She was panting hard by the time she got it out. That's why she said it in a voice so small that only the three of us heard .couldn't believe the lab was under attack! I was thinking back to every super hero movie that I'd seen this situation. They always played out the same the same. The bad guys caused some trouble, threatened to kill some people but the good guy always came and save the day. With no innocent people dieing, becoming even closer with his/her Pokemon, and then always riding into the sunset with what ever love interest. But this wasn't a movie,this was real. This could be the line between life and death. Who was I to try and play that role? Me, trainer of not even trainer of five hours go and fight the... Wait who? Who could be behind this Rocket? No they operate in the Kanto region. Galactic? No they've been disbanded and under newer, friendlier command(or at least that s what I heard). Plasma would be my first guess but I knew better than that,all of Unova knew about ("ideals and the truth") I knew what I could be facing death,murders An heroic battle between me and the baddies(somehow I was getting excited just from the thought of it).
"I'll do it!" I said blood pumping,fist shaking. "Ill help you,the lab,and all Unova!
The girl and boy beside me who had just heard the same plea looked up at me curiously.
"Good." she said while looking at the two young trainers beside me. "Do you two want to help as well" she said still looking at the two trainers behind me ,who now looked puzzled.
"H-How can we help?" the two trainers said simultaneously looking frightened
"There's a group of wild Pokemon invading my laboratory." " I need help from some trainers to help flood them out." she said much more calmly then she started out.
"Wait,is that all you want us to do?"I said way disappointed. My legacy wasn't going to be written today I thought.
"Yes, what did you expect?"
"I don't know." I said with a roll of my eyes. "Maybe a bad guy, an epic battle, and a rainbow at the end of it all." I said as if it was common sense.
"Oh heavens no!" she said "I would never put such low level trainers lives at risk." she thinks I'm weak I thought while staring at my maximized pokeball,which contained my starter Pokemon. The other two trainers seemed relieved by the news, while I was a bit disappointed and saddened by the news. Was I weak? No. I knew I wasn't. I was destined for greatness after all. So what I wasn't as strong as I could be? I was going to get stronger and this was just my starting point I thought,Still staring at my pokeball. With Slakoth by my side I'd only get stronger.
"Okay I'm still in." I said
"Okay then,you three meet me by the Pokemon laboratory and have your Pokemon ready.". She said while exiting the Pokemon center.
"But-wait" I shouted running outside after her. "How will you get past route1, you have no Pokemon?" I said worried for her safety.
"I don't need any Pokemon to protect me from the Pokemon on route1, beside all the wild Pokemon are at the laboratory. She said with a wave of her hand rushing out of the Pokemon center.
"Looks like we should get going." I said turning to the two trainers behind me. "But before that what are your names?". The Lillipup stealer turned out to be Nicole, while the young boy turned out to be Alexander. "Okay, now that we all know each and our Pokemon are now fully healed let's go" I said headed out the door with Nicole and Alexander following me. We had made it to route one then I noticed something strange about the wild Pokemon. Route1 had less Pokemon then it did before, as if it was deserted. The only Pokemon left we're a few Lillipup and Patrat who we're located more in Accumala town then in route1. I noticed a few trainers around and thought it would be the perfect time to get in a battle and become stronger. "Hey you battle me." I said looking at another beginner trainer like me.
"Who me?" he said while looking at me and the two others behind me.
"Of course you." I said itching for a battle and getting more impatient by the minute.
"uhh okay then." "Let's battle." "That's what all Pokemon trainers do right?" he said as if questioning himself.
"Right!" I said back to him with a thumbs up.
"Go Mike!" he said releasing the contents of his pokeball revealing a Lillipup.
"Get out there Slakoth!" I said throwing the pokeball to the ground. My Pokemon appeared in a flash of white light.
"Slak!" he announced ready for battle. Alexander,Nicole, and the trainer I was battling all looked at me curiously.
"Slakoth?" they all asked in surround sound.
"Yeah Slakoth" "What?" "I can't have a non Unova starter?" I said a bit disappointed about how they said it. Nicole was the first to speak up.
"No it's not that it's just that..." she started only to having Alexander finish her sentence for her.
"It doesn't have a name" he said flatly. I looked at my Slakoth and he looked back at me. He really doesn't have a name I thought. The closest to a name I ever gave him was oaf or bad Pokemon, but he did respond to Slakoth though. I'll have to come up with a name for it later I thought, right now I'm in a battle.
"Don't worry about it" I said to all three of them. "You should be more worried about what my Pokemon is going to do to that poor Lillipup." I said waiting for them to get off of my back for a quick sec.
"Oh." "and that's the other thing." the trainer I was facing said. "You have no chance, Slakoth is a weak and lame Pokemon." he said with a smile on his face.
"What did you say?" I said blood boiling. Seeing this he started to apologize.
"No offense to you or anything but everybody knows Slakoth is almost as useless as Magikarp." he said the sting of venom injected through my ears made my fist shake even harder than before.
"I WILL DESTROY YOU!" I screamed while almost hissing. "My Slakoth felt my anger and almost became as angry as I was. "Let's show'em Slakoth what we're really made of!" "Slak." he said with a smile almost as determined as I was. "Slakoth use scratch." I ordered my Pokemon.
"Mike use tackle!" the order trainer told his Pokemon. Since Lillipup was the faster of the two it got it's hit in first, but not without taking a scratch to the face. "Use tackle again." the opposing trainer shouted to his Pokemon.
"Slakoth use yawn!" I said as eager as ever. But yet again the Lillipup stroke first using a ferocious tackle on Slakoth. My Slakoth only blinked stared blankly at the Liliipup. "Slakoth what's wrong?" I asked my non responsive Pokemon.
"Wow you don't even know Slakoth's special ability do you?" The young boy asked.
"No." I said waiting for him to tell me it's special ability.
"Truant." he said casually. "It stops the Pokemon from attacking for one turn." he said while smiling. "That's why Slakoth is a terrible pokemon and that's why I'm going to win this so easiily." he said while chuckling. I was stunned by the news. My Slakoth lost a turn every time he was in a battle. We we're at a disadvantage. We would always be at a disadvantage. This is the stuff that makes heroes I thought. This was one of the obstacles we would have to face. Which made me want to try even harder.
"Slakoth!" I said with fire in my eyes. Thinking of the name of the attack it used earlier I ended up saying the closest thing describing it. "Use white claw slash!" I yelled hoping this wasn't the turn truant kicked in. My starter paused for a moment thinking. Oh no this must be truant I thought. My heart sanked. Then his claws began to turn white. Then in one swipe of his claws the Lillipup collapsed on it's side and like that the battle was over. "YES!" I shouted jumping up and down excitedly. "We one Slakoth." I said holding my hand out for a high 5/2. "Who's weak now?" I said with a smugged smile on my face.
"Okay, okay maybe your Slakoth isn't weak after all." he said now smiling. "Here's a $1000 pokedollars." he said putting it in my hand. "I hope we battle again someday." "catch you later!" he said while darting off towards Accumala town.
"Wow what an awesome battle." Nicole said
"Yeah I didn't know Slakoth could do that." "what move was that you used at the end?" Alexander asked admiring my Slakoth. I was a little surprised when they asked me that. I forgot they we're there for awhile. Especially since they barely had talked during the whole battle. "I don't know." I replied. "I've only seen him use it once before." I said
"Well it's cool." he said back to me. "I hope you don't ever use it on me." he said while smiling.
"He?" Nicole said staring at my Slakoth. "It's a boy?" she said curiously still eying my Slakoth.
"Of course." "How many girls do you know who fight like that?" I said matter-of-factly. My Slakoth nodded his head with to that statement. She began to look a bit irritated at that last remark.
"Cutiepie's a girl and she fights like that." she said defensively. Which is exactly why I beat her before I thought.
"Oh yeah." "prove it then" I said knowing that I was pushing her buttons.
"Guys." Alexander said while tapping at his watch. "We have to go deal with the wild Pokemon problem at the professor's lab." he said while tapping his foot impatiently.
"Okay." I said saddened by the experience points I could have won. "We've wasted enough time" "Race you there!" I said while getting a five second head start on them while they just looked at me confused. We were all still running towards the lab until we saw a group of trainers battling each other.
One had a Snivy while the other had a Tepig. I already knew how that was going to play out. But before either trainer was able to give a command to their Pokemon a wonderful smell lifted the whole area. And a group of wild Pokemon headed towards the source of it.
"Tepig use ember." one of the two battling trainers said. "Snivy counter it with protect!" the defending trainer said. But neither Pokemon attacked. Instead they sniffed the air around them. Then proceeded to growl at their trainers and head towards the direction the wild Pokemon were going.
"Tepig, what's wrong,comeback!" the worried trainer exclaimed.
"Snivy return." the other trainer said,holding a maximized pokeball in her hand. Then a red beam of light hit the Snivy taking it back inside it's pokeball. The other trainer saw this and did the same. Then they both ran back home to tell their parents about the episode their Pokemon just had. This must be what the professor was talking about. Knowing that they were headed towards the Pokemon laboratory we all rushed to the lab to intercept them and battle them.
"Call your Pokemon out." I said releasing my Slakoth to the battle field. They did the same and a Lillipup,Purrloin,and two Patrats appeared on the field(making me sad for only having one Pokemon, I should've caught that Lillipup when I had the chance). "Okay guy's this will be easy." I said trying to assure Nicole and Alexander that this battle was ours.
"But we're way out numbered." Alexander said unsure of him self. We were out numbered. Between the three of us we had five Pokemon against twenty wild Pokemon easy I thought. As long as we took out four each we'd be okay. As the wild Pokemon marched like zombies towards the Pokemon research lab our Pokemon took their stances. "Patrat,Purrloin attack and use tackle and scratch!" I heard Alexander shout. But before his orders were carried out. Someone else yelled
"Hydro cannon." then an huge force of water came out of the lab almost knocking it's doors from their hinges. Seeing this the wild Pokemon became nervous and fled back onto Professor Juniper came out the lab walking out slowly and calmly with a Samurrott. She noticed us and then began saying"Hello young trainers." she said with a smile on her face. "Glad that you could make it." she said. " I thought you guys got scared and disappeared.". "But I see you trainers were fully prepared to come and help defend the lab." "but you took too long and I ended up taking care of the situation myself " she said while patting her Samurrott on the side.
"Wait you have a Samurrott?" Nicole ask staring at the behemoth.
"Of course I do!" Professor Juniper exclaimed. "I give Snivies,Oshawotts,and Tepigs away everyday of course I would keep one of them" "this here is my Samurrott I've had him for years." She said while hugging him. Looking at the Pokemon I was amazed by how much more powerful a professor who researched Pokemon,not trained them was then me. I knew it was because I was barely a trainer I wasn't legally a trainer but still I expected to be at Castelia city by the end of today. I would've been okay with not even making it to the next town over as long as I accomplished some kind of feat,no matter how big. Whether it was catching my first Pokemon or getting my first badge I didn't care. As long as I accomplished something but what have I done today. I lost my first ever Pokemon to another trainer. I still wasn't technically a trainer because of the yawn my Slakoth used on me. I could be arrested at any moment if anybody found out about it. Being the hero who saved the day and the Pokemon lab would've been something great I would've done today. But no. I was to busy battling another Pokemon trainer to come save the day. I wasn't the hero Professor Juniper was she saved herself and the lab. The only thing that made today worth while was getting Slakoth(who I still have yet to name) as a travel partner even though his special ability was a handicap. My thought were cut off when Nicole asked
"What possessed the wild Pokemon to attack the lab?"
"They weren't trying to attack the lab." she explained "They were simply trying to find the smell of the aroma that attracted them to the lab." she said.
"So what did attract them to the lab?" I asked trying to forget the bad moments of the day.
"A Snivy." she replied casually. "That's why I'm never going to get my starters from a breeder again." "he mistakenly gave an egg move to one of the Snivies and when it used sweet scent almost all the wild Pokemon on route1 came intruding in the lab trying to find the source." she told us.
"If you had a Samurrott why didn't you handle it by yourself instead of making such a scene in the Pokemon center." I asked still confused over the whole situation.
"I just did didn't I and I wanted some help from a group of young trainers to try and get them some more battle experience." she said trying to clarify the situation. "But still thank you three for trying to help." she said trying to thinking something over. "You trainers deserve a reward come to my lab tomorrow." she said while walking back in her lab with her Samorrutt following.
"Why not now?" Alexander asked.
"It's flooded." she said before going inside the lab and closing the broken doors behind her.
"It's dark." Nicole said while gazing at the stars. Alexander nodded his head in agreement. These guys cool or at least cool enough to help me battle and I was grateful for that, so I that's why when I asked them I didn't think negatively about it. "Would you two like to sleep with me tonight?" I asked not yet releasing the way they would perceive it.
"Uhh...?" they both said trying to process what I just said and blushing at the same time.
"My house is close to here.?" "So if you want to stay in a nice warm bed instead of the cold ground filled with hungry wild Pokemon follow me." I said wondering if they would follow or not. When the negative version of what I just said hit me I was surprised to see them both still following me. That's how I ended up sleeping with both a girl and a boy.