Chapter 9 Marty Gets a New Pokemon
"So, you failed again Ike, what do you have to say for yourself?" Shelly asked.
"I had a good reason to do so since Gardenia of the Eterna Gym kicked my ass along with our target and his companion." Ike reported.
"Were you able to find outt anything? If he remembered anything about being with us and did he have his Starmie with him?" she asked over the PokeGear.
"He lost his memories of what happened and how he got here and he didn't have his Starmie with him. I have a feeling that he may have released it." Ike said.
"I see, he has no memory of it but he will surely will get it bback. I will report your findings back to Archie and will try to get to Sinoh and you will still follow them and try to catch him." Shelly told him.
"Yes ma'am, I will do my best." He told her and saluted and hung up. "I will get you Rusty and you won't be escaping this time."
On a beach near one of the bayside cities, a Raichu was next to a knocked out boy with farily short, dirty blonde hair and covered in injuries and ripped clothing. He was trying to make him respond and he finally opened his eyes.
"A Raichu?"
He sat up and looked at his surroundings and noticed a few star points swimming away in the ocean.
Rusty woke up in the boys' tent and said, "Not again! That dream is always the same every night."
He sat up and noticed that Marty was still asleep in his sleeping bag and then smelled something and got out to see Eliza and Maritza surrounding a fire making breakfast.
Maritza saw him come out and said, "Well, well, look who got up before my brother."
"Morning!" he said, "what's good this morning?"
"The usual, eggs and biscuits!" Eliza answered as she served him a plate.
"Thanks." Rusty said.
"You doing alright? You're a little pale again especially after we left yesterday from eternal?" Eliza said.
"Yeah, I am. I will be as long as we don't bump into Ike again." He told her.
"that fox faced bastard? He should just leave sinoh and not bother us anymore." Maritza said.
Rusty nodded.
Marty came out a minute later and joined them for breakfast. When they finished with washing dishes and taking down the tents, they saw a blur come out of the trees and it ran and hit Marty.
"Whoa!" Marty exclaimed.
"What the hell!" eliza asked.
They saw a Leafeon lying on Marty's chest all bruised up.
"A Leafeon?" Maritza asked.
"Looks like it got hurt!" eliza exclaimed.
"Incoming guys!" Maritza yelled.
All of a sudden a flock of Haunchkrows came out and started to attack the Leafeon and Marty.
"Marty!" Maritza yelled.
"Hurry! We need to help him! Go Twiggy!" Eliza yelled and sent out her Turtwig.
"You too Leafy!" Rusty yelled.
"Go Lily!" Maritza yelled.
"Twiggy use razor leaf on the Haunchkrows!" eliza yelled.
"You too Leafy!" Rusty yelled.
"Lily use water gun on the other!" Maritza yelled.
All three Pokemon hit the flock and they flew off. Marty was curled up and bruised and was still holding the Leafeon.
"Are you alright?" Maritza asked.
"Will be, but this Leafeon won't be, it is barely breathing." Marty answered.
"We better get it to the Pokemon Center, how far are we from Celestic?" Maritza asked.
"A day's walk, butt we can fly there and get there a lot faster." Rusty answered.
"Let's get a move on then! Go Archimedes!" Marty yelled and sent out his Noctowl.
"Return Leafy and go Breeze!" Rusty yelled.
"return Lily and go Hurricane!" Maritza yelled and sent out her Pelibird.
"return Twiggy!" eliza yelled.
They all flew off and headed towards Celestic.
They arrived at Celestic Town and rran to the Pokemon Center where they had Marty and the Leafeon treated for their injuries. When Marty came out after getting treated, he met up with the others and waited with them for anything on the Leafeon. After an hour, Nurse Joy appeared with her Chansey.
"The good news is that the Leafeon didn't suffer from any serious injuries. It has an injured legg and a few bruises, so it will be okay." She told them.
"That's good!" Maritza exclaimed.
"If you guys waited another day, it wouldn't make it in time." She told them.
"I wouldn't let that poor tthing die." Marty said.
"Me neither." Maritza said.
"That is a good sign that it is alright and not only that, we came a few days before the contest." Eliza said.
"That's right! I guess we will be staying here for a few days." Rusty said.
"What should we do in the meantime?" Maritza asked.
"We should get something to eat and get more supplies and wait to train tomorrow." Maritza said.
"You guys go on ahead, I will stay here." Marty said.
"are you sure?" Maritza asked.
"Yeah, I think the Leafeon needs a companion." He answered.
"If you say so." Rusty said.
Maritza, eliza, and Rusty left the center and headed out to do their stuff while Marty went into the infirmary area for Pokemon and sat with the Leafeon was laying. Itt had bandages on its body and one of its legs was wrapped in a cast.
"I hope you will make it through." He said.
The Pokemon opened its eyes a bit and looked at him and said, "Leaf?"
"don't worry, you will be alright, I won't hurt you." He told it.
"Leaf…" it said and sniffed his hand and nuzzled it.
Marty petted and said, "I saved you from that flock of Haunchkrows. Well, me and my friends, my sister won't let me hear the end of it if I don't give her credit for helping."
The Leafeon nuzzled his wrist a bit and Marty petted it again.
After the three came back, they gave Marty his meal and decided to wait until the next day to train and spent the night at the center. By the next day, Marty helped Nurse Joy take care of the Leafeon before he ran off to train with his sister and Eliza.
During the training session, he finally had Red take a bit more control of the lava plume like he wanted to before.
"Awesome Red!" he exclaimed.
"Flare!" Red exclaimed.
"It seems you have gotten better at it." Rusty told him.
"Yeah, it is not easy executing something like that, hell, I even had a hard time when Clucky evolved into Blazeken with its fire spin." Eliza said.
"At least you can do it better." Maritza said.
Marty nodded.
"I guess you're thinking about that Leafeon." Rusty said.
"Yeah, I feel sorry for it though, I guess he got caught up in a fight and tried to escape." Marty said.
"I guess so." Maritza said.
"the goodd thing is that it trusts you, who knows, maybe you would be its trainer when it gets better." Eliza said.
"How? It would be weird for me to have a grass Pokemon in my team rather than a fire type." Marty said.
"I thought the same thing when I first got Clucky as my Hoen starter." Eliza said.
"Besides you have a flying type with you." Maritza said.
"Archimedes is what I use to get around, what I meant is for contests, it would be weird for me to have a grass type in my party that's all." He said.
"Not weird to us, plus having a grass type may be a bit easier to train." Rusty said.
"Yeah, I was able to have a Turtwig and Rusty has one as well, maybe you should try." Eliza said.
"All right, I will see if Leafeon will let me become his trainer." Marty said
He returned to the Pokemon Center to the infirmary area and found the Leafeon eating some of the Pokemon food that Nurse Joy had brought earlier. It saw him and his eyes sparkled a bit.
"Hey there!" Marty exclaimed and walked over to it and petted it.
It rubbed its head against the palm of his hand as he was petted.
"I guess you really trust me, huh?" Marty asked.
"Leaf!"
"How about being my Pokemon, what do you say?" he asked.
"Leaf!" Leafeon exclaimed and stood up a bit and licked his face.
"Thank you! I will take ggood care of you and any remaining injuries you may have." He told him.
Marty went to Nurse Joy and explained to her about Leafeon being with him and how he would take ccare of it. She allowed him to take it when it gets better and that she would send him the Pokemon to the city he is in and alert the nurse at the center. Marty told Leafeon the news about what happened and it was happy.
"Looks like we will be a great team, huh Branch?" Marty asked.
"Leaf!" it exclaimed.
Character Commentary
Marty: So, I end up with a Leafeon? Not bad!
Runa: I thought it would suit you since you seem to train Red a lot and plus you don't get to see Leafeons much.
Marty: True! So, do I enter him in any contests?
Runa: You'll see! Check out the next chapter!.