A thing that I have forgotten to mention is that the partner Pokémon were whild, only living with Professor Oak for reason's I have mentioned, that was the reason for his concern earlier, however in the two years they have stayed with Ash the professor suggested capturing them in pokéballs so no one catches them instead, when it was done, they let themselves out and warned everyone not to put them in pokéballs, that was the reason for their refusal to get in the pokéballs, just tohelp you dear readers understand what was happening.
Please enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 3:
The Majestic encounter!
The journey had begun, and Ash, Pikachu, and Eevee were all filled with anticipation. Ash had always dreamed of this journey, and now it was finally happening.
"So what do we do on a Pokémon journey?" Eevee asked Pikachu.
"I'm not sure", Pikachu replied, "maybe we just walk? I think it has something to do with befriending and battling Pokémon and getting stronger."
"if only we can communicate better with Ash, then we can ask him", Eevee pondered, trying to come up with a solution. "Maybe we can build a - oh, never mind. We can't build anything. We can learn how to s- "
"Stop thinking about it," Pikachu interjected. "You're just tiring yourself out. Don't think about it so much. In the end, you'll find the solution."
"yeah, you're right", Eevee agreed with Pikachu.
Ash was silent for a while, contemplating the amazing things he, Pikachu, and Eevee could do together. He couldn't believe that Pikachu and Eevee had come with him; he didn't know what he'd do without Eevee's gentle tickles to wake him up in the morning, or Pikachu's weak shock to give him a quick jolt for quick waking up. He thought he'd have a starter, but he didn't think it would be the same way. He was lost in thought when he heard a voice, "Eevee?", Ash looked to his friend, who was perched on his shoulder, looking at him. He could tell that Eevee was making sure he was alright. `Are you okay?`
"I'm just thinking," Ash replied.
"Ee?" Eevee asked, probably meaning, `About what?`
"I'm just glad you're with me on my journey," Ash said, smiling.
"Pika, Pika," Pikachu chirped from Ash's other shoulder, and when Ash looked at him, he understood, `We're happy too.`
Ash was about to say something when he heard another voice: "Pidgey, Pidgey!"
"Hmm? What's that, a Pidgey?" Ash exclaimed. His Pokédex beeped, and neither Ash nor his two Pokémon were happy when they heard what it said.
"That means I'm stu - "
"Who is this thing calling stupid and weak?" Eevee interrupted, his high-pitched voice piercing the air.
Pidgey was horrified, and Pikachu yelled, "If I see that Oak man!"
"you!" Eevee said with anger in his voice, "you made an object call my friend stupid."
Eevee Quick Attacked Pidgey, who tried to defend himself, "It's not my fault, but I'm sorry!"
"It is your fault," Eevee said, his anger showing as he Tackled Pidgey, "the thing said, that you steal food from 'trainers who are stupid' and weak'."
"How can you be so sure it meant your trainer?" Pidgey asked, still trying to defend himself from Eevee.
"You came and tried to steal food from him," Eevee replied.
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that," Pidgey said, Eevee let go of him after that, "I'll never steal from him again."
Eevee didn't reply, he just turned around and saw a smiling Pikachu and a shocked Ash. He jumped on Ash's shoulder.
"Eevee one, Pikachu zero."
"We've just started our journey, Eevee, wait, you just wait," Pikachu replied, not even fazed or shocked by Eevee's previous behavior. He knew they both had that thing in them, the calm before and after the storm feeling; they only get serious when danger is around them.
"What was that all about?" Ash asked, still in shock.
Red's heart was pounding as he ran, the Spearows were getting closer and closer. He had to think of something fast. but first, Pikachu!
"come on, just hurry up, we just need to get away from the Spearow flock, then we can talk about your aggression towards me". Red shouted, his voice filled with urgency.
Pikachu was still exhausted, but he managed to keep up with Red, "of course, I had to act aggressively ! I couldn't just run away, I had to Thunder Shock that Spearow", Pikachu said sarcastically to himself, of course, Red did not understand him.
Red was determined to get away from the Spearow flock, he was running faster and faster. He needed to get away from the Spearow flock, no matter what.
"Get in the ball", Red said to Pikachu, both were still running.
"WHAT? NO! absolutely no!" Pikachu shouted, he was not going to get in the ball, he was also never going to let a kid tell him what to do.
"Come on, Pikachu, we don't have time for this, just get in the ball, it's the only way we can get away from the Spearow flock", Red pleaded.
Pikachu fell, "I give up, I can't run any longer."
Red stopped, "Pikachu! Are you OK?"
"I don't think so", Pikachu replied weakly.
"You must be exhausted, I'll carry you", Red said, seeing that trying to put Pika in the ball wouldn't be an option, he tried to put his hand on Pikachu, who immediately stood on his paws.
"Keep your human hands away from me."
"Whoa! don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you", Red tried.
"WE went through this, stay away from me", Pikachu shouted.
Red was worried for the Pikachu, he was not going to let it get injured by his stubbornness, he kind of reminds him of himself and Ash, and they are more stubborn, "the Spearows are getting closer, you're coming with me, whether you like it or not", Red's tone was more than enough to stop Pikachu's protesting, the electric type was now stunned, he didn't expect a powerful commanding personality under that kindness the boy showed him.
"Fine, but just this once", the mouse warned.
Red quickly grabbed Pikachu and put him on his shoulder.
He started running faster than before, his heart was pounding even more. He was still determined to get away from the Spearow flock, `Something! Anything! Just one idea, I need to get to Viridian quickly, come on Red! think, think.` he thought.
There was a loud noise that Ash couldn't quite identify, and it was making him nervous. Even his two partners were on high alert, ready for anything to come out of anywhere.
Suddenly, from far away, Ash could see someone he recognized running towards them. "Red!" Ash exclaimed.
"Ash! Run as fast as you can to Viridian, it's the closest city from here and we need to-", Red shouted, not even finishing his sentence before continuing to run.
"Um, OK," Ash said. Confused, he then saw a flock of Spearow flying towards them. "What the-"
"Just run!" Red shouted, his voice barely audible from the distance.
Ash took off, Pikachu and Eevee jumping off his shoulders to push him forward, increasing his speed until they were almost out of Red's sight.
But there was something the three of them couldn't see at the speed they were going in.
"You three! Slow down, there's a cliff over there!" Red yelled.
Ash heard him, and so did Pikachu and Eevee. They quickly slowed down, barely stopping before the edge of the cliff.
"What were you thinking?" Red yelled at Ash when he caught up, panting for breath.
"I was surprised," Ash countered.
"AND WHAT, YOU WANTED TO DIE?" Red said.
"No, but-" they didn't have time to finish, as the Spearow flock's ear-piercing screeching was heard from behind them. "Oh no! Where do we go now?"
"I don't know, but we better think of something, and quick!" Red replied, a little nervous.
Seconds of silence followed.
"Ash! Take Pika and run, I'll distract the Spearow."
"What? No, you're not staying alone. Either we stay together or leave together. besides, there's nowhere to run," Ash replied, trying to convince Red.
Red was silent for a moment.
"Fine, but we're all running if there is any danger of the Spearow attacking us."
"Define danger," Ash said.
*rain started. * (I will be using the ** to describe things like sounds, rain or anything of the sort, you will know what they mean when you see them)
Red sighed, but he didn't want to get into an argument. "I don't have any Pokémon other than Pika," he said, looking at the tired and barely conscious Pikachu on his shoulder. "but he's .. well, so you're on this with your Pikachu and Eevee. I'll try to help as much as I can."
"Pika!" Pikachu said.
"Vee!" Eevee said.
"Alright! We're ready for the Spearows," Ash said, loud enough for the flock to hear. And they came faster, like they were waiting.
"Pikachu! Thunder Shock!"
"Pi, ca, chu!" Pikachu cried, then let out a shockingly powerful Thunder Shock attack.. literally.
The Spearows cried out in pain.
Pikachu looked at Eevee. "Pika, pi pi pi," he said with a smile.
"Eevee vee," Eevee said in a threatening way.
"Pika pi?"
"Eevee vee," Eevee replied, this time with a smile. He looked at Ash. "Vee."
"You wanna go too?" Ash asked.
"Vee," Eevee said, nodding.
"Hmm, alright Eevee! Use Quick Attack!"
"Ee!" Eevee ran quickly, surprising the Spearows, then started to Quick Attack them two after two. "Vee, vee, ee, Vee!"
Some of the Spearows turned around, flying a little far from Pikachu and Eevee. It wasn't out of fear, however, as they soon turned back to face the two Pokémon, preparing for.
"Whoa! That's Drill Peck!" Red shouted. "Ash! Make Eevee get out of their way before it's too late!"
"EEVEE! LOOK OUT!" Ash warned, but it was too late.
The Spearows had already launched their attack.
Eevee heard Ash though, and he tried his best to dodge as many attacks as he could.
Pikachu came to help him. "Pikachu!" he cried, before letting out an even more shocking Thunder Shock attack.
Eevee was hurt a little bit from the Drill pecks, but he continued despite that, the Spearows weren't backing down, and neither was he.
" Alright Spearows! Just leave us alone and we'll pretend this never happened", Picachu said.
"Never!" the Spearow flock leader screamed, "I'll get that Pikachu" he pointed to Red's injured Pikachu "For thunder Shocking me."
"Alright Eevee! Use Tackle on that one, it looks like it's their leader", Ash said, pointing at the Pokémon that screeched before.
"Right", Eevee said, then he did not care about the conversation between Pikachu and the leader Spearow, he just obeyed, it's easy to do that, he interrupted the conversation, and Tackled the leader, and the leader fell and screeched.
`this is really annoying`, Eevee thought. "do you want to challenge me to a screaming battle?" Eevee shouted with his high-pitched voice, causing everyone, human or Pokémon to feel so much pain in their ears.
"ah, I'd rather not", the leader of the flock said, a little intimidated, "I really need my hearing an-"
"don't say anything, you'll make him do that again", Pikachu warned the leader, still feeling the pain, and that was heard in his voice.
"mmmm", a Spearow said, "no speak, oh no!"
Eevee looked at them, he looked like he is about to use that `worse than a Hyper Voice` move, "no, please", the Spearow pleaded.
"ha, got you", Eevee said with an I tricked you look on his face, "two to one."
"two to two, I helped you before, and THUNDER SHOCK", Pikachu said, then hit five Spearow with one Thunder Shock, how? I have no idea, "make it two to three."
"Isn't that three to two?"
"Oh yeah, that's write", Pikachu replied, then Quick Attacked another Spearow.
"Objection!" Eevee said to Pikachu's response.
"What."
"if you attack a Pokémon, that doesn't count, I think we'll be having three billion points then", Eevee explained.
"Oh! good point, still three to two, I hit five Spearow with one attack", Pikachu said while still attacking the spearows.
"Fair enough", Eevee agreed.
"Ash! This is no use," Red said, "there are a lot of spearows."
"You're right. What do we do?" Ash asked.
"Hmm, we'll have to jump."
"In the water? But what about-"
"We're in a fight with a flock of Spearows that are attacking us and surrounding us too. Is that better than swimming in a river while carrying our Pokémon?"
"Uh, yeah, no, okay. Pikachu! Eevee, come on! Let's go!" Ash called to the two Pokémon.
"Right!" both said in unison and hurried to run away from the Spearows.
*The rain became heavier. *
"Get back here you little-" the Spearow flock leader said screeching.
"Jump!" Red called to Ash as he jumped first.
Ash followed suit, and both of them started to swim as fast as they could, with Pikachu and Eevee's support, and with each other's as well. They continued like that for what felt like hours, the Spearows flying above them, waiting for them to get out of the water. Ash and Red were not aware of the water stream they were headed to until they were in it. The water stream was so fast and so strong, that neither of them could struggle against it. The Spearow flock could not catch up with the stream, which was good, however, they did not give up.
"Follow that water stream and we'll get them!" the leader screeched.
A girl had been fishing for almost two and a half hours when, all of a sudden, she finally got a bite. "Finally! A bite!" she exclaimed, trying to pull it out of the water. However, it wouldn't come out easily. She pulled as hard as she could, but to no avail.
"Oh come on, is that a Gyarados?" she wondered with frustration, peering into the water. She was shocked to see two boys and three Pokémon, one of them holding the rod in its mouth and clinging to one of the boys with all its might.
She also understood why it was so hard to pull them out of the water, due to the strong current.
She immediately sent out her water Pokémon. "Staryu! Go!"
"Sta!" Staryu said once it was released.
"Help me get them out of the water," the girl requested.
"Sta!" Staryu dived into the water and managed to get the two boys out. They were awake, but barely. One of them immediately started coughing up water once he was out of the water.
The girl gasped when she saw him. "Are you okay?"
"yeah, but...but..." he tried to explain.
The other one was in better shape than the first. He said, "No, our Pokémon are hurt. We were running away from a Spearow flock and my friend and I need a lot of help. Can you please help us?"
She didn't know what she could do to help them. The Pokémon Center was not near them, so she couldn't use her bicycle to get them there.
"Well..."
"Can you at least tell me where the Pokémon Center is?"
"Yeah, it's that way," she said, pointing in the direction.
"Thanks," he said, then looked at the boy on the ground. "Ash! get up!"
"Just a minute," the tired boy on the ground said.
"Vee, ee vee!" the Eevee that was with the boy jumped on him, trying to get him to get up.
"Alright, alright," the boy got up. "Let's go."
"Ash! Get, up, get, up", Eevee said while jumping on Ash.
"Alright, alright", Ash stood up, "let's go." Eevee jumped on one of his shoulders and Pikachu jumped on the other.
Screeching was heard.
"oh no! already?" Ash groaned.
"What?" the girl that rescued them asked.
"Spearows!" Red said.
"run!" Ash ran after that.
"We need to do something", Pikachu said to the other two Pokémon.
"but what?" Eevee asked.
The other Pikachu (red's one) stayed silent.
"pikachu! Eevee! Get in the pokéballs", Ash said.
"What? No, no, no", Eevee said, threateningly.
"It's the only way you two can be safe a-"
"no", Eevee said with a dangerous expression and voice, "we, are, not, going, in, the, pokéballs, Ash!"
"I'll distract the Spearow and you go with Red then", Ash said.
"what? No, you're already hurt enough", Red tried to stop `this ridiculous idea of Ash's, he can't just go and kill himself or something like that.`
"You have a better idea?" Ash asked.
Red sighed, "no, but don't-"
"then take Pikachu and Eevee with you", Ash then looked at Eevee, "Go."
"Wait! No, I changed my mind, I want to go in the ball, I don't want to leave you alone", Eevee said, worry in his voice.
"I'll stay, you go", Pikachu said.
"What?" Eevee asked, surprised.
"I can help him, you might get hurt, come on, trust me", Pikachu said.
"fine", Eevee jumped from Ash's shoulder, then walked slowly to Red, who kept running.
"look! I'll take Eevee, but you keep Pikachu", Red said to Ash, in a tone allowing no argument to follow.
"hmm", Ash said, then turns to distract the Spearow for the others to go get help, "Do you know who am I Spearow? I am Ash Ketchum, the Pokémon master in training, and I am not gonna let some spearows stop me."
"And I am one of his partners, Pikachu", Pikachu said, it only sounded like `Pika Pikachu to humans, like other Pokémon speech, but right now, somehow, Ash was able to understand the meaning clearly.
Thunder roared and lightning struck.
"Thundershock!" Ash ordered.
"THUNDER, SHOCK, GO!" Pikachu cried, and he let out a Thunder Shock attack, or so he thought, the Thunder Shock was different, it was something else, it felt more gigantic, more powerful, It felt much faster, Thunderbolt.
"Whoa! Amazing!" Ash exclaimed in awe.
Screeching could be heard from the flock of Spearow, and they started to fall, one after another, the heavy rain conducted electricity which helped hit all the Spearow, and lightning strikes helped as well, this continued until the last Spearow fell unconscious.
Pikachu stopped that powerful electric attack of his, and started inhaling and exhaling, "What, was, that."
"That's awesome, Pikachu! You defeated them all!" Ash said, when he saw him tired and gasping for air, he became concerned. "hmm? are you alright?"
"Let's, just, go, OK?" the Pokémon said tiredly between breaths.
"Let's go to the Pokémon Center. Red can't be far. It was just a Thunderbolt for thirty seconds," Ash said, then started to run to catch up with Red and the girl.
As they were running, Ash and Pikachu saw Eevee alone. "Eevee?" Ash slowed down, then stopped.
"Hmm? Oh! Ash! You're alright, PIKACHU!" Eevee raised his voice when he saw Pikachu's exhaustion. "Are you OK?"
"Just tired," Pikachu said. "So what are you doing here? I thought you went with Red."
"I was following Red, and I kind of lost him, so I kind of came back here to look for you," Eevee said, pretending to tell the truth.
"Eevee!" Pikachu said.
Eevee sighed. "I didn't want to leave you two alone, but I didn't arrive while you were battling. how did the battle go so quickly?"
"I learned a new move, Thunderbolt."
"What? OH COME ON, I wanted to see you learn that!"
"It was amazing, cool, awesome, an-" Pikachu didn't finish the sentence and he fell from Ash's shoulder onto the ground. "Ow!"
"PIKACHU!" both Ash and Eevee said in their language, concerned.
"We can talk later, now, we're going to the Pokémon Center and faster," Ash said, then he picked up Pikachu and Eevee and continued moving, this time, he was running for his best friends, to get them to the Pokémon Center quicker.
While Ash was running, he and his partner Pokémon saw a rainbow after the sky cleared.
"Wow!" Ash said. "Cool!" his Pokémon agreed with him. Then, they saw a Pokémon, it was a magnificent and majestic bird Pokémon, that's what the three thought about it.
It was flying and leaving a rainbow behind itself.
"Whoa!" the three said in their languages.
"Who's that Pokémon?" Ash said, pulling out his Pokédex.
"Unknown. There are Pokémon that are not discovered yet," the mechanical robotic voice of the Pokédex was heard.
"Unknown?" Ash said.
"communication," Eevee said.
"Hmm?" Pikachu asked.
"I don't believe that this Pokédex is useful. First it called Ash stupid, then it didn't know the Pokémon? I think that I'm better of a Pokédex to Ash than his Pokédex. I just want to talk with him, and communicate better," Eevee explained emphasizing `communicate`.
"Oh! Now communication makes sense."-
"Please be careful of any suspicious-looking strangers, tourists, anyone like that", a feminine voice was heard speaking, she was Officer Jenny, officer Jenny usually takes care of poachers and thieves, and other evil activities, sometimes helps trainers, and she also investigates cases if needed. she was now warning the citizens of Viridian about Pokémon thieves and poachers spotted in the area.
"Hmm? hey! Stop right there, suspicious-looking stranger", she said, pointing to a boy with two Pokémon one in his arms and the other on his shoulder.
Ash was in a hurry, he had to get his friends to the Pokémon Center, he didn't care where Red and the other girl went, he just wanted to get to Viridian's Pokémon Center, then he heard, "hey! Stop right there, suspicious-looking stranger."
"suspicious?" Eevee said, "wow, rude."
"but I didn't do anything", Ash told the officer. "And what's that about suspicious?"
"that Pikachu is tired, and that Eevee too, they don't look very good, you can't possibly say that these two are your Pokémon", the officer replied. "And you're not putting them in pokéballs, that's why you're suspicious."
"But they are my Pokémon, and they don't wanna go in their pokéballs", Ash said.
"and why is that Pikachu very injured?" the officer asked, suspicion in her voice.
"That's why I'm in a hurry", Ash explained, "a Spearow flock was after us, we battled it and-"
"you need to get to the Pokémon Center to heel your Pokémon, right?" the Officer asked, realizing something.
"um, right", Ash replied.
"Oh! So you're that third kid ", seeing Ash's puzzled look, she explained, " two kids, a boy, and a girl told me the same thing, they also told me that a boy with a Pikachu is searching for the Viridian Pokémon Center, but they didn't tell me about the Eevee, is it yours too?"
"yeah, he is, and they're my friends, and I need to go to the Pokémon Center quickly so-"
"come on, I'll take you", the officer said, then got Ash to her motorcycle and quickly disappeared, driving away.
That was not the best start for Red, `well, I mean I got to Viridian quickly, even if I swam in a river, got electrocuted by Pika, and was about to be arrested by officer Jenny, cool adventure, it's good to be optimistic, I mean I asked officer Jenny to bring Ash when she sees him, and everything is good, right?` he thought.
Suddenly, the door to the Pokémon Center swung open, and a motorcycle entered, it was officer Jenny's.
"How many times have I told you not to do that?" nurse Joy said to officer Jenny.
"it's an emergency", Jenny replied.
Nurse Joy saw the exhausted Pikachu and took it immediately from the boy who was sitting behind officer Jenny, "What happened to that Pikachu?" the nurse's concern and shock were obvious in her voice, probably because of the Pokémon's exhaustion.
Red did not see the boy clearly, but he recognizes that Pikachu, that's Ash's!
"Spearow flock", the boy, whom Red was sure is ash explained.
Ash gave the nurse his Eevee too and thanked officer Jenny for the help, and made his way to the waiting room where Red was.
"where have you been? What happened?" Rather than allowing Ash to respond, Red kept asking questions, "what about the Spearow flock? what were you doing with officer Jenny? How did the fight go? What happened to Pikachu and Eevee?"
"um, Red! Are you OK?" Ash asked, knowing Red wasn't the one to ask so many questions. Usually, he just asks one or two questions and that's it. He is not mister emotions.
"AM I OK? ARE YOU OK? We WERE chased by A SPEAROW FLOCK ASH! A SPEAROW FLOCK", Red said. "AND YOU WERE TRYING TO DISTRACT THEM, ALONE."
"Oh! yeah, Pikachu learned Thunderbolt while we were battling and-", Ash barely showed any emotions, he was tired, only able to get to Viridian because of the adrenalin in his body, which was now gone, swimming in a river wasn't the best, but coughing water afterward is worse, then there was the spearows.
"Alright, tell me all about it, OK? But first, sit down and rest."
Ash did tell Red about what happened, and he got his Pokémon afterward, and Red told Ash about the girl, "her name is Misty, she's a gym leader, she didn't tell me which gym though", He Also told Ash that she left to go back to her gym.
Join them in the Pokémon Center cafeteria as they were talking about something completely different.
After going to check the Viridian City gym the next day, it turned out that the gym leader there does not battle trainers with less than seven gym badges, it is said that he is the strongest gym leader, in the Kanto and Johto regions, he defeated three of the elite four members of Kanto, and of Johto as well, and lost to the fourth member and the champion of both the regions but that was six years ago, and he always comes back stronger, that is what is known about him, A trainer needs at least seven gym badges to have a chance against his weakest team of Pokémon.
"I can't believe we can't go battle against the Viridian gym leader", Ash said, disappointed.
"Yeah, and I was looking forward to that", Red agreed, "they say no one defeated him for six years, I wanted to be the first to do it."
"excuse me? I'll be the first one to do it", Ash said.
"dream Ash! You're allowed to dream."
["you dream, I'm the first."
"is that a challenge?"
"hmm, it is."
"you're on."
"you two don't get along when it comes to battling, do you?" a voice said.
Both turned around to see.
"Leaf?"
"Hi, I didn't expect to see you two together, in Viridian?" Leaf, their friend said.
"yeah, that's a long story", Red said.
"but we're here, what are you doing?" Ash asked.
"Trainers pass through Viridian, Ash, I'm a trainer you know", leaf said.
"yeah, I know", Ash said.
"anyways, did you hear about the Viridian gym?" Red asked.
"yeah, I just did from you two, and now I don't know what to do, I'm lost, literally and not literally", Leaf said.
"Well, there are next gyms."
"I know, I don't have a map, and I don't know what gym should I go to next."
"oh, yeah, that's, um", Ash said.
"not good", Red finished.
"The problem is where do I find a map", Leaf said, "then I can think of what gym to go to, at least then I'll know where are the gyms."
"I have a map", Red said, "you can take it."
"Really? Thanks, wait! What about you?" she asked.
"don't worry about me, I'll buy another one once I get to Pewter City ", Red said.
"but what if you get lost? I can't take your map, hmm, I know, I can follow you to Pewter City, I can buy a map there."
"OK."
"What about you Ash, Where are you going next?" Leaf asked Ash.
"Well, Pewter is the best option right now! Two of my best friends are going there, I hear that most trainers challenge the Pewter gym first, after that Viridian thing, so yeah, I think I'll come along", Ash replied.
"Welcome Ketchum", Leaf said.
Suddenly, there was a ding ding bell sound.
"trainer Ash Ketchum! Please come get your Pokémon", Nurce Joy's voice was heard from the speakers of the Pokémon Center.
Ash then went to the front desk, got his Starters and Pokémon friends, then returned to continue chatting with his two human friends.
When he came back, he saw a little surprised Leaf.
"Huh, so you did actually start with them", she said. "I didn't believe it when professor Oak told me, thought he was joking."
"nope, it wasn't a joke", Ash answered, "We became the best friends after the summer camp, so when I went to the professor's lab and there were no starters left, they told me they wanna come, so."
"Oh! Yeah, that explains it", Leaf replied. "You didn't show up whith us, so I just thought you don't wanna go, come to think of it, I shouldn't have thought of that, you never wanted something more then to be a trainer- wait a minute!- Was that what happened to you too Red?"
"What do you mean", Ash asked Leaf.
"He didn't show up too", She replied pointing at Red.
"I didn't", Red explained, "I was helping dad, one of his Pokémon was stuck, and when I came, there were no starters, or official ones at least, there was Pika."
"the Pikachu?" Ash asked, to which Red nodded.
The conversation continued like that until.
*explosion* (as I said, I am using it for sounds to so)
"what's going on?" Ash asked Nurce Joy.
" there's a blackout, maybe it's the generator, I'll go check, don't worry", the nurce assured, then startedwalking.
Before she could go far, however, two voices stopped her, and every one looked to see what is happening. Smoke appeared, obscuring everyone's vision.
"Prepare for trouble", a feminine voice said.
"Make it double", a masculine voice continued.
"To protect the world from devastation", the feminine voice said.
"To unite all people with in are nation", the male continued.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love."
"To extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jessie", the now introduced Jessie said, appearing from the smoke.
"James", the now known James said, while he like his other companion appeared.
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light", Jessie said.
"Surrender now or prepare to fight", James said.
"Meowth, that's right", a feline like Pokémon agreed, he, like his Team Rocket companions, appeared from the smoke.
The trainers were shocked, and frightened as well.
around the world, Team Rocket are infamous for their cruel, evil methods of operation; they steal Pokémon in the worst possible ways, train them, or experiment on them if they see they are not worth the effort to train, they may also throw the Pokémon away if not useful, if alive; as a result, the Pokémon may turn into a monster or become terrified of its own shadow. Also they have framed numerous individuals or forced them to carry out their dirty deeds by tricking them, and despite the police's best efforts, said evil doers were never caught, the police were able to arrest low rancked Team Rocket agents, but they were either Mysteriously gon, or dead, or got out of prison, who staid had no helpful information about the operations, projects, or any thing that may lead the police to Team Rocket, or even help them expect where the evil team might appear next / strike next, basically, the useless unneeded grunts.
However, that wasn't the only thing that made the trainers look in shock, as in front of them, A tiny cat-like Pokémon with cream fur that turns brown at the tips of its paws and tail, with a gold Koban coin embedded in its forehead, wide eyes with slit pupils, and four prominent whiskers on its ovoid head, was standing on its hind legs, and talking to them.
"it, it just talked", Leaf said, surprised.
"that's right", said the Pokémon, Meowth.
"Not now Meowth!" Jessie scolded. " We're here to steel Pokémon, not to impress people with your ability to talk", she looked at the Nurse, "Now come on, be a good nurse and hand over all the Pokémon, or else", she threatened.
"The only thing you're getting is Thunder Shocked", Red said.
"Right, PIKACHU, THUNDER SHOCK", Ash commanded.
"Pi, PI, Ka, CHUUU", Pikachu then let out a powerful Thunder Shock, which Team rocket were shocked by.
"Uhhhhh", the treo screamed in pain.
"Why you!" James said angrily.
"Ekans! Take care of them", Jessie said,then thrue a pokéball, and a serpentine like Pokémon materialized. It had a yellow rattle, underbelly, thick neck stripe, and eyes. Three sets of black lines encircled its body, and another line connected each of its slit-pupiled eyes and curves toward its nose. It also had a visible pink and rounded tongue.
"Ekansssss", the Pokémon hissed when it was released.
"Who's that Pokémon?" wondered Ash.
"Ekans, a poison type, careful, its very dangerous", Red warned.
"Ee!" Eevee said while using body language, I want to battle.
"You wanna battle ha?" Ash asked, getting the message.
"Vee", Eevee nodded.
"alright Eevee! I choose you", called an excited Ash, true, these people are evil, but this is his first trainer battle, `this is gonna be so fun`.
"Ssssss", Ekans hissed. "Poissson Sting ."
Ekans stabed Eevee with a poisonous stinger.
"ouch! Ouch? Uh, that kind of didn't hurt", Eevee said, confused.
"Didn't hurttt? Take thissss," Ekans hissed again, then struck Eevee with another Poison Sting.
Eevee did not move a bit, or feel any pain.
"Uh, Ash?" Eevee called.
"uh, use Quick Attack", Ash commanded.
"right!" Eevee obeyed, he quickly vanished from sight with incredible speed, reappeared behind Ekans To avoid being hit by an actual attack, and then struck the Snake Pokémon with his Quick Attack, causing it to hiss in pain.
"what? How", Jessie said, frustrated. how did that Eevee not feel any pain from Ekans's Poison Stings, then deal that mutch damage to her Ekans, `can't it just be poisoned,, then we get this over with already?`
"you're sure you train your Pokémon ?" Leaf asked. "Because it kinda looks weaker then a Dunsparce to me."
"What's wrong with Dunsparce?" Pikachu asked, no one in particular.
"No idea", Eevee answered Pikachu's question.
"we train them you insolent", I am cutting Jessie's speech, its disrespectful so *bleep*. "what else do we do with them, play Hide And Seek?"
"that's Hide And Find", Pikachu corrected.
"a?" Meowth asked.
"it rimes", Pikachu explained.
"Oh! Huh, yeah, it actually kinda does", Meowth agreed.
"what does what?" Ash wondered.
"Your Pikachu gave the game Hide And Seek a new name, Hide And find, says it kinda rimes", Meowth translated.
"I have to agree", James said.
"These two Pokémon are special Jess! Don't ya think?" Meowth asked.
"Eevee yes, mostly because its so cute", their female companion said with wonder eyes. "but the Pikachu? I mean we don't know if its strong or anything, it is cute but-"
"I'll have you know that I defeated a spearow flock with one Thunderbolt", Pikachu retorted, "Oh! Eevee! I got a point for that."
"ha? What do ya mean a spearow flock with one Tunderbolt", Meowth asked, shocked. "He says he defeated a spearow flock with one tunderbolt."
"Oh yeah, it was awesome", Ash remembered.
"still wanted to see that", Eevee said matter-of-factly.
Every one looked at Ash for different reasons, Red thought that Ash had gon crazy talking about that in front of Team Rocket, Leaf looked in disbelief, she did not no that Pikachu could do that, Jessie, James and Meowth wanted to steal both of Ash's Pokémon now, Pikachu and Eevee looked at Ash because every one other than Ekans was looking, then realized that Team Rocket wanted to separate them and Ash by stealing them, so they looked at Ash, protectively, waiting, just incase of any undefined danger.
"what?" Ash said. "why is every one looking at me?"
Officer Jenny arrived soon, after what seemed like hours to Ash.
"You're under arrest", She said.
"actually, we're above the Pokémon Center", James corrected, throwing a smoke baum, obscuring everyone's vision once again, and when the smoke cleared, Team Rocket were in a meowth shaped balloon, flying above the Pokémon Center, away. "see ya officer! you too twerps, don't expect us to leave you alone, we'll get you, wait twerp that has a twin! we'll get your Pokémon soon, hahaha."
"Come back here", the officer ordered.
"pika, pi pika pika", Pikachu chuckled.
"Eevee vee? vee vee ee", Eevee chuckled as well.
Allow me to translate.
"yeah, like their gonna actually do that ", Pikachu chuckled.
"I know right? Too bad officer!" Eevee chuckled as well.
"Quick question", Ash called to Team Rocket. "which one of us two" he pointed at himself and Red "do you mean by twerp that has a twin?"
Leaf facepalmed, and she thought that if she could see Team Rocket, she would see them doing the same, however, she did not expect an actual answer.
"You Twerp!" Jessie said. "We mean you."
The damage Team Rocket dealt to the Pokémon Center was not major, so it should be repaired in less than a week. However, that was not what Red was thinking about. He was thinking about Pika, the Pikachu that Oak gave him.
The Pokémon seemed untrusting of humans, as it shocked him and the professor when he tried to touch it. `I wonder what happened to make it like this,` Red thought.
`Maybe it's because of bad treatment? I don't think so, the professor never treated Pokémon badly. Maybe it's because of its past? Well, whatever the reason is, I should talk to it. Why do I keep calling it "it"? I mean him? Her? I don't know! I should check that as well. Anyway, I should talk to Pika and try to convince him to at least trust me a little. I don't want Pika to run away in the middle of the night or something,`.
"Hey Pika?" he said.
Pika did not respond with a "Pika" or something, but his ear twitched, and Red presumed that Pika was listening. "I don't know why you don't trust humans. I also know I can't force you to trust them, but at least can you give it a try?"
Pika looked at Red.
"I know you made yourself clear by trying to shock me, but you didn't give me a try, did ya?" Red said.
Pika was seemingly about to argue, but he stopped, thought, and appeared to realize something. Pika shook his head no.
"So, would you give me a try?" Red asked with hope in his voice.
Pika shrugged, then nodded.
Red smiled. "Thanks!"
Silence.
"Oh, by the way, are you male or female?"
Pika sparked, then raised his tail.
"Okay, male. Thanks," Red said.
"Don't ask questions like those," Pika signaled.
"Sorry," Red apologized, understanding the message.
Pika nodded before lowering back his tail.
I'm not a very good writer, also I don't have a very good sence of humar, I mean I find things funny that others might not, but I am not forcing anyone to continue reading.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thank you for reading anyway.
Pikachu: spoiler alert
Author: I'm thinking of using this next chapter, you'll understand what I mean then, I hope.
