New Generations
Chapter Three
The pink puffball continued to babble nonsense to Toad; "Iggly! Iggly! Buff! Igglybuff buff!"
This began to irritate Toad grately, it seemed to being yelling jiberish at him. At last he could take no more; "SHUT UP!" he yelled at the small creature, who seemed to shrink away, saddened, before running away into the bushes once more.
"What a freak.." Toad muttered to himself, walking over to Birdo, who had begun to wake up.
"Wh-where are we?" Birdo asked, looking around at the location they were in.
"I'm not sure...but there must be a way home!" Toad answered, confidently.
The two wandered aimlessly around the field, bending the tall weeds and watching odd creatures run past. Birdo spotted an odd looking flower. It was yellow, and shaped like a bell with an orange mouth. She tugged on the flower, wishing to bring it to a friend of hers when she returned home. Suddenly two black eyes appeared on the flower and it emerged from the ground, standing on roots that acted as feet.
"BELLSPROUT!" the creature shouted before running off.
Many other strange animals appeared, large, yellow caterpillars with spikes on their heads. Strange moles that appeared to have no lower body. And more pink puffballs.
Toad and Birdo stared at the odd creatures, unsure if they were hostile or not. As they walked, another strange creature emerged before them. It was a purple rat that appeared to have buck teeth. It's tail was curled and it had shifty, red eyes. It leapt into the air and snatched Toad's mushroom hat off his head. He was an apparent bald underneath. A smooth, shiny bald and perfectly round, like a bowling ball but softer.
"Hey! Get back here with that!" Toad yelled, angrily and ran to catch the rat.
Birdo followed close by, not wanting to be left behind. Toad made a dive as he got close to the rodent, and succeded in grabbing it's foot. He manaed to hold it upside down by it's foot, as the creature was quite light.
"Drop the hat!" Toad commanded, the oddly colored creature did.
Toad let go of the mouse, and picked up his hat, carefully placing it back on his bald head. The rat was about to run off, but something had appeared out of the grass that they had not seen until now. It was around four feet tall and looked vicous. It was green, and two of it's arms were sharp looking blades. The creature had two fangs that could be seen sliding from the side of it's mouth, even when closed.
"Scyther!" the new creature dominantly shouted.
The rat tried standing it's ground; "Rat! Rattata!"
It was no good, the target locked, the green creature jumped in for an easy kill. From, what seemed like out of nowhere, an egg blasted the new menace in the side of the face, knocking him out of the air, and onto the ground. The purple rat turned to see it's defender, and to his surprise, it was Birdo. The pink dinosaur spat an egg from it's cannon-like snout, which hit the target predator in the face again. The rodent that was being defended ran up to the weak green creature and bit it feircly. Suddenly a round object struck the green menace, and it dissapeared in a flash of red light. Toad, Birdo and the rat all turned around to see where the ball had come from. Behind them stood an old man with gray colored hair in a white lab coat.
"Hello there. I'm Professor Oak. Do these Poke'mon belong to you?" he asked to Toad, pointing at Birdo and the rat.
"What's a Poke'mon?" Birdo asked, the Professor backed up, an expression of surprise on his face.
"I-It talks! What manner of Poke'mon is that?" he asked again.
"Birdo's not a Poke'mon, whatever that is!" Toad answered, an unneeded look of aggression on his face.
"No need to get hostile, lad!" Professor Oak said, regaining his original calmness, "If Birdo is not a Poke'mon then what is she?"
"I'm a dinosaur." Birdo answered, simply.
"I see...You two aren't from around here, are you?" the Professor asked, Toad and Birdo shook their heads.
"Then come to my lab!" he shouted excitedly, throwing another orb at the Rattata and watched that dissapear in red light as well.
"Hey Geno! Where are we?" Mallow asked his old friend.
"I can't be certain, but I don't think we're in Nimbus anymore." Geno answered, a hint of amusement in his voice.
"Well I could've told you that! We haven't been in Nimbus for hours!" Mallow answered, obviously not getting the reference joke.
Geno was about to degrade the cloud for lack of a good sense of humor, when an odd black creature appeared from behind them. It was large and covered with red spots, accpet for it's snout which was a peach color, and it's legs which were also a peachy skin color.. It's eyes were safely kept away from the ground by large eye stalks that came from the snout. The eye stalks were also peach in color. The creature opens it's mouth and lets out a large and ferocious roar. Inside it's mouth are many, many sharp teeth. Mallow begins to panic from the size of the monster.
"This looks like fun.." Geno states, looking at the creature with no concern.
Birdo and Toad find themselves in a very, very clean lab. It is small, but looks fit for research. Two bookcases are full, and off to both sides, making a sort of door way into another section of the lab, which has a wooden table in the center and a computer stuffed off into the corner. The Professor places the two spheres he had used earlier on the table. They are red on the top and white on the bottem with a thick, black line seperating the two colors. A white button is in the middle, obviously used for opening the device.
"You were lucky I showed up when I did, or that creature would have recovered and you'd truly be in trouble." Professor Oak said, returning to the two newcomers.
"What was that thing anyway?" Birdo asks, curious about what she was egging earlier.
"That green creature was called a Scyther. Very dangerous, stay away from them. And the purple one was known as a Rattata, thieving little rodents." answered Prof. Oak,
"The many creatures of this land are called Poke'mon. And these little devices are called Poke'balls, we use these to tame the Poke'mon that are wild."
Toad had begun to read one of the books on the shelves of the Professor's lab. The book was entitled "Legendary Poke'mon: Fact from Fiction." Inside it talked about many legendary creatures of this world, Celebi, Suicune, the three birds. But what really caught Toad's attention was the most powerful of all these Poke'mon, Mew. It was unclear exactly how powerful it was said to be, but it was strong.
Maybe that can take us home... Toad thought to himself.
"Professor, I'm sorry to leave so quickly, but we need to go now...do you mind if I borrow this?" Toad asked, holding the book.
"Of course not, I have another copy. Just bring it back when you're finished! There showed be some sandwhiches on the table near the door, you can take those if you like."
"Thank you Professor! Come on Birdo!" Toad said exictedly.
They ran, not forgetting to grab the sandwhiches and dashed out the door. Just before they laughed the grounds of the laboratory, they heard the Professor's shouts.
"Wait! I almost forgot something! You might need this!" he shouted, and threw a poke'ball at Toad, who caught it easily.
"Thanks!" both, Birdo and Toad shouted as they ran off.