I know I said I would get this chapter up a while ago, but I started a new job and totally put this on the back burner. I was trying to stay a couple chapters ahead, but it is hard to find time to write when you have a full time job and trying to keep a social life. Completely different from being unemployed. Enjoy!
JB: Ruckus – Zubat; Tesla – Jolteon; Zero – Charmander
Grant: Scarlet – Cyndaquil; Flash – Flareon; Scooter – Noctowl
Hazel: Pinky – Gligar; Ivy – Bulbasaur, Wing – Pidgey
Chapter Six: Bugs! Bugs! More Bugs!
We find our travelers on their way to Pewter City, but first they must make their way through the Viridian Forest. They have to get there first though.
"Hazel!" shouts her irritated brother. "Do you need to stop and battle every trainer we come across? This is taking all day."
"Last one before Viridian Forest, I promise. I am trying to make my Pokemon stronger! Go Wing!" Hazel tosses her Poke ball into the air and her pidgey appears in a flash of red light. Grant and JB sit down in the grass.
"Ok little girl. My rattata is in the top percentage of all rattata. This wont be easy," said a young man in a baseball cap.
Hazel pulls out her Pokedex and scans the small purple mouse: Rattata the mouse Pokemon. Living wherever there is food available, Rattata ceaselessly scavenge for edibles the entire day.
"Wing, gust attack!" shouts Hazel. The small bird flaps his wings together and stirs up a strong gust of wind around the rattata causing it to become unbalanced. "Quick, Wing! While its off balance hit it with a quick attack!" Wing charges toward the purple mouse and slams into it causing it to fly back fainted.
"What!? I didn't even get an attack in!" the baseball caped boy slams his foot down on the ground.
"Sorry about that, but hey that's a really cute Pokemon. Its my favorite color. I want to catch one."
"Cool. My name is Joey could I get your…"
But before the boy could finish, "No! No more talking. We have to go." Grant grabs Hazel by her hand and pulls her along.
"Bye, Joey! Nice battling you!" she shouts as she is being pulled away.
Our Rocket trio in black has already made it deep into the Viridian Forest. They are pulling a medium sized cart covered with a blue tarp. Taking turns pulling when another is tired. At this moment Kidd is pulling while Sundance and Billy walk behind the cart. Kidd suddenly stops and the other two run into the back of the cart.
"Hey, careful back there! This is precious cargo!" Kidd shouts.
"Then don't stop so abruptly without a warning!" Sundance screams back.
"Why are we stopped anyway, you just relived me from pulling like 10 minutes ago?" asked Billy as he walks to the front of the cart.
"You two need more Pokemon and the forest is the perfect place to get them," answers Kidd. "Now get to it before someone comes by."
"Nidoran, get out here," Sundance says in a dour manner.
"Nidorina, you too!" follows Billy. "Kidd, why cant we just hatch one of these eggs?" He lifts up the tarp on the cart and exposes the hidden items the cart is carrying. The cart is full of Pokemon eggs.
Kidd slaps Billy's hand away from the cart. "These are for the boss. His orders not mine. Plus, capturing Pokemon is way easier than hatching them. Now help me hide this cart while we search for Pokemon."
"VIRIDIAN FOREST: A deep and sprawling forest that extends around VIRIDIAN CITY. A natural maze, many people become lost inside." Hazel read from the sign at the entrance to the forest. "Are you sure we want to go through here. I'm not a fan of getting lost in a forest."
"We will be fine. This was one of my Grandpa's favorite places to go. We used to come here all the time." JB made Hazel feel a little better about the situation, "although I haven't been here in a while, but we will be fine."
"Plus, Haze, there should be a ton of Pokemon for you to catch," Grant added.
The three enter the forest. The further they travel into Viridian Forest the denser the trees become allowing for little light to shine through. The forest seems to go on forever. There are many turns and dead ends. The trio has to back track quite a bit.
"I thought you said you were familiar with this forest JB?" Hazel asks with a certain irritation in her voice.
"I thought I was, but I don't remember any of this," JB runs his hand through his hair and tugs at it in frustration.
"No worries you two. We will get out of here." Grant tried to calm JB and Hazel down. "Hazel why don't you go look for Pokemon over there, but don't go too far we don't want to get split up." Hazel walks over to the left of the boys.
"Man, I don't know what to do," JB shakes his head. "I think its time to say it, we are lost."
"JB, take a deep breath and relax. You can do this. Does anything around you look familiar?"
JB looks around and sees nothing familiar. "Honestly, Grant, my Grandpa was the one that lead the way around Viridian Forest and we never came this far in. I'm sorry. I'm not good at this." JB takes a step closer to the forest wall and is literally shocked, "Wowza!" He falls back to the ground.
"What was that? Are you alright?" Grant helps JB up. "You sure do fall down a lot."
"I didn't fall. I was shocked. Something shocked me!" The boys turn their heads and look at the spot where JB had been standing. The lower trees shake and out pops a small, chubby, yellow and brown rodent with long black tipped ears, and pink cheek spots. JB Pulls out his PokeReader and scans the Pokemon:
Pikachu the mouse Pokemon. It raises it's tail to check its surroundings. The tail is sometimes struck by lightning in this pose. Pikachu is the evolved form of Pichu.
"Pika! Pika! Pi! Pi! Pikachu!"
"This pikachu seems a bit on the angry side. Where is Hazel so she can battle and capture it?" JB brushes himself off.
"Why don't you catch it? It might be able to help us get out of the forest?"
"That's a brilliant idea, Grant." JB grabs a Poke Ball of his belt, "Zero, its battle time!" JB tosses the Poke Ball into the air and the small orange lizard appears on the ground.
"PIKACHU!" The pikachu doesn't wait for JB to give commands to Zero and shoots a bolt of lightning at Zero. The thundershock hits Zero at full capacity and knocks him to the ground.
"What?" JB is startled. "Holy crap, that Pikachu means business. He is not playing around. "Zero, you need to get up!" Zero does just that. "Alright buddy, lets show this pikachu what we can do! Dragon rage!" Zero opens his mouth and fires a stream of purple flames at the pikachu. The pikachu dodges the attack and charges at Zero slamming into him and knocking him back causing him to faint. "Zero, return! You did a good job pal now rest up." Before JB can do anything else the pikachu fires off another thundershock at JB and Grant's feet and disappears back into the trees.
Hazel comes running up from behind them, "What's going on? I thought I heard battling? What's that smell? Smells like burnt popcorn?"
The boys stood in front of her dumb founded. "Zero and I just got beat by a wild pikachu." JB spoke up.
"Beat bad," Grant added.
"What!? I missed a pikachu! Which way did it go?"
Before the boys could answer, a scream is heard coming from inside the forest. "Umm, I'm not the only one that heard that right?" Grant listens for the scream again. "There! Over in this direction!"
Grant runs into the forest and Hazel and JB follow closely behind him. After about 10 minutes of running they come up on another section of the path. Standing down the path is a girl in her 20s. She has light brown skin, dark brown hair pulled tight into two pompoms on the sides of her head. She is wearing a light green button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up and buttoned half way with a light pink tank top underneath, brown hiking shorts, and brown thigh high hiking boots. She is wearing a dark red pack around her waist.
"Oh my! Oh my!" the woman is screaming.
JB and the team run over to her. "Are you ok Miss?" She turns and looks at JB. She has beautiful golden eyes. "Wow, you are gorgeous." JB says as his jaw drops. Grant folds his arms.
"I'm sorry Spiky," the woman answered, "Did you see it? Oh I can't believe it! There is one in this tree!"
"What is it?" Hazel looks into the tree. She doesn't see anything.
"Can't you see her? Right there!" the woman is very excited. "Stand back now guys, this one is mine." The trio step back and the woman pulls out a Poke Ball, "Sting! Do your thing!" She throws the Poke ball into the air and out flashes a small bird with dark blue feathers along it's head, back, tail, and wings, white underside feathers, red chest and forehead feathers, and a small yellow beak.
JB scans the tiny bird with his PokeReader: Taillow the tiny swallow Pokemon. When it gets cold, they migrate, flying over 180 miles a day. It hunts for tasty prey.
"Lets knock her out of that tree with a quick attack!" The tiny bird swoops into the tree. The leaves rustle and out falls a small, green Pokemon with yellow rings down the side of it's body. It has large eyes on the side of it's head and bright red antennae. The Pokemon rolls along the ground and then stands up.
Hazel scans it with her Pokedex: Caterpie the worm Pokemon. Caterpie's feet have suction cups designed to stick to any surface. It tenaciously climbs trees to forage.
Sting flies out from the tree. The caterpie shoots a white sticky string at the ting bird. "Dodge that string shot, and hit it with a wing attack!" Sting swoops out of the way of the sticky line. Her wing starts to glow as she charges toward the worm Pokemon smashing into it and sending it rolling on the ground fainted. The woman grabs a Poke ball; it is white on the bottom and blue on the top with a black criss-cross pattern. "Go Net Ball!" She throws the ball and opens next to the fainted Pokemon. A red light surrounds the caterpie and it disappears inside the ball. The net ball shakes three times and then locks shut. "We did it!" The woman picks up the newly filled Poke ball. "Alright, Sting! You were amazing!" Sting flies over and lands on the woman's shoulder. She rubs the taillow on the head. "Yes, that's one more bug Pokemon for me!"
JB, Hazel, and Grant are standing a few feet behind the woman. "Umm," JB stutters to find his words, "so are you ok? We heard screaming."
"I am just perfect. I get really excited about bug Pokemon. I love them! They are so adorable! You probably heard me squealing with excitement when I found this here caterpie. Where are my manners? I'm June. June Beetleman. I'm a bug type trainer with one exception, Sting." June scratches under Sting's beak. "Sting and I have been together since I started out. She helps me catch all my Pokemon."
"I'm Hazel Giddy, from Johto, and this is my brother Grant." Hazel motions over to Grant where he is standing with his arms folded. "Don't be rude Grant, say hello."
"Hello," Grant says with no fluctuation in his voice.
"My name is Jackson Bernard Hart, but everyone calls me JB."
"Well are you cute, JB." June messes up JB's hair. He blushes. "And where do you call home JB?"
"Oh I'm from Kanto, Viridian City to be exact. Although we seem to be lost here in Viridian Forest. Its my fault, I got us lost."
"Well gang I happen to have a map of the forest with me, so how about I lead us out of here. Why don't you walk with me JB.? I can tell you about my adventures. I'm from Hoenn, but I have been to Unova and now Kanto searching for bug type Pokemon," June grabs JB by the hand.
JB's face turns a new shade of red, "Ok. Come on guys we are going to get out of here. Hey June, what was that Poke ball you used? I think you called it a Net ball?"
"Yep, I use them to catch my bug type Pokemon. Net balls are better for catching water and bug types."
As June and JB led the way, Grant throws his hands into the air, "Really!? She just happens to have a map and love bugs? I doubt she is even a girl. This is ridiculous!"
"Come on Mr. Jealous. Lets catch up to them." Hazel drags Grant along by his belt.
"Well that was a good catch you made Sundance. I didn't think that Pokemon lived in Viridian Forest."
"Thanks Silly Billy. We both caught a new Pokemon, but it looks like our third, Cranky Pants Kidd, didn't catch anything.
"I have three Pokemon! You both just have two and you each just got your second one!" Kidd is irritated. "Hopefully you two will be able to help me defeat that JB brat and his friends." Kidd walks closer to the tree line and is knocked back from a shock. He falls to the ground and Sundance and Billy start laughing. "Don't laugh asses! Something shocked me!"
Out from the trees emerges a pikachu. "Pika! Pi! Pi! Pika!"
"Oh really," replies Kidd. "You are going to sucker shock me and then bad mouth me. That's pretty rude. You wanna go? I'm ready." Kidd stands up and pulls a Poke ball off his belt. "Go Mach 5!" The Poke ball opens and the shroomish appears.
"Why does he have names for his Pokemon?" Billy asks Sundance.
"I don't know, but if he keeps up with this the nickname thing we might have to report him," she answers. "Its against Rocket policy to nickname your Pokemon."
"Shroomish, use leech seed!" The mushroom Pokemon shoots a small seed from the top of her head at the pikachu. The pikachu steps to the side and the seed lands in the woods. "Cocky little thing aren't you. Shroomish try stun spore!" Mach 5 sprays a fine yellow mist into the air. The pikachu dodges left and then right, but can't escape the attack and is covered in the mist. The pikachu is unable to move. "Alright, Mach 5, that was awesome. While its paralyzed use headbutt!" The shroomish rushes toward the yellow mouse and slams into him knocking him over and back a few feet. The pikachu is lying on his side and fires off a thundershock. "Dodge it!" The shroomish can move fast enough and it hit by the bolt taking major damage. "Lets end this before that pikachu can do any more damage. Go Poke ball!" Kidd throws the red and white ball at the stunned pikachu. A red light flashes and pulls the mouse into the ball. The ball shakes ones, then shakes twice, and then opens back up.
"PIKACHU!" The chubby, yellow Pokemon emerges from the flash of light more angry than before. He shoots off another energy bolt only this time it is aimed at Kidd. The bolt sparks at Kidd's feet. He jumps back.
"That supposed to scare me? I've got something for you! I didn't realize how strong you were. I have been saving this for a special occasion." Kidd pulls from his pocket a ball with a white underside and black and yellow top. "Ultra ball, go!" He throws the ball and it lands at the pikachu's feet. The ultra ball opens and a flash of red light sucks the pikachu in. A look of worry is on the face of the Pokemon. The ball closes and shakes once, then again, and then a third time. "Come on." Kidd whispers to himself. "I want that pikachu." It shakes a fourth time and then locks shut.
"YES!" shouts Kidd. He scoops up Mack 5 and throws her in the air and catches her. "You did it! You were spectacular!" Kidd hugs Mach 5.
"Ahem." Sundance clears her throat. She and Billy are staring at Kidd.
Kidd looks at his two partners and sits Mach 5 on the ground. "Return shroomish." He points the Poke ball at the Pokemon and transfers it back inside. He walks over to the ultra ball and picks it up. He turns his back to Sundance and Billy and lifts the ball to his face. He whispers, "Thanks for the great battle little Fury. Welcome to the team." Kidd turns back around and faces the duo. "Well now that I have shown you how thing are done when capturing Pokemon, lets get back to our cart of Poke eggs and deliver them to the base."
"Weirdo. Total weirdo," Billy mutters to Sundance as the three of them make their way back to the hidden cart.
"Grant did you hear that? June is amazing with her bug type stories," JB listens to June with wide eyes. June shoots a smile in his direction and he almost melts.
"I traveled around Johto, I have stories too!?" Grant's face gets red with anger.
"Well then, Grumpy pants, lets here some." June looks at Grant with her head cocked to the side.
"I can't remember them with perfect detail due to having the shit kicked out of me and being in a coma for 2 years." Grant retaliated. He then storms off into the woods.
"Grant, get back here! You are going to get lost," Hazel shouts at he brother. "Sorry about that. Grant tends to over react sometimes."
"I didn't know," said June. "You two wait here and I will go after him and apologize." Before JB or Hazel can answer, June walks into the woods after Grant.
June finds Grant sitting on an old stump. He isn't crying, but she can see that he is very upset. She walks over and sits down next to him and puts her arm around him.
"I'm sorr…"
"No, June. Please don't apologize." Grant interrupts her. "I should be the one apologizing. I over reacted. I'm sorry. You are being nice to us and helping us find a way out of the forest. I'm just in a mood."
"I can see that. But truthfully I have been causing some of the problems. My flirting with JB probably isn't helping. Don't worry though, its just flirting. He's too young for me. I like guys my own age."
"What? You are flirting with him on purpose?"
"Well he did say I was gorgeous. I didn't realize it would affect you so much. I didn't figure out your crush on him until later and by then I was having too much fun. But I will cool it down now."
"Does everyone realize I have a crush on JB, but him? Oh geez."
Just then shouting came from back where JB and Hazel were. JB was yelling at someone.
"JB!" Grant stands up and runs back to his friend and sister. June follows after him.
JB is standing on the path, Poke ball in hand. Hazel is next to him. In front of them stand Team Rocket and the cart.
"Tell me what is in your cart Team Rocket! What have you stolen now?!" JB shouts.
"None of your business, you brat!" Sundance screams back. "Enough of this. I'm sick of you!" She tosses out her Poke ball. "Spearow, time to destroy them!"
"Battle time, Weedle!" Billy tosses out his Poke ball. Weedle and Spearow appear on the path. A scream comes from in the woods and June comes running out.
"A bug type Pokemon! So cute!" June stands over top the weedle. He is small and brown with a segmented body. There are many tiny pink feet along the side of his body and a pink nose. He has a stinger on his head and the tip of his tail. The spearow standing next to the weedle is a small brown bird with rough head plumage, short hooked beak, beige underside and light red wings.
JB scans the weedle with his PokeReader: Weedle the hairy bug Pokemon. It attacks using a two-inch poison barb on its head. It can usually be found under the leaves it eats.
Hazel scans the spearow with her Pokedex: Spearow the tiny bird Pokemon. Spearow are very protective of their territory, they flap their short wings busily to dart around at high speeds.
Grant steps out on to the path. "JB, Hazel, what's going on? Awe man, Team Rocket again."
"We got this Grant," says JB. "Ready Hazel?"
"You know it!" Hazel tosses her Poke ball in the air. "Wing, lets teach Team Rocket a lesson!" Wing emerges from the light of the Poke ball and flies down to the ground ready for Hazel's commands.
"Ruckus! Lets fly!" The blue zubat swoops down out of the red light and hovers in the air next to the pidgey. "Ruckus, astonish on Spearow!"
"Wing, use gust on Weedle"
And the battle starts. Ruckus swoops down and attempts to slap Spearow with his wing. Spearow is too quick and darts out of the way. Weedle is pulled up by the gust, but uses a string shot to quickly pull his self out of it.
"String shot on that pidgey, Weedle! Then pull it in close for a poison sting!" orders Billy.
"Spearow, fury attack on that zubat!" Sundance points at Ruckus. "Take him down!"
The weedle shoots a sticky white string at Wing and snags him. He pulls Wing closer and then jumps at Wing with the stinger on his head nailing him in the chest. Wing cries out, but only suffers a little damage. Spearow charges at Ruckus and grabs him with her talons. She digs in with her claws and pecks at him furiously with her beak. Ruckus screeches in pain. Ruckus opens his jaws wide, they are dripping purple ooze, and he bites down hard on the spearow. She stops her attack and screams out in pain letting Ruckus go. She falls to the ground and is poisoned. Ruckus also falls to the ground not looking good.
"Ruckus, hang in there!" JB shouts to his first Pokemon. "You are a strong little zubat! You can do this!" JB clenched his fist together, closes his eyes, and take a deep breath. "Come on buddy."
Ruckus' head pops up and he flies into the air. Wing breaks free from the string shot and soars high into the sky and then hovers next to Ruckus. They two flying Pokemon begin to glow. Wing grows larger. The plumage on his head grows longer and reddish in color. Ruckus also grows larger. His mouth grows larger with a large red tongue, large eyes, small ears, and short legs.
Hazel scans Wing with her Pokedex: Pidgeotto the bird Pokemon. Pidgeotto render their prey immobile using well-developed claws then carries the prey more than 60 miles to the nest. Pidgeotto is the evolved form of pidgey.
"Pidgeotto!" Wing screeches.
JB scans Ruckus with his PokeReader: Golbat the bat Pokemon. It can drink more than 10 ounces of blood at once. If it has too much, it gets heavy and flies clumsily. Golbat is the evolved form of zubat.
Ruckus' tongue falls out of his mouth. "We I guess I should get in on this if we are going to start evolving on the battlefield." Kidd tosses out his Poke ball. "Pinwheel, I mean, Venipede, time to battle!" A small magenta larva like creature appears with black circles and markings on it's shoulders, neck and antennae. The lower part of the body is a blueish green.
JB scans the magenta bug: Venipede the centipede Pokemon. Their bite injects a potent poison, enough to paralyze large bird Pokémon that try to prey on it.
"Oh my! A bug Pokemon from Unova! This is crazy! I love venipedes, but I was never able to catch one." June stands in front of the tiny poison bug.
"Well I did some training in Unova for Team Rocket and caught one," boasts Kidd. "Maybe you and I could get together sometime and talk about our trips." He takes June's hand and kisses it.
"She was interested in my Weedle first before your Venisneed came out," Billy takes Junes other hand and kisses it.
"Boys!" shouts Sundance. "We are in the middle of a battle! Knock it off with the hormones! Spearow fury attack again on the golbat!" Spearow darts past June knocking her over. Sundance smiles. Spearow lunges at Ruckus, but Ruckus lets out a loud screech of yellow rings confusing the angry bird. Wing then rises higher in the air and flaps his wings fast and hard creating a twister of air that surrounds the spearow.
"Wing attack!" Hazel and JB shout.
Wing and Ruckus fly side by side their wings glowing as they smack into Spearow as the twister releases her. She falls to the ground fainted.
"What?! Spearow, return!" Sundance calls back her bird Pokemon.
"I see we just have the cute little bugs left," says June. "Here let me show you one of mine! Joule, its time to bring it!" She opens the bag around her waist and out jumps an extremely small yellow bug standing about 4 inches high, with blue eyes and blue feet.
JB scans the teeny tiny Pokemon with his PokeReader: Joltik the attaching Pokemon. They attach themselves to large-bodied Pokémon and absorb static electricity, which they store in an electric pouch.
"Is she not the cutest Pokemon you have ever seen!?" June exclaimed as Joule takes a bow. "Joule lets show these handsome guys in black what you can do. Electroweb!"
Joule shoots a web charged with energy at the Weedle and Venipede. The bugs are caught in the web and the attack slows the Pokemon down.
"Venipede, venoshock!" orders Kidd.
"String shot, Weedle!" orders Billy.
Weedle fires a sticky white string at Joule. She dodges that attack, but is drenched in the purple liquid that Venipede sprays her with. Joule takes some damage and seems to have been poisoned.
"Electro ball!" June points at the opposing bug team while Joule charges up a ball of electrical energy and shoots it at Weedle knocking him back.
Ruckus and Wing land behind Joule and are ready for their commands. But before any can be given.
"Fury, thunderbolt on that tree!" Kid commands to the pikachu that has appeared on the path. Fury charges up and fires a bolt of thunder at a large tree on the side of the path. The bolt of energy cracks the tree and it falls across the path between the two teams.
"Billy, Sundance, this is taking to long. Lets get out of here. Help me with this cart now! Pikachu, Venipede, return!"
Billy calls back Weedle and runs over to the cart with Sundance and pushes it while Kidd pulls.
As the smoke clears on the side of our heroes the gang gathers themselves up and makes sure one another are alright. Wing lands on Hazel's arm, much heavier than before. Joule skitters up on to June's finger. Grant walks over to Hazel to make sure she is not hurt. JB looks around for Ruckus, but can't find him.
"Ruckus! Ruckus! Has anyone seen Ruckus?" JB looks at the others, they shake their heads. JB finally hears a small screech from over near the tree. "Ruckus!" he runs over to the large blue Pokemon and realizes that Ruckus' wing has been trapped under the tree. "Guys help! Ruckus' is stuck!" The group runs over to JB and Ruckus.
"It looks like his wing is stuck under the tree," Grant points out, "but if we try and pull it out it might damage the wing even more. I could try to burn the tree away with one of my Pokemon."
"You might end up burning Ruckus." JB looked worried.
"Lepi, Madame Web, I need your help. Come on out!" June opens two net balls and out appears two Pokemon; one, the caterpie she had caught earlier and the other is a spider-like Pokémon with a red body with black stripes, six yellow legs with purple stripes and a white horn and mandibles.
JB scans the new Pokemon with his PokeReader: Ariados the long leg Pokemon. Ariados spin an endless single strand of special string out of their rear. The string leads back to their nest.
"Madame Web, I need for you to use your mandibles to tear away chunks of the tree around Ruckus' wing. Lepi and Joule, when Madame Web gets through the bark I want you to chew off the soft parts of the tree until the wing is free. Lets help out!" June shoes everyone away so that her bugs can work. While the bugs work JB sits next to Ruckus telling him that everything is going to be just fine. Grant and Hazel decide to go look for Team Rocket. They climb over the tree and head up the trail.
"That Team Rocket took off in a hurry. I wonder what was in that cart," ponders Grant out loud to his sister.
"Not sure if we will ever know." Hazel answers. "But they did seem to leave a trail so we could follow them after we free Ruckus and if the others are up for it."
"I think we might have to make camp for the night. Its getting late and the fallen tree might give us some shelter from the cold. We should head back and talk with the others about it." Grant turns around and catches a glimpse of something off in the woods. "Hey sis, I think I saw something this way. Stay here. If I get lost I can just yell your name out and find you."
"Don't go too far. I don't want to have to come after you."
Grant walks into the woods just a few feet. He scratches his head and looks around the low bushes and tall grass. "I could have sworn it was right here." He takes a step back and trips. He catches himself and then looks down. "There you are!"
"Brother! What is taking you so long?" Hazel says rather loudly.
Grant steps out of the woods holding an egg. The egg is blue with a white smear around it. "Look what I found, Haze."
"A Pokemon egg! Where did you get that?"
"I have a feeling this is what was in that cart Team Rocket had. This probably fell out. I don't think its an egg from a Pokemon in the Viridian Forest, but I could be wrong. Lets head back and show JB what I found."
Hazel and Grant arrive back at the fallen tree. It has been about 30 minutes since the bug trio started working to free Ruckus and they are almost through.
"Just a little more," June encourages her Pokemon. "Almost there guys."
"That's the last little bit. Ruckus do you think you can pull yourself free?" JB puts his hands on his friend. Ruckus can't move his wing. "Its ok buddy, I'll help you out. JB reaches down and carefully slide Ruckus' wing away from under the tree. "Well I think you broke it. We are going to need some major healing at the Pokemon Center to fix it."
"Here JB," June looked over at Lepi. "Lepi wrap the wing with a string shot. It will be like a cast until we can get to the Pokemon Center." The green Pokemon uses her sticky string to wrap the wing.
"Thanks June. That was a good idea. Thanks Lepi. That's a great cast." JB wipes the sweat from his forehead. "What's that you have there Grant?"
"Its a Pokemon egg I found in the woods. I think this is what might have been in the cart Team Rocket had."
"Wow." JB reaches out with his hand and places it gently on the egg. "So this is what an egg looks like in real life. Bigger than I thought and its warm, too. What are you going to do with it?"
"Well I am going to hatch it and keep the Pokemon inside. Who knows where Team Rocket got it from? Its better off with me then in the woods by itself." Grant pulls out and extra shirt from his backpack and pulls it over the egg. "That should keep it warm."
"Grant and I were talking," Hazel butted in, "about how it was getting late and it might be best to camp out here tonight. We have the wood from the tree that June's Pokemon pulled off to start a fire with. I vote we just camp here until morning and then continue on."
"I second that vote," says June. "Does anyone have room in their tent for me?" she winks at JB.
"I do," Hazel quickly speaks up.
JB and Hazel set up the tents while Grant and June set up a campfire and get food ready for dinner. The Pokemon are all out and each gets their own pile of food. After eating dinner, the Pokemon are put back into their Poke balls and the quartet decides to call it a night. The girls retire to one tent and the boys to the other.
"Hey, Hazel," June says quietly. "You did a good job today battling those Team Rocket grunts. Your pidgeotto is pretty tough. Thanks again for letting me share your tent."
"Thanks and not a problem, June. Its nice to have another girl to travel with. My brother and JB are fine, but there is no one for those 'girl' moments."
"I know the feeling." The girls drift off to sleep after a little bit of "girl talk".
Over in the other tent, "Man, your egg is so cool, Grant. I'm major jealous." JB is lying in his sleeping bag holding the Pokemon egg in his hands staring at it. Grant reaches over and takes it from him.
"I think its pretty cool myself. You can look at it anytime." Grant slides into his sleeping bag. "I'm going to wrap it in this blanket and set it between the two of us while we sleep. That way it will stay warm." He wraps the egg and sets it down.
"That's a good idea." JB slides further into his sleeping bag allowing for just his head to stick out. "I wonder what Pokemon is growing inside?"
Grant slides further into his sleeping bag. "Me, too. Me, too." Grant closes his eyes.
Ooooo a Pokemon egg. What shall be in it? Did Team Rocket drop any more? June! A new lady that loves those bug types. Hope you enjoyed reading. I know I enjoyed writing.