Chapter 2 Viridian Forest Siege
Bulbasaur kept strolling in Route 1 through the tall grass, searching for a way out into what could be a lead to where Red went to. He stumbled upon a rattata, a common pink rat-like pokemon in the area, jumping around and collecting berries on the floor. Though rattata was too small but it didn't look weak for its size.
Bulbasaur got closer to him asking for directions: "Hey, did you see a boy with a red jacket and hat coming through here?"
The rattata turned around in an annoyed state, ".. and who are you?"
"That is not an answer for my question!" Bulbasaur replied - "Again, did you see a boy with a red jacket and hat coming through here?"
The rattata grabbed one of the berries on the ground near him and threw it, hitting Bulbasaur's face with it.
"Ouchh.. why did you do that?" Bulbasaur angrily reacting to the attack.
"That's my answer for your question.. now get out of my face and go annoy someone else" rattata began waving his hand to send Bulbasaur away to much of Bulbasaur's annoyance.
"Oh…. how about YOU get out of my face?" - said Bulbasaur while slapping rattata with his vine whip in retaliation, throwing the later against the tree behind him.
Bulbasaur looked so satisfied with the outcome with small chuckles at the grounded rattata. The rattata didn't stay on the ground for so long, he rapidly got up off the ground and immediately began crying out loud to the sky.
Bulbasaur was cautiously concerned and had no clue what's the rattata is trying to do.
Not long after, a horde of Rattata started jumping from everywhere answering the rattata's cries.
Bulbasaur found himself quickly surrounded by a dozen of rattata all looking angry at him.
The angry rattata group got themselves in attack position, ready for an attack at any moment.
The little rattata joined his friends crowd, facing Bulbasaur with a big smile.
"You have done a big mistake here, especially when this place is where a lot of rattata live"
Bulbasaur didn't mind the talking rattata as he kept looking around for a solution…"Okayyy.. This looks troublesome... looks like I can't do anything but fight.."
The little rattata started to walk slowly towards Bulbasaur while waving his body in a thrilled mood "Yess.. and you will regret everyth- huh?" before being able to complete his sentence, Rattata was barraged by little seeds sticking to his body like parasites. Leech Seeds!
"I get it, just shut up already" Bulbasaur irritated and watched his parasite-like seeds expanding and wrapping his body with their little vines.
Rattata was scared by the view of the leeches taking on his body and began screaming and crying out of fear. The other ratatta were as much horrified; and after seeing their friend in despair they turned their heads towards Bulbasaur in angrier state than before and began their attack movement at the same time.
Bulbasaur lowered his head and quickly extended his vines and rapidly spun them around himself, forming a fan of vines spinning around his body, hitting all the rattata that came near him.
After watching them falling on the ground, Bulbasaur didn't hesitate to escape and instantly moved away from the scene as fast as he can. It wasn't the end of the rattata though.
Several rattata kept jumping from right and left of Bulbasaur as he is running along the way. He didn't stop to deal with them, instead he kept waving his vine whips to cripple their movements.
He knows that he can't fight them all alone as he is outnumbered and will wore off quick, though he wasn't able to, as the rattata caught up and jumped on him.
Bulbausaur fell to the ground and the rattata quickly begun biting his body as if they were devouring him, to much of Bulbasaur's pain and as his cry kept going louder with every bite he receive.
Even though Rattata are usually too weak but they can be very dangerous in groups.
Out of sudden, the Rattata began slowly falling off from Bulbasaur's body… one by one while coughing and even vomiting shortly after.
Bulbasaur had no clue what happened as he is watching them suffering around him.
"W- what's going on?"
That wasn't too much for Bulbasaur's concern though. Bulbasaur took this chance and seeded every rattata with his Leech Seed to heal his body from all the injuries he had from them.
There were no potions or a Poke Center to help Bulbasaur. He had no trainer and the only way he can heal himself is through his leech seed, he needed to survive on his own.
Bulbasaur helped and dragged himself to a nearby tree and laid his back on it. He watched silently the dying rattata in front of him as he's waiting for his seeds to absorb every energy left in their bodies.
The scene became quite calm and peaceful.. all he can hear now is the sounds of hanging Kakuna above him in the tree… all watching him cautiously.
"Hey there… I hope you don't mind me having a break here" Bulbasaur continued "I don't feel like having a Beedrill party after a while.."
Despite the concern from the Kakuna nest, Bulbasaur couldn't but to take a nap from the exhaustion, and so he did. Slowly closing his eyes and comfortably freeing his body to rest.
It wasn't a long break time for Bulbasaur after all, as loud flapping noises begun to rise enough to disturb him from his sleep.
Bulbasaur opened his eyes back and forth as he wants to continue sleeping but at the same time he wants to check on the noises. He found himself facing a giant brown bird, looking back at him with sharp scary eyes.
Pidgeotto - a common prey bird that soar the skies of Kanto, known for being very protective of its territories from intruders and one of the pokemon who is sought after by many trainers around Kanto for its well known speed and battle capabilities.
Bulbasaur didn't give any response to the matter, though he knows he shouldn't mess with Pidgeotto; especially since the later is a Flying Type Pokemon and twice his size.
He slowly began lifting his body from the tree he was laid against and tried to ignore the angry looking Pidgeotto and continue his way out to Viridian City.
"Did you poison them?" Pidgeotto finally talked.
Bulbasaur opened his eyes wide open and faced Pidgeotto "What are you talking about?"
"These rattata are all poisoned.. Are you the one who is responsible for this?" Pidgeotto replied
"I don't know what happened to them, they just fell on the grounds out of sudd-" Bulbasaur stopped talking as he realized at that moment what actually happened to the Ratatta. His body, his toxic body was the reason. After all, he's half poison pokemon and the rattata must have been poisoned when they severely bit him.
Pidgeotto started to explain the situation in slow, but sad way "My children… they tried to eat these Ratatta and thanks to you…. they died.."
"What?" Bulbasaur couldn't believe what he just heard.
His eyes then found the children… pidgeys... they were just behind Pidgeotto's legs… lying still… dead.. just like the rattata corpses beside them.
"Well.. that isn't my fault… I didn't invite them to the lunch party" Bulbasaur naively tried to shake things off his back.
Pidgeotto spread his wings wide open in an angry matter not taking Bulbasaur's words so lightly
"You won't get away with this" Pidgeotto took off and immediately started an aerial ace attack.
Bulbasaur jumped away and tried to take cover behind one of the trees.
"You think you will get away from me by hiding there?" Pidgeotto began roaming around the tree trying to have a clear shot at Bulbasaur.
Bulbasaur had nothing to defend himself as his grass moves aren't effective against Pidgeotto and his leech seeds and poison powder are hard to hit on the soaring and fast bird.
Bulbasaur had no options here but to keep hiding behind trees in order to avoid Pidgeotto attacks.
Pidgeotto got quickly sick of the situation and started to create storms to flush Bulbasaur to success.
Bulbasuar couldn't withstand the strong winds as he flew off easily to land several feet backwards.
Pidgeotto flew even high going for another attempt.
Bulbasaur noticed the bad situation he's into but decided to try one trick. He slammed his two vine whips to the ground, allowing him to jump high to the sky in the process.
Pidgeotto was surprised to see that Bulbasaur became on his air level. He lost his focus from what just happened and failed to hit Bulbasaur in the process, Bulbasaur used his vine whip again and grabbed Pidgeotto by his neck, pulling himself towards the later to set on his back.
Pidgeotto tried to shake Bulbasaur off his back but could not, as the vines already wrapped around his wings, making Bulbasaur firmly attached on him, though crippling the wings movements.
The two kept fighting in the air, now above Viridian city, but Pidgeotto has a bigger concern than Bulbasaur now. He lost his balance and can't control his wings properly now. He knows if this kept going on he might eventually lose all control and fall to the ground. Bulbasaur in the other hand, realized he made a mistake coming up there.
"You are genius Bulbasaur, genius!" saying to himself in frustration
He noticed that his life is now tied with Pidgeotto's. If he attacked Pidgeotto both will fall to their death, or he can keep waiting until Pidgeotto successfully throw him off which will result in his death only.
"Think dumbass, think"
Bulbasaur eventually got an idea. He stood up on his hind legs and pulled the wings roughly to his direction which completely crippled Pidgeotto's flying and now both are diving at incredible speed towards the grounds.
Screaming out of pain, Pidgeotto couldn't do anything about it, he hopelessly kept struggling as his wings are pulled backward.
Just moments before the impact on the ground, Bulbasaur pulled his vines releasing the wings and jumped off. He had an opportunity to attach himself to a tree with his vines pulling and saving himself to safety. Pidgeotto however, it was too late for him. He couldn't regain his attitude in time and slammed to the ground to his death.
Bulbasuar jumped down from the tree and noticed the the scene was quickly crowded by the Viridian City citizens, all with faces full of shock at Pidgeotto's corpse which was swimming in its own blood.
He didn't know how to feel about that.. He was a bit sad but he wanted to survive. He ignored the people presence and looked around to see what might lead him back on track. Something to help him find Red.
One of the buildings caught his attention. A big building with a blue roof and a lot of people with different pokemon at its entrance.
"The Gyms!" - Of course, Every trainer need to beat 8 gyms in Kanto to be qualified to enter the Indigo League and Red is sure still in his gyms quest.
As soon as Bulbasaur started to move to Viridian City's gym he stopped after hearing his name...
"Hey is that the Bulbasaur we are looking for?" Bulbasaur turned around to check on who's asking to his surprise.
"Yeah that's him! I can easily recognize him from here." professor Oak replied to Office Jenny.
Office Jenny was set to capture the escaping pokemon as he's now labeled as dangerous pokemon for killing the scientists at the lab, he is now as a rabid animal to Jenny.
Jenny is known to be a very professional officer in her field and taking down a small pokemon is a very easy task for her.
Jenny grabbed a rifle from her jeep, set herself in position and aimed it at Bulbasaur. She was too fast that Bulbasaur didn't figure out what's going on in front of him but he was quick enough to jump back off and evade the dart just in time.
"Uugh… what is this?" Out of his annoyance, Bulbasaur pulled the dart off the ground as it looked familiar to him - "These things again?" - The dart's needle made him recall back the syringes he used to take back at Oak's lab.
Jenny was surprised but at the same time impressed by Bulbasaur reflexives.
Jenny smiled as she didn't look giving up easily, she was serious in her work. She opened her jeep doors and a group of Growlithe started jumping from the jeep. These Growlithe were specially trained to follow and catch running people, or in this case... pokemon.
Bulbasaur's face was overwhelmed with fear… a six pack of fire type pokemon all at once was too much for a little unevolved grass pokemon to worry about. He immediately turned back and started running towards Viridian Forest hoping to see the end of the day.
The Growlithe pack didn't take so long to follow on his trail -
"Officer Jenny are you sure they will bring him back safe? I don't want them to rip him apart to pieces!" Professor Oak asked Jenny out of concern for Bulbasaur.
"Don't worry, they will just bring him back here" Jenny assuring him though Oak wasn't relieved by her words.
"Growlithe… these guys are so fast there's no way I can run away for too long"
Bulbasaur thought to rely on nature products again to survive, as he decided to take shelter over a tree branch to prevent the pack from catching him as he knew he can't outspeed them.
Bulbasaur launched his vines to attach them on a tree branch and pulled himself up there and the growlithe pack started to surround the tree while trying to figure out to do next. Since it was getting dark already, Bulbasaur thought he could use the dark and hide in the forest.
Swinging between trees trying, jumping from branch to branch with his vines to shake the fire pokemon off, but they were still too fast to lose him. The Growlithe pack couldn't do anything but follow on the ground until one of them got tired of the swinging dinosaur-toad and used Ember to blast a tree near Bulbasaur blasting him off and send him off their sight.
Instead of hitting the ground, Bulbasaur fell on Scyther, the mantis pokemon who was flying by, getting the later down on the ground with him. Scyther easily got off the ground and stared at Bulbasaur who was holding his head with his hands from the falling impact.
"Where did you come from and what were you doing up there?"
"..."
"No time for that, they are coming…" Bulbasaur shouted back while he's trying to get up and keep moving.
"Who?" - Scyther turned around and sensed the running pack of Growlithe and their howls behind him.
"Why are they following y-?" - Bulbasaur grabbing Scyther's blade arms with the vines. "You can fly… get me out of here please!"
"Get off me, that's not my problem!" Scyther got annoyed by Bulbasaur begging and kicked him off with his leg to the floor.
Slowly helping himself up again, Bulbasaur looked at Scyther with disgusted eyes too much of Scyther's despise.
"It's ok… it's my fault asking for help from you anyway"
Scyther got more annoyed by the response and reached Bulbasaur's neck by his blade arm, lifting the later high off the ground by the neck.
The blade was sharp enough to swiftly open up a cut in Bulbasaur's neck though Bulbasaur didn't give any resistance despite the bleeding.
"Fools who act brave in the wrong moments bring nothing but their doom"
Scyther noticed Bulbasaur's vine whips wrapping around his other blade arm but before he got to think of anything, Bulbasaur quickly raised his hands against the blade to distance his neck from it while pulling Scyther arm and clashing with the other one enough to got stuck in it.
Bulbasaur had an opportunity to break free as he left the blade's grab, though Scyther reacted immediately and slashed Bulbasaur, opening up a severe cut from the upper part of his arm to the chest as a result.
Bulbasaur fell to the ground in deep pain, screaming, rolling on his back back and forth.
Scyther finally got his arm out while still holding back all the pain from the injury, and again stared at the critically injured Bulbasaur rolling in front of him. He walked slowly and stood right above Bulbasaur head - "I've never been humiliated like this before.. NOT FROM A GRASS POKEMON!"
Scyther moved his blade again above Bulbasaur's neck - "I can end this now, but that will make you suffer less; I will let you to to suffer here alone, slowly to your death"
Scyther pulled his arm off, spread his wings and flew off - leaving Bulbasaur behind him on the ground.
Bulbasaur couldn't hold still from the pain and started desperately crawling aimlessly as
his cries attracting the attention of nearby Caterpies and Weedle - all watching him with astonished faces as he desperately clinging to his life.