A/N: Well, shadowkat87, since this story follows the events of the games, any Pokemon that is given to the player will of course be given to Kris, since she represents the player. The Togepi egg, the egg given to you from the day care couple which can hatch into one several baby Pokemon (I already know which Pokemon it will hatch into) and the Eevee from Bill, for example, will all be obtained by Kris. I hope I don't forget about any other Pokemon that are given to the player.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
I forgot I'd left Chiko to be healed. Weirdly enough, even though I hadn't had her for that long yet, I was expecting to feel that familiar weight on my legs of Chikorita leaning on me as I slept. Instead, I woke up in the empty, quiet space of my Pokemon Centre room. I checked the time on my Pokegear. It was just after 8:00 AM. Remembering the events of yesterday, I excitedly got dressed, tied up my hair in my usual two ponytails, grabbed my bag, and rushed off to collect Chikorita and Wooper from the front counter and give back the room key. I was about to put their Pokeballs into my bag when I remembered I had no way to tell Wooper's apart from the empty ones. So, I pulled out my sticker kit.
I pulled up Wooper's page on my Pokedex to see a picture, to help me decide what design to put on its sticker. I hadn't been able to see him/her (I still don't know Wooper's gender) very clearly last night since it was dark, but now I could see in the picture that Wooper was a light blue colour, with purple antennae on each side of its large head. It had no arms but had two small legs and a large blue tail. On its chest was three dark blue curves, which went from smallest to largest, top to bottom. It sort of looked like an upside-down wi-fi symbol. This symbol seemed to be a good way to remember Wooper by, so I coloured in a sticker in a light blue colour like Wooper's main colour, and then used a darker blue to draw the three curves. Finally, I stuck the sticker onto the Pokeball.
Wait a second, I don't know if Wooper is a boy or a girl. Hmm, maybe the nurse who looked after him/her would have found out. I'll ask her. I ran over to the counter to see that since it was still fairly earlier, the younger of the purple haired sisters was still working.
"Hey, you didn't, um, happen to notice my Wooper's gender when you looked after it?" I asked awkwardly.
"Yes, actually. I believe that Wooper is a boy."
"Oh, okay. Thanks." Now that I've got that done, maybe I should get breakfast. Wait… I don't have food for Wooper! "Gotta go."
I went to the mart and found the Pokemon food aisle. I found a packet of food similar to the ones I'd bought for Chikorita, the same brand and same size, but labelled as being for water types. From what I could gather from the information in the Pokedex, Wooper had more water characteristics than ground, so I figured it should use the water-type Pokemon food. I decided buying in bulk would be a good idea, so I bought two days' worth of food for Wooper (6 packets) and bought one day's worth of grass-type food for Chikorita, since I already had three grass-type packets. I also bought a loaf of bread for 50P and a jar of Bluk Berry jam for 30P, so I could make some toast for breakfast. I also remembered to buy a small bowl for Wooper, while was 20P. Altogether, I ended up spending 1900P. I'm going to need to battle some trainers today to make up for this.
I went back to the Pokemon Centre to sit in the dining room. They had a toaster that was open for anyone to use, just like the microwave I'd used yesterday to heat up the leftovers to eat as lunch. I made two pieces of toast and spread the jam I'd bought on them. With my own breakfast ready, I let Chikorita and Wooper out of their Pokeballs, so they could eat theirs.
"Chiko!"
"Woopa!"
"Good morning, you two. It was nice to meet you, Wooper, and I look forward to us all working together and becoming friends." I said to them. I pulled out a packet of each of their food and put the food into their bowls. "You'll remember this bowl, Chikorita, and Wooper, that bowl is yours." I made sure they knew which bowl to eat from, so they got the food suited to their own type. After I ate, I looked at the map on my Pokegear, so I could see what nearby areas I hadn't explored. I remembered looking around Dark Cave yesterday, but not really exploring it because it was so dark. But with that TM that Sage Li gave me, I could light it up. We'll do some training in Dark Cave, and then we can go challenge the gym. Although, when I spoke to Joey on the phone last night, he did say he'd be up for a rematch. I suppose I can let Wooper battle his Rattata. Assuming he didn't catch any new Pokemon since yesterday, which I highly doubt since he really enjoyed talking about how he's just going to stick with his one Rattata.
I left the Pokemon Centre and headed towards Route 31 to explore Dark Cave. As I exited the connecting building, I saw Wade over in the tall grass like he was yesterday.
"Hey, Kris." He said, as I passed.
"Hi." I said. Then an idea popped into my head. "Do you want a rematch?"
"I was thinking the same thing!" He exclaimed. "Two of my Pokemon have evolved since our battle yesterday."
"Nice. And you'll get to use both of them, too. I've caught a new Pokemon since we last battled. I haven't had a chance to train with him though…"
"Well, that's okay, I'll send out mine first."
"This will be fun. I've never battled with two Pokemon before."
"It'll just be a simple 2v2. Substitutions allowed, of course."
"Substitutions?" I asked.
"Switching between your Pokemon. Sometimes in gym battles they say substitutions aren't allowed, so a Pokemon has to stay in the battle until it loses. Or usually, the challenger is allowed to make substitutions, but the gym leader isn't."
"Oh, okay. Yeah, of course, if that's the usual simple rules, substitutions allowed."
"Go, Kakuna!" He grabbed a Pokeball and sent out a yellow cocoon Pokémon with a dome-shaped head with black, triangular eyes. It had two scythe-like arms in the middle of its body, but they didn't seem to move. Perhaps those arms won't be of use until it evolves again? I checked my Pokedex to see that Kakuna was the Cocoon Pokemon, and the evolve form of Weedle. Since it evolved from Weedle, it was still a poison type, and thus, probably still could use poison sting. I don't know if Wade had done it on purpose, but by sending out his Pokemon first, he'd given me a bit of an advantage. Knowing that I was up against a Pokemon that could use poison-type attacks allowed me to decide, well, I probably shouldn't put Chikorita up against a poison-type, so I should use Wooper in this battle. As I was quickly rereading the information on the poison type, I noticed something else: poison-type attacks aren't very effective on ground types, and Wooper was part ground-type. Perfect!
"Go Wooper!" I said, pulling out the blue-stickered ball and releasing Wooper.
"Woo-pa!"
"Go, string shot!" Wade said. Kakuna shot some sort of sticky-looking white sting which hit Wooper and got stuck to him. "Now use this time to harden." While Wooper attempted to get the string off of him without any hands, which didn't look easy, Kakuna appeared to be doing… absolutely nothing. But maybe it is doing something, and I just can't see what it is. I shouldn't get overconfident, thinking they're not even trying or something. I watched Wooper try to kick the string off itself and I had an idea.
"Wooper, use water gun on yourself!" Wade looked confused when he heard my command but seemed to understand. He watched as Wooper aimed his water gun down the front of his own body like a shower. It made the string looser, and it simply slipped down his body and he could just step out of it. "Now use slam." Wooper ran up and slammed its large round tail into Kakuna, knocking it down. As Wooper jumped back, Kakuna somehow managed to get itself upright again.
"Poison sting," The poison sting landed a hit, but I wasn't too worried. Just as I predicted, the poison type attack didn't hurt Wooper much.
"Woopa," he turned and smiled at me, as if to say, 'I'm fine, we've got this.' Not looking at Kakuna, he didn't see a second poison sting coming. The hit startled him, but he didn't seem too hurt. I think poison sting and string shot are all Kakuna knows how to do, since it shot yet another poison sting. But this time, I saw it coming.
"Push it back with a water gun," Wooper used water gun, which landed a direct hit on Kakuna, as well as hitting it with its own poison sting.
"…Kakuna? You okay?" Wade asked. Kakuna let itself fall to the ground. Wade went and crouched down beside it. "I think that's it for you. Take a rest." He returned it to its Pokeball and then pulled out another Pokeball. "Go, Metapod!" He sent out a green Pokemon with a crescent shaped body that appeared to be some sort of chrysalis.
I thought about having Wooper hit it with a water gun as soon as it came out of the Pokeball, but would that really be fair? I decided I should give it a chance and not take a cheap shot. Besides, I'm doing fine anyway. I'm already ahead, having not lost a Pokemon yet. I waited for Wade to call an attack. But that wasn't such a good idea. I was expecting it to go straight for a physical attack like tackle, which would be easy for Wooper to doge and then counterattack. Instead, Metapod started with a string shot, which wrapped around Wooper before Metapod went for a tackle, which hit while Wooper was still trying to get the sticky string off.
That was when I remembered that I still had Chikorita. We were allowed substitutions. Sure, I could keep battling and see if Wooper could finish the battle on his own, but I should give Wooper a break, and give Chikorita a turn too. Besides, my Pokemon are a team, they should work together. With that decision made, I quickly pulled out Wooper's Pokeball. "Great job Wooper, you can take a break." I quickly said before returning him to his Pokeball. The string fell to the ground as Wooper disappeared into his ball. Wade looked at me expectedly as I grabbed Chikorita's ball. He knows, I thought. We've battled before. He knows who I'm sending out next. "Come on out, Chikorita!"
"Chiko!" I knew that grass-type attacks wouldn't do so well against the bug-type Metapod, but they could still be of some use. I saw that Metapod was attempting a tackle (I think that's all it can do other than string shot), but I knew Chiko was faster.
"Knock it back with a vine whip," I said. Chiko extended two vines, twisting them together to make one thicker, stronger vine before knocking the incoming Metapod away from her. "Now use razor leaf."
"Metapod, harden!" Wade said. Chiko used razor leaf, but the leaves didn't appear to be affecting Metapod as much as I'd expected.
"Now tackle," I said.
"Harden again!" Chikorita tackled Metapod, but Metapod wasn't down yet. I realised that these hardens were making Metapod harder to damage. But Metapod was still being damaged. I decided to go for something more powerful.
"Chiko, body slam!"
"Chi-ko!" Chikorita slammed herself against Metapod, and this time, it was down for good.
"Nice one Chikorita," Wade went to crouch down beside Metapod to confirm that it was done battling, and it was. He returned it before reaching for his Pokegear.
"Nice job." He said. "You've been raising that Chikorita well. And for a new Pokemon, that Wooper already seems to be happy battling alongside you. Of course, I'm no expert myself. But just you wait. Once my Pokemon evolve again, I'll call you, and we'll have another rematch. Next time, I'll be ready." I smiled.
"I look forward to it." And I really was looking forward to it. This battle had been so fun, what with Wooper and then Chikorita each having a go. Even though they weren't in the battle at the same time, it feels like they had been, in fact, working together. Because they both won the battle. They won this battle together, as a team.
"Fair's fair," He said. "400P, the prize for winning a 2v2." I checked my Pokegear to see that it had now been sent.
"Thank you, that was a great battle. I think I'm going to try exploring Dark Cave."
"Good luck," he said. "I'm going to keep training until all of my Pokemon are fully evolved. The Violet City gym is going to be a challenge, since my bug-types won't do so well against flying-types. It won't be easy, but I never do things the easy way. And one day, I will beat Falkner!"
"Let me know when you do. See you around!" Where should I explore next? Who should I battle next? I can't wait to see what else this team is capable of!
A/N: Sorry for the wait, but I have been really busy. Despite the next chapter (probably) being a short one, I'm not sure when I'll be able to get it done. But there are school holidays soon, so hopefully then I'll have plenty of time to get some chapters done. I'll admit that this chapter doesn't have that much happening in it. I was originally going to have this chapter include rematches with Bug Catcher Wade, as well as some other stuff and then next chapter would be a rematch at the gym. But then I decided to split the chapter and have that other stuff happen next time. But I'm pretty sure the gym rematch will happen in chapter 17 or 18. I look forward to finally writing the gym battle, this time with it being a 2v2. See you next time!
