A large being came out of the bushes, and ran straight past Tyson and Charmander without even stopping. Tyson turned around to see the large blue figure climbing up a tree. Confused by the pokemon's behavior, tyson just watched as the creature began happily sucking at the sap from the tree. It looked so happy, Tyson didn't know if he wanted to disturb it or not. Charmander however did and shot an ember at the pokemon, causing it to fall out of the tree. The pokemon got up, looking considerably less than happy at being knocked out of the tree, and turned to face Tyson and Charmander. Tyson got his first good look at the pokemon, and saw a bug type pokemon that looked very much like a large blue beetle. The beetle was nearly 5 foot tall and towered over Charmander, but this didn't seem to phase the fire type pokemon.
"Let's start off with an Ember!" Tyson commanded, excited to have found this monster bug.
"Cahr!" Charmander called, launching the Ember attack with just aws much vigor as Tyson's voice.
"Cors," Heracross grunted, bringing up an arm to shield itself to almost no affect. "Cross!" Heracross called, flying at Charmander quickly, its horn glowing.
"That's a Horn Attack! Dodge!" Tyson ordered quickly, words almost mixing together in his haste to get it all out.
Charmander nodded and began to jump from tree branch to tree branch. Heracross slowed down slightly, eyes carefully watching Charmander's movements. Smirking, Heracross charged. "Cross!" it cried out. Having lived in this dense forest its whole life, Heracross was more intuned with the thick trees and had no problem dodging and swerving. With a final cry, Heracross slammed its horn right into Charmander.
"Cha!" Charmander gasped, falling from the branches and hitting each one with a painful sounding thwack! "Char," Charmander grunted, panting as he managed to land on his feet.
"Charmander, are you ok?" Tyson asked worriedly. He waited until the fire type nodded. "Good, now use Ember!"
Growling angrily, Charmander put everything into this one, and immediately shot the vicious fire balls as Heracross. "Crooos!" Heracross screamed, shutting an eye as it attempted to turn slightly and cover its body with its arms. "Cors," Heracross panted, eyes widening as it took in the sight behind it.
The tree was catching fire!
"Quick, put it out!" Tyson shouted hurriedly.
Momentarily forgetting the fight, the two pokemon stamped out the fire. Charmander had no problem putting out the fire, but Heracross winced as its feet hit the fire, but it gave no grunt of pain.
Finally, when the fire was out and Charmander and Tyson breathed out a sigh of relief, Heracross slammed into Charmander with its Tackle attack, startling the two.
"Char!" Charmander demanded angrily, clutching its stomach as it slid back a bit, nearly falling over a root.
"Cross," Heracross growled lowly, gesturing for the lizard to come at it.
"Well, you heard him," Tyson said, knowing that the bug was a boy because of how its horn was shaped, "get it! Scratch!"
Teeth bared, Charmander rushed at Heracross, claws glowing slightly. Heracross charged as well, though on its feet instead of flying. It seemed like the two would go at each other with their strength alone.
"Char!"
"Hera!"
The two met, slamming their claws into one another and pushed, grunting as they held their ground. The two snarled and glared, attempting to gain the upper hand on each other.
"Her," Heracross smirked, slamming its horn down on Charmander's head, nearly causing him to fall to the ground. In the nick of time, he regained his footing, but still appeared hurt.
"Don't take that," Tyson growled. "Close up Ember!"
Smirking at Heracross's horrified expression, Charmander opened his mouth. It was already glowing with power, and by the time he opened his mouth, the fierce fire balls slammed right into Heracross's gut.
"Erh!" Heracross screamed, falling over in pain. Jumping up quickly, Heracross flew back a bit, though its flight was agitated and flaky.
"After it!" Tyson commanded, seeing victory. "Use another close up Ember!"
"Char!" Charmander screamed in excitement, running after the bug.
Snarling, Heracross charged as well, horn glowing. "Corss," Heracross said lowly, eyes narrowed. Charmander smirked and, at the last minute, jumped right over Heracross's flying form and landed right on its back. "Hera!" Heracross barked out in shock, eyes widening as it tried to turn around and see Charmander.
Tyson grinned. "Now!" he screamed.
"Maaan!" Charmander screamed, shooting the close range Ember right into Heracross's inner shell, causing the poor bug to scream bloody murder.
"Heeeeeraaaa!" Heracrosss screamed, crash landing into the ground, taking quite a few branches with it. "Cro... sss," he grunted weakly, body twitching and looking horribly burned.
"Charm," Charmander said proudly, shooting a tiny flame out as if it were proving a point.
"That should be enough," Tyson said, holding a hand out for Charmander to stop. Once he made sure the fire lizard backed off, he brought out a pokeball. "It looks like your mine," he murmered quietly. With a large grin, he threw the pokeball. "Go!"