Last time on Pokemon EX:
Our new Pokemon Trainers recieved their first Pokemon and won their first battle against wild Pokemon. Now our new found trainers continue on their journey.
Chapter Two: Encounter of the Flying Kind
The sun finally rose from the eastern horizon over the lush green trees that surrounded a campsite with two blue tents around and old burned out campfire. Inside those very tents were one black sleeping bag and one brown sleeping bag that contained two sleeping travelers. Shortly after the sunlight creeped into each tent, the sleeping bags began to stir and open up revealing two young boys with their heads messy from their nights sleep. The half-asleep expressions on their faces would be priceless if their mothers were still around.
'Morning already?' Kevin groaned and walked out of his tent. Shortly after Mike followed, only being couple of seconds apart.
Kevin yawned hard and pretty long. "Man, did I get a goodnight's sleep even without being in my own bed."
"I hear ya, so did I," Mike responded while his stomach began talking.
Kevin's stomach followed suit. "I think we should eat something before we head off."
"Good idea," said Mike already wanting food.
"My mom let me help her out in the kitchen from time to time, so I guess you can say I know how to cook a little bit," confessed Kevin, though mostly embarrassed of it.
"Great!" said Mike, not caring his best friend could cook.
Shortly after the confession, Mike and Kevin released their starter Pokemon to join them for their breakfast feast. Kevin started another fire and grabbed a couple cans of canned sausages and began cooking. It didn't take but ten minutes to cook the sausages. While Kevin was cooking, Mike feed both Bulbasaur and Charmander, who were both starving and began eating no sooner than they recieved the food. Mike and Kevin followed suit, quickly eating their own meals.
"Man, that was good. I feel much better now," Mike said, satisfied to have a full stomach at last. He grabbed his Pokeball off the ground and returned Bulbasaur.
"I'm stuffed too," Kevin said as he got up to return Charmander.
"So how long do you think it'll take us to get to Viridian City?" Mike asked.
"We should be there by this afternoon," Kevin answered.
"Good, I'm getting egar for my first gym battle," said Mike with an evil looking smile.
"Heh. Yeah, so am I. I'm going to cream that gym leader!" Kevin exclaimed, full of confidence.
"Pssh, I doubt it with you having Charmander and all," Mike said, albeit jokingly.
"Watch me, I will," Kevin shot back with a small smirk on his face.
After their joking disagreement, the two trainers began packing up their tents and sleeping bags and the rest of the stuff they had dragged out the night before to set up camp. While cleaning up the site, the two wasted some time just by jabbering away on about how they'll beat the gym leader in Pewter City. Shortly after finishing packing all their things, the two boys began hearing loud squaking noices coming from a nearby meadow. They looked at each other and nodded an ran off towards the road and into the meadow. They ran over a hill and down in the valley below were two flocks of different kinds of birds attacking each other. Though the boys didn't notice right away a small, yellow creature in the middle of the two flocks trying to stop the fight.
"Look, Pidgey and Spearow," Kevin pointed out.
"I bet the Pidgey were just flying by and the Spearow attacked them because they flew into the Spearows' territory," Mike said now feeling smart.
Kevin rolled his eyes and replied sarcastically. "Aren't you the smart one?"
"What?" Mike asked with a puzzeled look upon his face. "I was only saying."
After Kevin smarted off, Mike felt discouraged about his own intellegence. Kevin, however, didn't hear all that Mike really said since he just noticed the yellow creature that was caught in the middle.
"Look!" he yelled. Mike turned to see what Kevin was pointing at.
"Is that-" Mike paused, "-A Pikachu?" he asked, pulling out his Pokedex and scanned the yellow creature.
"Pikachu, the Electric Mouse Pokemon. When several of these Pokemon gather, their electricity could build and cause lightning storms," it explained.
"Whoa," Kevin replied just after hearing what the Pokedex just explained. He then noticed the two flocks of birds focused their attention on attacking the yellow mouse. "Oh now, they're attacking that Pikachu now!" he said in a panic. He quickly reached for his Pokeball and threw it. "Charmander, let's go!"
"Char, Char!" it said confidently, ready for battle.
"Charmander, use Ember to protect that Pikachu!" ordered Kevin. Charmander charged and began swinging his tail back and forth as small embers flew off his tail and headed in the direction of the Pidgey and Spearow. One of the Pidgey's were hit with a ember flame and fell to the ground. Mike immediately noticed the fallen Pidgey. He smirked a bit, knowing exactly what he was going to do and he reached for an empty Pokeball from his belt.
"Pokeball, go." he said quietly and threw the ball at the fallen Pidgey. Once the ball made contact, it opened up and turned the Pidgey into red enegry. The ball closed up and fell to the ground and began shaking around a bit while the white button blinked. It only lasted a few seconds, but for Mike it felt like an eternity as the ball stopped shaking and the blinking of the red light stopped. Mike ran to the ball and picked it up.
"Gotcha!" he said, glowing in the excitement of catching his very first Pokemon.
While Mike was gloating with capturing his first Pokemon, Kevin was busy trying to save the Pikachu. He grabbed it while the Pidgey and Spearow here dodging flying embers. The poor electric mouse was injured, cuts and bruises all over the poor Pokemon's body.
"Mike, come on! We got to get to the Pokemon Center in Viridian City as fast as we can!" he yelled. Fear and concern lined his voice.
"Alright," Mike said as the two trainers sprinted off.
Mike and Kevin continued running as fast as they could, their minds were just focused on Viridian City. Nothing else matters, not the pain their were feeling from the running nor the sweat that was pouring into their eyes. They just wanted to get to the Pokemon Center as fast as humanly possible. The two trainers made it to the road and ran like they never ran before, but hot on their trail were the Pidgey and Spearow. They appeared over the horizon, both birds speices were hell bent on attacking the two trainers. Mike heard noices and looked back just for a second.
"Oh shit dude, whatever you do, don't look back!" he yelled in panic and began to run even faster.
"Huh?" Kevin asked, puzzeled. He looked back even though he was told not to and saw the Pidgey and Spearow flying after them. "Ah!" he screamed. "Run faster!" and sprinted off even faster than before.
"Pi-ka," the yellow mouse said, faintly.
"Don't worry," Kevin said in between breaths. "Pikachu, I'll get you to the Pokemon Center so you can get all better."
No sooner when Kevin reassured the Pikachu he would get him to safety and get him treatement, the two trainers heard a voice in the distance.
"Squirtle, use Bubblebeam!" a girl's voice ordered and a blue beam of bubbles shot out of the bushes nearby and hit the Pidgey and Spearow directly. The birds stopped in their tracks, turned around and flew away.
"That was great, good job Squirtle!" said the girl proud of her Pokemon. At that point, Kevin and Mike stopped running for their lives.
Kevin and Mike were so out of breath.
"Phew, I thought we'd never get away from those birds," Kevin said in between his gasping for air.
"Yeah, I surely thought they were going to catch up to us," Mike said too in between his gasping for air. Kevin turned and saw the girl with long brown hair, sparkling emerald eyes and she was wearing a pink t-shirt with a picture of a Skitty on the front and blue jeans. She was standing in the road with Squirtle by her side, smiling.
"Thank you," Kevin said after realizing he was just staring at her.
"Eh, it was nothing. I just thought you could use the help," the girl said modestly then noticed the injured Pikachu Kevin was carrying. "Aww, poor thing. What happened?"
"Those Pidgey and Spearow were fighting amongst each other and this little guy was just trying to stop them and they turned against him," Kevin explained.
"Aww, poor little guy," the girl said sweetly.
"Yeah." Kevin looked at the Pikachu, his condition was getting worse. "We're trying to get him to the Pokemon Center in Viridian."
"Well, what are you waiting for?" the girl asked. "Let's go!"
"Uh, well, we haven't even introduced ourselves," Mike said boldly.
"Oh, silly me," the girl giggled. "My name's Amanda."
"I'm Kevin."
"I'm Mike, nice to meet you."
Amanda nodded. "Now let's go!"
"Right," the two boys said in unison.
The three trainers raced for Viridian and Kevin was starting to fall behind. He was out of breath and felt like he just couldn't go on any further. He tried to fight it, but it was becoming too much for him.
"Stop! I cannot run anymore!" Kevin shouted.
Mike stopped as well, he couldn't keep going either. "Yeah, neither can I."
Amanda stopped and sighe, "Boys."
"I didn't realize how far away Viridian City actually was," Kevin said.
"Jeez, thanks for the heads up," Mike said, angry Kevin would uphold that kind of information.
Amanda sighed again. "We have to keep going you guys."
"You're right," Kevin said. Pikachu was beginning to breath heavier. "It needs the Pokemon Center now!"
The three trainers were just about to continue going again when they heard the familiar squaking coming from the horizon. Mike got up quickly and just stared down the road.
"Oh hell no! Not again!" he shouted and shortly the flock of Pidgey and Spearow were flying straight at the trainers, rage clear in their eyes.
"Son of a bitch, why'd they come back?" Kevin asked grabbing Pikachu.
"I guess we have no choice but to fight them off," Mike said.
"It's the only way," agreed Amanda.
Kevin sighed. "Charmander, go!" Kevin said as he threw his Pokeball, releasing the red-orange lizard.
"Bulbasaur, you're up!" Mike yelled, throwing his Pokeball revealing his green bulb Pokemon.
"Squirtle, I need you!" Amanda said, throwing her Pokeball, releasing her blue turtle with a smooth and shiney brown turtle shell right on its back.
After releasing their Pokemon, the Pidgey and Spearow caught up to the trainers and dove in for an attack.
"Charmander, Ember attack, let's go!" Kevin shouted and Charmander began waving its lizard tail back and forth, releasing the embers right at the diving birds, hitting them in different sections of their bodies.
"Bulbasaur, Razor Leaf!" ordered Mike and Bulbasaur released his razor sharp green leaves from his bud, hitting the flock of birds.
"Squirtle, Bubblebeam!" Amanda yelled with excitement and Squirtly released the beam of bubbles from its mouth and hit their marks on the birds. The birds didn't care this time, they only flew straight up, turned around and came back at the trainers once more.
"They're coming back!" yelled Kevin. "That wasn't enough!"
"This calls for the major attacks now," said Mike.
The other two trainers nodded. It was show time.
"Charmander, Flamethrower!" Kevin screamed.
"Bulbasaur, Solar Beam!" yelled Mike. Bulbasaur began collecting sun light.
"Squirtle, Hydro Pump!" Amanda ordered.
All three powerful attacks collided with the incoming Pidgey and Spearow creating a bright light and an explosion. It took what felt like hours for the smoke to clear, revealing that the trainers' Pokemon's attacks worked, it had scared off the angry birds. Hopefully that stopped the birds from coming back for good, but it didn't. The birds came back once more, they were not going to give up, they were going to get their revenge.
"What the hell?" asked Kevin, he was surprised. "Why do they keep attacking us?"
"I don't know man but I'm fresh out of ideas. We need to think of something and fast!" Mike said. He was starting to panic; but before the trainers could react, pikachu got up from behind them and began running. The yellow mouse jumped onto Kevin's back pack and straight onto his shoulder where he jumped into the air, heading straght into the flock of Pidgey and Spearow.
"Pikachu, wait! You need a doctor and lots of rest!" Kevin screamed to Pikachu but the yellow Pokemon didn't respond to it.
"Pi-ka-chu!" it yelled releasing a large amount of electricity from the orange sacks on its cheeks. The electricity was a very bright yellow and struck every Pidgey and Spearow, scaring them off for good. The three trainers looked at the display, amazed to such a power they had just witnessed.
"Damn, that was some Thunder attack," Kevin said amazed.
"You're telling me," Mike agreed.
The Pikachu landed safetly on the ground, smiling, feeling victorious, then the little guy fainted and fell to the ground.
"Pikachu!" Kevin paniced and ran to scoop up the yellow Pokemon. "Thanks but you shouldn't of done that," he whispered and then looked up at Mike and Amanda. "Come on, we still need to get Pikachu to the Pokemon center."
Kevin didn't wait for an answer, he just let his legs take off. Mike and Amanda soon followed, however they were trailing behind. Time wasn't on their side anymore as the sun was reaching its setting point in the western horizon and there was still some distance between where the trainers battled and Viridian City. They continued to run as Kevin held Pikachu tightly in his arms. He was in bad shape now that he used all his energy on that last Thunder attack to save the trainers.
"Alright Pikachu, its just a little bit further, you're going to be a-okay!" said Kevin trying to keep Pikachu in high spirit.
Mike saw lights glowing in the darkened horizon. "There, I see it! Viridian City!" and sure enough, there was Viridian City in all its glory. It was just straight down the road they were running on and clearly visible to them was the Pokemon Center.
"It's about time!" Amanda said, breathing heavily.
"Yes!" Kevin shouted then looked at Pikachu. "You hear that Pikachu, we're finally here, Viridian City. You're going to be all better in no time."
The trainers had finally reached their destination and started walking towards the city, well practically running. Night had fallen but the city was so well lit, it almost looked day. Kevin had never been so glad to be in civilization after the events of the day that took place.
"Just hang on Pikachu," Kevin said.
Now finding an injured Pikachu, will they be able to get it help in time? Stay tuned to our next chapter of Pokemon EX!