Previously:
"What? Unbelievable! I picked the wrong pokemon!" Gary yelled out as he returned Eevee to its ball.
"Ha! As if! I'm just better than you Gary! Admit it!"
"Forget it Satoshi-kun! I'll just make my pokemon fight to toughen it up!" Gary yelled out as he walked by Ash and pulled the boy's cap down over his eyes.
"Smell ya later!" he said, running down the path to reach the forest on the far end of town.
He ran deep enough into the woods where he considered it far enough and released his other pokemon, Squirtle. The turtle pokemon happily yelled out its name, expecting a battle right away but drained when he saw no opponent.
"We'll find something, just hold on," Gary said as he looked around.
After a few moments he spotted a Rattata running by.
"There Squirtle!" Gary called out as he pointed to the side.
Squirtle smiled and ran, jumping in front of it to block its way. The Rattata was startled at first, but became offensive quickly. Gary stood behind Squirtle and said, "Alright, let's start off with a Tackle, Squirtle!"
Squirtle cried out in excitement and ran towards the small rat pokemon, tackling in on its side. The Rattata quickly recovered and retaliated with a Tackle as well.
"Quick, move! Now Tackle!"
Gary smiled contently at the progress he made. Although Squirtle eventually fainted, he'd become pretty strong! He'd heal them up real fast in the lab then show his grandfather the Squirtle.
Still, he wasn't so interested in the pokemon anymore. He'd prefer something stronger.
As he opened the door, Gary froze as he saw Ash again. For some reason, his heart always sped up at the image of his old best friend. Maybe because he missed their friendship.
Gary walked past the two, lightly hearing conversation about some parcel, and took the moment to heal his pokemon on the machine in the far back. Then, he came back to gloat.
"Gramps! My Squirtle has grown stronger! Check it out!"
But before he could release the small turtle, the Professor cut him off, saying, "Ah Shigeru, good timing! I need to ask both of you to do something for me."
The two stood there for a moment to hear his request.
"On the desk there is my invention; the Pokedex. It automatically records data on pokemon you've seen or caught. It's pretty much a high-tech encyclopedia!"
Gary already knew about this invention when he was looking through his grandfather's notes a few years back, but still allowed himself to act surprised; it's not like he wasn't used to acting.
"Oh yeah you talked about these before, right Gramps?"
The Professor nodded then looked over to Ash.
"Satoshi, take one of these with you. And you too Shigeru."
The two walked over to the desk and inspected the small machines. Gary was the first one to grab one, quickly opening without a hassle. Ash on the other hand, didn't know how to open it. As Gary blatantly explained it to him, they heard the Professor speak again.
"Ah, to make a complete guide on all the pokemon in the world…That was my dream. But I'm too old. I can't do it so I want you two to fulfill my dream for me. Once you have all your things ready, I'd like for you to get moving quickly! This is a great undertaking in pokemon history!"
Gary forced a wide smile onto his face; pretending to feel truly elated over this journey. He wasn't really too interested in finding and catching every single pokemon in the world. Maybe make someone else do it for him. But as he looked over to Ash, he could see his eyes somehow brighten at the contraption.
As Ash's cheeks began to flush, Gary quickly looked away towards his grandfather, pointing to himself.
"Alright Gramps! Leave it all to me!"
"Hey, he wanted both of us to work on this!" Ash quickly yelled out.
Gary rolled his eyes and smirked, turning back to the smaller boy.
"Ash, I hate to say it, but you aren't exactly the toughest Trainer out there. Barely a beginner really."
"Hey! I beat you earlier and you know it!"
"Eh, beginners luck. The point of this is Satoshi-kun, I don't need you! Never have, never will."
A pain in his heart suddenly occurred as Ash's eyes widened at this comment.
"I know!" Gary continued, "I'll borrow a Town Map from my sis and tell her not to lend you one, Satoshi-kun!"
"Wha? But I need one! Garyyyy!"
But Gary already ran out and down the hill to his house.
As he ran, his smile slowly dimmed down and eventually turned into a frown. Did he maybe go too far with that last part?
Running into his house, he placed a hand down onto the table in the middle of the living room, catching his breath. Really thinking hard on it…he did need Satoshi.
"Gary?"
Gary jumped, looking up at his sister, May.
Desiring to leave, he quickly asked for a Town Map and said good bye right after she gave him a hug and kiss on the head. But before he left he turned to his sister and said, "Oh uhm, if Satoshi comes by…"
His sister softly smiled and nodded.
"I've got a spare, don't worry Shigeru."
Gary lightly blushed at his sisters' mind-reading powers and nodded, leaving once again.
Walking through Route 2, he thought of what he needed to accomplish for the umpteenth time: Fight a multitude of Gym Leaders, defeat the Elite Four and fight to become the next Champion…Sounded easy enough…on a list that is.
He sighed.
"I hate pokemon," he murmured as another pokemon popped up in the grass he was in. With a sigh, he released Eevee and prepared for battle.
Gary sighed again as he walked out of the entrance to the Pokemon League. (He also, in turn, realized how much he had been sighing lately. It was only a day into this journey.) Although already knowing of his task; being retold about it by a professional showed to him everything he was truly dealing with.
'Why am I doing this again?' he thought.
And as if he was being answered, something suddenly bumped into the brunette causing him to stumble while said person fell on their bottom.
"Well if it isn't Satoshi-kun," Gary said as he held his hand out to Asj.
Ash glared up at Gary and swatted his hand away, getting up by himself.
"What're you doing here Gary?"
"Just went over to the Pokemon League entrance."
Ash's eyes cutely widened as he looked over Gary's shoulder.
"Furreal? Let's go Pikachu!" Ash cried out, but the pokemon that trotted behind him merely rolled its eyes.
"Seems like he's pretty smart compared to you Satoshi-kun. Don't even think about going to the PL. I highly doubt you have any badges anyway."
Ash's cheeks brightened out of anger as he retaliated, "well neither do you! Why were you there?"
Gary watched Ash for a moment; truly enjoying this expression although he wasn't really sure why.
"Well?"
Gary blinked for a moment, realizing he was staring.
"Heh, sorry, you just looked so,"
'cute'
Gary's eyes widened at his minds' choice of words and quickly said, "-so stupid that I had to stare. Well, the guard won't let you through anyway so you might as well turn back."
Ash kept eye contact with Gary for a moent, looked over his shoulder again, then with a, "fine we're going to Pewter for the first Gym Leader before you anyway!", he turned to leave.
But something in the back of Gary's mind seemed to force these next words out of his mouth.
"By the way Ash! Have your pokemon gotten stronger?"
Gary watched as Ash turned back around (his Pikachu turning right after, seeming to be interested in this challenge) and that somehow seemed to pull a stress out of his heart.
Gary smirked his signature smirk and held up his poke ball towards Ash. Ash looked at the ball for a moment then seemed to smirk right back up at the brunette.
After a quick turn of his cap (Gary chuckling at this), Ash accepted his battle and chose Pikachu. Gary in turn chose a Spearow and their battle commenced.
Ash made the first move, believing he'd win with one Thundershock. But Gary quickly guided the bird pokemon to dodge the attacks and use multiple Sand-Attacks to confuse Pikachu. Then he ordered it to attack with a Peck.
This procedure continued for a minute or so until Ash finally found a strategy to attack the Spearow.
By the second Thundershock it fainted.
Gary didn't care all too much, but felt sour as he watched Ash congratulate the Pikachu, as if it won a huge award. With a 'humph' he called out Squirtle, which in turn made Ash switch to Pidgey. They fought again but this time Gary was more aggressive. Even when the Pidgey was down for a moment, he'd order the Squirtle to Tackle it again, which the Squirtle hesitantly obliged to.
The Pidgey was out quickly, making Ash grit his teeth.
"What a matter Satoshi-kun? Too hard for you? Maybe you should just go back home before a Gym Leader embarrasses you."
This angered the smaller boy as he now chose Charmander to fight.
"A fire type against water? Now Ash, I know you want to lose, but seriously."
"Shut it Gary! You're still losing to me!"
And with that, another battle ensued. But even though Gary had Squirtle, the small thing still hadn't learned any water-type moves, which frustrated Gary. Still, he pretended to be shocked when his Squirtle fainted.
The brunette expected his rival to gloat about his win, but instead, he went on congratulating his pokemon again, petting it and giving it sweet compliments.
Gary's frown soon turned into a glare towards this and with a small growl under his breath, he pulled out his final and strongest pokemon so far: Eevee.
The next battle was pretty fast, as Eevee had higher speed than Charmander and could evade all of its attacks then retaliate with full force. However, everyone could see that Gary was not showing any compassion to the Eevee for it's win. Truth be told, Gary didn't care about winning. He simply didn't want to see Ash getting all sweet and lovey with the pokemon again. Why? Just because it was frustrating!
The final fight led to their first actual pokemon battle once again; Eevee versus Pikachu.
Eevee listened to all of his Trainers' orders, but the small fox pokemon could still feel the way Gary simply did not care. But as Gary ordered another attack, Eevee noticed another emotion: anger. As Pikachu fainted, Eevee panted for a moment and turned to look at Gary. It's eyes widened at how angry the boy seemed. He didn't really hate the other Trainer that badly did he?
Suddenly, a smirk was forced onto Gary's face.
"You need more practice if you're gonna beat the Champion, Satoshi-kun."
"Huh? You know him?"
"Of course! Me! At least I will be soon enough," he replied, walking past Ash.
"I heard the Pokemon League has many tough Trainers. I have to figure out how to get past them. Not that that will be hard. Quit dawdling and get a move on," Gary coldy stated as he walked back to Viridian City.
Eevee sped past Ash to follow his stern Trainer, feeling weak and wanting to go into its' pokeball.
Gary soon noticed the small, brown pokemon and looked at it in disgust then returned it into its poke ball. He didn't want to look at pokemon at the moment. But sadly, the whole species in general was always around in every corner; mocking and taunting Gary, reminding him of what they did to make him hate them so.
That night, Gary camped out in the Viridian Forest, looking up at the stars that drowned the sky. No matter what age, the stars seemed to always look the same.
Suddenly, the brunette heard a pokemon coming out of its pokeball and turned to see Eevee walking over to his face.
Gary frowned at the fox pokemon and asked what it wanted. Eevee sat there, giving the brunette a serious stare.
"What? Got a problem?"
The Eevee gave out it's call, now looking a little angry.
"Upset that I treat you so badly?"
It nodded.
Gary shrugged and looked back up into the dark abyss above the earth.
"Well, if you're so upset then leave. I won't care. Hell, I barely care about you now."
Eevee's dark eyes widened in shock. It was even more confused at the next statement.
"I hate pokemon."
The two stayed silent for a while, Gary expecting the Eevee to lash out on him or something, but was intrigued that instead, it just looked at him, confused and lightly hurt. He supposed he could give it an explanation.
"You pokemon…took something from me. It's unforgivable and frustrating; especially at the fact that I have to look at you all every single day; j-just to be reminded of what you did! But most of all it's…confusing," he said, thinking of the weird way he thought of Ash earlier.
Eevee sadly looked away from his Trainer, wondering what could have happened to the boy.
As Gary thought about it, he now realized that he did think Ash was cute. Of course, he'd never admit it to anyone, but his face just made him want to smile.
As one slowly crept up onto his face, his thoughts were disrupted by something nudging his arm. He looked down at the pokemon again, watching as it rubbed its cheek against him; as if for comfort.
As he was about to react, the sound of another poekmon leaving its pokeball was heard, and this time it was the Caterpie he had just caught that evening.
The bug pokemon was puny and weak, but Gary caught it to eventually evolve it and make it stronger.
However, the critter was now glaring at Gary. So the brunette glared right back, sitting up to gain more dominance.
"What, you too now? Like I said! Got a problem with me? Then leave! See if I give a damn!"
At that, the Caterpie sharpened its glare then used Stringshot directly on his face. Gary attempted to clear it up as it waddled away, pushing its pokeball along with it. Once Gary was able to see, he aimed to kick the bug, but missed as it was a tad bit too far.
"Fine! Go! You're weak and pathetic anyway!" Gary yelled out after completely cleaning his face.
He quickly laid back down, glaring up into the sky.
'Stupid pokemon. They're all dumb and worthless anyway,' he angrily thought.
Eevee watched his Trainer for another moment, wondering whether he should leave too.
After a while, Gary had fallen asleep and Eevee decided to swiftly and softly climb onto his chest and rest there. Maybe he'd feel better if Eevee was kinder to him? All he knew was that Gary was angry about something and maybe he could help remedy his Trainers' problems.
With a high-pitched yawn, the fox pokemon curled up into a ball and fell asleep to his Trainers' heartbeat.
To be continued…
A.N.: Ah, this was hard. And very long. This was actually supposed to be three separate chapters but as I was writing it, I felt as if they were better off together (Which makes it tougher for me because now I'm on a shorter time limit for the next chapters). But uhm, yeah you're learning about Gary's true hate for these fellers J Ah But I'll always love Gary. Anyway, he still has a ways to go. And I bet you guys might be wondering about his car and cheerleaders, hm? J Well don't worry they're coming in very soon. I actually made them quite important.
Well, please R&R and check my grammar for me!