing this gave Chase enough strength to break free. "Where are they!
"They must be in the center somewhere..." Riku said, sounding worried.
"See what you did now you brat! You scared em'!" Chase shouted at Jasmine.
"But..." She said sadly, sounding like she was ready to cry.
"Oh no, don't try any of that weepy crap on me!" Chase said, still mad
"...But..." She said again then ran out of the center crying
"Oh, great. Nicely done Romeo." Riku replied sarcastically.
"Don't tell me you had pity on her Riku..." Chase gritted between his teeth "She deserved it anyway!"
"I think you should apologize..." Riku said. "But for now, we should find the Eevee's."
"Rush you can come out now" Chase called.
Riku looked under a table and saw them cowering in fear. "Found 'em! Hey Chase there under the table."
Chased picked up and petted Rush, "It's ok she's gone..." he comforted Rush.
"They look terrified..." Riku said.
Chase then looked at a clock "wow it's already 6:00, I gotta get home for dinner!" He said. Hearing the word dinner Rush jumps up in excitement
"Yeah! I'm starved!" Dash said, heading towards the door
"Let's get going, She might come back!" Dash called to Rush.
"I'll see you tomorrow dude...we start our journey tomorrow..." Chase said.
"Alright!...hold up! Aren't you forgetting something...?" Riku said crossing his arms.
"I'm not apologizing to any brat who nearly kills me or my pokemon" Chase said still angry at her. "My ribs are still sore!"
Riku grinned. "Yeah but still, she does really like you and, you did hurt her feelings..." he said.
Chase sighed. "The damn guilt trip...works every time...fine." he said reluctantly.
Riku smiled then laughed. "I'm going with you, that was way too funny and I don't want to miss a thing!" Chase Growled at Riku. "Wait up for me, I have to go get some popcorn!" He said and ran off with Dash right behind him
"You just want me to apologize because you wanna see if she does it again don't you?" Chase said
"Exactly!" Riku replied, not afraid to admit it.
"If that's the case, I'm not apologizing unless your not anywhere near!" Chase shouted at Riku.
Riku stopped in his tracks while running, "Aw...If you say so..." He said as he put his hand behind his back and crossed his fingers. Chase let out a sigh and went to find Jasmine, when he found her she was still crying.
Riku ran to his off to his house to get some popcorn. "Hey mom, where's the popcorn?" he called.
"We're all out." She said as she continued cooking dinner.
"Dang...oh well. Let's find Jasmine Dash!" Riku said with an evil grin. Dash looked at him suspiciously but eventually agreed and followed him to the door.
"And what's wrong with Jasmine?" Riku's mom asked suspiciously as she walked away from the oven. She was used to his pranks and knew he was up to something
"Er, nothing! I just wanted to..um...show her..my new Eevee, Dash!" he lied.
"Okay, just don't get yourself in trouble like you and Chase do at the lab." She reminded.
"We wreak one part of the lab and nobody forgets!" he said sounding a little angry. "Let's go Dash!" he said as he ran out the door, Dash right behind him.
His mom just sighed and went back to cooking.
A few minutes later, he found Chase apologizing to Jasmine and hid in a nearby bush. "Awesome, we didn't miss anything funny yet Dash!" He whispered to his eevee, holding back laughter.
"I didn't mean to yell at you...but you just had me so annoyed..." Chase said
"I'm sorry.." Jasmine said, about to cry again
"I mean come on, you hardly let me breathe" Chase said, slight joke in his voice.
Dash stopped paying attention and sniffed the air. "I smell Oran Berries!" He said excitedly as he walked out in the open.
"What the? Dash, get back here!" He called trying to stay quiet but Dash ignored him, his passion for Oran berries keeping him going.
"Yeah but-" Jasmine started but stopped when Dash wondered his way near them, seeming to be looking for something. "Isn't that Riku's Eevee?" She asked.
"Dash? Alright where's Riku?" Chase demanded, Dash looked at a few bushes, Chase picked up a rock and threw it at the bush.
"Oww! Who threw that?" Riku shouted from the bushes, then realized his cover was blown.
"Why you.." Jasmine said angrily.
"Riku! you said you were gonna go home!" Chase shouted, just as angry.
"Dang...way to go, Fur ball!" Riku shouted angrily at Dash. Hearing this, Dash dropped his oran berry search and growled at Riku. "...Aw crud..." he said, knowing what was coming and ran off, an angry eevee behind him.
A few minutes later Riku collapsed tiredly in front of his house's front door, Dash sat down right next to him.
"Don't...you ever...get tired?" He asked between breaths.
Dash grinned and shook his head.
Riku sighed and got up off the floor and reached for the door. Just as he was about to open the door, he stopped in his tracks after hearing an angry call from behind him.
"Riku! What were you doing spying on me and Chase!" She demanded.
"Um...hey look it's Chase!" He lied and pointed behind here.
She wanted to turn around and take a look, but she knew Riku was just lying. "Your not tricking me with that!" She yelled.
"Dang...oh well, but nothing good happened anyway." he said as he opened the door, Dash ran in.
"What are you talking about?"
"Nothing.." He teased with a grin.
"Mom! Riku's being mean again!" She called.
"Riku, don't tease your sister!" their mom called.
"I didn't!" he said defensively.
"Liar!" Jasmine declared.
"Anyway, that's enough of you two's fighting. Dinner's done!" She said as she walked into the table holding a large plate with a turkey and placed it a table. Riku's mouth watered.
"Mmm..Turkey..dibs on a leg!" He called and made a mad dash for the table.
"So that's your Eevee right?" His mom asked, she didn't notice him the first time they came home.
"Yeah, his name's Dash." He answered then looked down at dash who's mouth was watering as well. Then he looked back at his turkey leg and sighed. "You deserve it more than I do. Here ya go buddy." He said and handed him the turkey leg. Dash made a few happy cries and immediately started eating.
This shocked both Jasmine and their mom, he had never passed up turkey before. In fact, he and his uncle fought over the last turkey leg last year.
"You must really like Dash to give up your turkey." His mom said smiling.
"Yeah, and plus I sort of owe him, I keep calling him a name he doesn't like." Riku replied as he watched Dash eat the turkey. "Anyway, there's one more le - Hey!" He shouted in horror as Jasmine had already taken the other turkey leg.
"Ya snooze, ya lose!" She said and took a bite of it.
Riku watched in horror. "Oh at least pit some cheese on it!"
Jasmine quivered at the thought. "That's so gross!"
"Don't knock it till ya try it." He said as he carved some turkey, then topped it with melted cheese. "Hey mom, why are we having turkey? It's not Thanksgiving yet..."
"You mean you don't know? Since your leaving tomorrow, I thought we would have your favorite meal." She replied. Riku looked a little thrown off.
"Wait, how did you know I was leaving tomorrow?" he asked.
"Call it a hunch."
After dinner was done Riku decided to get some rest
"Okay then, now..." He said then began to eat the turkey savagely.
"He'll never change." Jasmine said then shook her head. Even with the age difference, Jasmine usually acts a lot more mature than Riku, except when she's around Chase.
"You'll have to cook for yourself when your out there you know." His mom pointed out, starting to worry since last time he cooked something, he nearly destroyed the kitchen.
"Hmm..I'll think away around it...like canned pizza!"
Jasmine slapped her forehead.
"Just make sure your careful out there ok?" His mom asked worryingly.
"Don't worry, I will. Anyway, what will Dash eat?" He wondered.
"They sell pokefood at all the pokemarts." Jasmine added.
"Yeah.." He said then yawned. "I'm heading to bed.." He said tiredly.
"But it's only eight! Your sleepy already?" Jasmine asked.
"Hey, try getting chased by an angry eevee for half a mile and see how it feels!" He argued. "Anyway, night mom." He said as he and Dash walked to his room.
"Good night Riku." his mom said.
"G' night, meanie!" Jasmine called, but as usual, Riku ignored her comment.
After they where in the room, Dash took a look around then hopped onto Riku's bed and started bouncing on it. Riku chuckled lightly then went into the closet to change. After he changed, he walked out of the closet and saw that Dash was fast asleep on his bed.
"He's cute when he's asleep but now where am I going to sleep?" Riku thought as watched Dash sleep, which made him even sleepier as his he felt his eyelids getting heavier. "..So...tired..." he mumbled then crawled onto the floor and fell asleep, as usual.
The next morning, Riku was on his back fast asleep on the floor. Dash stared at Riku waiting for him to wake up. He had just waken up not long ago and decided to wake Riku up as well by licking his face.
Riku just mumbled something and turned over. "Okay, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way!" Dash said angrily, which to Riku was a bunch of cat-like cries and he mistook them for Jasmines voice. "...Go away brat...I need sleep..."
"Brat?" Dash questioned then remembered that's what he had heard Chase say to Jasmine. "I'm not her, she tried to kill me!" he said then jumped onto Riku, unfortunately for him, Dash landed on his stomach.
"My stomach..." Riku groaned as Dash jumped off of him.
"Oops..." Dash said then licked Riku's face again to try and make up for his mistake.
"It's okay Dash...Looks like I found a new alarm clock..." he said as he got up off the floor, Dash smiled proudly at his successful attempt to wake up his trainer. Riku got dressed and walked downstairs. He found his mom holding a backpack.
"Mornin' mom. What's that for?" He asked pointing to the dark blue backpack.
"This is for you. I brought it for you the other day." She explained. "Since I fear you trying to cook anything, it's loaded with food that doesn't need cooked for you and Dash.
"Cool, thanks mom." he said then accepted the backpack. Dash made a sad face then looked at the backpack from the mention of the word; food.
"Dash, pokemon can't carry backpacks." Riku said. Dash changed his sad face, to an angry one.
"He must be hungry." she explained with a smile.
"Oh, well then...here ya go buddy." He said then pulled out the first thing he could find in the backpack. Luckily for Dash, it was an bright, red, juicy apple. Dash's eyes glowed with happiness as he dived for the apple and basically snatched it out of Riku's hand. He wasted no time before consuming the bright red apple he had clenched in his teeth.
"I take it he like's apples." His mom pointed out happily.
"Yeah I guess. Why do I need this backpack anyway? Can't I just use my old one?" He asked.
"You could, but you might want to use this one. It carriers a lot more, and with it's many compartments, it's perfectly suited for trainers." She answered.
"Ok then. Well, I'll be -" He was stopped by a bone crushing hug.
"I'm going to miss you!" His mom said as she hugged him tightly as tears rolled down her face. She had been holding them back this whole time.
"Can't breath! Can't breath!" Riku complained as his air supply was cut short.
"Oh, sorry Riku." She said and released him from the death grip.
"Now I know how Chase felt..." He thought as his lungs filled themselves with sweet, sweet air again. "Anyway, no worries, I'll be careful. Let's go Dash." he called as Dash finished of the apple he was eating then headed towards the door.
"Bye mom. See ya soon okay?"
"Bye honey, see ya soon!" She called as he walked out the door and left until he met up with Chase.
"Well Riku...I guess this is it." He said.
"Yeah...good luck out there buddy." he said back. As they were talking, a shadow flew overhead.
"what was that?" Chase asked.
"Huh?" Riku said confused, the shadow landed to reveal that it was a charizard, one that Chase recognized.
"Dad!" Chase shouted to the figure riding the charizard.
"Whoa...A-A Charizard..." Riku stammered in awe.
"Hey son" Chase's dad said
"Hey dad!" Chase said, happy to see his dad.
"A charizard..." Riku repeated sill mesmerized by the sight of the charizard.
"Mom told me last night, thought I'd see you off." Chase's dad said.
"A Charizard..." Riku said again, sick of this, Dash tackled him.
"Oww! What was that for?" he yelled at Dash, while standing up again.
"Hello Riku...I take it you like Flash." He said, hearing what Riku was saying.
"He's awesome!" Chase said in awe still and Dash started to get a little jealous.
"Anyway...Chase, I got something for you" Chase's dad said pulling out a case with nine pokeballs "I know you already have an eevee, but I wanted to give you one of these, you're aware of the nine different starters right?"
"Hey! No fair! Why does Chase get two!" Riku shouted, feeling ripped off.
"Calm down Riku, one of them was for you too." he said
"A charmander?" Riku asked hopefully, this made Dash even more jealous.
Chase's dad chuckled. "If that's your choice." he said as he pulled out one of the pokeballs, and Riku fainted on the spot.
"uhh...Riku?" Chase said, he then went over and slapped Riku in the face lightly. Riku stayed fainted. Dash growled with jealousy and bit Riku's hand as hard as possible.
"Ouch!" he shouted, waking up.
"Dash that was uncalled for, he'll raise you all the same..." Rush said.
"Yeah right...he didn't do this when he got me..." Dash said angrily, with a hint of depression in his voice.
"Well it's like you said, he's lacking in brain power, if he shows too much attention...remind him who his starter was". Rush said. Dash smiled.
"You better not neglect Dash, Riku. I think he gets jealous pretty easy..." Chase said.
"Oh, oops...sorry Dash..." He apologized and petted the still slightly angry.
"Anyway, here Riku" Chase's dad said handing Riku a pokeball. "Chase what do you want?"
"Gosh...not sure...I guess torchic." His dad nodded and handed him his pokeball. Chase smiled and released his new pokemon, Rush ran up to greet the new pokemon.
"Hi torchic! I'll be your trainer from now on!" Chase said, Torchic looked up and smiled. It gave a few happy calls to Chase and Rush.
"hmm, you'll need a name too, I can see you're a girl too...ok" Chase began to think of a good name for her, Torchic then let out a small ember attack to help him "Hmm...ember...Amber! that's a good one!" The newly named Amber started jumping, happy that she now had a name.
"So we're partners now." Rush said to Amber. "My name is Rush!"
"Hi Rush! it's good to be part of the team!" Amber replied happily.
"Hey Dash want to see Charmander? Riku asked Considering Dash's feelings for once.
"well he's going to be traveling with me, might as well see him" Dash thought to himself, He nodded and Charmander was released from his pokeball.
"So your to be my new partner huh? Not bad, listen I just wanted to let you know that your going to probably receive special attention, if that happens and I bite out trainer, well...that's normal ok?" Dash explained.
"Um...ok.." The Charmander said.
"Also you can call me Dash." He added.
"As for a name...Slasher. How's that sound?" Riku asked his new Charmander. It agreed by nodding his head with a smile.
Chase's dad saw the two trainers were caught up in their new pokemon and he just cleared his throat and got their attention
"I also wanted to give you these." he said holding out two pokenavs.
"Alright!" Chase said as he placed it onto the strap of his pack.
"And Riku I'm sorry your dad couldn't make it...he was busy today." Chase's dad said.
"Oh...well that's ok." Riku replied.
"Anyway I gotta go, I'll go see your mom before heading back to the gym, bye son, and good luck."
"Thanks dad, perhaps we'll meet in battle in the future." Chase said, his dad then got on his charizard and flew off, the two trainers waving at him when a voice came from behind.
"Riku!" Came the familiar voice as Jasmine ran up from behind looking angry at Riku.
"Thanks a lot Riku!" She yelled sarcastically for not waking her up before he left.
"Dang...oh well, there's a good side to this.." Riku said as a grin spread across his face.
"I guess because I'm leaving..." Chase said and gave a deep sigh. " Aw what the hell, come here!" Jasmine ran up to him excitedly and hugged him.
"What the?" Riku said sounding as he stared in shock.
"I figure there was no avoiding it" Chase said.
"Aww…it's not as funny when you're not hating it..." Riku said sounding disappointed.
"Whatever, come on Riku let's walk till the path splits." Chase said.
"Fine..." He mumbled.
"Bye Chasy!" Jasmine called as they walked down the path.
Chase sighed. "Bye Jasmine." he called back.
"Bye meanie!" She at shouted angrily at Riku.
"See ya sis." He said, ignoring the remark They walked until the road split. They saw a sign that read "Stone path" and "Winovea City".
"I'll go left" Chase said, knowing how eevee evolve.
"Well, I'll be taking this path..." He said pointing at the path to the next town. "See ya Chase." He said holding out a hand, Chase then slapped him a five
"this is it buddy...we're rivals now" Chase said
"Yeah, you better train hard if you want to beat me!" Riku said competitively with a grin
"May our paths meet again" Chase said as they walked down the road.
Riku kept walking, now knowing Chase was his rival, yet his friend. "Well you two, here we go!" He proclaimed confidently. Both, Dash and Slasher replied with a happy pokemon cry and thy started their quest for the Pokemon League!