Sam jumped up jovially. He pumped his fists into the air with gusto with a triumphant yell. "I caught a weedle!" I covered my grin by licking my rumpled chest fur cooly.
The battle hadn't lasted too long but it had been tricky. I had been forced to divert all of my attention to the rapid-fire poison sting attacks. Finally, one of them had hit me but thankfully didn't have enough poison to be effective.
After Sam caught the Weedle, which he deemed Missile, and rightfully so, we all decided to take a break. While Sam and Rae studied the map, Gold, the mini-police Pokemon, and I decided to get acquainted with our new teammate. It felt weird to think that now Team Sam had three.
We all decided to go far enough away from the bickering humans to be able to hear each other so we picked a clearing several yards away.
I was the first to approach Missile. "Nice to meet you, I'm-"
"Shrimpy." Gold finished for me just for the sake of his terrible humor. "And I'm Gold."
Missile looked a little confused but decided it was best not to question the punchy Pokemon. "Hello..." He said almost mutely.
Azurill bounced over right in front of him on her tail. "Hiya!" She chirped loudly. Missile stumbled backward, scared on his dozen tiny legs. "H-hi" He choked out.
Igglybuff rolled over to where Azurill was and soundly slapped the back of her head, which was basically her whole body. This smashed Azurill into the ground where she lay dazed for half a second before hopping back up again.
"Leave 'im 'lone Squirt." Igglybuff chasted her friend, puffing up her cheeks by a tiny degree. I remembered their nicknames for each other with a snort of humor.
Azurill was unfazed and again got into Missile's face. After a silence and Azurill's pensive face for half a minute, she asked, "Are you a unicorn?"
After one long explanation, what Sam would call a 'school lesson,' by Cleffa, Azurill finally seemed to get it through her buoyant body that Missile was not, in fact, a 'unicorn'.
All of a sudden, half instinctually, my nose was in the air, sniffing a strange odor coming from the surrounding bushes. Nearly the same, Azurill's tiny ears perked up. "Chiefy! Behind-!" I reacted in a second, being close to the Cleffa in question. I bowled the tiny star Pokemon away from a tan blur emerging from the brush. It landed on me and I recognized the feline form as a Meowth. Pushing with all my strength, I knocked the cat off me and scrambled away to a suitable distance between the Meowth. Or Meowths. Three of them were surrounding us in the clearing. Effectively cutting off any escape we could get to Sam and Rae. I growled softly, communicating my frustration to Gold, who cracked his tiny knuckles in response.
At that moment we realized that we were the ones in charge of taking care of the younger, less experienced Pokemon.
Then I realized I was most likely the least experienced of them all. This being my sixth day in the outside world. I shook that thought out of my head as I gently herded Igglybuff who was puffing up in preparation for battle behind Gold and me. I glanced back at the four other Pokemon with a look that obviously said stay where you are.
Three against two.
This could be hard.
Gold and I jumped at the two closest Meowth. I held my Meowth with unsheathed claws digging into his squared shoulders. He angrily jumped toward to get a hold of my neck fur but I was able to jump back using only my hind legs to secure my grip on him. I used my peripheral vision to locate the other Pokemon. The smaller Pokemon had created a defensive circle and Igglybuff was throwing punches in the air. Gold was handling the other Meowth with his signature left hook. Two Meowths were accounted for.
Which means...
Found him, I thought dryly as I felt foreign pressure rake against my back. I tightened my grip on the first Meowth enabling me to kick back my legs and lash out at the second. Then, taking advantage of the diversion, I jumped away from them and landed close to Gold, who was facing off his opponent. I could tell he had also considered alerting Sam and Rae but dragging them into the situation wouldn't help in the least. Gold was breathing heavily and already had some bruises forming. He glanced at me.
"I'd ask how you're holdin' up but..." Gold remarked, eyes focused on his opponent.
"You think I look beat up? You should see the other guys!" I joked half-heartedly but it seemed to humor him. We both sprang back at our opponents. In midst of the battle, I wasn't mindful and realized I had lost track of one of the Meowth. Again.
Rookie mistake by a rookie.
My head swiveled around I saw him approaching the other Pokemon.
"Gold!" I gasped, "cover me!"
The other Meowth was approaching the other Pokemon. Upon seeing the predator, Azurill bravely tried to fend off the foe with a water gun as thick as her mouth. Impressive for such a small Pokemon, but Azurill's mouth was also unnaturally tiny. The Meowth was able to avoid the tiny water stream without too much difficulty, though it did slow him down.
Trusting that Gold could handle the two Meowth in a pinch, I sprinted around the waterspout and took position in front of the Pokemon. Weedle-Missile- ducked his head out from behind my leg and fired three poison stings in rapid succession at one of the Meowth attacking Gold. The first two seemed to be virtually ineffective but following the third, a tiny spasm traveled through the Meowth's spine and a purple blush spread across its cheeks and under its eyes. Poison. Panicked, the Meowth streaked into the forest yowling.
Two against two.
Azurill was now buying me time to think up a way out of this by sending now stronger, quicker jets of water at the meowth. I noticed that was possible by Cleffa, whose body was surrounded by a tiny blue aura that was channeling into Azurill via her paws. I had that move too but never had a good opportunity.
Igglybuff was puffing up and releasing big, transparent pink bubbles that produced a popping noise that would have been adorable if the situation had been different. One bubble was able to reach the ever-approaching Meowth's face. The creature, surprisingly, cried out and stopped to paw at his eye. Using this distraction, Azurill aimed a water gun at the meowth's chest, forcing him to retreat a few feet before it retaliated against the balloon Pokemon with a strong clawed strike.
"No!" I tensed in terror, unable to react in time as the small Pokemon was thrown back at the congregated group we had formed.
I felt Missile tense and give off a flash of light. It soon became an unsteady pulse that only served to aggravate the offending meowth.
Then Missile contorted and shifted shape.
After a couple breathless seconds the little went away revealing a golden cacoon with black eyes.
"Missile?" I asked, still a little out of breath.
"Kakuna!" He replied with a proud tone of voice. His voice sounded deeper and a little more confident.
Meowth struggled to stand, noticing with pleasure that Azurill seemed to be out of ammo.
Missile made a tiny squeak noise and widened his eyes when he noticed the Meowth approach.
Okay so maybe not very much more confident, I thought to myself as I nudged the immobile Kakuna behind me with my hind leg and adjusted my position so I was blocking the now exhausted or unconscious mini Pokemon from the pissed, soaked and angry cat. I realized that I was on my last legs with this battle. My body was begging to at least let my back legs fall. I stiffened all my muscles to prevent this. Gold was faring well and his opponent was worse for wear. Time to settle this. I dug my claws into the soily dirt and gritted my teeth. This would be the last attack.
I felt something prickling in the back of my throat. I almost panicked when it traveled into my mouth. Then I realized it tasted like power.
With the Meowth only a yard away, I unclenched my tensed jaw and releasing a whispy, purple and gray energy ball, and all my strength with it, directly into meowth.
It was over.
Then the worst happened.
The energy ball, instead of hitting Meowth or exploding on impact, floated right through him. Paralyzed with shock and exhaustion, the Meowth charged and tackled me head on, knocking me into the air.
As I spun through the air, I realized that tiny red droplets were splattering the dusky sky like red stars. Shit. That was not supposed to happen.
I hit the ground, bounced, and skidded. When I finally was released from the terrible law of inertia, tried to stand and realized it was futile. I made panicked eye contact with Gold as my vision blurred in and out. He immediately redoubled the power of his attacks.
Things were getting foggy. Cleffa rolling Igglybuff and Azurill pushing Missile, ran over to me and tried to help me. I couldn't even manage to tell her to run or hide or whatever I might plan if my brain was functioning normally.
This sensation...
Foggy...
The Meowth's eyes glinted with malice. He smirked and I noticed his fangs were glowing.
Was that... hyper fang?
...
Several things happened in the following seconds.
Meowth approached
Cleffa recoiled in terror
Missile tensed and narrowed his eyes
Gold's intake of breath was audible
My vision faded to black...
...
A crash.
My sight returned, though everything looked abstract, little moving splotches of color.
Somehow, the Meowth had been repelled and was flying backward through the air. He barreled into Meowth #2 and they tumbled into the undergrowth. A thud signified one had a direct collision with a tree and panicked yelps told me the cowards were running with their tails between their legs.
I reached out a paw in front of me and it was stopped a couple inches away. A ripple shuddered across what seemed to be an invisible force field then faded away. I noticed a glow around Missile fade too. Missile had saved all of us somehow.
"Thanks." My voice sounded raspy in my ringing ears and each blink was heavier.
I don't remember if Missile responded to me, but the last thing I was was Gold slowly limping over to us, bearing the slightest smile of grim victory.
...
Darkness
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