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Chapter 5: fossils and thieves
There was a loud cry that woke me up. My first thought was that it was coming from Pidgey, but she was just waking up as well. Then it came again. I couldn't quite tell what it was, but it was loud. Me and the Pokémon quickly ran outside to find Aqua facing a large bird Pokémon. The Pokémon was unlike anything I had ever seen, and Aqua was obviously scared by it.
"Alex…" she said, the barely restrained fear obvious in her voice "what's that?"
"I…don't know" I said. I wasn't exactly scared, I was amazed. The bird was almost like Articuno, except it was silver instead of light blue, and it had a slicker look to it.
It let out a loud cry, there's no real way to describe it besides a mix between a chirp and a roar, then it looked at me. I had no idea what it wanted…until it looked at Pikachu. It wanted to battle…but there was no way I could take it on. It must have realized I wasn't ready, because it gave another loud cry, and took off.
We headed back inside to find a sleepy Nurse Joy at the desk. "Sleep well?" she asked
"Did the bird Pokémon wake you up too?" Aqua asked
Joy nodded "did you figure out what it was?" she asked
"Nope" Aqua replied "I tried scanning it with my pokedex, but it wouldn't work" she must have done that when I wasn't paying attention
"Oh well, maybe you'll find out more about it later" she said "good luck in Mount moon"
We headed out after returning the Pokémon, and we went into the cave. It took a bit, but we finally found a ladder, and went up. What awaited us was quite a surprise.
"Hey! You kids shouldn't be here!" a guy in all black said, stopping us "now scram or face the consequences!"
"Well, that's not very nice" Aqua muttered
"We don't have to be nice to little punks like you" the man said
"Whose 'we'?" I asked
"Team rocket, of course" the man replied
"Team rocket?" Aqua asked
"Enough talking. Are you going to get out, or do I have to make you?" he asked
Neither of us had a chance to reply before Red and Leaf came running up "another one of you?" red asked
"Don't worry red, I've got this one, you take Aqua and Alex ahead" Leaf said, getting a poke ball ready. Red dragged us away before either side threw a poke ball.
"What was that about?" I asked
"Their trying to steal some fossils from someone. Let's go before they get away with it" red said, taking us deeper into the cave.
It took a bit, but we came to another one "hey! You shouldn't be here!" a team rocket member said
"Alex, Aqua, you two go ahead, we'll catch up" red said
It didn't take long before we saw someone with five fossils next to him.
"Don't even think about taking any of these, their mine!" the guy said. He seemed like a scientist, and I was ready to let him have them, but red and leaf had caught up by then.
"Seriously? You have five of them! You couldn't share them?" Leaf asked
"Their mine! I won't let you take them!" he shouted
"That sounds like a challenge" red said, reaching for a poke ball
"Wait!" I said, grabbing his arm "I'll handle him, you got the team rocket guys"
"No, really, I can take him" Red insisted
"Red, let others share SOME of the glory" Leaf said
"Your right, take your best shot" red said
I nodded, and stepped up, but Aqua stopped me "can I try? Pleeeeeaase?" she asked
"Ok" I said, letting her take my place.
She stepped up to the scientist "look, we don't want ALL of the fossils" she said to the scientist
"You're not getting ANY of them!" he retorted "go Grimer!" he threw a poke ball
"Grimer!"
"You asked for it" she said. I threw a poke ball "go Metapod!"
"Charmander!"
She switched them! I barely contained my laughter, and I could see the amusement on Leaf and Reds face as well.
"Oh well, it works" she said "use ember!"
Instead of listening, the Charmander went after a fossil "Charmander! Stop it!" she cried.
Even the scientist was laughing now, as she chased after her disobedient Charmander. It took a while for her to finally catch him, but she did, and Charmander went back into his poke ball.
"Sorry about that" she said
"I'll try now" I said, taking out a poke ball "go Squirtle!"
"Squirtle"
"Now that's more like it" the scientist said "use sludge bomb!"
The Grimer obliged, but Squirtle dodged. "Use bubbles!" I called, and Squirtle obliged, knocking Grimmer out.
"Go Voltorb!" the Scientist called, throwing a poke ball
"Voltorb!"
"Use Explosion!" he said
Uh oh. The Voltorb exploded, knocking everything back. The Scientist returned the knocked out Voltorb, but Squirtle was still standing "probably not my best idea…" he said "how about you guys just take a fossil each?"
I shrugged and each of us got a fossil, leaving one for the scientist. Red and Aqua got a Dome fossil, and me and Leaf took a Helix fossil "thanks!" I said as we headed off.
We left the cave, and Red and Leaf looked at us "wed challenge you to a battle again, but I think Aqua has enough problems" Red said.
Leaf elbowed him "what he meant to say was we think it will be better if we wait some more to battle again. See you around?" she said
"See you guys!" Aqua said as the two ran off
"Did you figure out what was up with Charmander?" I asked her
"No…I think I'm just not a good enough trainer" she said sadly
"You're a fine trainer, you just need practice" I said. We went over to the Pokémon center and Nurse Joy showed us a room. I fell asleep with the Pokémon out again.
YAY! Another chapter done! Again, not much to say…so yea. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Also remember that you can choose a Pokémon for my characters to catch, just remember to name the character. Bye for now!