Rock Chapter

Episode 3: Wild Fire in the Bug Forest PT.1

T.T-Me

XD-Kali

Driving down the street out of Viridian City was both me and Kali. She sat in the passenger seat of my car letting the wind blow back her strange hairdo. I felt a certain illness in my gut having her with me.

Well as you all may have read, I lost the battle against Kali. She was just too skilled for me, either that or she had the type advantage. I bet you're probably wondering, 'Hey Rod? Did she take your Hitmonlee? Why is she traveling with you?'. Well one no, she didn't take my Hitmonlee. And two, she decided to travel with me because she found me 'Interesting'. She'd never seen a trainer combine attacks and use them in a series of combos before, she wants to see how I develop. And she wishes to breed more 'perfect' pokemon for me to use.

No she's NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!

"Tell me again why you HAVE to come with me everywhere though?" I asked narrowing my eyes as we drove out of Viridian City.

She crossed her arms and strapped herself in with the seat belt, a guess a gesture to let me know she's here to stay. "I've already explained it to you, Roddy."

T.T-Me "Don't call me Roddy...I hate that."

"You're style is unique. You may be a trainer on par with me, but your pokemon suck...except Hitmonlee. I'd love to see it, a pokemon trainer of your talents, coordinating my PERFECT POKEMON!" Kali held up a two finger peace sign and I shook my head and pulled up the middle compartment to grab a beer. I popped the top with my thumb and began drinking with one hand on the wheel.

O.o-Kali "Drinking and Driving! THAT'S AGAINST THE LAW!"

T.T-Me "No...Drunk Driving is against the law, if I'm drinking while I'm driving. I'm technically not drunk yet so it's ok."

The car had finally left Viridian City and we were smooth sailing along the dirt road through Route 2, I managed to swipe a map from the Pokemon Center after healing my Pokemon a second time. The dirt road began to get slick and straight, the grasslands began morphing to trees, this was something I expected. We were in the Bug Forest, the forest between Pewter and Viridian City.

"Hmmm the Bug Forest, I haven't been here in years." Kali rubbed afew bangs from her face as we cruised through the dark forest.

Enjoying the cool breeze, suddenly I could smell something burning. Black smog was covering the air afew miles down from where we were, I could see it like a giant Gangar rising up from the forest tops beyond. Weedle, Caterpie, Kakuna and Medapods alike were flying and jolting away from the forest fire.

"Rod, we have to help!" Kali said turning to me.

T.T-Me "What? Are you fucking kidding me? The forest is on fire, I'm getting the hell outta here!"

Kali unhooked herself from the car and leaped out over the door like some sort of superhero sidekick. She landed down on the outside of the car and bolted off towards the rising smog. "Hey! I'll leave your ass if...ah...dammit." I drank the rest of my beer and threw the bottle behind me. With that I hopped out of the car and started jogging in the direction Kali went, I hopped over bushes, slapped branches aside, I pulled my goggles down over my face as the heat got more and more intense.

"Kali!" I called her out.

The black smoke was choking and blazing the back of my throat, I couldn't call out to her anymore. I simply covered my mouth and continued forward. I finally cut through the dark smogs and to reach a the pinnacle of the flames, there was a red lizard with a flame at the back of it's tail raging and trees over.

I pulled out my Pokedex and let it scan the red pocket monster as it screamed and blew flames from it's mouth. PokeDex: Charmeleon is a tailed bipedal, reptilian creature similar to Charmander. It has crimson scales that are much darker than that of the bright orange Charmander. It has a tail with the tip burning with fire, a trait seen in many Fire-type Pokémon, especially the Charmander evolutionary line. If its tail is extinguished, it will also die like its prior evolution, though this has never happened in the anime or in game. Its skull has developed a horn-like protrusion to the rear and its mouth has elongated into a snout. Its front and back claws are far sharper and longer than Charmander.

"Well that was a lot." I closed the Pokedex then pulled out one of my pokeballs and tossed it up. "Hitmonlee it's ass kickin' time!" I called and exploding from the pokeball with a white burst was Hitmonlee. He landed down on one foot. "Hey Hitmonlee, I wanna capture that thing! It looks awesome! Ya with me!"

"Hitmon!" Hitmonlee nodded and dashed towards the Charmeleon.

The Charmeleon sensed Hitmonlee and turned it's head in it's direction then raged on with crimson red eyes. It opened it's snout and exploded shooting a beam of fire at Hitmonlee. "Hitmonlee: Use Blaze Kick and corkscrew through that Flamethrower!" Hitmonlee's right foot caught ablaze and he dove forward lifting his right foot and spinning like a flaming corkscrew. The flamethrower beam came but Hitmonlee dove straight into it with minimum damage and came out of the other end kicking Charmeleon in the stomach with the blaze kick.

Charmeleon went sliding back with it's arms raised.

"Since he's a fire pokemon I'm assume that wasn't THAT effective." I said and with that Hitmonlee landed on one foot again from the attack. Charmeleon bolted towards my fighting pokemon and flipped to the air then began lopping it's right arm down in a Karate Chop move. Hitmonlee's eyes narrowed and my pokemon slid backwards as the Charmeleon's Karate Chop attack slammed into the ground creating a thick crater.

Charmeleon pulled it's arm from the cracked earth then snorted flames from it's nose.

XD-Me "Yeah I definitely want this guy!"

Charmeleon smirked, it grinned off the side of it's mouth too.

"Heh you havin' fun too buddy?" I pointed at the Charmeleon and it smirked again.

"Hitmonlee: High Jump Kick to Double Kick with Mega Kick Combo!" I commanded and with that Hitmonlee phased out and appeared infront of Charmeleon with hyper speed, with a punt kick he sent Charmeleon soaring into the air, following that Hitmonlee kicked the ground and went soaring into the air after the Charmeleon whom hugged it's arms close to block. Hitmonlee's spring like feet shot up several times hitting Charmeleon with multi-strikes so fast it looked like Hitmonlee had grown several hundreds of legs. After the assault Hitmonlee phased out in mid air and appeared behind Charmeleon.

"Char!" Charmeleon turned his head at the last second in mid air.

"Hitmon!" My pokemon thrust it's left foot slamming it hard into Charmeleon's back with a Mega Kick. Charmeleon came soaring back down to earth and hit the ground so hard a tremor followed. He laid in the middle of a crater where I had to get my barrings again after the tremor. I shuffled to my feet and threw a Great Ball at the Charmeleon.

The great ball slapped against Charmeleon's head and sucked him inside with a red glow. And dropped to the ground, there wasn't much resistance. The ball stayed completely still. "Awesome." I gave myself a thumbs up walking over to the ball and picking it up. "A Charmeleon...heh...sweet and he's strong as all hell."

"THAT CHARMELEON IS PROPERTY OF TEAM ROCKET, YOU FUGGIN PUNK!"

"Huh?" I turned around seeing two guys dressed in all black with limo driver hats and red scarves wrapped around their necks. They looked like acouple of old fashioned bank robbers. "What did you say? Team who?"

"Team Rocket! That Charmeleon, we've been tailing it for the boss for awhile now. Only for you to catch it! Hand it over kid!" The two thugs seemed adamant about it, they were pretty pissed that I caught this thing. I would be pissed too it's actually quite a catch. More of the Team Rocket grunts came hopping out of bushes and trees surrounding the battle sight where I'd caught Charmeleon.

XD-Me "Are you guys serious?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "It's just a pokemon. There's like a billion of em in the world."

"Stupid kid just hand over the Charmeleon before we make you." They said holding up pokeballs.

"Gawd this is a bad situation...I need a beer." I rubbed my chin. Hitmonlee was in front of me with a foot raised ready to strike anyone who got near us. "Where the hell is Kali anyway?"

Author's Note: Rod managed to catch a Charmeleon that apparently Team Rocket has been tailing. What's so special about this Charmeleon and why does Team Rocket want it?