Chapter 10: Golden Flames
Gold
Quilava-Pyro LV: 14
Phanpy-Trunks LV: 12
Kadabra-Kazam LV: 18
Flaaffy-Sparks LV: 15
Hiro
Croconaw-Highfang LV: 20
Drowzee-Sleeper LV: 16
Crystal
Bayleef LV: 16
Chansey LV: 8
Sudowoodo LV: 20
Silver
Sneasel LV: 18
Ursaring LV: 22
Gastly LV: 16
Zubat LV: 12
Larvitar LV: 17
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Gold left the pokemon center that morning at the same time that Angie got arrested. Silver was nowhere to be found so Gold went on without him. He looked back to the damaged bridge and saw a figure flying towards him. It got bigger with every second until it was ten feet above Gold. Gold started to run from it until it called him by name.
"Mr. Gold wait! You scared him off Spears!" A boy about ten years old told his Spearow to get lower to the ground. He jumped off of it and walked up to Gold. "I finally found you!"
"Who are you?"
"Oh yeah, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name's Copper."
"People give their kids weird names nowadays. I mean, my name's Gold for crying out loud." Copper looked at him, completely confused. "Whatever. What do want from me and why do you know my name?"
"I know your name because I saw your match against Falkner and that red haired guy last night. I followed you out here to train under you!" he said enthusiastically.
"Have you been stalking me?"
"Yes. Now teach me things!" Gold didn't know what to do. He couldn't take in any random child, could he? What if he got in the way? Gold decided to test out his skills before he decided on what to do. He took out a pokeball from his back pocket and released Sparks. "Wh-what are you doing?"
"Only the strong ride this boat. Thunder shock!" Copper pushed Spears out of the way and took the attack himself. Spears rose up and pecked Sparks in the stomach. Sparks used tail whip to slam it into a tree. Copper got up with electricity circling around him from the attack.
"I get the picture. I'm not strong enough to come with you... let's go Spears..."
"It took guts to stand up to an attack for your pokemon. I'll let you join but you have to pay for the food bill from now on." Copper jumped up and hugged Gold around the middle. "First rule. Never do that again. People might've been watching..."
"Right. Now teach me things," he ordered again.
"Fist tell me what you know already."
"I know how to battle, if that's what you mean. I used to study under Falkner."
"If you didn't take that hit for Spears then it would've been toast. The problem with gym leaders is that they never consider using pokemon outside of their type specialty. Just look at my team." He released Pyro and Trunks. "Pyro's weakness is rock and water. Trunks protects it from rock types with ground attacks and Sparks protects both Pyro and Trunks from water types. Do you see what I'm getting at?"
"You mean to cover up Spears' weakness to electricity." Copper ran off into the woods for about fifteen minutes and came back wrestling on the ground with a wooper.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
"Catching a pokemon resistant to electricity!" Copper yelled back while strangling the poor Wooper.
"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO USE SPEARS! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE GOOD AT BATTLING!"
"I MEANT WITH MY FISTS!" he said while beating wooper senseless. Gold noticed that Wooper was still smiling and wasn't being affected by Copper's blows. Gold sweatdropped, Copper wasn't even good at fist fighting.
"Copper, just peg a pokeball on its face and stop embarrassing yourself..."
Copper did what he was told and caught it in seconds. Gold left without saying anything. Copper followed at his heel. A bird trainer blocked their way into the cave. His pidgey floated by his head.
"My name is-."
"Don't care, go away," Gold said pushing him out of the way.
"But I want to battle!"
"Then battle that midget over there," he said referring to Copper.
"Shut up! My mom says I'm big for my age... Go Whoopi!
"Whoopi Goldberg?"
"Use water gun!" The attack smacked the Pidgey in the face and against the cave wall. Copper made a peace sign and hugged his Wooper. The bird keeper handed him fifty pokedollars and ran off crying. Gold and Copper walked into Union Cave together. The ground was moist and water filled their shoes. Woopers rolled in the mud as they walked. The walls were lined with Geodude digging in them thus creating more mud for the woopers. Apparently it was a symbiotic relationship. The water level rose as they walked and Copper was buried up to chest in the water.
"Gold, why is there so much water?"
"This cave is downhill from Route 32. Rainwater fills this place and then fall into the holes dug up by sandshrew and end up in the slowpoke well in Azalea. It's gonna get drier further DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gold had fallen through a sandshrew's hole. The water made it an extremely muddy water slide. Gold grabbed a rock just before he saw the bottom. "Copper! Have Spears help me out."
"Don't worry I'll get you-AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Copper fallen through a different hole right next to Gold's. The rock Gold was hanging on to also jutted out on Copper's side. Copper hung on to it too.
"Copper can you hear me?"
"Ye-ye-yes..."
"I don't want to scare you but uh... GET THE FUCK OFF MY ROCK!"
"WHAT? If I let go I'll fall to my watery grave!"
"But I'm the main character! I can't die!"
"Main character? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Never mind... Just let go Crackers!"
"My name's COPPER!"
"Doodie?"
"Copper!"
"Pooper?"
"COPPER!"
"Bitch hitter slamma jamma?"
"THE NAME IS CCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... SPLASH!" Gold had tricked Copper into letting go of his side of the rock. He was going to save himself by using Kazam but Copper's fall had messed up his plan. Kazam made a ball of blue light and gently descended to the Slowpoke Well inside of it. Copper wasn't dead but he was having a hard time swimming in the well water. Kazam picked him up and gotten the three safely to the shore. A man in black clothes came out of nowhere and grabbed Kazam from behind.
"Let go of him!" Gold ordered. He reached for a pokeball but the Rocket Grunt grabbed Kazam by its tail. He was going to use the psychic sword technique Gold used to destroy Sprout Tower. Gold put his hand down in defeat.
"That's what I thought now you two come with me. You can join the other prisoners..."
"We'll go with you but know this. Kazam is my first pokemon and if you so much as touch a hair on its head I'll-." The grunt raised Kazam over his head. The beam of light coming from Kazam's eyes drilled a hole in the roof. Gold and Copper fell silent again. Team Rocket grunts were piling slowpokes together and cutting off their tails. Gold looked away from them and Copper started sobbing for them. When they finally stopped, they were thrown in a cell with an old man and two slowpokes in it.
"Who are you?" Gold asked.
"I'm Kurt the ball maker. Did you come to rescue the slowpoke too?"
"I came to rescue my Kadabra," he replied firmly. Copper wiped the tears from his eyes and stood up.
"Gold lets bust out of here with our pokemon."
"No. We're can't just blow this place up or they might run away... I got a better idea. Have Spears climb through the bars and grab the key." The Spearow got out no problem. It hopped on the ground and dodged behind rocks whenever a Grunt went by. Finally he saw the key hanging from the belt of a female grunt and swiped it. The female grunt thought that the guy behind her touched her butt and punched him in the stomach.
"Good job Spears!" Copper took the key from its beak and unlocked the door. Gold was just about to leave when Kurt stopped him. He had hurt his back somehow so Gold had to help him walk straight again. The group hid behind a rock. The grunt who stole Kazam was bringing it to his boss.
"Hey Boss, I swiped this Kadabra off one of the prisoners."
"Excellent but what did you with the prisoners anyway?"
"I put him in a cell... why?"
"Angie says that someone stole the key to the cell. If they got out I'm gonna-."
"Angie? Why are you with the rockets? Where's Hiro?" Gold questioned.
"I've always have been part of Team Rocket, Gold. I got in a little trouble with the law but I'm back nonetheless. Hiro and what's her face are dead," she lied.
"No, that's not true!"
"Believe what you want..."
"Silence!" The Rocket Boss ordered. He released a high level Koffing and used sludge on the rock where they were hiding. The rock melted before them and Gold released Pyro. "Smokescreen!"
"Ember!" The fireballs set the smokescreen on fire and created a ring of fire around Gold and the Boss.
"Self-destruct!" The cave walls shattered around them as the rockets made their escape.
"COPPER! KURT! KAZAM! PYRO! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" They shuffled out of the cave as boulders fell from the ceiling. By the time they got out, boulders had blocked the entrance completely.
"C'mon boys, we can heal at my place," Kurt mumbled. When they got there, Hiro and Crystal were sitting bowlegged on the floor talking to a little girl.
"Hiro? Crystal?"
"Gold?" they said simultaneously and both rushed up to hug him.
"Guys let go! I'm covered in mud!" They let go him quickly and Kurt led him into a back room to change.
"Hey Crystal, did Gold seem a little pissed to you?" Crystal shrugged.
"Hey, Gold told me a lot about you two. You're Hiro and Crystal."
"Who are you?"
"I'm Gold's apprentice, Copper. And I'm gonna be the greatest trainer in all of Johto!"
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There you have it, Chapter 10. Before I forget, here's Copper's information.
Copper
Personality: self righteous
Age: 10
Pokemon:
Spearow-Spears LV: 9
Wooper-Whoopi LV: 5