Last time on Pokemon EX: Our heroes entered the dark, thick wooded Viridian Forest. As they walked the road, they stumble upon a lost Weedle. Mike freaks out while Amanda trecks on her own to find the Weedle's home. Kevin gets a confession out of Mike on why he's attitude was ugly. Amanda cannot find the Weedles home and decides to just battle it and and capture the Weedle.
Chapter Five: Talk About Pressure
Three travelers walked through a dense forest. It was even darker than the patch of forest they were in just recently. There was no telling just how far this part of the forest went.
"I can't believe how much darker it has gotten," said one of the travelers.
"You're telling me, we were better off in the other half of this forsaken forest," the other boy said.
"I don't know about you but I want to get the hell out of here already!" the girl screamed.
"Amanda, did you just say 'hell'?" the first trainer asked.
"Yes I did, now get over it," Amanda smarted off.
The first boy just shook his head, trying to stifle a laugh and continued walking. The travelers walked for a good while and in silence too. They then saw a figure in the distance and they couldn't quite make the person out. They did believe it was a male trainer.
"Alright Beedrill, use Twinneedle!" the male trainer ordered. The huge bee started hitting the tree, fast with its needle arms. "Very good." He then noticed three figures in the distance approaching him. 'Hmm, trainers to battle,' He began walking toward them.
"Hello there, are you Pokemon trainers?" the male asked.
"Yep," replied the first trainer.
"What might your names be?" the male asked.
"I'm Kevin."
"I'm Mike."
"And I'm Amanda."
"Nice to meet all of you. My name's Jason," he introduced himself.
"Hello," the three trainers said in unison.
"I feel like a battle, who wants to challenge me?" Jason asked.
"I do!" Kevin said. He was jumping up and down, egar to have his first real Pokemon battle.
"Good then," Jason replied with a smirk.
"There's a clearing up ahead," Jason said, motioning the three trainers to follow them.
They walked for what seemed like forever. They reached the clearing Jason was talking about ten minutes earlier. Kevin and his friends stared at the boy like they were stabbing him in the back for taking them so damn far.
"I thought you said it was up ahead!" Kevin shot at Jason.
"Oh," Jason laughed. "Sorry about that." He was kind of nervous and scratched the back of his head. "I guess I should of told you."
"God, I thought I'd never see sunlight again," Mike said, thanking the Lord for this opportunity to be free from the clutches of the evil forest of pure darkness.
The other trainers laughed. "What? I don't see what's so funny!" Mike exlaimed.
After Mike's little comedy routine that really was accidental, both Kevin and Jason reached opposite ends of the clearing, readying themselves for battle.
"Alright Kevin, let's make it a two on two battle. Is that okay with you?" Jason asked.
"Fine by me," Kevin replied. He turned his attention to Mike. "Hey Mike, come be the ref."
"Okay," Mike responded. He ran to the center of the field, off to the side like a sideline of a football field.
"The battle between Kevin from Pallet Town and Jason from..." Mike stopped in mid-sentence. "Uh, where are you from Jason?"
"I'm from Viridian City," Jason replied with some laughter.
Mike cleared his throat and started over. "The battle betwen Kevin from Pallet Town and Jason from Viridian City will now begin! Trainers, pick your Pokemon!"
"Alright Butterfree, you're up!" Jason yelled throwing the Pokeball that opened up, revealing a fairly large but beautiful purple bodied butterfly with beautiful large red eyes and white wings with a purple pattern on each delicate wing.
"Butterfree?" Kevin questioned to himself taking out his Pokedex and opened it.
"Butterfree, the Butterfly Pokemon. The wings are protected by a rain-repellent dust thus making it able to fly even when it's raining." the Pokedex explained.
"Alright then, Pikachu let's go!" Kevin yelled. Pikachu jumped off Kevin's shoulder and onto the battlefield.
"Pika, Pi!" he said fiercely, the yellow Pokemon was ready.
"Let the battle begin!" yelled Mike.
"Alright Butterfree, use Sleep Powder!" ordered Jason. Butterfree flew over Pikachu and started sprinkling the purple powder.
"Pikachu, use Agility," Kevin commanded. Pikachu began dashing around the battlefield at a pace so fast, Butterfree couldn't keep up to spread her powder.
Jason's frustration was already growing at a fast rate. "Alright Butterfree, use Confusion to stop that Pikachu!" The attack was no good, Pikachu was dashing around way too fast for Butterfree to concentrate her energy on Pikachu. However, the yellow mouse stopped when it was right behind the butterfly.
"Quick Attack!" yelled Kevin. Pikachu burst into more speed but this time making hard contact against the Butterfree, knocking her to the ground. The purple butterfly had a hard time getting up from that one but she managed to pull herself back into the air even though she was hurting.
"Now finish it up with Thunderbolt!" Kevin yelled. Pikachu's cheeks began to spark.
"Pi-Ka-Chu!" the yellow mouse yelled releasing his electricity hitting the poor Butterfree dead on. The power of that Thunderbolt was to much for Butterfree to handle and she fainted.
"Butterfree is unable to battle, Pikachu is the winner!" shouted Mike.
"That was a good battle Kevin," praised Jason.
"Thanks," Kevin replied.
"Alright Beedrill, you're up!" Jason yelled when he threw his Pokeball. It hit the ground and opened up revealing a large bee with its normal yellow and black stripes. This particular Pokemon had huge stingers as both its arm and a larger and more toxic stinger on its rear. Kevin took out his Pokedex once again.
"Beedrill, the Poison Bee Pokemon. Beedrill often appear in swarms and it flies at violent speeds all while stinging with it's toxic stinger on its bottom." it explained.
"Alright Charmander, go!" Kevin yelled when he threw his Pokeball, revealing his red-orange lizard Pokemon.
"Charmander! Char!" he chanted, ready for action.
"Beedrill, use Pin Missle!" Jason Commanded. The bee flew up into the air and raised his stinger arms, aiming for Chamrander and began shooting white pins at Charmander.
"Charmander, burn them up with Flamethrower!" Kevin ordered. Charmander opened his mouth and hot, red and orange fire came out blasting away the Pin Missle, burning up every last pin but the flames didn' t stop at the pins, the hot fire made contact with Beedrill directly as well.
"Beedrill, Twineedle!" Jason ordered. The bee Pokemon got back up from the injuries of the Flamethrower and flew at Charmander with incredible blazing speed. The needles from the bee's arms made contact with Charmander, but only for a bit.
"Charmander, use your tail to knock off Beedrill!" Kevin yelled. Charmander flipped and slapped Beedrill into the ground with his tail.
"What?" Jason asked in disbelief, "Is that even legal?"
"I see nothing wrong with it," Mike answered. He did see Kevin use that particular move before when his friend battled the wild Rattata when they first started their journey.
Jason mummbled something angrily under his breath. "Beedrill, Double Team!" The Beedrill turned into many Beedrill. "Now, Poison Sting!"
All the Beedrills that were created dove in with its rear stinger ready to sting.
"Charmander!" Kevin screamed. Charmander closed his eyes, but only for a moment. He opened them back up with confidence and leaped into the air with his claw held high, it then began to glow.
"Whoa," Kevin said. He remembered that Charmanders could learn Metal Claw on their own.
"Yes! Charmander, use Metal Claw!" Kevin yelled. Charmander's claw grew brighter as it hardened up into steel. He scratched threw all the Beedrill's until he found the real one, scratching the bee across the abdomen. Beedrill then fell to the ground, struggling to get up and move.
"Let's finish this up Charmander, use Flamethrower!" Kevin yelled. Charmander turned around and opened his mouth and released his hot fire. Beedrill, who was still trying to get up and fly away, took a direct hit from the hot, nasty fire and fainted.
"Beedrill is unable to battle, the winner is Charmander. The victory of this match goes to Kevin of Pallet Town!" Mike ended the battle.
"Alright, we won Charmander!" Kevin said with excitement. Kevin couldn't believe he had just won his very first Pokemon battle.
"You did great Beedrill, return!" Jason said to his Pokemon, returning the bee to his Pokeball. He then turned to Kevin. "Well Kevin, I must say that was a great battle." He stuck his hand out, ready for a handshake.
"Yeah that was," Kevin said, taking Jason's hand and they both shook.
"Well I got to take off, it was nice meeting you guys," Jason said as he began walking back towards the forest, waving goodbye.
"You too, bye," Kevin said. The other two said their goodbyes as well, waving at Jason.
Returning to the road, the trainers finally made it out of the forest. However, the sun was already setting in the western horizon and so they decided to make camp. They set their tents and started a camp fire. After everything was finished and set, they sat by the fire.
"Hey Amanda," Kevin looked up at the girl.
"Yes?" she replied with a question. She wondered what he wanted.
"I was wondering if you'd come and help me train," Kevin said.
"Train with what?" Amanda asked curiously.
"I want to teach Pikachu Iron Tail," Kevin said.
"Sure, I'll help," Amanda said with a smile. Mike had already fallen asleep outside his tent, so the two got up and walked a few feet away from the campsite.
"This should be a good spot," Kevin said.
"Yeah," Amanda eplied.
"Alright Pikachu, you're up!" Kevin said pointing toward the ground. The little mouse jumped from Kevin's shoulder onto the grass.
"Pikachu!" he said, ready.
"Weedle, go!" Amanda said throwing her Pokeball. It opened up revealing her green worm Pokemon.
"Wee!" he said happily.
"This is what I want you to do, keep Weedle right there," Kevin said.
"Uh, okay," Amanda replied. She was not really sure what was going on now.
Kevin turned to Pikachu, "Okay Pikachu, I want you to focus hitting Weedle with your tail, alright?" Pikachu nodded and ran up to Weedle and started slapping the worm with his tail. They were merely love taps as it didn't hurt Weedle at all especially since Pikachu never used his tail for battling before now. Weedle cooed as he was having fun with Pikachu.
"That's it Pikachu, keep it up!" Kevin encouraged Pikachu. Ten minutes went by into the training and Pikachu learned the attack quickly. His tail began to light up. "Yes, it's working! Alright Pikachu, use Iron Tail!"
Pikachu jumped into the air and did a front flip slamming its steel-coated tail into the poor unsuspecting Weedling.
"Chu-Pika!" it yelled as his tail made hard contact with Weedle.
"Yes! Pikachu you did it! You learned Iron Tail!" Kevin shouted jumping up and down and hugging his Pokemon buddy.
While Kevin was celebrating this milestone in his Pokemon Trainer career, Amanda's Weedle started to glow completely white all over.
"Ah!" Amanda screamed in terror, "What's happening to my Weedle?" The girl wasn't too sure what was happening and it was scaring her straight out of her mind while Kevin just stared.
"I believe, well I believe, I think your Weedle is evolving," Kevin finally explained.
"Evolving?" Amanda questioned, she was kind of stumped.
"Well, some Pokemon evolve into bigger, stronger Pokemon," the boy replied trying to explain the situation the best way he could.
"Oh," Amanda said finally getting what was going on.
Weedle grew into something a little large and longer. The glowing stopped and where Weedle once lied was now a creepy yellow cocoon with scary black eyes. Amanda didn't say anything and pulled out her Pokedex.
"Kakuna, the Cacoon Pokemon. This Pokemon is in a temporary stage while making its body. It is almost unable to completely move on its own." the Pokemon explained in its computer-like voice.
"Aww, it can't even move? What good that'll do me," Amanda said disappointed.
"Don't worry, I read some where Weedle's and Caterpie's are the fastest evolving Pokemon there is," Kevin explained trying to cheer Amanda up.
"Really?" asked Amanda.
"Yeah. Your Kakuna will evolve sooner than you think," Kevin said with a smile.
"Thanks Kevin," Amanda said.
Mike walked up to the two, half asleep. "What's all the commotion?"
"Did we wake you?" asked Amanda.
"Sort of, so what's all the commotion?"
"She was helping me train Pikachu to learn Iron Tail," replied Kevin. "And Weedle evolved."
"Awesome," Mike said still half-asleep. "So did Pikachu learn Iron Tail?"
"He sure did," replied Kevin. "It didn't take Pikachu but ten minutes to learn the attack."
Kevin, Amanda and Mike walked back to their campsite. Mike crawled into his tent and possibly fell right back to sleep. Kevin and Amanda soon followed by entering their own tents, crawling into their sleeping bags and falling asleep for the night. After a goodnights rest, they'd be ready to head off to finally reach Pewter City.
Our heroes are out of the Viridian Forest and Amanda's Weedle evovled. Stay tuned next week for another chapter of Pokemon EX