Rock Chapter
Episode 4: The Alliance by Revenge
Out of the frying pan and into the freezer, I just keep landing in one bad situation after the other. Ever since I became a pokemon trainer, anyway to recap on what has happened. Kali and I...well Kali decided to join me in my pokemon conquest and we were got to the Bug Forest on Route 2 between Viridian and Pewter City.
When we got here we noticed the forest catching fire, it turned out to be a Charmeleon running from Team Rocket a gang of guys who dress like old school bank robbers from the 70's with gay handkerchiefs around their necks.
The fire seemed to die down, the charred woodlands around us gave off a burning scent that I didn't find too inviting. There were about six Team Rocket Grunts surrounding me. Each of their pokemon consisted of a Koffing, Ekans and Zubat. There were two of each pokemon surrounding both me and Hitmonlee.
"Well looks like we got ourselves a good ol' fashion pokemon standoff." I said standing back to back with Hitmonlee and placing my hands above my pockets like a cowboy.
"That Charmeleon is property of Team Rocket and our Leader."
"What's so special about this charmeleon?" I asked with a half smile. I found this entire situation to be funny, I mean...gangsters that walk around with pokemon in their pockets? You'd think they'd have guns or something. "Sorry you guys are just...fuggin lame." I laughed pointing at the lead grunt whom didn't seem to catch the idea.
"That's it...get him!" The leader grunt ordered and with that the remaining five began issuing commands to their pokemon.
"Alright Hitmonlee, get ready." I said with a grin.
But before I could order Hitmonlee to attack, bursting through the bushes and trees was a large blue behemoth of a pokemon. It slammed down trembling the earth under it's feet and raised two fists, one after the other it began Mega Punching, Ekans, Koffing and Zubats sending them flying off into the distance or hammered into the ground.
O.o-Me "What the hell is that?" I opened my Pokedex and pointed it at the mansized pokemon. Pokedex: "Nidoqueen is a large, powerful, bipedal Pokémon. They have thick yellow armor plates all over them. Its horn is smaller than Nidoking's, but it's still strong and produces large quantities of concentrated venom. Nidoqueen can use powerful moves such as Body Slam to paralyze its foes and then finish them off with Mega Punch or Iron Tail."
"A Nidoqueen, sweet looks like we get a two for one today buddy." I looked at Hitmonlee and he nodded back at me. The Nidoqueen ripped apart the Team Rocket Grunts, sending them flying or chasing them off with a series of roars. While it was distracted with Team Rocket I pulled an empty Ultra Ball from my pocket and tossed it at the Nidoqueen from behind.
The ball flew but another pokeball flew in it's direction and deflected my Ultra Ball. It smacked it out of the air then the pokeball returned to the hand of Kali whom appeared walking out of the bushes from where the Nidoqueen emerged. On her shoulder was her Pikachu sitting perched like a Pirate's pokemon.
"That's my Nidoqueen, you halfwit." She said with a straight face.
I shrugged. "Oh...sorry about that." I walked over to my Ultra Ball and picked it up. Can't let a perfectly good Ultra Ball go to waste.
"Team Rocket, I love them!" Kali laughed as she returned her Nidoqueen to it's ball.
I narrowed my eyes. "Excuse me? Aren't they the bad guys...or something?"
"Team Rocket is a criminal organization backed by a man known as Giovanni. They use pokemon in their efforts to take over the world...I've had multiple run ins with them and I've even battled against Giovanni himself." She replied and with that I almost fell over. These gay looking bandits are actually a criminal organization?
"Are you serious?" I raised an eyebrow rubbing the back of my head. I looked down at Hitmonlee who simply shrugged as if to say 'Hey it's news to me too'.
"Yes, afew years back Giovanni wanted to recruit me because of my breeding capabilities. They provided me with lots of resources and hell I even took them up on the offer. I worked for Team Rocket for about a year in Johto, breeding my...perfect pokemon. But I hated when they'd have these nobody rookies use my perfect pokemon...BLASPHEMY IS WHAT IT WAS. GIOVANNI THAT PRICK! You don't give a finely tuned piano or a golden violin to a musician whom has never performed!" Kali went on to rant. "So I left Team Rocket, Giovanni wasn't too happy about that so I fought him to get out."
"Ok." I said with that I turned around and started walking out of the charred clearing we stood in to get back to the car.
O.o-Kali "Wait? What? OK? Is that all you have to say? No questions about my daring exploits?"
T.T-Me "Kali, just shut up and let's go, this place stinks. And I don't feel like explaining this to the cops."
Kali puffed up her cheeks in aggravation and crossed her arms. Her pikachu also puffed up his cheeks as well, she just stomped along behind me and we both returned to the road after a small trek through the woodlands. The car was in sight, the black two seater convertible, it was parked on the side of the dirt road leading into the forest.
"Hey why did Team Rocket burn down a forest anyway?" Kali asked.
"Oh yeah, they were after this Charmeleon I caught." I said raising my right hand with the Ultra Ball I caught Charmeleon with.
O.o-Kali "You fool!" She slapped me over the head.
T.T-Me "Ow..."
"Let me see it! A Charmeleon? A Charmander itself is a really rare pokemon."
Well I kinda wanted to see the Charmeleon anyway, besides it knows Karate Chop. There has to be a reason why they were after the Charmeleon. "Alright...new guy, front and center!" I said throwing up the Ultra Ball and with that it exploded with a gold light and dropping down infront of me was Charmeleon. With it's pepper red scaly body and long dino clawed arms. It snorted releasing two streams of smoke.
I scanned him with my Pokedex once more to see the attacks he knew. PokeDex: Charmeleon's Moves: Karate Chop, Flamethrower, Rock Smash and Cut.
"Karate Chop and Rock Smash?" I raised an eyebrow. Kali snatched my pokedex and scanned my charmeleon a second time.
"I see this is why they wanted him." Kali said looking down at the small panel screen. "This Charmeleon has unusually high attack power...not to mention the TM's and HM's used on it. This Charmeleon has been supe'd up. Most likely Team Rocket's been experimenting on him." She threw the pokedex back over to me.
"CHARRRRR!" Charmeleon released a beam of fire from it's mouth into the air.
Hitmonlee's eyes narrowed and he got into a fighting set, but I patted my fighting pokemon's shoulder to make him stand down. I walked over to Charmeleon whom looked up at me with a narrowed eye as if he's strike me down in a blink of an eye. "I see...looks like you've been through hell with Team Rocket's experiments."
Charmeleon grunted.
"Careful Roddy." Kali said crossing her arms.
"Well buddy." I placed a hand on his shoulder. "How's about we team up to get alittle revenge. You help me become the strongest pokemon trainer out there and I'll help you kill Team Rocket, I mean piss on their graves kinda revenge."
"CHAAARRRRR!" Charmeleon grinned showing me all of his fangs with that he nodded slowly.
XD-Me "Awesome!"
T.T-Kali "Noway."
T.T-Kali's Pikachu "Pika..."
Hitmonlee walked up to Charmeleon next then raised his foot to try and kick Charmeleon in the face, but Charmeleon quickly raised a hand to block the kick. With that Charmeleon and Hitmonlee both nodded as if recognizing one another as comrades. "Sweet." I said holding up Hitmonlee's pokeball and Charmeleon's ultra ball. With that I returned them both.
Me, Kali and her annoying Pikachu all hopped into the car and finished our drive through the Bug Forest. We were bombarded by afew rowdy Bug Catcher's who wanted to battle but using Fearow I got through them pretty quickly. We managed to reach Pewter City in alittle under forty five minutes.
Pewter City was a pretty small town, it was an insult to call it a damn city. It was a small town of afew tall buildings here and there, the rest were convenient stores and video game shops with a huge fossil museum on the edge of town backed by a huge mountain. That was Mount Moon, on the map it says I have to go through there to get to Cerulean City where...incidentally I'm suppose to battle against that gym leader too.
I found myself pulling up in front of the Pewter City Gym.
"You wanna go in?" I asked looking at Kali.
She shrugged. "Yeah I want to buy afew supplies anyway." She held her hand out and I gave her my pokeballs. She hopped out of the car with Charmeleon, Hitmonlee and Fearow to get them all healed up. I wanted to battle the Gym Leader in Pewter, I heard his name was Brock from afew locals chatting it up near the Pokemon Center.
I waited in the car looking over maps and brochures in Pewter City and I remembered Yumi. I reached down into the glove compartment of my car and pulled out my cell phone. I scrolled along the touch screen panel for her name and called.
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CLICK...
"Rod!"
"Yumyum...s'up!"
"Thank gawd, I was waiting for you to call! I miss you already! Pallet Town doesn't seem the same without your drunk insane ass."
"Whatever." I laughed. "How are ya? How's the new position at Professor Oak's?"
"It's pretty cool, you haven't caught six pokemon yet have you?"
"No why?"
"Well I want to experiment with as much pokemon as possible and I'm especially monitoring your PC."
"PC? What's that?"
"Your Personal Computer, when you reach your limit of Pokemon which is six. Every pokemon you capture after that six gets transported automatically to your PC which is here at the Lab."
"Oh I didn't know. That's cool, alright. I'll try to catch as much pokemon as possible."
"Hey did you catch a flying type yet?"
"Oh yeah, a Fearow."
"Then what are you waiting for...use the HM I gave you. Fearow's are big and powerful birds so it should be able to carry you with no problems and up high you'll reach Pallet Town in no time...where are you now by the way?"
"Pewter City."
"You're there ALREADY? It feels like you just left Pallet."
"I'm in a car remember. And a lot of crazy shit has happened in these few hours I been away."
"Ohhh I'd love to hear it baby, but the Prof is calling right now. Come visit me tonight."
"Ok."
I hung up.
Kali made here way back holding all three of my pokeballs, she handed them back to me then hopped back into the passenger's seat. It wasn't night time yet but it was getting there, it was about dusk and the sun was setting on MT MOON in the distance. The skies were an orange color and the Pewter City Gym wasn't closed yet.
Every pokemon trainer wants to collect badges, for many different reasons. For one you can't compete with the best of the best without them and another just for the recognition. A Trainer can train his pokemon to be juggernauts on the battlefield but without badges, that trainer can be considered a noob.
"Are you going to battle Brock?" Kali asked.
I nodded. "Yeah, what are you gonna do?"
"I'll go to the Inn and make reservations. After what happened today I just want to soak in a nice hot bath." She sighed.
With that I drove through town and stopped at the Honey Jigglypuff Inn for Kali, it was a five star resort and she told me we could share a room but I declined. After I dropped her off I drove around to the Pewter City Gym it was a two story building wide with only afew windows. I hopped out of my car and adjusted the goggles on my forehead before going into the building.
Author's Note: The battle with the Pewter City Gym begins next chapter! What happens next? Only time will tell.