Not All Arrogance (A Gary Oak Love Story) Part 6~Explainations and Battles
((Joyful Note: I'm not really in much of a mood to edit, so I think we'll probably only get one chapter out tonight. I hope nobody is heartbroken by this. HA! As if))
"Gary, you, how could-" Amy stuttered, eyes wide. Gary started and turned to face her, looking scared.
"Amy? W-what're you doing here?" he asked warily.
"We could ask you the same question." Brock said crossing his arms and gazing pointedly at the moonstone in Gary's hand. Gary glanced at where he was looking and looked a bit freaked out suddenly.
"What, you don't think that I... No! It wasn't me I swear!" Gary said frantically waving his hands in front of him.
"Then who was it?" Amy asked drilling a hole in him with her eyes.
"It was these two guys, well I guy and a girl, I saw them, I'm sure there's camera footage, there has to be! They just left but-" Gary was talking too fast and Amy held up her hand and glared at him until he stopped.
"I think you should start at the beginning." Amy said running her tongue along her teeth.
"Yeah, well, okay, we were here this morning right? And I heard these 2 teenagers, a blond girl and some guy with sort of darkish green hair, talking about coming back here tonight at midnight to steal the moonstones or something. I didn't say anything cause I assumed they must be joking, or I heard them wrong, but I was sort of worried anyway so I came over tonight, just to check. The window was open, so I crawled through and found the two of them in this room, so I made sure to trip the alarm and then walked in on them with Slasher. They already had a bunch of the moonstones in bags, so I fought them until they set of a smoke ball and got away. They dropped a couple moonstones on the way out so I was putting them back, that's why I'm holding one. I swear, that's the whole truth! You have to believe me!" Gary pleaded, looking from Brock to Amy and back again.
"Before you said you were going to get your own moonstone..."
"When we got to Mount Moon! I'd never STEAL one! Honestly, do you seriously think I'd do that?!" Gary asked angrily.
Amy sighed. "I suppose not.
Brock nodded. "Then we'd better get Officer Jenny, I'm no detective so she'll be better at tracking these guys down then I would be. Anyway, Gary, you did save a lot of moonstones. I'll just pull up security on the rest of them."
Gary looked relieved, then smirked. "Yeah, I DID save them didn't I?" Gary said puffing out his chest.
"But you might have saved them all if you had told someone, why didn't you even tell me?" Amy asked cocking her head slightly to one side.
"Erm..." he shuffled his feet "I was going to but, I wanted to wait till we were alone, and by that point you had won a badge and I... didn't... so I was mad."
Amy rolled her eyes "Fine. I'll give you that. So, how about we get back to the Pokémon center?"
"Yeah, you two head back, I'll clean up here... and greet Officer Jenny" Brock said with a goofy grin.
*****
The next day Gary trained non-stop, and Amy was his coach, and opponent. While the police continued their investigation and got nowhere, Socrates mastered Roll Out with Isis demonstrating, (although Isis still hit a lot harder then him) and they work through several strategies, eventually settling on a plan of action. Amy had discovered Gary could be almost tolerable when he had to work on something, even if when he succeeded somewhere he turned arrogant and jerky again until his next screw up.
It wasn't just Socrates training either, all the Pokémon were getting a workout. Isis got her Roll Outs better aimed, and Amy was working on measuring how much damage they caused as they hit. Avion could fly fast, but he went sort of wildly and often went off course, so Amy was spending time with him working on that. Amy was starting to like the high speed of her Pokémon a lot. She had always prided herself in having the fastest feet in Pallet, so she liked things fast paced. Gary leaned on power though, so he worked Slasher, Socrates and Sting so they could hit as hard as possible.
At last, Gary felt he was strong enough to take on Brock the next day. Amy was glad, as she was getting kinda bored with Pewter, there wasn't a lot to do as it was sort of a small city. So on the morning of their 3rd day there, Gary marched towards the gym, Socrates at his side. Amy walked just behind him, yawning. They got there just before Brock. They all exchanged nods and went inside. Once Brock and Gary had taken their places and Amy had settled on the sidelines, Brock released Geodude onto the field.
"Wait!" Gary said holding up his hand.
"What?" Brock asked confused.
"I want to fight Onix."
About 10 minutes later Onix and Socrates were both breathing hard. Socrates had used Screech after screech to lower Onix's defences, and had hit a few directs with Roll Out. Onix had struck a couple good blows too, so by this point they were both on the ropes. Amy was impressed and Brock seemed impressed as well. Gary seemed to be really pushing himself.
"I have to admit, this may be the most exciting battle I've had in a long time, but now its time to end it." Brock announced "Onix! IRON TAIL!" Onix's tail began to glow brightly as it swung towards Socrates. Amy gasped, they hadn't planned on this.
"Tell him to dodge Gary!" Amy shouted from the sidelines. Socrates looked like he was about to comply but Gary shook his head.
"Charge it straight on Socrates!" Gary yelled. Amy's eyes bulged as Socrates launch himself loyally at that massive tail.
'Gary you had better know what you're doing...' Amy though fearfully. She didn't want to see an Eevee smear across the floor.
"Now jump!" Gary yelled. The fox Pokémon jumped, flying now at Onix's head. Onix glared, and followed him with its tail. "DIVE!" Gary shouted at his Pokémon. Socrates pulled its legs towards his body and aimed downward, just as the tail passed through the air he was just occupying.
"NO! ONIX STOP!" Brock screamed but Onix's momentum was too great and the Iron Tail hit the giant rock Pokémon straight in the face. It swayed, then keeled over. Socrates darted away just in time.
"Onix is unable to battle! The match and gym badge go to Gary Oak!" the judge called.
"YEAH THAT'S RIGHT!" Gary cheered throwing his fist in the air, and doing a victory dance. Amy thought it was extremely embarrassing and buried her face in her hands while Socrates joined in with the dancing.
*****
Once Gary had placed his badge safely in his badge case and they had acquired 2 sleeping bags, a camping stove, and had restocked on food and water, they saddled themselves up and prepared to hit the road. After saying goodbye to Brock of course. They were just out of site of Pewter when a pink ball of fluff darted in front of them and dived into a bush.
"What was that?" Amy said in surprise.
"I don't know, but it was pink." Gary said blinking.
"Well I saw THAT." Amy sighed rolling her eyes as she approached the bush. As she did the puff ball sprang out and tackled her to the ground! "Oof, hey what the-?" Amy groaned sitting as the puff ball started going through her bag she had just dropped. Gary stopped laughing long enough to pull the bag away from the puff ball, which Amy recognised now as a Jigglypuff.
"AAAAAAIIIIII!!!!" Amy squealed grabbing the pink Pokémon and hugging it tightly. "I LOVE Jigglypuff!"
"Well let it breathe!" Gary snapped and Amy calmed down and loosened her grip. The Jigglypuff stared up at her with huge blue eyes. Usually their eyes are green, so the blue eyes made Amy want it even more. Suddenly the Jigglypuff's stomach growled and it clutched it and looked at Amy with sad eyes.
"Oooh... you're hungry? Sure you can have some of our food!" Amy said smiling and the Jigglypuff looked happy too.
"What? We can't break for lunch now! We only just started! We-" Amy cut off Gary's protest.
"Just an apple or something, stop being so stingy!" Amy scolded fishing the red fruit from her own bag and handing it to Jigglypuff who quickly ate it and made a satisfied sound.
"Better?" Amy asked and Jigglypuff smiled and nodded.
"Okay can we go now?" Gary asked impatiently. Amy nodded and stood.
"Okay, hey Jigglypuff, you want to come with us... more specifically with me?" Amy asked and the Jigglypuff gazed at her moment with its huge blue eyes and cocked its whole body to one side.
"You know, would you let me be your trainer?" Amy asked and Gary stared at her.
"You don't ASK a Pokémon if you can be its trainer! What kind of trainer ARE you anyway? You're supposed to battle them, then catch them! How are you..." he trailed off as the pink Pokémon squealed and jumped into Amy's arms.
Amy stuck her tongue out at Gary "How could you even think of battling such a sweet thing?" she asked cuddling the Pokémon to her chest. "From now on, you will be Harmony!" Amy said with a smile. Harmony looked happy with her new name.
"So can we go NOW?" Gary asked again and Amy nodded. They began walking along again, Jigglypuff still in Amy's arms. Gary's eyes suddenly lit up. "Hey, now you have a Pokémon you can use your moonstone on!"
Amy looked shocked "Evolve Harmony? You're crazy! Then how could I hold her like this?" Amy asked snuggling Harmony. Gary rolled his eyes.
"Then what ARE you going to use your moonstone on?" he asked.
"I'll think of something." Amy said with a smirk as they started towards the mountain rising in front of them.
*****
About midday they stopped for lunch and were soon on the road again. At last they were at the base of the mountain.
"Hey Gary, exactly how do we plan on getting over this thing?" Amy asked looking up at the steep slope of it. Harmony had been put in her ball at lunch.
"There's supposed to be a tunnel around here somewhere." Gary said starting to walk around the perimeter. Amy raised an eyebrow and started to go through her guild book.
"I don't see anything in here about a tunnel." Amy said looking at Gary sceptically.
"Well, Brock said that's where he got the moonstones from! So it has to be around here somewhere!" Gary growled walking faster.
"Right." Amy said shaking her head and putting the book away.
"Hey! Stop! You can't come in here with those machines! Do you have any idea of the damage you could do to the Pokémon in these caves? Cut it oooooow!!!" a voice was heard through a small grove of trees. Amy and Gary looked at each other and started running towards it.
"Like we care about a bunch of weak Pokémon! Come on Biff, we have work to do!" a girl's voice said.
"IT'S BUTCH! BUTCH!" a gravelly male voice was heard. An engine roared, then grew fainter, and then there was silence, punctured by whimpers from the first guy they heard. Stumbling into a clearing beside an opening in the mountain. On the ground was a nerdy looking man in a white lab coat with glasses, looking considerably beat up.
"Oh my gosh are you okay?" Amy gasped running over to the man on the ground.
"Hey Amy, those guys we heard, they sounded like the guys who robbed the museum!" Gary said coming over as well.
"The museum? In Pewter? What were they stealing?" the man asked sitting up rubbing his head.
"Moonstones. I think they probably came here for more." Gary said staring into the dark cave.
"Oh no! They can't take the moonstones! I advised Brock from Pewter gym against it, but he took some anyway. But at least he left plenty for the Pokémon here, they get angry when people take the moonstones. I doubt these people will leave any at all! But how can I stop them when I can barely crawl? Noble travelers I beg your kind assistance, for the crimes being committed deserve no forgiveness! The Clefairy here worship the moonstone you see, without it they become sad as can be." the man had broken into rhyme, causing Amy and Gary to stare at him.
"Huh, looks like they bopped him harder then I thought." Gary said crossing his arms and cocking his head to one side.
"Who are you anyway?" Amy asked the man. His eyes flashed and he jumped up.
"I am Seymour! Seymour the scientist! I study the moonstones, and Pokémon in this region! I have degrees in Pokémon physiology, psychology, geology, and poetry!" he said drawing himself to full height. Amy blinked.
"Poetry?" Amy said, not believing this.
"Of course fair maid, now our plan must be laid, to stop these hoodlums in their tracks, but first, does anyone want snacks?" Seymour asked pulling a small cloth bag from his coat and producing cookies from it.
"I don't think we exactly have time for that." Amy said still not believing this.
"Of course! Our time now is at hand, so let's go forth, and save this land!" Seymour said and started to head for the cave. He promptly tripped over a rock and fell to the ground.
"Yeah, I think we'd be better off if you stayed out here." Gary said stepping over the scientist on the ground and heading for the cave.
"We need a guild though Gary! And who better then a guy who travels in these caves all the time?" Amy said after looking at Seymour's saddened expression.
Gary's eye twitched but he shrugged and stepped aside "Fine, lead on." he said. Seymour smiled and scrambled to his feet, fell over again, then finally got up and headed into the cave.
'At this rate, they'll have stolen every moonstone in the mountain before we reach them.' Amy thought as she entered behind Seymour and Gary.
*****
Soon, they heard drilling sounds echoing through the cave, growing louder as they approached. Paras and Sandshrew cowered all over the place, but Amy had yet to see a Clefairy. Gary looked longingly at the Sandshrew but didn't go after them, at least not just yet. Suddenly the drilling stopped and arguing could be heard.
"Cassidy! What'cha stop for?" Butch was yelling as they poked their heads around the corner to see the green haired boy looking up at the blond girl who was driving a huge drilling machine that seemed to be going straight down into the ground. Amy felt Gary tap her and she looked to where he was pointing with his other hand. There was a small cluster of Clefairy trapped under a net on the far side of the hallow cavern they were in.
"I think I hit something, go check if its moonstones!" Cassidy snapped from the drill.
"Why do I have to go check?" Butch yelled back.
"Because I said so! Now go do it!"
"Right away boss" Butch said bowing in a mocking way "you old hag" he muttered as he turned away.
"What was that Botch?"
"ITS BUTCH!"
"So what's the plan?" Seymour whispered.
"The plan is, you stay here and wait for us to save the Clefairy and the moonstones by kicking some Team Rocket butt. Come on Amy!" Gary said grabbing Amy's wrist and dragging her into the room.
"Hey wait-!" Amy tried to pull back but they had already been spotted.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing!?" Butch snapped and Cassidy took notice as well.
"Well well well if it isn't the nosy twerp from the Pewter Museum. Isn't that right Ben? So what's this, your girlfriend?" Cassidy asked jumping down beside Butch.
"ITS NOT BEN ITS BUTCH!"
"I AM NOT HIS GIRLFRIEND!"
Butch and Amy had spoken almost simultaneously. They both blinked and stared at each other.
Gary stiffened, then snapped at Cassidy "You can't get away with stealing moonstones! I'm going to stop you!" he pulled out a Pokeball "Go Sting!" the Weedle burst from its ball.
"You're joking." Butch said staring down at the little caterpillar Pokémon.
"Sting! Poison Sting!" Gary yelled and the Weedle jumped from the ground and smacked Butch in the gut with its barb.
"UGG!!" Butch grunted and fell backwards. Suddenly Sting began to glow. Brighter and brighter, until he started changing shape. When the glowing stopped, he had become a Kakuna.
"Alright!" Gary shouted.
"Get up Bert! This is no time to lie down on the job!" Cassidy snapped.
"I SAID ITS BUTCH! BUTCH! B-U-T-C-H! BUTCH!"
While this was going on, Amy had slipped around and was busy freeing the Clefairy. The pink Pokémon cheered happily as they ran out.
"Hey! Get away from those Clefairy!" Butch yelled. The Clefairy had run into the caverns at this point, so Amy sort of crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.
"Um, bit late for that don't ya think Butch?" she said shaking her head.
"Hey! My name's B- hey that's what you said." Butch said looking at her in totally shock.
"Um... yeah, that's your name right? You kinda screamed it repeatedly for the past 5 minutes..."
"Yeah, but no one seems to get my name! Ever! And you did on the first try!"
"Wow, I have new superpower. Fantastic. So, are you gonna leave right now and stop trying to steal the moonstones, or are we going to have to force you." Amy said reaching into her pocket and retrieving Harmony's Pokeball.
Butch smirked "Guess you'll have to force us then. Go Sandslash!" he threw a Pokeball and the porcupine-like Pokémon stuck a battle pose.
"Harmony! Go!" Amy cried releasing the Jigglypuff onto the field "Use Sing!"
The pink Pokémon smiled, took a deep breath, and its melody filled the air.
"Oh noooo..." Butch trailed off as he fell forward onto the ground, fast asleep. His Sandslash fell with him. In fact, the sound echoed off the walls and filled the cave, so every creature in it fell asleep. Even Harmony. Soon the cave was full of gentle snores.
*****
Amy slowly opened her eyes. She seemed to be the first to wake up. She saw Harmony resting peacefully on the ground. She wasn't exactly sure how EVERONE had fallen asleep, but she decided to figure that out later. She returned Harmony to her ball and stepped over Sting on her way to the huge drill. She hoped to drive it away fast enough so that they could take this battle outside, where someone might find them and help them. However, halfway to the contraption it roared to life, causing all the sleep victims to snap awake.
"What's going on?" Gary asked groggily from the ground.
"Hey, the drill!" Cassidy yelled struggling to her feet.
"What?" Butch yelled over the roar.
"The drill! Someone's started the drill!" she yelled back.
"I can't hear you! The drill's too loud!"
"H-hey d-does a-anyone n-know h-how t-to d-drive th-this th-thing-g-g-g?" Seymour shouted from the shaking driver's seat. The Clefairy, Amy could now see, were surrounding him. Suddenly it pitched forward and started tunnelling straight into the ground!
"Hey! You can't steal our drill!" Butch yelled and dived down the whole after him, Sandslash and Cassidy following him.
"Well, that solves that problem." Gary said returning Sting the Kakuna from the ground.
"No it doesn't! We have to go after them!" Amy snapped.
"Why?"
"Cause it's the right thing to do." Amy said sending him a glare.
Gary closed his eyes, growled, then spat "Fine"
"Good." Amy said nodded and grabbed Gary's arm, pulling him over to the hole.
"Wait, we can't just jump down thEEEEEEERE!!!!!" Gary yelled in terror as Amy jumped off, dragging Gary with her. They hit more level ground a moment later, and after getting back to their feet they took off down the tunnel that the drill had made at top speed. They went for about 3 minutes before they saw light ahead.
"Guess they didn't get too far." Gary said breathing hard.
"Or we were just close to the edge of the cave." Amy said as they ran from the tunnel and into the outside world again. Seymour had crashed into a grove of trees, and had flipped over. "Predictable." Amy sighed. Seymour and the Clefairy were facing off against Butch and Cassidy with their Sandslash and Yanma. Amy guessed the Yanma was Cassidy's.
"Yanma! Supersonic!"
"Sandslash! Slash attack!"
"CLEFAIRIES! METRANOME!" Seymour yelled.
"Metronome?" Amy said confused reaching for her Pokedex, but Gary stopped her.
"Don't bother, I know, it's an attack that tweaks a Pokémon's mind into using attacks it doesn't know. It's totally random though, so those Clefairy could do anything. I suggest we get down, just in case." Gary said and Amy nodded, they both fell to the ground and covered their heads, watching through half closed eyes.
The Clefairy were waving their fingers back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, when suddenly they began to glow, almost like Kakuna did; only they didn't evolve. A great jet of fire flew from them and hit their foes with tremendous force, knocking them high into the sky, screaming the whole way. Amy sighed with relief as they rose and walked over to Seymour.
"I did it, I actually did it!" Seymour yelled in triumph. The Clefairy turned and looked at him curiously. "Erm, I mean we did it! Yay us!" Seymour yelled kneeling down and hugging the Clefairy.
"Well, erm, all's well that ends well I guess." Amy said with a small disbelieving smile. Gary rolled his eyes however.
"Waste. Of. Time. Can we go now?" Gary said irritated.
"Oh, you're going already? Well, at least let me show you the way through the mountain, the Clefairy will help too!" Seymour said with a smile.
"That'd be great, thanks!" Amy said nodding. Gary grumbled.
*****
So finally, as the sun set, Amy and Gary headed off down the road, away from Mt. Moon, Seymour and the Clefairy. When they were out of sight of the scientist Gary shook his head.
"That was one weird guy."
"I know." Amy said shaking her head.
"So, do you think we'll reach Cerulean before it gets too dark out?" Gary asked trying to see any lights ahead.
Amy pulled out her guild book and examined it "I doubt it, but if we keep walking we should get there about an hour or two after dark. I suggest we set up camp though, I'm exhausted."
"Yeah okay, so we'll have time to challenge the gym when we get there tomorrow right?"
"Honestly do you EVER stop thinking about battling?" Amy said with a sigh.
"Nope."
"I figured." Amy brushed her hair from her face and they got off to the side of the road and began setting out their sleeping bags and with a little help from Harmony, they were sound asleep along with just about every living thing in hearing range. Harmony looked at her new master with pride, and curled up next to her, falling asleep as well.
((Joyful Note: Yes. I have set up this series as if they were episodes. I don`t know why. I hope you liked it, it`s all you`re getting tonight))