Pewter City, Pokemon Center


Gideon Arc

So it turned out that the weird punk of a Pikachu and its nearly unconscious pal were smarter than they looked, as they chose to retreat from the fight rather than stay to get their asses beat like their comrades had. Bál growled in displeasure for not having gotten the chance to finish off what she started, but her trainer didn't share that sentiment. He was just damn happy the whole crazy situation was finally over. Seriously, what the hell was all that about? Like his day hadn't sucked enough without getting caught up in all this.

Sigur heaved a sigh of annoyance, scratching his head as he finally allowed his shoulders to relax and back to straighten. Now that he was free, he could finally continue on that damn route to Pewter City. Maybe now Bál had gotten enough fights to last her the trip there. If not, Sigur believed he would convert to eating Pokémon very soon. His stomach was emptier than a Ditto's head. Ugh. He glanced at the two girls out of mild curiosity, only to find out that they were apparently in the middle of an introduction round. What, was this elementary school now?

... Fine.

"Name's Sigur," he voiced without waiting for his turn or making sure he didn't speak over either of them. He just wanted to get this over with fast, and then head towards Pewter. Hopefully, these two would be headed the same way and he could surreptitiously use them as guides, since he had no idea where he was or which way he was supposed to be going. Plus, he needed some human interaction. Someone to tease and all - he couldn't really do that with Bál, not when he ran the risk of getting his arms chopped off by her claws.

"Well, it's a nickname, but not like you could pronounce my real name, anyway," he continued with a shrug, before turning to point a thumb behind him. "And that piece of crazy is Bál. She's-"

He gritted his teeth so hard they damn near chipped.

"... Gone!?"

Sigur took a double take behind him, eyes wide from horror when he realized that his dragon was no longer standing behind him. Oh shit, oh shit, not again. Angry and panicking, the teen raised his gaze and squinted, just barely managing to see a quickly distancing blur of blue in the horizon. Son of a... Did it go chase the Pikachu or what? That bloodthirsty bitch.

"Okay, gotta go, see you later and whatever!" Sigur blurted without taking a moment to breathe in between his words. He grabbed a better hold of his back and, with a quick wave of his hand, dashed into the bushes after his runaway Gabite. He swore, he'd feed that thing to... whatever type was effective against it once he'd catch her. Ice? He recalled her getting beat by a Swinub when young. Yeah, okay, Bál'd be ice-pig food, then. That worked.

Luckily, this time it didn't take that long for Sigur to catch up to the Gabite; it only took a few minutes of frantic running and wheezing for breath for him to finally be in hearing distance. And he didn't waste a moment to make use of that.

"Bál, goddamnit, didn't you get enough already?!" He shouted as he finally allowed his running steps to slow to a walk. Unfortunately, she wasn't listening (not that... that was anything new, really) as she was too focused on glaring down the strange, scarred Pikachu from earlier. Or, well, staring up, rather; the rodent was safely sitting on a branch away from Bál's reach, small feet trembling from exhaustion, yet cheeks still sparkling and eyes mere, glaring slits. The Gabite's glare was equally icy, and her claws glowed with the clear intent to sink into the Pikachu's flesh, probably to finish the thing off for good, since it didn't look it could hold on much longer. Geez.

"Hey, come on, I'm seriously considering eating Caterpies if we don't get the hell out of here soon," the teen tried to reason a bit more calmly as he approached, one hand brushing sweaty strands from his face. "Or roasting one of the Pikachus from earlier. So how ab-"

Finally, Sigur's words had an effect. Too bad that it wasn't Bál they affected - it was the Pikachu. In what had to be the fastest leap Sigur had ever seen in his life, the Pikachu had kicked itself from the tree's branch and launched its yellow, sparkling body straight towards his face.

"Holy-!" Sigur breathed, not having much time to do anything but yelp and take a clumsy step backwards, nearly tripping over his own legs. He had a split second to defend himself, and so without giving it any further thought, he ran his hands along his clothes and belongings, looking for something, anything to fight back. Come on, he gotta have owned something usable as a weapon.

Just then, his fingers brushed against something solid and decidedly removable, and he wasted not a single second grabbing it. As he brought it closer for throwing, he managed to catch a glimpse of red and white from his peripheral vision. He knew that color scheme anywhere.

A... Pokéball?

Yeah, okay, whatever, blunt trauma is blunt fucking trauma!

And so with as much as strength as he could muster, Sigur threw the ball straight at the Pikachu, praying to god it would be enough to knock it out. It was already exhausted, so it wasn't like it was an impossible thought.

Through some miracle the sphere did actually hit its target, and in a flash of red light that blinded Sigur and pushed him to fall backwards on his ass, the Pikachu was gone. Wait, what? How?!

... Oh, right. Pokéballs captured Pokémon, right?

The ball wiggled once.

So that's why the Pikachu was gone and he was saved, huh.

It wiggled twice.

But wait, if it went inside the ball, didn't that mean he... captured it?

It wiggled thrice.

... Shit, no, he didn't want that rodent to-

Sigur reached towards the ball as if in an attempt to pry it open before he'd hear the final ping.

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Pokémon on Hand



Bál, ♀
Ability: Sand Veil
Moveset:
- Dragon Claw
- Body Slam
- Dig
- Sandstorm
- Hone Claws

I kept walking deeper on the mountain and leaving those thugs hypnotized.

I could see that Gary Clark was keeping his rhythm. Good for him.

I got down in some weird stairs.

And then... Pow! Something hit on my head. I blacked out

1 hour later...

I woke up... I was tied... I look around and i saw Gary Clark tied too. Then i see a Raticate, a Beedril, a Kadabra, a Croconaw, a Pidgeotto and a Cacnea on a cage. Then i see Bubbles, Sludges and Leaf on a cage too.

A guy talked. He had a Dodrio, a Fearow and a Haunter.

"Haunter saw you taking a Leaf Stone. Give it to me! While you Croconaw boy... Give me the Moon Stone!" Said the guy.

"Hmph... Why would i give you the Moon Stone?" Gary Clark said with an arrogant face.

"We would never help you in whatever are you doing!" I shouted.

"Well then... This is what happens to who messes with Team Rocket!" This name crossed my mind, "Haunter use Hypnosis!" We both fell asleep.

Tasman hurried down the grey stone streets of Pewter City, running full pelt past both commercial and residential buildings suddenly aware that the sky was becoming darker and the cool breeze he had ben experiencing at the park had become positively frigid in the evening air.
"This is what I get for being so easily distracted!!!" he found himself yelling loudly, surprising the waning numbers of pedestrians around him.

Tasman had intended to go straight from the park where he had met Jara to the Pewter Gym, where he could challenge Brock in order to gain his first badge. Unfortunately, Tasman had come across the Pewter Museum on the way and all but forgetting his plans had stopped and quickly become enthralled by the stones and fossils on display. It was only the closing of the museum that had sparked his panic… and had inadvertently caused him to run the wrong direction at first.

The large, grey painted, building that was the Pewter Gym no finally came into view – a staff member in the process of closing up for the day. Tasman practically launched himself through the open sliding doors an skidded to a halt by the man.
"I'm here to challenge Brock!" he breathed heavily, bent over double and panting. The man looked at Tasman irritably
"We're closing up, we took in our last challenger a little while ago and she's gone on her way."
"The brochure says you wouldn't close before 8:30 if there were still challengers in the lobby!" Tasman protested, eager to experience his first gym battle, however the staff-member would not budge
"It has been an exceptionally busy day" he said and started to shoo Tasman from the gym when a third voice cut over him
"You really shouldn't be such a grouch Patrick" a calm and friendly sounding voice said from the now open door at the end of the lobby. Brock strode into the room, his eyes practically slits but somehow not alarming or threatening "come on through, we're not closed yet."

A few moments later, Tasman found himself standing on one side of a large battlefield opposing Brock. The field was made of rock and tightly packed sand, several large and jagged boulders jutted out from the ground – although several had been burned, cracked or even completely shattered as a result of the many earlier gym battles. Tasman stood there in awe, he'd never seen anything like it and the empty rows of tiered spectator seats around the room only added to the imposing sense of the arena. Still, Tasman was not so enthralled that he could not register the change in the gym leader's demeanour
"What's your name then, challenger?" Brock asked, suddenly serious
"Tasman Bailey, pleased to meet you." Brock inclined his head in response to Tasman's greeting before continuing
"Is this your first gym battle Tasman?"
"Yeah, my first time in Kanto too – so far this has all been quite the experience." Brock appeared surprised, but was soon able to regain his professional demeanour
"I see, well let's not waste any more time in getting into your first gym battle then. Sudowoodo, let's go!" Brock released his first pokemon from its ball, in a flash of white light what appeared to be a tree-like pokemon appeared. It seemed to be about four feet tall, with several green spheres on the ends of its arms resembling hands and what looked like a twig on the top of its head. Tasman was well-aware though that Sudowoodo was a rock-type that had simply evolved in time to resemble a grass type in order to avoid water-typed attacks. He was thankful his mother had thought to tell him about that when he was younger.
Maybe I'll let him think I've fallen for it Tasman smiled
"Majesta, shall we?" he said, still grinning as he released his feisty Pidgey from the confines of her ball. The battle had begun.

Tasman though quickly, he knew that most of Majesta's moves would do very little damage to the rock-type, so he sought to take advantage of its negligible speed instead of its type.
"Quick Attack!" Majesta streaked towards her opponent, a fierce brown blur – at least she seemed as such to Tasman. Brock just smirked, not even uttering a command as the Pidgey repeatedly battered her opponent. Again and again Majesta attacked, but not once did the Sudowoodo falter, then;
"Sudowoodo, use Sucker Punch!" in a sudden flurry of motion, the usually slow pokemon was able to out-pace Majesta and punch her hard to the ground where she struggled to return to her feet
"Now, low sweep!" Brock followed up, the Sudowood sweeping its leg across the ground and sending Majesta skidding across the ground. Groaning she flapped hard against the ground, forcing herself back to her feet once again ready to take to the air.

Tasman was shocked at the sudden ferocious attack, he had not counted on a priority move, and certainly not one has powerful as Sucker Punch. Brock had waited until just the right moment and then struck out.
"Fine, let's try attacking from a distance. Twister!" Majesta flapped her wings, a violent gale sweeping over the rock terrain of the battle field and soon forming into a large swirling vortex, the tornado moved quickly towards the Sudowoodo collecting more dust and gravel as it went.
"Protect!" Brock yelled as the Twister was just about to hit its target, a green sphere of light burst into life around the rock-type shielding it from harm. Luckily, Tasman had anticipated Brock having a counter-measure for Sudowoodo's lack of resistance against special moves like Twister
"Brave Bird!" As the barrier faded, Majesta dived into the lingering cloud of dust surrounded by a blazing red light, suddenly erupting from the side and fanning her wings. The light flashed and expanded into a brilliant blue aura as Majesta slammed into her opponent and sent it flying across the room.
"You strategise well. I'm impressed" Brock acknowledged "I'm impressed. Are you okay?" he asked his pokemon, but it just nodded already back on it feet. Majesta on the other hand, was fairing poorly shocked by the recoil damage of the attack.

"Sand-Attack!" Tasman shouted and Majesta remained on the ground, flapping her wings until the sand on the ground blew against the Sudowoodo in a cloud, stinging its eyes and clouding its vision
"Bave Bird!" Again Majesta launched through the cloud, but this time she did not meet with success
"Protect!" Brock called, and instead of hitting her target, Majesta collided with the glowing barrier, an opportunity Brock didn't waste
"Stone Edge!" as the Pidgey fell back spluttering through the air, several jagged stones formed around the gym leader's Sudowoodo and launched at her, slamming into her at a dangerous velocity and sending her flying into the back wall of the gym. Majesta fell to the ground, twitching and barely conscious.
"You can strategise as much as you want, but I won't fall for the same trick twice and I won't let you overcome a type disadvantage so easily."

Tasman returned Majesta to her pokeball, thanking her for her hard work. Then he looked to Brock and laughed
"It's not over yet, how dull would that be? Gati, you're turn!" In the familiar flash of light, Tasman's Buizel took to the battlefield.

Gati's fist, cloaked in an orange light, collided with the Sudowoodo's branch-like arm, also glowing but a brilliant forest-green. Tasman's Buizel surprised Brock and his pokemon with the strength of its move, however there was no denying that the Sudowoodo was stronger, and Wood Hammer the stronger attack. The rock-type was pushed back several feet whilst Gati was knocked sprawling back along the ground near Tasman's feet, although he quickly leapt back up there was no doubt that he'd received more damage.
"Again!" Tasman yelled and once gain Gati's fist lit up as he ran full-pelt for the Sudowoodo.
"Protect!" Brock called as Gati reached the gym leader's pokemon and the now irritatingly familiar green sphere of energy erupted into being, Gati's attack hitting the barrier and doing no damage to the Sudowoodo "Wood Hammer!" Brock called as soon as Gati's attack was blocked, and the Buizel's opponent attempted to slam it's green-glowing limb down on Gati's head. Tasman was not about to let his last pokemon get hit with a strong, super-effective move though
"Aqua Jet!"

Gati launched forward, propelled by a cloak of shimmering, high-pressure water, and slammed right into his opponent, narrowly avoiding the wrath of the Sudowoodo's Wood Hammer. The pair of combatants soared across the battlefield until the Sudowoodo's back hit the hard ground and Gati went over the top of it, skidding to a halt on its feet. Tasman didn't let his opponent rally
"Once more!" Gati again used Aqua Jet, flying towards the downed rock-type with the extremely effective move, but Brock was ready for him.
"Sucker Punch!" As fast as Aqua Jet was, Sucker Punch was still faster… and stronger. As Gati was about to hit his target, Sudowoodo rolled to the side and slammed its hand down on Gati, knocking him into the ground with a loud bang, cracking ground.

Gati twitched at the feet of the Sudowoodo, it looked like it was going to be all over – a two to one loss for Tasman. The young trainer found himself surprised; he felt his heart pumping with adrenaline, fear and most shockingly a strong desire to win. He refused to lose the battle, and knowing his Buizel, he knew Gati would agree. The Sudowoodo's hand glowed green once more, and it raised its arm to deliver the final blow. Tasman felt his panic grow and in his mad fever, inspiration hit him. He knew enough about Sudowoodo to win, the answer was obvious. In that split second of thought, he knew he'd won the round.
"Aqua Ring!" he yelled and without questioning the command, Gati formed a complex matrix of thin, lightly glowing rings of water that surrounded his body as he struggled into a crouch. The sudden appearance of all the water nearby made the Sudowoodo flinch and falter, Tasman smirked.
"Power-Up Punch!" Gati leapt up, swinging his arm in a wide-arcing uppercut – his glowing fist colliding with the Sudowoodo's face and sending it staggering, causing it to lose its balance and begin to fall.
"Finish it off Gati!" the Buizel didn't need telling, it flew into the unbalanced pokemon with an Aqua Jet, once significantly stronger than his earlier ones due to the repeated use of the strength-increasing Power-Up Punch.

Sopping wet the Sudowoodo crashed through two of the battlefield's boulders, before coming to a rest by the edge of the field. It lay groaning but otherwise couldn't bring itself to move.
"A good effort" Brock smiled, returning his fallen pokemon before his face once again became serious and he released his next pokemon from the confines of its pokeball "Kabutops, let's go!"

In a flash of white light, a tall and thin fossil-pokemon emerged. It's insectoid appearance and rocky skin accentuated by jutting protrusions on its back and shining scythes at the ends of its arms. Tasman looked in awe at his new opponent
"Amazing! I knew we could reanimate fossils with enough DNA present, but I never expected to see a fully-evolved fossil pokemon with my own eyes! This is fantastic!" Tasman continued to blabber excitedly until Bocks gaze caught his attention
"Are you ready?" the gym leader asked and Tasman nodded his reply. He knew he was in for a fight, Kabutops was a rock-type like Sudowoodo before it… but unlike Sudowoodo it possessed a secondary water-type that would make it more resistant to Gati's Aqua Jet. Tasman was thankful that Aqua Ring had replenished his partner's health.

"Aqua Jet!" Tasman and Brock called simultaneously, both pokemon rocketing towards each other in a spray of sparkling water and colliding head on, despite Gati's temporarily increased strength he was still weaker than the fossil pokemon, although they appeared closely matched. Gati flew towards Tasman, skidding to his feet before his trainer, ready to face off against the Kabutops again.
"Aqua Ring!" Tasman called, and Gati once again begun to heal itself, Brock however had other ideas.
"Absorb!" Even as the rings of shining, crystalline water appeared they took on a sickly green-hue as stream of green energy latched onto Gati, draining his health and adding to the Kabutops'. Tasman replied with another fierce Aqua Jet, but the fossil pokemon cut Gati out of the air with a ferocious Slash. From then on a furious struggle erupted, attack after attack colliding near the centre of the battle field. A slash crashing into a Power-Up punch with a shower of orange and white sparks, Gati dodging through strands of green as he tried to hit his foe with a Pursuit and amazingly large and powerful Aqua Jets colliding with each other sending shockwaves throughout the room. Aqua Jets after Aqua Jets met with a crash in the middle of the battlefield and Tasman found himself grinning to see that after Gati's continued use of Power-Up Punch his partner was now equal in strength with their foe, although his lesser defence proved a hindrance.

Gati's strength was flagging, and he was unable to heal with Aqua Ring for every time he tried the menacing green strands of Kabutops' absorb would taint the pristine water. The battle was close but it seemed it was only a matter of time before Gati lost his furious and desperate struggle.
"Aqua Jet!" he and Brock called together once more, and once more their pokemon rocketed into each other, colliding with a shockwave as the water sprayed across the room like a sudden downpour, drenching everyone and everything around. Gati landed in a crouch, panting heavily his body shaking. Across from him, the Kabutops still stood strong. Brock chuckled
"Sorry, but this looks like the end… and I'm going to make sure that it is. Kabutops, Mega Kick!"

Tasman looked on in horror as the fossil pokemon leapt into the air, its lower right leg blazing with an intense white light as it flew towards Gati, the Buizel barely able to move. In the instant he had, Tasman racked his brains, breathing fast his head pounding alongside his pulse. There had to be something he could do, some way he could turn his opponents power against him…
"Use Power-Up Punch on top of its leg!" he found himself crying out, the revelation washing over him. Gati's fist lit up and with a sudden, crazed and desperate effort he pushed himself to his feet, swivelled to the side and slammed his fist on top of the thin leg of the Kabutops, slamming it's leg behind it into the ground and ruining its trajectory, shock flared in the eyes of the otherwise stoic fossil.
"Pursuit!" Gati followed up by slipping passed his opponent guard, and ramming his shoulder into the weaker point at the base of its neck, the normally weak attack greatly boosted by Gati's continual use of Power-Up Punch. The Kabutops buckled under the attack, and fell to its knees. Gati smirked and brought his arm down on his opponents head sending it crashing hard into the ground and knocking it out cold. Gati fell to his knees but through sheer strength of will did not faint.

With Gati by his side and Majesta circling above, Tasman sat in the warmth of the sun admiring the way the Boulder Badge between his index finger and thumb gleamed in the sunlight. It was the day after Tasman had defeated Brock, however he'd only just now thought to actually look at his Badge having left the Gym in a hurry to watch a meteor shower that the Gym Leader mentioned, completely missing he was being invited to go with Brock and his family. The way the light shined against the sun had Tasman in something of a trance, which Gati found extremely amusing.

Suddenly however, Tasman's transfixed Gaze was ripped away from his badge. Not too far away an enormous pillar of electricity had erupted out of nowhere. Without stopping to think, Tasman ran towards it just as it vanished with Gati and Majesta hurrying along with him. It didn't take long for the trio to find the site of the shock, however reaching the apex of a small hill by the location it became apparent that whatever had caused the distraction was no longer there. In place of the catalyst however was a large circle of burned and dead grass and cracked ground. Route Three was a patchy route nestled inside a large canyon that lead up to Mt. Moon. The Majority of it was covered in thin grass, however there were many large sandy or rocky patches as well on the uneven terrain. This was something different though; this was a grassy area that had been devastated by a nasty electrical attack. It was extremely interesting.
"I do not think we want to meet whichever pokemon was able to create lightning like that, I think it used Thunder not Thunderbolt."

Tasman knelt down and reached over to touch the ground when he realised he was still holding his badge, he blinked at the object as though he was surprised to even find it in his possession, his expression causing Gati to fall over laughing. Tasman reached for his bag so he could return the object to his badge case… his bag wasn't there. Gati laughed even harder and it didn't take Tasman long to realise what had happened. In his haste to explore the source of the electricity he had ran off and left his bag where he'd been sitting earlier. Unfortunately, the bag was far from empty and contained all of Tasman's supplies – food for him and his pokemon, clothes, medicinal supplies, his badge case, his pokeballs, pokedex and most importantly the large notebook that contained all his drafts and ideas.
"Oh… right" Gati was beyond hysterical with laughter, struggling to not fall over as he followed behind Tasman and Majesta as they hurried back the way they had come.

Flying at her top speed, Majesta arrived at the location of Tasman's bag before he or Gati (who was still laughing too hard to move as fast as he could), but surprised both of the laggers-behind when she dive-bombed out of the air. Not long after a worried trainer and Buizel arrived at the scene and stopped dead in their tracks. A spiky pink pokemon was running in circles, Tasman's bag on its head and Majesta pecking furiously at him – and it was definitely a him because Tasman recognised the hampered pokemon as a Nidorino which was a male only species. Tasman's belongings were strewn all over the camp, but the sight of a Nidorino being chased by Majesta whilst seemingly wearing a bag on its head was extremely comical. Tasman bent over-double, Gati no longer the only one in hysterics.
As the onlookers laughed, the Nidorino finally managed to shake off the bag – sending a particularly large apple rolling across the ground amongst Tasman's other possessions. The Nidorino ran after the fruit, the apple seemingly the object of the Poison Pin pokemon's desire. Majesta dived between it and the fruit intending to take it out with a Brave Bird, but before Majesta could even begin the attack the larger purple pokemon barrelled trough her, smacking her aside and straight through a tree in its quest for food. Both Tasman and his Buizel stopped laughing, knowing full-well that doing something like that to the fiery Pidgey was both not especially easy to do, and extremely inadvisable.
"Well I wasn't planning on battling today but apparently that's out the window."

Majesta pelted back trough the bird-sized hole in the trunk of the tree in a blur of motion as she attacked with Quick Attack, smacking into the unguarded side of her target as the Nidorino swallowed what was left of the apple it had devoured. The poison-type was sent rolling across the ground leaping to its feet as it choked and coughed on the food. Once it regained its bearings it glared at the Pidgey… it was the berry situation all over again.

Tasman looked over the situation, unlike any of the other pokemon Tasman had faced, Nidorino's back's were covered with sharp spines and on their head was an equally pointy, poison-secreting horn. They weren't known for having amazing defences, but it wouldn't be a good idea to blindly attack like Majesta was prone to considering the chances of impalement… and yet if he switched her for Gati Tasman knew he'd incur Majesta's wrath instead. Sighing Tasman said to himself
"Alright then, let's do this quickly before it turns into a bloodbath" then he said more loudly "Twister!" he wanted to keep Majesta away from the Nidorino's spines as much as he could. A tornado sprang into life as Majesta's wings flapped, heading for the Nidorino – however the poison-type surprised Tasman by leaping up and diving into the ground, forming a deep hole.
Of course, it knows Dig. The ground move itself couldn't damage Majesta, but it allowed the Nidorino to avoid dangerous attacks and surprise its attackers.

For a while nothing happened and it seemed as though the Nidorino had fled, but then it burst out of the ground not far away, catching Majesta off guard and launched itself for her with a glowing horn.
"Sand-Attack!" Tasman yelled, Majesta flapped sand up into her opponents eyes, and tried to get into the air in time, but the Nidorino's aim was top-notch and its timing impeccable. The horn jabbed into Majesta's wing and sent her spiralling our of control right back into the tree she had just hit. Before Majesta could react the Nidorino ran for her, it's horn shining a foreboding purple.
"Get out the way, that's Poison Jab!" Tasman shouted, Majesta didn't need telling twice though and had already somehow gotten into the air, the dangerous attack narrowly missing her.
"Twister!" again the tornado burst into existence, but this time it caught the poison-type and flung it away. The Nidorino got back to its feet and once again rushed for Majesta. Majesta formed another Twister, but this attack missed the same as the first had as the Nidorino buried itself below the ground again. Once more it emerged behind Majesta and launched at her, trying again to hit her with a Poison Jab. This time though, Tasman and Majesta were ready for it
"Stop flying!" Tasman commanded, as much as she hated heading to the ground Majesta did as she was told, immediately snapping her wings shut so she dropped below her opponent and landed on the ground with a thud – as a flier she knew gravity and despite her instinct to fly up she also knew Tasman was right and that it was faster to work with gravity than against it. Even if she didn't always get along with her trainer, she was quickly learning that he had a useful brain… which apparently the Nidorino didn't because it used Dig again. The manoeuvre was effective, stopping the pokemon from smashing into the ground and preventing a counter-attack, but when it again emerged behind Majesta, exactly the same distance away, it seemed apparent to Tasman and both his pokemon that despite being powerful and having a knack for battles, the Nidorino was pretty stupid.

Once more the wild pokemon tried to Poison Jab Majesta, who was airborne once more, and again Tasman had her drop down out the way. Still, there was no sense letting a foolish move go to waste.
"Quick Attack!" Majesta launched into the side of the Nidorino just before it hit the ground and sent it slamming into the tree it had knocked her through. Once again the Nidorino got its feet and ran for Majesta, once again with a horn of glowing purple.
"Dodge it!" Majesta flapped quickly, ascending high enough to avoid the attack before flying in a loop-the-loop to be streaking towards the back of the Nidorino
"Quick-Attack!"
Majesta slammed hard into her target in a blur of motion, the Nidorino an easy victim since it had stopped moving and had begun frantically looking around for the Pidgey that had evaded it. The Nidorino rolled back onto its feet as Majesta once again dived for it, this time she was less successful, the Nidorino whirled around and kicked hard with its back legs, twice in rapid succession, and sent Majesta careening back in the opposite direction.

Struggling Majesta forced herself back into the air, Tasman was thankful he'd thought to get her and Gati fixed up at the pokemon centre before continuing his journey because just once of the Nidorino's intense attacks would have finished either of his team after their gym battle. Still, despite its strength and raw ability, Tasman was sure he could win… after all the Nidorino had just totally forgotten it was in a battle and had skewered a bag of chips with its horn attempting to shake the food into its mouth unsuccessfully. Gati was once again rolling around laughing and Tasman was staring at the pokemon in amazement, soon finding himself laughing along with his Buizel
"Majesta, you might want to remind our friend what's going on Tasman didn't know why, but he'd just decided on a course of action – and thinking back to his battle with Majesta, he knew just how to do it... and considering the Nidorino's lack of intelligence he suspected it would probably be a fair bit easier.
"Get its attention with Quick Attack!"

Majesta again smacked into the Nidorino, reminding it of the battle as it skid over the ground. Although the chip packet was still hanging from its head, it gazed menacingly at Majesta and ran at her, launching forward with a Poison Jab. Majesta flapped back, just barely out the way. Over and over the Nidorino tried to attack her, but every time she narrowly avoided him.
"Majesta, fly towards the tree but don't get too far ahead of him!" the Pidgey angled towards the tree that had become a prop for the battle, allowing the Nidorino to stay just barely behind
"Through the hole!" Majesta closed her wings and dived through the narrow hole in the trunk, Just as Tasman had expected the Nidorino jumped after her slamming head-first into the hole. However, unlike Majesta – whose species as "Tiny Bird Pokemon" for a reason, the Nidorino was far to large to get through the opening and lodged itself in the hole.
"It must be nice to be on this end now!" Tasman called to Majesta, knowing he'd regret it later but unable to resist "lets help him out, Brave Bird!"

Majesta flapped up high for altitude as she circled back to be on the side of the hole without a horn sticking through it, then she closed her wings and hurtled towards the Nidorino as a red light blazed into being around her. Majesta sored into her target, widening the hole as she hit the Nidorino as sent it flying out the tree – following behind it with ease. The Nidorino hit the side of the canyon and rolled to the ground. Grinning Tasman grabbed a pokeball from the ground and thinking Why not? Tossed it at the purple pokemon, drawing it inside as it snapped shut and begun to shake on the ground.

Danica Chandler
Route 3
Click!
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Yes! The wild Skiddo was caught! Danica Chandler went to fetch the Pokéball keeping her calm, serious self, but inside of her she was jumping for you and squealing in happiness. With a smirk, she gazed at the Pokéball containing the small goat that was now in her hands. "I think I'll call you Harley." she said in an instictively deadpan tone, and put the Pokéball in one of her hoodie's pockets. If I'm going to catch more Pokémon, which I am, I'm going to need something more convenient to carry them. Having all Pokéballs scrambled in my pockets just won't do. I should probably get some case for my Badges, too. she thought.

Then it was time to check on Curtis, the Pokémon who had made her capture possible. She turned around to congratulate him, but what she saw made her heart beat with worry. The tired Ralts had collapsed on the rocky ground. She tried poking him, but he wouldn't response. Yikes. I'm gonna need to get to a Pokémon Center...and fast. she said to herself and sent Curtis back inside his Pokéball and put it away. She checked her Pokégear Map App to see where the nearest Pokémon Center was. There were two options: one was to return to Pewter City, which would take longer time to get to (and through) Mount Moon, and there was one... right outside it! But it was a longer distance. Without hesitation, she sprinted east, trying her best not to trip over any rock or get her feet tangled in tall grass.

Some wild Nidoran nearby sensed an odd presence, and one that was moving fast. Believing it to be a threat, they growled and charged at the blue-haired girl who was only dashing to get her Pokémon healed. The growls distracted the girl and she ended up tripping over and scraping her knees against the hard ground. She got back on her feet, only to find out that the reason she tripped over was far worse.

Even though many girls thought Nidoran were awfully cute and were awesome pets, Danica couldn't help but see them as horribly vicious monsters. And five of them were now running her way, with a blood-thristy (in her opinion) look in their eyes. She frantically searched for her new addition in her pocket, but in all nervousness, she fell on her back.

"EEEEEEK! HEEEEEEEELP!" she screamed.

"Attack!" Was what both sides heard. As both sides commanded, lots of Pokemon charged to fight ours.

"Croconaw Water Pulse! Pidgeotto Wing Attack! Cacnea Drain Punch! Kadabra Confusion! Beedrill Poison Sting! Raticate Hyper Fang!" Gary Clark gave his orders.

"Bubbles Bubblebeam! Sludges use Sludge Bomb! Leaf go for a Razor Leaf, because we dont have time to charge!" I ordered.

When our side's Pokemon heard the orders, they striked in. The destruction between the sides was so big that even made the upper floors shake. Shadow and Snake were simply watching the battle.

Some time later, our side had defeated the grunts easily.

"So this means that Team Rocket is completely useless." Says G. Clark.

"You can't beat guys with 1 badge, you don't beat no one!" I said. G. Clark then shows me the Cascade Badge. "How did you got it?" I asked.

"Stop the chit-chat! Lets see how you go against us!" Said Shadow calling his Fearow, Haunter, Dodrio, Duskull, Shuppet and Mightyena.

"Lets fight like man!" Said Snake calling Onix, Arbok, Seviper, Ekans, Dratini and Golbat while challenging G. Clark. So i fight Shadow... I am so screwed... "This is for putting 5 of our grunts into deep sleep!"

"Don't forget me!" Said a female voice.

"Blaze?" Said Shadow and Snake at same time.

"Pfffft... You are 2! You can't take on this kids? I was about to defeat another one!" She yelled. The Houndoom growled.

"Blaze, you can't talk to us like that, Or else Boss..." Said Shadow.

"Yeah i know, will do me the same thing he done to the woman years ago for ditching Team Rocket. I KNOW!" She yelled.

"Let's get back to the fight!" I shouted.

"Let me finish this Shadow..." She said. "Houndoom Dark Pulse!" She commanded.

As the pulse hits G. Clark's Pokemon, my pokemon had succeed to escape... Great now i was really screwed!

"See Shadow... Its easier when we have the same traget... Houndoom use Flamethrower on the kid!" She yelled. The Flamethrower almost hit me but it had hit Leaf. Leaf was down of course... I retrieve him.

"Hehehehe... Onix use Rock Throw!" Commanded Snake. The Rocks had hit Sludges... Only Bubbles was up... i retrieve Sludges...

"How about 13 pokemon vs a Poliwhirl?" Said Shadow... I need help immediately.

Route 3 [The Road to Mt. Moon - Pokémon Centre]

Damien Welters

The ball shook on the ground

Once…
Twice…
Three times…

On the third and final shake, the ball let out a light pinging noise before falling still. Tasman picked up the pokeball and looked curiously at it, for the second time on his journey he had tried and succeeded to capture a pokemon and for the second time he found himself puzzling over how the device worked. Tasman continued studying the ball for several minutes before he felt something tugging at his leg, Gati was gesturing at the ball whilst Majesta called irritably at Tasman.
Oh yeah…

Tasman spent the next little while examining Majesta before spraying her with potion and feeding her an oran berry for good measure. The medicine seemed to provide instant relief to his pokemon – something he was glad for. Then he braced himself, remembering how violently Majesta had reacted upon first being released from her pokeball, and let out his new Nidorino.
"Nido!" the pinkish, purple creature exclaimed, tilting its head at Tasman in much the same way his new trainer had looked at the pokeball. The Nidorino continued to look at Tasman for a short while before, much to his surprise, shrugging and returning to trying to eat from the bag of chips it had skewered.

As the pokemon started eating, Majesta screeched loudly and dived for it again. Tasman sighed, returning his Pidgey before she could do further harm to their new companion.
"We'll have to deal with your possessiveness later" he said to himself, returning Majesta's ball to his ransacked bag and then walking over to the feasting poison-type with another potion. Tasman stroked the pokemon's side, slightly weary at first, but it soon became clear that the Nidorino was not even remotely perturbed over… well anything. He let Tasman heal him, not even looking up as he continued searching for more food. It seemed as though the only thing the pokemon was even remotely interested in, was filling its belly.

"Gati, help me pack everything up before our new friend forces me to go back to Pewter for more supplies. I want to reach Mt. Moon before the end of the day."
"Bui-" the orange-furred pokemon chimed and the two began recollecting Tasman's possessions from where they lay strewn about, rushing to ensure that they saved as much food from the mouth of the hungry pokemon as they could. It took nearly ten minutes to make sure they found everything Tasman had with him, slightly longer than it might have had they not frequently had to dive for food in order to save it from the Nidorino. Once everything was sorted, Tasman sat leaning against the bag whilst Gati seemed to chatter with the surprisingly cheery Nidorino.
It's funny really, you always hear that Nidorino are aggressive pokemon but if individual members of the species are your only example you'd think that they were all quite friendly, albeit food-obsessed, and it was Pidgey who were dangerous and aggressive. Actually… a story about a misunderstood Nidorino would be great! Tasman proceeded to pull out his notepad and jot down notes and ideas for his next story, it was only when he had come up with names for several characters that he realised he had yet to actually name his own Nidorino.
"Hey" he found himself saying, both Gati and his newest pokemon turning around to him "If you're going to travel with us, I need something to call you. I'm not going to be one of those trainers who doesn't differentiate you from the rest of your species at all. Hmm…"

Tasman spent the next little while racking his brains and rattling off names to Gati and the Nidorino – he'd have included Majesta but he wasn't totally sure if that would be safe just yet. The two pokemon would frequently shake their heads.
I could name him Henry like the character for my story… but that isn't right because his situation is nothing like that. He's a bit of a glutton… maybe Royal. That relates to Henry and the king was certainly a greedy man… but Royal doesn't seem to fit his nature at all… he needs a simple but strong name, nothing too scary though. Tasman reflected for a bit longer when inspiration hit him
"I know! I think you're a Lance!" both Gati and the Nidorino, now Lance, cheered at the name.

With a name decided, Tasman retrieved his pokedex and proceeded to scan Lance to discover his moves and ability. As it turned out, not only was Lance powerful but he knew more moves than Gati and Majesta with Poison Jab, Double Kick, Horn Attack, Dig and Toxic Spikes. Fittingly enough, his ability was Poison Point. Tasman sat there for a while longer, chatting to his pokemon and considering what he'd just learned when a loud noise silenced the group. Not far away another enormous pillar of electricity had burst into existence with a loud crack before abruptly disappearing. Forgetting his train of thought, Tasman grabbed his bag an ran towards where the lightning had struck with his pokemon at his heels.