"Pachirisu, use Quick Attack!"
Pachirisu jumped from Ryan's shoulder and sped across the battlefield, he was difficult to keep an eye on he was moving with such pace. He reached the Bulbasaur and braced himself for impact, but the impact never came, at least, not immediately. Pachirisu continued running straight in to a wall. The Bulbasaur had jumped, dodging the attack effortlessly.
"Come on Pachirisu. You're better than that!"
Ryan was clearly frustrated at not having this battle wrapped up already, Jordyn could do it, he should be able to as well.
"Get up Pachirisu!"
Pachirisu struggled back to his feet.
"Bulbasaur, finish it off with Vine Whip."
Sid commanded his Bulbasaur, it seemed to want to listen unlike the Chikorita. Vines emerged from its body and wrapped around Pachirisu. Pachirisu was then thrown back against the wall he had collided with moments ago. The Bulbasaur kept battering him against the wall before Ryan had enough. He recalled his Pokemon back in to its Pokemon and forfeited the battle. He couldn't think of anything to do, anything to say. He ran to the Pokemon centre back across town. Jordyn got back to the centre whilst Ryan's Pokemon were healing.
"You okay Ryan?"
He let out a frustrated laugh. "I couldn't even beat that amateur in there. How can I expect to be a trainer when I'm getting beat from a guy who's Pokemon won't even listen to him. I knew I should have tried to find something stronger than a Pachirisu."
She punched his arm again, she had an amazing ability to hit the exact same place every time, right at the top of his arm.
"You can't blame Pachirisu for that! And if you want to blame him, then you don't deserve to be a trainer!"
He looked down at the floor as she told him off. Everything she was saying was right, and she had always been the voice of reason against his temper. Perhaps he just needed more time to bond with his Pokemon? Nurse Joy brought out his Pachirisu who ran over to the bench they were sitting on and looked up at Ryan with a smile.
"I think i'm going to go train for a little bit." He said.
"Well if you want to train, then I challenge you to a battle."
Ryan looked up at Jordyn and smiled, now she was talking his language. They had always talked of battling each other when they were growing up. Each side convinced they would beat the other. Now, it was finally going to happen. They travelled to the outskirts of the town where the owner had built new training grounds. They were all just normal training grounds, nothing special, but they were available to anyone at any time.
Ryan and Jordyn stood at opposite ends of the ground.
"I guess my choice is obvious then." Ryan shouted.
"Okay then, Eevee, you're up." Eevee emerged from its Poke ball ready to battle.
The battle was about to begin when the group heard shouting and screeching from just off the battleground. There were mesh fences surrounding each ground and so it was hard to see exactly what was going on. A boy looked like he was shouting and kicking at something on the ground. The group all ran towards the gate and exited the ground before seeing what was happening properly. The boy was shouting about something being useless and weak. He was kicking out at a Pokemon, the Pokemon seemed to be dodging most of the attacks.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" Ryan screamed at the boy.
He stopped before turning to see the group. The Pokemon ran to the fence and huddled up, it was a small orange bird Pokemon. Ryan recognized it immediately, the first evolve of possibly his favorite Pokemon. A Torchic.
"This has got nothing to do with you! Just me and this waste of time!"
His comments angered Ryan. "You don't get to talk about Pokemon like that after this, I'm going to take that Torchic from you. Pachirisu, it's time for some practice."
Pachirisu growled lightly at the trainer who grabbed a Poke ball from his belt.
"Go! Pidgey!"
Pidgey, the flying type Pokemon. A common sight in forests and woods. It flaps its wings at ground level to kick up a sandstorm.
This will be easy, a flying type against an electric type? I'm always going to have the edge. Ryan didn't take long to choose his tactic.
"Pachirisu! Thundershock!"
Pachirisu jumped in to the air and powered his attack up. He discharged the electric straight at Pidgey, Pidgey dodged however, flying up in to the air.
"Use Quick Attack Pidgey!"
Pidgey showed his incredible speed, this would be a problem for Pachirisu.
"Climb on the fence Pachirisu."
He followed orders, he ran towards the fence and jumped on to it.
"Now wait it out, use Thundershock when I tell you."
Pidgey closed in on Pachirisu who was holding on to the fence.
"Do it now!"
Pachirisu shot electricity in the direction of Pidgey, Ryan never planned on hitting the Pidgey, it was quick enough to dodge it, it wasn't however, quick enough to not touch the fence, the fence that Pachirisu had just made electric through his contact. Pidgey slowed down and landed on the side of the fence where he was shocked and thrown backwards, hitting the ground hard.
"Now Pachirisu! Finish it off with another Thundershock!"
Pidgey had no chance to move out of the way of this attack. He was shocked with the full force this time. Pidgey fainted, Ryan had won.
"Maybe you will treat your Pokemon a little better now!" Jordyn called out.
"I didn't want it anyways."
The boy ran off and left the Torchic behind, Torchic tweeted and tried to run after him but could only hop, he must have picked up an injury from the trainer, he finally fell over and stopped trying to get up. Ryan ran over and sat down next to him.
"Torchic, he's a bad person, you deserve better than him. No Pokemon should be treated like that. I want you to come with me, just to get you healed up if nothing else."
The Torchic didn't even look up, it didn't seem to acknowledge any of Ryan's words.
"Come on Torchic, let me get you back to the Pokemon Centre."
It sat up, still visibly saddened. But didn't seem to want to do anything after that. Ryan gently put his hand out to stroke its head. It flinched at the action, but warmed to the idea after a moment.
"I don't want to hurt you. Come with me, we'll get you fixed up."
Pachirisu ran over to the Torchic and started to talk to him. He seemed to get the message across better than Ryan was. Torchic tried to stand up but could barely put any weight on his right leg. Ryan picked him up and carried him back to the Pokemon Centre as Jordyn and Pachirisu walked along side. The journey seemed to take longer than it did to get the battlegrounds, Torchic just sat in Ryan's hand looking ahead for the entire journey. They reached the Pokemon centre and Ryan handed the Torchic over to Nurse Joy.
"We found a boy attacking this Pokemon. There's something wrong with his leg." Ryan seemed anxious as he explained the situation to the Nurse.
"Some people in this world don't care for Pokemon as much as they should." She replied, visibly saddened by the story.
Pachirisu jumped from the floor to the table and on to the stretcher Torchic had been placed on.
"I think Pachirisu wants to look after his new friend." Jordyn said laughing.
Pachirisu cried out his name and sat down on the stretcher as it was wheeled in to the back of the Pokemon centre.