Hello all! It's time for chapter two! Sorry the prologue and chapter 1 was kind of short, I wrote them at like three in morning. xD Reviews would be greatly appreciated :3
Without further ado, here's Chapter Two!
Chapter 2 – Forest Bound
Surely enough, nearly as soon as Holly and Pikachu set foot in Viridian Forest, a Caterpie came crawling its merry little way over to them and tied them together with a stringshot all for its little buggy amusement.
Pikachu managed to bite his way out of the stringshot and gave Caterpie a rather large shocking for his troubles, then returned to free his trainer.
"Stupid bug Pokémon…" Holly grumbled, dusting herself off. "Pika pika!" Pikachu said in agreement and hopped onto her shoulder. "So what way now…" Holly grumbled to herself and looked at the path before her, which broke off into three directions.
Pikachu blinked and point down the path on the left, "Chu," he said.
Holly shrugged, causing Pikachu to nearly slip off her shoulder, "Guess your instinct's better than mine," she replied and walked down the path Pikachu motioned at.
The trees were so tall and clustered together it might as well been near night in this freaking forest. And as the hours slipped away and led to after sunset, it was nearly impossible to see.
Holly was just about to call it a night when she heard voices coming from behind a thick cluster of bushes.
She glanced at her Pokémon, and being ever the nosey duo, the squeezed through the bushes to have a peek at whatever was going on.
She nearly choked on the air as she spotted several Team Silver grunt wandering around what appeared to be a small camp. "Pikachu pii…" Pikachu said quietly and grabbed onto Holly's arm for comfort.
"It's alright," Holly whispered and kissed the top of her best friend's head. Who knew Team Silver was so close to home… And what the hell are they doing?
Holly noticed a Cyndaquil in a cage, trying desperately to escape. Why would they bring a Johto Pokémon all the way to Kanto? A Team Silver grunt was tapping away on a machine, and the cage filled with strange blue electricity, knocking the Cyndaquil out cold.
Holly inhaled sharply, anger surging through her body like a tidal wave. Pikachu tensed up, and Holly could tell he was just as furious as she was.
Holly's pale grey eyes and Pikachu's dark brown eyes trailed another grunt as he went to retrieve the unconscious Cyndaquil from his cage. Holly nearly chewed a hole through her lower lip as he connected him to another machine by attaching many wires to various parts of his body.
Pikachu growled softly and balled his little hand-like paws into fists. Holly knew he wanted to go in there and give the grunts a shocking of a lifetime, but Holly held tightly to him because she wouldn't let him risk himself like that.
The grunt flipped a couple of switches and the Cyndaquil arched his back in silent pain. "What are they doing to it!" Holly whisper-yelled, gritting her teeth.
The grunt flipped another switch and the Cyndaquil's eyes snapped open and it wailed in pain.
"That's it!" Holly exclaimed and she and Pikachu busted out from the cover of the bushes. "Wha-" the grunt started, but was stop by a "Chuuu!" from Pikachu and a thundershock to follow.
However, the sudden commotion caused several other grunts to glance in their direction, and then start running towards them.
"Snatch and run!" Holly exclaimed, hastily scooping up Cyndaquil as Pikachu smashed the machine with an iron tail.
Before the grunts could reach them Pokémon and trainer made a mad dash into the cover the trees of the forest provided. After Holly couldn't run another step she slowly fell onto her knees on the ground, panting heavily.
"I… think… we're… good… now…" she managed to pant out. "Pikaa…" Pikachu panted in agreement.
Holly sat the Cyndaquil on the ground, which was now unconscious again. Holly her irritating side-bangs behind her ear and dug around in her bag for a revive, which she luckily enough found.
Holly used the revive on the Cyndaquil who squinted his eyes even tighter shut and then slowly opened them. "Cyn…?" he said quietly, and leapt up at the sight of Holly, another human.
"Cynda!" he exclaimed as flames covered his back.
"Cyndaquil!" Holly said and held up her hands, "I'm not going to hurt you, I promise! I'm not like Team Silver."
"Pikachu!" Pikachu exclaimed, hoping that if Cyndaquil wouldn't believe his trainer that at least he would believe a fellow Pokémon.
But both of their hopes were cut short as Cyndaquil released a rather powerful ember, aimed at Holly. The attack would have struck had Pikachu not leapt through the air and tackled Holly out of the way.
"Cyndaquil, listen to me!" Holly pleaded, "I'm not going to hurt you…" She held out her hand towards Cyndaquil, palm up.
"Pika pika chu piiika," If you're not going to believe her at least listen to me. Holly's my best friend, and she's not going to hurt you. Trust me. He said, looking first at Holly and then at Cyndaquil.
"Cyn…" The flames on Cyndaquil's back snuffed and he took a couple slow steps towards Holly, who still had her hand outstretched. He sniffed her hand and then looked up at her. Holly smiled down at him, "You're safe with me. I promise."
Cyndaquil blinked and licked Holly's hand. Holly was about to squeal in happiness until Cyndaquil stumbled over, obviously about to slip out of consciousness again.
Holly caught the Pokémon as he fell. "We need to hurry and find a way out of this forest. This Pokémon needs a Pokémon Center, now."
Pikachu nodded in an I-couldn't-agree-with-you-more kind of way, and looked around so he could determine which way to go.
"Leaving so soon?" A man's voice asked from behind the trio, and Holly whirled around to find herself face-to-face with a Team Silver grunt.
Son of a bitch!