CHAPTER 2! Yippee...So this one is a little longer than the first chapter but still just as good...This one has lots of bickering in it and Alex reveals all? Read on to find out!
Chad Nolan is 14 years old.
Chapter 2: Failure On All Ends
"Lana, would you quit walking in front of me...You're bumping into me!"
I roll my eyes as once again Lana and Conley are arguing...This time over who's tripping who...I personally have no idea why these two are my friends or why I'm even attempting to travel with them.
"Conley, like I said...It's you who is bumping into me!" Lana replies with her ferocious teeth showing...
I have had enough...
"Oh for the mother of Reshiram...We haven't even reached Accumula Town yet...It's the shortest route on our journey and you still manage to bicker!" I yell
Lana and Conley stay quiet...And yes...We are in route 1! That just shows how amazing those two are...Suddenly a tune coming from our Xtransceiver plays...We accept the call just to see, Professor Juniper...
"Professor... We just left" I say surprised that Aurea is calling us so early in our adventure...
"Sorry but I managed to take a shortcut and make it to Accumula Town...I'm in front of the Pokemon Centre...Meet me there!" She said...
With that she ended the call...We continue to walk through Route 1 until finally we make it to Accumula Town...
"Hey guys...My mom gave me this book about places we should visit during our adventure...It also comes with three town maps and it lets us know more about each town or city we visit. I think we should all take a map!" Conley advises
Conley is always organised and ready to do whatever he wants...He's already planned out what sort of Pokémon he wants to catch and where they are found...Lana and I take a map as Conley reads out the description for Accumula Town.
"Accumula Town is situated in the southern eastern part of the Unova Region. This town offers great views due to its many hills. "Conley reads...
"Great...So shall we continue..." I asks actually intrigued by this book...
"Okay..." Lana answers as Conley agrees...
We enter Accumula Town together and straight away I notice a staircase...I don't mention it as I now notice Professor Juniper standing there...
"Hey guys...Behind me is the Pokemon Centre...I assume you all have been to one...Inside there is also a Pokémart where you can get some pokeballs and potions...I suggest you go in there and get some..." Juniper politely says
"Of course...It's essential for a journey we are about to endure, right Professor?" Conley guesses
"Right you are Conley...But before you go...I need you to take a Pokedex each...You don't have to find all the Pokémon and fill it up like most trainers do since you guys will be busy but this will help you learn more about Pokémon you haven't seen yet."
We all nod as I take a black and red Pokedex, Lana takes a black and pink one as Conley takes a black and blue one.
"Great, well I best be of...Lots of things to do back in the lab...Ta Ta! And remember...Ghetsis and Giovanni could be anywhere...You be sure to stop them..." Juniper warns...
"We will..." Lana says already becoming impatient...
Juniper laughs as she walks back to her Lab...As soon as she does this Lana sprints into the Centre...
"SHOPPING SPREE!" She screams as she runs in...
"Oh boy...Oh well...I guess we'll need everything she's getting..." Conley assumes...
In a quick second she walks out...
"Alright let's go..." She says satisfied...
"ALREADY? What'd you get...?" I ask...
I have a feeling that she didn't exactly go easy on the quick run to the Mart...
"Hmmm well...We had 4000 Poke Euros...And I got 5 pokeball for each of us and the pokeballs cost 200 Poke Euros...So..." She tries and adds it all together
"200 x 4...1000, right there! Lana for our sake I hope that is all you bought" Conley asks face palming at the fact that they might run out of money already...
"Yeah...We don't have any money left..." Lana sheepishly scratches her head...
"Wonderful...We're BROKE! Well done..." Conley furiously says...
While the start bickering I notice this arrogant and cocky boy standing on a bench screaming...
"YOU ALL SUCK...I AM CHAD NOLAN AND YOU WILL NEVER BEAT MY TOUGH AS NAILS POKEMON, SANDILE! NEVER!" He shouts, I can easily tell he is an attention seeker...Something I hate the most...I nudge Conley...
"Con...I think I just found our way back to money...Look over there..." I say this with just a hint of happiness as Conley looks at the boy in disgust...He looks around about our age...
"What a jerk..." Conley grumbles
Lana notices him as well...I come to a decision
"I'm going to go battle him...I'll give him a deal he can't refuse..." I say as I walk towards the boy...
"You're quite the attention seeker...As it seems you caught my attention... Battle?" I say
"HahaHAHA...Sorry I just can't help but laugh at the fact that you want to battle me...But I guess it would be great to humiliate you..."
Just like that, Chad Nolan pulls out a pokeball and calls for his Pokémon...Cheat! I wasn't even ready...The pokeball sends out a burst of white light as the white light starts to form the shape of a little crocodile...The Pokémon screams it's battle cry..."SANDILE! SAN!" ...
"You little cheat...OSHAWOTT, IT'S TIME TO SHINE!"
I send out the only Pokémon that I have...I'm extremely worried since I haven't used Oshawott before...I hope it obeys my commands...I throw Oshawott's pokeball in the air as the same stream of white light comes out this time forming the shape of a blue otter Pokémon...He has this weird shell on his stomach...I turn back and see Conley pulling out his Pokedex that he got from the professor...
"Let's see what the dex says about Oshawott" I hear Conley say
He scans Oshawott...
Oshawott, the Sea Otter Pokémon...It fights using the scalchop on its stomach. In response to an attack, it retaliates immediately by slashing. I hear the Pokedex say
"And what about that Sandile, Chad has?" Lana wonders as she pulls out her Pokedex
Sandile, the Desert Croc Pokémon...They live buried in the sands of the desert. The sun-warmed sands prevent their body temperature from dropping. It says...
"Alex obviously has the advantage since Sandile is a ground and dark type...So this should be a breeze." Conley wisely says
"Oshawott use Tackle and make it effective!" I shout...
"Sandile, use Bite and don't let go of Oshawott..." Chad shouts
Sandile without warning dodges Oshawott's tackle as my heart is pounding on my first battle...Suddenly Sandile opens its jaws and clutches Oshawott...I yelp as I see my dear Pokémon hurt ...Oshawott quickly retaliates with slash as the Pokedex suggests...
"Oshawott, not slash...Try tackle again..." I scream
It's too late Oshawott is swinging trying to connect with a slash...Sandile is getting clobbered forcing it to let go...
"Control that damn Pokémon of yours! Sandile finish it with RAGE!" Chad yells...
Sandile jumps in the air does a battle cry and takes down Oshawott...Oshawott slides all the way back to my feet, defeated...
"Ha-ha Yes! Just as I thought...As weak as I first suspected, I mean what sort of trainer are you...You can't even control your own Pokémon..."
I'm close to crying as I feel ever so guilty for my Pokémon...It's not too late to walk back to the Lab and say no...But I know the guilt will be with me for my entire life if Team Rocket and Plasma..I kneel over and pick up Oshawott return it into its pokeball...
"Enough!" I hear my friend Conley saying...
"You defeat my friend then you insult him? Are you that much of an asshole! You should not be a trainer...Treating a fellow trainer so disrespectfully...Get out! And I hope that when I see you again you're less of a hypocrite..." Conley is fuming as I start to feel this fire burn inside of me...
I'm thirteen years old...It hurts me to know I can't even stand up for myself and let alone win a Pokémon battle.
"Just shut up!" I scream at my friend...My instincts tell me to start running as I can't even look at my friends and admit defeat...So I do...
I was always a failure...Before my mother left me and my dad...She told me I was hopeless and was a failure and that I was always backing away or retreating...Ever since then I couldn't stand looking at anyone after losing...And I promised myself to prove my mother wrong...To become a winner and to never back down from anyone or anything...But I couldn't bare it back there...It was too much...
"DAMMIT!" I scream as I leave the city...I hear my name being called out by my friends...My shoes are wearing out...They aren't exactly meant for running...I'm now sweating as I remember when I told the professor that I will stop Ghetsis and Giovanni...I stop...I can't let the Professor down...I made a promise to her I wouldn't let them win...I promised that I wouldn't become a failure... Conley and Lana catch up to me...
"Alex...I...I...I'm sorry...I was trying to help...Man, do I always mess things up..." Conley mutters..
This breaks my heart...Another friend of mine that I pulled into this mess...Look at him...H now thinks he's the mess up...
"No, Con you don't...You're the most organised guy I know...It was stupid and ignorant of me to tell you to shut up and run off...On both of you...It's just ever since...Mom...and then Professor...I feel like I pulled you both into something that neither of you wanted to do...I mean...We had a choice...We could of said No and We would've just had a normal journey but...This...Protecting the world...You guys didn't want to do it-" I stop mid sentence as Lana interrupts me
"You're wrong about that, Alex...We wanted to do it because we believed that with you...We can defeat them...We can foil Ghetsis and Giovanni's plans...And we can become heroes...We didn't do it because you're doing it ...We're doing it because we believe that we can help you do it!" Lana explains...
I let out a smile as only nods his head in agreement...
"Now...Let's go get some training done...We got some Plasma and Rocket asses to kick" Lana heats up...
I nod and so does Conley as we continue our way throughout the Unova Region...
"BUT HOW!" Roars our boss, Giovanni...Ghetsis shakes his head as well as he sneers at me and my cohorts...
"You imbeciles! I warned you that If Alder were to find out he would inform the Professor!" Giovanni booms...
"But boss, we tried our best..." Claudia murmurs trying not to anger the boss...
"You trying your best is not what I demand for Claudia...I want results...Instead you, Damien and those damn Pokémon of yours mess up!" Giovanni blares...
I feel like a total failure...It's my blabber mouth that that damn Alder heard...
"I've heard enough...I'd like to finish my tea with Ghetsis in peace...BE GONE!" He booms
With that Claudia and I turn around and walk away...
"Claus, I messed up..." I say...
"NAH, You don't say? Of course you damn well mess up Damien!" Claudia replies with a stern voice...
"Look...Just call out your Pokemon...We need to give them some Lunch ...Not to mention give ourselves some lunch...Because of you and your potty mouth, The boss took all the green we had...And that wasn't a lot Damien..." Claudia says
As she said I call out my fellow companions...
"Come on out Druddigon, Timburr and Durant!"
I send their three pokeballs flying in the air as a stream of white light flashes for each one...One forming into a dragon almost and the other into the shape of my Timburr... A large ant shape is formed for the third which means that one is Durant...Claudia calls out her Pokémon
"Shelmet, Vullaby and Heatmor...Assemble and prepare for commands" Claudia shouts...
The same lights flash in her pokeballs...As a ant eater type of Pokémon shapes out of the first one, a little vulture forms out of the second one and a shell type of Pokémon forms out of the third pokeball ...Suddenly outside of Plasma HQ...Comes Plasma grunt...
"Hey Dame...Claudia...The boss says that three kids have been sent out to foil their plans...As punishment and a second chance he wants you two to scare them away." The grunt orders...
This is our chance...The great, Alder sent a trio of twerps (oops already been used) wimps (not strong enough)...brats (more like it)...He sent brats to come defeat us? Boy is this going to end fast...Claudia and I look and smile at each other...Evil intentions in mind...
Oooh Spooky...I wonder what Damien and Claudia have in store for our famous trio...And how about Conley...Got some fire in him eh? Let me know what you think...questions? comments? facts? Let me know by simply reviewing...
Pokemon Seen or Obtained in chapter:
Claudia:
Shelmet, Lvl 9 (Male)
Vullaby, Lvl 10 (Female)
Heatmor, Lvl 9 (Female)
Damien:
Druddigon, Lvl11 (Male)
Durant, Lvl 9 (Female)
Timburr, Lvl 9 (Male)
See you soon with Chapter 3.