Chapter 5

Team W.A.D.

"I wonder if he will wake up soon...you punched him a little to much, you might have broke something of his" Aaron said in a concerned tone "that's not my fault, he asked for the fight then got me with a cheap shot, what was I supposed to do?" Jacob asked him " I don't know... but did you see his eyes? They were pure white and not the red color they were supposed to be" Aaron said in response. "Well us being hungry isn't gona help him anymore, come on you to lets eat some of these berries, it took me awhile to gather them" Zoei said opening the small woven basket and started pulling out a variety of berries. Jacob and Aaron looked at each other, then at the food "well what kind did you pick?" Jacob asked. "Well the blue ones are Oran berries, they are use for healing and taste delicious, the green ones are Lum berries, they are used to cure status effects, and the pink ones are pecha berries which cure poison." she exclaimed. Aaron pondered to him self as he ate the food "wait zoei, you said Oran berries heal right?" he asked, "Correct Aaron, I'm glad your finally listening" " well, why don't we use one to heal chance?" "You know what Aaron I think that's a smart idea, good work" zoei used her vines and grabbed the Oran berry and placed it next to my mouth. "Has he moved at all since I left to gather food?" she asked "nope not even a inch" Jacob replied. Zoei sighed "well I just hope that...wait did you hear that?" "Heard what zoei?" Aaron asked "I think that I heard someone outside...could you two be helpful and go and see who is causing the racket? Ill stay here and tend to our friend," she said. Aaron and Jacob looked at each other yet again which was no great surprise and then agreed "Thank you two, now go get rid of who ever is out there, shoo! Make haste!" Zoei ordered.

They both walked cautiously fore they did not know exactly who or what was waiting up there, and were rather tense, when they reached the top the both poked their heads out of the hole to see what looked like a cubone and a pichu being harassed by a Weavile, Drapion, and Arbok. "Leave us alone!" the young cubone yelled "Ya! We came to you to do a job for us but you said no!" pichu said. The menacing looking Weavile laughed, "Do you think we really care about your friend? Hahaha! We are a team of thieves and we take what we want, now Arbok be a good little helper and get us that money!" Weavile ordered her Companion. Arbok Obeyed Weavile and quickly wrapped himself around the small pichu, "now Drapion grab the other brat" "yes my lady" Drapion said grabbing cubone with his massive claws. Both Aaron and Jacob stared at the thugs in disgust "come on Jacob let help them" Aaron said "Alright but, we are out numbered by one" Jacob said in concern "I don't think so more like we out number them" Zoei said behind them. Aaron and Jacob turned around to see both Zoei and myself ready to teach some low lives a lesson.

We all lined up outside our den to where we all got a clear look at them "Hey team Nimrod is that any way to treat children?" I said mocking them while standing in front of my group. Weavile turned to us with a very obvious look of anger "Nimrods? How dare you call us that! Do you know who we are!" she bellowed trying to seem intimidating, Zoei grinned "Ya your team W.A.D. a band of thieves that preys on the weak, now put the children down and fight someone who has a chance." She replied. "Certainly, Drapion, Arbok, release the brats and help me dispose of some unwanted guests" Weavile Demanded. The two large poison types released the small children and came to their team leaders side, " Oho! This is going to be fun," Drapion said slamming his claws together "I haven't knocked someone senseless in some time".

As I stared at our foe I could remember what types they were and how powerful they are, Drapion was a poison/ground type, capable of receiving large amounts of damage and brushing it off as if it was a spec in the wind, while in turn dealing such damage to an opponent with its massive claws. Arbok is just a plain poison type, They are a Pokémon known for their elusive nature so they are rather hard to hit, not to mention they can be rather intimidating with the pattern on them. Weavile is a Dark/Ice Type Pokémon; these are extremely fast with attacks and can to a lot of damage within a short amount of time with quick jabs.

"Chance I don't think we can win this one…" Jacob said feeling intimidated by the large Pokémon in front of us. I looked at him, then to Zoei and Aaron who both had the same facial expression. "We might not be able to win, but we can distract them long enough for the kids to get away." I said to my companions, I made quick head jester towards the two kids meaning for them to run. They understood the jester and snuck away to somewhere while we held team W.A.D's attention "Do you think you can just terrorize those children and be able to get away with it?" Zoei asked angrily "Yessss I believe we can" Arbok said in his rather menacing tone. "Enough talk! Take this!" Drapion said, he raised his huge claws and fired a pin missile at us. "SCATTER!" I yelled, everyone immediately ran in different directions to avoid the attack while Drapion laughed at us. Aaron's body started to spark more and more then fired a thunderbolt, which hit Drapion that seemed to make a direct hit. Drapion laughed even louder "You Fool! Your electric attacks have no effect on me!" He bellowed. For the first time in awhile Aaron seemed afraid, Jacob noticed the fear in Aaron's eyes and decided to act by running at Drapion with a ice punch ready. "Oh no you don't!" Weavile yelled running in front of Jacob and blocking his attack with her shadow claw "This should prove interesting" Jacob said smirking. The two then got into a series of punching which of course lead to a fist fight between his ice punch and her shadow claw.

"Your mine you little whelp!" Arbok yelled slithering at Zoei, I turned and saw this and yelled to her "Zoei watch out! Arbok is coming for you!" I yelled. My bellowing had little effect, by the time I spat out my last word; Arbok had already wrapped himself around Zoei and constricted her with more pressure every second. "Hang on Zoei!" Aaron said as he latched onto Arbok's skin with his thunder fang. As Aaron's fangs sank into Arbok's skin it released electricity that severely hurt Arbok with every passing second until he finally gave in and let go of Zoei. Zoei fell to the ground but was unable to move from the pressure of Arbok's wrap attack, which was abnormally strong.

Drapion had been staring me down for sometime now just waiting for me to do something "are you going to just stand their and stare at me like some sort of rapist?" I asked chuckling under my breath. "I grow tired of waiting, TAKE THIS!" Drapion once again raised his enormous claws and fired a pin missile at me… rather sloppily I might add. The move was easy to avoid, and knowing me I decided to taunt him "you have such bad aim Drapion, I bet you couldn't even hit the backside of a Snorlax… WHILE IT'S SLEEPING" I said "DO NOT TOY WITH ME YOU WHELP!" Drapion Yelled in anger. I decided to make his day even worse by making sure he couldn't hit me, my eyes went white for about half a second as I used double team, which made about 5 copies that stood at my side. Drapion seemed confused "Stop hiding behind copies weakling, which of you is the real one?" The great thing about Double Team was that when you spoke, your copies spoke along with you at the same time "oh come now, I know it would hurt your ego greatly if I were to beat you, you know as I AM totally a "nobody" " I remarked as the clones and I started to circle around him "come on give me your all!" Drapion bellowed. I smiled to myself "ok then…get a load of THIS!" I yelled as I jumped in the air and prepared an iron tail from behind.

As I closed in to my target, I spun around ready to slam my tail onto his back as a surprise attack, which I had thought would hurt him greatly but my attempt when sour fast. Using his tail Drapion grabbed my leg and used it to smack me against the ground, then he hurled my heavily bruised body at a tree that knocked me out cold. Aaron still had his overcharged fangs sank into Arbok who was still crying out in pain "TAKE THIS YOU PITIFUL EXCUSE FOR A POKEMON!" Drapion said as he ran at Aaron with a cross poison ready. Aaron noticed him to late and was slashed along the right side of his body that resulted in him releasing Arbok, and then collapsing from the pain and brute force of the attack.

Jacob was still fighting team W.A.D's leader Weavile this hole time with a series of quick ice punches and jabs but never landed a hit. "Hahaha you're getting slower, poor poor buizel such a waste of your effort!" Weavile cackled as she quickly punched his stomach then his face, knocking him back a few feet onto his back. "This was HARDLY a challenge for us, I do so enjoy bringing pain to weaklings" Drapion said in his crude voice, "Assss do I Drapion thisssss was quite easssy" Arbok exclaimed laughing. Weavile looked around the area for the kids that apparently had what they wanted "Come on you idiots, lets find those brats and take what is rightfully ours!" she ordered as she started to walk back into treasure town with her companions close behind.

When our opponent disappeared from view, Aaron stood up to the best of his ability and picked us up one by one, carrying us to our separate beds. As he placed the last of us in our beds he started to think to him self " damn it…I feel so weak right now… can't… move… anymore…" then he collapsed to the ground and fainted on the spot. A few minutes later the two kids Cubone and Pichu found the entrance to our home, which I thought was concealed quite well considering it was under a bush, and descended into our den. Pichu was the first to hit the floor and was horrified at what she saw; her eyes teared up a bit. She turned to her friend Cubone "this is our fault… lets, bandage them up and stay here tonight so we can watch them" Cubone looked more than concerned, not for us, but what we might say or do when we woke up and found them in our den. "Are you sure Alex? We don't know these Pokémon…I don't think they would want us here" Alex frowned "well we sure as heck can't leave them here like this! We have to help, we got them injured Max!" Max sighed "…Fine but if mother gets mad at us it's on you this time…not me"

The next morning was rather uncomfortable, I could hardly move any part of my body without feeling intense physical pain rush throughout my body, each movement felt like I was being impaled by spikes and all I could do was softly whimper to myself. When I finally opened my eyes I found that both mine and my friend's bodies have all been wrapped up in bandages. I also noticed that the kids from yesterday had spent the night inside our home, Cubone was lying next to Aaron and Pichu was snuggled up against my black furred chest. in all honesty I felt sorry for yesterday's events and how cruel that horrible team W.A.D. treated such innocent children, it made my blood boil with anger…and made me feel the same way I had when I first tried toxic at the dojo, I wanted to kill them and I wasn't happy about it…I took another glance at the sleeping child and grinned softly to myself, I always wanted children of my own, although… I am only 17, but the thought of a family always was on my mind. I curled up and formed a small wall around the sleeping Pichu, I could feel a strong fatherly instinct come over me…but that was probably the new Pokémon personality.

Pichu opened here sleepy eyes and looked at me "Hehe….ow…sleep well?" I asked Pichu still weak for the pain. Pichu saw me wrapped around her and she sprang to her feet with a slight blush which was easily noticed. "So…" I began to ask "how did you find this place?" Pichu was quiet for a minute or two before speaking "well…me and my brother over there are excellent hiders…so when team W.A.D. passed us we came back over here, when we came into sight we found that Jolteon over there…carrying you all down into here." She explained "when we finally came down here and saw you like this, I knew we had to help you and your friends for what we caused..." her eyes started to tear up as the tears fell down the side of her face. My ears drooped "hey hey it's alright, we did what we had to do to protect you and you're…brother?" I exclaimed softly "don't cry…" she nodded and wiped her face clear.

I still wasn't clear on who these to kids were or why those rotten thieves tried to attack them "what's your name…" I asked, she smiled a little bit "I'm Alex, my brother's name err… well my adopted brother's name is Max" she replied. Human names? These Pokémon had human names? At this point Zoei, Aaron, and Jacob had all stirred awake and Aaron was a little startled to find the Cubone Max lying next to him. "Why are these kids here Chance?" Zoei asked me, I sighed "I'll tell you later, so Alex where do you live? I have enough strength to walk, I can be your guy's protection" I clumsily stood up with shaky legs. Max piped up "We live a few minutes outside treasure town, it's a clay house with some grass designs on top." "Well let's get going, your parents are probably worried sick. I'll be back in a bit guys… just rest ok?"

I was slow and limped while I walked but we eventually made it to the youngling's house. The front door flew open and a large Raichu and Pikachu came running out of the small building. "Where were you two! You had us worried when you didn't come home last night!" the Pikachu said with tears of joy in her eyes as she embraced both children "and who is…this?" the male Raichu asked with a bit of resentment in his voice "and what happened to him…are you alright boy?" he asked me. I swallowed loudly "my *cough* my name is Chance sir" he eyed me "I see…and why did YOU bring my son and daughter home? Not that I'm not grateful for what you did, I just want to know…" "Let's not talk about it out here honey, please please come inside, by the way my name is Jewel and my husband here's name Bruce" she said with a smile, I nodded and limped my way inside.

When I sat down I began to explain what had happened over at Sharpedo bluff, about the thieves, the fight, our loss, and both of Alex and Max's parents were astonished and horrified. "So you protected our kids…thank you ever so much!" Jewel said hugging me; I gave a loud yelp of pain. "OH SORRY!...I didn't mean to hurt you dear, here lay on your side…whoever wrapped these bandages didn't do very well…Alex did you do these?" Jewel asked examining the bandage work "yes mother I did… I tried my best to help him and his friends" Alex replied. Jewel started pushing on certain parts of my body to see which areas were most damaged "well I'm surprised your spine didn't shatter from the thickness of the tree, but you do have a dislocated hind leg. I'm surprised you even managed to get here on your own." she exclaimed with concern "To fix it I'll have to push It back into the socket…it is going to hurt a lot just to let you know…"

With some force she pushed my leg back into its rightful place, and I screamed at the top of my lungs for a second or two but the pain went away quickly. "Try walking now, you should be able to walk better" Jewel said, I nodded and slowly started to pace around the room. She was right, my leg felt perfectly fine now. Bruce came up to me and grinned "hey, thanks for protecting our children…I don't know how our lives would be if we were to lose them" he patted my back a few times which was still sore. "No problem, but I can't take all the credit though. My teammates helped out a lot…hey I was meaning to ask you guys something…" I leaned up next to Bruce's large ear "are you guys from this world originally…?" he stood there and without taking his eyes off of me told his kids to go to their room, they did without hesitation. Then both him and Jewel sat down across from me "what do you mean…from this world originally?" he asked, I pondered in my head how to ask such a question, I do admit it was an odd question but it was odd for Pokémon to have human names "I mean you two have human names…It just sorta seems weird, although I can't judge cause my name is Chance" I said shifting positions to make myself more comfortable.

Both Jewel and Bruce stared at each other, then at me as if they had just found something "no we…aren't from this world originally, we were once humans…same as you I suspect" Jewel answered. I looked at them in astonishment and amazement, more ex-humans here? I have to know more "how did you two get here? And how long have you been here?" I found myself asking eagerly but with compassion. Again awkward silence filled the small room only to be broken by the sigh of Bruce "Back on earth we had just graduated from college, me in year of 1998 and Jewel in 1999. We loved playing Pokémon; you know the old red and blue versions?" Bruce stated, I nodded "so we were looking around on the Internet and found a strange page with a quiz…we took it and in as quick as flash the next morning we woke up about 50 miles east of here." Could this be the same quiz we took? "If you don't mind telling us Chance, what year is it now on earth…" Jewel asked with a hint of sadness in her voice. "Its 2013" I said, Jewel's voice became quieter "We have been here for 14 years Bruce, amazing how fast time seems to fly".

I felt sorry for them, they were taken away from there family's same as us "did you ever try to go back to earth?" I asked. Again silence took its toll for a few seconds "we did try to at first…but when we came to realize there was no way back to our past life, we decided to make a new life here with a new family…our family" Bruce explained "And we love being here with our new life and children" I smiled. "You know Chance…" Jewel started to say "you could start a family of your own" I blushed a little and looked at the floor. A family of my own…I would love that to happen but…then none of my other family would be able to visit or see such kids. I cleared my throat "thank you for your hospitality, but I really should be getting back home to my friends." "So soon? Well alright, KIDS! Come say good bye to Chance!" Bruce said. Both Alex and Max came out of their rooms to say goodbye and Alex hugged my still sore body "will you come visit us?" I smiled again "of course! You know where we live anyway, so feel free to pop right over if anyone is giving you two trouble, or if you want to visit us ok?" "Ok!" Alex yelled happily "that goes for you to Max" Max nodded in approval "you're welcome here from now on chance, plus your friends" Jewel said grinning. I laughed to myself, said goodbye one last time, and then headed home.

By the time I had gotten home, it was about 12:00 and everyone sat in a circle and was eating a variety of berries and some meat. "Hey bro, welcome back!" Jacob said standing up seeming to have recovered from his injury "how friendly were the kids parents?" a blank expression came over my face "they were intimidating at first…well at least Bruce was, Jewel was quite caring." "well that's good, wait why do they have human names?" Zoei asked. I glanced down at the ground for a moment, then back to them "they are people who got transported here from the same quiz 14 years ago…" shock immediately covered their faces "wow…they have stayed here for 14 years? Did you ask them if there's a way to get back home?" "I did and they said that we would be better off starting new family's here then to waste our time trying to find a way home…" everyone looked at each other with a hint of homesickness, Zoei seemed a little upset "if you even THINK that I am going to be laying an egg, you have another thing coming!" She yelled "hey I didn't even say anything about that Zoei, you don't HAVE to raise one if you don't want to. Anyway if we are stuck here we need to make the best of it, come on lets go see if there is any jobs up at the guild" they agreed and we began to walk through treasure town up to Wigglytuff's guild.