Revenge: A Hero's Motivation
Chapter 4: Wild
[Route 7]
White sat on his friend's porch as he said goodbye to his clinging mother one last time.
"Carr are you sure you guys want to go alone? Will you be okay? Do you have enough food?"
He tried to get away again. "Yes mom, we have everything. We'll be fine I promise."
"Honey…I'm just worried about you two." She walked outside to see White on the porch with his backpack and Mankey jumping around him, clearly excited.
"And White honey. You make sure that you guys stay safe; I know you both love getting into trouble."
White smiled at her. "Thank you, we'll stay safe."
As they followed route seven, they got nearer to Whites house.
"Hey buddy…you don't want to just go on this hike do you?"
"I want to find the people who did this. I want to know why. I need to… I don't know… look for clues."
"Yeah I get that man. But you probably won't find them! It was just some mugging that went south."
"You don't mug someone in broad daylight, and muggers don't have psychic Pokèmon at their disposal, and the way they talked. They clearly knew my dad. There's just too much that doesn't make sense."
White turned at his road and started walking towards his house.
"White? Why are we going to your house?" Carr asked him.
"I told you. I need to look for clues. So this is where I'm gonna start. Maybe they left something. Or dropped something. I don't know man."
Carr didn't stop him. But he seriously didn't want to go back there, and knew that White shouldn't either.
"Hey white maybe I should just go alone?" Carr said, catching up to his friend.
White turned and looked at him. "Look buddy. You don't need to protect me. Please just let me do this." His Mankey started getting anxious as they got to the spot where he was knocked out. There were still bloody leaves on the ground.
Carr bent over and touched them. They looked just like the leaves from a razor leaf he had seen at school. "Did they have a grass type? I didn't see one."
"No? What makes you say that?" He turned and saw the bloody grass blades on the ground. Darwin started picking them up and throwing them, screeching. "Oh that's right. I let you down Darwin, I was paying attention to dad."
Mankey looked up towards him and ran over to his side, climbing up his back and holding on. "That wasn't a grass type. It was the Mr. Mime."
"Isn't that a clue? Mr. Mime, that's not a Kanto Pokèmon at all. Its Johto."
"You're right. That is too strange to overlook." He took a small tablet out of his pocket and scribbled down two words: "Mime-Johto."
White and Carr both started walking towards the house when White saw something shining on the ground. He bent over to pick it up. It was the knife his father had used. But he had never seen it before that day.
It had two words scribbled on the side. "Cinnabar Mansion". Was that where his dad went on his business trips? Or maybe that was a vacation spot? He put the knife in his pocket and continued to the house.
The house hadn't changed at all. Well, had he really expected it to?
"Hey white. What do you really think we're gonna find in here?"
"Honestly? There's just one thing I want. Then we can leave."
Carr followed his friend. "Yeah? What is it?"
White walked up the stairs and went into his parent's room. "Help me look for a stone my mom had."
"It's too surreal being in here. I just want to get going already."
White started opening drawers and rummaging through things. He starting throwing clothes on the floor. "I know it's in here. I've seen it…once…a few years ago."
Carr looked under the bed and saw a box. He pulled it out and placed it on the bed. "Hey White. Is this it?"
White turned and saw the blue light that gleamed from the box. "Yes! That's it!"
The gravel road started to get wider as they got closer to the small villages outside of Celadon. The only people traveling at this time of the evening were hikers, with the occasional jogger who passed them right by. The sun had almost set, but the two boys kept walking. Carr started to shiver as the temperature fell at a steady rate.
"Hey, don't you think it's a good time to stop for the night?"
White looked around. "You know, maybe we waited too long. I guess we should have stopped earlier."
There were a few camps around them already set up. This road was really popular for campers, it wasn't too long, it was just good enough for a two-or-three-day hike and camp adventure.
"I don't want to mess with making a fire and setting up our tents in the dark, you think we could join somebody else?" Carr asked.
"I don't like big groups, but if we can find one or two people then sure."
They walked a little while longer until Carr saw a small fire with one tent next to it. "Hey let's ask these people."
"Umm…Which people? I don't see anybody there."
"Let's just try, okay?"
They walked up and tried to talk to the people inside the tent. There was no response. Carr tapped on the tent and tried again. Nothing. The fire next to the tent was very weak, and starting to go out.
"Hey let's try to fix this pathetic little thing." White said to his friend.
They walked around the outskirts of the woods, and found enough logs and brush for the fire. They started tending to it, and made the fire much bigger, enough to warm a few people.
The sun was completely down, and White and Carr started to make their tents with only the red and orange light of the fire to guide them. As they were finishing, a girl's voice spoke.
"Uhh…hello? Who are you people?"
They both turned around to see a girl their age walking towards them with a single log in her arms. She wore glasses, a blue cut off shirt, and a white fedora that covered her long green hair. "Oh hey. I'm White, and this is Carr. We were wondering if we could set our tents up by your fire?"
"My fire? Well, sure you guys can hang out. Did you guys make this?" she pointed at the roaring camp fire.
"Well, it was pretty dead when we showed up, so we fixed it up."
"Oh yeah. I'm really no good at making fires I guess, but I'm trying!" She dropped the one log she had.
"Just one log?" Carr asked.
"Just one? Do I need more than that?" She asked.
"Well…maybe a few. But that's good too!"
"Oh I'm sorry. My name's Green. It's good to meet you boys!" she said with a cute smile
"Are you camping alone tonight?" White asked.
"Yeah, I'm traveling by myself actually." She said as she sat down on the log she brought for her fire.
White and Carr both finished their tents, took off their packs, and sat down around the fire too.
"Isn't that dangerous, to travel alone?" Carr asked her.
"Is it dangerous to travel alone, or to travel alone as a girl?" She asked him back.
"Umm…well that's not what I meant. I just mean- "
She cut him off. "Well I'm not alone. I've got my pumpkin." She took a Pokeball off of her belt and, with a brilliant flash of red light, a red lizard with fire on its tail appeared.
"Char Char!" It cried happily.
"Oh my gosh! That's a Charmander! I've read about those, they're so rare! How'd you catch it?" White asked, suddenly very excited.
"I didn't catch her; she was given to me by Professor Oak." She said with a smile.
Charmander happily walked towards the fire and felt the warmth against her skin.
"Professor Oak? Are you serious? You know the Kanto champion?" Carr asked in shock
"I don't just know him silly, I'm one of his interns. I want to be a Pokèmon professor like him one day, so I've been working for him for over a year now." She said with pride and a smile that told both boys she had exactly the job she wanted.
"Well if you're his intern, then why are you here? Is this vacation or something?"
"What? Vacation? Never! I'm doing research for him! He told me that I have a gift for making friends with Pokèmon, so I'm traveling around Kanto, researching every Pokèmon I can find for him!"
"And you're doing it alone?" White asked again.
"Wait more importantly, what's the champion like?" Carr said quickly, ignoring Whites question.
"Whoa slow down! Umm…Well he's very professional. And he's very busy. He spends half of his week at his lab with his Pokèmon in Pallet town, and the other half at the Indigo Plateau doing…well whatever champions do. I don't really care about Pokèmon fighting. I just want to learn about him."
"So you haven't gotten to watch him battle?"
"Oh he's invited me tons of times, but battles are dangerous, and if you don't know what you're doing, Pokèmon can get killed, so I've never gone."
"Yeah remember that Caterpie that got cut in half?" Carr asked White.
White laughed "No I still don't remember it, I wasn't there. But you've told me about it like twenty times!"
"Well you should have seen that thing! It was so gross! It was oozing and squirming!"
"Eww no stop!" Green said. "I don't wanna think about that! That's terrible!"
Carr just laughed at her. "Yeah but still! It was so cool!"
"Oh my gosh dude you're gonna make her sick! Cut it out." White said with a smile, watching as Green out her hands over her ears.
Suddenly Charmander ran over to White and put her arms up. "Char?"
"Awe hey little bud..umm.." he looked up at Green.
"Her name is Pumpkin."
"Hey little Pumpkin." He carefully picked the Pokèmon up, keeping careful watch to keep its tail away from him.
She chuckled "What? Caveman scared of fire?"
"Hey I just don't wanna get hurt okay!"
Charmander snuggled in Whites lap and started purring softly.
"So I told you about me, what brings you two out here?" Green asked the boys.
Carr looked at White for a moment, and then said "uhh…we're hiking the Celadon city bike trail."
She had a blank look on her face. "Umm…bike? You guys don't have bikes?"
White laughed. "It's the hiking trail that goes from Celadon city to Fuschia City. There's a bike trail but you don't have to ride bikes, you can hike it."
"Ohh fun! Then…why are you on this side of Celadon?"
"We both live on route seven, so we have to walk to Celadon first."
"That sounds really cool! I didn't know that was a hiking route, but that's the way I'm going actually! We could travel together!" Green said happily.
They were both silent for a moment. "Yeah maybe." White said hesitantly. She didn't need to know why they were actually traveling. "Anyway, I think I'm going to bed."
Charmander crawled off of white, and both boys started towards their tents.
As they walked, Charmander started to growl and all three kids turned to see what she was looking at.
A beautiful fox Pokèmon, with yellowish red hair stood near their fire, looking at the three of them. It stood about three feet tall, and its red eyes burned bright as it stared at the three kids. It had many tails behind it, which only added to its majestic appearance.
"What is it?" Carr whispered.
"Hey. You can come here. We're safe people." Green said, taking a step towards the Pokèmon.
Charmander suddenly started to growl louder. "Char! Charmander!"
The fox looked down at the Pokèmon that was trying to intimidate it. Then turned around, and slowly walked away, into the darkness.
"Well…. yeah that was exciting. See you guys tomorrow!" Carr said as he yawned and went into his tent.
The sun had finally popped its head up, and the Pidgey families were chirping the sounds of an autumn morning.
White watched as his Mankey finished his food and tried to steal some of Psyduck's.
Carr's Pokèmon were also out, eating their breakfast, when Green finally got out of her tent. She was wearing a new shirt, she probably had a whole wardrobe in her bag!
"Good morning guys! Breakfast already?"
"Yep! Why don't you bring Charmander out to meet everybody?" White asked her.
"Ohh! What is that?!" she asked, ignoring the question.
She ran up to Mankey and looked at it extremely closely, and started to poke its belly.
"Umm. Maybe you shouldn't do that?" White started to say
"Key?" it grunted.
"You're so cute!" She hugged it tightly and then let go and pulled out a red tablet from her back pocket.
She held it in front of the very confused Pokèmon and the device spoke in a robotic voice. "Mankey, the pig monkey Pokèmon. Fighting type. It is an agile Pokémon that lives in trees. It angers easily and will not hesitate to attack anything."
Green laughed. "You aren't an angry Pokèmon, you won't attack me will you?" She petted the Pokèmon.
Mankey it's his head to the side as she started to pet him, and then turned and jumped away, and started to chase after Carr's Magnemite again.
"What is that thing that talked to you?" Carr asked her, moving closer to see the device.
"This? It's a prototype of something Professor Oak is trying to create. It's like a dictionary of Pokèmon information! That's why I'm traveling, I'm learning about Pokèmon and putting everything I learn in this. It's the Pokedex!" She handed it out to them.
White took it from her. "So you're really a Pokèmon researcher! That's so cool!"
"Any Pokèmon that one of the researchers has worked with will have information in there, but a lot of Pokèmon aren't documented yet."
"So, I can just name any Pokèmon, and it could be in here?" White asked.
"Yes! Just say the name, or scan the Pokèmon."
White looked down at the Pokedex, it was red, and it opened up like a book. There was an illuminating screen, and buttons all over it. There was a blue speaker at the top left. White spoke into the speaker.
"Mr. Mime."
The device spoke: "Mr. Mime, the Barrier Pokémon. Typing unknown. It uses pantomime to make actual walls appear. Because it is rarely discovered, information about this Pokémon is extremely limited."
"That's quite a random Pokèmon." Green commented as she took the tablet back. "I've only ever seen pictures of it."
"You said you can add information to that?" Carr asked.
"Yes! So if I had a chance to study one of those, I could fill in that gap."
"It said typing unknown. Change that to Psychic."
"Oh! Really? Awesome another edit!" She opened the 'dex again and started typing.
"So White, we've both got two Pokèmon, wanna battle?"
White smiled little bit, he was disappointed that he couldn't find out more. But he would.
"Yeah let's do it!"
"White are you ready?" Green asked.
White stood about twenty-five feet away from Carr, and Green was standing to the side, between the two of them "I'm ready."
"Carr, are you ready?"
"I'm ready!" He said excitedly.
"Alright. Three…two…one…fight!"
White took one ball off of his belt, clicked button to expand it to its full size, and threw it onto the battlefield before him.