Sorry it took so long guys I just got this new program that will let me get my stories done faster.
Don't expect a new chapter right after this one because I'm having writers block at the moment, I had a lot of that with this chapter but I had the day off and worked all day to finish it for you guys.
I don't know if I posted it or not but I'm back in my house and school has started back up and it's taking up a lot of my time so please bear with me. :P
Chapter 8: Family life, strategy, and thieves
"Well this is it." Brock said as they stopped in front of a two story Japanese style house that resided at the edge of town.
"Wow Brock it's really pretty." Piper stared in wonder at the house, never having seen anything like it before.
"Come on, everyone's probably waiting for me so they can start dinner." He said leasing the way inside. "I'm home and I brought guest." The front doors opened up into a large entry way where the large family took off their shoes, there seemed to be at least a dozen pairs.
They all took off their shoes and walked down the hall to a set opened doors that lead to what appeared to be what appeared to be the dining room. It was a very large room with a long table that set around four inches off the ground. Brocks father Flint set at the end of the table reading the newspaper while about half a dozen children set around a widescreen TV at the opposite side of the room.
Flint looked up as they walked in. "Your mother's just finishing supper."
"I'll go help her." Piper said before disappearing past the swinging double doors behind Flint and into the kitchen.
"Who's that?" Flint said with a suggestive voice and a raised brow.
"Stop dad she's just a friend from Pallet Town, I meet her though Ash." Brock explained taking a set on his right. "And this is Logan, I meet him tonight. He's a trainer and is Piper's 'companion'." He filled in when his father looked at Logan as he took a set down beside him.
"Nice to meet you" Logan said perfectly polite if not a little stiff. "I wouldn't call me her companion ether; I'm helping her train tomorrow but after that I'm out of here."
Piper came back into the room with Eevee running cheerfully behind before they could comment. She laughed as Eevee ran up to Brock and set waiting. "Eevee can't wait to taste your cooking Brock."
"Oh right, sorry Eevee I'll go get yours and the other Pokémon's food ready." He stood up.
"Wii!" Came Eevee's enthusiastic reply.
"Dinner will be done in about ten minutes." With that Piper disappeared back into the kitchen.
"Logan if you would help me we'll get done just as dinner being put on the table."
"Sure." Logan shrugged and followed Brock through a set of sliding doors by the children to the back yard. It was a large fenced in area with nothing but a swing set and a good size storage shed. He could only guess that it was left as empty as it was because they wanted the Pokémon to have plenty of room to play.
Brock opened the shed door and pulled out about two dozen bowls. Logan set up the bowls and filled half of them with water while Brock filled the others with his special Pokémon food. While they were working on the Pokémon's dinner Piper was setting the table for fourteen. It took five trips apiece for Lola and Piper to get all the food on the table, and by then Brock and Logan had finished, and Eevee was sitting in front of its bowl reluctantly waiting for everyone else.
"Wii." Eevee whined.
"Alright Eevee we hear you." Brock laughed as he released his Pokémon. Lola, Logan, and Piper followed suit and soon the house was filled of talking and laughter.
"That reminds me Lola, why is the gym closed tomorrow? Is there a festival or something going on?" Piper asked after they finished eating and they left the boys in the dining room to talk as they put away the left overs and washed the dishes.
"No, actually a friend of mine from Mt. Moon is going on vacation has asked me to watch her Pokémon."
"Couldn't she just transfer them to the Pokémon center?"
"She could but there isn't a Pokémon center anywhere near where she lives and it's only a day's trip by car so I don't mind." She explained as she handed Piper a plate to dry.
"Wow that's really nice of you."
"Thanks, just make sure you train really hard while I'm gone."
"Oh don't worry I will. I got a few books from the Pokémon center that I plan on reading tonight for strategy ideas."
Lola looked at the clock above the sink, it read nine O'clock. "It's getting pretty late; why don't you have Brock show you up to your room so you can get started, and he can help me finish up."
"You don't mind?" she didn't want to seem ungrateful.
"Of course not just don't stay up to late."
"I won't." Piper said happily before racing out of the room and to her Pokémon where they rested on the porch. "Come on guys it's time for bed." She held out two poke'balls. "Pidgeotto, Pikachu return." Both Pokémon disappeared inside there balls and she attached them both to her belt before turning to face the three men, the children had already went to bed. "Brock can you show me where I'm sleeping tonight, after that Lola wants your help in the kitchen."
"Sure." Brock stood up and turned to Logan. "It is getting pretty late, do you want to go to bed to?"
Logan shrugged. "Why not." He stood up then held up three poke'balls. "Pidgeotto, Nidoran, Mankey return."
"Ok follow me." They both followed Brock up a flight of stairs and down a long hallway to the very last door. "Here we are; my beds the single against the wall, you two get the bunk beds on the other side." Logan went straight to the bottom buck and laid down. Piper rolled her eyes and walked over to Brocks desk, the only other piece of furniture in the room.
"Can I use your desk?"
"Sure no problem."
"Thanks—"She was cute off as there was a sudden flash of light and Pikachu appeared beside her shacking out its fur before crossing its arms. "Pikachu what are you doing out of your poke'ball? Return" she grabbed his poke'ball and tried to return it only to have him side step and the red beam of light every time causing her to growl.
"You can't even control that thing, I'm surprised it listened to you at all in your gym battle." Logan laughed.
"This isn't funny!" She yelled.
"I'll just leave you guys to it." Brock said chuckling before leaving and shutting the door behind him.
"Garr, I'm going to change." With that she grabbed her clothes and stormed out of the room.
"What's her problem?" Logan asked looking down at Pikachu who shrugged. Eevee just shook her head and ignored the two. Logan huffed. "Girls."
Piper returned a twenty minutes later, her hair damped and dressed in a white tank top and purple stretch pants. She looked over at Logan who was quietly reading and 'humped' before turning from the two; she set at Brocks desk and began pulling out a small stack of books, a notebook, and a pen. Logan only glanced up from his book as Pikachu ran up the stairs to Pipers bunk. She continued to ignore the both of them as she began reading her books and occasionally taking notes.
'Let's see attacks that Pikachu can learn that would be useful; Focus punch (no) too risky in battle, Dig (Maybe, but Eevee already knows it).' She paused to smile down at the now sleeping Pokémon at her feet. 'Let's see; Brick break (maybe), and iron tail.' Everything else looked very basic but she knew that they wouldn't be useful very long. She looked at the move Iron tail the only steel type move on the list, it seemed to be the best choose. She picked up another book and started flipping through it. 'Hum . . . "Iron tail; a move that can be learned by a Pokémon that has a strong, well developed tail and packs a lot of power and can sometimes lower the target's defensive power". Well that sounds a lot better than Brick Break, and its super effective against rock types.' Now the only question is how. Flipping open yet another book titled 'Powering up your Pokémon.' Piper looked up Iron tail.
Once she found it she began to read silently to herself. 'For a Pokémon to learn Iron tail it must have a fully developed tail. A fully developed means that your Pokémon will need to build strength in its tail by doing tail exorcises. The most common and effective exorcises would be; to throw small rocks (depending on the size of the Pokémon) at them and have them knock them away with its tail, you could also do tail lifts by taking a good sized stone and tie it to the end of your Pokémon's tail. You will know your Pokémon is making progress when your Pokémon's tail flashes silver, then you can start practicing the move. But don't forget to keep weight training.' Piper pulled her notebook out from under the pile of books and wrote at the top of the page 'Pikachu's training' at the very top before filling the page up with the exorcises the books listed with a progress chart out beside them. She looked at the page once she finished. 'Maybe I'm over thinking things a bit?'
She shrugged the question off and continued reading for another hour. In that time she found out that electric type attacks could in fact be used of rock types, she must have been thinking of ground types. But then she had just become a trainer, she couldn't expect herself to be perfect right out the gate. It was good that she could at least use electric attacks because she couldn't find anything to help her get around Kabuto's absorb attack.
Brock walked into the room a few minutes later to see Logan turned toward the wall on the bottom bunk, Eevee and Pikachu sleeping on the top bunk, and Piper still at his desk writing in a notebook. She yawned as she looked over at him. "Hey Brock I was just about to turn in." she began packing away all her books before standing. "Night."
"Hey."
"Yeah?" she paused with one foot on the stair's to get to her bed her eyes starting to droop a little.
"Why don't I help you train for your rematch?"
Her eyes widened. "Really Brock?"
"Of course, what are friends for?"
"Yes!" she said as quietly as possible before hugging him around the middle and climbing up into bed with Pikachu and Eevee. "Thanks Brock, night."
"Welcome, night." He waited till she was asleep before he looked over at Logan to see that his breathing had changed. He just chuckled before changing into his PJ's, turned out the lamplight, and crawled into bed. "Night Logan." The only response he got was a grunt. This was going to be fun.
~Midnight~
*BOOM!*
Piper slowly sits up to find Brock, Logan, and Pikachu by the desk looking out the window. Eevee yawned beside her before looking at the boys to. "What's going on?" she was slightly more awake now.
*BOOM!*
"Not sure but it sounds like its close by, it might be coming from the museum. I'm going to check it out." Brock said before grabbing his Pokémon belt and rushed out of the room.
"I'm going to." Logan said and started to follow Brock, but he stopped at the door and looked back at her as she climbed down from her bunk. "Things could be dangerous you should stay here." And then he was gone.
"Puff yeah right like I would stay here and let them take care of everything." She didn't bother changing, just grabbed her belt with her poke'balls and ran out the door, Eevee not far behind. Pikachu sighed before jumping off the desk and running after them. He had a feeling it was going to be a long night.
~The Museum~
Piper, Eevee, and Pikachu had finally made it to the museum. There was smoke coming out of the dome shaped roof, and she could see guys in black suits carrying out boxes.
'Where are Logan and Brock?'
"Pika!" she looked down at Pikachu to see him pointing off to the side of the building where a black delivery truck was sitting.
"That must be there moving van, good work Pikachu. We'll find Logan and Brock after we take care of their truck." The trio made their way quickly but quietly to the van, and peered inside. The front was empty, but the back was full of Pokémon fossils, artifacts, and big pieces of some kind of machine. "I don't know who these guys are, but it's obvious their up to no good." She crouched down by the van's tires. "It's too bad I haven't taught you Iron tail yet Pikachu then we could just pop the tires." She knew that Pidgeotto wouldn't be able to pop them.
"Pika?" Pikachu looked at his tail confused.
"That means we'll have to use dig, are you up for it Eevee?" said Pokémon stood straight and determined.
"Wii."
"Good now what I need you to do is start digging from under the van then dig a long deep tunnel around it, that way they can't use it to escape. Thank you can do it?"
"Wii." Eevee nodded.
"Alright then go." Eevee didn't need telling twice and immediately went to work. Piper waited nervously for Eevee to finish while Pikachu stood guard. A few minutes later Pikachu came running back to her.
"Pika, Pika, Pikachu!" Pikachu exclaimed running over to her and pointed to the other side of the van.
"Someone's coming?"
"Pika." He nodded his ears perked up as they heard a snapping sound like someone stepped on a twig.
"Oh no, Eevee come on we have to go." She tried to be quite but in the end Pikachu had to crawl under the van to shout through the hole at Eevee because the little fox couldn't hear them. A couple of seconds later Eevee and Pikachu ran out from under the van, and they all ran for the patches of bushes not far away. They hid and waited as five of the men in black climbed into the van, she hadn't noticed before but they all had a large red R on their shirts. She didn't dare take her eyes off them as she whispered to Eevee. "Did you finish the hole Eevee?"
"Wii." Eevee nodded her head against Pipers arm so she would understand.
"Good girl, now let's just hope my plan works."
Piper heard sirens in the distance and looked up briefly to see red and blue lights flashing up the road. A couple more guys in black came running, jumped in the back of the truck, and banged the doors shut. The driver started the truck and slammed on the gas only for the van to stop two feet later because its front tires dropped into the trench Eevee had drug.
"Yes." Piper fist pumped but the victory was short lived as a van pulled out from the other side of the building took off. "Man some got away." she looked back to see the guys in the van she 'had' stopped jumping out and trying to make a run for it into the tree's right where she was hiding. "Oh no they are not getting away!"
She jumped out of the bush. "Stop right there!" she shouted pointing a dramatic finger at them.
"And what do you plan on doing, little girl? You want to fight?" one raspy voiced man in black said pulling out a poke'ball. "You should never play games with Team Rocket, we'll make you pay. Go Zubat!" Zubat, as it turns out, was just like the name implied. It was a small blue bat with purple inner wings and no eyes.
"Oh so cute! Hello little Zubat." She waved and the Zubat blushed. Pikachu face palmed.
"Stop messing with my Pokémon girl! Zubat use wing attack!" the little bat flow at them repeatedly as they dodged before hitting Eevee and knocking her to the ground.
"Eevee!" she looked angrily at Team Rocket from where she set and she must have looked scary because they all gulped. "Pikachu Thunder shock them all at max power."
"Pika!" Pikachu said happily. "Pika-pika-chuuu!" bolts of electricity flow into the air in all directions. When the smock cleared seven Team Rocket grunts and one Zubat was laying extra crispy on the ground at their feet. Just then a motor cycle pulled up along with two police cars.
Officer Jenny climbed off her bike and started hand-cuffing Team Rocket. "We're the vermilion city police department and your all under arrest for trying to steal from the museum!"
"Um Officer Jenny." Piper said nervously as she came up beside her.
"Yes?" Jenny asked sternly in full police mode as her men started to laud the grunts into their cars.
"I'm sorry to say that one van got away." She bowed her head in apology.
Jenny smiled. "That's alright we'll get them you did a great job."
"Thank you, but I couldn't have done it without Pikachu and Eevee."
"Pika." Pikachu, standing a couple of feet away, crossed his arms and nodded while Eevee set proudly at Pipers feet.
"Hey Officer Jenny!" Jenny and Piper looked over to see Lola, Brock, and Logan running toured them.
"Hey where have you guys been?" Piper questioned.
"We rounded up a couple more inside Jenny." Said Lola. "If you have room." She said looking at the patrol cars.
"Always enough room, take me to them."
"Sure." Jenny followed Lola around the van and out of sight.
Brock and Logan looked at the scene around them from the van to all the angry guys in the patrol cars. Brock whistled and patted her on the shoulder. "You really went all out. Good Job." He looked proud.
Logan on the other hand looked angry. "What did I say before leaving? 'Stay put, it could be dangerous'. You could have been hurt stupid!" He was a little red in the face from anger.
"Well I wasn't." Than completely ignoring Logan and the weird looks Brock was giving him asked her question again. "Where were you guys?"
"We were inside with Lola protecting the Pokémon fossils." Brock cut in before Logan could start on her again. "She called Officer Jenny when we got here and we needed to stall for time, but we knew that battling them would just cause us to lose most of them so we settled for saving what we could and tiring up anyone we came across."
"That was a good idea. I was going to look for you guys, but Pikachu saw their can and we decided to stop it from leaving first."
"You taught someone dig?" he asked looking at the van, its front tires buried in the ground.
"Yeah Eevee and when they tried to make a run for it Pikachu gave them a high powered Thunder shock."
"I'll say high power, it must have shoot up around 20-30 feet in the air." Logan said once he had calmed himself down, feeling foolish for over reacting the way he did.
"I know isn't Pikachu amazing!?" she asked excitedly picking Pikachu up and hugging him which he endured with a sour expression. When she calmed down she asked the main question that was bothering her. "Who were those guys anyways?"
"They call themselves Team Rocket and they love to steal other people's Pokémon." Officer Jenny said looking at them as two if her colleagues started loading four more guys in the back.
"Hey, get back here!" someone shouted from behind them. They turned and saw that two of the Rocket Grunts were getting away.
"Go Kabuto!" Lola shouted throwing her poke'ball. Kabuto appeared in a flash of light infront of the Rocket grunts. One stopped before he reached the Pokémon, but the other guy just jumped over the Kabuto and kept running and disappeared into the trees.
"After him." Jenny yelled and two Officers went running after him.
"Kabuto leer." This stopped the grunt for a second.
Suddenly the grunt yelled and kicked Kabuto away. Kabuto went flying into the air, and landed a couple of yards ways.
"Kabuto!" Lola yelled. Without warning Kabuto started to glow a bright blue and a few seconds later a tall brown Pokémon with blades for hands stood in its place.
"Kabutops!" the Pokémon cried swinging his blades.
"Alright! Kabutops Mud shot!" Lola commanded.
"Kabu!" He used his blades to sling mud at the grunt sending the guy flying back to the Office Jenny who immediately cuffed him and throw him in the car with the others. The other Officers finally returned but empty handed.
"Sorry Jenny he got away."
She sighed. "Well we can't win them all, at least we got most of them."
"This stinks." Piper said angrily clenching her fist.
"Yes it is and I'm sure that this won't be the last time you see them Piper." Lola said coming up beside her.
"You think so?" She asked as her and the other two made their way over to Kabutops. In reality she wasn't too worried, after all she had her Pokémon to help her much like they did tonight.
"Yeah they have a bad habit of following the people that beat them." Brock put in remembering Jessie and James, and Butch and Cassidy.
"Oh right." Piper sweat dropped. How could she have forgotten they those idiots were a part of Team Rocket? "Well on the bright side Kabuto evolved." She walked around the newly evolved Pokémon before giving it a hug. "You are so cool Kabutops!"
"Kabu." The Pokémon said happily blushing.
"If that's all Officer Jenny we'll be heading home." They heard Lola tell Jenny a few feet away from them.
"Sure, I think I have enough information to write a decent report. If I need anything else I'll call." Jenny said as she climbed back onto her motor cycle and drove away the patrol cars not far behind her.
"Come on Kids we should be able to get a few more hours sleep. Kabutops return." After Kabutops disappeared inside its poke'ball, they started making their way down the road for home. Piper suddenly, feeling the lack of sleep catch up to her, yawned and walked the rest of the way half asleep.
Sorry that it took so long everyone, I've had this chapter done for a couple months now but had no way of typing it up so that I could post it. I added a lot of thing last minute and didn't read and revise it three times like I like to because I wanted to get it posted for those of you who like the story.
Please review whether you like it or not, but please try not to be too harsh.
To those who have complained about my stories and are saying I need a beta reader, I will tell you that I'm never going to do that and I write on here because I love writing stories. This is Fan fiction you shouldn't have to be a professional writer to be liked on here.
Anyways thank you all for reading, I don't know when I will get the next chapter up, I have writers block at the moment so I may try to work on one of my other stories.