We walked down a crooked bumpy path through a bunch of trees. Just then, a wild Weedle jumped down from a nearby tree and into the path.

"Oh look! It's a Weedle!" Ash said.

"A Weedle huh," I said as I took out my pokedex. It said,

Weedle, the hairy bug pokemon. Weedle eats its weight in leaves everyday. It fends off attackers with the needle on its head.

"I want to catch it!" I turned my head to see Misty's face full of fear. "What's wrong Misty?"

"Oh, nothing! It's just I'm-" she got cut off by Ash

"Scared of bugs!" Misty slapped Ash across the face. "Ow. Jeez Misty! I was only stating the facts." Ash rubbed his face where Misty had slapped him. I started cracking up.

"Wait, so your a gym leader whose afraid of bugs?" I laughed even harder.

"It's not funny!" She exclaimed. My laughter was cut off when Weedle jumped up and hit my face with the side of its tail.

"Hey! What was that for?" The Weedle frowned up at me.

"Weedle Weedle!" It said.

"I think it wants to battle you Volt."

"You want to battle?" It nodded. "Alright then go Growlithe!" Growlithe came out ready for battle. "Growlithe, use tackle!" It hit Weedle, but didn't seem to do much. This will be a tough one. Exactly why I want it! The Weedle used poison sting on Growlithe. Direct hit.

"Hey Volt! You should try using a fire attack, bug pokemon are weak against it!" Ash said.

"Okay, Growlithe use Ember!" I could tell the poison was getting to Growlithe, but it was fighting through it, as it used Ember. It hit Weedle, but it still wasn't K-Oed yet. It still was standing strong as it used a Tackle attack on Growlithe. Ember seemed to do more than Tackle had done, as Ash said, so I decided to use it again.

"Ember again!" It hit Weedle and this time it was out. It tried to get up, only to fall again. "Go pokeball!" Weedle got sucked into the pokeball. It shook and shook. I got more anxious the more it shook. Then ding! I caught it! I picked up the pokeball.

"Yes! I caught a Weedle!" Although I was happy, it was short lived when I saw Growlithe fall over. I rushed over to it. "Growlithe? What's wrong?"

"It was the Poison Tail from Weedle. It's poisoned. All you can do is put it back in its pokeball." Misty said. I nodded.

"Growlithe return." Just then, a man with a big bug net in hand, busted out of the brush in the trees.

"Um, hi there," he said, "have any of you kids seen an aggressive Weedle come through here?"

"Yeah I just caught it." I held up the pokeball. "You want it?"

"Oh no. It's yours now. I can't just take a pokemon."

"Why do you want that Weedle so bad?" Misty asked.

"It's a tough one. I have studied bug pokemon for a while, especially Weedle. I've caught so many before, but by far that was the strongest one. You've got a good pokemon there. Oh I forgot to introduce myself! I'm Jacob!"

"I'm Volt, from New Bark Town. I take that you're a bug-catcher?" he nodded

"I'm Misty from Cerulean City."

"I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and," Ash's stomach growled,"Um, I know we just met, but I was wondering if you have any food?" Me and Misty laughed a little.

"Oh yeah! I've got lots of food that I grow all myself! Follow me, my house isn't far." Jacob led us down a small path through the trees. When we emerged, there was a house on top of a hill. On the left side of the hill, there were trees, apricorn trees! On the right were bushes that grew berries. This whole place was huge, like, 3 times bigger than the berry farm at home. Jacob led us into his house and we sat down at his kitchen table.

"So this whole place is yours?" asked Misty.

"Yep! It used to be my grand fathers, but he passed away a few years ago, leaving me to tend to the land by myself."

"That's so sad."

"I know, but I got my pokemon. And sometime travelers come to my house by accident, thinking I'm Mr. Pokemon. He lives a few miles down though. It's hard to keep out all of the pokemon trying to eat my berries, that's how I became a bug-catcher. I catch bug pokemon, raise them, and evolve them so they can fly and defend the land. Every once in a while, I'll find an egg." Jacob said as he brought food over. Bread with berries in it, and just regular berries and smoothies?

"What kind of smoothies are these?" I said

"Those are apricorn smoothies, or aprijuice. They're delicious." I took a sip of mine. I tasted like creamy berries. Creamy Oran berries. He was right, delicious. "These are also like pokeblock from Hoenn. Made completely from pink apricorns. If you use different apricorns, they taste different and they each affect pokemon in a different way. For instance, the one your drinking now makes a pokemon faster. However, it reduces the amount of power that's in an attack."

"So it's like this for all pokemon?" Ash asked.

"No. Each pokemon excels in things like powerful attacks. Take Feraligatr for example. A very big pokemon with very powerful attacks. Big pokemon can't move very fast though. You could give it this to level out all it's skills." By the time he was done talking, we devoured all our food. He's a good cook.

"So, back to becoming a bug-catcher, how does that keep out pokemon?" Misty asked.

"Well you see, I catch bug pokemon, like Weedle and Caterpie, and I evolve them into their fully evolved form. Next I train them to keep out wild pokemon. Sometimes I'll even find bug pokemon eggs. I hatch those as well. You guys want to see everything?"

"Yes!" we three said in unison.

"Pika Pi!"

"Alright then, let's go!" We walked around the trees and you could see a bunch of Butterfree and Beedrill flying overhead, patrolling the land. Jacob was telling us stories of how when he was little and he grew up here. Raised by his grandpa. He had a passion for bug pokemon. He only leaves this place to sell some berries and apricorns and buy pokeballs. This place was huge, and people actually miss it. I admit I would've missed it if he wouldn't have found us.

One of the Butterfree came down from high up and met eye-level with Jacob.

"What's wrong Butterfree?"

"Butterfree free! Butterfree!" It said.

"Oh okay then. Tell the others to get on high alert." It nodded and went back.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"Oh, the pokemon sense something big is coming. Probably a big pokemon"

"Awesome! Maybe I could catch it!" Ash said. And as if on cue, something did happen. A Meowth balloon appeared in the sky with a huge machine attached to it. The machine started sucking up air and eventually the Butterfree and Beedrill went up with it. The suction of the machine was so powerful, that I could almost feel myself being lifted up. I grabbed on to one of the nearby branches. Pikachu started to lift off Ash's shoulder. It got up pretty high when Ash jumped up to grab it. But in stead of falling he started rising.

"Ash, no!" Misty screamed.