Chapter II: Fishing

Ronan grunted as he kicked the dirt with his feet. He had been walking back and forth on the bank of Pallet Town's river. When Ronan first stormed out of Professor Oak's lab he did indeed try to catch pokemon on Route One, but unfortunately for Ronan a guard was not permitting anyone passage onto the route unless accompanied by a pokemon or another person; so Ronan decided to try his luck near the river.

"Hmm, let me see here." Ronan said thinking to himself as he picked up a rock from beneath his feet. He threw the rock into the river.

"If I make a simple and crude fishing pole, I could catch a fish pokemon or something. But what if I end up with a stupid Magikarp like Viz?" Ronan asked himself out loud.

"Oh well, it is worth a shot. After all the water pokemon in Pallet Town are usually weak enough to catch with just a pokeball." he said picking up a stick. Ronan pulled a two foot long string out of his pocket and tied it around the stick. He tied a curved little hook at the end of the line, and shook it back and forth for a second.

"Hmm, that should be a good enough fishing pole."

Ronan plunked himself down on the river bank and took his shoes and socks off. He dipped his feet into the water and dropped the hook into the river.

"That feels nice." Ronan thought to himself as he smiled and waited for a pokemon to bite the hook. Ronan splashed his feet in and out of the water for a bit from boredom. A few minutes past and still no tugs on the line. Ronan was starting to get annoyed, he did not know what kind of bait fish pokemon would go after, so he had to guess and just use some bread from his house. After the minutes slowly slipped by, there was finally a tug on the string from underneath the water. Ronan quickly clenched the pole and pulled. The catch was easily pulled out and flopped around in front of Ronan. It was a Magikarp.

"Son of a!" Ronan shouted as he kicked the Magikarp back into the river.

"I know there are other pokemon besides stupid Magikarps!" he said as he flung the hook back into the water.

"I am really happy no one saw me kick that Magikarp." Ronan thought to himself.

After roughly about ten minutes of just sitting there, the line was tugged upon again. Ronan quickly pulled the line to see what he had caught. It appeared to be a small orange crab, hanging on to the line with one of its two pincers. It had four pale-ish legs for scuttling and had two horn-like features sticking out of its head.

"Hmm, it seems to be some kind of small orange crab." Ronan said poking the crab with his index finger. Ronan kept poking the creature, not noticing that it was starting to get annoyed from the pestering.

"Well, it is better than a freaking Magikarp, even though it is pretty small." Ronan said frowning a bit while scratching his chin in thought.

"Now how do I do this....do I just like tap the ball on his head or something" he thought for a minute. He poked the crab again, finally the crab was too annoyed and clamped its pincer onto Ronan's finger.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Ronan said shaking his hand up and down trying to fling the crab off of him. The crab gripped even harder because he was having quite fun causing Ronan grief.

"Ok that is it!" Ronan said as he flung his arm up as hard as he could. The crab flew off his finger and up into the sky. Ronan grabbed his fishing pole which he had droped from the little scrape with the crab.

"Ok, just come down here, I know how to catch you." Ronan said grunting as he got into a batters position from baseball. Eventually Ronan spotted the orange crab falling back towards the ground. Ronan waited for the right moment- when the crab was right at his shoulder height, he swung at the crab with his stick. Direct hit, the crab flew in the air and landed on the ground about 30 feet from where Ronan was standing.

"Got ya!" Ronan said running quickly to where the crab was, pulling a pokeball out of his pocket as he ran. He pulled his arm back as he kept running and threw the ball towards the crab; knocking it on its head. There was a flash of light and the crab was transported inside the ball. The white button on the pokeball blinked red and rocked back and forth for a bit. After rocking back and forth three times the ball stopped and the button returned back to white. Ronan trotted over to where the pokeball was and happily picked it up.

"Who said you need a pokemon to catch a pokemon." Ronan said to himself as he grabbed his shoes and made his way back to Professor Oak's lab.