Chapter 2: "Enter the Mudkip!"

A\N: Hello, Little Reader Peoples. I am Dani. On behalf of Mudkip and myself we would like to welcome you to the eccentric and absurdly amazing second chapter of The Mighty and the Mudkip…*cough cough* I'm the Mudkip. So behold the hero of the mud awakens. Enter the Mudkip.

Tom: *whispers* you forgot to tell them to enjoy.

Dani: Enjoy what?

Tom: The story!

Dani: Like they need to be told. It has a Mudkip. I heard they liked them.

Tom: *facepalm* …

Disclaimer- we own nothing from Pokemon and only own this crazy plot.

Route 213

It was still early morning as Mighty stepped into unknown territory for the first time in his life. Besides Sendoff Spring, the canine hadn't really adventured through the surrounding routes and areas; he never felt the need to. Even though he would never admit it, this quest to find his friends and family somewhat intimidated him. What if he were to be injured, or worse, captured? These were the thoughts that began to creep into his mind, and give him second thoughts. However, Mighty quickly put these thoughts to rest, and shook his head at how childish he was being. Auntie Absol was right. I guess no matter what, part of me will always be a pup. The shiny pokemon continued to venture south, staying within the tree line in order to avoid being seen by anyone who would want to catch him. It wasn't until the trees suddenly came to a halt, did Mighty's progress eventually come to a standstill.

The bite pokemon watched carefully as he took in sights which he had never seen before. The tree line had broken and beyond it was what looked like some sort of town. In reality, it was a resort, but Mighty was very oblivious about the subject. There were a few white houses scattered around the vicinity, and many humans, who were dressed in traveling attire, populated the area. Mighty could also hear the distant waves of the ocean, but it too, was something he had never seen before. The dark type pondered for a few moments on how he was going to venture further without being detected, but he lost his train of thought when a sweet scent hit his nose. The shiny canine traveled to the west slightly to see one of the most amazing things ever. Located on a table just beyond the resort's boarder was a local delicacy known as Grilled Wishcash. The shiny pokemon knew he wasn't supposed to reveal himself to humans, however the scents emanating from the cooked fish were far too tempting. Luckily for Mighty, the women, who had been consuming the fish pokemon, stepped away from the table for a few moments, giving him enough time to quietly sneak in and swipe the remaining parts of the fish on the platter. The dark canine quickly made his way back into the tree line, traveling further west, and by the time the women had returned to her table, the only thing the bite pokemon could hear was the distant screams of the women saying 'thief'.

Pastoria City / Great Marsh

The shiny Mightyena knew very well that the upcoming city, known as Pastoria City, was heavy populated with humans. He'd heard rumors of this place within the city called a Gym, where humans used pokemon to fight as if they were weapons. He found the entire idea revolting, and wished nothing more than to get past this atrocious city. With haste, Mighty weaved his way through the trees, avoiding any altercation with passing trainers. However, once the canine reached the building, unbeknownst to him passing a sign announcing the Safari Zone, his attention immediately went to the problem at hand.

How the Arceus, am I supposed to get around this? The shiny pokemon refused to leave the cover of the tree to enter the horrid city of Pastoria, and back-tracking didn't provide an adequate solution either. Seeing no other way, Mighty cut his losses and headed south to travel around the building. Little did he know that the terrain would soon change, and he had just made the worst mistake of his life.

As the shiny pokemon traveled around the building blocking his path, he realized that the area was drastically changing. Instead of normal grass and soil, the ground was becoming more moist and muddy with every step. The trees where becoming less dense, and at times he would see the occasional mud puddle. It astounded the hound that such a drastic change in environment was possible this close to his former home. The thought made him slightly upset that he hadn't explored earlier in his life, but there was nothing he could do about it now. He continued forward until the trees dwindled into only a few in number, once again, and beyond the trees was a large mass of marshland filled to the brim with exotic pokemon. Luckily, it was still quite early in the day, so very few trainers were within the vicinity.

"Well, I guess it's now or never." Mighty said as he stepped out of the cover of the tress and walked towards the mud land. He took a few steps into the land that was the Great Marsh before he cringed and quickly retreated back towards the dry soil. "BLEH! How could anybody like this place? The ground is nasty, the place looks like a wreak, and don't even get me started on the smell!"

"CARNIVINE!" Mighty looked to his side to see a strange looking plant pokemon with two leaf-like arms and tentacles. He had a large head and mouth, and excluding the yellow bulb connecting his parts and a few tentacles, his body was completely green. "What did you just say about our home, mutt?"

The shiny Mightyena gave the plant one of his classic sour glares after hearing the derogatory term. "I didn't stutter. You heard me. Your 'home' is a piece of Trubbish!"

"Oh now you've done it!" the plants said as he climbed off of the tree. "Carn! Carn! CARNIVINE!" In a matter of seconds, two more pokemon appeared, both of them being of the same species as the odd plant. "You know, I've always wondered what dark meat taste like. Come on lets teach this dog a lesson in respect!"

…Why does everyone want to eat me? Mighty watched the pokemon carefully and awaited for any sudden movement. Just as he expected, one of the Carnivine extended a vine towards him. He dodged the attack with little difficulty, and grabbed the vine in his mouth before the pokemon had a chance to attack a second time. However, the shiny pokemon did not notice how close he was towards the marshland. Mightyena activated his special move, setting his mouth along with the vine he had taken possession of ablaze. The fire snaked its ways down the grass type's vine until it reached the plant pokemon, setting the Carnivine into a burst of flames as well. As the burnt Carnivine fell over, defeated, its comrades looked over at the shiny Mightyena as if he was some kind of monster. The two plant pokemon quickly picked up their fallen friend and fled back into the tress with all of their strength.

"Hmph! Just a bunch of weaklings trying to pass off as a strong group." Mighty turned back around towards the marsh again, but he failed to notice the noticeably smaller Carnivine that had made its way into the open. The plant started spinning in place with its leaf like arms extended, and then quickly launched a whirlwind of air and leaves towards the unsuspecting dark type, and by the time Mighty realized the attack, it was too late. The dark hound was suddenly swept off of his feet and launched into the muddy land. Before the juvenile Carnivine retreated back into the forest, Mighty saw it laughing and mocking him from the dry ground. "Why you rotten little piece of …." He tried moving out of the muddy terrain, but due to the marsh's thickness, the Mightyena found it extremely difficult to move. "Grrrr….MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER!"

"Stupid plants…stupid mud…I hate it here." the bite pokemon grumbled to himself as he continued to trudge through the mud lands. He had been stuck within the same mud puddle for a good ten minutes, and still had a decent amount of distance before he would reach the other side. "GAH! Could this get any more stupid?" Mightyena exclaimed bitterly just as a small voice could be heard behind him.

"HI! Are you stuck in the mud?"

The canine turned his head to see a small blue pokemon lying in the mud. She had a large blue fin on her head, and apparently some form of orange gills on the side of her face. The cheerful pokemon also had large eyes and a fin that was supposed to be her tail. Something about this pokemon made Mighty's conscience cringe. He remember something about a species of pokemon around this area that he was to avoid at all cost, but he could not remember the name of the species was.

I stand corrected. Mightyena thought. "No, I'm just here to appreciate this amazing mud heap of a land." He said sarcastically. "OF COURSE I'M STUCK IN THE MUD!"

The already too cheerful Mudkip seemed to brighten tenfold, as a look of sheer awe filled her too round eyes. "YOU LIKE MUD TOO?! Mud is the best thing ever! I like mud! We should be bestestfriends and live in the mud together and build mud trainers and have mud fights and splash in the mud and, and, and, do EVERYTHING!" The small pokemon was shaking in excitement by the end of her rant, looking slightly crazed.

Mighty looked at the insane water type as if she was an escaped mental patient. By the time she had finished her crazy chattering, his left eye was having a twitching fit, and he wanted nothing more than to throw the small pokemon half way across the region. "Are you dense? Seriously, were you just born stupid?" the dark type said discouragingly. "If you couldn't tell, I was being facetious. Just who are you anyway?"

"Oh, I'm Mudkip! A Mudkip. Kippy, Kip, Kip!" the overly excitable blue pokemon responded enthusiastically.

That was the moment that the dark type realized just who speaking with ... a Mudkip, the species pokemon that nobody liked. The same species that was said to be the bane of all other pokemon around them. He had learned from his aunt to never run into a Mudkip. If he did, he was supposed to run away and never look back. However, running away was out of the question at this point.

"Wait. So you're a Mudkip, called Mudkip?" he asked in a degrading tone.

"No… I'm a Mudkip called Kippy! DUH! So, what's your name?"

The dark type sighed, accepting the fact that he wasn't going to get away from this pokemon anytime soon. "I don't really have a name anymore. I was Poochy, but that was when I was younger. Others just refer to me as Mighty now."

"Wait. So you're a Mightyena named Mighty? And you have room to make fun of MY name?" Large black-brown eyes watched the canine with thinly concealed humor.

The dark hound looked down upon the small aquatic pokemon with a look of silent fury that it would make ghost flee in terror. "Look, kid, I have business to take care of! So why don't you run along now?" he said as he resumed trudging through the mud once more.

"Well, it doesn't look like you'll be 'running' anywhere." Kippy replied before donning a look of pure elation. "Here, here I'll help!" The blue feign yelled before using her Water Gun attack on the area surrounding the canine, loosening the mud enough for the dog to quickly scamper to the other side of the marsh pit. In his haste, not noticing his new companion keeping pace with him.

"See! See! I helped! Oh, you're kinda dirty…" Kippy announced happily beside the dark type, startling him.

"Grrr...Of course I'm dirty! Did you not just see where I was stuck?" Mighty exclaimed, shaking his fur of both mud and water. "Thanks for the help kid, but-"

"OH! I can help with that!" Kippy screamed interrupting the dog's rant. Quickly trotting a few paces away, Kippy turned to face the dark type as she braced herself. Mighty looked quizzically at the Mudkip as she opened her mouth widely, emitting a soft gurgling sound.

"What are you-"Any protest the canine was going to make was quickly cut off as gallons of water from Kippy's Hydro Pump hit him.

"GAH! IS THIS YOUR SPIT?!

"Yes. Yes it was." The Mudkip replied with a sense of pride looking at the soaked (but clean) canine, with an oblivious look.

How was that helpful? Seriously this chick got problems. I need to find a way to getting away from this lunatic! Maybe if I just travel quietly, she'll go away. Without a single word, he shook out his fur from the water type's saliva, turned around, and began to walk away from the Mudkip at a somewhat fast pace. After a few moments of undisturbed silence, Mighty turned around see nothing but the barren marshlands he had crossed. Whew…almost out of this mud hole. More importantly, that little nuisance of a Mudkip is gone!

"SO WHERE ARE WE GOING?! WILL THERE BE MUD THERE?"

"WHAT THE –"Mighty flinched as his left ear went into a twitching fit at the sound of Kippy's voice. He looked over his shoulder to see the blue pokemon riding on his back. "How did you-? It doesn't matter" he said as he shook the Mudkip off his back. "What are you doing!?"

"BAD STEED! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION YOUR RIDER! ALLOW ME TO REMOUNT YOUR BACK!"

"EXCUSE ME? I'm not your steed! You can't just treat me as such! Why are you here? I told you to go back to your home!"

"OF COURSE YOU'RE MY STEED! I found YOU. By the transitive property of steedship you are my steed now. I hope there is mud where we're going. I love me some mud."

"Whoa! Whoa Whoa! There is no 'we', only me, and for the last time, I'M NOT YOUR STEED!"

"If you get rid of the 'm' in me, it makes we. You're my steed, ACCEPT IT."

Mighty gave the water type a look of exasperation as she continued to pester the hound into becoming her steed. Having had enough of her endless chatter, Mighty's mouth became engulfed in flames, and he swiftly bit Kippy's large fin obnoxiously emanating from her head, setting her ablaze. With a snap of his neck, he flung the tiny burning pokemon back into the marsh, several feet away. Good riddance! Mightyena turned back around, only to find the now mud-covered, slightly charred pokemon awaiting for him.

"That was mean..." Mudkip sighed as tears started welling up in her big black eyes. She stared up at the dark type with a look of soul-crushing sadness. "…don't you like me?"

The shiny pokemon had to ponder for a moment, before giving his response. He could just say "no" and walk away from the desperate being, however the look in her eyes, the look of sheer loneliness, was something he could relate to. He remembered all the times he wished had for someone to speak to other than his Auntie Absol.

"You know…you're the first pokemon to every stay and talk with me, in well, ever. No one ever stays."

GAHHHH! Mighty kicked himself mentally, knowing he could no longer just leave this pokemon here, even if it is a Mudkip. Letting out a sigh of defeat, he turned to face Kippy with an expression of empathy. "What do you mean nobody stays? Don't you have friends and family here?"

Looking down in a defeated voice she said, "Nobody in the herd really likes me. I have no friends. My parents are gone, and my mother is dead."

Maybe, it wouldn't be SUCH a bad idea, just to have another pokemon to talk to. He let out a barely audible groan, having a slight inclination he was going to regret this decision later. "Well, if want you want to tag along with me, I guess-"

"YAAAAYYYYY!" Kippy exclaimed as she bounced sporadically with uncontainable joy.

"Just keep up, kid."

"Technically, I'm older than you." Mudkip replied as the duo made their way through the marshlands.

Yep, already regretting it.

As they left the Great Marsh, thanks to his highly sensitive hearing, Mighty caught the faint sounds of many pokemon exclaiming, "She's gone! She's finally gone!", and other partying noises.

One final thought plagued the canine's mind after the sounds of the partying marsh faded from his ears. What have I gotten myself into?

A/N:

Tom: So let me get this straight. You allowed us to post the first chapter with that many errors, and didn't even bother to say ANYTHING!?

Dani: I forget.

Tom: How could you forget? It's an ENTIRE chapter!

Dani: There were flowers, I LIKE flowers, do the math.

Tom: *sigh* Did you at least check this one?

Dani: …Yes.

Tom: Without distractions?

Dani: …Yes.

Tom: Are you lying?

Dani: Yes.

Tom: DANG IT MUDKIP!

Dani: I like mud.

Don't forget to review, and stay tuned for more misadventure of epic proportion within the next chapter, "ONWARD to Adventure."