Pikachu: Hey! What's up, readers?
Eevee: we're Partners Pikachu and Eevee
author: I thought it would be an interesting idea if I talk using Pikachu and Eevee, which I said I'm using next chapter last chapter, but now, they are too excited, So let me talk briefly about how anime movies typically don't change episodes; instead, characters forget about them and all. However, in many fanfictions, writers have made characters remember certain movies, such as Mewtwo Strikes Back. I feel like I should do the same, so that's why you might occasionally see Mewtwo or other things in the middle of chapters that are not even from actual Pokémon movies.
Pikachu: moving on, bring him here, please? 'makes a move like Baby Doll Eyes'
author: no.
Eevee: 'does a more of the same move, which makes him look even more innocently innocent' please
author: you are not tricking me.
Pikachu and Eevee: 'stop making the innocent face move'
Pikachu: oh come on, he's just the most evil person Giovanni.
Eevee: what could go wrong?
author: Hmm.
Eevee: yay! We convinced him!
author: no, that is not true, I just thought it is fun, so, 'waves his hand hello to Giovanni'
Giovanni: 'appears after a glowing light fades' what is the meaning of this.
Pikachu: hey evil man!
Eevee: we're stopping your Mewtwo project!
Giovanni: 'looks at the Pokémon', you can talk? Interesting. 'gets a pokéball and tries to throw it at pikachu'
Author: 'dissipates the pokéball' these things do not work here, 'looks at Pikachu and Eevee', do not do that again, 'looks at Giovanni' be careful with your projects Giovanni.
Giovanni: how do you know about them anyway.
Author: enough, that was not fun as I expected, anyway, enjoy the chapter. 'Pikachu, Eevee and Giovanni disappear'
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Chapter 4:
progress.
Ash, Red, and Leaf were in Viridian Forest, where Red managed to catch a weedle earlier., the Weedle attempted to escape from him before he could throw a pokéball, and it didn't end well.
the weedle may even still be crying in her pokéball right now.
Information: [name: Weedle], [pokédex entry: Weedle, the Hairy Bug Pokémon. It has a sharp venomous stinger on its head, It usually hides in grass and bushes where it eats leaves], [gender: female], [known moves: Poison Sting, String Shot], [ability: Run Away]
Afterwards, they encountered a mysterious samurai named, well, Samurai, Leaf easily defeated him with her Bulbasaur. Ash was next, but the samurai disappeared for five minutes before coming back with a fully healed team, he claimed that he 'healed my Pokémon with a secret samurai technique', definitely without using potions.
Leaf did not appear to believe the Samurai's claim.
Ash was interested, excited, I mean, he wanted to learn the technique, `it'll save us a lot of time, I can amaze everyone by doing that`.
"Wow, really? Teach me!" Ash said excitedly.
" seriously?" Leaf asked uninterestedly.
"Uh, well, uh," the samurai said hesitantly, not knowing how to respond. "OK, but first, you have to show me that you're worthy. It's a very powerful technique, and I can't just go showing it to any stranger."
"Eevee?" Eevee said, disappointed. Was Ash suspicious, too?
"Deal," Ash told the samurai. "What should I do?"
"Oh! Uh, right, you have to beat both of my Pokémon, with one hit only, each, using a different Pokémon every time," the Samurai said uncertainly. "That's your first trial."
Leaf couldn't believe that Ash believed the Samurai, let alone actually attempting his challenge?
"OK! Pikachu! I choose you", Ash called.
"Pi, pika", Pikachu said, jumping from Ash's shoulder.
"a Pikachu ha? Well scyther! Show them your skill, go", samurai called, then he sent out a scyther.
"Scy, scyther scyther ," Scyther said in a Samurai way, once he was released from his pokéball.
"Behold! Witness the true meaning of defeat, for I am Scyther", scyther proclaimed.
"uh, sure?" Pikachu said confusedly, "I guess."
"What ails thee? Art thou fearful? Fret not, for there is no dishonor in fear", Scyther said.
"when can I attack this -", Pikachu trailed off, uncertain how to finish.
" I am a samurai, and Scyther is my name."
"samurai, right, when can I shock samurai's samurai?" Pikachu asked Ash, of course, the latter did not understand.
As if Red understood him, he called, "battle begin!"
"Swords dance!" samurai ordered.
"Pikachu! Thunderbolt", Ash called.
"Thunder, Bolt, ha", Pikachu fired the attack, but to everyone's surprise, Pikachu's attack was not close to Thunderbolt, and Pikachu felt it, he was using Thunder Shock instead. he was confused, `maybe the power isn't enough?`, he tried putting more electrical power in his attack, but it did not work, the attack was still Thunder Shock, not Thunderbolt.
Scyther was fried and defeated anyway.
"I… I don't understand," Samurai said, sounding baffled. "How did you beat scyther with Thunder Shock like that."
"uh, I, told Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, not Thunder Shock", Ash explained, confused.
"I couldn't", Pikachu shook his head. "I tried, but I couldn't."
"Ash! that wasn't Thunderbolt", Leaf said. "I don't think your Pikachu can use it."
"But I saw him blast all the Spearows with Thunderbolt before," Ash protested. "And before you say I imagined it or something, I didn't."
"Uh, excuse me", samurai said. "Maybe I can help you, but please, after we finish our battle."
"oh! OK", Ash replied.
"Wow", Eevee said.
Red did not move.
"Go", samurai called, "Pinsir!"
"Pikachu, come back, buddy", Ash told Pikachu, "Eevee! Go!"
"what? Why?" Leaf asked, a little confused, "why did you return pikachu?" And Pikachu and Eevee switched places.
"I wanna prove I'm worthy", Ash replied simply. "I have to learn that technique."
"of course", Leaf sighed.
"Alright, you ready Eevee?" Ash asked.
"yeah, let's do this", Eevee replied with a nod.
"alright, then use, uh, Quick Attack! No, wait! Uh, Swift? yeah, use Swift."
"alright, here goes, SWIFT SWIFT SWIFT", Eevee said, saying the word swift multiple times, faster every time, while concentrating.
energy stars were blasted towards the Pinsir, who was not able to dodge and Got hit by the stars, Pinsir tried its best to avoid the stars, only to fail and remember that Swift cannot miss its target, so it had to sit there and take the barrage of stars.
Uh-OH!
`if Ash wants me to defeat Pinsir with one move, then I won't let him down,` Eevee thought.
The stars increased, they became stronger, and faster every moment, and Eevee became more concentrated, with every energy star he blasts, he thinks about impressing his trainer, now was his chance, and he is not wasting it, he won't let Ash down, the energy stars continued hitting Pinsir, and much to the samurai's shock, the Pokémon was knocked out, however, the evolution Pokémon did not notice, or stop.
"uh, Eevee", Ash and Pikachu called.
Eevee did not respond.
"EEVEE! STOP!" Pikachu called, jumping from Ash's shoulder, then he ran towards his friend when he did not respond.
"ha? What-" Eevee saw Pinsir, then stopped, Pinsir was hurt, he wasn't fighting, he was on the ground, pane clear on his face, "What did I do?"
"too much damage", Pikachu, who now Eevee noticed was to his left said. "we're in a battle, not a war, what happened to you."
"I'm, so sorry Pinsir", Eevee apologized. "I just wanted Ash to think I'm strong too, I don't think that's an excuse", he said that last part to himself, then to Pinsir he said, "I'm so so so sorry."
Eevee did not know how to feel, did he impress his trainer? Did he injure Pinsir very badly? And how? Did he win? Should he be happy? `I'm confused`, he tried to process the information at once, he could not, which put him in a weird state called being lost.
"Pinsir is unable to battle", Red finished the match, then he moved near Ash and Leaf. "Ash wins." He said neutrally.
"Alright!" Ash cheered. "We won!"
"Eevee! Keep it together", Pikachu ordered, snapping Eevee out of the strange state he was in. "We won."
"huh? Yay", Eevee exclaimed bouncing up and down, "We won, yay." Then he stopped, "wait! No, is Pinsir OK?"
"uh, I don't think I can get up", Pinsir said, hurt. "ow."
"Pinsir! I'm so sorry i-"
"no Eevee!" Pinsir interrupted, " don't, OW!"
"Ash!" Pikachu called the still cheering trainer, after he shook samurai's hand, while still cheering.
"Pikachu?" Ash said, "something wrong?"
Pikachu pointed at Pinsir.
"Oh! yeah, Sorry samurai", Ash apologized. "Man, I don't have potions too."
"No worries Ash!" Samurai said, "I have some."
"Oh! What a relief", Ash sighed. "Oh yeah, you still have that samurai technique to, right?"
Leaf sighed, how are they going to convince him now?
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It Turned out Samurai does not need potions to heal his Pokémon, he uses berries.
"Wait! So that was the secret technique?" Ash asked dissatisfied.
Samurai nodded.
"Oh, I was expecting it to be more with samurai powers or something", Ash said.
"I didn't even think that he's telling the truth", Leaf told them. "I didn't know about berries a lot, that's why I didn't, I mean I did know about some berries helping heal the Pokémon's injuries, like healing burn and paralysis, I didn't know about this kind of berries though."
"Just admit you didn't know." Red interrupted.
"Hey! I said I did know about some-"
"Shhh, don't raise your voice", Samurai whispered.
"Hmm? Why?" Ash asked.
*Buzzing, lots of it*
"That", Samurai said, pointing at the direction of the buzzing.
The others looked in the direction he pointed and saw an entire swarm of Beedrill heading their way.
"who's that Pokémon?" Ash wondered, scared.
"Beedrill", Red answered quickly, then dragged Ash by his hand. "they're poison."
"whoa! I can walk you know", Ash told Red, struggling to release his hand from Red's powerful grip. "I can run to."
Red nodded. "No time."
The group, Ash and Red, Samurai, and Leaf following soon, continued to run from the beedrill swarm, the Adrenalin building up inside them.
"What are we gonna do?" Ash asked. "Samurai! You're the expert of this forest."
"There's a place, follow me", he remembered.
They did follow him, but they encountered another tricky situation.
"Shhh," Samurai whispered. "Kakuna, the pre evolved form of Beedrill, it might hatch, and we don't wanna be nearby when it happens."
Kakuna: ha! As if.
The Kakuna all started hatching.
*Kakuna hatching *
Uh-Oh!
"slowly! Slowly," Samurai tried, the Beedrill noticed them however. "QUICKLY QUICKLY QUICKLY."
The group started to run again.
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The group arrived at Samurai's log cabin after being chased by Beedrill for a while, Oh! the happiness they felt.
"What now?" Asked a panting Ash.
"Now, we wait until night", Red answered.
"hmm", Samurai nodded. "Beedrill usually don't stay around this area at night, they go to sleep."
And waiting they did.
"so.." Samurai started, trying to break the awkward silence. "how about we get to know each other a little bit? How long have you been traveling together?"
"A day", Red replied neutrally.
"O. K, are all of you from Pallet town?"
"yes."
"are you Ash's twin?"
"no", the lookalikes answered together.
"then you have Pokémon of your own, right?"
"hmm", Red answered nodding.
"can I battle you after all this is over?"
Red nodded.
*Long silence.*
"What were your starter Pokémon?"
Red pointed at the Pikachu on the ground to his right.
"Mine were Pikachu and Eevee", Ash replied.
"mine's bulbasaur," Leaf replied.
"why did you get two Pokémon?" Samurai asked Ash.
"They're my friends." Ash replied.
"Oh! OK, so, a Pikachu, a Pikachu and an Eevee, and a bulbasaur", Samurai pointed at each of the respective trainers as he said their starter Pokémon's species.
" yup," Leaf confirmed.
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The Caterpie saw a group of humans passing by, actually running by, and he wondered why were they running.
*buzzes*
"Oh, that explains it," he realized, the sound got closer and the Pokémon processed the information a little too late. "BEEDRILL!" he screamed in fear.
Beedrill were known for being the most scary poisonous Pokémon around here, they were also known for being very aggressive towards any strangers, including ones of their own kind, or same evolution family, they were territorial in short, so the Caterpie knew not to stay were ever he was and let them hurt or capture him, he had heard multiple stories about beedrill's victims, he heard that when beedrill take a Pokémon, it is never seen alive again, and if seen alive, the Pokémon would literally be frightened by the sound of the rustling of Trees, Caterpie did not want to die at the hands of beedrill, or to be frightened from trees, where would he sleep then?
The Pokémon started to run as fast as he could, although there were a lot of bushes and trees around him, and he could not run far without at least one Beedrill catching up to him, he did not let that stop him, and he continued to run, run, and run.
*buzz* behind the caterpie.
He stopped, turned around and faced his worst nightmare, beedrill, running was pointless, maybe he could just convince it to leave him to his life, maybe.
"w-what do you want from me?" he asked, his voice trembling with fear.
"did you see humans come here?" the beedrill asked frighteningly, then buzzed.
"y-yes, t-they passed by a f-few minutes ago." he replied, terrified.
"which direction?"
"t-t-this way, t-t-this way," he answered pointing. `please leave me alone!`
The beedrill stopped buzzing, and started to think, for a minute the Pokémon thought that he is actually safe.
He thought that he is safe, yet that was not the case.
"you're coming with me."
Uh-Oh!
"w-what? W-why?" he found himself asking. He knew he should not ask beedrill, but he was scared, and he could not let them capture him. "I told you everything I know."
"Maybe you're lying." The beedrill then grabbed him and called for the others. "*buzz* we're going in this direction, this caterpie says they went this way*buzz*."
*buzz*, all the beedrill buzzed their understanding.
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The time Samurai spent with the three Pallet Town trainers was fun.
When the four of them grew tired of talking, they decided to switch things up and play some board games. However, Ash was unfamiliar with the games they chose, so Leaf took it upon herself to explain the basics to him. Her teaching style was energetic and unconventional, as she jumped on the board to demonstrate how to play, or at least tried, before Red intervened and suggested she use the floor instead. Despite the initial confusion, Ash quickly caught on, and they ended up playing for a long time, they even made a tournament they called Pallet Trainers And The Samurai, very creative name, I agree.
Despite his initial struggles, Ash soon became proficient in the games and managed to hold his own against Leaf. However, he still struggled to beat Red, who seemed to have a natural talent for board games.
Red played the games with a silent intensity that caught Samurai's attention. Samurai wanted to ask about Red's silent demeanor, but he decided against it, fearing that it might be a sensitive topic. Nonetheless, Red's impressive gaming skills were hard to miss, and he emerged as the champion of the tournament they made up.
It was night when they finished their little tournament, and Samurai had suggested to stay with him for the night, Leaf decided to sleep outside of the 'bedroom' the three boys slept in.
"Won't you be lonely?" Ash asked Leaf.
"nah, I'll have Bulbasaur," she said, then threw Bulbasaur's pokéball, the Pokémon materialized In front of her and said its name. "I'm sleeping outside alone tonight, wanna stay with me?" she asked the grass Pokémon, who gave an approving nod.
"Saur," Bulbasaur said.
"alright then", Ash said.
They told each other "goodnight" and he, Samurai and Red entered the 'bedroom'.
"thanks for having us Samurai", Red thanked.
"Sure! Anytime," Samurai replied with a smile. " I love company, and I had a lot of fun with you guys, not a lot of people come here you know."
"hmm? What do you mean?" Ash asked. "isn't Viridian forest full with trainers?"
"True, those pass through it and go to Pewter city though, they only come here to catch a Pokémon and be on their way, in fact, that's the reason I battled you," Samurai noticed the question Ash wanted to ask on his face, so he continued. "I decided to show them that this place has some powerful trainers, I heard that the strongest trainers are from Pallet town, that's why I challenge them."
"oh! That explains why you asked if we were from Pallet."
"exactly."
"we can battle tomorrow," Red offered.
"yeah, let's do it", Samurai accepted.
"Eevee vee", Eevee told Pikachu.
"pika?" Pikachu asked.
"Vee", Eevee disappointedly said.
Pikachu used a little Thunder Shock attack on him.
"Eevee," Eevee said surprised. "vee?"
"pika, pi pika pika chu pikachu, pi?" Pikachu asked.
"Vee," Eevee seemed sorry.
"what's up with these two?" samurai asked.
"no idea." Ash replied honestly.
It is better if not all Pokémon speech is translated, so.
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The Beedrill were feared from other Pokémon, they were aggressive towards any stranger, they poison dozens of Pokémon daily, and they usually attack in swarms, they were territorial, and once they heard some humans talking a while ago, they did not hesitate for a minute to follow them to attack them, however, they have lost their targets, but found a caterpie that told them the humans went in a direction, they followed it but they are yet to find their target.
"*buzz*", beedrill buzzed dangerously. "you didn't lie huh?" the beedrill queen said, frustrated because they have not found the humans. What should I do with you?"
"um, Ms. beedrill queen, scary, I mean strong and powerful commander of beedrill, I h-have a suggestion," the little caterpie said.
"say it, but if I don't like it," she threatened.
"may you please forgive me and l-l-let me go? I have my life and I only saw the humans for moments and you're beedrill just came and t-t- I mean I don't exactly know where the humans went, so maybe they just made a mistake and you can let me go? I won't tell anyone about it, honest," the caterpie said innocently.
"hmm, you make a very interesting point." The queen beedrill said, looking thoughtful, for a moment, she appeared to agree with the bug's suggestion.
For a moment.
"r-really? S-so you'll let me go?"
"hmm, no," she said, terrifying caterpie even more. "put him on this tree, and let me think what should we do with him." She ordered the beedrill.
*buzz* all the beedrill other than her buzzed obediently.
The beedrill put the caterpie on the tree and left.
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OK, he needs to process this.
So he was alone.
Not poisoned.
He was neither dead nor terrified of leafs and trees, or the rustling of the latter.
Caterpie smiled, sure, the beedrill may come back to get him, but he is alive right now.
Thank god.
"I'm alive," he sighed in relief. "yay! Yay! I didn't die from poison, I wasn't then eaten and the rest of my body thrown away, thank god."
"OK! First, why would that happen? Second, what are you doing on a tree in the beedrill territory?" a voice asked.
Caterpie was startled, and he looked to see a pidgeotto.
"oh no! please don't tell me you're going to eat me. please please!"
"uh, OK? I think?" the pidgeotto said, confused by the actions.
"thank you! thank you! thank you!" caterpie thanked, relieved.
"what's wrong with you?"
"Beedrill took me because I saw humans pass by."
"oh! I see, were you lying to them?"
"no, I told them everything I know, can you please help me? I don't want them to, well, what I said."
The pidgeotto thought for a moment. "hmm, OK, stay here."
"does it look like I can go anywhere? Wait! Where are you going to go?"
"no." the pidgeotto answered the first question, "I'll get help." He answered the second question. pidgeotto then proceeded to fly away.
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"-So?" pidgeotto asked, looking at a pikachu and an eevee, pidgeotto had been searching for Pokémon trainers to help the caterpie, he knew that Pokémon feared beedrill and their evolution line, so pidgeotto thought maybe he could get help from Pokémon trainers that have strong Pokémon, he broke a window that was nearby when he started to search, thinking that humans had to be in there, right?
Well, pidgeotto was right.
He had startled a pikachu and an eevee awake when he broke the window, then he started explaining the situation to the confused Pokémon, and he asked them to help.
"Let me get this straight, you want us to help a caterpie that we don't even know, in the beedrill territory, and at night?" the pikachu asked, and pidgeotto nodded yes. " will you fix the window?" the pikachu pointed at a broken 'window'.
"hmm, I can tell Caterpie to use String Shot on it to Hold it together?" pidgeotto suggested.
"good enough," the Eevee said.
"alright, give me a second," Pikachu requested.
"Ash, Ash, wake up, wake up," Pikachu said loudly, jumping on a human boy.
"hmm? Pikachu? What-", the human boy asked.
"emergency!" the pikachu said.
"uh, I don't under- what the, what happened to the window," Ash was fully awake at this moment.
Pidgeotto looked at the floor.
"hmm?" the boy seemed to notice him. "who's that Pokémon?"
Silence.
"your pokédex ," Eevee said, pointing at a backpack. "how can you know a pidgey and not know a pidgeotto is a mystery to me."
"oh Yeah! Usually Red does that." The human said, clearly meaning the pokédex part of the eevee's speech.
The boy got up and got out his weird device, the pokédex and pointed it at pidgeotto.
After a voice said something pidgeotto could not hear, the eevee looked at him.
"uh," pidgeotto said. "eevee, what-"
"the evolved form of pidgey ha?" the Eevee asked.
"uh, yeah, is something wrong?" pidgeotto backed off a little, because of Eevee's expression.
"don't," the Pikachu said to the Eevee. "We know Ash is not stupid or weak, and pidgeotto has nothing to do with this, neither do all the pidgey."
the eevee seemed about to argue but then looked as if he realized something.
"you're right," the evolution Pokémon admitted. "sorry pidgeotto!"
"it's OK, you didn't do anything anyway, anyway, do you want to help me or not?"
Eevee nodded.
Good.
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After waking every one up, Eevee and the other three Pokémon had to come up with a way to tell the humans about the problem, which made Eevee give another lecture on humans and Pokémon inability to communicate.
They ended up signaling the humans to follow them, pidgeotto leading them to where ever caterpie was, the looks on their Pokémon's faces made the humans know there is something urgent, so they did not ask why, or prevent their Pokémon from going.
They entered the beedrill territory and once they did, pidgeotto pointed at a tree.
"there, caterpie's over there."
Red's Pikachu jumped on him, then tapped him on the shoulder, getting his attention.
Red looked at Pika.
Pika pointed at the tree.
red saw it. "there's a caterpie up there."
"where," Ash and Leaf asked, they looked at the tree Red was pointing to. "oh!"
"how can we get him down?" Ash asked.
"hmm, I can use electricity and do it?" Pikachu suggested.
"no, it's a caterpie! Not a berry." Pika said.
"how about shaking the tree?" Eevee asked.
Red had an idea.
"pidgeotto! Help my weedle get him down," requested Red, who threw his weedle's pokéball.
"of course," pidgeotto nodded.
Pidgeotto flew with weedle, grabbed caterpie, after pidgeotto assured him that weedle is not going to turn him into an eaten body and throw the rest of him somewhere god only knows where.
"Where did you even get this information about beedrill?" pidgeotto asked.
"my friends." caterpie replied. " They say they heard stories about this stuff and-"
"tell your friends to stop lying to you," Weedle interjected. "Beedrill are not monsters, they're territorial, that and they also love to chase things, it's cool, so unless you actually do something very bad, like poachers, you're almost alright."
"wait so it was a prank? We're safe?" caterpie asked happily.
"No," weedle shook her head no. "You're in the beedrill territory, so"
"We better get out." Pidgeotto said.
When the Pokémon signaled 'we're done here', they and the humans immediately exited the beedrill territory, few steps later, Red had remembered something that maybe trouble for them.
"Weedle! You're from here, right?"
Weedle nodded.
"aren't beedrill able to recognize and find you then?"
Weedle nodded.
Uh-Oh!
"what do you mean?" Ash asked.
"beedrill are capable of recognizing the other Pokémon of the same, first and second evolution of theirs, if they lived in their territory for at least a day." Ash's pokédex chimed.
"Now you tell me you-"
"Shhh, Ash! Later." Red hushed Ash.
"yup, I agree Eevee! This thing is stupid." Pikachu whispered to Eevee, who nodded.
"Weedle! Return for now." Red ordered, returning weedle to her pokéball.
*buzzing*
Too late.
"Oh no, now what do we do?" Leaf asked, concerned.
"now, we RUN," Red ran as fast as he could, he did not try to grab Ash by the hand this time.
The group ran for a while, before Pidgeotto decided to put an end to this.
"alright! Enough."
The beedrill stopped.
"hmm? They sto-"
Eevee hushed Ash motioning with his hands.
"what's enough?" the queen beedrill asked.
"you know this caterpie didn't do anything, and one of the beedrill came and got him for no reason, except that he saw these four humans" pidgeotto looked at the humans "passing by, then when I fly by and decide to help, you come, try to attack me, and also these humans, enough," pidgeotto shouted, then a very powerful gust of wind surrounded a lot of beedrill, blowing them away.
"*thinking buzz*, you have a point."
"And caterpie thinks you're going to turn him into an eaten body and throw what's left of him away, no idea how that works."
"*thinking buzz* If I understood you, he thinks we want to eat what's eatable from his body, then throw the rest away?"
Pidgeotto nodded.
"That's not true, it's horrible, why would anyone want to do that? I mean we're wild and we don't want that, it's weird."
"don't ask me, just leave us alone and go back to your territory. OK?"
Beedrill Queen buzzed, nodded, and ordered, "we're going back."
*buzzes* All the beedrill turned around and left.
The humans sighed in relief.
"thank god they left." Ash said.
"yeah, thank god, I didn't wanna get poisoned the first day in this forest." Leaf said.
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Caterpie did not want to be left alone, fearing the beedrill queen might return to attack him, so he pleaded for pidgeotto, and the humans to take him with them.
"Pleas."
"I can't do it, sorry! I'm a bird, remember?" pidgeotto apologized.
"Pikachu?" caterpie looked pleadingly.
"Sure, why not, but you have to be captured in a pokéball," Pikachu explained.
"c-captured?"
"no, not like the beedrill way, it's just, you're put in a ball that generates a fake environment like your original home, I think? And when you're let out to the real world, you know it, Ash won't treat you badly, so don't worry."
Caterpie thought about it.
"What do you do?" he asked.
"meet lots of friends and get stronger, also we battle." Eevee answered.
"hmm, I'll think about it," the caterpie said. "I'll follow you around for now though, so don't tell your trainer to catch me."
"OK," Pikachu and Eevee answered.
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The next day, Samurai and Red' battled.
"this battle is between Red and Samurai," Leaf called. " one against one, no time limits, battle begin !"
"Alright Scyther, Start with swords dance!" samurai called, and Scyther began swords dancing, basically.
Red ordered weedle to use Poison Sting at Samurai's Scyther.
Scyther felt the attack.
Samurai was stunned. "Scyther! Are you OK?"
Red gave another order, Weedle made a String Shot web around Scyther, Scyther tried to cut the web, however it was to no avail.
"Use Cut under your wing!" Samurai tried, however, it did not work when Scyther tried it.
Weedle used Poison Sting again.
Scyther cried in pain, then stopped struggling to break free.
"Unbelievable!" Scyther said tiredly. "You have defeated me!" it then fell still on the ground, then closed its eyes.
"Scyther is unable to battle, Red wins!" Leaf declared. "congrats!"
Red smiled a little.
"Thanks Scyther, you did your best." Samurai said, returning Scyther to its pokéball.
Weedle was so happy that she started doing some sort of dance, then she glowed with bright light.
the light of evolution.
"guys! Look!" Ash said in wonder.
"it's evolving!" Samurai said, forgetting the loss he just had.
Red simply looked as Weedle was enveloped in light, glowing brighter with every moment passing.
The glow faded, and everyone looked to see a yellow, cocoon-shaped insectoid Pokémon with a bulging head and black triangular eyes with glowing white pupils. It had two sickle-shaped arms in the middle of its body.
"Kakuna!" Ash recognized.
Kakuna learned Harden.
Caterpie was scared, and that was very noticeable.
"Congratulations kakuna!" Red said.
"Yeah, Congratulations!" Ash cheered, with Leaf doing the same.
"Kaku", Kakuna said.
Eevee looked at Pikachu, puzzled.
"Yeah, she did, why? I don't know." Pikachu replied, meaning Kakuna's incoherent words earlier.
Eevee and Pikachu could not finish their conversation, as all of a sudden, a net came and trapped both of them, then flew away with them.
"What the,- Pikachu, Eevee!" Ash called worriedly.
Everyone else noticed.
"Alright, what's going on?" Red called with anger.
*three different voices laughed*
"don't be frightened little boy." A familiar female voice said.
"After all, it's not you we'll destroy." A familiar male voice said.
"to protect the world from devastation."
"to unite all people with in our nation."
"to denounce the evils of truth and love."
"to extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jessie." Jessie introduced herself, becoming visible after she jumped.
"James." James did the same, becoming visible as well.
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light."
"surrender now or prepare to fight."
"Meowth, that's right." Meowth agreed, from their air balloon, which the net was in.
"Team Rocket." The three Pallet Town natives realized.
"Give me back my friends." Ash shouted.
The three grunts laughed.
"In your dreams, twerp."
"yeah, we'll do it when Pokémon talk."
Meowth cleared his throat. "Excuse me, delivery guy?" he said sarcastically. "I'd like to order some food please."
"Oh! Right, well when they walk," James corrected himself.
"Ya sure?" Ash asked with sarcasm.
James thought for a moment. "You know what? Never mind."
"Now give my Pokémon back."
"NEVER."
"Pika! Thunder Shock." Red commanded.
"No, sorry," Pika replied, shaking his head-no.
After five seconds of silence, Red realized that Pika allowed him to carry him, not order him. "Well, it was worth the try."
"Bulbasaur, go! Use Razor Leaf," Leaf called as she sent out her bulbasaur.
"Here goes." Bulbasaur cried out. "Razor Leaf." Leafs were shot towards the Team Rocket trio, then the leafs spread, hurting them at impact.
The trio screamed in pain.
"The balloon!" "Why you," "Why you little, MY HAIR!"
"How dare you?" James raged.
"Don't steal other people's Pokémon!" Leaf said.
"that's not an answer."
"I know." She said. "But it leads to one."
"Wha?"
"You stole his Pokémon, that's why I attacked you, and I don't care what you think, use Razor Leaf again Bulbasaur."
"Take this," Bulbasaur cried, as he used Razor Leaf once again.
"Not this time, Ekans go, block those things," Jessie ordered, sending her Pokémon out.
"sss," Ekans hissed. "Blocking,." She then started blocking the Razor Leafs that was heading her and her mistress's way.
"you too, go," James called, sending out his koffing.
"hello," Koffing greeted levitating, Its body was purple and spherical with a skull and crossbones on the lower parts of its body. It had openings that allow gases to escape.
"hello," Eevee said. "Can you free us please?"
"Eevee!" Pikachu said.
"what, it's worth the try," Eevee explained innocently.
"Sure,, I'll free you, hold on a minute," Koffing said, starting to levitate towards them.
"No you stupid floating ting, we're trying to steal them," Meowth scolded.
Red thought Ash was about to ask about the Pokémon. "Koffing," he told Ash. "don't ask."
Ash did not reply, his whole focus was how to free Pikachu and Eevee. "Leaf?" he said.
"Hmm?" Leaf asked, focused on the battle.
"I know how to free them, but I need your bulbasaur's help, red? I need kakuna's help too," Ash requested. "Samurai, do you have any Pokémon that can use poison sting or anything to blow a hole in the balloon?"
"hmm," samurai hummed affirmatively. "Pinsir, it can use Medal Claw."
"Kay. Listen-"
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"How are we going to get out?" Eevee asked.
"have faith in Ash, I just know he's coming up with a plan right about, now," Pikachu replied, before hearing the sound of something blowing, then he and Eevee started to fall to the ground. "see? I knew it. AHHH." The duo started To fall because of the air balloon blowing up, a fact that Pikachu realized.
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Ash's idea was to have Bulbasaur use its vines to throw Pinsir at the balloon and make a hole, causing Pikachu and Eevee to fall, then to catch the net and free them, whilst Red and his kakuna distract Team Rocket.
It worked.
"I told you Ash'll rescue us," Pikachu said.
"You two OK?" Ash asked, concerned.
Both nodded, and Ash sighed in relief.
"alright, what do ya say we give them a taste of your attacks?" Ash suggested, to which his partners nodded.
"Wait a minute, I'll go this time," Pikachu declared.
"Pikachu, you go this time, Eevee, you stay here this time," Ash said, the Pokémon nodded and Pikachu jumped to the 'battlefield' kind of battlefield.
"Alright Pikachu use Thunderbo- oh, you can't use it, right, THEN USE THUNDER SHOCK," Ash called.
"Right, here I go,, HAAA!" Pikachu complied, and an electric shock was blasted towards the Team Rocket duo, Jessie and James, who did not notice Pikachu, nor did they notice his release from their balloon, as Meowth is yet to warn them.
Wait! Where is meowth?
The Team Rocket duo along with koffing were blasted by the attack, koffing stopped levitating, Ekans was under ground; so she was not affected by the attack. "AHHH!" the two humans screamed.
"you stupid mouse," James shouted.
"hideous human," Pikachu retorted. "thing."
"What?"
"you heard me."
"uh. …"
"*sigh* never mind," Pikachu went towards them. "what's wrong with her hair?" Pikachu asked, pointing at Jessie's hair.
"me?" Jessie wondered.
"I think he means your hair," James 'helpfully' explained.
"even you?" she said, disappointed. "Ekans, attack him-"
"Pikachu, look out! Dodge it," Ash warned and so did Eevee.
Pikachu jumped away.
*rocks moving sound*
"whew, I escaped," Pikachu said, pleased.
"Take thisss," Ekans hissed, before using. "Poissson Sssting!"
"uh, ow!" Pikachu said, preparing for pain.
He did not feel it.
Long silence.
"Ow?" he wondered. "That kind of doesn't hurt!"
"What did I tell you yesterday?" Eevee called from Ash's shoulder.
"Oh yeah," Pikachu recalled. "No damage, I thought you were exaggerating, is that the right word? It's the opposite of it."
"Thunder Shock!" Ash commanded.
"take, Thunder, SHOOOCK!" Pikachu then blasted Ekans with a Thunder Shock that left her knocked out.
Jessie sighed. "useless, return," she commanded, returning Ekans to its pokéball.
"Now Pikachu, use Thunder Shock and Eevee use Swift!" Ash directed.
The attacks hit their marks, and the Team Rocket duo Yelled in pain, and started to sort of fly.
"don't you dare think this is over twerp, we'll get you next time," James called, flying away.
"and these to " meaning Pikachu and Eevee "will be ours," Jessie threatened.
"Looks like we're blasting off," the duo shouted, disappearing, then there was a twinkle in the sky.
"What just happened?" Samurai asked, after a few seconds of silence.
"don't know," Ash replied, confused.
"I just caught myself a meowth!" Leaf exclaimed, running towards them with a pokéball, the group inferred that she went to chase after Meowth, wait!
"Meowth?" Ash said in shock. "The Team Rocket one?"
"yup, come on out," Leaf said happily, then threw Meowth's pokéball.
"No!" the said Pokémon shouted upon its release. "Please it's dark and scary and- oh, *he clears his throat* just kidding, WHERE ARE JESSIE AN' JAMES? What did you do girl!"
"I caught you," Leaf explained innocently.
"NOOO, THAT'S OUGHTA BE A NIGHTMARE!"
"I don't think it likes that," Ash thought out loud. "Yeah, definitely doesn't." he said after seeing meowth go crazy.
"Are you OK?" Leaf asked Meowth.
"Dat's the worst ting that happened to me," the cat answered. "First I can't go back to Team Rocket, and I'm stuck with a little girl, a twerpette, alright Darkrai, please wake me up now."
"Your awake, and what's a Darkrai?" Leaf asked. "And please explain what's wrong with you like a man. P-Pokémon. Pokéman. Whatever, just help me understand you."
Meowth did not believe her about being awake. "Please shock me," he requested.
Both pikachu did.
"AHHH, OK, now I know I'm awake, time to panic, AHHH."
"stop that or I'll return you to yer pokéball," Leaf ordered.
Meowth stopped immediately.
"don't like pokéballs?"
"no," Meowth replied.
Leaf put the pokéball in her bag. "Better now?"
"a little bit," Meowth sighed in acceptance.
" you explaining now?"
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Meowth explained his story, of him being in love, then a meowth group, and a Persian, did not treat him good, and that the Pokémon he was in love with left, and how before it left, he learned how to walk and talk like a human to get her attention, and how he was attacked by humans every time they see him, he disliked humans because of that, and when he joined Team Rocket, it was his decision, and that he thought that he should join because he might go to lots of places, and he wanted attention from humans, (even though he hates them, anyway,) and that he thought he could gain control over everyone.
"-then was the thefts we made," he continued explaining about the crimes Jessie, he and James made, until he met Ash and Red and Leaf. "An' ya know the rest."
Neither one knew what to say, do they need to comfort Meowth? Do they need to apologize for making him remember these memory –mostly Leaf thought of that-.
Red spoke the first. "Sorry we made you remember this, but you could give us a chance."
Pika nodded.
Meowth listened, mostly because he was tired from talking a lot, but maybe they can help him.
"Look, I'm not an expert about Pokémon who had problems with humans, but Pika here was one of them, I figured that out with Oak, anyway, he shocked me shocked a spearow and we were about to die, then we jumped in the water and survived, were gotten outta water and then we talked, and he decided to give me a chance, so ask him what does he think," Red requested.
"I mean, he didn't force me to do anything, I like sitting on his shoulder and seeing stuff, and I can chat with Pikachu and Eevee if I'm bored. Five out of ten," Pika evaluated. "Leaf is energetic, if you don't like it runaway right now."
"I'll think about it," Meowth said after some silence. "And Pikachu gave you five outta ten." He told Red.
"why?" the boy asked, disappointed.
"how does he even know how to rate stuff," Ash asked.
"you think we don't know how?" Eevee asked.
"Eevee, he doesn't know, or understand you," Pikachu reminded.
"I know, I know."
"dere's a talking cat sitting near ya," Meowth said.
("what's a cat?")
"Tell him we know how to rate things," Eevee politely requested.
"They tell ya they know how to evaluate things," Meowth translated.
"rate," Eevee corrected.
"Rate," Meowth corrected his earlier words.
"how do you rate me?" Ash asked.
"Ash that's not how it works," Leaf helped.
"how then?"
"Ten out of ten," Ash's Pokémon partners said.
"Ya need to give them something to –evaluate- you with, right?" Leaf asked Red, who nodded. "That, and-"
"They're so happy that both gave ya ten outta ten," Meowth told Ash, meaning Pikachu and Eevee.
"whoa! Thanks you two," Ash thanked his Pokémon.
"are you sure of the evaluation you gave him?" the caterpie from before shyly asked, coming out of nowhere.
"When did you get here?" Pikachu asked.
"I told you I'll follow you around, right?"
"that was even in the same chapter," Eevee told Pikachu.
"What?" Pikachu asked.
"Just kidding."
Caterpie got their attention. "Are you sure of the evaluation?"
"Yeah, why? You asked that twice," Eevee asked.
"If it's true, I think I'll join you," caterpie answered timidly.
"Huh," Meowth said. "hey twerp, someone wants to join ya." He meant Ash.
"Really? Who? Where?" Ash asked excitedly, then stopped when he heard caterpie's voice.
"Says he'll give it a try," Meowth translated.
"Really?" Ash asked, looking at caterpie. "Ya wanna come with us on our journey caterpie?"
"s-sure? Why not?" caterpie said.
"Sure doesn't look very excited," Ash said.
"he's just shy give me the ball," Eevee said, getting the pokéball from a confused Ash. "here, you'll be in this pokéball, it's safe inside, if you don't want to –", Eevee was interrupted when caterpie jumped, tapped the button and was absorbed into the pokéball. "Never mind."
The pokéball shook once, twice, thrice and.
*ding* the pokéball dinged.
"Yeah, we caught caterpie," Ash said, pausing a pause. (I think I will call it the catching pause)
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The group said farewell to Samurai, who disappeared immediately afterwards, Meowth decided to stay with the group for now, and they camped near Pewter City.
The humans fell asleep, whilst the Pokémon decided to chat for a while.
"so what's your story?" Pika asked partners Eevee and Pikachu.
"What story?" partner Pikachu asked.
"How did you know Ash, and how come you used Thunderbolt then forgot it?"
"to answer your first question, we met Ash at Oak's summer camp, you know him," partner Pikachu started, when Pika nodded, he continued. "he, I mean Ash, gave us delicious berries, and we followed him the entire day, Oak was scared when we slept on top of him."
"Were you wild?"
"yeah?"
"That explains it, humans always warn their kids to be careful from wild Pokémon."
"Oh, fair enough. Anyway the summer camp-"
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"OK, so your afraid of all beedrill?" kakuna asked.
"Not all of them, just who try to hurt me," caterpie answered. "I mean, you're a kakuna, and you don't look antagonistic, I mean hostile, I don't think you'll be that when you're a beedrill, if you want to become a beedrill."
"hmm?" she asked.
"maybe you don't want to? I dunno."
"of course I do, I want to be able to learn strong moves, I want to help my trainer, I'm not able to do this as a kakuna, its a dream I have to become a beedrill. Do you have a dream of your own?"
Caterpie thought for a moment.
"well, I want to become a Butterfree and take to the sky, feel how it is to fly, I'm sure it's a wonderful feeling, I want to get stronger, and be able to carry things, I want to show our kind's potential, people think because we're bugs, we're no benefit, and they take beedrill and scyther, not that I mind other bugs going on a journey or training with humans, I just want to prove to everyone that we're strong. Also I don't want an annoying trainer, I want a kindhearted one, so."
"You picked Ash because of his Pokémon's happiness," kakuna finished. "Wow, these are amazing things to dream of."
"thanks, your dream is cool to,"-
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In the morning, the group continued their way to Pewter City, they reached it an hour later, you read this correctly, if they walked for another hour, they may have reached it the previous night, `but nooo, it was getting dark,` according to Red.
Then I would not have had to fill the chapter with filler chatting.
"I go first," declared Red.
"but-"
"no Ash," Red interrupted. "You had battles with Team Rocket the most, so you're going last."
"hey, it's not my problem if- wait a minute, what does that have to do with anything?" Ash asked.
"it's called distracting to get what I want."
"Ash, wait until at least Red or Leaf battles so we can make a strategy," Eevee suggested, and meowth translated.
"huh, that's, logical, you got it Eevee," Ash said.
They fell in a hole.
"ah!"
"I know this kinda hole," Meowth said. "Jessie James, it's you."
"A?" two familiar voices asked. "Meowth? What are you doing with the twerps?"
"It is you!" Meowth exclaimed, jumping hire than Rapidash, getting out of the hole, then he fell on top of James's head, Meowth looked around, looked at Jessie, then jumped from james's head to the ground, then checked James.
"What happened to you?" James asked.
"da female twerpette caught me," Meowth answered.
"Oh, so you're one of the twerps now?" Jessie snapped.
"I told them I'd give it a thought."
"and?"
"well, the twerpette treated me good, I enjoyed chatting with bulbasaur, they have -food-," he emphasized food. "I enjoyed it, no, I'm not going bye twerps."
"Bye!" Leaf waved, out of the hole, they used bulbasaur and she climbed out, Ash was climbing next.
Red climbed after Ash.
"glad ya enjoyed it," Ash said.
"Thunder Shock," Ash and Red called, with Red saying "please" in the end.
Both pikachu used Thunder Shock.
Team Rocket blasted off. With Meowth. " Team Rocket's blasting off again!" they shouted, disappearing, and a twinkle appeared for a second.
The group arrived at the gym.
The gym had the name on its front, 'Pewter Gym'.
"Well, here we are, the Pewter Gym," Red said neutrally.
"Here we go," Pika said. "I'll watch your battle, then I'll think of battling or not."
The group entered the gym, but the lights were off. "Excuse me, is anyone in the gym?" Red called out. "I want to battle for the Pewter Gym badge."
"Welcome, challenger, to the Pewter City Gym," a masculine voice said, and the lights turned on to reveal a tall teenager with dark skin and spiky Kournikova-style hair. He was dressed in brown jeans, blue-gray sneakers with white trim, an orange t-shirt, a lime green four-pocket cargo vest, a dark brown belt with a gold buckle, and dark red pockets. This was the gym leader.
"I'm Red, and I came here to get my first gym badge," Red said.
"Brock, and I'm happy to accept your challenge. How many badges do you have?" the gym leader, Brock asked.
"none."
"It's a one-on-one battle, and only you are allowed to substitute Pokémon. Are you ready?"
Red nodded, then realized that he has a pikachu and a kakuna with him, and the pikachu does not want to battle with him.
Brock sent out Onix.
Uh-oh!
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"Why are you two looking at me?" Pika asked, after Red and Onix looked at him.
"does Your trainer have other Pokémon?" Onix asked.
`well, he has a Kakuna, so- Oh, that's what he meant,` the mouse thought. "N-no-o-o?" he replied.
"I'll crush you," Onix roared scarily. "Get down here, or are you scared?"
"I'll let you know that I'm not afraid of snakes or rock snakes," Pika bravely replied.
"Then what are you waiting for? GET DOWN HERE."
Just hearing Onix's loud voice made Pika regret every word he said.
"S-Sorry, I don't battle for him," Pika meant Red by "him".
"Battle for yourself," Onix pressed.
Pika sighed, wishing Onix would just leave him alone. He looked at the desperate Red and saw him in a way he never had before. "Fine, fine, but I'm not obeying you," he told Red, then jumped onto the rocky battlefield.
"Huh? You'll battle?" Red asked, he was about to sent Kakuna, at least that way, he would not have challenged the gym and ran away.
Pika sparked and used Quick Attack.
"Oh, so you won't follow my orders," Red realized with disappointment.
"Are you serious?" Brock asked, frustrated. "Your Pikachu won't even listen to you? Are you underestimating me? Onix, use Skull Bash! Don't hold back."
"Onix," the rock snake roared, tucking its head and raising its durability in the process. With unexpected speed, it head-butted Pika, sending the electric mouse Pokémon flying towards a wall. Pika watched in horror as the wall became closer every passing millisecond, regretting jumping into the battlefield and trusting that human. He felt so much pain, closing his eyes, ready for impact with the wall on the other side of the gym. But the impact never came, he instead felt hands on him.
"Huh? I'm not in the wall?" he asked, opening his eyes. He was safe, he was... with Red? How did Red even catch him? He could have hit the wall! "Red? What just happened?"
"Pika, you okay?" the human boy asked.
"Uh, I'm just feeling some pain," Pika said, conveying his body language to let Red know that he was in pain. "*Gasp* Ow, even body language hurts."
"You're hurt a little?" Red guessed.
The mouse Pokémon nodded, close enough.
"Phew," Red sighed. "At least you didn't crash to the wall."
"Why did you catch me? You could've hurt yourself," Pika asked in worry. He was surprised that he was worried, but Red cared for him, so.
"You're my starter," Red answered, likely understanding the rodent's concern. "I can't let you get hurt." Pika smiled. "Now, you wanna battle, or should I quit?"
"Are you kidding me? Quit? Not while I'm around. Besides, I want to teach that Onix a lesson. No one messes with Pika," Pika said, gesturing and sparking.
Seeing the way Pika acted, Red assumed that he wanted to continue, so he went back to his side of the battlefield. "Sorry we kept you waiting," he told Brock. "We're continuing."
"Yeah," Pika agreed, jumping back into the arena.
"Hmm, alright. Now, Onix, use Normal Skull Bash," Brock called.
"Ha!" Onix roared, Skull Bashing Pika.
Red ordered Pika to stand his ground, and Pika did so with determination. Then, Red ordered him to use Quick Attack to climb Onix, which the electric mouse also did.
"Onix, don't let them do whatever they wanna do, get pikachu off of you," Brock commanded.
"right," the rock snake roared, then tried to shake Pika off of it.
It did not work.
Red ordered Pika to use mega punch, which confused him, Red told him that it is just a punch with full force. Even if he did not know the move, then launched himself forward with a fierce battle cry. it worked, using his hands, he landed a powerful none actual Mega Punch at the Onix's head, it was a solid blow that made the creature roar in pain. (Just like Ash's pikachu in the anime, without learning punches and kicks, he used them.) (It is called logic, deal with it!, anyway)
"Why you," Onix roared angrily.
"Bind," Brock ordered, and Onix happily obeyed, The massive rock snake coiled around Pikachu, squeezing him tightly and causing the little electric mouse to cry out in pain.
"AHH!"
Although Pika tried to break free from the Bind, he was squeezed, and Red did not like that, he tried recalling Pika, but it did not work.
Pika tried using his electric attacks, but it was to no avail, he only kept getting squeezed even more. (Seriously, Pokémon never tested type matchups in the wild?)
"I give up. Stop," Red called so Brock can hear him.
Brock nodded, recalling his Onix to its Pokéball. "You're a smart kid, Red. There's no point in hurting your Pokémon for no reason."
Red nodded, then ran onto the field and scooped up his injured partner. "Are you alright?"
"Just tired, ow, also, some pain," Pika said.
Red lost, and none of the three Pallet trainers knew what to say at the moment.
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Pikachu: 'appears' of course you end it here.
Author: where would you want me to end the chapter, the Pokémon League?
Pikachu: no but Pikachu want their pride back.
Eevee: will Red get the badge? What about Ash and Leaf? And Giovanni? What about poor Pika? Why didn't Red catch more Pokémon to battle Brock, or just catch them, isn't he supposed to be the one who catches all Pokémon or something?
Author: hey, that was fun, you have taken over the narrator role. As for Red, he is in training, mostly, and I emphasise mostly, because he is not completely, like Pokémon Origins Red, and also the games… And other questions and more will hopefully be answered as the journey continues!
Pikachu and eevee: wait! What's the narrator role?
Thank you for reading.
Help! Does any one know how to do an actual horizontal line? Pleas tell me if you do!
