Chapter 8: Lost

Roger woke up smelling sausages. "Whoa that smells real good." Roger got up and found out that no one was in the tent. "Hey where is everyone?" Roger got dressed up and walked outside.

"Good morning." Kate said taking care of Torhchie, Squirtle and Bulbasaur. "I made you some food." Kate handed Roger some sausages and eggs.

"Thanks." Roger said sitting next to Torchie and Squirtle. "You guys want a bite?" Roger asked his Pokémon.

"Torchic!" Torchie was pecking at the sausages.

"Squirtle squirt!" Squirtle ate a piece of egg.

"Glad you guys like it!" Kate said feeding her Bulbasaur berries. "I'm going to start packing up, you guys keep eating." Kate walked in the tent with Bulbasaur to pack everything up. Then she walked back outside the tent and she pulled out the remote to fold the tent. "This thing is awesome." Kate put the folded tent in its bag.

"Alright, we are finished." Roger said calling back his squirtle. "Let's get going!" As they were walking through the forest Kate found a wild Pikachu.

"I need to catch it!" Kate pulled out Metapod's pokeball. However, the Pikachu noticed and started to run. "No way, I'm catching you!" Kate ran after it. The Pikachu ran completely out of the pathway and stopped.

"Pika Pika!" She said ready for battle.

"Metapod let's do this!" Kate threw a pokeball and Metapod appeared. "Use harden." Metapod hardened up her cocoon raising up her defense. Then Pikachu used thundershock. Metapod barley felt any pain. "Now use tackle." Metapod threw herself at Pikachu. The Pikachu used thundershock again knocking off Metapod. "Use harden and follow up with tackle!" Metapod made her shell harder and threw herself at Pikachu. Metapod's shell was so hard that she had extra impact in the tackle, causing Pikachu to give in. "Go Pokeball!" Kate threw a pokeball at the Pikachu and the ball twitched three times and clicked. "Yes!" She picked up the pokeball and put it in her belt. "I will name you Jasper, just so we don't get confused with Roger's Pikachu.'

"Good idea." Roger said. "But where are we?"

"Um." Kate looked around. "This is bad!" she grabbed Roger's arm. "Metapod, Bulbasaur take a rest." She called back her Pokémon.

"Don't worry we can find a way out of this." Roger said. "All we have to do is just walk around and then we will find a way out." They started walking around and Roger scanned the Pokémon he saw with his Pokephone. Then a beedrill tried to attack them.

"I think that was twinneedle!" Kate screamed.

"Don't worry." Roger said. "Go Squirtle." Roger threw a pokeball and Squirtle appeared. "Use tail whip!" Squirtle jumped and slapped beedrill with her tail lowering down his defense. The beedrill tried using twinneedle but Squirtle kept dodging until the beedrill got his stinger caught in a tree. "Good now use tackle." Squirtle jumped and tackled the beedrill forcing him to give in. "Good job!" Roger said.

"Why did it attack us?" Kate asked.

"I don't know but we have to be careful." Roger said. "Beedrill don't attack people for no reason. So just be prepared for more attacks." Two hours later five beedrill started to attack.

"Oh, no!" Kate hid behind Roger.

"Go Lapras!" Roger threw a pokeball and Lapras appeared. "Use surf!" Lapras gathered a bunch of water and splashed it all over the beedrill knocking them out. "Good job, rest." Roger called back Lapras.

"This is all my fault." Kate said. "I should've never ran after Jasper."

"No it's not." Roger said hugging Kate. "You found a Pokémon you like and chased it, any trainer would've done that.

"Really?" Kate asked.

"Yeah." Roger said. Then another beedrill came. "Get ready Mercedes." Roger pulled out a pokeball.

"No." Kate stopped him. "I want a turn."

"Oh, ok." Roger put back Mercedes' pokeball.

"Go Jasper!" Kate threw a pokeball and Jasper appeared but she was tired from her battle with Metapod. "Don't worry, use this." Kate sprayed a potion on Jasper. "Use thundershock but do it slowly." Jasper shot electricity at the beedrill but the beedrill dodged it by flying into the air. "Just what I wanted now use a full power thundershock!" Jasper hit the beedrill with a strong thundershock and beedrill fainted.

"Did you do that because air conducts electricity?" Roger asked.

"Yep." Kate said.

"Smart." He said. As they kept walking ten beedrill appeared. "Mercedes come on out!" Roger threw a pokeball and Mercedes appeared.

"Bulbasaur, let's help them!" Kate said and Bulbasaur came out.

"But Bulbasaur is bad against poison and bug type Pokémon!" Roger said.

"Watch this." Kate said. "Use sleep powder." Powder came out of Bulbasaur's bulb and the beedrill fell asleep. "Now finish them off before they wake up."

"Right." Roger nodded. "Mercedes use flamethrower!" Mercedes used flamethrower and all the beedrill passed out. "Good, now rest." Roger called back Mercedes. "You should take a rest too." Roger called back Squirtle.

"That was a lot of beedrill." Kate said. "I wonder if they know we are here."

"I'm not sure but this is getting really strange." Roger said. "More and more beedrill keep on coming. I don't know how long we can keep this up."

"Yeah and we still don't have a way out of here." Kate said. They kept walking and ran into two beedrill.

"Go Pikachu!" Roger threw a pokeball and Pikachu appeared. The beedrill used agility then used poison jab. "Pikachu go behind them with quick attack and then hit them with volt tackle!" Pikachu ran behind the beedrill and then hit them with volt tackle causing them to faint.

"They are getting smarter." Kate said. "That was not a bad combination."

"I noticed." Roger said. "If they get more beedrill to do this, then this is going to be very hard to get out of."

"Tor torchic!" Torchie jumped up.

"I think Torchic wants to battle." Kate said. "I can't really blame him."

"Yeah you didn't get to battle yet didn't ya?' Roger said. "Ok, tell you what buddy. Next time we encounter a beedrill you can battle it. Okay?"

"Tor tor tor!" Torchie jumped onto Roger's shoulder.

"Great! Now let's go." Kate said. When they were walking they didn't find any beedrill. All they found were innocent weedle and kakuna doing their own thing. "That's strange. We should've been attacked by now."

"You're right." Roger said looking around. "They are either making some sort of plan or something happened to them."

"I think you're right." Kate said. Then they heard Jason's voice.

"Bellsprout use wrap, and then sleep powder." He said. "You know what? Forget the sleep powder use poison powder and torture it with vine whip." Roger and Kate can hear vines whipping a Pokémon back and forth.

"Bee!" The Beedrill couldn't take it anymore and gave in. But the sound of Bellsprout's vine whip would not stop. Five minutes later Jason told Bellsprout to stop.

"Haha, ok Bellsprout that's enough. Now go pokeball." Jason said. Roger and Kate heard three twitches and a click.

"Mwahaha!" Debra started laughing. "Watching Bellsprout hit Beedrill with vine whip even though it gave in was hilarious. I should've sent out Spearow to use gust on it too. But I think that was the last of them, let's get the Kakuna."

"Did you hear that?" Kate asked angrily.

"Yeah, were laughing at torturing a beedrill." Roger said. "That's Pokémon cruelty!"

"Let's stop them from hurting the Kakuna." Kate said.

"Right." Roger said. They jumped out from hiding. "Hey! Stop hurting the Beedrill!"

"Oh, look who it is!" Debra said. "You guys are too late. We already transferred the beedrill to our headquarters."

"Yeah and we took almost every single beedrill in the forest." Jason said. "We were gonna take some Kakuna because they evolve quickly but we need to push you out of the way first. Right Bellsprout?"

"Sprout." Bellsprout prepared for battle.

"You too Zubat!" Debra threw a pokeball and her zubat appeared.

"Go Metapod!" Kate threw a pokeball and Metapod appeared.

"Torchie you wanted a battle and now you got one." Roger called out Torchie.

"Torchic tor!" Torchie jumped off Roger's shoulder.

"Alright Zubat use bite on Metapod." Debra said.

"Metapod harden." Kate ordered.

"Don't stop biting Metapod!" Debra demanded.

"Don't stop protecting yourself with harden." Kate said.

"Torchie use flame burst on Bellsprout!" Roger said.

"Bellsprout dodge it!" Jason said calmly and Torchie missed. "I will say your Torchic is fast and impressive to know a move like flame burst but you're gonna need a lot of accuracy to hit Bellsprout's thin body. Now use vine whip!" Bellsprout hit Torchie with his vines but Torchie didn't get damaged that badly.

"Sprout sprout sprout." Bellsprout said with confidence.

"He's right." Roger said. "So we have to surround Bellsprout."

"Roger hurry, I don't think Metapod can take much more." Kate yelled.

"Ok quick Torchie, fire spin!" Roger said and Torchie surrounded Bellsprout with fire.

"What!" Jason yelled.

"Roger!" Kate screamed. Then Metapod started glowing. "Whoa." Metapod became a Butterfree.

"Free!" She cheered.

"Yes Metapod, you evolved into a healthy Butterfree!" Kate cheered.

"Whoa." Roger scanned her with his Pokephone.

"Butterfree, the butterfly Pokémon. Butterfree can smell honey from great distances, and will often find its way to meadows with even minute traces of honey and pollen." The Pokephone informed and showed Butterfree's moves and special ability, tinted lens.

"Awesome!" Kate said.

"Ok Torchie hop on Butterfree!" Roger said.

"Butterfree fly into the air." Kate said. Butterfree flew Torchie into the air.

"Bellsprout power out of fire spin using growth!" Bellsprout stretched out and broke out of fire spin.

"Zubat, carry Bellsprout and chase them!" Debra yelled. Zubat let Bellsprout hop on her and flew into the air chasing Butterfree.

"Perfect!" Kate said. "Butterfree fly higher!" Butterfree went higher along with Zubat. "Now, use confusion on Zubat!" Butterfree sent a headache towards Zubat and she spiraled out of control causing Bellsprout to fall off.

"No!" Jason yelled.

"Yes, now Butterfree decline quickly toward Bellsprout!" Kate said. Bellsprout flew down quickly towards Bellsprout.

"Great now we can't miss." Roger said. "Torchie jump off Butterfree and use flame wheel." Torchie jumped off Butterfree and used flame wheel to slam into Bellsprout while falling. Bellsprout took a hard hit to the ground. However, Torchie was still falling. "Torchie land on Bellsprout's head to break your fall!" Roger said. Torchie landed on Bellsprout causing him to give in.

"Butterfree pick up Torchie again!" Kate commanded.

"Zubat use bite!" Debra ordered. Zubat came at them with his mouth open.

"Now Torchie aim your flame burst at Zubat's mouth!" Roger commanded. Torchie shot a flame burst and it got directly inside Zubat's mouth.

"Huh?" Debra said getting angry and confused.

"Great now finish Zubat off with tackle!" Kate said. Butterfree flew right on top of Zubat and tackled her to the ground causing her to give in.

"Ugh, you win this time!" Jason called back his bellsprout.

"But we still got the Beedrill." Debra said calling back her zubat. They took off in their dirt bikes.

"Oh, no. All the Beedrill are gone." Kate said. "Now I know why they were attacking us."

"Yep." Roger said calling back Pikachu. "They thought we were helping Team Shadow. But I wouldn't say that the Beedrill are all gone." Roger walked up to a Kakuna tree with Torchie. "One day these guys will evolve into Beedrill." Roger petted one. Right after Roger touched it all the Kakuna in the tree started to glow. "See?"

"Wow." Kate said as she saw the Kakuna evolve into Beedrill.

"Drill." The Beedrill Roger petted nodded at him as a thanks for protecting her from Team Shadow.

"You're Welcome." Roger said as the Beedrill started to fly away. "Have a safe trip you guys!"

"This is good and all." Kate said. "But we are still lost."

"Don't worry." Roger said. "Butterfree is a bug and flying type so she can help."

"Oh yeah." Kate remembered. "Butterfree, can you find us the way out of here?"

"Free!" Butterfree flew up in the air and found the pathway.

"Follow Butterfree!" Roger and Kate chased Butterfree. Ten minutes later Butterfree flew back to the pathway.

"Yes we made!" Kate cheered. "Take a good rest." Kate called back Butterfree. "I'm so happy." She hugged Roger.

"Me too." Roger hugged her back. "Now let's get going to Pewter City!"

"So you can win your first badge!" Kate said. Roger, Kate, Torchie, and Bulbasaur continue walking through the Viridian Forest hoping to make it to Pewter City soon.