[PKMN OPEN] The Pokémon Trainer Academy (T) [Best Veteran 4Q '11]

Jack didn't notice Selene's outburst but Blade sure did and smirked a bit before holding out his blade signalling everyone to stop moving. Blade looked a bit paranoid as he was just standing there looking around in the different directions. They weren't far into the forest but sometimes bug pokemon could be trouble makers and Blade knew this all too well "What happened?" Jack was curious but didn't want to panic anyone so he moved closer to Blade so no one else would hear. {Look around carefuly} Jack saw nothing until some light began to shine and he saw the webs all around them except for the path ahead of them obviously it was a trap set by some of the pokemon in the forest but Jack was prepared.

He did hear Valorie's question and decided to answer it instead of of startaling anyone "Looking for anything strong" It was as simple as that Jack wanted strong pokemon and to find them he had to look around in the unusual place. "Hey Mark come over here for a second please" Mark seemed like the only person he should tell about what was going so he decided to tell him and him alone. "We are walking into a trap, just letting you know

The forest... Mark had a good idea of a few pokemon he'd want to get for his team... He eyed several wild Pokemon wandering about but they didn't catch his interest. He needed to go deeper to the forest. He did chuckle a bit when Selene had a little moment with a few Ledyba. Mark looked over to Jack and followed him as soon as he called him over. He mentioned they were walking into a trap...

"A trap? What are you on about Jack?" Issac said, eyebrow raised. If this was going to harm the group in any way he wasn't looking forward to keeping secrets...

"Usually some bug pokemon like to play tricks" Jack answered trying to calm Mark's nerves a bit Blade on the other hand saw it as nothing and urged them too continue moving {Nothing more than stupid pokemon and their pranks} Jack agreed with Blade and explained the situation more "the worst that could happen is they lead us to a dead end" Jack continued walking along the path not letting this stop him on his journey.

Bri walked along at the back of the group, jumping when bug types burst out at him. He looked ahead and saw Jack and Mark talking.
"I wonder what they're talking about," he said to Valorie, who happened to be walking nearby.
"Who cares? I'm ready for anything!" Thyme said. Drizzle nodded in agreement, and Duster climbed up on his shoulder. Thyme, to Bri's surprise, didn't shove her off.

"Hmm... well... thanks for the warning I guess." Mark said as he moved deeper into the forest. Mark then wandered off a bit and ran to a more out of the way area of the forest to see what he could find. He heard the buzzing sound of a Nincada, crawling around the dirt and digging through it as well. It looked like a pretty cool Pokemon in Mark's eyes... why not add it to the team?

Before Mark could call Snype over to help deal with the pokemon, Len popped out of the ground next to the Nincada. ["hi!"] Len said. Nincada responded by moving in to attack Len, but Len stuck his head back underground as if he were a Digglet. It was funny to watch as the Nincada was sick of missing Len so much... it was kind of a slow Pokemon at this stage.

"Len! Dig up and attack it from below!" Mark called out. The wild Nincada looked around and was suprised as Len headbutted it from below, shooting it to the air and causing it to land on its feet. The wild nincada retaliated by using sand attack on Len. It got plenty of sand in its eyes, effecting his vision a bit.

"Len! you alright? Try and hit it with Water gun!" Mark said.

Len, tears in his eyes from the sand, fired a water gun straight at Nincada. With its poor aim caused by Sand attack, he missed the attack. Nincada retaliated by using leech life. Nincada bit on Len's fragile skin and began to suck on his health. Len let out a small cry of pain and continued on. "Alright Len, we'll have to try something different... Hypnosis!" Mark called out.

Len stared directly at the Nincada and released circular hypnotic waves toward its eyes. Quickly, the tiny bug pokemon fell asleep, flat on its chest.

"Perfect!" Mark said. He threw one of his spare Pokeballs at the Nincada as it was absorbed into the ball. The ball shook around three times until finally making a satisfying ding sound. Finally, Mark had a forth team member. "Woo! A Nincada!" Mark said. Snype gave off a small clap toward Mark and smiled at him. He had to show everyone what he found... As soon as he found his way back that is...

(part of this was done on my phone so there may be mistakes)

Once again Jack had stopped he had spotted something that interested him greatly a pokemon, a trio actually all playing around in the tree top. They were pokemon that Jack had only read about Panpour, Pansear and Pansage but he had never gotten a chance to see them in person. Blade was interested as well as he stared on them at the same moment Jack did. They looked strong and Jack wanted at least one of them but doubted Blade would be enough to take them all at one and decided to show the group one of his new captures. "Go Giga" Jack had released the Druddigon that he caught on the mountain earlier but now he was in battle mode and had zoned out anyone around him, Brian, Selene, Valorie but not Mark who had wandered off somewhere.

It was Blade and Giga versus the tree monkeys who still didn't notice Jack's presense yet, good to know. Blade looked over at Giga {Hope your strong} this was Blades way of saying hi and Giga responded in a similar fashion {Same to you} Jack was pleased to see them getting along, kinda getting along since chemistry was an important part of his team. "Ok Blade do what you do best" Blade nodded and silently and quickly made his way up the tree ,like a ninja, swinging his blade knocking them out the tree. Its three against two Jack was a tactitionist and thought about every possible outcome even if he didn't look like that sort of trainer Grass, water and fire types "Blade Night Slash, Giga Scratch" Jack watched as both his pokemon set off in tandem Blade jumping from the tree blades surrounded by a purple aura and Giga flew off aiming for anyone of the monkeys he reached first. Giga dissapointedly missed but thankfully Blade was able to strike both Pansage and Panpour in the process. Giga's miss had left him open to a scratch attack from Pansear who jumped unto Giga's face and scratched verociously and what seemed to be never ending. Blade couldn't help him though as he was pre-occupied by constant attacks from the other two pokemon. Blade can handle himself I gotta focus on Giga "reply with scratch" Jack shouted to his druddigon who had only just been able to pry Pansear from his face. Giga retaliated with his own flurry of sratch attacks and left pansear wimpering of to the other monkeys who were getting dominated thorougly by Blade. Jack was pleased at how the 3v2 battle was going on so far but the monkeys didn't seem right as if they were hatching a plan Jack watched on wary of what could happen.

Bri tripped over something.
"Ow," he said as he got to his feet.
"Watch out now," Drizzle said. He helped Thyme to her feet. Duster jumped up. She looked around.
"What did I trip over?" Bri asked. He looked around and saw an Illumise. Thyme spotted it too and froze. It looked mad.
"I got this!" Drizzle said with a feisty grin. The Illumise looked at Drizzle and flew at him with Tackle. Drizzle jumped out of the way and sprayed it with Water Gun. Illumise was hit and turned around and used Charm. Pink hearts flew around Drizzle. Drizzle looked a bit shamed that he was fighting it.
"Shake it off! Use Sonic Boom!" Bri yelled. Drizzle shook his head and leapt in the air. He sent a few blasts with his tail at the Illumise. Bri could see that the attacks were not at full power. They struck the Illumise, and it turned around and flew at Drizzle with Tackle again. Drizzle could not dodge in midair, and was struck. He hit the dirt, and was back on his feet. Illumise started spraying powder all over the place.
"Hey! That smells good!" Drizzle said as he sniffed the air. Bri could smell it too. It was very sweet. Thyme shook her head.
"I hate sweet smells like that," she said. Duster climbed up on Bri's arm.
"I don't know what that did, but use Quick Attack!" Bri said. Drizzle charged at the Illumise and rammed into it full force. Illumise spunn around and flew at Drizzle.
"Dodge it!" Bri said. Drizzle just stood there smelling the air. He was hit in the chest with Tackle.
"OOF!" he said as he went down. Drizzle was back on his feet.
"Pursuit!" Bri yelled. Drizzle's paws started glowing black and he rushed at Illumise. He rammed his paws into the bug type, and it hit the ground.
"Water Gun!" Bri said, happy that his pokemon was doing so well. Drizzle blased the pokemon with a jet of water, and it fainted. Bri decided not to catch it. Thyme would have a fit if he did. He picked Thyme up.
"Great job Drizzle! Let's go catch up to the others!" Bri said as he ran off with his pokemon in tow.

Jack stoped both his pokemon and watched on as the three monkey pokemon lined off side by side looking at both Blade and Giga menacingly. It was silent for a while as both set of pokemon just stood there staring at each other without moving. You could hear a pin drop but Jack wasn't going to make the mistake of attacking just to fall into a trap. {Bring it on chimps} Giga was feeling confident especially with Blade at his side who was able to easily hold off two of them by himself even as he struggled with the single pansear. The pokemon responded to Giga's taunt by attacking using incinerate, water gun and vine whip simultaneously. It was chaos there was no way to dodge all three attacks what was the plan going to be? Take a hit and hope they survive? Use it against them? Yeah that sounded like the best ideas. "Blade use Vacuum Wave" Blade spun around and conjuerd up a tornado which gathered up the fire from the incinerate attack and the water gun that they had used. A large twister was around Blades body which he sent right back at them. Pansage was able to dodge but he wasn't safe either "Giga use scratch" Giga headed straight for Pansear scratching and sending straight back into the ground.

Jack fumbled through hid bag and gound two pokeballs he threw one at the Pansage who was engulfed in a red light and sucked into the pokeball the second was for Panpour which the same happened. Jack searched his bag for another pokeball and thankfully found but he was too late he looked back and Pansear was gone. Jack let out a sigh the one he wanted the most had got away unfortunetl. Jack turned his attention to the group which was two people short at this point with Mark and Brian both missing. "So ladies how was the battle" jack was proud of himself he caught two pokemon at once which made him extremely happy as he returned Giga to his pokeball and picked up Pansage's pokeball as Panpour's was sent to the pokemon center. But onbenounced to Jack and the others the little spiderwebs from early were now near impenetrable walls around the forest. Who had set that trap for them and will they be able to get out? The plot much like the webs seperating Mark and Brian from the rest of the group thickens.

"Umm..." mumbled Sel, looking round her into the forest. She...she had somehow been separated from the rest of the group. Looking up at Blu she laughed nervously as he hovered next to her head. "Oh...right well...looks like we need to find the guys..." she said anxiously, peering through the trees in hope of seeing one of her friends meandering through the forest.

Yelping, she heard a rustle ahead of her. Looking up into the tree in front, she watched as an adorable little Pansear cocked his head down at her from the branch he was perched on. She grinned up at him, taking a Pokeball from her belt, "You're nearly too cute to do this too...but you understand, if you come with me then I'll look after you, you'll have new friends, it'll be brilliant!" her face set as she prepared to catch this little monkey.

"Okay Horsea! It's time for you to stretch yourself out!" Horsea stared straight at the Pansear, suddenly letting out a jet of bubbles straight at the Pokemon above it. Sel grimaced and stepped backwards, rubbing the back of her neck. Damn...of course, she hadn't really trained Horsea too much since getting her...well, she'd only gotten the Pokemon a couple of days ago...and the Bubblebeam hit Pansear, so she couldn't complain. "Okay Horsea, that was brilliant, but next time wait until I instruct you yeah?"

The attack had knocked Pansear back out of the tree, Sel watched as he got to his feet before instructing Horsea to use a Water Gun attack. She hadn't counted on Pansear countering with Ember, watching as the Water Gun and the Ember pushed against each other, battling for dominance in clouds of smoke. Gritting her teeth, Sel clenched her fists, urging Horsea on. "Come on Horsea! Throw everything you have into it! Give him a Bubblebeam as well and see if he can handle that one with his Embers!" Horsea did as instructed, and the Water Gun doubled in volume with barrages of bubbles dancing through it.

Pansear couldn't hold it off and squealed as the attack hit him, knocking him off his feet and back into a bush. Sel ran forward, Horsea, Ryan and Swablu beside her. Turning to Blu she grinned - Pansear would be sufficiently weakened by now. "Okay Blu, flush him out of that bush with a Gust attack!" Blu chirped and used the Gust blowing Pansear back into the clearing and Sel wasted no time in throwing a PokeBall at the Monkey Pokemon. As it closed and wobbled, Sel just knew it was going to be...not caught?!?!

Pansear popped back out, glaring at Sel before turning and running through the bushed, scampering up a tree. Growling, Sel turned to Blu. "Tail it Blu, don't let it escape you! Come on guys!" she instructed, picking up Horsea and running through the Forest, Ryan beside her. After a few minutes, she heard Blu chirp up ahead - Pansear had stopped. Looking at the tree, Sel grimaced. She wasn't a very good climber...but, she HAD to have that Pansear. Returning Horsea, she climbed the tree slowly with a determined expression...she hid herself behind some foliage as the Pansear lay slumped on a branch, obviously even weaker than before. Taking the empty PokeBall, Sel threw it at Pansear, watching anxiously as it wobbled....yes! It stayed closed this time! Whooping, Sel reached over and grabbed the PokeBall, grinning down at it. "Okay, awesome guys good job! Uhh...Blu...could you help me down please?" she grimaced, Blu gave her a look that told her very clearly she was a ridiculous human being before allowing Sel to hold on around her, gliding down to the Forest floor quickly.

Grinning widely, Sel gestured for her Pokemon to follow, determined now to find the others.

"I can't believe it...I'm lost. I'm actually lost...I KNEW this would happen, as if I'm lost..." she stepped over some broken twigs, her nose wrinkling slightly, "in a forest..." she noticed some questionable looking dirt on the bottom of her flip-flop and nearly gagged, "and I don't have a clue where everyone is. AAAHHH!" she screamed in irritation, turning and kicking a nearby skinny tree, Ryan and Blu exchanging glances as if to say "oh boy...here we go."

"HEY! YOU THERE!" came a voice from behind Selene, making her jump and turn around to see an angry looking boy with a net over his shoulder making his way towards her. "What're you doing destroying the Forest?" Selene raised an eyebrow at him, looking at the tree (that was still intact) then back at the boy. Was this kid for real? Destroying the forest?

"Hey mate...I kicked a tree 'cos I was annoyed. I'm lost here and I can't find my friends or m-" "I don't care!" interrupted the boy rudely, throwing down his net and taking two pokeballs from his belt. Sel stepped backwards, the frown on her face deepening as Blu and Ryan jumped in front of her, ready to protect her as the boy growled at her. "I don't care why you did it! It's people like you who are destroying the habitats of Bug pokemon!" he threw the pokeballs in front of him, a Beedrill and a Pidgeotto appearing in the air. Sel took one look at the Beedrill and wanted to run...Bug...buzzing Bug...buzzing Bug with MASSIVE stingers at the end of it's arms...

"Okay kid, what's the deal? I'm not the one logging forests! I kicked a tree that is still upright, I kicked it in FLIP FLOPS, seriously, get a clue!" she raged suddenly, scowling darkly at the boy, who didn't move. "Okay. Right, I was willing to let this go...but you, you've left me no choice...prepare to be crushed!" she yelled, pointing forwards.

"Ryan, use Thunderbolt on that Pidgeotto, Blu use Gust on the Beedrill and stay away from the Stingers at all costs!" she yelled, just as the boy shouted "Pidgeotto, use Peck on the Pikachu and Beedrill attack with Poison Sting!" That was both good and bad...if Pidgeotto was trying to use Peck it couldn't evade Pikachu's attack, but that Poison Sting...Blu had to be agile enough to avoid it.

Sel watched with satisfaction as the Pidgeotto flew directly at Ryan, Ryan waiting until the last minute before shocking it with Thunderbolt at point-blank range. It would be ever more powerful as the Bird Pokemon was so close to Ryan when it hit. She watched as the Pidgeotto attempted to fly away, but Ryan continued to hit it with Thunderbolt, following it so it couldn't escape. The bird cried out before collapsing to the dust, the boy gritting his teeth and returning the Pidgeotto.

But while Ryan was thriving in his battle, Blu wasn't doing so well. He had tried to avoid the Stingers, and had succeeded to dodge it the first few times. While his Gust attack had done some damage to the Beedrill, the Beedrill was a good enough flier to have remained upright and in control, and was even more angry for the attack that had hit. It flew at Blu and jabbed him straight in the stomach with his Poison Sting, making Sel cry out as Blu did. "Blu no, use your Wing Attack now, get him off you!" she yelled, as Blu summoned the last of his strength to use his Wing Attack. It succeeded in throwing the Beedrill back, it's head knocking against a branch above them before Blu floated to the floor in a faint.

Sighing, Sel returned Blu and kissed the PokeBall lightly. "Good job boy, thank you for that," she glared at the boy in front of her who looked smug, pointing directly at his Beedrill. "THAT OVERSIZED WASP IS GOING DOWN!" she yelled angrily, "RYAN, THUNDER WAVE!" she cried, Ryan leaping into the air and throwing a weak jolt of electricity at the Beedrill, equally angry at the fall of his friend.

The boy laughed arrogantly, the Beedrill looking down at Ryan cooly as his attack flew towards him. "That? You call THAT an attack? My Metapod could make a stronger lightning attack than tha-" he froze at the same time as his Beedrill, crying out as the paralyzed Bug Pokemon's wings stopped moving, crashing to the floor. Sel smirked smugly.

"Yes, I do. Because now...Ryan, Thunderbolt that Beedrill until it faints!" she cried - the Beedrill was a better flier than the Pidgeotto, so Sel had to get it out of the air before Ryan could finish it off. Walking up to the Beedrill and climbing atop it, Ryan used his Thunderbolt, directing it all to the Pokemon underneath him. The Beedrill, unable to move or resist, fainted under Ryan.

Yes!! Sel grinned widely, smiling as Ryan ran back to her and the boy returned his Beedrill with a sour face. "Well. Next time, when someone tells you to leave something, just leave it okay!" He glared at her for a moment before turning and walking off without saying a word. Shaking her head, Sel watched him leave. Such a sore loser..."YEAH, AND STAY AWAY!" she called after him, Ryan following up with a 'CHUUU!'

"I knew we should have gone the other way!" Thyme said. Bri had been walking along by himself trying to find the rest of the group. Drizzle was following behind him. Duster was still in his arms, where she had fallen asleep. Bri wanted to scream.
"Hello! Selene! Mark! Jack! Varorie! Where are you guys?" Bri called out. He had tears running down his face, and was barely able to stay focused enough not to fall to hysteria. He was very scared, and didn't know what to do. The forest was getting darker. He kept walking, calling out for his friends.

"Hello Selene! Mark! Jack! Valorie! Where are you guys?" she heard a panicked cry from beyond the bushes in front of her...hold on, she knew that voice. Of course it did. It was Bri! And he sounded really scared!

"BRI! HOLD ON EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE, I'M JUST A BIT AWAY FROM YOU. I'M COMING NOW!" she yelled, for once her large lungs and loud voice was a blessing rather than a curse as she shouted for Bri, knowing he would hear her if she could hear him.

She released Pansear, who looked up at her uncertainly. "Pansear! Can you use Ember on those bushes in front of us? They're too tall and thick to climb through, and my friend is on the other side!" she asked hurriedly and Pansear agreed, the Embers he shot at the bush smouldering slowly until they caught fire. Once enough of the bush had been burned away, Sel released Horsea and ordered her to use Water Gun to put out the fire. After just blitzing the Bug Maniac who had told her off for destroying the forest she couldn't let it burn any more...

Pushing through the bush with her Pokemon behind her, she looked up and down the path for Bri, seeing him a bit further down the path. "Bri! I'm here!" she shouted, running over to him and kneeling down next to him, putting her arms around him as she saw him crying, looking at him in concern. "What is it Bri? What happened?"

"I-I was battling an Illumise, and when I won I tried to find everyone but I got lost and this forest is really big and scary and I didn't know what to do," Bri said, half of his words sounding unintelligable. Thyme sighed. He got frightened so easily.
"Let's go find the others, if we can," Drizzle said. Bri didn't say anything. He didn't know what to do now. He was still lost. He hoped they would find the others soon. They seemed to know where they were going.

"Calm down okay? Here," she took her arms from around him and reached into her bag and pulled the bottle of water she'd taken out with her that morning and handed it to Bri, unscrewing the cap for him, "have a drink, take deep breaths, it's alright now we're back on the main path..." she trailed off, looking round as she rubbed Bri's back gently to soothe him...he was so freaked...she didn't want to tell him that she actually wasn't sure they were on the main path at all.

"You battled an Illumise! That's a really strong Pokemon Bri, it's really good that you defeated it!" she encouraged him, standing up and waiting for him to calm down so they could find the others. It was odd that they'd been separated for so long...

"We have no idea where they've gotten to," Ryan responded to Drizzle as Pansear looked round, eyes fixing on the Pikachu next to him. "We've been looking for them too haven't we...oh hey yeah, I'm Ryan," Ry said offering Pansear his hand sheepishly, "Sorry I didn't introduce myself before...welcome to the gang!"

Pansear took his hand but didn't seem too impressed, "I had my own gang! I can't believe I've been caught..." he trailed off irritatedly, shaking his head slowly. Ryan laughed and patted him on the back. "Yeah I know man, I felt exactly the same when Sel snagged me...but she's alright you know, for a human, you could've found a worse trainer!" Pansear looked up at Sel and nodded slowly.

"She seems alright...she sure trusted me so soon after catching me I guess...well, we'll see."

Mark had wondered off himself, away from the group. He tried to backtrack but it turned out they were quite a distance away. Immediately he heard Bri calling out for help and Mark went running. Along the way he passed by Valorie and Jack. "Hi guys! Going off to find Bri!" He said quickly running by them. Mark went through the bushed and along the way he tripped on something, causing him to land right on his face onto the dirt down below.

"mmmph.... geez..." Mark muttered, spitting out dirt. Snype chuckled a bit as he jumped over the small rock that made him trip. Once he got up onto his feet he continued to look around for Bri and Sel. As soon as he got up he was greeted by a Pinco right in front of his face. Knowing what they did best, he slowly stepped away to not disturb it any further. "Uh... lets go Snype." Mark said nervously as he kept moving along the main path. The wild Pinco laughed happily.

As mark continued on there was another Pineco that was in his way. "This guy dosn't want to leave us alone huh..." Issac thought. The pinco looked as if it was just ready to explode. "Lets be careful with this Snype. Night shade!" Snype kept his distance and fired dark beams out of his eyes. Once it made contact with the wild Pinco it immediately began to glow brightly. "Look out!" Mark said as he ducked and covered Snype with his hands. The Pinco self distructed and fell to the ground completely fainted. Mark wasn't looking to capture it so he simply left it as it rolled toward the bushes.

"Geez... watch out for more of them Snype. We should stick around here. IF anything the explosion should have attracted some attention." Mark said, brushing off his shirt.