Chapter Eight

Previously:

Later that day, Tony and CO. were getting ready to leave the town, when Tony spotted and orange-haired youth striding across the ground.

"Its that guy with the Eevee!" Tony thought, narrowing his eyes, he marched after him.

"Hey you!" Tony yelled, and the orange haired kid turned around.

"Yeah? What?" he asked.

"I saw what you did to that guy in front of the cave!" Tony accused.

"So? What are you gonna do about it?" The boy asked, smirking.

"Here! Let me show you!" Tony growled, releasing his Wartortle.

"Hmph. You don't know what your doing." The boy said, as his Pale white Eevee hopped off his shoulder, and growled.

Tony was about to issue hi first command when a police officer approached them, "Hey! No fighting town! Your causing unneeded trouble." The cop said, looking at Tony,

Johnny, Lloyd, and the boy. Suddenly his eyes widened when he looked at the boy. He pointed at something shiny and brown in the boy's pocket, and shouted, "Hey! That TM has been reported stolen!" The boy's Eevee quickly kicked up a cloud of sand, and when Tony managed to see again, he was gone, as well as the cop.

"What was that all about?" Johnny asked, but Tony ignored the question and instead turned towards the south of town.

They approached the large fenced area, and found nothing but another one of those strange plants that Johnny was obsessed with.

"See! We have to do something with this stupid plant!" Johnny yelled, "How do we get past it.

"Don't ask me…" Tony sighed.

"Roar!" Johnny yelled, kicking the plant, and then grabbing his foot it pain, causing a girl and her Slowbro to look over at them.

Lloyd apologized, and they had to instead head over to where the policeman was to ask how to leave town.

They found the policeman in front of a house taking notes on a clipboard. He raised an eyebrow when they walked near, and yawned loudly.

"What happened here officer?" Tony asked, and the man stared at him.

"Someone was robbed…can you stop talking to me? I'm kinda busy here." The officer

Said in a gruff voice, and he turned his back to them, muttering.

"Fine…" Tony said, and they walked into the house.

The inside of the house was completely trashed, bookshelves turned over and books scattered everywhere. Muddy poke prints were on the ground, and couch cushions and stuffing lay everywhere. A man stood with his back to him, staring at a picture frame that had broken.

"Excuse me sir, do you-" Tony started when the man suddenly spun, brandishing a pokeball and looking around. Seeing Tony's party he sighed and clipped the pokeball back on his belt.

"I'm sorry…I'm just a little…Frazzled." The man said, shaking his head.

"Oh…do you happen to know who did this?" Lloyd asked.

The man shook his head, "No, I came home and my TM was gone and the back door was wide open.

Tony and Co. left through the back door as well, and spotted a Team Rocket member in the backyard looking very confused. He spotted them and suddenly freaked out.

"Wha! You…you get outta here! I'm not getting arrested here! You're not turning me in!" The rocket grunt cried, and Johnny stepped forwards.The Rocket Grunt released a small bluish humanoid pokemon, and it growled loudly.

"Get'em Machop!"

Johnny released his Paras, and it scuttled over towards the Machop. The Paras lunged at the Machop, leaving a cut across its chest from its pointy claws. The Machop scoffed and brought its hand downwards, crushing into the Paras. The Machop growled and rushed at Paras, but Paras scuttled out of the way, and retaliated with a burst of powder. The Machop stiffened as the powder paralyzed him. The Paras seemed to smirk before diving into Machop and furiously scratching it, knocking it out.

"Augh!" The Rocket growled, sending out his next pokemon, a chubby creature that stood upright, colored brown and orange. The Drowzee moaned sleepily and prepared for battle. Johnny recalled Paras and sent out his Bulbasaur. Bulbasaurs vines whipped out, crashing against the Drowzee, who retaliated by shuffling over to Bulbasaur and pounding him on the head. Bulbasaur growled as it's vines beat against the Drowzee more, and the Drowzee started glowing. Its eyes glowed bright and with a series of hand movements, it sent Bulbasaur into a deep slumber. The Drowzee then continued to pound the Bulbasaur into the ground. Bulbasaur awoke suddenly and flung the Drowzee away with its vines. It weakly stood up, and looked very weak.

Johnny was about to recall Bulbasaur when it turned to look at Johnny and growled. Johnny looked surprised before nodding and replacing his pokeball.

"Um…what just happened?" Lloyd asked.

"This is amazing! I've never seen such teamwork from a new trainer. Granted I haven't seen a lot of new trainers, but still!" Tony gaped. Lloyd looked over at Tony and poked him.

"Well? What was that with Bulbasaur?"

"Hmm? Oh…I don't know. I think Bulbasaur doesn't want to give up." Tony suggested.

The Bulbasaur suddenly shot a seed into the Drowzee's fur, and it glowed brightly, Bulbasaurs bulb glowing in tune with the seed. When the glowing stopped, Bulbasaur looked stronger, while Drowzee looked weaker. The Drowzee dashed at Bulbasaur, but it hopped sideways, and clothes lined Drowzee with its vines. The Drowzee didn't get back up.

"What? You little cheater! You…I…Ack!" The Team Rocket member suddenly seized up, before peering at Johnny, "Here…Have the stupid TM…just don't turn me in!" With that, the Rocket fled into the woods.

Johnny stood with the TM, before opening his backpack. The brown Disc was inches away from Johnny's backpack before a loud "Ahem." Was heard.

Tony was glaring at Johnny, "So…you gonna give that TM back?"

Johnny sighed, as he went into the house, returning a few minutes later with the Disc in hand. He glared at Tony before putting it into his backpack.

"The guy said since I went through so much to get it, he was watching the battle, that I could keep it." Johnny explained, and Tony shrugged, as they set off and way from Cerulean. They found themselves standing at a large hill, with many small cliffs and patches of grass. In the center of the hill was a small house, with smoke drifting lazily up from the chimney. Climbing down the hills they approached the house and read "Day care center" on the sign on the front.

"Should we check it out?" Lloyd asked, and Johnny shook his head, "Forget that. I'm not leaving my pokemon with some stranger."

Tony shrugged and followed after Johnny, who had proceeded down the path. Lloyd gave the center one last glance before turning after his friends.

They approached a guardhouse, leading to Saffron city, and were stopped inside by a guard.

"Nobody is allowed. Now get out! NOW! OUT!" The guard yelled irritably as Tony, Lloyd, and Johnny stopped in their tracks, attempting to all get out at the same time. Tony heard the guard grumble under his breath. "Frickin'…Kids…. yelling…Thirsty…."

"What was that guys problem?" Johnny grumbled.

"Just leave it alone…Guy's just had that job for too long." Lloyd said, as he pointed at the Underground Tunnel, "We gotta go under."

Next Chappie! Yays!