Chapter Text
“She can’t be serious.”
“Did she really say that?”
“Pft, as if.”
A young ten year old girl was silent as she kept her head down, her black hair pulled into pigtails, wearing a simple white sleeveless shirt, blue shorts and brown boots.
She squirmed underneath the gazes of disbelief of the other kids from the Viridian City Trainer School during recess where some of the kids would play with their Pokemon, after her declaration now wondering if she should’ve just kept her mouth shut.
She was already known as the weird kid who doesn’t talk much, but now they’ll have more ammunition to think she was weird.
That was proven as there was some laughter while a blonde haired girl gave her a taunting look, wearing a blue vest over a black shirt and a black skirt. “Really? Out of any Pokemon you decided to train, you chose Bugs?” She asked, a smirk on her face making the young girl grit her teeth in silent anger. “I knew you were weird, but this pushes it doesn’t it Violet?”
Violet Hawke wanted to glare at the blonde, but she kept her sea green eyes looking down, instead just clenching a fist.
Lucy Anders, the top student at the Trainer School due to her having an evolved Pokemon in the form of a Nidorina along with a Spearow. She also had a Winning streak against the other kids who just have Pokemon like Pidgey, Mankey and Rattata.
Due to her ego and the winning streak, Lucy was a bit of a brat, always looking down on others and one of her favorite targets was Violet due to her quiet nature and how she didn’t have a Pokemon like the other kids.
Well at least until now as Violet had a Pokeball clipped on her belt.
One containing a Weedle she just caught the other day as it was a bit too close to the City which was great luck for her.
“Don’t you know that bugs are the weakest types around?” Lucy asked, a frown on her face for not getting much of a reaction from Violet. “I mean even a Magikarp is better than them, at least that one evolves into a Gyarados.”
“Bugs can be strong too!” Violet finally stood up for her Pokemon, giving Lucy a look.
That just made Lucy laugh. “It’s simple logic that they aren’t, that’s why real Trainers don’t use them,” She said as Violet’s body shook in anger. “None of the Elite Four have a single Bug Pokemon on their team and neither do the Gym Leaders.”
“I-but-well.” Violet stuttered, trailing off as she wasn’t sure how to counter that.
Lucy’s grin widened at seeing that.
“And girls shouldn’t use bugs either, they’re icky and gross,” Lucy continued, demeaning Violet who looked close to crying at this moment. “Then again I guess you’re an exception, you were always pretty weird.”
Some of the kids looked pretty uncomfortable with the obvious display of bullying, yet no one spoke up. They were unwilling to be targeted by Lucy who despite her personality could easily destroy them in a battle.
Plus a lot of them did agree with her about the opinions on Bug Pokemon.
Violet couldn’t take it anymore as she ran past Lucy, trying not to let anyone see her cry, but Lucy just rolled her eyes thinking that Violet was just being a baby.
She’ll never make it as a trainer like that.
Violet didn’t know how long she ran, not caring that she was now skipping the rest of school.
She just wanted to get away from there, tears now streaming down her face.
So she kept running, until she was out of Viridian City, heading south to where Route 1 would be.
Route 1 was a place in between Viridian City and a small town called Pallet Town where only Pokemon like Pidgey and Rattata could be found with the occasional Spearow.
Eventually, Violet stopped running with her back to a tree as she pressed up against it, slowly sliding down until she was sitting, now hugging her legs as she let out a choked sob.
Why couldn’t they just leave her alone? She never bothered them or judged them for the Pokemon they liked. They had no right to judge her for the Pokemon she liked.
Why was it such a big deal that she liked bug types?
… Why couldn’t she just kept her mouth shut about her love for those types?
She was so excited to finally have a Pokemon that she told someone what Pokemon it was and when they made a comment about him being a weak Pokemon she declared that she wanted to be a Bug Trainer without thinking.
Then that whole ordeal happened.
The Pokeball on her waist wiggled as the Weedle let himself out being a foot tall, coming up to her shin while being a yellowish color. It’s body was segmented into spheres with two pink feet being on each segment and a rather large pink nose, a stinger sat on both its head and its tail.
Currently the Weedle was giving her a concerned look with his black eyes, crawling up to her.
“I’m fine Stinger.” Violet sniffled, quickly rubbing her eyes despite how the Bug Pokemon didn’t look too convinced.
Ever since she caught him two days ago, the Weedle was oddly respectful of her, it wasn’t until she looked it up that when a Hive-like Pokemon was caught they would think of whatever team they were on as a new Hive with the trainer being in the same category of a Hive Queen.
So it made sense for Stinger to be concerned for her state at the moment.
Eventually, Stinger crawled up her body until he was on her shoulder, rubbing the side of his face against her cheek in an effort to cheer her up, seeing some Pokemon do this to their trainers, though he kept his head tilted to avoid poisoning her by mistake.
Violet sniffled as she let out a small giggle, this action was actually a bit ticklish to her.
After a few seconds with Stinger now moving to curl up on her lap, Violet spoke.
“Well show them.” She promised despite not being too sure about herself. “Once you’re a Beedrill and we have more bugs on the team, we’ll be strong.”
Stinger gave a cry of agreement, wanting to be strong for his new hive.
That made Violet give a soft smile, rubbing Stinger’s middle body with the bug Pokemon loving that action.
Looking up at the sky, Violet winced as she knew she would be in trouble when she went back to school the next day.
But right now she didn’t care.
The sun was just beginning to set as Violet got up to walk home, only spending the day sitting with Stinger who she was now carrying in her arms.
None of the wild Pokemon bothered her as she avoided the tall grass where they liked to hide. Not really confident in her ability to face them.
It wasn’t until she was on the outskirts of Viridian City that something interesting happened.
She walked into an elderly man who was carrying a briefcase in one hand and a box of parts in the other, none of them seeing an item fall out of the box.
“S-Sorry.” Violet apologized, not looking up to meet the man’s eyes as she had trouble doing that with people.
“It’s quite alright, I should’ve been watching where I was going.” The man said as Violet could make out a white lab coat over a red shirt and tan pants. “Are you heading home?”
After a second, Violet gave a nod, not sure what else there was to say, feeling the man’s eyes on her before they looked down to Stinger, who stared at him defiantly.
The man chuckled, amused by the defiant nature of the Weedle, assuming it was either Rash, Brave or Naughty in Nature.
Violet tensed, thinking he was chuckling at the idea of her having a Bug Pokemon.
“How long have you had that Weedle?” The man asked curiously as he could already see a close bond growing between the two.
“... Two days.”
That made the man quirk a brow in surprise.
Sure Weedles were known to take to trainer teams as a new hive, but it took at least a few weeks for them to fully integrate into being a trained Pokemon. Yet this one was clearly affectionate and looked to be overprotective towards the young girl.
With that said he gave a closer look at the girl, now seeing that she hasn’t looked up to see his face, so it was most likely she didn’t know who he was.
A rather rare thing these days.
But he had a schedule to keep.
“Well I wish you a safe walk home young lady.” The man said with a gentle smile as he walked off with Violet not doing anything until he was gone as she sighed in relief.
At least he didn’t seem judgmental.
She went to walk on only to see a strange item on the ground.
It was a red rectangular item with a blue orb on the upper left part.
Curious she picked it up and realized it could open like a book and the inside looked to be some sort of computer.
“What is this?” Violet whispered watching it turn on right as Stinger leaned in, unknowingly being caught by the blue orb that turned out to be a camera with it taking a picture of Stinger.
“ Pokemon Registered, ” The device said nearly making Violet drop it with a shriek. “ Weedle, the Hairy Bug Pokemon. ”
“W-What?” Violet asked with the computer screen lighting up to show the picture of Stinger that it took before a bunch of information showed up.
‘ Pokemon #13
Species: Weedle
Gender: Male
Current Level: 3
Height: 1’0
Weight: 7.1 lbs.
Ability: Run Away- Allows the Pokemon to escape from battle with relative ease.
Nature: Naughty
Characteristic: Capable of taking hits
Moves: Poison Sting and String Shot.
Information: Often found in Forests where it eats its weight in leaves every day, it’s stinger secretes a venom specifically designed to take a Pokemon out by paralyzing their body. Though poisonous it won’t kill unless it or its hive is threatened.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 7
Next Form: Kakuna
Registration Done. ’
“Whoa.” Violet whispered at seeing all of this information, though she was confused by what she saw.
Nature? Characteristic? Level?
But it gave a ton of other information too, like the types of berries that Weedle would enjoy, different recipes for food that would make them healthy.
This would be extremely useful to hav-.
Violet quickly shook those thoughts from her head.
She can’t keep this, it probably belongs to that guy she bumped into. And it would be stealing if she just takes this home.
‘ He was obviously heading to Pallet Town, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find him. ’ Violet thought as she turned to move, surprising Stinger. ‘ If I need to, I can ask around for whoever wears a lab coat over a red shirt. ’
But it’ll take a good hour to get to Pallet Town so there’s a chance that she won’t get home until late at night.
For once it’s a good thing that her Dad works at Saffron City.
As she ran however, Violet gave a cry as a Rattata leapt at her, coming out of nowhere in the tall grass.
In response to the threat against his new Queen, Stinger leapt down from her arms to combat this new threat while Violet was unsure of herself given how this would be Stinger’s very first battle.
As Stinger got ready, the Device beeped once more.
“ Rattata the Mouse Pokemon. Bite’s anything when it attacks. Small and very quick, it is a common sight in many places. Current Level is 3. Gender: Female. ”
Unlike the detailed explanation it gave for Stinger, this one didn’t show the ability or moves, but Violet didn’t care as the Rattata ran at Stinger with a Tackle, so she reacted.
“String Shot!” Violet ordered wanting to scare the Rattata away.
Listening to her, Stinger fired a strand of silk from his mouth, blinding the Rattata as a blue aura surrounded her showing her speed being lowered in the process.
He quickly followed up with a Poison Sting while the mouse was struggling with the String Shot, slamming into her with his stinger, injecting a small toxin within the Mouse as she glowed purple showing the condition.
Gritting her teeth the Rattata managed to Tackle Stinger, using her ears to locate him, sending him rolling but he responded by immediately getting up to do another Poison Sting on Violet’s command resulting in the Rattata being knocked out and sent flying back into the Tall Grass.
“We… Did it?” Violet whispered not expecting that when the Device beeped again.
“ Congratulations your Weedle has gained a level. ”
Eyes widening, Violet opened it to see the Level bar showing the number four as opposed to the three from earlier.
“How does this work?” Violet whispered before she saw that it showed a bar detailing his health and the Tackle took him down to half while the Rattata’s bar was empty.
She really needed to be more careful.
It took nearly two hours to get close to Pallet Town as the Wild Pokemon were a bit more aggressive at night, especially with how she was running which kept them awake.
Due to that Stinger had to fight off quite a few of them and the Mini Computer she had said he was at Level 5 but his ‘Health’ was in the red showing how it would’ve been bad to keep fighting. Thankfully the Pokemon Stinger fought were scanned to be around Level 2, so they didn’t do too much damage.
Though she still didn’t understand it, but Violet was beginning to learn that it basically measures its strength, which made it useful because she didn’t really chance battling if the wild Pokemon was higher than 2.
But she was really hoping that they would be able to get to Pallet Town without fighting anymore wild Pokemon. Getting back however would be another thing.
Especially since she won’t have this device to help fight on the way back.
“We should really look into buying potions.” Violet whispered with Stinger still looking ready to fight despite being exhausted. “When we get back home you’ve definitely earned some honey soaked leaves with some sliced Oran Berries.”
Stinger perked up at the mention of the treat, already envisioning himself eating that meal.
If he could drool, he would be doing that right now.
“After it!”
The sudden voice made Violet jump as she could hear heavy footsteps before a strange Pokemon she’s never seen before shot out of the forest, flying towards her.
It looked to be a pink feline-like Pokemon with a rather long tail and stubby paws with large blue eyes.
As it’s eyes met hers, Violet didn’t pay much attention to the device in her hands taking a picture of the creature, adding its info to it.
She was mesmerized by the unknown Pokemon.
And that was before it suddenly veered and turned towards her, glowing right as it became a Caterpie with her eyes widening as it landed in her arms next to Stinger who glared at the intruder.
Violet barely had time to process seeing the creature use Transform, a move she thought only Ditto could learn, before the footsteps got louder when a group of people wearing black uniforms with a red R emblem on their chest burst into the clearing.
“Damn it, which way did it go?!” One of them shouted.
“It clearly went this way, it couldn’t have gotten far.”
The way they spoke made Violet tense as she realized why this strange Pokemon did that.
It was hiding from them.
It didn’t take long for one of those guys to notice her. “Hey girly, did you see a strange Pokemon?!”
“I-wha-? Violet asked, not sure what to say with being put on the spotlight like that while she was very aware of the disguised Pokemon looking at her.
“Answer the damn question!” The guy ordered, sounding very impatient with Violet flinching in fear, trying not to whimper.
“Relax, it’s a kid.” Another guy said, rolling his eyes before turning to look at Violet, seeing the two bug Pokemon in her arms and deeming them unimportant. “It’s a pink Pokemon that can fly, did you see it?”
Wanting them gone, Violet moved the disguised Pokemon to the same arm with Stinger and pointed in another direction, scared that they would find out she was technically lying.
Thankfully they believed she was too scared to lie as they all ran in the direction she pointed, not wasting any time.
It was quiet as their footsteps dissipated and after a few seconds the unknown Pokemon changed back and flew out of Violet’s arms, at eye level with the girl before its tail poked her nose in a way of saying thanks.
Violet barely had time to register that when it flew off in the opposite direction.
“What-?” Violet wasn’t sure what to say about this experience.
Who were those people? What Pokemon was that?
After a few seconds Violet was pretty sure she didn’t want to know.
It was pretty late as Violet made it to Pallet Town, looking physically and mentally exhausted from that strange ordeal.
Using the device, Violet was able to see that it was around eight at night which made her wince.
It’ll be late by the time she gets back home.
But she was here… Now where to find this guy?
Stinger yawned in her arms, making Violet give him a sad smile as she pulled out his Pokeball to return him. “Thank you, get some rest.” She said to the bug.
She’ll make sure to keep her promise of that meal after she gets back home.
Not many people were out at this time and Violet was wondering if she should’ve waited until after school the next day to come here, but she wasn’t sure if she should head back at the moment while she bit her lip in concern.
‘ What do I do? ’ Violet asked herself only to see a rather large building with its lights on, the moonlight showing a windmill blowing lazily in the field behind the house.
It was a rather large field that went into the small forest near Pallet Town and after a few seconds of thinking on it, Violet decided to head to that place.
Perhaps whoever lives there could help her find that old guy?
Making it to the door after climbing a ridiculous amount of stairs, Violet looked pretty tired as she rang the bell, waiting for a bit before hearing footsteps coming towards the door.
The last thing Violet expected when it opened was the same man she was trying to find.
“Yes, what is it-? Hm?” The man looked visibly surprised at seeing Violet though she did hear a bit of an annoyed tone before that. “Weren’t you that girl I met on Route 1?”
Now that she was seeing his face, Violet swore she saw him somewhere before, but she swallowed nervously and pulled out the device, holding it out to the man who looked even more surprised.
“Y-You dropped this when I bumped into you,” Violet mumbled, with man barely hearing her. “Sorry about that.”
The surprise turned into a smile showing gratitude as the man accepted the device back from her. “It’s quite alright,” He said happy to have this device back before he saw some smudges on it and opened it to see some dirt on the inside. “You turned it on didn’t you?”
He didn’t sound accusatory, only amused while Violet fidgeted. “I didn’t mean to.”
“I would’ve been surprised if you didn’t to be honest,” The man said with a laugh, knowing how curious children could be, noting how tired Violet seemed to be. “Do you wish to come in?”
The second the question left his mouth, Violet hesitated, unsure if she should accept the offer or not as while the man seemed friendly, he was still a stranger.
Seeing her hesitation, the man continued. “It’s rather late and if you live in Viridian City, you won’t be able to make it back until it’s really late and you look like you’re about to fall over,” He said to her. “It’s only for tonight.”
Thinking it over, Violet slowly gave a nod, knowing the man was right.
So the man stepped to the side and let her in and before long they were in what looked to be a study as the man placed the device on a nearby desk. “Do you wish to call your parents?” The man offered as there was a video phone in the room, but he was surprised when Violet shook her head.
But the fact that the man offered that did earn some trust from Violet while the man sat at his desk, cupping his chin in thought.
“Do you know who I am?” He asked curiously.
Violet shook her head again much to his amusement.
“Yet you managed to track my house down?”
“I didn’t know this was your house.” Violet looked down when she spoke, her fingers twitching a bit. “The lights were on and I thought I could ask for whoever wore your outfit.”
That reasoning made the man chuckle. “Very well, my name is Samuel Oak.”
The second that name left his mouth, Violet’s head snapped up with her eyes wide.
Samuel Oak? The Samuel Oak?!
The world’s most famous Pokemon Professor and a former Kanto Champion?!
“Ah I see you’ve heard of me,” Professor Oak said in amusement, smiling a bit. “But enough on that you really helped save my research by delivering the Pokedex to me.”
The name of the device snapped Violet out of her surprise. “Pokedex?”
“The Pokemon Encyclopedia Index, or Pokedex for short,” Professor Oak explained to the young girl. “It’s a very unique device I invented and one of the only two in existence. It’s more of a prototype of something I want to build. Tell me how exactly did you use it?”
Violet swallowed a bit as she looked down. “When I opened it, it scanned Stinger and told me a lot of stuff that confused me, but it also helped out against the Wild Pokemon that attacked on my way here,” She explained to the Professor. “If it wasn’t for that device I wouldn’t have made it here.”
“I see.” Professor Oak said, cupping his chin in thought. “And I assume it helped out with the wild Pokemon on your way?”
Slowly Violet gave a nod. “The Pokedex said something about levels though, why?”
That made Professor Oak grin wryly as while this was an unintentional field test for this particular Pokedex, it will provide very useful information to research. “I wanted to try and measure how strong a Pokemon was in an area and on a trainers team, so I tried numbers called it the level function where it took off from there,” He sounded rather proud of that part. “As a lot of Pokemon evolve at a certain level I say it works pretty well.”
Violet couldn’t help but be amazed by the device. “You said it was a prototype?”
“Yes, I still need to work on it quite a bit, it’s main function is to scan a Pokemon and tell it’s strength’s, weaknesses, usual habitats and any information on them that would provide me with a ton of research,” Professor Oak explained, happy that Violet was listening despite how tired she was. “It’s a long way off from being complete though… What’s your name?”
“V-Violet Hawke.” Violet stammered out to the man.
“Do I have your word that you won’t tell anyone about this device?” Professor Oak asked in a serious tone that made Violet tense. “While it’s still a prototype it does provide a lot of info that would make people want to take it for themselves.”
While unsure of that, Violet was wondering why Professor Oak wanted to hide it, but decided she didn’t want to know, instead she gave a nod.
Just like that the serious look was gone as Professor Oak looked friendly once more.
“Alright I’ll show you to the Guest Room where you can stay the night Violet.”
As the Professor walked by her, Violet bit her lip and decided to ask. “Professor Oak, I actually have a question”
“Hm?” The Professor paused to glance at her to see that she looked away, as if nervous.
As she went to ask her question, she heard the same voices from earlier going through her head.
‘ She can’t be serious. ’
‘ Did she really say that? ’
“I want to know if,” Violet paused in her question as she shook. “If-...”
‘ Don’t you know that bugs are the weakest types around? ’
‘ It’s simple logic that they aren’t, that’s why real Trainers don’t use them. None of the Elite Four have a single Bug Pokemon on their team and neither do the Gym Leaders. ’
“Is it possible to be strong with a team of Bug Pokemon?”
The second that question left her mouth, the Professor looked surprised, not expecting that Question from such a young girl.
She shook a bit at the silence, thinking the Professor would say no, to outright laugh at that given the stigma about bugs.
“You want to be a Bug Trainer?” Professor Oak answered with a question.
“Y-Yes?”
Professor Oak let the silence continue, thinking on that question. “Tell me, what is strength to you when it comes to Pokemon?” He asked curiously. “Is it having a team of powerful Pokemon, having the rarest? Being unbeatable?”
Not knowing why he was asking these questions, Violet shrugged.
“You don’t know?” Professor Oak sounded a little disappointed but he quickly hid it. “To answer your question. Yes and no.”
Now he was just confusing Violet who tilted her head to the side.
“Any Pokemon can be strong depending on the trainer, no matter their type or what Pokemon they are.” Professor Oak gave a short lecture to her. “What matters most is your bond with the Pokemon. Do you view them as tools or as friends?”
Violet looked down in thought at hearing this.
This was something they never taught in Trainer School, they always taught about certain Pokemon, Type Advantages, where to find them, how to catch them.
Never a philosophical debate like this.
But Violet knew her answer.
“I want to view them as family.” Violet said hating the idea of someone viewing Pokemon as tools.
That answer made Professor Oak smile as he could tell she really meant it. “Never change that attitude and you will make it far as a Trainer.”
Professor Oak smiled as he sat back in his study after letting Violet take the Guest Room, holding the Pokedex in his hands.
It was the only one he had at the moment as he gave the second one to his Grandson Green to have him test it out for him and gather information on the Pokemon in Kanto.
He was horrified that it was gone when he made it back to the Lab after picking up his order at the Viridian City Pokemart, he didn’t know where he dropped it or if anyone stole it from him.
Then Violet ended up tracking him down to deliver it to him.
The fact that she did that instead of keeping it said a lot about her as most people on discovering what a Pokedex could do would keep it for themselves.
A bit curious about how it was used, Professor Oak turned it on and the first thing he saw was her Weedle’s current status with him slowly recovering due to sleeping right now and the Level it was determined to be when it first scanned him.
Besides that it showed that she ran into three different Pokemon so he checked the first two to see they were just Rattata and Pidgey’s, common Pokemon that he’s studied quite a bit already. And it showed the number of times she ran into said Pokemon.
It was when he got to the third Pokemon however that his eyes widened and he sat up rather quickly.
Was he reading this right?
“Mew?” Professor Oak asked recognizing the Pokemon from both blurry pictures and whenever there were ruins discovered with this Pokemon on the wall as a hieroglyphic.
No one ever got a good look at Mew, leaving for people to believe that the Phantom Pokemon was only a Myth.
Yet for this Pokedex to register it, that meant that Violet saw the Legendary Pokemon.
Violet has seen a Pokemon that most people brush off as a myth, many people would go their entire lives without seeing a Legendary and yet she saw one. The fact that she didn’t mention it could be because she didn’t know what it was.
Professor Oak was definitely going to ask her about that encounter tomorrow.
Closing the Pokedex, the Professor looked at it in thought, an idea coming to him.
While Green was doing a marvelous job with his Pokedex, he was still one person and scanning all the local Pokemon in Kanto would take awhile. What if he gave this second one to Violet and have her help out?
After all she knows what it is and that saves a lot of time explaining it to someone else, she was certainly polite and had a good head on her shoulders given everything that happened so she could be perfect for this.
But should he do this? By giving this to her he would be making her an assistant to his research and that required her to travel which meant he would be pulling her out of the trainer school, taking her on as a protege, much like his Grandson.
And traveling was pretty dangerous.
Thinking more on it, Professor Oak came to a decision.
To Be Continued...
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Weedle
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 5
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Poison Sting and String Shot
Notes:
Alright, first chapter done, hopefully it was good for everyone. Not much happening but it's only the first chapter with more to come. This story is going to be a mixture of the Manga, Game and Anime and it’s only going to be Gen 1 Pokemon and moves. They’ll have Characteristics, Natures, and levels but that’s it. I figured that would make it easier to do things.
Each chapter I’ll try to have up to 5000 words, that way it shouldn't take too long to get these chapters out.
Edit 7/4/2020: Took out the Creepy Vi part that Lucy said in the original, it really was a bit too much now that I think about it.
Chapter 2: The Start of a Journey
Notes:
Just a heads up, this chapter is more about world-building than any action. Still I hope everyone enjoys this.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet grimaced as she rolled over in her sleep after sunlight filtered through the window.
She didn’t want to open her eyes, not when the bed was so comfortable.
… Wait, sunlight?
Cracking an eye open, Violet tensed when she didn’t recognize where she was and sat up rather quickly in a panic. After a few seconds however she calmed down.
Right, she was in Pallet Town after returning the Pokedex to Professor Oak-.
Violet ended up glancing down at the clock only for her eyes to widen as she realized it was eleven in the morning.
She’s late for school!
Panicking, Violet jumped out of bed, her feet still caught up in the covers as she tripped and slammed into the floor, having a bout of clumsiness that usually happens around her.
Rubbing her chin in slight pain, Violet didn’t let that stop her while she grabbed Stinger’s Pokeball and her shoes, not even bothering to fix her hair up in pigtails while she ran out the door only to see the Professor waiting in the study room that was near the front door.
“Ah Violet, I was wondering when you would wake up, I need to talk to you about something.” Professor Oak began but Violet kept going.
“Sorry I can’t, I’m late for school!” Violet went to run out, but Professor Oak’s next words made her stop.
“I took the liberty of calling your school to let them know you wouldn’t make it today,” Professor Oak commented, leaving out how the principal of said school was in shock that the Pokemon Professor called for something so trivial. “So you don’t have to rush. Now please sit down, I wish to talk to you.”
Violet gave him a look, unsure of what to say in response to that.
True that meant she won’t be in bigger trouble from being late after skipping the other day, but why would the Professor do something like this?
Still it would be rude not to listen, so she walked to the study and sat on the couch while the Professor was sipping his cup of coffee. Seeing the coffee made Violet grimace as she tried that type of drink once before and found it rather bitter.
Taking a few moments to let Violet get comfortable, Professor Oak began. “How do you feel about the idea of helping me with my research?”
Violet blinked, processing that question. “Come again?” She asked thinking she heard wrong.
Why would Professor Oak ask her of all people to help him with his research.
Instead of repeating the question, Professor Oak pulled the Pokedex out and placed it on the table with Violet glancing down at it before looking back up to the Professor in complete confusion.
“Let me rephrase that,” Professor Oak said, a smile crossed his lips. “How do you feel about the idea of keeping the Pokedex and going around the Kanto Region to see other Pokemon?”
That request made Violet’s eyes go wide in disbelief.
“What?”
She couldn’t think of anything else to say.
Professor Oak gave a good natured chuckle at the reaction, finding it appropriate. “I looked at the data you managed to get yesterday with the Pokedex and I saw that Pink Pokemon you encountered yesterday,” He began with Violet remembering that strange Pokemon. “Do you know what Pokemon that was?”
Violet shook her head, given how she didn’t really try to look into it given how late it was. And with the people chasing it, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to know
After a second, Professor Oak smiled. “I would be surprised if you did know considering how little Mew shows itself to others.”
The second he said the name Mew, Violet’s brain came to a halt, having trouble processing that.
M-Mew? That was Mew?!
She met a Legendary Pokemon the other night?!
“That actually explains those people chasing it.” Violet whispered, but that sentence caught the Professor’s attention.
“There were people chasing Mew?” The Professor asked calmly with Violet giving a nod. “Can you describe them?”
Fidgeting a bit, no doubt remembering the encounter, Violet spoke while she tapped her fingers on her leg to help calm herself down. “They wore black and they had a red R on their chest.” She said, the description making the Professor’s eyes narrow in annoyance.
“So it is them, Team Rocket.” Professor Oak said the name with anger that surprised Violet. “You were very lucky they didn’t do anything to you.”
“Team Rocket?” Violet asked never hearing of them before. “Who are they?”
Professor Oak was silent at this, debating whether or not to share this with a young child before deciding it was better that she knew if she accepted his proposition.
Leaving Violet in the dark about who they were could get her hurt. This way she’ll know to avoid them in the future.
“First off, do you remember the Pokemon War that happened a good twelve years ago that caused some of the regions to remain cut off from each other?”
Violet gave a nod as that was an important History Lesson taught in school. “The Kanto-Johto-Orre War?”
“Precisely, it was a rather dark time for Kanto’s History with a lot of trainers dying in said war,” Professor Oak’s eyes showed a lot of bad memories of that time. “It’s the war responsible for the Kanto Region’s decline in trainers as most of them are rather up there in years or too young.”
It was also the reason that the age a person could become a trainer was ten as the Kanto League wanted to fill the ranks back up again overtime. Still they were better off than the Johto Region as their stock market crashed after the war as they didn’t have much money compared to the Kanto Region. And the Orre Region was practically devastated by the war with their League being entirely destroyed in the aftermath leaving the region to fend for itself.
While Violet grimaced at the thought of death she wasn’t naive about it, they desensitized kids to the idea of death the minute they start Trainer School given how dangerous the world could be. It was a way to avoid having rookie trainers not go into shock when something terrible happens.
“Because of that a lot of criminals were pardoned to help with the war effort but they stuck together, forming a group that would eventually become known as Team Rocket,” Professor Oak looked away, no doubt remembering how he had a lot of misgivings about the idea. “While they did help secure a victory for the Kanto Region, they began to cause problems and even outright mistreated Pokemon, using them as tools for both war and crime.”
Hearing that she ran into criminals made Violet pale in slight terror. “So when you said I was lucky-?”
“If they knew you saw Mew or they weren’t too busy, chances were they would’ve stolen your Pokemon and more.” Professor Oak left out that they might’ve killed her to.
But they probably deemed her not worth it given how she only had a Weedle.
Violet swallowed the lump in her throat.
“The Elite Four are doing everything they can to capture these criminals so they won’t be out for too long.” Professor Oak said giving her a calming smile.
“R-Right.”
So avoid anyone wearing anything with a red ‘R’ on it.
Seeing that she looked scared, Professor Oak steered the conversation back to his original intent thinking that was probably enough info on them for the young girl. “You see Violet, it’s my dream to make a complete catalogue on every Pokemon in the world, it’s been my dream ever since I was a young boy,” The Professor had a gleam in his eyes when he spoke. “That was the reason the Pokedex was created, but I’m too old, I can’t go around to do this anymore.”
Violet tilted her head in interest, now getting why the Professor asked her. “So you want me to go on a journey?”
“And with the Pokedex you can complete your own goal of proving to everyone on how strong Bug Pokemon are,” The Professor revealed with Violet tensing in realization. “With it you’ll have quite the advantage over countless people.”
A chance to prove that Bug Pokemon were strong, and by doing this she’ll have a head start on everyone else in the Trainer School who would have to wait until they graduate in two months to begin their journey.
It was too good to be true.
“Why me?” Violet whispered having some doubt. “I’m just a kid you met yesterday.”
“A kid that risked a lot to return the Pokedex, that says a lot about you.” Professor Oak reminded her. “Now will you?”
Violet glanced back at the Pokedex a hint of longing on her face mixed with apprehension.
Could she do this? Should she?
The Professor was asking quite a lot from her, but shouldn’t that be more of a reason to accept?
Then again she might screw this up somehow.
But with it she could accomplish her goal and see the world.
A bit at war with herself, Violet came to a decision and looked at Professor Oak with clear determination in her eyes, a rare sight for those who knew her. “I’ll do it.”
“Splendid!” Professor Oak sounded excited. “Now the Pokedex is yours to use as you wish, within reason that is, I’ll start off by creating a Trainer ID for you and register you as an assistant alongside my Grandson Green.”
“Green?” Violet asked not expecting that.
“Yes, he has the other Pokedex I mentioned,” Professor Oak explained with Violet not expecting that. “As such both of you will be helping me out, he’s somewhere out in Route 31 at the moment.”
Professor Oak was about to suggest that perhaps they would meet up but decided not to as while he loved his Grandson he wasn’t blind to how cold the young trainer could be.
Hopefully his journey would help him be a little friendly towards others.
Slowly Violet trudged on back home in thought, looking at the Pokedex that was now officially hers in one hand and the other being her new Trainer ID that was blue to signify her being a rookie, something she shouldn’t even have as of yet.
This was an outcome she never expected.
She was officially a trainer instead of a student with a Pokemon.
As such she had the standard start of 3000 Pokedollars, she could buy trainer related items such as Antidotes, Paralyze Heals, etc and she could legally travel the region now and was legally an adult in the eyes of the Kanto Region which was just crazy to think about.
For a second, Violet imagined the look on Lucy’s face when she hears about this with a rather vindictive smile, but she shook her head with her shoulders slumped knowing that despite this Lucy would still be able to beat her in a battle pretty easily.
She didn’t want to think about that.
Right now she had to prepare for her journey.
… Her Journey, those words kept repeating in her head.
Taking a deep breath, Violet thought about her steps.
While she was going to travel around the Region per the Professor’s Request she can’t do it with just Stinger, especially with him being a Weedle, so the first thing she has to do is train him until he’s a Beedrill. She’ll try to catch a Caterpie in Viridian Forest to get a Butterfree as well.
From there she’ll move on and she’ll add the other four Kanto Bug Pokemon as she finds them.
Paras, Venonat, Scyther and Pinsir.
The last two would be pretty hard to find given their rarity but they’re a must for a Bug Team and Paras is said to be inside of Mt. Moon, which is near Pewter City, so it will be the third Pokemon she’ll catch.
That was her plan for a team, but Violet had no idea what she wanted to do. Journey’s were for trainers to find their goal in life.
But what would her goal be beyond showing how strong Bugs could be?
“I guess I’ll find out on the way.” Violet decided as she should just go home and pack.
Pack, make plans, ensure she has food and get a map of the region, so she won’t get lost.
At least she knows how to survive in the wilds as at school they taught survival training in the first month to make sure every kid knew what to do and what not to do when it came to being away from a town or city.
Hearing a snarl, Violet glanced up to see a few Rattata that were glaring at her and while she hesitated, she knew that Stinger needed the experience to get stronger, so she pulled his Pokeball out.
“Let’s see.” Violet was back home in her room looking through some supplies while Stinger was on her desk eating the promised bowl of honey soaked leaves with berries, some new injuries that were treated from a stop at the Pokemon Center.
Currently she had different clothes, rope, medicine, food, canteens of water, a local map of the region which would help immensely, some Pokeballs.
That was practically it, a lot of this stuff drained her starting funds from 3000 to 250 Pokedollars and if she wanted to get it back up she would have to win battles against other Trainers. But she could also lose money by losing battles as well which is the most likely outcome due to her inexperience.
Now she just had to pack this stuff into her new bag which was given to new trainers when they set foot inside of the Pokemart after obtaining their license. It used the same technology as Pokeballs to hold a lot of items.
There were rumors that she would be able to fit a whole bicycle in this type of bag, but Violet had her doubts about that rumor. Still, it was a good item to have for her journey.
Especially since it worked like a satchel which had one strap that would make it easy to carry. Though she’ll keep her Pokeballs that contain the Pokemon she has on her belt for easy access.
Hearing noise, Violet looked to see Stinger using String Shot to pull himself up to the bed, his bowl now empty. “You satisfied?” She asked in amusement while the Bug Pokemon curled around her items making her giggle. “I guess so.”
Her giggling made Stinger sit up before bending over as if he was about to pounce in a playful manner.
Stinger was acting like a baby Growlithe right now, it was adorable.
So she stopped preparing and rubbed his stomach, the Weedle melting like putty in her hands as he rolled over to allow more of his stomach to be rubbed.
While she did that, she looked from him to the desk where he was before she realized that he used String Shot to move quickly as opposed to crawling around.
Could that be used in battles?
In fact what else could String Shot be used for rather than blinding others and slowing them down?
“Perhaps it could be used for traps?” Violet stopped rubbing Stinger much to his chagrin and cupped her chin in thought. “Especially if we fire it at the ground under the pretense of missing, it could give any enemies less maneuverability.”
Stinger tilted his head at her incessant mumbling, barely hearing her.
“Then we could use so much that they can’t move and the speed of using it to get from one place to another would give us an advantage,” Violet continued now pacing, getting way too into her thoughts. “How has nobody tried that before? It could change how Bug Pokemon fight! Especially if we add barbs of Poison Sting to it to cause some damage along with immobilizing any targets-.”
Having enough, Stinger fired a small String Shot to her leg catching her attention.
“Oh uh, sorry about that,” Violet rubbed the back of her head with some slight embarrassment on her face. “Haven’t done that in awhile.”
She tends to mumble when she overthinks on something she finds interesting.
But right now she was just happy to find a use for String Shot that she was sure not many people would think of.
Especially when Stinger evolves into Kakuna, String Shot might have enough uses to ensure he could still battle?
That night she was wearing a black nightgown with Pokeball emblems stitched on the hems while she lay in bed, looking over the Pokedex a bit, Stinger curled up next to her.
She was looking on the information it had on her Starter showing the Level Function.
It said that Stinger evolves at seven, he was currently six due to those Rattata from earlier and he started out at three back when she picked up the Pokedex. So he’ll evolve pretty soon if she keeps it up which had her pretty excited at the thought of seeing an actual evolution.
Learning about it was one thing, but actually seeing it? It would be amazing.
Perhaps someday she’ll be able to beat Lucy in an actual battle? Though Violet was realistic and knew she wouldn’t be ready for quite awhile.
But then there was this Green that Professor Oak mentioned, she wondered if he would be friendly or not.
If they were both working on this Pokedex, perhaps they could be friends?
Violet really hoped that would be the case, but deep down she wondered if she was being too optimistic for something that probably wouldn’t happen.
She couldn’t help but hope it will happen though.
Yawning in the process, Violet figured she should get some rest as the next day she was going to be heading into the Forest in order to get her second Pokemon and do some training.
Her Journey would officially begin in the morning.
Violet hummed to herself the next morning as she was ready to go, she was just putting the finishing touches on her hair, tying them into pigtails like she usually does.
She already ate, same with Stinger who was currently in his Pokeball attached to her belt, she was packed with everything she would need to get to Pewter City which was at least a good few days of travel through the Forest, hopefully by then she’ll have both a Beedrill and Butterfree when she gets there.
Finally she ensure she had plenty of Antidotes, while Stinger was immune to Poison they were for her in case she gets poisoned or for her future Caterpie as they work for both Human and Pokemon.
It was something to consider when traveling.
Her two canteens were filled with water and she had a few bags of trail mix and wrapped sandwiches which should be enough to get her through the Forest.
Taking one last look in the mirror, determination filled Violet’s face.
She can do this.
Getting through the Forest would only be the first step, but she needed to prove she deserved to assist Professor Oak.
“When in doubt, smile and move.” Violet whispered remembering finding one of her Mom’s old journals and that was something she always said when getting ready for something.
With that done, she left her room and bounded down the stairs two at a time before stopping in the living room.
It looked to be a casual room bare of anything that stood out except for one thing.
A glass cabinet that was turned into what looked to be a shrine, complete with a picture of a young woman with shoulder length black hair showing a kind smile.
It was far from the only picture as there were a few of her in both casual and formal wear. But above the pictures was a single straw hat that she wore in the casual pictures with two feathers in it.
Swallowing a bit, Violet smiled. "Hi Mom." She said to the makeshift shrine, looking from it to the floor. “I guess this is the last time we’ll talk in awhile.”
Due to her Dad being out of town most of the time, Violet made a habit of talking to the picture of her Mom, always imagining what it would’ve been like if she didn’t die from an illness when she was a baby.
Instead she only had the journals to learn about her.
Forcing herself to look at the picture, Violet continued, grabbing Stinger’s Pokeball to hold it up to the picture as if the woman could see it. “I got my Pokemon License yesterday and I have a Pokemon, I think you would love Stinger, he’s pretty affectionate.” Slowly she lowered the Pokeball, a sad look going across her face. “Dad’s doing great too, he’s been working hard in Saffron City and he sends letters.”
There was some bitterness in her tone that she tried to hide when she said that before she felt Stinger’s Pokeball wiggle in her grasp making her giggle, feeling a bit better.
Right, she forgot that unless they were in stasis, Pokemon could sense something going on with their trainers while inside of the Pokeball.
So she placed it back on her belt and looked at the shrine one last time, this time her gaze going to the straw hat and she hesitated.
Truth be told she was thinking about taking the hat with her. It might seem disrespectful, but she wanted to have a piece of her mother with her on this journey.
Would that be so bad?
After a few seconds of contemplation, the young girl caved and moments later she was holding the hat, turning it over before she slowly placed it on her head where it was a little loose.
… She’ll just have to grow into it a bit.
With that done, she gave the house one last look before walking out the front door, locking it behind her.
Professor Oak rubbed his tired eyes as he spent most of the night going over one of his old Research Papers, something he did years ago in his youth.
Most of it was outdated but there were times when he would forget something he wrote about a long time ago that would still be viable in the near future.
It was an old thesis on where humanity came from as it was discovered through ruins that Pokemon were here much longer than humans were since ancient times before a meteorite hit the world and killed off a good amount of them such as the Fossil Like Pokemon known as Kabuto, Kabutops, Omanyte, Omnastar and Aerodactyl.
After the meteorite, humans started to appear and throughout the years there was little to no explanation on where they came from, or how they could bond easily with Pokemon.
Though there were notes at how Humans evolved along with Pokemon throughout the different generations becoming pretty durable, not to the point of surviving a Hyper Beam or a Dragon Claw, but they could easily survive being electrocuted or a rather large fall as before they were rather fragile in the beginning. Then there were the papers of Psychic Humans that the Professor managed to study in his earlier years with different questions in his mind.
Were Humans evolved from Pokemon? Were they new life given form? And then there were the Pokemon themselves.
Where did they come from? How many were there? In Kanto, there were said to be 150, though Oak knew better that from before the war when other Pokemon used to be seen around this region before they migrated away to the regions they’re most commonly seen in. How long it would take for some of them to come back was up in the air though.
‘ I wonder how Violet is doing? ’ Prof. Oak mused with a hum. ‘ If she waited until today she should be in the Forest by now. ’
His Grandson should be in there as well, hopefully they have a good first meeting.
“Quick Attack.” A cold voice ordered as a small fox-like Pokemon with brown and white fur slammed into a Pidgeotto, knocking it out. “Just one hit? Not even worth catching.”
The one who spoke was a ten year old boy with spiky brown hair wearing a long sleeved blue shirt and jeans.
In his hands was a Pokedex.
“Besides I already have a Pidgey, no use in wasting a Pokeball if I’m just going to evolve him.” Green Oak said while the Eevee sat next to his foot patiently, feeling rather proud of his achievement in knocking the evolved bird out in one hit.
Currently he had at least twelve Pokemon captured for his Grandfather’s research, once some of them were fully evolved for the Pokedex he’ll send them to his Grandfather, though he’ll keep a few for the team he’s planning to make.
“Now where are you?” Green muttered as there were rumors of a powerful Pokemon going on a rampage in this forest, one that he’s been searching for quite awhile.
Closing the Pokedex, Green figured he might as well train up his team while searching.
After all, he had his own goals on this journey.
To Be Continued…
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Weedle
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 6
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Poison Sting and String Shot
Notes:
Wow not as long as the previous chapter but I was starting to run out of things to put in this chapter. But Violet is officially a Pokemon Trainer right now with a license and everything, though she’s still a long way from actually accomplishing anything.
Oh and now she has a Straw Hat-what Bug Catcher doesn't have a Straw Hat after all?
Plus we have a bit of world-building with the war theory from the games being put into effect, a bit more of Violet’s personality being revealed and a first look at Green who’s starter is the same as the Yellow version as giving him an actual starter would’ve been too easy.
Finally some information from Professor Oak about Humans and Pokemon with his research. It’s a way to explain how Humans are still around when you have walking natural disasters or nukes that they can capture and train, as Humans are pretty much like cockroaches at times with surviving you would think that over the many years they would adapt. It’s my way of explaining on how they survive attacks in the Anime. And due to how dangerous they are death is a thing that happens in the Pokemon world which is why they desensitize kids to it.
It’s one of the reasons some of the kids can be mature in some areas, though they are still kids so immaturity is a thing that still happens.
Chapter 3: Dangers of the Forest
Notes:
Here's another chapter, sorry for the wait, I've been taking time to rework this chapter until I was satisfied, though I'm still not but I think I kept everyone waiting long enough... And playing Pokemon Reborn on the side, I fell in love with that particular game, might make a fanfic of it someday not sure. Anyways enjoy!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
“Use String Shot! Violet ordered as she was having her first battle against a fellow Bug Catcher who was in the forest, having just entered there with her Weedle versus his Caterpie.
“Counter with your own!” The Bug Catcher, his name being Rick as Stinger was a bit weakened from battling his own Weedle a little bit ago.
Violet frowned in thought while Stinger was covered in silk, trying to think of a way to get out of this situation right as Rick ordered a Tackle.
So with a grin, Violet ordered a Poison Sting aiming for the ground right in front of Caterpie, leaving for the green caterpillar Pokemon to run over it, being poisoned immediately if the purple hue it took on was any indication.
While it flinched with poison running through its veins, Violet ordered one more Poison Sting that scored a crit, downing the Caterpie with relative ease.
“Aw man.” Rick complained at seeing his two prized Bug Pokemon go down, though he didn’t mind as much considering it was another Bug Pokemon that took them down.
He’ll have to see about remembering that Poison Sting trick in the future, that was pretty smart though.
"Alright Stinger, that was amazing!" Violet Cheered as she ran towards the Weedle who looked to be shaking. "Stinger? What's wrong?"
Her concern was cut off when Stinger exploded in a flash of light as he stood up, spraying silk into the air.
Rick whistled in awe. "Nice job on evolving your Weedle."
Violet gasped at that, not taking her eyes off of Stinger as he continued to change, growing a foot taller before a yellow cocoon took his place with a domed shaped head and black triangle eyes that shone with excitement.
Slowly, Violet picked Stinger up, realizing he was a bit heavier than when he was a Weedle, but she didn't care.
He evolved.
Stinger gave a low cry making Violet realize she was beginning to cry, making her quickly use one arm to wipe the tears away while Rick who was watching look a bit unsure.
"Hey, are you alright?"
Violet gave a nod, sniffling a bit. "I'm fine, just happy."
When she was by herself, Violet quickly checked Stinger's new information with the Pokedex.
" Pokemon Registered. Kakuna the Cocoon Pokemon. Kakuna has learned Harden. Ability has changed. "
‘ Pokemon #14
Species: Kakuna
Gender: Male
Current Level: 7
Height: 2’0
Weight: 22 lbs.
Ability: Shed Skin-Can get rid of a status effect by shedding its skin.
Nature: Naughty
Characteristic: Capable of taking hits
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot and Harden.
Information: Able to move only slightly, this Pokemon can stick out its stinger when threatened as it awaits evolution. When the shell is hot to touch, evolution is near.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 10
Next Form: Beedrill
Registration Complete. ’
“Just a bit more and you’ll be a Beedrill.” Violet said putting the Pokedex up while carrying Stinger who remained silent. “Now we just need to find a Caterpie to train up and we’ll be doing great.”
It shouldn’t be that hard to find a Caterpie as the Forest was always crawling with them and Weedles.
With that in mind, she began to walk through the forest, staring in awe at just about everything, this being the first time she’s been in the Forest.
While there weren’t any Pokemon to catch at the moment, Violet could see the beauty of nature inside of this forest with everything from the dew on the grass to the leaves changing colors to signify spring.
Taking a moment to admire the scenery, Violet smiled and continued onward, ready for whatever the Viridian Forest had to offer.
…
It was Evening by the time Violet decided to make camp, her legs feeling pretty sore from all of the walking she did.
But she’s also had other battles against fellow Bug Catchers that she used Stinger for, giving him a bit more experience and to test her hypothesis on using String Shot to zip around the field, though she didn’t win all of them.
One of them had a Butterfree that practically decimated her in a fight using psychic attacks, she didn’t even know Butterfree could learn psychic attacks showing that despite her love for them, there was a lot about bugs that she didn’t know.
She didn’t complain because it just made her want to get a Butterfree of her own one day. And even a loss was a good experience. She did learn some things from it after all.
Unrolling the sleeping bag, Violet turned to the small campfire she made, having gathered some wood when it became clear that the sun was beginning to set.
“What a day.” Violet said, readjusting her straw hat while Stinger was currently in his Pokeball, asleep having already eaten his dinner.
Even as a Kakuna he was liable to be attacked by predators.
She didn’t know how long she had to go before she was out of this forest, but Violet knew it would take a few more days. It was a huge forest after all.
Without another word, she pulled out one of the sandwiches she’s prepared for her journey to munch on, looking up at the clear sky that could be seen through the trees, a full moon right now while the stars were a lot more visible then they were back in Viridian City.
It was breathtaking.
She could sit there and watch the stars for hours, but Violet knew she needed her sleep if she wanted to keep going tomorrow.
So she took her Straw Hat off and undid her pigtails only to hear rustling in one of the branches.
Thinking it was just a Pidgey, she glanced up only for her eyes to widen when she saw a Caterpie that was giving her a curious look, though the worm did tense up at being spotted.
Violet stared, her mouth dropping open.
Seriously, after spending all day looking for one this happens?
She wasn’t going to let this chance go to waste.
But unlike other trainers who would just throw out a Pokemon to battle it, Violet decided another route because Stinger was most likely asleep right now.
So she slowly reached into her bag, the Caterpie’s eyes following her movements before she pulled out a Oran Berry before holding it out to him.
“Hey there, are you hungry?” Violet asked curiously as the Caterpie slowly made his way down the branch, sniffing the berry before accepting it.
Violet watched the Caterpie eat it pretty quickly showing she was right on the fact that it was starving before it decided that Violet was trustworthy and crawled down until it was on her shoulder.
“You’re a friendly little guy-,” Violet began only for the Caterpie to glare as its pink feeler on the top of its head shook, a bad smell now surrounding her making Violet cough. “Girl, girl got it.”
Just like that, the Caterpie calmed down looking rather content.
“Remind me not to get you angry.” Violet said still coughing from the bad smell.
Reaching into her bag, Violet produced another Oran Berry that the Caterpie accepted showing her straightforward personality that made Violet grin.
“You want to come with me?” Violet offered now pulling an empty Pokeball out. “The only Pokemon I have is Stinger, a Kakuna, I’m putting together a team of Bug Types.”
The Caterpie tilted her head to the side at the offer, glancing from Violet to the bag where more berries were sure to be.
That sealed the deal as she crawled down Violets arm until she was right next to the offered Pokeball and poked it, catching herself.
Violet’s smile was extremely wide at this point as she had her second Bug Pokemon and this one joined her of her free will just like Stinger.
“Alright, welcome to the team-er…” Violet paused and went through different nicknames in her head before snapping her fingers. “Silk! I hope we’ll get along.”
With that she pulled out the Pokedex and used the see through feature on the top part of the Pokeball to snap a picture.
“Pokemon Registered. Caterpie the Worm Pokemon.”
Just like that the information showed up on the screen.
‘ Pokemon #10
Species: Caterpie
Gender: Female
Current Level: 5
Height: 1’0
Weight: 6.4 lbs.
Ability: Shield Dust- Blocks the added effects of attacks taken.
Nature: Bold
Characteristic: Thoroughly cunning
Moves: Tackle and String Shot.
Information: For protection this Pokemon will use the feeler on the top of its head to release a horrible stink that repels enemies. It is also a voracious eater that will devour leaves and berries bigger than its own body. As it can grow quickly, this Pokemon is easily recommended for novice trainers.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 7
Next Form: Metapod
Registration Complete. ’
“Level five? Silk is definitely stronger than when I caught Stinger,” Violet mused to herself as she sat down on her sleeping bag after putting Silk’s Pokeball right next to Stinger in her backpack. “It’ll take her no time at all to catch up and become a Metapod, but Stinger is close to becoming a Beedrill too, so perhaps I should focus on him first and then on Silk, or should I let Silk evolve first and then do both?”
She sat there mumbling to herself before yawning.
“I should probably sleep first then decide otherwise I’ll be here all night.” She decided, checking the small fire to make sure it wouldn’t leave the circle of stones and dirt she had.
The last thing she needed to do was start a forest fire by accident.
Now while Violet did end up sleeping well despite how her body ached the next morning from all of the travelling and sleeping on the ground, her morning did not start off so well as she woke up with a sword in her face.
Eyes widening, her mind waking up rather quickly at this development, Violet gave a scared look as she followed the sword to see a figure dressed up like a samurai. “Are you from Pallet Town?” He asked while Violet shook her head.
“V-V-Viridian City.” She stammered out, hoping her journey wouldn’t end here as she wouldn’t be able to get to Stinger and Silk’s Pokeball in time if he tried anything.
“Ah-,” The Samurai actually looked rather awkward as he withdrew his sword much to Violet’s immense relief. “Apologies, I’ve been on a bit of a losing streak to the trainers of Pallet that I wanted to regain my honor.”
“... You’re not going to rob me?” Violet asked letting out a sigh of relief while the Samurai looked rather offended.
“As if I would stoop so low.”
Violet just tilted her head and looked from him to the sword. “Really?” She asked, not too sure about that and after a second the Samurai realized the message he might’ve accidentally set before coughing to regain his composure.
“I’ll continue on my way.”
But before he left, Violet quickly stood up, getting out of the sleeping bag. “W-Wait, I wouldn’t say no to a battle if you won’t.” She said grabbing her bag while the Samurai glanced at her. “I’m not going to be a good bug trainer if I don’t battle.”
That sentence grabbed his attention. “You’re a bug catcher?” He asked not expecting that while Violet nodded. “Interesting then I accept your challenge as a fellow Bug Trainer.”
So they both got ready and sent their Pokemon out at the same time.
“Stinger get out there!” Violet ordered right as Samurai sent his out.
“Let’s regain our honor Pinsir!”
Hearing the name Pinsir made Violet gape as the large brown stag-like beetle with sharp, thorny pincers on the top of its head landed on the ground, roaring a challenge to Stinger who glared defiantly.
This was her first time seeing a Pinsir in real life and it was a good nine inches taller than she was.
“Whoa, a Pinsir?” Violet had stars in her eyes. “You have a Pinsir?! That’s awesome, where did you get him?!”
Samurai looked taken aback by how she reacted while the Pinsir was beginning to look weirded out.
Stinger hopped in place until he was looking at her with a deadpanned expression, as if asking if now was the time to be doing this.
“The pincers look incredibly sharp, you must help him sharpen them everyday and the shell looks shiny, with some dirt on it showing how often he cleans himself by burrowing into the ground, he is well taken care of-.”
“Hey are we battling or what?” Samurai finally asked as the mumbling was kind of freaking him out.
Violet snapped out of it with a mortified look at what she did and gave a sheepish laugh. “S-Sorry,” She said before getting ready, subtly taking out the Pokedex to see that this Pinsir was at least level 8 much to her surprise, though she wasn’t complaining. “Let’s do this.”
“Start with Sword Dance!” Samurai ordered much to Violet’s surprise as that was a TM move. “Now use Vicegrip!”
“Pull yourself out of the way with String Shot and use Harden!” Violet ordered with the Kakuna listening latching onto the branch, barely dodging as the pincers on Pinsir cleaved the ground.
“Hm, so you’re upping your defense to counter Sword Dance?” Samurai mused before drawing his sword, getting in synch with his Pokemon. “Snatch it out of the air with Seismic Toss!”
Pinsir roared and jumped pretty high into the air while Stinger was still moving and gripped him, spinning to throw him to the ground.
“String Shot to coat the ground quick!” Violet panicked.
Stinger listened, firing a rapid barrage of String Shot, making a web for soft landing on the ground, even if he took a bit of damage.
But it was enough as Pinsir also landed on the makeshift web, the silky strings a bit too sticky for his liking until Samurai ordered for him to use his pincers to tear them off of him.
Violet however took advantage of his current situation. “Poison Sting!”
With that, Stinger fired a few barbs from its shell right into Pinsir’s mouth making him hack before glowing purple showing the status condition.
“That’s a cheap move!” Samurai exclaimed at the dirty tactic which made Violet glare.
It was strategy.
But the Pinsir manage to tear free of the silk and grab the Kakuna in its claws, moving to crush him with Vice Grip.
Though he would be injured it wouldn’t be enough to kill him, but Violet panicked immensely, ordering a Harden.
A loud crack was heard with Violet expecting the worst only to looked relieved as the crack turned out to be because of Pinsir’s pincers breaking as Harden looked to be enough before the effects of the poison made him fall to one knee while Stinger fell from his grip, rolling across the ground.
Gritting his teeth, Samurai quickly returned Pinsir, forfeiting him from the fight as while the damage wasn’t too severe, he knew that continuing it would have a chance at making it worse.
“Very well let’s finish this cocoon to cocoon.” Samurai said now sending out a Metapod, the green Cocoon Pokemon standing upright facing Stinger.
Tilting her head, Violet smiled. “Stinger return, I want to send Silk out.”
That made Stinger look at her in surprise, reminding Violet that he hasn’t met the Caterpie yet while Samurai quirked a brow at the interaction.
“I caught her last night you were asleep, I think it’s only fair for her to get some battling in too, right?” Violet asked with Stinger going quiet before using String Shot to latch onto the tree behind her and pulled himself to his trainer.
“Your Kakuna is… Peculiar, I’ve never seen a cocoon Pokemon move like that.” Samurai said after a few seconds of silence.
He doesn’t mean it as an insult, if anything it’s rather smart.
“Thanks.” Violet said taking it as a compliment before priming her second Pokeball. “Go Silk!”
The Caterpie gave a cry as she was let out, looking around before seeing she was in a battle against a Metapod, though she tilted her head at how the nearby Kakuna was giving her a judgmental look.
Stinger for his part was giving her a chance as if this Caterpie was traveling with them, she would be a part of this hive.
“Alright Metapod, use Harden!” Samurai ordered while Violet had Silk use Tackle.
It was going like that for a bit before Violet finally asked after the fifth time. “You caught him as a Metapod didn’t you?”
Samurai coughed a bit embarrassed by that.
It was recently discovered that with Bug Pokemon usually following a Hive Mind they can only remember the move Harden in their cocoon state while being in the wild, but if one was caught and raised by a Trainer they would retain their past moves as a cocoon as they weren’t a part of the hive mind anymore.
Seeing his embarrassment, Violet took that as confirmation and kept ordering a Tackle until the Metapod was unconscious while Samurai groaned at that. “Once more I’ve lost my honor.”
Violet actually felt a little bad, it was like kicking a baby Growlithe. “Why did you send Metapod out if he only knew Harden?” She asked curiously while Silk slowly crawled towards Stinger, making some small talk to get to know each other.
“I was hoping he had enough experience to become a Butterfree,” Samurai explained with Violet nodding at that answer. “He’s close he just needs a push.”
Stinger rolled his eyes at how Silk was boasting over her win despite how it was against a Pokemon that literally couldn’t fight back while he despite being a cocoon, took down a Pinsir which was said to be one of the stronger bug types by himself.
When he said that, Silk narrowed her eyes as she was a bit proud of her strength.
“Well you trained your Pinsir pretty well, I was surprised you had one.” Violet said while her two Pokemon were now arguing. “Where did you get him?”
“The Safari Zone, my Dad took me there on my tenth birthday to catch my first Pokemon.” Samurai said with a smile at the memory. “That was about a week ago.”
Violet squashed down a feeling of jealousy for both the rare bug Pokemon and the fact that this Samurai had a good memory of his own father in regards to her own.
Instead she turned only to stare as both Stinger and Silk covered each other in String Shot, now glaring while they were immobilized. “What in the world?”
“Hm looks like they were challenging each other, you might want to deal with that as soon as you can.” Samurai advised as despite being a cocoon his Metapod was the same way with his Pinsir at first.
Feeling her shoulders slump a bit, Violet smiled and returned them, making a promise to get them something good for Breakfast after that victory. “Thanks for the Battle, it was fun.”
“Indeed, though I lost I will train to challenge you again to regain my honor.” Samurai vowed, sheathing his sword that was still out before giving a slight bow that Violet found a bit awkward before he was gone.
After he left, Violet blinked as she realized she never asked for his name, but decided she could do that if she did run into him again.
Now it was time to eat.
The next few days passed by rather quickly, if not a bit tame compared to the first few days as the deeper she got into the forest the less trainers she ran into, not that there were many to begin with.
It was a shame because both Stinger and Silk were pretty close to evolving.
Speaking of which, Violet was pretty unsure of how to deal with the bout of competitiveness the two of them seemed to have gained as they were always trying to one-up each other.
Perhaps she could call Professor Oak and ask once she’s in Pewter City?
Ducking underneath a low hanging branch, Violet grimaced as she wiped her brow of sweat, feeling some dirt there.
She also needs a shower soon, sure she knew that traveling would make it a rather rare thing to do but this was ridiculous.
It was so bad that her hair was currently tangled in knots right now as she didn’t have them in pigtails anymore.
Frowning as she checked the time on her Pokedex, Violet muttered at the fact that it was around three in the afternoon, she’s been travelling for a good four hours today and she hasn’t run into a single wild Pokemon?
That can’t be a good sign, the forest was supposed to be full of Bug Pokemon, yet this part was empty.
So where were they-?
The Pokedex started to beep making Violet jump as she looked at it to see a radar-like feature appear with a dot nearby.
A dot that seemed to have paused and began heading her way.
What was this? Since when did the Pokedex have a radar?
The beeping became more frequent the closer the dot got as Violet primed Stinger’s Pokeball just in case only for her to hear footsteps before the bushes rustled as a kid her age walked out.
Green Oak quirked a brow at seeing Violet. “Hm? So this was why my Pokedex was acting up,” He was holding his which made Violet realize just who this was. “I didn’t think Gramps would give his second Pokedex away.”
Turning from Green to her Pokedex, Violet was relieved when the beeping stopped. “What was that about?” She asked thinking he would know.
“A feature Gramps put in there, the Pokedex’s can track each other, he had it in case one of them were ever stolen.” Green answered looking her up and down before frowning.
He didn’t see anything remarkable about her. So why did Gramps give her a Pokedex? … Or did he?
“Um, so I’m Violet.” Violet held out her hand to be nice after putting the Pokedex up, filing that function to the back of her mind for the moment. “Nice to meet you.”
“That’s debatable.” Green didn’t accept the handshake, not one to be friendly with anyone while she slowly lowered her hand. “How did you get that Pokedex?”
The question confused Violet until she realized Green didn’t know and with his explanation about the built-in tracker he probably thought she stole it.
“H-He gave it to me a few days ago.” Violet stammered out, really hoping this wouldn’t turn into a misunderstanding.
Green frowned, not sure if she was telling the truth of not before deciding to take her at her word for now.
He’ll ask Gramps when he gets to Pewter City, if he tells a different story he would take her down and turn her in to the Police.
“So if he gave that to you,” Green stressed the word if to show he didn’t really believe her. “That makes us rivals in a way.”
Violet was silent before giving a nod, seeing his point as she primed Stinger’s Pokeball while Green primed his own already seeing that he would want a battle.
But before either of them could start, Green paused and looked to the side. “You hear that?”
“Hear wha-?” Violet began only to realize the problem.
It was quiet.
During her whole time in Viridian Forest it was never quiet, she could always hear the leaves rustling, the fluttering of Pokemon flying overhead and even the soft pitter-patter of footsteps but never silence.
Green held his Pokeball warily as he looked around with Violet feeling some fear.
The ground shook as a loud stomping was heard, the two barely catching themselves before the stomping was repeated with increased frequency showing that whatever this was that scared the Pokemon it was getting closer.
Green however smirked as he had an idea of what it was. “Kept me waiting.” He said as he’s been searching for this Pokemon.
Violet gave him a confused look before the bushes nearby rustled as a large bipedal Pokemon with a brown hide that had several raised patches and a cream colored stomach that held a pouch, large cream colored ears and red eyes narrowed in fury came stomping out.
“A Kanghaskhan?” Violet asked not expecting that.
What was it doing here?
“Don’t care I’m here to catch it, don’t get in my way.” Green ordered while Violet blinked before shrugging but being a little excited at seeing it.
Kangaskhan's were said to be pretty peaceful, even to humans-. The Kangaskhan quickly proved to be the exception to that as it roared, shooting forward with a Comet Punch.
Eyes widening, the two ten year olds dove to the side right as the Kangaskhan punched the ground where they were, creating a crater.
“The heck?!” Green asked in disbelief as he’s seen Kangaskhan’s due to Professor Oak having one and this wasn’t anything like that one or any other one he’s studied before Violet noticed something that made her pale.
“The pouch is empty.”
Green gave a start and took a wary step back, a frown showing on his face.
They were dealing with a pissed off Kangaskhan that didn’t have its baby which would probably explain the actions of this Pokemon.
“Come on out!” Green ordered as he sent out his Eevee along with a Rattata and Pidgey with them immediately springing into action with Eevee and Pidgey doing a double Sand Attack while Rattata began to lower its defense with a Tail Whip.
“Double String Shot!” Violet ordered sending both Stinger and Silk out with the two Bug Pokemon doing so immediately on seeing the threat to their trainer, not wasting any time with their little competition.
“What the-?! Are those the only Pokemon you have?!” Green asked in disbelief while Violet held Stinger and Silk sat on her hat with the Kangaskhan being blind from the sand and covered in silk, struggling to move.
“Yes.” Violet said while Green made a face of annoyance.
“Gramps gave the Pokedex to a Bug Catcher.” He couldn’t believe it with Violet glaring, but the Kangaskhan roared, reminding them of the situation while it broke through the string shot and ran towards their voices. “We’ll continue this afterwards.”
‘ What a jerk. ’ Violet seethed silently as they both dodged another Comet Punch while Violet finally scanned the Kangaskhan only to be surprised as it couldn’t measure its level for some odd reason.
Instead it was saying error and from how Green frowned he got that too.
“Something isn’t right.” Green muttered watching as Stinger used String Shot to launch himself into the air and fire a barrage of Poison Stings at the Kangaskhan while Silk covered him by using String Shot.
Eevee was now using Growl to lower this Pokemon’s attack power with Pidgey keeping the Sand Attack up, adding Gust to make a bit of a sand twister that surrounded the Kangaskhan who began to glow purple showing that Stinger managed to poison it.
“You think it’s using Rage?” Violet asked with Green considering that as it would explain the strength it was showing.
She did take the time to scan Green’s Pokemon, especially the Eevee but she was surprised to see their levels with the Pidgey and Rattata being 14 while the Eevee was 16.
This guy was definitely stronger than she was.
“Perhaps, if we can weaken it we should be able to catch it.”
That earned an incredulous look from Violet. “You still want to catch that?!” She asked thinking this was the worst possible time to be adding it to a team.
Even if they do catch it, this Pokemon was too strong to respect them at their current level.
“I didn’t say it would be easy and quiet, just because its eyesight is impaired doesn’t mean its hearing is.” Green hissed with Violet clamming up. “If we catch it we can turn it over to the authorities and prevent anyone else from stumbling on it if we manage to escape, but plain Pokeballs won’t work.”
“So what’s the plan?” Violet whispered with Green furrowing his brow in thought before he searched through his bag and pulled out an Ultra Ball. “Where did you get that?!”
Ultra Balls were notoriously hard to get and were very expensive.
“Gift from Gramps, I was saving it for an emergency which this certainly qualifies as.” Green said while the Kangaskhan was proving to still be dangerous as it spun its tail around to catch Eevee and Rattata to send them flying. “We need to immobilize it.”
“Leave that to me.” Violet said getting an idea. “Stinger launch yourself into the air again and fire String Shot at the ground all around Kangaskhan! Silk you fire directly at her.”
As the two Bug Pokemon moved to follow those orders, the Kangaskhan finally located them due to their hushed voices and charged forward for what looked to be another Comet Punch.
However something unexpected happened before they could carry out the plan.
The Kangaskhan’s eyes widened as she gripped her chest in pain, shivering before falling over with quite a thud.
“Did she-?” Violet couldn’t finish her sentence in shock while Green frowned and took out the Pokedex, scanning the unmoving Kangaskhan to see that there were no more vitals.
“She died.” Green stated in a simple tone, leaving for Violet to nod. “But why did she die? There’s no way we were the cause of it.”
“So what happened?” Violet went to ask only for both Stinger and Silk to glow bright showing that some good came from this situation.
Stinger began to change shape as stingers pierced the skin of the cocoon to rip it open showing a bipedal yellow wasp-like Pokemon with red eyes and a yellow body with black stripes having three cone shaped stingers. Two silver ones on its arms and a sharp yellow one on its lower body, a buzzing noise emitted when its wings began to move.
Silk on the other hand changed into a Metapod that wasn’t so different from Samurai’s.
Violet almost wanted to cheer at this happening.
Finally Stinger was fully evolved and Silk was in her second stage. She was really becoming a genuine Bug Catcher.
But given the situation, Violet felt that cheering wouldn't be right.
Green however scoffed with an eye roll given how he's already fought Beedrills and Butterfrees belonging to other Bug Catchers.
Instead, he glanced back at the Kangaskhan with narrowed eyes, wondering what happened. Why did this Pokemon attack them? Why did she suddenly die?
He had so many questions and not enough answers.
So he turned to walk off, only to stop as he passed by Violet, giving her a cold look that caught her off guard. “If you want to be a trainer worthy of using the Pokedex you need to rethink your team.” He said to her which made Violet tense, having some mild flashbacks to the teasing from when she caught Stinger. “Bug Pokemon won’t get you far.”
Stinger seemed to take offense to that from how he was buzzing, with his forearms twitching, but Green’s Eevee, Rattata and Pidgey gave him a warning growl making him tense as he knew how strong they were to him currently.
“You can take my advice or leave it, I don’t care which.” Green left it at that as he walked off, not caring how Violet glanced down at the ground.
Unknown to them, a figure was watching from a few trees, using Binoculars to keep track of everything. “Admin this is Proton,” The figure said wearing a black uniform with a red R on the front, a black hat covering his green hair. “The subject is deceased, it would seem that the serum was too much for it.”
A sigh was heard on the other end. “ Unfortunate but not unexpected, the experiment still provided some unique results and now we know that recently hatched Pokemon won’t be able to handle the sudden increase in power, anything else? ”
“Yes, it attacked two trainers, some kids who are most likely rookies.”
“ ... And they survived? Interesting, ” The Admin sounded intrigued before shaking it off. “ But inconsequential, fall back to base Grunt. ”
Proton made a face at being reminded of his rank before giving a nod, taking another look at the two kids before deeming them nothing to worry about.
To Be Continued...
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 12
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: ???
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden and Fury Attack
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Metapod
Type: Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up SP. Attack)
Lv. 8
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Shed Skin
Moves: Tackle, String Shot and Harden
Notes:
Heh a lot happened huh? First things first Stinger is fully evolved now so the battles should be a bit more fun and Violet now has a Metapod so her team's coming along nicely.
Not just that but we had her meet Samurai-who will appear again in this story which is why I didn't add too much of him this chapter, but the big factor of this chapter was Green who is as cold as his Manga counterpart, possibly a bit colder, why will be explained in future chapters. He'll get quite a bit of development in the future be assured of that.
The Pokedex having a built in radar to track other Pokedex's is a thing in the Manga, it was shown in the GSC arc I believe and so was the Kangaskhan from the first few chapters of the Manga, but I obviously went in a particularly different direction than that.
The first death seen in this fic being the Kangaskhan and yes from that part at the end it was a baby Pokemon, Team Rocket were known to be experimenting from the game lore which was why I added that part at the end, as well as to introduce Proton as a Grunt long before he's an executive.
Chapter Text
Violet sighed in relief after finally exiting the Forest around night time, especially with that incident with the Kangaskhan from that morning.
Stinger and Silk were currently inside their Pokeballs, thoroughly exhausted after the close call and from a few other trainer battles that she took part in, getting a bit more in synch with her Pokemon, though Silk was having a harder time battling than Stinger did as a cocoon, having been knocked out a few times.
That reminds her, she should check out what the Pokedex has to say about them, though she figured she could do that inside of the Pokemon Center, she just wants to sit down, eat a hot meal and take a long shower. Plus she wanted to get away from the Forest for the moment.
But right now she could see Pewter City in the distance and Violet wracked her brain to think about what this town was known for.
That’s right, it was well known for its stone architecture alongside its Museum which was said to have fossils found in Mt. Moon which was said to be a good day's walk from the city itself.
Wasn’t one of the few Pokemon Gyms there too?
She stood there staring at the city before walking towards it.
“Here are your Pokemon.” Nurse Joy said with a smile, giving Violet her two Pokeballs back. “They are pretty healthy.”
Violet gave a small smile at that. “Thank you,” She said politely, giving a nod to the Nurse. “Are there any rooms here for the night?”
“You’re in luck, we have one room left.” Nurse Joy answered with Violet giving a relieved look at her luck. “How long will you be staying?”
“A few days.” Violet didn’t hesitate to say that wanting to recover from the week she had.
Nurse Joy gave a nod, typing into the computer before glancing at Violet. “You’ll be in room 128, it’s down the hall and it’ll be the last door on your left.” She explained to the Bug Catcher. “By the way, did you see the Poster?”
“Poster?” Violet asked only for Nurse Joy to point towards one that was on the other end of the Center.
“It was just put up this morning, all of the other trainers were talking about it.”
Feeling confused as Nurse Joy left, after handing her a card to get in her room, Violet walked over to see a Poster showing the regional tournament for the Kanto Region was going to start up in a few months.
“The Pokemon League?” Violet whispered, not expecting that. “I forgot they do this once every two years.”
It was always something that a lot of the other kids spoke about at the school, she could remember Lucy bragging she would enter some day.
Violet had mixed feelings at this.
A small part of her wanted the satisfaction of showing Lucy up by being able to enter the tournament and win it, yet Violet’s nervousness outweighed it because no matter the Gym Leader they are very different from your average trainer.
They were professional trainers with a ton of experience who use many different teams depending on whoever they’re fighting and their real team was said to be capable of fighting Pokemon belonging to the Elite Four, the greatest Trainers in Kanto.
How could she even attempt to fight people like that?
‘ If you want to be a trainer worthy of using the Pokedex you need to rethink your team. Bug Pokemon won’t get you far. ’
Green’s voice echoed in her head making Violet clench a fist.
Trainer worthy of using the Pokedex… She’ll show Green. She’ll show everyone.
By doing this she could prove that Bugs were strong. Even if she didn’t win it, she could try and make it far.
And it’ll start with the Pewter City Gym who has-.
Just like that Violet paled.
The Pewter Gym used Rock Type Pokemon, a type that Bug Pokemon were naturally weak to.
Oh crap.
Violet sat in the bedroom of the Pokemon Center with the walls being a stone gray color while there was a bed, a desk and even a bathroom, the last one being the first place she opened in order to take a nice, long shower.
Now that she was cleaned up and in her pajamas, Violet was looking through a Trainer’s Guide, trying to find something that could help her take down Brock.
It shows the team he uses based on the number of badges, something to help new trainers out and due to how Violet didn’t seem to have a badge as of yet it meant he would use a Geodude and Onix.
Seeing that he had an Onix really scared Violet because those Pokemon were well known behemoths that could sweep teams, Bruno of the Elite Four had two capable of taking down challengers by themselves.
The guide did show that for trainers with no badges he doesn’t seem to use any rock type moves, which was pretty strange in her opinion, though she wasn’t complaining. But Stinger won’t be able to beat Brock by himself, if she gets Silk to evolve again however, she’ll learn Confusion which would give her an edge.
Or perhaps Violet could move on and head to Cerulean City who has a water Gym which would be more manageable? She would be going through Mt. Moon where she could catch a Paras who’s part Grass type and she’ll be more prepared when she comes back to Pewter City.
Yet Violet wasn’t sure if she wanted to do that. If she did that she would end up facing an even stronger team that would be harder to beat even with that advantage.
… Speaking of her Pokemon, she should probably check out what the Pokedex has to say about them now that she’s all cleaned up.
So pulling it out, she pointed it at Stinger’s Pokeball first.
“ Pokemon Registered. Beedrill the Poison Bee Pokemon. Beedrill has learned Fury Attack. Ability has changed. ”
‘ Pokemon #15
Species: Beedrill
Gender: Male
Current Level: 14
Height: 3’03
Weight: 65 lbs.
Ability: Sniper- Increases the Power of Critical Hits.
Nature: Naughty
Characteristic: Capable of taking hits
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden and Fury Attack.
Information: It can take down just about any Pokemon with its Stingers, usually flying in swarms to overwhelm others with great numbers. The Barb on its tail is where its most powerful poison is. It should be noted that Beedrill are known to be territorial and consider their Trainers to be a part of said territory making them rather protective.
Needed for Evolution: Fully Evolved.
Registration Complete. ’
That piece of info about Beedrill being protective surprised Violet, but she couldn’t help but be happy.
She had a fully evolved Pokemon and he’s definitely gotten stronger since he evolved.
With him scanned, she turned to Silks Pokeball.
“ Pokemon Registered. Metapod the Cocoon Pokemon. Metapod has learned Harden. Ability has changed. ”
‘ Pokemon #11
Species: Metapod
Gender: Female
Current Level: 9
Height: 2’04
Weight: 21.8 lbs.
Ability: Shed Skin-Can get rid of a status effect by shedding its skin.
Nature: Bold
Characteristic: Thoroughly Cunning.
Moves: Tackle, String Shot and Harden.
Information: A steel hard shell protects its tender body, where it’ll endure hardships while awaiting evolution. However the body inside of the shell is quite tender and if the shell is cracked it won’t be able to withstand any attacks.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 10
Next Form: Butterfree
Registration Complete. ’
“Just one more level?” Violet cupped her chin in thought as she closed up the Pokedex. “That means if we train you tomorrow, you’ll be a Butterfree in no time.”
She’ll have to see about finding a place to do some mock battles between Stinger and Silk.
Not only would that help both of them with getting stronger, especially if it was the final push Silk needed, but it would also lay to rest whatever issues they seemed to show over the last few days after that battle with Samurai.
Putting the Pokedex up, Violet pressed the button on the Pokeballs to let them out, watching as Stinger hovered in the air a bit with some buzzing while Silk just stood in place near where she was sitting.
“How are you guys doing?” Violet asked them with a smile.
Silk blinked, shaking a bit to show her answer while Stinger landed on the ground and jabbed a stinger straight up as if doing a fist pump.
“That’s good, we’ll be doing some training tomorrow, there’s a Gym in this city for trainers to prove their strength,” Violet said seeing the two give her looks that she can only assume mean excitement, especially with Stinger’s eyes glowing a bit. “But it’s a rock Gym, so we’ll be at a disadvantage.”
Just like that the two tensed, no doubt having some second thoughts given their typing but Stinger shook it off first slamming his two forearms together with vigor.
It seemed he was ready to attempt it by himself.
Seeing that, Silk narrowed her eyes, not wanting to be outdone.
“According to the Pokedex, Silk will be able to learn moves like Sleep Powder, Stun Spore and Poison Powder which could help immensely if we can get those Rock Types with them.” Violet said closing her eyes in thought while Silk gave Stinger a smug look earning a pissed off look from the Beedrill. “But Stinger won’t have as bad of a weakness as he won’t be part flying, plus Poison Sting is a good combination with String Shot.”
Just like that the two traded looks with Stinger being smug and Silk being pissed.
“I guess we’ll just train up a bit before we challenge the Gym.” Violet decided, feeling tired, wanting to get some sleep. “Be sure to rest up because tomorrow we’ll be training like crazy.”
With that said, she went towards the bed, not bothering to return her two Pokemon, thinking they would like to sleep outside before pausing.
“Hang on let’s get you guys some food first.” She muttered sheepishly, almost forgetting that they haven’t eaten dinner yet.
Hearing that, Stinger gave a slight cheer while Silk just looked at Violet for nearly forgetting that.
“I see.” Professor Oak said on the Video Phone, talking to his Grandson who told him what had happened. “It’s a relief that you and Violet got out alright.”
Green gave a nod, seeing this as confirmation that his grandfather did in fact entrust Violet with a Pokedex.
“I’ll contact the local authorities to look into it, lord knows that Giovanni needs to be more aware of what happens near his city,” Professor Oak muttered finding it odd that the Viridian Gym Leader didn’t know about a Kangaskhan in the forest. “I’m sorry you had to experience something like that.”
“It happened, can’t be helped.” Green said, showing how it didn’t bother him, which worried Prof. Oak before he asked what was bugging him. “Why her?”
“Pardon?” Prof. Oak asked despite having an idea on what Green was asking.
“You could’ve given the Pokedex to just about any trainer out there, why did you give it to a Bug Catcher?” Green asked not even bothering to hide his annoyance.
Instead of answering, Prof. Oak raised a brow. “Are you annoyed because you’re not the only one with a Pokedex anymore?”
“No!” Green denied rather quickly. “I’m annoyed because you should’ve given it to someone more competent.”
If there was going to be another Pokedex Holder then he wanted one to keep him on his toes.
One to be his rival.
Not someone who raised something like bugs.
He’s already dealt with enough Bug Catchers in the damn forest. It was enough to make him sick of the type all together.
“Competent hm?” Prof. Oak cupped his chin, eyeing Green with a look of disapproval that frankly pissed him off.
“What?” Green asked, tired of the look.
“If she wasn’t competent would she have kept up with you against the Kangaskhan?” Prof. Oak asked, knowing how impatient he was. “Strength isn’t everything for Pokemon, I thought Chuck taught you that.”
Green just turned his head away, not saying anything else.
“Just give her a chance,” Prof. Oak told him, hoping to get through to him. “Who knows? Maybe she’ll be able to keep up with you?”
“Doubt it.” Green said showing how unlikely he thought that was.
Prof. Oak sighed knowing he wouldn’t be of any help, and once more wished that Green’s parents were still around to this day rather than dead from the war.
Perhaps he would’ve been friendlier if they were?
Instead however he dropped it knowing that he couldn’t force Green to do that, he has to do it on his own.
“What is your plan for Brock?” Prof. Oak asked curiously. “The only Pokemon you’re keeping with you are your Eevee, Pidgey and Rattata.”
They didn’t seem to have any moves that would be effective against Brock.
“You’ll see.” Green said knowing that because of Professor Oak sponsoring him the man would get sent a recording of his match.
Besides he’d rather win on his own because if he did tell Oak his plan the man might make comments about other ways to do it. Not out of favoritism, but out of habit as Oak was a highly recognized trainer in his own right.
If he was going to become a trainer on the same level as him, he needed to win his own battles.
Stinger felt a nudge waking him up in confusion, especially when it was Silk doing the nudging.
The confusion turned into annoyance because he knew it wasn’t time to get up yet, mostly because their trainer was always the first one awake compared to them and he was about to give the Metapod a piece of his mind before he realized something.
Silk’s eyes showed concern.
But for what?
The question was answered when he heard whimpers making him quickly fly up with a low buzz to see Violet tossing and turning in her bed a pained expression showing in her sleep.
It didn’t take a genius to figure out she was having a nightmare.
Now his annoyance was a concern that was shared with Silk, probably the first thing they'd agreed on as despite their animosity towards each other they both came to care for their trainer.
The same trainer who gasped and sat up rather quickly, looking pale with terror in her eyes.
“Bzzt?” Beedrill buzzed landing on the bed in concern, not paying attention to Silk who used String Shot on him to get herself up there.
“D-Did I wake you guys?” Violet whispered, her voice hoarse. “S-Sorry.”
Metapod gave a low hum, wiggling towards her, seeing some sweat on her face from the nightmare.
“It’s nothing.” Violet said too quickly, not wanting to talk about it.
Violet didn’t even know she was shaking until Beedrill placed his forearm, the side of it to avoid harming her, on her arm in a calming gesture.
Sniffling a bit, Violet used her other arm to wipe her eyes not wanting to cry in front of her Pokemon.
She made the mistake of looking at her Pokemon, seeing their concern and just like that she was actually crying.
“I-It was about the Kangaskhan.” Violet admitted looking down.
She’s never been in a situation like that before in her life.
One where she nearly died or saw the death of anything. Sure they try to prepare you for it in the school as much as possible, but learning about the dangers and experiencing them are two very different things.
And the adrenaline stayed with her throughout most of the day until that night where it really hit her.
She saw a Pokemon die.
Violet didn’t even realize that she was shaking until she felt Stinger on her shoulder with his forearms around her as if trying to hug her, though his kept the third stinger moved to where it was away from her in the process while Silk wiggled her way until she was in Violet’s lap, pressed up against her stomach.
“T-T-Thank you.” Violet managed to get out, feeling a little better from having her Pokemon with her.
It reminded her that she wasn’t alone anymore.
The next day, Violet was outside near a dirt training field near the Pokemon Center where she could see some trainers with Pokemon like Pidgey, Pikachu, Mankeys and many others.
She did see some evolved Pokemon like a Magneton but they were further down the Training Field giving enough space to 'rookies' with a gated fence separating them, a guard standing there to keep people without the appropriate experience or badges out.
Probably for the best otherwise people would accidentally try to challenge someone way out of their league, but she kept quiet while watching Stinger and Silk sparring with each other.
Though Stinger had the advantage of being stronger and faster, Silk could keep up as she took a page from how Stinger moved when he was a Kakuna and the two were actually pushing each other with Violet hoping it was the push that Silk needed to evolve.
Then the real training would begin.
As they trained however, Violet wasn’t blind when she saw some of the looks other trainers gave her and she could hear their whispers.
“Another bug catcher? I thought they didn’t leave the forest.”
“Is she planning on challenging Brock? Tch she’ll never make it.”
“I give her a few days before she begins training real Pokemon.”
Each time she heard a whisper, Violet felt a surge of anger.
But she pushed it down, wanting to focus more on the training then what they said.
Shaking her head, Violet continued training her Pokemon, wanting to make them as strong as she could before heading to the Gym.
It took four hours for Silk to finally be pushed far enough to evolve as a bright light surged from her along with one of the scratches from Stinger’s Fury Attack cracking open.
Slowly a pair of wings erupted from the shell as the rest of the body came out showing a butterfly-like creature with a purple body, light-blue hands and feet along with circular red eyes.
“Fweh!” Silk cried out in joy as she began to fly around while Stinger crossed his arms, patiently waiting for her to finish so they could continue their training.
Slowly Violet pulled out the Pokedex to check Silk’s information out, making sure to turn off the voice system.
She didn’t need any other trainers seeing what this was. Not until she had enough strong Pokemon to be able to keep it safe effectively.
“ Pokemon Registered. Butterfree the Butterfly Pokemon. Butterfree has learned Confusion. Ability has changed. ”
‘ Pokemon #12
Species: Butterfree
Gender: Female
Current Level: 10
Height: 3’07
Weight: 70.5 lbs.
Ability: Compound Eyes-Raises the accuracy of moves and allows for this Pokemon to see through illusions and the dark.
Nature: Bold
Characteristic: Thoroughly Cunning.
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden and Confusion.
Information: Its wings are covered in a poisonous powder that repels water allowing for this Pokemon to fly in the rain. In battle it flaps its wings at a high speed to unleash the powder into the air to disable enemies.
Needed for Evolution: Fully Evolved
Registration Complete. ’
Smiling widely at that, Violet put the Pokedex up and called out. “Great job Silk! Think you can keep going?”
In response, Silk gave a nod while Stinger gave an excited cry.
A few days, Violet stood outside of the stone-like building known as the Pewter Gym, a hesitant look on her face.
She was trying to psych herself up for the upcoming battle knowing it would show if she was capable of trying to reach her dream.
Her team has trained hard for this day and she couldn’t afford to let them down. Not after the support they’ve given her. Their levels were pretty high in her opinion with Stinger being 16 while Silk was around 14, thinking that would be enough for the moment. Especially since they both learned some new moves that would be a big help in this Gym.
So she opened the door and entered only to see a fifteen year old teenager with spiky black hair wearing a red vest over a black shirt with white sleeves and jeans, with two Pokeballs in a healing machine he kept outside of the Arena Room.
The man paused and turned his eyes slanted a bit. “Another challenger?” He sounded surprised considering he just finished up with one.
Seeing that his Pokemon weren’t done healing, Violet shuffled in place. “If you want, I can come back later.” She offered a bit unsure.
“It’ll just take a minute,” Brock the Pewter City Gym Leader reassured her, his eyes going over Violet’s appearance. “What’s your name and how long have you been a trainer?”
“Violet Hawke and Twelve Days.”
Brock grunted. “So this is your first Gym Battle, are you sure you’re ready?” He asked.
Not wanting to hesitate she spoke up. “I won’t know if I don’t try.”
On hearing that Brock gave a wry smirk. “No I suppose you won’t.” He agreed seeing that while Violet wasn’t being cocky like a lot of the new trainers he fought she wasn’t shying away from the challenge either.
The machine beeped to show that his Pokemon were healed with Brock grabbing them before leading Violet into the arena which was a large rocky field with the ceiling being pretty high to accommodate Brock’s Onix and Violet could see sprinklers on there.
“Isn’t that a bad thing to have in a rock gym?” Violet asked, eliciting for the Gym Leader to follow her gaze, seeing what she meant.
“Yes and no.” Brock answered, earning a confused look from Violet.
But the Gym Leader didn’t elaborate, so Violet shrugged before they stood on opposite sides of the field.
“This will be a Two-on-Two match and only you can switch out your Pokemon,” Brock said in a loud tone, his voice echoing around the room. “It will end when both Pokemon of either side are unable to battle but forfeiting is allowed. Do you understand?”
“I do.” Violet said priming a Pokeball, Brock mirroring her action.
“Very well, show me if your determination can break through my rock types defense.” Brock declared as they both threw out a Pokemon. “Geodude go!”
“Let’s do this, Stinger!”
Stinger gave a low buzz, readying his forearms while Brock’s Geodude came out showing itself to be a floating rock with eyes, smashing his fists together.
“A beedrill?” Brock asked, looking from the Pokemon to Violet, now seeing what type of trainer she was while she held the Pokedex to scan his Geodude. “You’re not the first Bug Catcher I’ve fought, show me what makes you different.”
Violet was surprised that Brock didn’t let out a scathing remark, being ready for one.
But she quickly got over it. “Stinger, start off with Harden.” She ordered with her Pokemon quickly increasing his defense.
After all rock Pokemon were known for their high attack power along with their superior defense while Bugs were… not that defensive so she needed to start off strong.
“Defense Curl.” Brock crossed his arms. “Then Tackle.”
“Geo!” Geodude shot up towards the Beedrill who flew out of the way.
‘ Okay Geodude is only practice and it knows two moves. ’ Violet thought with Stinger dodging another tackle. ‘ The Guide said that Brock uses it to gauge his opponents before he sends out the main threat. ’
That’s why she had to set up for the real fight.
“Rapid Fire String Shot!” Violet ordered with Stinger nodding as it fired silk thread after silk thread that the Geodude kept dodging while Brock frowned, a little disappointed.
Was she really hoping to end this by wrapping Geodude up?
He was hoping that she would be different from some of the other Bug Catchers he’s fought, though at least she came in with evolved Pokemon. He still remembers when a kid came in with a Caterpie at one point in his Gym Career.
“Focus Energy and follow up with Poison Sting.” Violet whispered with Beedrill giving a nod showing that he heard now glowing white, using the new move that he learned during training.
Brock’s face shifted to surprise when he recognized the move right as Stinger unleashed a massive Poison Sting, scoring a critical hit on the Geodude.
Even if it didn’t do too much damage, the purple hue that the Geodude took showed that he was Poisoned.
“Focus Energy again but this time use Fury Attack!” Violet shouted the order this time while Geodude was in pain.
“Push through the poison and tackle!” Brock seemed to get a little more serious.
“Geo!” Geodude grimaced in the process before he managed to nail Stinger who was still glowing from the Focus Energy, taking a quarter of his health down before Stinger began to use Fury Attack with renewed aggression.
“Bzzt!” Stinger snarled landing at least three, two of them crits with Geodude now in the red if how heavy his breathing was any indication.
But it was enough for the poison to surge through him once more, taking him out as he fell to the ground only for Brock to recall him before he could hit it.
“Not bad but Geodude was just the beginning, let’s see how you handle a real challenge,” Brock said switching Pokeballs. “Onix go!”
Violet absently took a step back as the large snake-like Pokemon composed entirely of rocks appeared on the field, giving a roar that shook the building itself, a look of fear crossing her face.
The scary part was that Violet knew it was still growing due to her studies before she frowned and forced herself to focus.
Brock took notice of that and smirked seeing the determination that she was showing.
Many weak willed Trainers who faced him always buckled under the pressure when his Onix came out, but seeing those who don’t fall to it always made it worthwhile.
“Groh!” The Onix cried out with Brock gaining a surprised look, wondering what was going on.
The surprised look came to realization when he finally saw the leftover string shot that hit the ground from the battle with Geodude practically surrounded Onix, covering his lower half and just like that it clicked.
She wasn’t trying to hit Geodude, she was just preparing for the real battle.
Just like that the smirk became a full blown grin. “Very clever, it seems that I underestimated you.” He said with Violet looking a bit shy from the praise. “But it’ll take more than a couple of string shots to keep us down.”
After all, he wouldn’t be fit to be a gym leader if it did.
“Stinger, fire a barrage of Poison Sting!” Violet ordered knowing that due to his size and being slowed down by the trap she set, the Onix wouldn’t be able to dodge.
The chances of him being poisoned were very high.
As Stinger went to do so, Brock just smirked. “Screech!”
Rearing back his head, ignoring the barbs that hit it, Onix roared, the wind pressure of the sound waves blasting Stinger out of the sky into his own trap as the String Shot covered his wings.
“Wha?!” Violet asked, not expecting that while Stinger was trying to free himself.
She didn’t even know Screech could be used like that.
“Now Bind!”
“Stinger get out of there!”
Despite Violet’s desperate order, Stinger was unable to free himself before the Onix could wrap his body around him, squeezing tightly to avoid him escaping.
“Onix won’t be letting your Beedrill go anytime soon,” Brock told Violet who had a worried expression. “I suggest you forfeit him for his own safety.”
“String Shot his face!” Violet exclaimed, surprising Brock.
Eyes glowing in anger, Stinger listened as the Onix roared from being blinded in one eye, his head moving to where it slammed into the nearby wall disorientating him to where he was forced to let go of Stinger.
Unfortunately Stinger was unable to fly due to his wings being coated in string which allowed for Brock to call out a Tackle with the Onix slamming its tail right into the Bug Pokemon sending him crashing into the ground where he laid unconscious.
“You’re a tricky one.” Brock commented watching Violet return the Beedrill while Onix glared with his one eye still unblinded, panting showing that despite winning she wore his Onix down a bit.
It’s been awhile since he had a trainer be this tricky for their first gym badge, some of them don’t even do things like this until the third badge.
Taking that as a compliment, Violet smiled and sent Silk out with Brock tensing, knowing the moves that Butterfree can learn.
“Confusion!” Violet ordered with the Butterfree crying out when purple energy covered some of the rocks on the battlefield, sending them into the Onix making him cry out as his health was in the orange now.
Brock called out a Tackle that Silk flew over to dodge, but he kept attempting it, not giving the Butterfree a chance to use another Confusion.
Something that made Violet very nervous given how strong Onix was.
It could take one hit to take Silk down, especially since she hasn’t used Harden on her.
‘ Come on thing, there has to be a way to win. ’ Violet scanned the battlefield before her eyes landed on the sprinkler system. ‘ Wait. ’
‘ Isn’t that a bad thing to have in a rock gym? ’
‘ Yes and no. ’
‘ Of course. ’ Violet’s eyes gleamed as she realized what it was for.
“Fly high and use Stun Spore!”
“Counter with Screech.” Brock went to turn it around on her but Violet’s smirk confused him, even when the Stun Spore rebounded to the Butterfree, paralyzing her while she slammed into the roof.
It became clear however when the screech tore through the piping behind the Butterfree unleashing a downpour of water as the Onix roared in pain while the stun spore washed off of Butterfree making her capable of movement again despite the injured state.
“Now use Confusion on the water!” Violet ordered, ignoring how the cold from wearing wet clothes with Butterfree going into overdrive using the psychic attack to control the water making it slam into the Onix, the force being enough to make him slam into the wall once more before collapsing on the floor.
Brock stared in surprise at his unconscious Onix, his hair starting to flatten from the water before he grinned and let out a laugh.
Not many people catch his hint on using the water to their advantage, it was in place specifically for new trainers to take advantage of, though it wouldn’t work on his teams that were above two badges given how they were trained specifically to resist that.
What’s more, she forced him to hit it rather than try to use Confusion on it showing she was able to keep calm in a battle when the situation demands it. If this was her first Gym Battle, he wonders how far she can go with enough experience.
“I took you for granted and I lost,” Brock said, returning Onix before pulling out a remote to press, making the makeshift rain stop by shutting down the water supply to the arena. “Here, take this as proof.”
With that said and done he approached Violet as she returned Silk, taking out a small, grey boulder shaped badge with the young girl slowly taking it, still processing the fact that she managed to win.
She got the first badge.
“The Boulder Badge is an official Pokemon League Badge, not only is it proof that you’ve defeated me but it can also boost the attack of your Pokemon,” Brock commented with Violet looking wide-eyed at that piece of info, the reaction making him grin. “It’s another incentive to keep collecting them besides the obvious, only four of them can boost a certain attribute.”
“A-Amazing.” Violet whispered looking down at it.
This can boost her Pokemons power? How does that work? Did it work like one of those training items like the Power Bracers?
“And challengers who defeated a Gym Leader also get a free TM,” Brock continued reaching into his bag to pull out a grey colored disc. “This is TM34 for the move Bide, it’s a move that absorbs damage to deal double back.”
After handing Violet the TM, Brock crossed his arms to give her a critical look.
“I’ll be keeping an eye out for you at the Indigo Tournament, but first a warning,” Brock said, his serious tone making Violet pay attention. “It’s only going to get tougher from here on out, I’ve lost to some Bug Catchers before and a lot of them give up before even reaching the second Gym, to raise other Pokemon. I’m curious to see if you’ll do the same or if you’ll keep going with this.”
Despite feeling insulted, Violet didn’t say anything knowing that Brock had a point.
It was only the first badge and if Brock did use a Pokemon with a rock type move chances were that she would’ve been destroyed in this battle.
She can’t let this one win go to her head.
“I want to battle you when I get all the badges.” Violet said surprising Brock. “With a full Bug Team.”
Slowly Brock smiled actually looking forward to it, especially if she can keep her determination burning strong. “I’ll be waiting, I suggest heading east through Mt. Moon to challenge the Cerulean Gym.”
With that said he held out his hand with Violet slowly accepting the handshake. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 16
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack and Focus Energy.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 15
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore and Sleep Powder.
Notes:
Heh this actually took awhile, sorry for the wait. A lot's happened like having to put a dog down, that had me sad for a bit because that dog's been around for half of my life. Besides that I've been way too busy with work since I've been working nights for six days a week, but I also recently got a raise so it balances out.
Anyways up on this chapter Violet managed to both evolve her Metapod and gain her first Gym Badge, but the gym battle itself was lackluster I'll admit as I used Brock's Red/Blue/Green/Yellow Team from the original games along with his game personality. But it's also the team he uses for those who have no Gym Badges, his actual team which will be shown later on makes the one in this chapter look like a joke.
Plus we have a bit more about Green and then Violet having some negative repercussions from the whole Kangaskhan thing because honestly that would mess about anyone up if you think about it.
A bit more on the whole bug stigma because when you reach Pewter you see so few Bug Catchers after that point in the game compared to the Forest. Though I don't know if I'm doing it a bit too much or not to be honest.
Okay I'll have to leave it off here because I need to get ready for work, I'll try to have the next chapter out sooner but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get it out before Thanksgiving because with work that will be the busiest time of the year for me-or so I'm told not sure yet.
Chapter Text
Violet hummed to herself as she was using a cloth to clean the Boulder Badge, a look of glee on her face.
It was still surreal even a few hours after the match.
She won her very first Gym Battle and this was proof of it.
Now she just needs to get the other seven and she’ll be all set for the League.
Both Stinger and Silk were currently asleep in their Pokeballs after eating, wanting to sleep inside there for the night, so she was currently by herself.
Giving the badge another wipe with it gleaming, Violet opened the badge case she was given from Nurse Joy upon receiving the badge and placed it in there.
“Alright, next up is the water gym and I’ll definitely have a Paras by the time I get there.” Violet quietly mused while reopening the Trainer Guide to see that it showed the Pokemon that Misty used after a trainer had one badge.
This would be the last time she could do this as after two badges it leaves the rest for a surprise to allow for rookie trainers to plan with unknown factors. But for now she was taking advantage of this.
If a trainer had one badge then Misty uses a Staryu and Starmie, but given how that last one was part psychic, Violet knew that she couldn’t use Stinger if she wanted to avoid being at a disadvantage like she was for Brock.
“So next battle I’ll use Silk and the Paras I’ll catch and the third Gym will be the Electric one so I’ll avoid using Silk and use Stinger and the Paras… By the time I’m at the fourth Gym I should be able to catch a Venonat.”
Once she has four she’ll try to come up with a plan for the next four.
… Then again she should probably just focus on getting the second one before she plans too far ahead.
Leaning back, Violet glanced towards the computer that was in the room with a phone attached to it and blinked in thought.
Maybe she could call Professor Oak? It was still early and she wanted to show that she was doing well with what he asked her to do. Sure she hasn’t captured any Pokemon but the two she has, but she has scanned just about every Pokemon she came across.
“What’s his number?” Violet mused just now realizing she didn’t even know before she gained an idea and checked her Pokedex.
Thankfully she was right in guessing that his number was in there.
So she typed it into the Computer and waited with the phone to her ear as it rang before the Professor picked up.
“Yes hello-?” Prof. Oak began only to give a smile. “Ah Violet, it’s been awhile. How are you?”
“I’m doing great Professor.” Violet said with a smile. “I managed to beat the first Gym.”
“Did you now?” Prof. Oak asked, cupping his chin with a glint of amusement in his eyes. “I suppose congratulations are in order, your Weedle has become quite a fine Beedrill and you’ve certainly showed off your Butterfree’s strengths.”
Violet’s smile got wider before she blinked in confusion. “Wait, how do you know about that? This is the first time I’ve called since you gave me the Pokedex.”
“Remember? Any data your Pokedex gains is sent to me for analysis and as your sponsor for being a trainer I’m given access to footage of your Gym Battles.” Prof. Oak answered like it wasn’t a big deal while Violet’s eyes widened.
She didn’t know about that last one.
“First Badge or no, defeating Brock isn’t an easy feat, I knew I made the right choice in giving you the Pokedex.” Prof. Oak told her with Violet looking down shyly.
“T-Thanks.”
It was a little embarrassing to be complimented like that. Sure she took the one from Brock easily, but the adrenaline of the battle kept her from overthinking it.
As she did that, Prof. Oak’s smile slowly dropped as he adopted a concerned expression. “But enough on that, how are you faring after the Forest?” He asked making her tense up. “Green told me about what happened.”
Right, she forgot that Green was his grandson, of course he would know.
Unsure of what to say at first, Violet sighed. “I don’t know,” She said softly, her head down while her hat hid her eyes, the memories of that day going through her head once more. “I’m trying not to focus on it, but it’s hard.”
Prof. Oak gave an understanding nod. “I would’ve been worried if it wasn’t, I’m sorry you had to go through that, especially so early in your journey,” His eyes softened a bit when Violet finally looked up. “Here’s some advice, don’t push something like this down, it might be hard to think about it but ignoring it won’t help.”
Violet nodded to show she understood. “I’ll keep that in mind, thank you.”
“That’s all I ask,” Prof. Oak looked relieved as while he was still having problems trying to get his grandson to understand that, at least Violet wasn’t doing the same. “Now if I might make a suggestion, how long do you plan to stay in Pewter?”
Violet blinked, not expecting that question. “I planned to leave tomorrow, why?”
“While you might want to continue your journey I would advise you to explore the city you’re in,” Prof. Oak smiled, no doubt recalling some memories from his journey. “Your journey isn’t just about reaching your dream, it’s about the memories you make along the way and one of the best memories is seeing different places, not just making it to the next place.”
After all, memories are what make the journey in his opinion and this way if she does explore the city more, she’ll have more good ones to counter the bad ones like the Kangaskhan.
Thinking that over, Violet smiled actually liking the idea.
In fact wasn’t the Pewter Museum an important part of the city? Perhaps she could visit there?
The next day, Violet held a look of awe while in the museum after paying the fee of fifty Pokedollars for a child ticket to get in, passing by a bone structure of an Aerodactyl, one of the Fossil Pokemon that were extinct.
Just seeing the teeth on that thing made her shiver.
‘ It’s dead you won’t see one in real life. ’ Violet reminded herself, though the bones were enough for the Pokedex to scan it.
It’s too bad that Stinger and Silk couldn’t stay out to see this with her, the Museum had a rule about Pokemon being in their Pokeballs and they were even more adamant with Stinger, most people were scared of Beedrills though given how a swarm of them chase people it was kind of justified.
Putting the Pokedex up, Violet readjusted her hat when she walked towards a case showing various stones.
They were Evolution Stones that were used and no longer worked, but they were donated to allow for others to see them. At least no one would try and steal worn out evolution stones which was what made them perfect for the Museum.
They were pretty cool to see, though Violet knew that they were expensive.
Not like she would need them as no bug Pokemon evolve from stones as far as she knew.
Taking the sight of them in, Violet walked away, passing by an exhibit detailing how Pokemon like Clefairy’s were from the moon along with the Moon Stones that they evolve with.
Instead she looked at the various fossils of Pokemon like Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto and Kabutops.
“Too bad there aren’t any bug Pokemon Fossils.” Violet whispered in disappointment, though she quickly forgot that as she saw an exhibit on the Space Shuttle where people managed to land on the moon. “Whoa.”
“It’s an amazing thing isn’t it?” A voice asked with Violet giving a nod. “It just shows how far people can go given enough time.”
“Can you imagine being up there, looking down on the planet?” Violet asked turning to the person she was speaking to, seeing a young woman with red hair currently pulled into a ponytail and glasses over amber eyes, wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a blue jacket over it, a purple pencil skirt and black high heels.
The woman smiled at her. “Makes one wonder doesn’t it?”
Violet gave a nod before blinking as this woman looked a bit familiar. “Um do I know you?” She asked tilting her head in confusion.
If anything the question made the woman smile in amusement. “Doubt it, but you can call me Kanna,” She said to her. “It’s nice to see a child taking time to learn more about the world, I take it you’re a trainer?”
“Y-Yeah, Prof. Oak suggested that I take time to explore the cities.” Violet said without thinking with the name drop catching Kanna’s attention, making the woman cup her chin in thought.
“Prof. Oak? Quite the connection you have.”
Violet tensed and stammered out a bit red. “N-No, I just met him and he-er gave me advice.”
It seemed that her nervousness was enough for Kanna to laugh. “Take it easy, I was just teasing.”
Violet looked down at that, a little embarrassed.
It was almost enough for Kanna to tease her a bit further, not in a mean way, but it was nice to actually talk to someone who didn’t know who she was and none of her colleagues were fun to tease. Though as rare as it was all it took was one person to recognize her.
“So I take it you’re doing the Gym Challenge?” Kanna asked curiously given how that was the goal a lot of trainers attempted.
Hearing that question, Violet gave a short nod, still not looking up. “Y-Yes, I managed to get my first badge yesterday.”
“Oh?” Kanna looked rather amused at that remembering how proud a lot of trainers can be after getting their first badge. “Good for you.”
Violet will admit she had no idea if Kanna was being genuine or sarcastic.
It was kind of hard to tell with people.
“T-Thanks.” She said assuming it was the former, giving a small smile. “I still have a lot to learn.”
“Don’t we all?” Kanna looked back at some of the exhibits, mostly the fossil ones in thought. “Well it was nice meeting you, but I need to get going soon.”
“O-Okay, have a good day Miss Kanna.” Violet said while the woman walked away.
Kanna made it outside when her pokegear rang leaving for her to pick it up, already knowing who it was from the Ringtone. “Yes Lance, what is it?”
“Just checking to see if anyone made a move for those Fossils Lorelei.” A sharp tone of a young man answered back. “We’ve already had a few attempts at the resurrection labs.”
“No one’s attempted to go for them, I’ll keep a watch on them for the rest of the week before Agitha takes watch, any word from Bruno?” Lorelei leaned against the wall when she spoke, watching some of the civilians of Pewter pass by, none of them glancing her way showing how despite her status she wasn’t as recognized as the other members of the Elite Four.
Probably the reason that Lance had her keep watch as even after a few years they were still trying to rebuild the Kanto League to what it was before the war.
“He’s currently training near Rock Tunnel and isn’t answering my calls.” Lorelei swore she heard exasperation in Lance’s tone. “If I didn’t know him I would say he’s ignoring me.”
That brought a smile to Lorelei’s face. “You know how he gets, especially when the Indigo League starts up.”
After all, the winner of the League has the honor of challenging the Elite Four, not only that but they do have exhibition matches where the Gym Leaders compete against each other along with the Elite Four holding their own matches.
Most of it is to help keep their skills sharp and to show the world the true teams of the Gyms rather than the one that they use regularly for the Gym Battles. It’s also so any of the Elite Four can try and take Lance’s Championship status despite how the Dragon Master has kept it for a good decade already.
“Yes, but you know that the tournament this year has a lot more to it.” Lance brought up with Lorelei giving a bit of a sad smile.
“You mean with Agitha’s retirement?” Lorelei asked remembering the elderly trainer who has been a part of the Elite Four for decades, long before her, Lance or Bruno.
“Not only would this be a standard tournament but it’s also to find a suitable replacement for Agitha.” Lance reminded her. “The League Association has sent in some recommendations of various Ace Trainers who have been making strides, though two have caught my attention.”
“Two?” Lorelei asked with a quirked brow. “Shouldn’t it be one?”
Lance said nothing to that before Lorelei heard hushed voices on his end before the man spoke. “I need to get going, apparently there have been Rocket sightings near Saffron.”
Hearing that made Lorelei’s warm eyes grow cold. “Make sure to burn a few of them for me.” She said with no hint of remorse in her tone.
Team Rocket was quite a sore subject for any member of the Elite Four with their existence being a failure on their part. Especially with how long they’ve been trying to stomp them out.
Violet eventually made her way sort of Cafe later in the day as she sat outside sipping on some lemonade with a sweet taste, her hat currently on the table.
Today was a lot of fun in her opinion.
Sure it wasn’t the same as travelling through the Forest where she had her Pokemon out, but it was the first city that she explored that wasn’t Viridian and the Museum was quite the learning experience.
She did plan to do some last minute shopping with restocking her supplies after this last stop and then leave for Mt. Moon tomorrow morning.
As she imagined the journey through Mt. Moon, a voice spoke up behind her.
“Well you’re certainly taking it easy, aren’t you Violet?”
Eyes widening, Violet turned to see Green who looked like he was passing by.
“Tch to think Gramps wasted his time to give you a Pokedex, I’m almost embarrassed to have you as a Rival on this journey.” Green scoffed.
A familiar surge of anger shot through Violet as she stood up pretty quickly. “What was that?” She asked in a low voice.
A few weeks ago she would’ve taken that without a fight, but after winning the Boulder Badge she was rather proud of her team's strength right now. Enough to not want to take anymore insults to them.
… Wait?
“Almost?” Violet echoed with Green giving her a dull look.
“Yeah, Gramps said you managed to luck your way through the first Gym, I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting that,” Green allowed a small smirk at seeing her annoyance. “Oh, do you wish to fight?”
In answer to that, Violet pulled out Stinger’s Pokeball while Green reached for his Eevee’s, only for another voice to cut in.
“If you’re going to battle, take it outside!” The owner of the Cafe shouted not wanting any of that around his business.
Violet looked rather sheepish at that while Green huffed and turned to walk away before stopping.
“Nugget Bridge.”
“What?”
“I said Nugget Bridge, it’s in Cerulean City,” Green repeated himself, glancing back actually enjoying Violet’s confused face. “I’ll be there next week. If you show up we’ll battle there.”
With that said, he walked off with Violet glaring daggers at his back.
“If? I’ll definitely be there!” She shouted after him only to frown as Green waved it off. “Tch.”
She sat back down now finding the sweet lemonade to taste bitter.
Green reminded her too much of Lucy who Violet was pretty positive she could beat with her team right now.
So she didn’t want to take any more insults.
“Let’s see I’ll need some more potions, the Antidotes are stocked up pretty well and I’m only aiming to catch one Pokemon so I’m good on Pokeballs,” Violet mused at the Pokemart, carrying a hand basket that had potions and berries along with some regular ingredients to make herself some food. “Though it’ll be my first time in a Mountain so I need to prepare, should I get a flashlight?”
Then there were the Repels considering the rumors she’s heard of the various Zubats that ambush trainers at almost every step.
As Zubat wasn’t a Bug Type she wasn’t going to try and catch it, but she could train Silk up against them considering their poison typing would leave them vulnerable to her Confusion attack?
And once she has a Paras she could train that Pokemon up against the rock types of the cave due to it being grass along with bug to get it caught up with the rest of her team.
Stinger won’t be any good against some of them sadly enough. She could use the Bide TM she got from Brock to give him another move, though she should probably save it in case she actually needed it for another Pokemon. After all TM’s were good for one use before they broke so she had to be sure of which Pokemon learned what TM’s whenever she gets more.
She should stock up on more water in case she ever gets lost.
“I recommend a compass if you don’t already have one.” An amused voice broke Violet out of her rambling.
“Huh?” She turned in surprise only to see Brock who looked like he was doing some shopping of his own, carrying two different types of hand baskets packed to the rim with items. “Brock?”
Brock gave a nod considering his hands were full, quirking a brow a bit. “You are preparing for Mt. Moon, right?” He asked with Violet giving a nod. “Then a Compass is a must have if you want to avoid getting lost.”
On hearing that Violet felt like an idiot for forgetting something so obvious.
“T-Thanks.” Violet muttered in a low tone.
“It’s not a problem, I’m preparing to head there myself soon.” Brock revealed surprising Violet.
“You are?”
“It’s where I train my team up.” Brock revealed, though he kept the part about him excavating fossils that are found there to donate to the museum.
While Violet seemed like a decent trainer he figured she didn’t need to know that part.
Violet tilted her head before nodding given how that made sense.
Geodudes were found there along with the occasional Onix, the latter are too strong for any rookie trainers to deal with, so perhaps Brock goes there every once in awhile to ensure they’re taken care of?
“Hey do you-,” Violet began before pausing and sighing. “Never mind.”
“Hm?” Brock gave her a curious look as she began to search the shelves for a compass. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, I was going to ask if you knew where Paras were regularly found but to be honest I think I’d rather try to find one on my own.” She revealed given how it was her journey.
Prof. Oak already helped her out a lot, she wanted to improve on her own terms.
“I won’t tell you where, but they love to burrow into the ground, so if you find any dirt that’s freshly moved chances are it’s a Paras or a Sandshrew.” Brock revealed, respecting her decision in wanting to find them but leaving a hint of how to locate where they would be.
Hearing that made Violet give a smile in appreciation.
“Hello? May I help you two with something?” A female clerk came up with a kind smile.
Violet went to politely refuse, only to blink as Brock was suddenly down to one knee with the clerk’s hand in his own, his two baskets off to the side while the Clerk smiled rather awkwardly.
“You sure can, I’ve been lost and you’ve showed the way with your bright smile.” Brock flirted while Violet stared both awkwardly and in surprise.
This was a side of Brock she didn’t think she would see.
“Thanks Brock but I think you can find your own way.” The clerk said showing how often this happened.
A flash of light erupted from Brock’s belt with a rather large, bipedal stone-like creature with sharp red eyes and two fangs showing in the upper jaw, its stone-like tail uncurling while the Pokemon rolled its eyes in annoyance and grabbed Brock by the back of his shirt lifting the love struck Gym Leader up to leave.
“Uh.” Violet had no words while a Geodude popped out of another one of Brock’s pokeballs to grab the baskets the Rhydon left behind.
“Don’t worry, Brock does that every time he comes here.” The clerk said with a good-natured smile. “In fact he does that to every girl he meets, it’s how he is and his Pokemon do a good job of keeping him in line.”
Taking that in, Violet tilted her head. “Wait, he didn’t do that with me.”
Not that she was complaining but if he did that to every girl why not her? Should she feel insulted or not?
The Clerk gave a giggle at her confused expression. “He doesn’t do it to anyone younger than him, he’s a romanticist not a pedophile.”
“I see,” Violet really didn’t, but figured it was probably not important. “Hey where are the Compasses?”
“Alright I think that’s everything.” Violet said happily back in the room she rented out in the Pokemon Center, this being the last night she was using it.
She had everything packed up, the sandwiches and trail mix wrapped up. The food for her Pokemon all canned to avoid it going bad, though she bought some berries that were in a bag to keep them fresh until she needed them. Her water was filled back up with extras in her bag and she had enough advice to get through Mt. Moon.
No more putting it off.
Besides it shouldn’t be that difficult, plenty of trainers go through Mt. Moon with relative ease, so she’ll be fine.
Giving a yawn, Violet wondered how long it would take for her to get through Mt. Moon, it shouldn’t be as long as the Forest so she could deal with that. The only thing she’s not really looking forward to is the fact that unlike the forest the ground would be pretty hard to sleep on inside of the Mountain.
“I’m going to miss this bed.” Violet muttered glancing at the bed, already imagining the pain her back would be in after getting through there.
But that was one of the prices of being on a journey and she wasn’t going to let that stop her.
To Be Continued...
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 16
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack and Focus Energy.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 15
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore and Sleep Powder.
Notes:
Man this has to be my shortest chapter yet with this story, not much going on but enough to make it interesting. I didn't just want to run the character into Mt. Moon immediately after the first gym and I wanted to expand a bit on Pewter City and do a bit more world-building in this chapter.
After all, who was expecting for Lorelei to make an appearance this early? Most people go for Lance to be the first Elite Four member a character runs into, but I think with the setting, Lorelei would've been great. Plus unlike the others she's not as well known as proven in the Pokemon Let's Go games where Team Rocket of all people didn't even know who she was when she appeared. Plus this way I can give them some time to shine instead of having them be the Elite Four at all times. Plus it'll be fun to type Violet's reaction when she realizes who 'Kanna' is and for Lorelei's reaction when Violet makes a bit of a name for herself.
Next up, we have more on Brock with me adding his infamous flirting personality as I always loved that part of him in the Anime, it was hilarious, especially when his Pokemon started to keep him in check in place of Misty and Max. It also showed one of his Pokemon from his actual team being Rhydon which is a pretty powerful Pokemon for a Rock Gym Leader to have. Plus it gives him more depth like when in the game you learn that he excavates fossils at Mt. Moon.
Then we have some more interaction between Green and Violet with the two still not getting along, though with Violet having a Gym Badge she's starting to prove she's not that bad of a trainer and it's enough to test Green's curiosity in a battle, though he wants to wait until the Nugget Bridge as it would give both trainers enough time to train up a bit more. Whoever wins is up in the air though.
Finally we have Prof. Oak giving Violet some advice like he tried with Green. Because honestly I think anyone would given the incident that happened in the Forest and he wanted to make sure she was handling it okay.
Alright I better get off so I can get this posted. Happy late Thanksgiving to everyone!
Chapter Text
“Silk use Confusion!” Violet had a grin on her face two days into the journey towards Mt. Moon on her fifth battle on Route 03, fighting a Mankey.
“Dodge and use Fury Swipes!” The young trainer tried with the Pig Monkey but Silk easily dodged it and delivered the pretty effective attack. “Back off and use Focus Energy.”
“Lock it in place with String Shot and finish this with another Confusion!”
Mankey barely landed on his feet after jumping back when the string blinded him right before Silk had the psychic energy slam into him, sending him skidding across the ground unconscious.
The young trainer groaned as Violet barely refrained from cheering, not wanting to rub the win in this guy’s face, but that didn’t stop Silk from perching herself on Violet’s hat with a smug look.
Mankey’s trainer at least had the decency to accept the loss which Violet was glad about considering she was accused of cheating somehow by a sore loser earlier that day.
So she continued on her way towards Mount Moon, seeing the massive mountain coming closer and closer while she showed both anticipation and some slight apprehension at the rather imposing sight of her destination.
No matter how much she planned or got ready for this place, she was still apprehensive about going in there, but Violet wasn’t going to let that stop her.
As long as she was smart with her trail markers she will be able to get through the Mountain. She figured she could use Silk’s ability to make her way through the place as the Pokedex did say that Compound Eyes allowed for her to see in the dark.
Plus with her powder attacks it should be a cinch to get through there.
The average trainer takes half a day to get past the Mountain with the other half to get to Cerulean.
Just enough to get there and rest up before she meets Green at Nugget Bridge for their battle.
“Fweh.” Silk’s voice from on her hat made Violet chuckle.
“You can say that again.” She said despite not understanding what she said. “I plan to keep you out in case any Zubats attack, think you can handle it?”
Silk gave a low cry of eagerness showing she wouldn’t let any of those bat Pokemon get too close to her trainer. Her eagerness also came from how Violet was depending on her for that rather than Stinger, which boosted her ego a little.
Violet smiled with them passing the nearby Pokemon Center that was next to the entrance of Mt. Moon not bothering to go in as they wanted to get through Mt. Moon as quickly as possible.
Twelve hours have passed since Violet entered the cave with little to no encounters with any Pokemon except for Zubat’s happening which Silk took care of pretty easily along with the Geodudes, though she hasn’t found a single Paras.
Even the trainers she did find in the caves were no match for her team, such as a fellow Bug Catcher she found in the beginning along with a girl who had a Clefairy much to her surprise and another trainer who had a Voltorb and Magnemite, which was a very bad match up against her team especially with them knowing electric attacks which could easily take Silk down and cripple Stinger with a paralysis if he got hit.
She still won and her income that she spent for supplies to get through this Mountain was slowly building back up with interest. Not only that, but she did find some good stuff that people have dropped in the cave like a few Potions, an extra Escape Rope and even a TM which confused her because no one in their right mind would drop one.
Too bad it was for Water Gun, she can’t really teach it to any Bug Pokemon, but it could help her get some money back as selling a TM would get her a lot.
So all in all, Violet was satisfied with this cave so far even if it was taking forever.
But something was wrong, the deeper she walked into the mountain the more the presence of wild Pokemon and trainers dwindling with each step which made her think that perhaps something like with what happened with the Kangaskhan and she primed Stinger’s Pokeball in case she needed to let him out.
“See anything Silk?” Violet whispered as the Butterfree was flying around, but she shook her head at the question leaving for the young girl to feel some relief.
Finding a ladder, Violet followed it down out of curiosity given how the guide to Mt. Moon didn’t say anything about ladders before she found herself in a room with a ton of fresh dirt everywhere.
Eyes widening, Violet remembered Brock’s advice and glanced around the room hoping this was the right area.
“Silk can you sense any Pokemon around?” Violet tried with Silk hovering in the air before her eyes began to glow blue right as she pulled the nearest Pokemon right out of its hiding place in the dirt.
It was an orange cicada like Pokemon with three pairs of legs, the front two being rather large, almost like pincers while two red capped mushrooms with yellow spots were on its back.
“Ras?!” The wild Paras struggled against the Psychic energy while Violet now had stars in her eyes.
“Oh man an actual Paras!” Violet exclaimed moving to look all around the trapped bug. “Its front legs are sharp, and the tochukaso mushrooms look pretty fresh, which means this one is very young.”
“Par?” Paras gave Violet a weird look as it kept struggling while Silk shook her head in a fond manner.
Violet kept up with her inspection before pulling a Pokeball out with a rather sheepish grin. “I should probably just catch you before Silk gets tired.”
With that done, she gently tossed the Pokeball, easily catching the Paras who didn’t put up much of a fight due to how the Confusion was making it rather dizzy.
“Alright welcome to the team.” Violet cheered at having her third Pokemon.
She was halfway done putting together her team.
Taking out the Pokedex, she scanned the Pokeball holding her new Paras.
“ Pokemon Registered. Paras the Mushroom Pokemon. ”
‘ Pokemon #46
Species: Paras
Gender: Female
Current Level: 7
Height: 1’00
Weight: 11.9 lbs.
Ability: Dry Skin- Restores Health if sprayed with water, however if this Pokemon is hit with fire it will be severely injured.
Nature: Naive
Characteristic: Hates to Lose.
Moves: Scratch
Information: Paras have parasitic mushrooms known as Tuchakaso’s growing on its back that are sought for medicine that is said to extend one’s life. They grow by drawing nutrients from its host.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 24
Next Form: Parasect
Registration Done. ’
“Parasitic mushrooms? Hm,” Violet looked at the Pokeball in thought while putting the Pokedex up. “I’ll call you Parasite.”
Placing Parasite’s Pokeball on her belt, Violet grinned up at Silk. “Thanks for holding her in place Silk, your Confusion is getting stronger.”
“Fweh.” Silk preened at the praise.
Deciding to compare levels, Violet checked the Pokedex to see that Stinger was at least 18 while Silk was 19 and to her surprise learned a new move.
“Supersonic? Isn’t that what the Zubats use for Sonar?” Violet muttered with intrigue while she continued to walk towards the other end of the dirt room where another ladder was seen. “It’s also good for confusing enemies making it a great addition for strategies.”
Still if she was right then both Stinger and Silk are leagues ahead of Parasite, so she should try to train him up but there are some problems.
Parasite only knew Scratch at the moment and it’s not going to be effective against any of the Geodudes and the Zubats would take advantage of her part grass typing.
“Well raising Stinger and Silk wasn’t easy at first but I managed, so Parasite will be a piece of cake in comparison.” Violet decided already thinking of several training strategies to help her new team member out.
Upon climbing the ladder to a new room that looked to be a dead end, Violet hummed in thought before turning to see someone who was just as surprised to see her.
“What the-? I thought we cleared this part of the cave out.” A Team Rocket Grunt said in surprise while Violet idly took a step back, her mind flashed back to her run in with these people in Pallet Town along with Prof. Oak’s warning about them.
'A lot of criminals were pardoned to help with the war effort but they stuck together, forming a group that would eventually become known as Team Rocket. While they did help secure a victory for the Kanto Region, they began to cause problems and even outright mistreated Pokemon, using them as tools for both war and crime. ’
“Alright kid, just make this easy on yourself,” The Rocket Grunt said priming a Pokeball in one hand while reaching to his side where Violet could see a whip much to her shock. “I don’t like the idea of hurting a kid, but you being here interferes with our mission.”
“Silk Supersonic!” Violet ordered, her tone showing some fear right as Silk flew out of the hole in the ground catching the Rocket Grunt off guard before he could release his Pokemon.
Silk cried out, some sound waves erupting from her messing with the Grunt’s senses enough to where he dropped the Pokeball and stepped back as if drunk before the Butterfree unleashed a Sleep Powder knocking him out.
As the Grunt crumpled to the floor, Violet stared at him, trying to comprehend what just happened.
Team Rocket was here and they were on a mission?
That meant there were probably more of them deeper in the Mountain.
Just like that the thought of a fun and easy time through this place disappeared as Violet contemplated her choices, no longer caring about training Parasite in here.
She needed to get out of there and call the Police.
But with how long it took to get here, backtracking to Pewter City would take even longer and someone else less unfortunate might get caught-wait.
This guy thought this part of the cave was cleared out, that meant they might’ve taken some other trainers out already.
“W-What do I do?” Violet whispered backing up until she was against a wall, shaking.
What could she do? These were criminals who evaded the Elite Four for a decade and she was a kid.
There was no way she could win in a straight up fight.
Even if she did, there would be no doubt that she would end up on Team Rocket’s radar.
Violet was beginning to hyperventilate at that thought.
“Fweh.” Silk landed on her hat in an effort to calm her down.
“S-Sorry.” Violet choked out, trying to breathe.
Taking a few deep breaths, Violet came to a realization.
They don’t have to know it was her, as long as Silk was out she had an advantage. She could put these guys to sleep before they even knew she was here.
And by doing that she could slip by and get to Cerulean City to call the Police.
“Silk. If you see any member of Team Rocket, take them out with Sleep Powder.” Violet ordered with the Butterfree nodding.
While the Bug might not know what was going on, she knew that her trainer was scared of these people and that was enough for her to be wary.
Slowly, Violet left the room and backtracked to the main part of the cave, but now going slowly trying not to make a sound.
The last thing she needed to do was walk right into another Rocket Grunt.
‘ But why are they here? ’ Violet thought glancing around the corner to see at least three of them mining the wall while one was on Guard Duty. ‘ What could be in Mt. Moon that would get their attention? ’
It didn’t take too long for Silk to fly in there and put them to sleep, while Violet was surprised that they didn’t seem to have a Pokemon out at all times though she wasn’t complaining.
It went on like that for awhile with Violet ambushing the Rocket Members thinking she might be able to pull this off before a voice cut through her plan.
“Sludge!”
Eyes widening, Violet barely managed to duck as a giant glob of purple hit the wall behind her, making it sizzle as she saw a rather large purple serpent with a large hood beneath its head with a pattern on its stomach that resembled an angry face with the eyes being red and yellow surrounded by black while a black mark was beneath them in a v-shape pattern.
‘ An Arbok? ’ Violet thought recognizing the Pokemon and from the scars it had it was a pretty experienced one.
“I must say you are either very brave or very foolish to attack us,” A voice echoed around Violet as she didn’t know where it was coming from. “Possibly both, but I do applaud your strategy, very few young ones value status inducing moves, yet you do it without hesitation.”
Silk immediately got in front of Violet who sent out Stinger who yawned before getting serious at seeing that Arbok.
Violet almost pulled the Pokedex out to check its level, but she hesitated not wanting whoever was speaking to see it.
“Hm, nothing to say?” The voice asked rather sharply. “Are the consequences of your actions finally dawning on you?”
“Stinger use String Shot on the ground to entrap it,” Violet whispered trying to keep the fear she was feeling hidden, despite how her heart was hammering against her ribs. “Silk use Sleep Powder, we need to put this Pokemon to sleep.”
It was their only chance, in a straight up fight they would be annihilated and Poison Powder won’t work on this Arbok.
“As if I’ll let you do that.” The voice scoffed, surprising Violet because she whispered those orders.
Just how keen was this guy’s hearing?
“Arbok use Rock Slide!” The man ordered and the Arbok moved before either of her Pokemon could react with its tail slamming into the ground causing for the rocks to fall towards Violet and her Pokemon eliciting for her to dive out of the way, returning Silk easily knocked out while Stinger barely managed to dodge it.
Where was this guy?!?
Not knowing where the unknown enemy was making Violet very nervous before the Arbok dove into the ground with a Dig leading for Stinger to tense, trying to figure out where it was but the Arbok dove out of the ground in front of Violet making her scream as Stinger whirled around in shock, his buzzing getting awfully loud.
“Toxic!” The voice ordered showing that this guy had no qualms with killing as the Arbok lunged forward with its fangs glowing.
On pure adrenaline, Violet dove to the floor with the Arbok biting into one of the rocks that nearly crushed her earlier, the Arbok easily shattering it with the poison in its jaws melting the pieces and turning towards her only for a rock to come out of nowhere to hit its head.
Slowly the Arbok turned to see Stinger using his String Shot for a makeshift Rock Throw glaring at the Arbok for trying to kill his trainer.
“Hm, interesting your Beedrill is very creative despite being vastly outmatched,” The voice mused before sounding like it was behind Violet. “Although that won’t be enough to take down my Arbok.”
Whirling around, Violet took a step back at seeing the man who came out of nowhere wearing a standard Team Rocket Uniform with a hat covering his hair but he also wore a red scarf that covered the lower part of his face managing to mask his identity, with his arms crossed as his eyes looked Violet over seemingly thinking something over.
“You have potential.” The man mused his eyes flickering from Violet to his Arbok who used the move Glare on Stinger, paralyzing him.
Finding some courage despite how much she was shaking, Violet forced herself to glare at the man who seemed more amused by this bravado.
“You can continue this futile effort to fight, but as admirable as your courage would be, you won’t achieve anything but your own death,” The man’s gaze hardened to drive that point forward. “But it would be such a waste given the promise you’ve shown.”
“Promise?” Violet asked not getting at what the man was getting at.
“While I’m displeased with how easily the grunts were taken down and I will ensure they hear how displeased I am,” The man had a hint of a snarl showing it. “The fact remains that you despite your age outwitted them, Team Rocket could use talent like that.”
With that the man held a hand out and Violet immediately got what he was saying.
He was offering Violet a place in Team Rocket.
Not even thinking, Violet glared. “No.” She refused in disgust of being asked that.
From everything she’s seen and heard of Team Rocket so far, she wanted nothing to do with them.
“A pity.” Before Violet could blink, the man threw a freaking shuriken that shot past Violet’s face, giving a small cut on her cheek before it hit the wall behind her.
Why did he miss-?
A flash of light made Violet turn only to pale as she saw the shuriken was actually a Pokeball that was modified into one right as another Poison Pokemon showed itself.
This new Pokemon had a slimy, sludge like body with black beady eyes and a large mouth showing a gray tongue and it quickly engulfed Violet before she could scream, it’s body covering her, its arms grabbing hers while her straw hat was knocked off her head.
But the worst part was the smell that came from this new Pokemon, it was like raw sewage making her gag as it was difficult to breathe.
“Bzt!” Stinger panicked as he tried to fight the paralysis only for the Arbok to use Wrap to ensure he doesn’t escape.
“Stin-Mph!” Violet tried to call out but the Grimer covered her mouth while the man just watched with a cruel look.
“You’re not the only one to use Status Moves against your opponents child. Poison, Paralysis, Sleep the terror of strategies like those are vastly underestimated.” The man said before turning to walk away. “Grimer suffocate her.”
Immediately the part of the Grimer’s body that was covering her mouth forced its way into her mouth and nose.
Violet struggled despite how the Grimer had a tight hold on her, tears forming on her face as she tried desperately to breathe, her thoughts all over the place in her panic, twisting and turning to try and find some sort of leverage to escape, her lungs slowly beginning to burn from a lack of oxygen.
Was this really how it was going to end?!
Slowly her struggles were getting weaker as the tears were streaming down her face as her vision was swimming.
She was scared.
She didn’t want to die.
She had so much she wanted to do, to see.
‘ Mom. ’ Violet managed to get a sob out through the choking, her eyes landing on the nearby straw hat.
“ ICE PUNCH! ” A voice roared out catching the man off guard as a Rhydon shot into the scene slamming a fist into the Grimer.
The ice spread out on it right as the Rhydon managed to rip Violet free of its grasp, tossing her back before someone caught her.
Gasping as air rushed back into her lungs, Violet retched, coughing up bits and pieces of sludge while the person who saved her glared at the man.
“And here I thought Team Rocket couldn’t get any lower.” Brock said glaring at the man who tensed, not expecting a Gym Leader, especially as the ice fully covered the Grimer before the Rhydon smashed it to pieces putting the Grimer in critical condition.
That was followed by another rock Pokemon bursting out of the ground, slamming into the Arbok with enough force to make it let go of Stinger, this one being a bipedal Pokemon with a spherical body covered in a shell of green plated rocks with its head showing on the center while it grasped the Arbok with its two arms before delivering a Mega Punch.
“B-Brock?” Violet managed to get out a bit light-headed from the lack of oxygen.
“Sorry you had to go through that.” He apologized before keeping his attention on the Team Rocket Member, recognizing him as one of the Infamous Executives.
He knew something was off when he was mining for Fossils, but to think Team Rocket was here, how many other trainers did they ambush before he got here?
The Rocket Executive however frowned as while he could hold his own against a Gym Leader, he has various reasons not to use his real Pokemon.
So he needs to retreat.
“It would seem that our mission here is a failure,” The Executive said bowing his head, but smirking beneath his scarf. “A pity but not a complete waste.”
With that he turned to walk away.
“If you think I’m just going to let you go you have another thing coming.” Brock warned while the man glanced back at him.
“I would worry about that young girl in your arms, while you saved her from suffocation, my Grimer’s ability is Poison Touch, any moment it’ll kick in and from how long he held onto her along with him suffocating her there’s a chance she’ll still die,” The man said with Brock tensing right before he pulled out a syringe. “Plus you’ll have to worry about this.”
With that said he jammed it right through the broken Grimer, injecting it.
The effect was immediate as the broken remains of the Grimer began to shake rather violently before exploding out of the ice as it began to put itself back together, only this time it was rather large with even more sludge dripping off of it.
But the look in its eyes was one full of pain and rage.
“You forced it to evolve?!” Brock asked not expecting that as he was certain the Pokemon was down for the count.
“It’s a serum we’ve been developing for quite some time, it’s not perfect as it can sometimes kill the Pokemon but it unleashes a Pokemon’s true capabilities.” The man revealed as he walked off. “Good luck, you’ll need it.”
As he disappeared the Arbok broke free of Golem’s grip and dove into the ground, most likely following his trainer.
Brock gritted his teeth as he knew he couldn’t waste any time and the Muk was the more immediate danger.
Plus if that man was telling the truth that meant he had to get Violet to a Hospital as soon as possible.
But he couldn’t leave this Muk here for anyone else to stumble on.
“Rhydon, Ice Beam. Golem use Fissure.” Brock said in a solemn tone. “Then both of you use Flamethrower.”
He rarely killed a Pokemon, but he might not have a choice here, especially with the sludge rolling off of the Muk was melting the area around it. And if what that man said was true, this Muk was dying anyways, at least this way it would be quick and painless.
The Muk roared as it moved towards them but the Rhydon was faster as a beam of ice erupted from his mouth encasing the Muk and keeping it in place as the Golem unleashed one of the most powerful Ground Type moves in existence.
As the Muk shattered, both Rock Pokemon unleashed a torrent of flames that eviscerated the smaller pieces.
Once that was taken care of, Brock checked on Violet only to tense as her face was starting to get flush from a fever setting in due to the poison.
Cursing slightly, Brock began to move as his Rhydon grabbed the still paralyzed Stinger considering he didn’t know which Pokeball was his and he didn’t have the time to figure it out while Golem rolled on ahead to ensure they didn’t run into any trouble.
Violet needed medical attention fast.
“N-No,” Violet struggled a bit finding it difficult to talk. “H-Hat. Need hat.”
“You need a doctor.” Brock said sternly, not getting why she was trying to put her hat before her condition.
Was the poisoned fever making her delirious already?
“M-Mom.” Violet muttered, eyes drooping as she was losing grip on her consciousness. “Hers.”
“Bzt!” Stinger seemed to understand what she was talking about as even he struggled against both the paralysis and Rhydon’s grip until he fired a String Shot at the hat, managing to snag it.
Seeing that, Brock gave his Rhydon a nod as the rock type gripped the string and tugged, pulling the hat until he had it as they moved.
They didn’t see the Rocket Member who attacked Violet still watching from the shadows with narrowed eyes.
To Be Continued...
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 18
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack and Focus Energy.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 19
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder and Supersonic.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 7
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch
Notes:
Man that went from zero to a hundred pretty damn quickly am I right? From entering Mt. Moon and getting her Paras to running into Team Rocket and unlike the Game she didn't battle them, instead taking them out before they send a Pokemon out. Too bad she was very outmatched and nearly killed by the Executive who led the Mt. Moon Mission-I think a lot of people already know which Executive this was am I right? Plus the Pokeball Shuriken was pretty damn cool in my opinion and is a thing in one of the Pokemon worlds just like how another certain trainer uses a Bow and Arrow with the Arrow containing a Pokeball to battle sometimes.
Anyways this was Violet's first true run in with Team Rocket and it'll give her a true reason to fear them compared to before and I hope I had her react appropriately given how she's a kid that ran into criminals. If Brock didn't show up using two members of his real team there's no denying that she would've died then and there. Plus it also shows how dangerous Grimer's can be, I mean seriously how has no one used them like this in any stories? ... Or they had and I've never found them for all I know.
She also caught her Paras, who is Parasite and man I forgot how that Pokemon had a lack of moves in the first Generation (R/B/G/Y). Still she's halfway to completing her team and she won't be catching anymore Pokemon for awhile given how Venonat is found near Lavender Town and both Scyther/Pinsir are in the Safari Zone, though she might get one of them in Celadon City *Hint Hint* But her two main Pokemon are almost in the 20's in terms of Level's so she's definitely getting stronger even if they do have a long way to go for the moment.
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Violet wasn’t sure what to think when consciousness returned to her, her whole body aching along with her throat feeling like sandpaper.
Slowly she opened eyes, grimacing from the bright light only to find herself staring at a white ceiling.
Where was she? Why was she here?
She couldn’t remember anything but feeling fear and horror.
Just like that, the memories rushed back to her.
Team Rocket. The Executive’s Arbok. The Grimer.
Suffocation.
Eyes widening, Violet shot up to a sitting position, not even caring if the heart beat monitor was going a bit haywire from how scared she was. That turned out to be a mistake as a feeling of nausea rushed over her making her gag before she saw a bucket.
Reaching for it, Violet barely brought it to her before she puked.
The door opened as Violet barely finished to show Nurse Joy much to her confusion.
Wasn’t she a Pokemon doctor?
That didn’t seem to deter the Nurse who gave a calm smile. “Good Afternoon Violet, how are you feeling?” She asked checking some of the readings on the machine.
Violet glanced at the bucket as if that should be enough to answer her, but she didn’t want to be rude. “T-Tired.” She managed to get out in a raspy voice. “W-Where am I?”
“The Cerulean City Hospital, normally a doctor would be overseeing your condition but considering how yours was caused by a Grimer’s poison, I was called in,” Nurse Joy answered before reaching to a table and holding up a bottle of water. “Here, take some slow sips, you’ll make yourself sick if you rush it.”
Listening to her, Violet’s shoulders sagged in relief when the water gave her throat some moisture and she wanted to drink more, but the Nurse was very adamant about not doing that.
“Do you remember what happened?” Nurse Joy asked with a concerned look.
Flashes of her near death went through her mind. “Y-Yes.” Violet whispered hating how scared she sounded.
But she pushed that down and glanced at the Nurse, ignoring the look of pity she had.
“W-Where are my Pokemon?”
“Your Beedrill, Butterfree and Paras are currently in Stasis after you were brought in yesterday,” Nurse Joy answered remembering how frantic the first two were while the last one was very confused at what was going on. “You’ll be free to leave tomorrow once we’re sure the poison is out of your system since you don’t have any other injuries except for mild bruising, but I must stress that you take it easy for awhile, do I make myself clear?”
Violet gave a nod, agreeing to that as she laid back down in thought. “Y-You said I was brought here?”
“Yes by Brock, the Pewter City Gym Leader,” Nurse Joy answered, not surprised that Violet didn’t remember that much from what she was told. “He’s currently talking to the Cerulean Gym Leader about the situation but he said he’ll stop by to visit. You’ll have to give a statement of what happened I’m afraid.”
Hearing that made Violet grimace, but she knew why she had to do that. The League has been trying to get rid of Team Rocket for awhile according to Professor Oak, so any information no matter how small could be useful.
Even then, Violet wasn’t sure what she would be able to tell them, she had no idea what they were after in Mt. Moon, all she was trying to do was get through there so she could get the police.
Reaching up to mess with her hat, Violet tensed when she didn’t feel it.
“My hat, where’s my hat?!” Violet asked a bit hysterical given its meaning to her.
The Nurse looked taken aback by her reaction and was considering sedating her before saying in a calm tone. “Your Beedrill had it with him and wouldn’t let anyone touch it before we had to put him in stasis, right now it’s with your Pokemon.” She said seeing her calm down.
“R-Right.” Violet looked very relieved.
It was two hours before Brock walked into the room as Violet was looking through her Pokedex, being given her bag before putting it up with the Gym Leader idly wondering what that device was, but decided that it wasn’t important.
“How are you feeling?” Brock asked, taking a seat next to the bed she was in.
Taking some time to answer, Violet spoke. “A little nauseous, but a lot better than when I woke up,” She glanced at him before looking back at her own hands that she clasped, feeling oddly nervous. “N-Nurse Joy said that you brought me here?”
Brock face showed some surprise before realization showed. “Makes sense that you don’t remember, the fever from the Grimer’s Poison set in rather quickly.”
Hearing that, Violet gave a nod. “T-T-Thanks.” She managed to stammer out a bit red.
“I should be thanking you.”
That sentence confused Violet as she glanced at him.
“I only had my Rhydon and Golem with me because I had my other Pokemon looking through Mt. Moon to make sure Team Rocket didn’t attack any other trainers, they found the Rockets you incapacitated before they could wake up,” Brock revealed with Violet being visibly surprised by this information. “They’re currently in League Custody as we speak.”
“I-.” Violet had no words.
She was just trying to slip by them, she didn’t realize that her tactics would have a hand in their arrest.
“That being said, I would advise against making a habit of it,” Brock’s gratitude shifted to a stern look. “I don’t think you need me to say how dangerous they are.”
Violet stayed quiet at that, agreeing with him.
“Now that’s out of the way, I need you to give a statement, are you up for it?” Brock asked softly, not wanting to force her to recount it if she wasn’t comfortable.
Slowly Violet recounted what happened from her first encounter with that Grunt in the cave after catching Parasite up to when the Executive tried to suffocate her, that being the last thing she remembered.
Brock said nothing, just listening to both her reason for keep going along with her plan of attack in slipping by them.
“I know that backtracking would’ve been difficult, but if you’re ever in a situation like that in the future I think it would be better to do that.” Brock said gently with Violet looking away. “Yes it might’ve risked someone else falling victim but it would’ve guaranteed you ensuring the authorities would’ve been notified.”
Violet nodded to show that she understood.
Brock then hesitated before deciding to share something. “They were after the Fossils in Mt. Moon,” He revealed earning Violet’s undivided attention as a shocked expression crossed her face. “It’s not common knowledge that they could be found there, but by getting them Team Rocket could sell them for a lot of money that would fund their operations.”
While that part was worrying, Violet tilted her head. “But it’s not illegal to do that.” She pointed out with Brock nodding in agreement with her.
“You’re right, in fact they didn’t have to be there as Team Rocket, they could’ve gone there without uniforms to mine the fossils with no one batting an eye,” Brock’s sentence made Violet wonder why they didn’t just do that. “However going in Uniform would terrify anyone who happened upon them. Which is how they recruit others.”
“Like how he tried to do with me.” Violet muttered that without thinking, making Brock whip his head towards her.
“He tried to recruit you?” Brock asked not expecting that while Violet shifted with unease.
“I told him no.”
Brock didn’t say anything, just looking at Violet before giving a nod. “I see, it’s a good thing you didn’t.”
But it also meant that they might consider Violet a threat to their plans given how she did cause quite a bit of damage to their operation, including being the one responsible for a few members to be arrested.
The League would have to keep an eye on her to make sure they didn’t do anything to her in revenge.
“But we do have Mt. Moon under surveillance right now and I have the two fossils they found.” Brock said pulling them out of the bag for her to see. “They’re the Dome and Helix Fossils, pure fossils for Pokemon like Omanyte and Kabuto unlike the ones in the Museum which were fragments.”
The pure fossils were enough for the Lab in Cinnabar to actually bring back to life, something they were currently keeping quiet from the Public for now. Lance already had an Aerodactyl he was training up to add to his team, preparing to reveal it when the Indigo League starts up.
They were hoping to take Team Rocket out before that happens though.
A part of Brock wanted to give Violet one of the fossils to reward her for her actions, but the more rational side told him that doing so would make her an even bigger target if Team Rocket ever found out about it.
So he was keeping these to keep them focused on him.
“Whoa,” Violet looked at the fossils in awe, actually seeing a pure one was very rare. “C-Can I-?”
She cut herself off a bit shy, but Brock smiled and held one out for her to feel for herself.
It seemed that she was taking to seeing one as a reward in itself.
Violet took a deep breath as she exited the Hospital early the next day, happy to be out of there.
Especially with both her hat that was back on her head and her Pokemon who were currently on her belt, still in Stasis.
Something she planned to undo once she was away from the Hospital.
Especially since she had at least two days before she was to meet Green at Nugget Bridge. While it wasn’t enough time to get Parasite up to snuff with Stinger and Silk, it should give him enough training for him to at least put up a bit of a fight against the boy.
A part of Violet wondered if she should still be focusing on that battle after what happened but she shook that part away.
She couldn’t not show up, Green will never let her live it down.
Slowly she headed out of Cerulean to Route 04, making a plan in her head.
Unless Green changed up his teams he should still have an Eevee, Pidgey and Rattata. Though he most likely evolved the Pidgey and Rattata into a Pidgeotto and a Raticate.
The biggest threat would be the Pidgeotto and his other two Pokemon won’t be slouches either given their levels during the Kangaskhan incident and Violet had no clue if he added any other Pokemon to his team like how she did with Parasite.
With a deep breath, Violet pulled out Stinger and Silk’s Pokeballs before letting them out.
Due to them being in stasis they were unaware of the world around them for quite a bit. It’s usually used if a Pokemon received a very serious injury to keep them alive until they made it to a Pokemon Center, but it’s also to keep them from popping out in bad situations.
Both bugs once they regained their senses looked around before spotting Violet who smiled at them only to be unprepared when they looked away, shame in their body language no doubt remembering how quickly they went down and at how they failed in protecting their trainer.
Seeing them like that reminded Violet of how she always acted before getting Stinger and she gained a determined look, walking towards them, kneeling a bit since they were on the ground. “It’s alright,” She said smiling at them, placing a hand on both of their heads in a comforting manner. “We made it out alive.”
Seeing them look so guilty made her stomach churn as she was their trainer. They shouldn’t have been in that situation in the first place.
None of them should’ve.
Instead of focusing on that, she did pull out Parasite’s Pokeball. “There’s nothing to do but get stronger so that won’t happen again and we have a new teammate to welcome to the team,” She said making them perk up, no doubt wanting to do whatever they could to avoid that situation from happening again. “Be sure to be welcoming to Parasite, I doubt that she knows what’s going on.”
Stinger paused at hearing that the teammate was another girl and held back a groan at still being the only guy of this team while Silk looked rather excited to get to know their new friend.
The Butterfree was hoping that she’ll get along better with this Paras as opposed to Beedrill.
With that said, Violet let Parasite out as the Paras blinked and looked around, tensing a bit at seeing she was surrounded by Violet and the two Bug Types.
So Violet tried to make herself look small considering the size of this Pokemon. “Hey there Parasite, how are you doing?” She asked only for Paras to blink at the name. “Uh right I guess I gave you a Nickname without consulting you, do you want a different one?”
Slowly Parasite shook her head, not wanting to anger this person as she eyed them all a bit timidly.
The Beedrill didn’t help matters as he tried to make himself look intimidating before the Butterfree just slapped his back with her wing to make that plan go down the drain, chastening him.
Ignoring the spectacle, Violet spoke to Parasite. “I’m on a journey to become the world’s greatest Bug Pokemon Trainer out there,” She began to the Pokemon. “It’s to prove that Bug Types can be just as strong as the others. That’s Stinger the Beedrill and Silk the Butterfree, they’re pretty strong and I want to train you up to stand among them.”
Parasite glanced at the two, her eyes lingering on the Butterfree, no doubt remembering how she kept the Paras in place quite easily with the Confusion Attack.
And she could tell that the two were pretty strong compared to the usual Pokemon that were found in the Mountain.
So she looked back at Violet who was still giving a friendly smile before the Paras held out a claw as if offering a hand.
She’ll give this trainer a chance, besides she hated the idea of being weak. So this sounded like a great deal to her.
Violet’s smile got wider as she accepted the ‘handshake’ being careful not to pierce her hand by mistake. “Welcome to the team. Now we’re going to be training for two reasons, first off is the second Gym who uses water Pokemon, Parasite I want to use you in that battle as their water attacks won’t affect you that much,” She said with the Paras perking up at that before she continued. “Secondly we’ll be battling Green in two days.”
Both Stinger and Silk tensed, remembering that cold trainer who looked down on Violet and both of them were rather eager to make him eat his words while Parasite looked very lost, but she matched their eagerness.
Violet smiled as they got to work.
It was late by the time Violet got back to the Pokemon Center looking rather dead on her feet as she stayed out there for hours, ignoring the small voice in the back of her head that reminded her of Nurse Joy’s warning to take it easy.
That probably explained the stern expression that Nurse Joy was giving her right now.
Even if the Nurse said nothing, Violet got the message, but she smiled tiredly. “Worth it.”
That seemed to be the wrong thing to say, but Nurse Joy rolled her eyes. “All of you young trainers think you’re invincible.” She muttered holding out her hands to check on her Pokemon.
Violet chuckled rather sheepishly as she handed them over.
While Stinger and Silk didn’t really gain too much experience with the exception of Stinger learning Twineedle giving him a very good move to use in a fight, Parasite grew in leaps and bounds to try and catch up as she sparred with the two, only they held back considering the difference in strength between them.
It was enough for the Paras to learn Stun Spore which Silk helped her out with increasing its effectiveness.
In terms of levels, Stinger was 20, Silk was 22 and Parasite made it to 15.
Much faster than it took for Stinger and Silk to get to, but considering how they fought each other to train up, it made sense despite the amount of times Parasite was knocked down during the training.
She planned to let them rest the next day so they would be at full strength to take Green on.
While Violet rested however, across the Kanto Region six people were having a meeting of their own using various Video Phones.
“Team Rocket is certainly getting bolder.” Brock the Gym Leader of Pewter City commented, his arms crossed. “To do what they did at Mt. Moon, it either means they’re getting desperate or they’re getting stronger.”
“I’m not sure which is worse,” A young female trainer said with orange hair styled in a ponytail said, a frown crossing her face. “Either way they would be dangerous, how’s that kid you saved?”
“She’s fine, scared but I think anyone would’ve been in her position.” Brock said before grinning. “She’s going to be challenging you soon Misty, think you’re up for it?”
In response the Cerulean Gym Leader smirked. “Bring it on.”
A loud boisterous laugh brought their attention to Lieutenant Surge who was one of the few surviving war veterans with his spiky yellow hair as he grinned. “This kid sounds like a fighter, I can’t wait for her to get to my Gym,” He said with some excitement. “It’s not too often you get a kid with the balls to say no to Team Rocket of all people to their face.”
“Surge she could’ve died.” Another female voice chided him with Erika the Celadon City Gym Leader giving him a stern look, her black hair held in place by an elegant hairband. “Goodness you need to learn some tact.”
“I just tell it how it is.” Surge said not that all bothered by being reprimanded.
“That aside, from what you’ve said she’s shown to play to her Pokemon’s strength,” A fifth voice said with Koga the Poison Gym Leader cupping his chin sharp grey eyes narrowed in thought while his spiky black hair rustled with his movement. “If she can get this far with only two Bug Pokemon she has a mind for strategy.”
Brock gave a nod. “Yeah she does.” He confirmed remembering how she strung him along in their battle setting up for Onix.
Misty gave a bit of a shiver at the mention of bugs, but didn’t say anything to that.
“Still there’s something bothering me,” Brock commented, a frown marring his face. “That Rocket Executive.”
“What about him?” Surge asked with a quirked brow.
“When we spoke before he forced the Grimer to evolve, I felt a sense of familiarity,” Brock confessed not getting it. “It was like I knew him.”
“Maybe he was a former challenger?” Erika considered with Brock being silent, unsure of this.
“Regardless, the fact that he forced a Pokemon to evolve is more of a concern.” A deep baritone voice spoke up as another figure, this one in shadows spoke up while he was petting a Persian that was visible.
“Giovanni do you ever get tired of those theatrics?” Misty asked as the Viridian Gym Leader always did that. “I swear you look like the stereotype of a classic spy villain, the Persian just adds to it for crying out loud.”
They swore they heard an amused snort from Giovanni. “I have to have my fun somehow,” He said with a hint of a smile showing before he got serious. “This serum that Executive used, I think there was an incident in Viridian Forest where it was used.”
“That’s concerning.” Erika held a worried look. “Is Blaine researching that right now?”
It would explain why he wasn’t on the phone conference, though that left the question of what Sabrina was doing as well.
“He is, unlike the Muk as Brock eviscerated it, we have the body of a baby Kangaskhan that’s fully grown.”
It got quiet before Misty spoke up. “Did you say a Baby Kangaskhan?” She asked with venom in her tone at the thought of a baby Pokemon going through that type of torture, remembering how Brock described the Muk to look after it was injected.
“Those bastards.” Surprisingly that was Erika who had the same amount of hatred in her voice, surprising everyone as they rarely heard her curse.
“Damn Erika, didn’t think you had it in you.” Surge said with a chuckle.
“How are you so calm?” Erika asked, turning to look at him only for him to grin, but his eyes held none of the warmth his grin did.
“I’ve seen worse in the war, trust me this is tame.” His hollow tone made Erika grimace, feeling bad at bringing up bad memories.
“I’ve heard the situation from Professor Oak was resolved by two rookie trainers who barely survived being ambushed by the Kangaskhan, one of them his own Grandson.” Giovanni continued as if he was never interrupted.
“You mean Green?” Brock asked remembering that kid.
He was a bit cold and cocky, but Brock did see some warmth when he was with his Pokemon.
“I know him, he just got the Cascade Badge early this morning.” Misty spoke up in surprise.
“Damn we have two rookies making strides.” Surge really sounded pumped up.
Koga however stilled in thought. “Who was the second trainer?”
“A young girl with a straw hat and two bug Pokemon.” Giovanni answered already making the connection.
Brock gave a surprised start, not expecting that.
“That means she got in Team Rocket’s way twice, even if they weren’t visible in the Forest.” Erika realized, looking concerned. “Do you think Team Rocket will target her?”
“I thought on it but I don’t think so, Lance has an Ace Trainer watching her right now from afar in case they try anything,” Giovanni voiced, easing her concerns. “They might be criminals but they rarely target kids and as long as she doesn’t seek them out actively she’ll be safe.”
“We’re counting on the fact that they’re thinking like that.” Brock pointed out the flaw in that, but he did feel better that an Ace Trainer was keeping an eye on her.
“Right, while this was fun I need to go, I have a large list of challengers tomorrow.” Surge said a grin on his face. “Which means a lot of these babies are being sent to extensive care.”
“Surge!” Erika reprimanded only for the man to laugh.
“Relax I don’t do permanent damage, just enough to crush their dreams.”
Misty rolled her eyes and glanced at Brock. “I’ll call after Violet battles me, you have any trouble making it back to Pewter?”
“None, thanks for letting me use your Starmie’s Teleport to get back.” Brock said happy to have saved time from traveling back.
As he hung up, Erika spoke. “Misty are we still on for tea next week?”
“Definitely, I’ll see you there.” Misty promised with those two hanging up, leaving Giovanni, Surge and Koga by themselves.
After a few seconds, Giovanni activated a program to prevent anyone from getting back into this call before showing his face, a dark look on it as he wore a dark business suit, his brown hair neatly groomed. “You grew too careless Koga.” He said in a sharp tone to the Fuchsia Gym Leader. “It’s a miracle Brock didn’t recognize you in Mt. Moon.”
“Apologies, I wasn’t expecting for him to show up, I was more worried about taking care of someone who was interfering with out plans.” Koga’s eyes narrowed in annoyance. “We lost some Grunts because of this operation.”
“If those Grunts got taken surprised by a kid then we don’t need them.” Surge said off-handedly.
“We’re already low on manpower,” Giovanni didn’t take kindly to Surge acting like it wasn’t a total loss. “Sabrina was in contact with our spy and they say that we have two years at most.”
Surge grew serious at hearing that. “So it’s true?”
“Yes and they’re researching for ways to power up their Pokemon just as we are doing the same,” Giovanni clenched a fist at thinking of ‘them’. “By any means necessary.”
“Should we have our spy in the League take care of the girl?” Koga asked as the Ace Trainer watching Violet was actually one of theirs.
To their surprise, Giovanni shook his head. “No, if we do that then the League will know we have spies among them and we can’t let that happen.” He said not willing to risk it to take care of a single child who is an annoyance at best. “Surge I want you to keep your operation in Vermillion going and I want one of the Admins to be overseeing Celadon’s Operation. Koga I need for you to keep searching for signs of the Birds.”
“We might have an idea on where Moltres could be.” Koga brought up with Giovanni giving a nod.
“Good, find the other two and then we’ll make a plan for containment, if we have the Legendaries on our side they won’t stand a chance.” Giovanni ordered him. “And keep the rare Pokemon from the Safari coming to the Game Corner, our funds are running a bit low.”
With that said and done he hung up, needing to focus on more important matters, such as the file that Blaine sent to him regardings Project Mew as they’ve had a few failures already.
If they could just capture the elusive Mew they should be able to continue as planned.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 20
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 22
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder and Supersonic.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass /Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 15
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch and Stun Spore.
Notes:
Haha alright who guessed that I was going with the Manga path of the Rocket Executives? I'm pretty sure a lot of people already figured out who they were from the hint's I've given before this chapter. Plus it was a lot of fun typing the conversation between at least six of the Gym Leaders before doing the reveal and then hints at their plans, hopefully I've kept their characters good.
Plus unlike the games I'm giving their actions a reason which will be revealed later, though it's not that hard to guess what it is from the hints I've been leaving, after all they have to have a reason for five of the eight Gym Leaders to be a part of Team Rocket, though it still doesn't excuse their actions I plan to make it grey territory rather than black and white with their motives. I think it'll make it more interesting.
Besides that the first half showed Violet both recovering from last chapter as well as training up her team to get Parasite up to par, but just because she seems fine in this chapter doesn't mean she isn't as I'll show it later on.
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Violet screamed as she woke up in the middle of the night, her clothes sticking to her from the sweat that covered her skin, looking around with wide eyes before remembering where she was.
“Just a dream.” Violet muttered, shaking her head trying to get rid of the image of the Grimer out, trying not to think about what could’ve happened if Brock wasn’t there.
Looking up, Violet saw the Pokeballs containing her Pokemon and for a second she was tempted to let them out in order to feel some comfort but she refrained from doing so, not wanting for them to see her like this.
So instead she just got up and walked into the bathroom to splash some cold water on her face, deciding to stay up and think of what to do for the day.
There was no way she could go back to sleep, so she might as well try to do something productive and the battle with Green wasn’t for another day.
With that thought, Violet sat at the computer desk looking up more information on her three Pokemon. While she knew Stinger and Silk fairly well and is starting to come to terms with knowing Parasite, Violet knew that she still had a lot to learn.
So she planned on studying up more on them.
For example, Beedrills were capable of using different types of poison that they have stored up in their stingers. Some of them paralyze their targets bodies while other uses can even stop a person’s heart for a short time, faking a death.
Violet was rather intrigued by the different uses and wondered how much Stinger could use? She’ll have to see about finding a way to train that part of him.
They were also insanely fast, something that Stinger can attest to, but he was still slow compared to other Pokemon as his speed needed to be worked on.
Writing down the attributes she wanted to focus on, Violet turned from Stinger’s Data to Silks.
According to the dex, Butterfree’s had the same amount of toxins that Beedrill’s do, only it’s stored in their wings rather than stingers and they can spread this poison by unleashing powders which explained their status attacks. It also helps protect their wings from water allowing for them to fly in the rain.
Filing that piece of information, Violet had yet another reason to use Silk against the next Gym Leader, making her grin in anticipation.
“I wonder if I should have Silk practice Confusion on Stinger?” Violet mused in thought.
Not only would it help Silk master the attack even more, but it could also help Stinger build up a resistance to psychic attacks considering he was part poison.
It was something to think about.
Writing the idea down, Violet began to research Paras now.
“Drain nutrients from tree roots? Wait, then why were they inside of the cave?” Violet muttered in surprise at that.
Though looking over the effects of the Tuchasko Mushrooms, she was pretty surprised that they can extend a life. Sure the Pokedex mentioned that when she caught Parasite, but she didn’t really think much on it.
But she was also limited in moves unlike Stinger and Silk.
So much that Violet thought for a second before pulling out the TM she received from Brock.
Any of her Pokemon could learn this move and while she originally thought about giving it to Stinger, he knows quite a few moves now while Parasite only knew two.
Thinking it over again, Violet smiled and held the TM up to Parasite’s Pokeball, pressing the TM, remembering the explanation on how it worked as the Pokeball synched up with it, the red beam that’s usually shown to return a Pokemon going over it.
On doing it, the TM flashed a few times. Violet recognized this as the process of it making sure she wanted to do this, so she pressed down again and it flashed to confirm it.
Once it was done, Violet placed the TM away, knowing it was useless now before checking her Pokedex to see that it worked.
Parasite now knew Bide.
With that done, Violet continued to study up on her Pokemon, the terror she was feeling earlier from the nightmare now a thing of the past because of her excitement of learning.
A few hours later, Violet was back on Route 04 with only Parasite out with her.
The reason she only had Parasite out was to both train her and because according to the Pokedex both Beedrills and Butterfree often fly around to gather honey which surprised her because she hasn’t seen either of her Pokemon do that.
It was only after looking into it that she realized neither of them wanted to leave her alone until there was more than the two of them and now with Parasite they felt confident enough that she would be safe until they come back.
“Ras?” Parasite glanced up at her new trainer, wondering what the plan was while Violet gave her a thoughtful look.
“Okay we only have three moves for you so how about we work on how quickly you can unleash Stun Spore?” Violet suggested as the quicker Parasite could do that the better their chances were.
First they needed to find a wild Pokemon to spar with.
…
While that was going on, Stinger was flying past the Nugget Bridge towards Route 24 where some flowers could be, looking around for any nectar to take, taking care to stay out of sight of any other trainer given how his species was slightly feared.
But he was happy to just be by himself for a bit, don’t get him wrong he loves his trainer dearly and he managed to find some common ground with Silk along with deeming Parasite alright, but being the only guy in the group is pretty frustrating.
He needs some alone time and he’s also behind on gathering honey, it was basic instinct for a Beedrill to bring honey back to the hive, something he put off for a long time.
“Fweh.” A familiar voice called out nearly making Stinger buzz in annoyance.
So much for alone time.
Instead he glanced over only to stare as Silk already seemed to have a bit of honey on the hair of her legs and she was already having a smug look that he really hated.
“Bzzt!” Stinger jabbed a stinger in her direction, demanding to know where she got that honey while Silk just tilted her head before telling him to figure it out for himself, laughing at how he was shaking.
She knew him well enough to know that he wasn’t really upset, this type of thing has become a bit of a game for the two of them.
Stinger huffed and crossed his stingers in annoyance before finding a flower with enough pollen to help in making honey.
So he placed a stinger in there to draw it out, pointedly ignoring Silk at this point.
But she didn’t fly off in response to that, instead she hovered in the air, making another cry that had Stinger pause.
It seemed that Silk was worried about that man who tried to murder their trainer the other day and she’s been wanting to bring it up when they weren’t around their trainer for awhile.
It was a worry that they both shared.
So Stinger glanced at her, telling her what he remembered despite being paralyzed and he could see that she came to the same conclusion that he did about how rampant that Muk was.
It sounded eerily similar to the Kangaskhan that attacked them in the Forest.
Both times their Trainer was in danger and the second time they weren’t strong enough to protect her.
So they needed to get stronger on the chance that something like that happened again.
Not wanting to think on that anymore, Stinger changed the subject, declaring that he would be the one to get the most honey back making Silk balk before she returned the challenge saying she was in the lead and it wouldn’t be that much of a challenge which angered Stinger and resulted in him flinging some honey at her making her cry out in shock and outrage.
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“Wow, you guys went overboard.” Violet couldn’t help but say as they had five jars of honey now, making her glad that she thought ahead to buying some extra jars after they left.
Though she was wondering why they seemed to be covered in honey as they refused to look at each other.
Parasite thought about asking but refrained from doing so, instead she just looked at the jars with some hunger considering she’s been training for a bit, though she hasn’t gained any levels that day, just working on her moves.
“Um how about I give you guys a bath?” Violet suggested as while she did want to start the training schedule she had written out that morning for them, she didn’t want to do it while they were all sticky from the honey.
Silk preened at the idea of a bath while Parasite gave a cheer considering her ability would let a bath heal her.
Stinger wanted to make a retort, but the stickiness from the honey was affecting his wings, so he refrained from doing so.
The next day, Violet swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat when she approached the Nugget Bridge, all three of her Pokemon currently inside their Pokeballs while she held Parasite’s, planning on testing her out first in the battle that was to come.
Unlike the Gym she planned to face, this battle was a lot more personal.
“So you finally showed up.” Green’s voice made her glance up to see him waiting near the bridge, leaning against the railing with his Eevee out next to him while he had four Pokeballs on his belt showing he added another Pokemon to his team. “I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure if you were going to show.”
“Say what you will I keep my promises.” Violet said as she would’ve showed up on Nugget regardless, glaring at him.
Green gave a slight huff. “Good for you,” He stood up and frowned. “Did you catch a Paras in Mt. Moon or are you still stuck with two?”
“I have three.” Violet snapped already knowing that it wouldn’t be hard for him to figure out what three they were.
Ignoring how snappish she was, Green pulled a Pokeball out. “Alright then, three-on-three, no swapping allowed. If you recall your Pokemon it counts as a forfeit,” He said explaining the rule of this battle as while the League Tournaments allow switching out, it truly tests a trainer’s skill when they can’t switch out. “Think you’re up for it?”
In response, Violet sent Parasite out.
That made Green smirk as he sent out his Pidgeotto, the evolved form of Pidgey with a crest of pinkish feathers on its head as it gave a cry, towering over Parasite who was shaking a bit in fear.
Both trainer’s pulled out their Pokedex, with Violet hesitating on seeing that this Pidgeotto was lv. 20 while Green smirked at seeing that Parasite was 15.
“Not only do you have a disadvantage in terms of type but you’re pretty low-leveled,” Green commented looking at Violet. “Last chance to give up.”
Instead of dignifying that with a response, Violet started the battle. “Stun Spore, lock that bird up in paralysis!” She then lowered her voice. “Use it to mask Bide.”
Green just sighed as the Paras overcame her fear to make the spores fly towards the Pidgeotto who looked unimpressed. “Gust to knock it back.”
Pidgeotto gave a cry and blew the spore back with a gust of wind, the only reason it didn’t affect Parasite was because of its grass typing.
Green then followed up with a Gust that knocked Parasite back, really hurting her given the double weakness.
“I just took care of your Stun Spore and from the level, your Paras only knows Scratch, this is just embarrassing.” Green voiced while Parasite was still storing up the energy from the Gust. “It’s smarter to recall your bug.”
When no answer came, Green just twitched.
“Fine, just remember I gave you an out, Pidgeotto finish this with Quick Attack.”
The moment he called that out, Violet smirked. “Unleash your Bide.”
That sentence made Green’s eyes widen. “Pidgeotto get away!” He tried despite how useless that would be given how Pidgeotto was already in motion with the Quick Attack before Parasite unleashed a blast of energy that knocked the bird away.
As Bide takes the damage and deals it back double, it was enough to one-shot the bird while Green returned him with a frown.
“Hm, I should’ve expected something like that.” He said, berating himself for not thinking that she had any TM’s.
“Alright Parasite!” Violet cheered as the Paras gave a sigh of relief, collapsing in exhaustion making the girl wince before she pulled out the Pokeball. “Great job, you take a nice rest.”
So far the score was 1-0 on her side.
If she wins the next part then she’ll automatically win the battle and she was excited about that prospect.
So she went all in by sending out Stinger as Green regarded the bug before sending out his Rattata.
“Don’t think you’ll take down my other two Pokemon so easily.” Green warned her showing that he wasn’t going to give her anymore chances of backing out as they both checked the Pokedex with the Rattata being 19 while Stinger was 20
“Twineedle!”
Stinger gave a harsh buzz as he fired a barrage of barbs from his stingers towards the Rattata who easily dodged and weaved around them with a Quick Attack, giving a Tail Whip in the process to lower his defense a bit.
“It’s too fast use String Shot to slow him down!”
Listening to her, Stinger fired a multitude of string shots, surrounding the Rattata, but Green frowned as he noticed the purple barbs inside of the webs.
“Careful, that Beedrill used Poison Sting with the String Shot.” He warned the Rat who gave a nod, knowing that one wrong step could poison him.
“Now Twineedle once more!”
As the Beedrill came closer to launch the barbs, Green kept calm with his arms crossed, regarding this battle.
‘ I see, so this is how she got this far. ’ Green thought now understanding her battling style.
Perhaps the Gym wasn’t luck if she was this strategic, but it won’t work with him.
Waiting until the Beedrill was close enough, he gave the order. “Bubblebeam!”
“Wha?!” Violet clearly wasn’t expecting that as the Rattata fired a barrage of bubbles that slammed into Stinger, the moisture on his wings making it hard for him to fly as he began to descend, having to forgo using Twineedle to keep from crashing.
“Now finish him with Hyper Fang!”
Rattata snarled and lunged at Stinger, moving expertly around the carefully placed traps while his fang glowed before he slammed into Stinger biting into him with enough force for a part of his carapace to crack as Stinger gave a cry of pain before gravity took effect with the two slamming into the ground.
The force was enough to knock Stinger out while Rattata huffed and sat down.
Violet quickly returned Stinger, looking very worried given the size of the crack on his carapace, especially because Rattata were known to be able to bite through solid stone with Hyper Fangs.
“You’re not the only one to use TM’s.” Green reminded her as Bubblebeam was given to him for defeating the Cerulean Gym.
Any retort died out when Rattata gave a cry and began to glow, growing in size to show his evolution before a tawny colored rat stood in its place with webbed feet and hands.
“I suppose I should thank you for giving him enough experience to evolve, we’ve been trying to fix that for awhile.” Green commented, returning his new Raticate as the score was 1-1.
This next fight would determine who was stronger.
“Alright Silk it’s all up to you!” Violet sent out her Butterfree who gave a cry as she flew around, fully expecting for Green to send out his Eevee.
Instead however, he sent out a Pokemon that neither she nor Silk were expecting.
This Pokemon was sitting, levitating in the air with its kite-faced shape being yellow with slanted eyes, looking like he was wearing brown pauldron like armor, its yellow tail swishing.
“An Abra?” Violet asked in disbelief. “But they can only use Teleport!”
Green just smirked. “Thunder Wave!”
Eyes widening, Violet ordered for Silk to dodge before the Abra began to Teleport around the area on his trainer’s order, confusing both her and Silk.
“I’ve had this Abra for a few days and it was enough for him to master the four TM’s I found on my journey.” Green admitted with Violet tensing as this confirmed that the Abra knew three other moves. “Mega Punch!”
Immediately the Abra teleported above Silk with his fist glowing, the Butterfree barely having time to register that before the attack connected, sending her right into the poisoned string shots.
Silk grimaced as the poison surged through her with Green effectively turning her own trap on her.
“I thought you would’ve expected more TM moves after Raticate surprised you with a Bubblebeam, it should be obvious considering you used one yourself,” Green quirked a brow at her as Silk quickly flew back up, trying to ignore the poison. “Were you really not expecting for anyone else to use TM’s?”
Instead of answering, Violet went on the offensive. “Supersonic.”
Despite Silk’s best efforts, the Abra was back to teleporting around her, he even took the time to mess with her as he kept teleporting behind her to tap her shoulder a few times.
As this continued, Silk was really getting frustrated, especially with the poison surging through her some more before Green decided to end the fight.
“Seismic Toss.”
“Use Confusion all around you!” Violet desperately ordered to try and catch him off guard, but being a natural Psychic Type the Abra just ignored the psychic attack as it grappled the bug and slammed her into the ground where she didn’t get up while Violet stared in shock.
S-She lost.
Green gave a nod to his Abra who teleported to hang onto his shoulder where it went to sleep once getting comfortable. “The only reason you defeated Pidgeotto was because I wasn’t expecting for your Paras to know Bide,” He admitted as that was due to his own arrogance, especially since it was the last TM that he used for Abra. “Now that I know about it, the attack won’t work again and you were too impatient with your fighting style.”
Violet said nothing, just returning Silk as she wanted to get to the Pokemon Center, but Green continued.
“I’d advise that you train some more, especially if you still plan to use Bugs.” Green told her as this battle was easier than he expected for someone who was supposed to be his Rival.
It pissed him off because he wants someone to push him, she wasn’t his Rival if she was this weak. She had strategy but she easily lost control when someone turned it around on her.
With his piece said, he walked off, aiming to get to Vermillion to get his third badge, Eevee following after him while Violet stood there with Silk’s Pokeball, unsure of what to do.
That evening, she sat at the table of the Pokemon Center, waiting for her Pokemon to be cleared as while Parasite was just exhausted Silk had to get some toxins out of her, nothing too life threatening but it was enough to need her to rest.
Stinger however needed extensive attention due to the damage that Rattata gave him with Hyper Fang.
She was told that he would be fine but they were checking to make sure there wasn’t any lasting damage.
Green’s words kept going through her head despite how she tried not to think about them, but she knew he was right.
She was arrogant in this fight, especially after getting the first badge.
Sure some of that arrogance disappeared after her near death experience but she thought she was strong enough to take Green down.
Instead he practically curb-stomped her.
It was stupid of her to not expect TM moves, of course she should’ve expected them but she didn’t think that Green had any except for the Bide TM, but if she found that Water Gun TM then of course he would’ve found others.
And they were the right TM’s to allow for his Abra to be a powerful fighter despite how they’re usually known to Teleport only.
“How could I be so stupid?” Violet muttered placing her hands on her face.
Brock’s words from when she gained the Boulder Badge echoed in her head.
‘ It’s only going to get tougher from here on out, I’ve lost to some Bug Catchers before and a lot of them give up before even reaching the second Gym, to raise other Pokemon. ’
She was really starting to see why he gave that warning.
Both Stinger and Silk were fully evolved and none of Green’s Pokemon were evolved with the exception of the Pidgeotto when they battled and they would only get stronger when they reach their final form much like how his Raticate had to be stronger.
And his Abra despite having a type disadvantage against her Pokemon easily took her out. Just imagine how strong it would be as an Alakazam?
With all of that to take in, could she actually do this or was her dream really just something that was impossible?
Was Lucy right? Were all of those kids right?
Is it impossible to be strong with Bug Types?
Her resolve which has kept her going was almost shattered at this point.
“Violet Hawke, your Pokemon are waiting for you at the Front Desk.” Violet’s head snapped up at hearing the announcement as she quickly left the table.
“Are they okay?!” Violet asked immediately on getting to the desk with Nurse Joy holding out her hand, gesturing for her to keep calm.
“Your Pokemon are alright, but I would refrain from having your Beedrill partake in any battles for a good day,” She warned Violet. “There’s no lasting damage and the crack should disappear after a day, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
Violet gave a nod, relief flooding her face, thanking the Nurse as she grabbed their Pokeballs before leaving the desk to go back to her room.
Once there, she let Stinger out first to see him subdued as he was on the ground, not hovering for once most likely due to the injury as while the crack was barely visible it was still there.
She didn’t let Silk or Parasite out because they weren’t the ones who got injured in this last battle, opting to talk to them tomorrow.
“How are you feeling?” Violet asked her Starter only for him to look away.
It seemed that losing to a Rattata despite the fact that he took down countless other members of the species before had him annoyed.
Seeing that, Violet sat down next to him now giving a bit of a sad smile. “Sorry.” She said with Stinger tilting his head in her direction in confusion, most likely wondering why she was apologizing. “I got so into the idea of showing Green that we were strong that I didn’t take into account the idea that he might’ve used TM’s. Both his Rattata and his Abra caught us completely off guard.”
Though he obviously didn’t think the same either given how off guard he was when Parasite took down his Pidgeotto despite the double-weakness. But Green was right in the fact that it won’t work again showing that unless they had something new she would still lose.
“Bzzt.” Stinger buzzed, ignoring the slight pain as he flew up until he was right behind Violet and landed on her back, being very careful not to actually sting her as his forearms went around her chest and legs went around her stomach while his head was right next to hers.
Violet giggled at that, feeling a little ticklish as she smiled at Stinger who buzzed his wings in response.
This reminded her of when Stinger cheered her up when he was a Weedle on that day they met Prof. Oak.
And just like that she remembered the words the Professor told her that day.
‘ Any Pokemon can be strong depending on the trainer, no matter their type or what Pokemon they are. What matters most is your bond with the Pokemon. ’
On remembering that, Violet frowned pushing those thoughts she had earlier away.
There was no way she was going to quit because of a little setback. So what if Green won that battle?
She’ll just win the next one.
She made a promise to become the world’s greatest Bug Trainer and she was going to keep it, no matter how long it takes.
So she stood up, with Stinger tightening his hold to avoid falling off. “Stinger once you’re all healed up we’re heading out to Nugget Bridge and up to Route 24 to battle every trainer out there!” She declared with clear determination in her voice. “Then we head to the Gym and wipe them out.”
Stinger gave a cry of agreement, itching to get stronger.
Violet grinned at him as she adjusted her hat, no doubt looking forward to the rematch with Green, to prove to him that she wasn’t weak.
They had a lot of work to do.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 20
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 22
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder and Supersonic.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 17
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore and Bide.
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Notes:
Phew that was fun to type, even if Violet lost to Green but honestly at this point Violet is still pretty weak despite the amazing strides she's made, she still has a lot to learn about her Pokemon's strengths. Plus unlike the games there are other people who would use TM's, like the Rival. Considering how Violet found the Water Gun TM, Green found three TM's that could be found in the game being Mega Punch, Thunder Wave and Seismic Toss and used them to help his Abra out, I mean it makes more sense than just doing switching techniques like you would in the game. Plus I think that would catch anyone off guard.
Violet on the other hand could only use the Bide TM and it's great for a one-trick surprise and is easily countered if you know it's coming. This loss however managed to pull out some insecurities that Violet hid, but it also taught her to expect TM moves as at this stage people will start to use them in battles. Meaning she would have to keep on her toes from now on.
Besides that this chapter showed Stinger and Silk getting along while still butting heads and Parasite didn't get too much screen time but I'm hoping to change that in the future. It's fun typing how the Bugs are interacting without their Trainer, hopefully I can make it even better in the future, especially whenever Violet does get a full team.
Oh and I managed to draw out how Violet looks and posted it on DeviantArt, though sadly I didn't add either Stinger, Silk or Parasite as I've had a hard enough time trying to have Violet which took freaking forever to get it down good enough to post. Here's the link. https://www.deviantart.com/encryption5461/art/Trials-of-a-Bug-Catcher-Violet-Hawke-824347599
Hopefully if I get some more time I'll try to draw out her Pokemon in the future. Only time will tell, alright have a Happy New Year everyone!
Chapter Text
“Parasite, you okay?” Violet asked with concern in her tone as her newest Pokemon was stumbling a bit after taking a Poison Sting from Stinger.
They were currently training up past the Nugget Bridge where they managed to fight quite a few trainers with Pokemon like Geodude, Slowpoke, Spearow, Oddish and Nidoran-both male and female.
Pretty good variety for her team to train up against, though she still had a problem with training up Parasite who kept getting knocked out before Bide could be completed. And Scratch wasn’t too strong of a move for the type of Pokemon they faced here.
It was enough for the Mushroom Pokemon to be pretty despondent to the others who were raking in a lot of wins. The loss against Green was motivating them pretty well.
“Bzt?” Stinger’s tone also held some concern as he knew that Parasite was weak to poison attacks, they were trying to help her work up an endurance to it much like how Silk practiced using Confusion on him to help his endurance.
Besides, he didn’t want to use Twineedle on her if Poison Sting was doing that much damage.
Parasite just looked away, feeling weak compared to them.
Seeing that, Violet easily picked her up and held her close with a smile. “Hey it’ll take some time, Stinger and Silk had a long way to go in the beginning, you should’ve seen when they were Kakuna and Metapod,” She revealed to her. “There wasn’t much we could do at that stage.”
It didn’t work due to how Parasite said nothing and Violet sighed before glancing up at Stinger who gave a nod, watching the Beedrill fly off towards Silk who was strengthening her Confusion by lifting rocks much like how one would lift weights.
‘ It would help if Paras wasn’t limited with moves. ’ Violet thought as she knew that was the real reason. ‘ But most of her strength comes from TM’s. ’
Once she gets to Celadon she should be able to get some great TM’s, though she would only be able to afford a few of them and she wants to get enough for the whole team instead of just Parasite.
But for now she was stuck with the moves she could learn naturally and if the Pokedex was right, which it usually is, then the next one should be Leech Life.
A Bug Move which would help immensely given how each move has their own type and they’re stronger when a Pokemon of its own type uses it like how a water Pokemon using a water move is stronger than a normal type using a water move. They called it Same Type Attack Bonus or STAB in school if Violet remembers correctly.
Leech Life gets a bad rap due to how Zubats were notorious for using it and Supersonic making them pretty easy to take down by even beginner trainers. But when a Bug Pokemon uses Leech Life it gets a boosted effect making it a bit stronger.
It also heals the Pokemon who uses it which would help Parasite even more. Besides the only Bug type move she has in her arsenal is Twineedle on her Beedrill and that was it. Kind of weird that there aren’t that many bug moves compared to other ones now that she thinks of it.
Hearing a cry, Violet glanced over to see Stinger practicing a rapid fire string shot, switching between them and Twineedle, breaking Silk’s focus as she began to return the favor by trying to catch him in a Confusion.
Violet watched to make sure it wouldn’t get too out of hand like it usually did, but she didn’t intervene as she noticed that this was helping them out a lot, especially since Stinger was getting faster from dodging the psychic attacks while Silk was getting faster at firing off Confusion while in motion given how she always stood still to do that.
Seeing that they had it handled, Violet turned to continue training Parasite only to give a yelp when a long, shining blade sliced through the air in front of her.
Her yelp gained the attention of Stinger and Silk as they move to fight the new threat only to stop as Samurai stood there with a grin, sheathing his sword. “Greetings Violet of Viridian, it seems that we meet again.”
“Samurai?” Violet felt her eye twitch at what just happened. “Are you trying to kill me?!”
If she walked any further when that happened that would’ve been painful.
Instead of looking perturbed, Samurai kept his grin. “Of course not, I wouldn’t do that if there was a risk of injuring you.” He promised before eyeing her three Pokemon. “You’ve certainly gotten stronger.”
Taking a breath to calm her heart from the scare, Violet got the hint. “You want to battle?”
“Of course, I need to regain my lost honor.” Samurai said already holding up a Pokeball with Violet seeing that he had three which confused her. “One on one?”
Surely he should have four if he was being a Bug Trainer.
But she shrugged it off and placed Parasite down, giving a nod at the mushroom Pokemon who scurried out there with Samurai eyeing her.
“You took on quite the challenge, even Bug Catchers tend to avoid raising a Paras,” Samurai revealed, surprising her. “Their dual weakness against both flying and fire types are the reason, but they can be strong if trained right. I’ll have to see about catching one soon.”
So that meant his third Pokemon was a Beedrill most likely.
However Samurai sent out a Pokemon that clearly wasn’t a Beedrill nor was it his Metapod that had to be a Butterfree at this point.
It was a Venonat with bushy purple hair and red jeweled eyes as a pair of antenna’s quivered in the air.
“How did you get a Venonat?!” Violet asked as they could only be found further to the South-East of the Kanto Region which would take awhile to get to.
“I’m from Fuschia City, I’ve had Venonat just as long as Pinsir,” Samurai said with a shrug. “He was knocked out the last time we met from another battle, so I wasn’t able to show him off.”
On hearing that Violet figured it made sense as the two got ready with her checking her Pokedex to see that the Venonat was nearly lv. 20.
That meant it should only know Tackle, Disable, Supersonic and Confusion. But the battle with Green went through her mind along with remembering how Samurai’s Pinsir knew Swords Dance.
She can’t assume that was all he knew.
“Stun Spore/Supersonic!” Both Bug Trainers ordered with the two Bugs springing into action to try and outdo the other.
Sadly the Supersonic shot through the Stun Spore, easily blasting it away as Parasite hissed from the noise that began to mess with her head as she stumbled around.
“Now Venonat use Tackle!”
Venonat listened to Samurai slamming into Parasite who went rolling but as she got up with Violet ordering a Scratch, she ended up scratching herself.
‘ This is bad. ’ Violet thought as she was at quite the disadvantage.
Samurai didn’t let up. “Now use Confusion to knock her back!” He ordered with the Venonat’s eyes glowing right as Parasite was being lifted up before being slammed into the ground, skidding across it.
Thankfully it was enough to bring her back to her senses, though from how she was wincing it would seem that her health was in the yellow while Venonat was at full health.
“You are unfocused,” Samurai said looking at Violet seeing that she wasn’t fighting like she did last time. “Your head isn’t in the battle.”
Violet didn’t say anything to that, instead trying to think of a way to turn this around.
“Fweh!” Silk cheered for Parasite despite how bad it was looking while Stinger just watched without saying a word.
The Poison Bee Pokemon was worried about how this was going as he wanted Parasite to get stronger so the three of them could better protect their trainer. But so far the Mushroom Pokemon wasn’t keeping up that well.
He had to remind himself that he didn’t do so well in the beginning either and he knew that Parasite has improved immensely since joining the team, but it wasn’t enough.
“Bzzt.” Stinger gave a low cheer after a bit which made Silk give him a weird look that he returned with a glare, daring for her to make a comment about it.
Violet however knew that she couldn’t afford to use Bide because it would lock Parasite up and she was certain that the mushroom Pokemon couldn’t take too many Confusions. Stun Spore won’t reach the Venonat so Scratch was all she could do.
Wait, there was a way for her to use Stun Spore, she just had to time it right.
“Tackle once more.” Samurai ordered, guessing that Violet wasn’t going to say anything, so he continued the battle and Violet waited until Venonat got close.
“Stun Spore all around you.”
As Violet gave the order, Parasite gave a cry as the spores began to shoot out of her mushrooms and surrounded her like a shield right as the Venonat made contact.
Skidding back a bit, more injured now, Parasite was panting right as Venonat felt his limbs lock up.
“Now Scratch, use hit and run tactics.” Violet ordered as Parasite gave a low cry and shot in, hitting the Venonat before running back as the bug went to attack only for his limbs to lock up again.
“Clever.” Samurai muttered seeing how he fell for the trap, but not calling it dishonorable, having learned that there was more to battles than honor at this point in his journey.
Violet didn’t hear him as Parasite kept the hit and run tactics up, having immense luck with Venonat’s limbs locking up each time and before long, the Venonat was just as injured.
But luck runs out as Venonat was finally able to fire off a Confusion catching Parasite off guard before slamming her into the ground to where she was knocked out.
Violet felt her shoulders slump at yet another battle was lost while Samurai returned Venonat, not saying anything about his ‘honor’ being restored as he knew neither of them used their best Pokemon.
As strong as his Venonat was, it pales in comparison to his Pinsir and Butterfree.
Same with her as looking at both her Beedrill and Butterfree, Samurai knew that if she fought with those two, chances were he would’ve lost.
Violet finally returned Parasite, her hat hiding her eyes before Samurai spoke. “The battle could’ve gone either way,” He said surprising her. “If Venonat didn’t break out of the paralysis, you would’ve won.”
“But I lost.” She said her mind still on both this battle and the one with Green.
“And you defeated me before.” Samurai reminded her, quirking a brow at her.
Hearing that Violet squirmed, glancing at Parasite’s Pokeball before placing it on her belt. “So how many Gym Badges do you have Samurai?” She asked, hoping to take her mind off of the loss.
“Gym Badges? You’re collecting them?”
The question threw Violet off guard. “You’re not?”
“No, I’m only traveling and building up my team.” Samurai responded with a shrug. “I don’t plan to take the Gym Challenge or enter the Indigo Tournament, I take it you do?”
After a second, Violet gave a nod. “Yeah, I have the Boulder Badge,” She revealed, glancing towards Stinger and Silk to see that they seemed to be talking about something, before returning her gaze to Samurai. “I plan to challenge the Cerulean Gym soon.”
“You have quite the road ahead of you.” Samurai cupped his chin in thought. “I take it that your Paras only knows two moves?”
“Three.” Violet said rather quickly with Samurai blinking at that, wondering why she only used two. “Um I figured Bide wouldn’t work on you.”
“I see.” Samurai took that in, but still seeing how much of a disadvantage her Paras seemed to be at. “I heard rumors that there was a man selling a TM in Cerulean City, the name escapes me but perhaps it would be one to give your Paras more coverage.”
That made Violet’s eyes widen, not expecting that, though she grimaced wondering how much it would be and if she would have enough money.
But still it was something that she desperately needed to ensure that Parasite does keep up with the others.
“I’ll look into it, thanks Samurai-wait what’s your name?” Violet looked down at her feet in embarrassment. “I never did get it.”
Samurai blinked before chuckling. “I see, I may have forgotten to give it, my name is Brian, but I honestly prefer Samurai.”
Violet repeated the name in her head before nodding as she and Samurai separated with her vowing to win the next time.
Perhaps Parasite will be a Parasect the next time they do battle?
Eventually Violet made it to the Cerulean Cape, a rather popular tourist destination where couples usually go for a date, though Violet didn’t really get that concept but she did enjoy seeing the sunset reflecting off of the water given how it was around evening.
She knew it would take some time to get back to Cerulean, but she didn’t want to leave at the moment as she wanted the image of the sunset burned in her mind for the remainder of her journey.
“I should look into getting a camera to use whenever I see things like this.”
With that thought Violet sat down to rest for a bit, keeping her Pokemon in their Pokeballs as they were tired from all of the trainer battles, but it was enough for Silk to learn Whirlwind while Stinger was nearly caught up to her level.
Parasite was very close to learning Leech Life, Violet has taken to switch training her against the wild Pokemon and it helped just not with her self-esteem. It didn’t help that some of the trainers looked down on her team as there were literally no other Bug Catchers in the route.
Hearing a noise, Violet tensed and looked to the side to see a Rattata bursting out of the grass, though for some odd reason it had a human head which made her stare, unsure if she was seeing this or not.
“Phew, lost them,” The Rattata managed to say and Violet’s jaw dropped in shock. “Who knew that Oddish could be vicious?!”
“A talking Rattata?” Violet muttered, unable to comprehend that.
It seemed that despite the human head, its hearing was the same as a regular Rattata as he suddenly turned towards her with the two being in a staring contest.
“Uh,” The Rattata looked unsure as the last time he ran into a person they tried to catch him and he wasn’t willing to risk a Pokeball hitting him. “Hi?”
Violet just stared, gobsmacked something that the Rattata didn’t really blame her for considering if the situation was reversed he would feel the same.
But she wasn’t trying to catch him, so he felt that he could use this to his advantage as he ran towards her.
That turned out to be a mistake as she grabbed Stinger’s Pokeball. “S-Stay back.” She said unsure of what to do.
Realizing he was most likely scaring her, the Rattata tried to stand on its hind legs and raise its front paws in a calming manner only to fall and land on his back where he struggled for a bit.
The scene would’ve been comedic if Violet wasn’t unsure of what was going on.
“W-Wait don’t attack, I just need some help.” The Rattata cried out as he tried to get off his back before using his tail to fix himself. “I’m not a Pokemon, I’m a Human.”
Violet blinked, trying to imagine that. “Uh are you sure?” She asked, tilting her head in confusion.
Sure the face was human but on the body of a Rattata?
“Yes! I only look like this because of an experiment, I can’t fix it myself but if I had help I could.” The Rattata said with Violet hesitating before deciding to give him a chance as she placed her Pokeball back on her belt and approached him.
“What do you need?”
The Rattata sighed in relief before getting to business. “I need someone to operate the computer system while I’m inside of the machine that did this to me, my name is Bill, perhaps you’ve heard of me?”
Violet frowned, trying to think about it before it clicked. “Wait, the Pokemaniac?”
Wasn’t he the one who made the transfer system to help Trainers keep more than six Pokemon?
“Exactly, I was trying to improve the transfer system but well there was an accident.” Bill looked rather sheepish. “You’re the first human that hasn’t tried to catch me so I’m taking advantage of this.”
Okay Violet could see that being a good reason. “So where do you live?”
“A bit down the cape, my sea cottage is there.” Bill pointed in the direction with Violet nodding as she walked towards it. “What’s your name by the by?”
“I’m Violet.” Violet responded with a small smile. “It’s nice to meet you.”
“Same, I just wish it was when I was normal instead of like this.” Bill used a paw to rub the back of his head. “It’s rather embarrassing.”
“What’s it like?” Violet asked curiously.
It’s not everyday you meet someone who knows what it’s like to be a Pokemon after all.
“Well I’m tiny, I don’t have opposable thumbs and I’m prey to a lot of the critters around here.” Bill listed off given how a Spearow and an Ekans tried to eat him earlier. “Though the enhanced senses were pretty nice and I know more about a Pokemon’s perspective to help out with my research. That’s always nice.”
Violet gave a nod, finding that rather interesting and before long they were at the Sea Cottage that was locked.
“The Key is underneath the mat, I had to jimmy the window open a bit to get out.” Bill explained to her.
Moments later they were inside where Bill was placed inside of a rather complex looking machine with a second one being nearby. “Alright, just press the button on the computer and it’ll take care of the rest.”
“You just need me to press a button?” Violet quirked a brow at him while the human turned Pokemon pawed the ground a bit.
“I have to be inside while you press the button.” Bill revealed with Violet getting that.
So she walked to the computer and waited until Bill was ready before pressing the button as the machines began to flash with some sparks showing. The flashes made her grimace as she had to look away while the machine began to make a lot of noises, leaving her to be worried that it might blow up.
Eventually the noise died down and the doors on both machines opened, one with a Rattata that ran out, sniffing the air while a human walked out of the first one.
It was a seventeen year old teenager with messy brown hair, wearing a ruffled blue t-shirt and wrinkled green slacks.
“Man it feels great being human again,” Bill said groaning as he stretched. “You never realize how much you miss being bipedal and having fingers until you don’t have them.”
Violet gave a small giggle. “I think I can understand that.”
Bill gave a start before giving her a grateful smile. “Thanks for that Violet, if you weren’t around there’s no telling what could’ve happened.” He said walking up to her. “Though I still have the oddest urge to build a nest and collect fruit.”
The image of this Bill building a nest like a Rattata sent Violet into a bit of a giggle fit while he looked embarrassed before snapping his fingers.
“I know the right reward for you.” He said opening his desk drawer where Violet could see a few wrapped snacks, most likely so he could snack while researching before he found a paper voucher. “Here you go.”
Accepting it, Violet read what it said and stilled. “A Ticket to the SS. Anne?!”
The biggest cruise ship in Kanto? One that’s extremely hard to get one for?!
Wasn’t this type of ticket worth millions?!
“They invited me but I’m not really one for parties, I think you’d enjoy it more.” Bill said showing that he wasn’t planning on going, so at least this was the ticket wouldn’t be a waste. “It’ll dock in two weeks in Vermillion, so I hope you enjoy the party.”
“I-I can’t accept this, it’s too much.” Violet protested but Bill held up a hand.
“Trust me it’s not too much, you really helped me out of a jam.” Bill reassured her before eyeing her Pokeballs. “I take it you’re a traveling trainer?”
When Violet gave a nod, Bill continued.
“Well there are quite a few strong trainers on the ship, enough to where your team will gain a lot of experience to get stronger, just give it some thought alright?”
Thinking about it a bit more, Violet relented and placed the ticket in her bag.
“So what were you doing out at the Cape by yourself anyways?” Bill asked curiously. “Were you waiting for someone?”
If she was he would really feel bad for intruding on that despite his circumstances.
Violet shook her head at the question. “No, I was just watching the sunset, I spent this whole day training my team up to challenge Misty.”
“Ah you’re taking the Gym Challenge,” Bill held a nostalgic look in his eyes. “That’s quite a goal, what Pokemon do you have?”
Violet fidgeted. “Beedrill, Butterfree and Paras.”
“A Bug trainer?” Bill’s voice actually sounded impressed which surprised Violet. “Not often you see a team like that around here, they must be strong.”
The unexpected praise made Violet flush. “I-I’m not that strong.”
The last two losses were fresh in her mind.
Bill seemed to be rather surprised by how she was acting, but decided not to push.
Instead he glanced at the time. “It’ll take you at least a couple hours to get back to Cerulean by foot.” He voiced with Violet thinking she should get started. “I have a spare room for tonight if you want?”
“You already gave me the ticket you don’t need to.” Violet tried to protest but Bill waved it off.
“It’s fine, it wouldn’t hurt for you to stay the night and then head to Cerulean in the morning.”
Thinking it over, Violet gave a slow nod.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 24
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 24
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 19
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore and Bide.
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Notes:
This took awhile to type, mostly because I realized I didn’t have a plan for how to do the meeting with Bill and how I wanted to do the character, plus I did want to bring Samurai back to show that he was improving as well. Yes Violet lost another battle, but if it was a three on three she would’ve won and Samurai knew it.
I hope to add more to Bill’s character in the next chapter as all you have to go on him was the small interaction in the game and I based him off of his manga counterpart which has a lot more to give. Besides that nothing really special happened. The chapter was rather short too.
But her team is definitely getting stronger with Silk learning a new move that will come into play a lot in the story, I have plans for how Whirlwind can be used and Parasite is almost at the level to learn a Bug Move along with the news of someone selling a TM in Cerulean she’s about to become a force to be reckoned with.
Seriously it was hard to do good training with Paras in the beginning, especially since she didn’t have any good moves at the time. Same thing when I started with Weedle and Caterpie during my playthrough before this story, I wanted it to be authentic so I deposited the starter upon catching those two and got my ass kicked a lot in the beginning due to unlucky crits before they evolved. Took two hours of grinding before I started to rake in wins.
No Pokemon only scenes in this chapter but I hope to add some more later on.
Chapter 10: The Tomboyish Mermaid
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
“Well now, your Pokemon sure are lively.” Bill couldn’t help but comment the next morning as Violet was giving them some berry and leaves soaked in the honey that Stinger and Silk collected.
Violet smiled a bit bashfully. “Thank you.”
She meant it too, it was great to meet people who don’t look down on the type in general. So far only Prof. Oak, Samurai, Brock and now Bill seem to be rather supportive of the team she chose to train.
But there were a lot of people who think otherwise sadly enough.
Parasite however kept to herself in isolation no doubt even more despondent after the battle with Samurai, though she did speak up whenever Silk spoke with her, the butterfly Pokemon making an effort to keep the mushroom Pokemon involved.
Stinger however just ate, happy to be tasting honey with his meal again as the last time was when they were in Viridian City.
Going for so long without it made it taste even sweeter.
“So I take it you plan to challenge Misty?” Bill asked watching the team before glancing at Violet.
“I do, but I heard that there was someone selling a TM in Cerulean, I want to get it for Parasite and train her up until she learns Leech Life.” Violet revealed before realizing that Bill most likely had no clue which one was Parasite as she blushed. “Oh and Parasite is Paras.”
“I see.” Bill already guessed as Paras was the only one who naturally learned Leech Life. “That’s a good plan and your Paras is close to evolving.”
Hearing that made Violet beam as it was always awesome to see an Evolution.
“Once I do get her trained up with two new moves I plan to face Misty with her and my Butterfree.” Violet didn’t miss how Stinger gave a start at hearing that. “I want to use Stinger as he’s my starter but Misty has a Starmie that’s part psychic and I don’t want to take any chances.”
“Fweh.” Silk gave a slight gloat while Stinger glared and jabbed a stinger in her direction.
Parasite looked between the two and slowly stepped back not wanting to get involved.
“Not a bad strategy, and your Paras has the best advantage in the gym, especially if she can learn Leech Life and get a hit on the Starmie.” Bill mused with Violet giving a nod. “It’s too bad she can’t learn attacking grass moves naturally.”
That made Violet’s shoulders slump. “Yeah having a grass move would be nice.”
She won’t lie and say she’s not disappointed but she still wouldn’t change this team for anything.
Bill stroked his chin in contemplation before smiling. “Hey how about I give you a lift back to Cerulean?” He offered catching Violet by surprise. “I can have my Abra teleport you and I need to take care of some errands.”
“Y-You don’t have to.” Violet stammered out, looking down. “You already gave me a ticket to the SS. Anne and let me stay the night.”
“It’s seriously no trouble at all,” Bill looked pretty amused by this. “If you weren’t around I would still be a Rattata and probably eaten by any of the predator Pokemon, I nearly suffocated because of an Ekans the other day.”
Violet actually blanched at that, having a flashback to when she nearly suffocated before shaking it from her memory, not wanting to break down.
Bill didn’t notice that as he turned to search through his desk for the Pokeball containing his Abra. “Believe it or not, Abra was my first Pokemon, though he’s pretty lazy and didn’t want to evolve,” He said, catching Violet’s interest. “It was fine with me as I was more of a researcher than a battler.”
With that said he sent out his Abra who just levitated in place, though its ear twitched as he realized that Bill wasn’t alone and Violet tensed as she actually felt a slight pressure in her head.
Bill frowned. “Enough of that Abra, Violet’s a friend.” He said recognizing what his Pokemon was doing and just like that the pressure was gone. “Sorry about that, I should’ve warned you that he’s a bit untrusting of strangers.”
“It’s fine.” Violet said not really bothered by that. “Stinger was the same way when he was a Weedle.”
Bill gave a nod at that before moving to make a quick list of supplies he’ll need to get.
Violet hummed as she was back in Cerulean City after separating from Bill, walking around trying to find the person who sold TM’s. She had to ask around to be able to get to the right place but she felt that it would be worth it.
No matter how much that TM was, it would be a must have… Unless it was one that Parasite can’t learn.
Perhaps she should find out what TM it is before she buys it or if this person has any other ones.
But that thought went out of her mind as she saw the place she was heading towards surrounded by police as the door was kicked in and her heart dropped.
What’s going on?
“Um excuse me.” She said approaching one of the officers who had a Growlithe sniffing around.
“Beat it kid, we’re busy.” The officer said in a gruff tone.
That made Violet shrink back a bit as she saw various other officers casing the scene and decided she should probably leave before they thought she was contaminating the crime scene.
She watches cop shows all the time, so she knows a thing or two about that, then again she shouldn’t rely on things she sees on TV.
Taking a few steps back, Violet saw someone out of the corner of her eye looking rather shifty as he was walking by wearing a dark blue jacket and jeans, the guy was actually keeping an eye on the officers and their Pokemon as they continued their investigation.
Finding that a bit odd, Violet wanted to get the officer’s attention but figured he wouldn’t listen and tell her to leave again.
‘ It’s none of my business. ’ Violet thought to herself as she wasn’t an officer.
She was a bug catcher with one badge.
For all she knew this guy could have powerful Pokemon that could easily take her down.
But what if he was the one responsible for this?
Violet didn’t even realize she was already following him, her legs moving before she could think.
The man was really starting to act suspicious as Violet attempted to be sneaky, keeping her distance to avoid being seen and all that.
Eventually the man decided to cut through an alley with Violet hesitating before moving to follow, sending Silk out in the process.
She quickly placed a finger to her lips to keep Silk quiet and pointed to the sky with the bug Pokemon quickly understanding.
As she took to the sky, Violet slowly walked down the alley only to frown as the guy wasn’t anywhere nearby-.
“I knew someone was following me.” Violet jumped as the guy was actually above her on a fire escape with a dark look. “What do you want kid-hm?!”
The guy’s face changed to one of recognition which stumped Violet before the man grinned.
“You’re the brat who messed up our plans in Mt. Moon.” The man said with Violet taking a step back with some fear.
This guy was a part of Team Rocket.
Reaching for Stinger’s Pokeball, Violet felt some pressure on her mind as another shape emerged from behind the nearby dumpster.
It was a short, round creature with a yellow torso and a brown midsection going down to its feet, tired looking eyes that were now glowing purple and a yellow trunk on its face.
With her vision swimming, Violet knew this was bad as the Drowzee was messing with her mind while the Rocket Grunt chuckled. “Did you really think I was going to wait here without sending a Pokemon out? You kids are certainly naive.” He knew he already won as his Drowzee was exceptionally skilled with its psychic attacks. “I think I might be due for a promotion by taking you to one of the Executives.”
Violet could feel her senses failing, a glazed look beginning to appear in her eyes before a String Shot hit the Drowzee right in the eyes, cutting off the Hypnosis that it was doing.
“Wha?!” The Grunt asked only to see a rather livid Silk fly down in front of Violet who shook her head to clear it.
She did have enough of her senses back to put on a timid smile. “D-Did you think I would follow you without letting one of my Pokemon out?”
Hm, perhaps her light-headedness made her a bit snarky? But she was really happy she thought about letting Silk out, otherwise this would’ve ended badly.
The grunt glared before jumping down from the fire escape. “Alright kid, let’s take care of this,” He said before giving an order and throwing a second Pokeball. “Drowzee, use Disable. Machop, use Karate Chop.”
Seeing the second Pokemon come out, Violet knew that she couldn’t treat this like any other Pokemon battle so she sent Stinger and Parasite out. “This guy is a part of Team Rocket, Stinger, use Twineedle on the Drowzee! Parasite Stun Spore on both of them! Silk, Confusion on Machop!”
Stinger began to give a loud buzz on hearing the words Team Rocket with his eyes flashing as he began to fly at the Drowzee at high speeds making it stop using Disable which freed Silk to launch her psychic attacks.
Despite not knowing what was going on, Parasite listened, falling into the support role of the fight, the spores paralyzing the two Pokemon while the Rocket Grunt began to panic.
He wasn’t expecting this type of resistance from the brat.
Reaching into his jacket that was now unzipped to show the Rocket Uniform beneath, the guy pulled out a whip and swung it, catching Stinger by surprise as it smacked into him.
It was enough for the Drowzee to catch him in a Confusion looking rather injured and ignoring the paralysis as it began to use Hypnosis.
Seeing that, Silk used her Confusion to send the Machop flying into the Hypnosis Pokemon.
The Rocket Grunt was about to change his plans and have his Pokemon attack the kid, but before he began to cough as a few spores reached him and his eyes widened as he completely forgot about the Paras who managed to sneak around the fighting to hit him with the Stun Spore, his limbs locking up right as Stinger and Silk finished off his two Pokemon.
Violet gave a sigh of relief at how that went and was happy that they managed to win before they heard footsteps rushing as a few Growlithes followed by Officers rushed to the scene, no doubt the Puppy Pokemon managing to track the scent of the Rocket Member as they were actually dumbfounded to see the member of Team Rocket paralyzed while the young Bug Catcher had him surrounded with her three Pokemon.
Feeling slightly nervous, Violet gave a small wave.
“Do you have any idea how dangerous that stunt you pulled was?!” Violet flinched as the chief of Police, Officer Jenny was laying into her. “You put yourself and others in grave danger young lady.”
The officer had cerulean colored hair and amber eyes, wearing a decorated blue police uniform giving her a harsh look.
Violet couldn’t find anything to say, a bit scared.
“If that Grunt had a Koffing or a Weezing he could’ve ordered it to Self-Destruct and even in the alley the results would’ve ended with serious injuries.” Jenny said knowing that the range of the explosion could reach far if the one using it was skilled enough.
Any Pokemon who could learn those moves were not taken lightly given how they could be used for terrorism.
Violet winced, not even thinking about that.
Seeing that she wasn’t talking, Jenny sighed and lightened up, thinking that perhaps the kid learned her lesson. “That aside you did help capture a member of Team Rocket,” She relented seeing the kid glance up at her. “But don’t think for a second that it makes what you did okay.”
Violet gave a shaky nod.
“Good, now there’s someone who wants to meet you.” Jenny said, turning to walk away, opening the door. “You’re up, I’m going to go check up on the interrogation.”
Shifting a bit, Violet was wondering who wanted to meet her before the Cerulean City Gym Leader walked in with the girl giving a start.
“So you’re Violet?” Misty asked, closing the door behind her, giving the bug catcher a one over look before smiling. “Nice to finally meet you.”
Violet blinked. “Finally?” She asked, sounding a bit timid.
Misty smirked as she was standing outside while Jenny was laying down the law into Violet, so she took it as a victory that Violet finally spoke after that before sitting across from her. “Yeah, your name has come up a bit between all the Gym Leaders, Brock mentioned you in his report for what happened at Mt. Moon.” She revealed with Violet being rather surprised by that. “Though I didn’t think our first meeting would be at the Police Station.”
“M-Me either,” Violet clasped her hands together nervously beneath the table. “I was going to challenge you soon.”
Hearing that made Misty grin. “I look forward to it.”
‘ Are they doing the good-cop bad-cop routine on me?’ Violet couldn’t help but think before Misty continued.
“I’m not going to lay into you like Jenny did, I think she already drilled it into your head about how bad of an idea following the guy was.” Misty stated seeing Violet look away in embarrassment. “But why didn’t you tell any of the officers instead?”
“I didn’t think they would listen, one of them told me to go away when I tried to ask what was going on.”
Misty hummed at hearing that, now getting it. “So you thought following the guy was better?”
“I didn’t realize he was a member of Team Rocket.” Violet protested before looking down.
“Look I’ll be straight with you, you did a great job but you’re just a kid, a rookie trainer at that,” Misty said in an even tone. “You shouldn’t be involved in something like this, the guy wouldn’t have gotten far to begin with once the officers got his scent and they had me on standby in case he was dangerous. Next time just leave it to the professionals, okay?”
Slowly Violet gave a nod, understanding what she meant..
They were right, she shouldn’t have gotten involved.
“But, the person he stole from was pretty grateful and asked me to give this to you.” Misty pulled out a brown colored TM with Violet’s eyes widening, the action making Misty grin. “It’s the TM for Dig, a ground type move.”
With that said she tossed it to Violet who fumbled with it in an attempt to catch it. “Thank you.”
“You can thank me by battling me.” Misty said standing up before gesturing to the door. “Come on, I think you’re good to go.”
Back in her room at the Pokemon Center, Violet was looking through the Pokedex with a look of glee on her face.
That battle with the Rocket Grunt was apparently enough for Parasite to learn Leech Life, giving her another move for the battle and she could learn Dig.
Having a Ground-Type Move would be crucial, especially since the next Gym after Misty was an Electric one, and a rather brutal one if the rumors were to be believed.
Still she already had Parasite learn Dig pretty easily, now they just needed to practice her two new moves before she was ready to face Misty which would be tomorrow.
Violet put it off long enough, especially since she wanted to make it to Vermillion to both get her third badge and check out the SS. Anne sometime in the next two weeks.
“Still according to this, Parasite will evolve in four more levels.” Violet wondered if she should train her up to that point or challenge the gym as she is.
While she was doing that, her three Pokemon were speaking to each other a few feet away.
Stinger was both annoyed and happy.
Annoyed because he wasn’t going to be able to fight in this Gym, but happy that they succeeded in protecting their trainer from Team Rocket this time.
He could see even Parasite was showing a bit more joy then the last few days, whether it's from not being defeated when it mattered or learning some new moves finally was up in the air.
Plus when she evolved she’ll be able to be of more use in a battle, something that Stinger looked forward to eagerly, especially when that means he’ll be able to battle her seriously rather than treating her with training wheels as the humans called it.
Despite wondering if he was using the right term, Stinger shook that thought from her head before looking at Silk with a buzzing noise, telling her she better not lose the next day.
Silk just gave him a dry look reminding him how he lost against Brock’s Onix in their first Gym Battle making him cross his stingers, declaring that he wore it down for her.
Looking at them, Parasite spoke up saying she’ll do her best earning a nod from Silk while Stinger took that as progress that she was getting confident.
“Alright, let’s get some last minute training in.” Violet closed the Pokedex, ready to head to one of the training fields at the Pokemon Center.
Violet was a bit nervous as she stood in front of the Cerulean City Gym the next day, taking a deep breath.
She could do this.
‘ Come on you’ve challenged Brock in your second week as a trainer. ’ Violet tried to psych herself up only to blink as she counted how long she’s been a trainer.
Wow it’s been twenty days since she first got Stinger.
Certainly felt longer.
Bracing herself, Violet entered and walked down a hall until she came to what looked to be an arena made in the middle of a swimming pool.
“Hello?” Violet looked around before the lights turned off as a spotlight shines above where a diving pool was.
Misty stood there wearing a strapless two piece blue swimsuit with some sandals before she dove off the diving board, doing a few flips right into the water.
Blinking at that right when the lights came back on, nearly blinding her, Violet saw Misty burst out of the water on top of a Dewgong, giving a grin at the rather dumbfounded bug catcher.
“Welcome to the Cerulean City Gym, normally I go into the formalities of asking your name and how many badges you have but since we both know that how about we just skip to the rules?” Misty suggested as Dewgong gave her a ride to her side of the field where she got out. “This will be a two-on-two battle only you can switch out, understand?”
Violet gave a determined nod as it was the same rules that applied to the Pewter Gym.
“Great! Now many trainers who want to turn pro have a policy about Pokemon.” Misty crossed her arms before a podium rose next to her containing two Pokeballs that she uses in her one badge obtained battles. “I wonder what your policy is?”
With that said, Misty tossed one of the Pokeballs out to show Staryu, a golden brown starfish Pokemon with a red jewel on the center as it spun in the air before landing on the field.
Seeing that, Violet sent out Silk noticing how Misty grimaced before covering it up.
“Is something wrong?” Violet asked not sure what that was.
“No, just something I need to deal with.” Misty reassured her before getting serious. “Staryu, Water Gun!”
“Hiyah!” The Staryu shot a stream of water from one of its legs right at Silk who dove out of the way, using Confusion to send it back.
It didn’t do much obviously, but Silk continued when Violet ordered a Supersonic.
“Go for a dive!” Misty smirked right as Staryu dove into the water, dodging the sonar-like attack while Violet grimaced.
Great, she never fought anyone who dodged by disappearing beneath the water.
“Careful Silk he could be anywhere.” Violet strained her eyes in the water, trying to spot a brown shape moving, but she couldn’t see anything.
Suddenly the Staryu shot out of the water with a spinning tackle that nailed Silk before disappearing back into the water.
Silk managed to right herself, but it was too late as she landed in the water right where the Staryu kept slamming into her, disappearing into the water.
“Your Butterfree is now in Staryu’s element, not many Pokemon can escape when that happens.” Misty said as Violet looked worried at seeing the hit and run techniques that the Staryu was using.
“Silk isn’t like many Pokemon.” Violet countered, eyes scanning to look for a way out, knowing that if she could get out of the water she’ll be fine. “Use String Shot on the field to pull yourself out.”
Hearing the order despite being underwater, Silk listened, first using her ability to see Staryu coming and positioning herself to use the force of the tackle to knock her to the surface.
Once that happened, she immediately shot a String Shot to the field where she began to pull herself much like how Stinger used to move as a Weedle and a Kakuna.
“Intercept with Tackle.” Misty ordered taking note on how Violet kept going despite the disadvantage.
Not often you get a trainer who kept going to the end, most would just forfeit their Pokemon at this point, while it’s not a bad thing to do this early in the journey, it was something that was frowned upon once one made it into the League.
It shows that she’s willing to go the high road to earn her victory instead of taking the easy way out.
Misty began to look rather competitive as the Staryu was just about to hit the Butterfree who almost made it to the field.
“Quick use Stun Spore!”
“Wha?!” Misty clearly wasn’t expecting that as Silk listened using the remaining powder on her wings to hit the Staryu right before it could make contact, paralyzing the Star Shape Pokemon while also contaminating the water, much to her ire.
Same with the Dewgong who quickly got out before he could get paralyzed.
‘ Great, now I need to empty and clean the pool. ’ Misty mentally complained.
However that had the consequence of Silk losing the protection against water as her wings were now too wet to fly without the powder protecting them.
But she made it out of the water, her wings drooping as she stood on the field while Staryu was beginning to sink due to the lack of movement, but Violet ordered a Confusion that grasped the water type and made him shoot out of the water only to slam into the field repeatedly where he remained unconscious.
“Rather risky strategy.” Misty said seeing that her Butterfree was now at a disadvantage. “You do realize that not only can’t she fly but you can’t use any more powder attacks right?”
“Perhaps but now your second Pokemon can’t go in there without risking being paralyzed.”
“We’ll see about that, Starmie get ready!”
Out came Misty’s second Pokemon, a Starmie, the evolved form of Staryu who was purple with a few more extra legs and a larger gem.
Starmie made a noise before seeing the contaminated pool while Silk put on a determined look despite being essentially crippled.
Violet was almost tempted to forfeit Silk, but knew that Parasite wouldn’t be able to win by herself the way she was now. Especially given how she can’t use Dig on this field due to how it would go into the water.
But she can’t use confusion because this Starmie was half-psychic so she had a resistance to it. So she had to be smart.
“Bubblebeam!”
Hearing that as a barrage of bubbles shot out of Starmie’s gems, Violet reacted.
“Use String Shot to get out of there and then Supersonic.”
Silk listened, firing a String Shot on the field a bit to the left, pulling herself out of there right as the Bubbles slammed into the spot where she was, kicking dust up before firing a sound wave at the Starmie who changed the course of the Bubblebeam to intercept the Supersonic, destroying it.
That time it hit Silk sending her back, injured but not out.
Misty actually looked impressed by how Violet was using String Shot given how many bug catchers tend to avoid using it whenever their Pokemon evolved, going straight for the offensive or status inducing moves.
‘ Can’t use Harden because the Bubblebeam will bypass it. ’ Violet’s mind was working overtime trying to find a way around Misty’s ace to do as much damage as she could. ‘ Silk won’t be able to stay up much longer. ’
Then an idea hit her.
“String Shot all around you.” Violet decided to limit how much Starmie could move with Silk firing a rapid fire of the silk.
It was a repeat of what she did to Brock and Green, nothing new but it does work to an extent.
If she could limit it, then the fight would be easy.
But Violet was beginning to realize that Misty hadn't called out a single psychic type move making her frown as she could’ve used Stinger in this fight without too much trouble.
That would’ve been nice to know earlier and sure she could’ve sent him out after Silk given how she hasn’t sent Parasite out, but she did promise to use her.
Misty saw what Violet was doing and called for a Water Gun, which Silk dodged, using String Shot.
Just one move and it was already causing her such a headache.
Finally, Silk used the same move making contact with the Starmie before pulling herself in for a Tackle, hitting the water/psychic type to where it almost stepped into one of the string shot traps.
“I think I see why you’re calling her Silk.” Misty said dryly as Silk was looking very exhausted.
Silk went to fire another one only for nothing to come out, making Violet panic.
It seemed she used it too much for this fight, she won’t be able to do it anymore, something that Misty took advantage of, finally nailing the Butterfly Pokemon with a Bubblebeam, knocking her out.
“If someone told me that a Butterfree that couldn’t fly would be giving Starmie some trouble I would’ve laughed.” Misty revealed, while Violet returned Silk. “You raised her well.”
“Thanks, but it’s time to finish this.” Violet sent Parasite out.
Misty’s eyes widened at seeing the Paras and came to a realization while forcing another grimace at seeing a bug down. “Her ability is Dry Skin isn’t it?”
That limited Misty’s Starmie to only Tackle given how this was one of her lowered level teams.
Violet just grinned. “Parasite, use Stun Spore!”
Keeping a cool head, Misty ordered her Starmie to dodge, watching as it moved between the leftover string shots to dodge the spores that it kept sending out, before ordering a Tackle.
Violet waited until it got too close. “Leech Life!”
Misty hastily ordered for Starmie to get out, but Parasite managed to pounce on the water type using her now glowing claws to pierce one of its legs.
Starmie managed to throw the bug off as it landed easily, but not without looking ragged from the rather effective attack.
Violet ordered another barrage of Stun Spores to keep the Starmie moving as it kept dodging and eventually she got lucky when it stepped in one of Silk’s traps, keeping it still long enough for the pores to hit it.
Seeing her locked in place, Violet ordered another Leech Life with Misty desperately trying to get Starmie to go into the water where the Paras wouldn’t reach it.
It seemed that with Starmie paralyzed she was willing to use the polluted water now.
But Starmie’s limbs remained locked up long enough for Parasite to pounce once more, the super effective move being enough to knock Starmie out.
“Yes,” Violet cheered as Parasite looked very surprised at winning before Violet scooped her up in a hug. “You were amazing, Parasite!”
Sure the real MVP of this fight was Silk given how if the field wasn’t littered with String Shots this fight would’ve been much harder, but it was Parasite’s first Gym battle and she won.
“Wow, you’re too much.” Misty said returning Starmie as she began to walk on the field, being mindful of the traps that were placed there before making it to Violet where another podium rose up with a small teardrop shaped badge along with a blue covered TM.
Taking it, Misty presented it to Violet with a smile. “Here, take the Cascade Badge to prove that you defeated me.”
Violet slowly accepted the badge feeling rather proud to have won two badges so far.
Three weeks ago she never thought she would have one let alone two.
It was pretty surreal.
“You can also have my favorite TM.” Misty pulled the TM off the Podium to give to Violet. “Though I don’t know how useful Bubblebeam would be for you.”
Violet understood what she meant but accepted the TM with a grateful nod.
Sure none of the bugs she planned to catch can learn it, but TM’s had their uses.
“Come on, let’s head to the Pokemon Center.” Misty said, surprising Violet who blinked at her in confusion. “What? Something I said?”
“I thought Gym Leaders have Healing Machines in their Gyms.” Violet sounded unsure, remembering how Brock had one.
“We do, but the Cerulean one is shut down and being repaired, long story.” Misty waved that off. “Besides it doesn’t hurt to have Nurse Joy look to see how my Pokemon are doing.”
Tilting her head to the side a bit, Violet shrugged that off and followed after her.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 25
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 22
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig.
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Notes:
Alright, chapter ten and Violet now has her second badge under her belt along with Parasite finally learning some moves. It was a bit of a struggle for the Mushroom Pokemon the last four chapters am I right?
Anyhow she also fought a Rocket Grunt, got in trouble with the Police because let's face it no one would let a ten year old off the hook for getting involved with the Pokemon world’s equivalent of the Mafia.
Hopefully I kept the Gym Battle rather interesting, though the best one was Silk the Butterfree’s role in the whole thing, especially since Starmie was rather limited once Parasite came out for obvious reasons.
Oh and Sorry for the stupid chapter name, I couldn’t think of anything at the moment, might change it if something better comes up or leave it like how it is.
I better get this posted because of work coming up, but Happy Valentines Day everyone!
Chapter 11: Vermillion Preparations
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
“Two badges.” Violet muttered to herself with a grin, sitting in the waiting room of the Pokemon Center, looking inside of her trainer case.
She currently had Stinger and Parasite with her, the latter not really taking any damage from the Gym Battle. Silk however had to be checked out given the amount of hits she took along with her wings being checked out to make sure there wasn’t any permanent damage.
Even though Violet was concerned for her Pokemon, she couldn’t be any prouder of Silk.
She’ll certainly be sure to use String Shot a lot like that for both her and Stinger, it was too great of a strategy to pass up in case they can’t fly in a fight.
Closing it up, Violet glanced up as Misty sat across from her, wearing a whitish blue jacket that she grabbed before leaving the Gym.
She was also holding two cans of lemonade, holding one out to Violet who blinked in surprise before accepting it with a grateful smile.
“It shouldn’t take too long for Nurse Joy to check out our Pokemon, your Butterfree just needs time for her wings to dry and I’m certain that my Starmie didn’t do too much damage.” Misty promised, opening her can of lemonade. “You should really come back once you get all eight badges, I’m positive Dewgong wants to battle you eventually.”
“I take it Dewgong is a member of your real team?” Violet asked remembering the Pokemon that Misty rode on before the battle started.
Just like how she saw the Rhydon and Golem that belonged to Brock.
Misty grinned widely at that. “One of them, I caught him as a Seel that was pranking people in the Seafoam Islands, he was the fourth member of my team.” She said with a look of fond memories. “He’s mellowed out since then but he does love to pull a prank every so often.”
Violet imagined that before opening her lemonade to take a sip.
“Hey do you mind if I ask a question?” Misty asked, Violet quirking a brow, especially when she forced another grimace down. “Why bugs?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m just curious, what made you choose… Bugs to train?”
Seeing how she hesitated when asking that, Violet pondered how to answer.
“Because people always called them weak.” Violet finally said thinking back to how she was always picked on long before she got Stinger. “Always put down, back home some people said that real trainers don’t use them.”
As she spoke, she tightened her grip on the can of lemonade, some of the aluminum bending a bit.
Misty was quiet as she heard that, beginning to see a bit of a picture.
Violet spoke as if she knew how it felt.
“Well I think you’ve shown that’s not true.” Misty said in an attempt to change the direction of the conversation and it worked as Violet glanced back up at her. “Was Butterfree your first Pokemon?”
“No Stinger, my Beedrill was.”
Again she saw Misty stiffened up, only this one was even worse than the other times.
“Is something wrong?” Violet was unsure if she wanted to know or not.
Going quiet for a bit, Misty sighed and placed her drink down. “It’s nothing personal, I just had a very bad experience with bugs in my first month as a trainer,” She said struggling to find the right words to avoid sounding offensive. “I only had a Staryu, Magikarp and a Poliwag before we ended up being chased by a horde of Beedrill.”
She left out how she didn’t get away and had to spend a good week in the Hospital from all of the stings she suffered.
Since then she has had a severe phobia of Bug types, enough that she would always react rather violently when she was younger.
It’s been four years since and she’d like to think she made a lot of progress from there, but show her a Beedrill and she loses it. That’s why she always keeps Dewgong out in case one of the challengers does send one out, the Sea Lion Pokemon always helps her keep calm.
Violet seemed to have caught on to the fact that Misty didn’t manage to escape the Beedrill as she grimaced. “Sorry.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Misty forced a smile on her face, looking rather eager to change the conversation. “So I take it that you’ll be challenging Surge next?”
“He’s the Vermillion Leader right?” Violet asked, going with the change. “I heard he’s from another region.”
“The Unovan Region I think, but he’s very loyal to the Kanto Region.” Misty said thinking back to the stories she’s heard about Surge and his guerilla warfare tactics in the war. “He’s the first true challenge any trainer faces in their journey.”
Violet took that in, knowing the stories from the News Reports as some people have tried to sue the man for extensive damage to their Pokemon, but they never went anywhere as the Lightning Unovan always ensured he never did permanent damage, making it acceptable in the eyes of the League.
It was a good thing that Parasite knew Dig as that would give her an advantage and she knew that Silk would be at a huge disadvantage there.
Especially since she can’t see what team he’ll use now that she has two badges.
“No way am I giving up now.” Violet said, remembering how she nearly did after losing to Green.
Misty gave a nod, her lips twitching at that. “That being said, it doesn’t hurt to train your team up a little, but Vermillion is beautiful this time of year, not to say that Cerulean isn’t great but it does have the sea.”
Violet listened with a curious look as she’s never seen the sea before.
There was an ocean out near Pallet Town, but she didn’t really explore the small town.
After all, until early this month she never left Viridian-.
Violet tensed as she realized she never once called her Dad since she left Viridian, he most likely had no idea that she was even on a journey, let alone the danger she was probably in due to her luck of running into Team Rocket.
Since she was legally an adult no one called him because she was in the Hospital, it was one of the things she signed when she was getting her license created.
Pushing that thought to the back of her mind, Violet realized that Misty stopped talking and was giving her a concerned look from how the young trainer was staring off into space.
“Sorry, just realized I haven’t called my Dad since I started this journey.” Violet muttered with Misty nodding at that.
“You going to call him now?”
“Yeah I should.” Just like that, Misty’s name was called on the intercom to pick her Pokemon up.
“I should get back to the Gym, there are probably more challengers coming in now, especially since the tournament is this year.” Misty sighed given how it was always busy this time of year for Gym Leaders.
As she got up to get her Pokemon, she gave Violet another nod along with a grin.
“If you’re ever in the area, stop by the Gym if you need anything.”
Violet stood at the Video Phone, her throat feeling dry from her nerves.
She had no idea how her Dad would react to her being on a journey.
Especially if he saw that she was wearing Mom’s straw hat.
Would he understand that part or be angry that she took it from the shrine? Would he demand that she return home?
If he did, she wouldn’t know what to do because she wanted to continue her journey.
She’s seen so many amazing things since starting and has met some great people.
It was almost enough for her not to call.
‘ Stop putting it off. ’ Violet scolded herself before she slowly pressed the right buttons for his work number down in Saffron City.
Violet’s nerves grew even more with each ring, wondering when he would pick up only for it to go straight to voicemail.
“ You’ve reached Phillip Hawke, I can’t get to your call right now, please leave a message and I’ll get back to you soon. ”
Hearing a beep, Violet felt her heart go in her throat.
This wasn’t how she imagined letting him know before she swallowed the lump that formed.
“Hey Dad, it’s been awhile since I last called so I wanted to talk,” Violet got out using her free hand to mess with the bottom of her shirt to keep herself distracted. “You’re probably wondering why I’m calling from a Cerulean Number, well the thing is I’m a Trainer now, I’ve been going on a journey the last few days.”
The more she spoke, the more confidence she gained in leaving this message.
“It’s been a lot of fun, I’m doing the Gym Challenge and I have two badges so far, I’ll be heading out towards Vermillion soon, I’ll try to call again while I’m there. I hope that you’re doing well in Saffron, I’ll be heading out in that direction someday for the Gym, perhaps I can visit where you work when I do?”
She won’t lie, the thought of seeing what it was exactly that her Dad does did excite her a bit.
“I should get going, I have a lot of stuff to take care of before I start the journey to Vermillion, I love you Dad.”
With that she hung up, feeling better but she also had a sad smile that she didn’t really get to talk to him.
But she decided to make one more call and punched in the number.
Before long, Prof. Oak picked up.
The Professor looked a little ragged much to Violet’s surprise, but he still smiled. “Violet, what can I do for you?”
“Just checking in Professor.” Violet said, shifting a bit.
This was only the second time she called him and she was still rather unsure of what to say to the man.
“Are you okay?” She finally decided on that with Prof. Oak blinking at the sudden question before realization dawned.
“Don’t worry, I just had a few all-nighters doing some research.” Prof. Oak reassured her with a smile. “I did this all the time in my youth.”
Sometimes discoveries or science don't wait for anyone to be well rested.
“I take it that you just gained the Cascade Badge?” Prof. Oak asked with Violet nodding in confirmation. “I should be receiving the footage soon enough, I’ll be sure to look into it soon.”
If anything he was really looking forward to it as both Violet and Green have shown good strategies during the Pewter Gym and Green’s battle for the Cerulean Gym was rather remarkable.
So Violet’s should be just as remarkable.
“I also see that you have a Paras, the data was sent to me the moment you caught one.”
“Parasite is an amazing member of the team,” Violet’s smile got wider as she began to talk about her recent addition. “It was a tough start, but she’s really showing a lot of strength in her battles now.”
Prof. Oak gave a nod at that. “Though they’re not used much in a battle sense, researchers always examine the mushrooms on the back of Paras allowing for medical breakthroughs to reach new heights,” He explained to Violet who was listening with rapt attention. “Their mushrooms are used in a lot of the potions that are available to trainers.”
“I never knew that.” Violet looked rather awestruck at that.
“Not many people do, it’s because of Paras that our natural lifespan was extended quite a bit. In ancient history the natural lifespan of humanity was at most forty years.” Prof. Oak explained making Violet’s eyes widen in shock.
“Forty years?” Violet whispered, not expecting that.
“That’s not to say that there were some people who aged past that back then, but in ancient history things weren’t as peaceful as they are now, Humanity was rather new and the world was full of strife, disease, ancient Pokemon being predators,” Prof. Oak listed as times were harsh back then. “Nowadays we’re in a time of peace, Humanity and Pokemon live alongside each other and our natural lifespan has increased quite a bit since then. Pokemon such as Chansey and Paras are responsible for that and they’re still making strides to this very day.”
Prof. Oak held a nostalgic look at that before coughing as he was getting rather carried away.
He really needed to stop giving out lectures every now and then.
“Enough about that, how have you been enjoying Cerulean? Did you explore the area already?”
“I explored all the way up to Cerulean Cape,” Violet grinned, remembering the meeting with Bill, almost laughing at thinking about it. “But the sign confused me about it being a spot for dates.”
Hearing that, Prof. Oak had to stop a chuckle from escaping. “I think you’ll understand when you’re older.”
Violet blinked before shrugging it off.
“I did meet Green before that,” Just like that Violet had a sour look. “I lost against him.”
“Ah, I remember Green mentioning that.” Prof. Oak said in a careful tone, not repeating how annoyed he was with the ‘easy’ fight.
It seemed that Violet guessed that the Professor wasn’t saying what was actually said, but she gripped the phone rather tightly. “I’ll beat him the next time we battle.”
Prof. Oak quirked a brow, having a bit of a flashback to his old rival back when he was a trainer.
He could see some similarities between his rivalry and the one that bloomed between Violet and his Grandson.
Hopefully they sort it out better than he did as while his old rival was doing well she was rather bitter towards him for a few reasons.
A beeping sound made Prof. Oak glance to the side. “It was nice talking to you Violet, but I need to get back to my research,” He said knowing that this couldn’t wait. “I wish you luck on getting your next badge.”
“Thanks Professor, be sure to get some sleep too.” Violet said showing that despite his reassurances she was still a little concerned for the man who chuckled in response before the video call cut off.
That evening, Violet had Silk back with explicit instructions not to let her battle for the rest of the day as the powder should be back in her wings by tomorrow, something that she was grateful for.
Violet didn’t know how she would feel if her strategy ended up crippling Silk for life.
But right now she had Parasite out who was clinging to her shoulder as she walked around Cerulean doing some last minute preparations before she headed out towards Vermillion the next day, knowing that it would take her at least nine days before she got there.
If she ended up in a lot of battles on the way there was no question that Parasite would definitely evolve right before she gets there and she was excited about that because evolving would help Parasite gain the strength she needed to win more battles.
Parasite seemed to be rather enjoying riding on her shoulder, especially with the setting sun shining on her back to keep her warm.
Thankfully it wasn't harsh sunlight as that would actually injure her thanks to the Dry Skin ability, but right now it was nice.
She also seemed to have a sense of wonder on her face as she looked around the area.
“We have plenty of food and medicine to last us all the way to Vermillion if we’re careful and we also have quite a bit of money due to both the battles and the two jars of honey we sold.” Violet was looking through a notebook she bought in order to keep her thoughts organized.
This was one she bought for preparations while she also bought another one to list out training and ideas for strategy.
She already had ideas she wanted to implement, like with Stinger she would train up his Poison Sting and String Shot as Poison Net, to combine the moves. There were also ways she wanted to list the ways to use String Shot, to shorten the commands up and not call out what she was doing.
For example back when he used String Shot to have a makeshift Rock Throw, she wanted to make it into an official move for him to use.
She also wanted to make a few for Parasite once she learned enough moves, but perhaps she could do something with Dig?
Just like that an idea of how to use Dig came to Violet that she had to write down to avoid forgetting it.
She already had five strategy codewords she wanted to train her team up in.
Parasite tilted her head as she looked at what Violet was writing even if she couldn’t read it, her mushrooms twitching with curiosity.
Seeing her trainer in one of those ‘moods’ that both Stinger and Silk warned her about, Parasite gazed upwards to see the clouds passing by and that captivated her.
To think she missed something like this by staying inside of Mt. Moon as the humans called it, always burrowing underground to keep from being eaten by Zubats.
Now here she was knowing more than Scratch and holding her own in battles with powerful Pokemon.
And soon she’ll be even stronger.
“You comfortable Parasite?” Violet asked, glancing at the Paras who gave a small cry of confirmation. “That’s good.”
If there was one thing she missed about being away from the city it was the fact that she can’t let Stinger out without causing a panic, same way about how some trainers can’t let Pokemon like Onix out due to their size. It was something that Violet thought was rather unfair towards the Pokemon, but she could see why they had something like that put in place.
The moment she begins her journey to Vermillion she does plan to let Stinger out to fly around, same with Silk.
It’s more fun with all of her Pokemon being out in her opinion.
That night, Violet looked very surprised when she saw on the News about the Elite Four taking down a Rocket Base that was hidden in Cerulean, most likely getting the information out of the guy she helped capture.
It seemed they were looking into Cerulean Cave due to the amount of powerful Pokemon there, it was enough to have a warning for everyone to stay away unless they were trainers for years or had enough badges.
Due to Team Rocket taking an interest now, it seems that they were placing a Ace Trainer base there to ensure that they don’t disturb the cave.
Good thing too, the last thing Kanto needs is for Team Rocket to have access to the Pokemon inside of there.
“I wonder how many bases they have in Kanto?” Violet pursed her lips in concern, not wanting to think about it all that much but she couldn’t help it.
With how long they’ve been around they have to have a few of them where they could hide out and recover if the League goes after them.
While it’s good that one was taken down, unless they find more Team Rocket will remain a constant threat to various trainers.
Her included due to her actions this month.
“Just need to avoid them.” Violet whispered to herself.
As long as she stays away from them she’ll be fine.
Surely her luck can’t be that bad… Right?
Shaking her head with a yawn, Violet figured she should probably get some sleep so she’ll get a head start towards Vermillion.
Placing her hat on the nearby desk, she began to undo her hair before realizing that it was starting to grow out a little.
Her hair was beginning to reach her shoulder blades now when last she checked it barely touched her shoulders.
And her bangs were starting to get in her eyes, something she tried to brush away.
A part of her wondered if she should get it cut while here before deciding she could do that in Vermillion.
She didn’t want to waste any more time.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 25
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy and Twineedle.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Paras
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 22
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig.
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Notes:
Okay this has to be the shortest chapter in this story, I’m sorry it took so long only for the chapter to be pretty short. I didn’t want to have her begin the journey to Vermillion in the middle of the chapter, so basically this one was showing her resting up and preparing for the journey ahead as well as some one-on-one bonding with Parasite. Plus some more world building, mostly to explain the ace trainer presence in Cerulean Cave, I figured with the strong Pokemon there it would make sense for Team Rocket to be interested, too bad Violet inadvertently ruined their chances by getting one of their members caught.
Also a bit more development on Misty explaining her reasons of being scared of bugs, which I think is realistic because I myself was terrified of wasps because earlier last year I was helping my Dad move firewood and didn’t see a nest above me, it was hidden in a tree and the wood I was carrying was big enough to smack it.
Long story short I got stung four times and was terrified of anything buzzing for a good while, good news is that I found out how fast I can run so there’s a bright side.
So I have a bit of experience with being scared of bugs which helped me write out the reasons for Misty’s fear.
Oh and if you like MHA I started a story where I added the Elemental Heroes from Yu-Gi-Oh GX to the mix, so give that a read if you want.
Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet showed a wary look as Parasite was busy battling a Raticate belonging to a Picknicker who looked rather smug. And for good reason, this battle wasn’t going too well with how fast the tawny colored rat was.
It’s been five days since Violet has left Cerulean and she’s spent those days either battling or walking.
Surprisingly there have been a lot of trainers on the road, most of them coming from Vermillion where they seemed to have been cutting their losses against the Gym Leader there, each one she met shared a story of how brutal Surge could be in a battle.
It was almost enough for Violet to make a change of plans.
But she pushed onwards and as she did so the difficulty of her opponents have increased given how most trainers seemed to have evolved Pokemon to battle which really put her team to the test.
She’s faced Pokemon like Pidgeotto, Fearow, Nidorino and Nidorina.
Enough to keep her team’s momentum up with getting stronger and she knew that Parasite was so close to evolving. The Bug just needed a push.
“Finish that pest off with Hyper Fang!” The Picknicker ordered much to Violet’s annoyance as the Raticate shot forward with its fang glowing and enlarging.
Thinking fast, Violet decided to try out one of the special moves that she had Parasite practice. “Quicksand!”
Parasite quickly dove into the ground, with the Picknicker blinking in confusion. “Quicksand? That’s not a move.”
Violet just smirked as Raticate began to rush around the field to keep the mushroom Pokemon from pinpointing its location, thinking she was just using dig.
The Raticate was surprised however when the whole battlefield began to collapse with the Picknicker trying desperately to order the Raticate to get out of there.
Quicksand was basically just Dig, only instead of coming up to attack, Parasite dug enough beneath it to collapse the field, basically mimicking an actual quicksand.
“Now Leech Life!” Violet grinned as Parasite lunged out of the sand as the Raticate was struggling to move and latched onto it, knocking the rat out.
Seeing Raticate unconscious, the Picknicker just recalled the Pokemon and left in a huff while Violet was grinning from ear to ear.
This was the first time they pulled the move off in a battle and she couldn’t be any happier with how it worked.
With Quicksand as she was calling it, Parasite was truly a force to be reckoned with.
And her smile got even bigger when Parasite began to give off a glow after shuddering.
Finally, she was evolving.
Parasite’s whole shape began to get bigger, gaining two feet as the two mushrooms combined to form an even bigger one and soon a Parasect stood where the Paras once was.
Its entire body was covered by the one huge red cap mushroom with yellow spots and she could see pure white eyes and a small body beneath it with three pairs of legs and two large pincers.
Feeling happy, Violet immediately took the Pokedex out and began to scan her.
“ Pokemon Registered. Parasect the Mushroom Pokemon. ”
‘ Pokemon #47
Species: Parasect
Gender: Female
Current Level: 24
Height: 3’03
Weight: 65 lbs.
Ability: Dry Skin-Restores Health if sprayed with water, however if this Pokemon is hit with fire it will be severely injured.
Nature: Naive
Characteristic: Hates to Lose.
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig and Leech Life
Information: A host-parasite pair in which the mushroom has taken over the host bug. This Pokemon prefers damp places and can infest trees to drain its nutrients from the roots. Warning, should the mushroom ever be removed this Pokemon will die.
Needed for Evolution: Fully Evolved.
Registration Complete. ’
Slowly, Violet’s smile fell at seeing this.
Mushroom takes over?
She glanced at Parasite who just stood there, not saying a word and realized that the pure white eyes weren’t just for show and panicked.
Did this mean that Parasite was gone?!
“P-Parasite?” Violet asked, trying not to panic as she got to one knee and placed a hand on the giant mushroom.
Still nothing.
“No.” Violet whispered no longer excited about her Pokemon evolving as some tears began to form.
If she knew that would happen she wouldn’t have tried to evolve her Pokemon.
And she can’t get the mushroom off without killing her-.
A large red pincer gently rubbed her face as Parasite made a small noise making Violet gasp in surprise.
It was small but it showed that Parasite was still in there despite the mushroom now being in control and Violet felt relief.
That evening, Violet was making camp after a few more hours of walking and the fact that she wasn’t as sore as she would’ve been at the beginning of her journey showed her how used to traveling she was getting.
Her three bugs were out and about as well, though Parasite kept to herself, acting almost robotically compared to the others and she could see that both Stinger and Silk were a bit uncertain about that after realizing it.
But she did test Parasite out in a battle and while she seems a bit emotionless now she still responded to her orders well enough and she was definitely stronger and even took hits that would’ve knocked her out before with ease.
Placing three different bowls down with various leaves and berries in two while the third one had dug up tree roots, Violet opened a jar of honey and poured some of it over the contents of the bowls.
Once that was done, she took a step back as Stinger and Silk flew to theirs with eagerness and Parasite just walked over without a word.
Seeing that put Violet off a bit but she shook her head reminding herself of that small action Parasite did earlier.
Instead she opened up her notebook that held the special moves she had for her three Pokemon.
There were some makeshift drawings of her Pokemon doing the moves, though the drawing was very mediocre if Violet was honest, almost akin to stick figures as that was the best she could do.
Next to the drawings were descriptions of the moves and how they would work along with names, some of them crossed out before one was decided.
For example there was Esper Spore for Silk as she could use Confusion to control the powder attacks and make them fly around enemies, though they still haven’t gotten that one down yet. It took a bit of concentration and left Silk open for a few seconds which was vital in a match.
Then there was Whack-A-Mole, though Violet was rather unsure of the name wanting something better as it was for Parasite with using Dig, only making several holes and tunnels for her to pop in and out doing hit and run tactics.
Stinger had some that used String Shot, one of them to latch onto the environment around him to use to slam into others, like using it on rocks for a makeshift Rock Throw.
There were so many ideas that Violet couldn’t decide which were good.
She was so caught up in her thoughts that she was surprised when Stinger landed next to her without making a sound, not even a buzz.
“Hey, you done eating already?” Violet asked with a grin as the Beedrill gave a nod in confirmation before she glanced to see that Silk was almost done while Parasite was eating at a slow pace.
It seemed that part of her stayed the same at least.
“We’ll be going to bed early tonight, if I’m right then we’ll be in Vermillion in four days.” Violet mused in thought. “We’re already halfway there.”
And that meant halfway to their third badge.
Stinger buzzed with some excitement wanting to fight this Gym soon.
Especially since he missed the last one.
As Violet went back to her business, Stinger looked around the area before he took off flying to ensure that they were alone.
He was still paranoid about his Trainer’s safety considering the rather alarming number of close calls there were ever since this journey started and he saw that Silk flew over to Violet to take his place in watching over her while he did that.
Parasite however finally finished eating and then burrowed beneath the ground to sleep in peace.
That didn’t bother Stinger as much as it would’ve with him knowing that Parasite could feel the vibration beneath the ground in case anyone tried to sneak up on their trainer and the Mushroom Pokemon would catch them by surprise if that did happen.
They had all of their bases covered so far.
“Whoa.” Violet breathed out in awe as she stood on top of a cliff a few days later with Vermillion City in sight.
It was beautiful.
The harbor where one could see the ocean and countless ships added to it as this was her first time seeing the Ocean, the salty smell to it more prevalent compared to Pallet Town.
The Giant lighthouse that was powered by a group of Electric Pokemon who take turns to prevent ships from crashing into the harbor at night. If Violet remembers correctly there was a legend of one seeing a giant Dragonite back when it was built, though she didn’t really believe that particular one.
Still it made for an amazing story.
Her team were already in their Pokeballs, having been exhausted from a few more battles on the road with them getting tougher and tougher, but they persisted and made it.
That in itself was a victory to Violet, especially wiping the smug looks off of some trainers' faces when they underestimated her Bug Team.
Violet felt like she could stand here and watch the view forever.
So she began to walk towards the city and soon enough she was in the crowds of people, moving between them, trying not to bump into anyone.
A lot of them were trainers and they looked rather experienced given how they ranged from being the same age as her to looking like they were sixteen.
Some of them had two or three while others had six Pokeballs.
Eventually she found herself at the Vermillion Pokemon Center which was packed full of trainers, a lot of them looking very worried as they sat in the Waiting Room showing that the rumors of the Gym she heard about were most likely true.
As she walked past them, Violet found herself interested when she overheard a conversation.
“Someone needs to do something about that Gym Leader, he nearly fried my Pokemon, his damn Raichu is vicious.”
“I know right?! There has to be some line drawn somewhere for him.”
Taking that into account, Violet grinned as she now knew that Surge used a Raichu which was a pretty strong electric Pokemon as well as a fast one.
The moment she got to the counter, Violet saw how exhausted Nurse Joy looked, though the woman gave her a smile despite that. “Welcome, how may I help you?”
“Can you check my Pokemon?” Violet requested placing the three Pokeballs on the counter. “We just got here from Cerulean.”
“Certainly, it shouldn’t take too long,” Nurse Joy said looking rather relieved that it wasn’t another team back from the Gym. “But if you’re looking for a place to stay I’m sorry to say that we’re full.”
Violet winced at that but not surprised given the amount of people around here.
It made sense.
Perhaps there was a Hotel she could stay at?
Shifting a bit, Violet turned only to bump into the last person she was expecting.
Green.
“Hey watch it-oh it’s you.” Green had a frown on his face while he leveled a look at her. “So you made it to Vermillion after all.”
Violet returned the look with a glare of her own, obviously remembering the defeat she suffered against him last time and she was just itching to pay him back for it.
“So what if I did?” Violet asked, watching as Green gave the Nurse his Pokeballs.
Green said nothing to that, instead frowning in thought. “Are you still using Bugs?”
“I am.”
“Tch.” Green sounded rather annoyed that she was still being stubborn in that but he’ll admit that she surprised him.
He was fully expecting for her to train other types after last time.
“Did you already challenge the Gym?” Violet asked, her curiosity making her forget the animosity between the two.
Green actually went quiet, looking rather annoyed before he walked off, making it clear on what happened.
He lost.
That made Violet tense as she knew how strong he was, so the fact that he lost showed how hard of a fight Surge would be.
So she has to keep on her toes if she wants to win.
It took Violet a while to find a hotel to check into after getting her Pokemon back given the amount of people in Vermillion.
She planned to face Surge in the morning, even if Green did lose she wanted to try and then she had three more days to wait afterwards until the SS. Anne docked… Okay maybe she wanted to have the vindication of beating Surge when Green lost but can you blame her?
Once that was done she planned to backtrack to Cerulean and then head out towards Rock Tunnel.
She did want to head up to Saffron City and see the area there but apparently something happened to close off the gates entering Saffron from all four sides while she was on the road earlier that week.
Hopefully whatever is happening is resolved soon.
Laying on the bed after placing her hat and bag down on the nearby desk, Violet felt like she was on a marshmallow from how she sank into it with a smile before she grabbed a nearby remote to turn on the TV.
Flipping through the channels, Violet saw various cartoons that she always loved to watch before she saw the News speaking about how Silph Co ended up creating a Pokemon.
That caught her attention as Violet wondered if her Dad was a part of that project before it showed a picture of an oddly shaped Pokemon with a pink polyhedral body with a blue beak, mouth and feet.
Apparently this Pokemon was called Porygon and it was a computer program that came to life which fascinated Violet.
To think that a Pokemon was created just like that?
Though she was slightly disappointed when it was revealed to fall under the Normal Typing, she still thought it was cool. Especially since they planned to have a small amount of these Pokemon to be prizes at the local Game Corner in Celadon soon enough.
It even showed various Pokemon that could be won there such as Clefairy, Abra, Pikachu, Dratini, Vulpix, Sandshrew, Growlithe-.
Violet sat straight up as she saw that it was possible to get a Pinsir down at the Game Corner and she grinned.
She was definitely going there to get herself a Pinsir.
Laying back down as the News changed to talk about some weird storm that was seen near Rock Tunnel, Violet placed her hands behind her head, grimacing when she felt how greasy her hair was.
Makes since considering it’s been over a week since she last took a shower.
She should probably do that before she goes to bed that night.
Early the next morning, Violet went to the Gym only to stare at the rather long line, some of the trainers there even had tents out.
It was so long that Violet was actually debating on coming back later in the year when things had calmed down before sighing as she got in line.
Maybe it won’t take too long?
Five hours later, Violet was regretting that as while the line did move, she was still a bit away from the Gym, though glancing back she saw that it got even longer.
“I knew that the Gym Challenge was popular but seriously?” Violet whispered only for the person behind her to chuckle.
“Tell me about it, though I think it’s because the League letting anyone with a Thunder Badge get on the SS. Anne.” Violet turned to see a twelve year old boy with black hair, a light green shirt with a dark green zigzag going across it and tan shorts.
“The SS. Anne?” Violet asked remembering her ticket that Bill gave her as she refrained from clutching her bag.
If that was the case that does answer why there were so many trainers despite the brutality he shows. Anyone would want a ticket like that.
The guy grinned at Violet’s surprise. “With it coming to port in a few days we have many last minute stragglers trying to get their hands on the badge to access the ship.” Once that was explained, he held his hand out. “The name’s Peter Pebbleman. I prefer Pete however.”
“Violet Hawke.” Violet accepted the handshake. “How long have you been a trainer?”
“Two years, I’ve been training hard for the Indigo Tournament this year.” Pete said clenching a fist with a wide grin while Violet noticed that he had six Pokeballs showing a full team. “I plan to win it.”
“Doesn’t everyone?” Violet asked, arching a brow while Pete gave a laugh.
“Fair enough, but the chance to win and take on the Elite Four is a huge motivation.”
“That sounds fun-WHAT?!” Violet’s eyes widened when the words actually registered. “T-Take on the Elite Four?!”
“Yeah, every winner of the League has the option to take on the Elite Four in a full six-on-six battle.” Pete looked rather surprised by Violet’s outburst. “You didn’t know?”
Violet shook her head at that.
“Huh, strange I thought everyone knew that.” Pete muttered to himself, rubbing the back of his neck.
Feeling some slight embarrassment as the line moved again, Violet continued the conversation. “So what Pokemon do you have?”
Just like that, Pete’s grin widened. “I have a Nidoking, Arcanine, Cloyster, Electabuzz, Scyther and Snorlax.” He said with Violet’s jaw dropping at the Pokemon he had. “It took me all of these two years to catch and get them up to par with what one would expect from the League.”
That was a rather well-balanced team right there and she was excited to hear that he had a Scyther, she almost began to ask questions about it before Pete returned the question.
“What about you?”
Hesitating a bit, Violet relented. “Beedrill, Butterfree and Parasect.”
That caught Pete off guard. “You’re a Bug Catcher?” He asked not expecting that as Violet felt slightly nervous.
While she was proud of being a Bug Catcher and getting this far, she was enjoying the conversation and she hoped that Pete wasn’t one of those trainers who looked down on the type.
He shouldn’t since he had a Scyther, but she wasn’t sure.
Instead Pete grinned. “They must be strong if you’re taking Surge on with that team.”
That made Violet beam in relief. “They are, we’ve won a lot of battles on the road to here.”
Sure it sounded like she was bragging but she was just proud of her team.
The two kept talking and before Violet knew it, she was next in line after two more hours.
And just like that she was nervous given the amount of people she saw run out of the gym with terror on their faces.
“Good luck.” Pete said as Violet was about to enter, leaving for her to smile at him in thanks.
On entering, Violet blinked in surprise as the Gym itself was rather bare.
There was only a dirt field, nothing to give electric types an advantage like how Brock’s field worked for rocks or how Misty had an indoor pool.
There was nothing here to power up Surge’s Pokemon and she didn’t even see the Gym Leader as she looked around before the bright lights turned on, practically blinding her as through the lights she could barely see a rather giant shadow that stood up from a seat.
Eventually Violet got used to the light and got a better look at the figure only to gape as she had to crane her neck to see the guy's face.
Lieutenant Surge was a giant of a man with spiky blonde hair and what looked to be an army uniform as he gave a dark glare. “So you’re the new baby coming into my Gym?” He asked, giving a mad grin. “You sure don’t look like you’ll last long in combat.”
That made Violet glare, feeling like she was talking to Lucy. “Funny I could say the same about you.”
… Why did she say that?!
Instead of being angry however, Surge threw his head back and let out a loud booming laugh. “Well now you’re feisty, but that can only get you so far.” He said, taking a Pokeball off of his belt and primed it. “A Pokemon Battle is a war, let’s see how you do little baby.”
“My name is Violet.” Violet hated being looked down on like that.
Surge actually paused as the grin fell. “Violet Hawke?” He asked, surprising the girl who gave a nod and just like that, the grin returned, though something seemed off for some odd reason. “This might actually be fun, I did plan for this to be One-on-One but for someone who has the brass to say no to Team Rocket, I’ll make it three-on-three.”
Initially surprised that Surge knew about her run-ins with Team Rocket, Violet figured that the Gym Leaders talked to each other and assumed that was the reason, but she hesitated.
Three-on-Three?
She only had Two-on-Two battles officially so this was a new one.
And it threw a wrench into her plans as she knew she can’t use Stinger in the beginning, nor could she start off with Parasite given how Dig would be a vital move here.
So instead, she sent Silk out who gave a cry while Surge just shook his head.
“A Flying Type in my Gym?” He asked in mock disappointment. “You’ve certainly made a poor choice there.”
With that said, he sent out a Voltorb, a Pokemon that looked just like a Pokeball, only with eyes.
Violet subtly checked her Pokedex.
‘ Voltorb, the Ball Pokemon. Usually found in Power Plants, many people have mistook this Pokemon for a Pokeball and were zapped. Warning: This Pokemon is known to explode with the slightest touch. Current Level is 24. ’
“Let’s get this over with,” Surge sounded bored despite his eyes giving a cautious look. “Voltorb, use Sonicboom.”
A blast of energy erupted from Voltorb, flying at Silk who barely flew out of the way.
Sonicboom, a move that caused a set amount of damage, it can one-shot many Pokemon early in their training. Pretty much a Pokedollar store version of Dragon Rage or Seismic Toss.
“Use Whirlwind on the ground.”
Silk did so immediately, the force of the blast making her shoot up enough to dodge the Sonicboom, but it also caused an explosion of dust to erupt on the field, effectively hiding her.
It was times like this that Violet was happy with Silk’s ability being Compound Eyes.
Surge didn’t seem affected by it, instead just crossing his arms as Silk came in using Confusion, watching as his Voltorb was slammed into the ground.
“Screech.”
Something wasn’t right.
If Surge was as brutal as any of those rumors pointed him out to be then why isn’t he showing it?
“Silk watch yourself.” Violet warned with the Butterfree giving a nod.
Surge then grinned. “Self-Destruct.”
Eyes widening, Violet ordered Silk to fly out of range of the oncoming blast.
But she wasn’t fast enough as the explosion ripped through the air, kicking even more dust up as Silk was caught up in it.
Violet was suffering from it too due to the ringing in her ears along with the dust getting in her throat that she tried to cough out as Silk was still conscious, her wings drooping with the damage showing as burns all around her.
“Hmph, I’ll be honest I was expecting that Butterfree of yours to be taken out.” Surge gave a nod of respect to the bug seeing that it wasn’t giving up despite being on its last legs.
So he returned the Voltorb and pulled out a second Pokeball, sending it out to show a Pikachu that gave a yawn as it stretched before getting on all fours, its yellow lightning bolt shaped tail sticking straight up while sparks were starting to emanate from its red cheeks.
As she watched it, Violet checked the Pokedex again.
‘ Pikachu, the Mouse Pokemon. A group of these Pokemon can cause Thunderstorms. They are known to use their tails in order to monitor their surroundings. If you yank it however it will try to bite you. Current Level is 26. Gender: Male. ’
“Esper Spore.” Violet whispered, not taking any chances but as Silk began to do that, Surge was ready.
“Quick Attack, chain with Double Team.”
One could barely blink as the Pikachu slammed into Silk showing immense speed, the hit alone being enough to take the weakened Butterfree out as now the Pikachu began to run around the field with mirage copies of itself doing the same making it hard to see which one was the real one.
Now Violet understood.
The Voltorb was just to check the skill of the trainer, it wasn’t meant for a long battle. Anything Surge would see as a threat he would use Self-Destruct on.
With that realization she sent out Parasite who stood there as the Pikachu ran circles around it.
Surge arched a brow at that, but he gave a nod knowing that by using this one any electric attacks used wouldn’t be as effective, unless he gets a clean shot.
“Tail Whip and Quick Attack, hit and run.” Surge ordered straight to the point. “Keep the Double Team up to confuse it.”
It was hard to tell which Pikachu was which as they moved too quickly for Violet to track and she saw Parasite glow blue showing that her natural defense was dropping leaving her open to physical moves right before the copies all surged towards her.
“Dig.”
Parasite dove into the ground, barely dodging the Quick Attack but the Pikachu kept the Double Team up.
This Pikachu was way too fast for Violet to take down normally and with it having mirages of itself, the chances to hit it were slim.
So Violet had to attack everywhere on the field.
And she had the right move to do it.
“Quicksand.”
She could see from how Surge’s stance shifted that he had an idea of what she was doing right as the field began to collapse with the mirages disappearing, the Pikachu giving a cry when it was pulled into the makeshift Quicksand with Parasite being at the center where it lunged for a Leech Life.
“Thunderbolt.” Surge grinned as the Parasect made contact.
Feeling its health being drained, the Pikachu focused and unleashed a huge blast of electricity that surged through Parasite, the contact being enough of a lightning rod for the Mushroom Pokemon to spasm in pain, but due to its zombified state she kept her focus and drained the Pikachu of its health despite the heavy damage along with the sparks emanating to show paralysis.
Pikachu was panting in pain from the mixture of attacks, looking ready to drop which made sense considering how fragile Pikachu’s could be. They were glass cannons in that aspect being great with speed, but not for tanking hits.
Meanwhile Parasite, while damaged and paralyzed from the hits, was in much better condition.
“Let’s finish this with Leech Life.” Violet ordered hoping to get some health back as Surge didn’t even bother telling Pikachu to dodge, knowing that it was too injured to make it far.
Instead he went full on kamikaze. “Thunderbolt one more time.”
Violet winced now seeing a major flaw with Parasite’s battling style as the Pikachu went down while Parasite took more damage.
Each one of her moves with the exception of Stun Spore requires contact with the opponent.
She’ll have to find a way to give her more range in the future.
But Surge returned the Pikachu, giving the Parasect a careful look before nodding. “Alright now let’s get serious.”
With that he sent out his ace, Raichu which was bipedal much like Pikachu, only a good foot taller and had dark orange fur and a white belly, large brown ears that were yellow on the inside, ending in a curl, brown paws that twitched, itching for a fight as yellow sparks erupted from its cheeks. The last notable detail was the long thin tail that ended in the shape of a lightning bolt.
Swallowing nervously as the electricity crackled around the Raichu, showing its strength, Violet checked the Pokedex one last time.
‘ Raichu, the Mouse Pokemon. When electricity builds up within its body, this Pokemon can get temperamental, caution even for the trainer is advised. Warning: This Pokemon can let loose up to 100,000 volts of electricity. Death is guaranteed for any human being electrocuted with that amountCurrent Level is 28. Gender: Male. ’
As Violet read that, Surge frowned seeing this being the third time she was looking at that device.
It was enough to make him curious about what it was but he shook it off.
“Raichu.” He called out making his ace look at him while Violet put the Pokedex up. “Go nuts.”
Raichu grinned rather sadistically and became a blur, using a Mega Punch that slammed into Parasite making her hiss in pain, stumbling back before Raichu let off a Mega Kick, sending her into the air.
“Stun Spore!” Violet exclaimed, trying to counter but the paralysis chose that time to take in effect, leaving her open as the Raichu let out a Thunderbolt, sending a large amount that knocked the Parasite out effectively despite being nowhere close to the amount the Pokedex warned her of, the smell of ozone in the air.
As Parasite slammed into the ground, a burning smell showing, Violet looked pale now returning her while Surge let out a laugh.
“Now do you see the difference in power?” Surge asked, crossing his arms while Raichu looked bored. “That’s the fate that awaits your last Pokemon should you send it out, the first two Gyms are a cakewalk compared to me. No more babying.”
After all if someone wants to get into the League Conference, they need to be ready for harsh battles.
The willpower to keep going despite overwhelming odds was something he respected greatly.
He already sent many would-be trainers out with their heads low and tail between their legs. It was a favorite hobby of his, even more when he can let loose like this.
And he could see from how Violet was shaking that she was scared and that made him feel annoyed at how this was the trainer that was giving Team Rocket such a hard time.
The Grunts must be weaker than he thought, he’ll have to reorganize the training for them to avoid incidents like Mt. Moon from happening again.
But then Violet gained a look of resolve and sent her Beedrill out. “Stinger watch it, this Raichu is no joke.” She warned her Starter. “It practically cooked Parasite in one hit.”
That made Beedrill tense up, buzzing in anger at one of his hive members being hurt like that. But it made him cautious.
He knew how powerful Parasite got upon evolving, she was the most defensive out of all of them thanks to her newfound bulk.
For this Raichu to take her down like that meant he can’t get hit once.
Raichu smirked and focused another Thunderbolt as the Beedrill moved with Violet ordered a Poison String, littering the field with poisoned filled string shots all around the Raichu, barely flying to the side to dodge the Thunderbolt that would’ve slammed into Violet if a barrier didn’t pop up showing that the Gyms had a built in barrier to defend the trainers from attacks.
But she still jumped from the loud noise it made when it collided with the barrier, Stinger glancing at her in shock leaving him open to a Mega Punch right to the abdomen that sent him flying.
Good news was that the Raichu landed on one of the traps as poison surged through him with Surge not caring for that, instead he grinned, finding this a refreshing pace.
About damn time someone put up a fight for his Raichu, the mouse was getting a bit too cocky for his own good.
“Skull Bash.” Surge finally gave an order as the Raichu readied itself, leaving Violet to tell Stinger to use Focus Energy before dodging the attack and delivering a Twineedle that managed to crit twice, knocking the Raichu flying now breathing heavily as the poison surged.
‘ We can do this. ’ Violet began to hope, but Surge’s grin told her otherwise.
“Agility and follow up with Double-Edge.”
Seeing the Raichu glow red, it became a blur that slammed into Stinger, wincing from the recoil before letting out a Mega Kick, sending the Beedrill slamming into the floor, cracking it as he skidded across it with one of his wings bent badly while the other one was torn a bit.
Violet almost forfeited right there because that looked to be crippling damage right there but Stinger forced himself to stand up, glaring in hatred.
He wasn’t going to lose like he did against the Onix, or against Team Rocket.
He was going to take this fat mouse down as the Raichu fell to one knee from the poison surging again showing how close the fight was.
Raichu despite the glare at being pushed this far by a Beedrill did give his opponent a look of respect though, liking the bug’s moxie in staying awake despite the damage he did.
“I’ll be damned, that Beedrill is something else.” Surge complimented despite how worried Violet looked. “A true soldier through and through.”
“He’s not a soldier.” Violet found herself saying in anger.
Stinger was family.
Surge just gave a snort before ordering one final Mega Punch and as the Raichu moved, slowed down a bit by the injuries, something inside Beedrill snapped as its eyes began to glow and he surged forward, jabbing stinger after stinger right into the Raichu, interrupting the attack.
“What the-?! It knows Rage?” Surge asked not expecting that as Violet watched in shock with how angry Stinger was as he kept up his assault before letting out one last Twineedle that slammed into Raichu, sending the mouse flying out of the arena to hit the wall where he fell to the ground, unconscious.
“I-I lost?” Surge asked, not expecting that.
Sure he knew it was foolish to think he would always win but from how the battle went, he figured that Raichu would finish the Beedrill off after grounding it.
Instead it took him by surprise with the move Rage.
Stinger breathed heavily before falling over as Violet ran towards him in concern, lifting his body up as one of his limbs went limp but the bug moved his head, making a noise showing that he was happy that he won the battle.
“Return him and give Nurse Joy this.” Surge tossed a slip that landed next Violet. “It’ll give her the authorization to use Full Restores on your Pokemon to heal the damage done.”
Violet gave a nod as Full Restore treatments were very expensive and usually saved for life-threatening injuries.
So for Surge to do that made her even more concerned.
Watching as she returned Stinger, placing him in stasis, Surge held out a badge shaped as an eight pointed gold star with an orange octagon in the middle. “You’re among the few trainers to earn the Thunder Badge,” He said to Violet, giving a grin along with a TM disc. “And the first Bug Catcher to earn it since I took over this Gym, you should be proud of your team kid.”
Despite the worry for Stinger, Violet was in awe at that, not expecting for him to say that.
“The Thunder Badge is one of the badges that boosts an aspect of your Pokemon in battles, this one boosting speed and the TM is for Thunderbolt, keep a hold of it,” Surge continued before leveling a look at Violet. “Be warned though, as rough as this was I was still holding back a little. The battles at the League will make this one look like a joke if you don’t get strong enough.”
Hearing that was enough for Violet to imagine the trainers in the upcoming Indigo Tournament to be monstrous in terms of strength.
So with a nod at Surge, Violet took off, wanting to get to the Pokemon Center while Surge frowned at her exit.
While she was nowhere near his true strength, it was clear that if left unchecked she could eventually be a problem unless he nips it in the bud.
Even if Giovanni said to leave her be, he might have to go against orders.
Too bad, she had spirit.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle and Rage.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Notes:
Man this was exhilarating to type, especially when I got around to Raichu being released and showing how brutal it could be. I know that the fight against the Voltorb and Pikachu were 'meh' but given how they are in the game I figured I could have them be used to judge the opponent's strength whenever he does a three-on-three fight before going all in with just Raichu.
More than that Parasite evolved and yes I am going with the Pokedex entry where Parasect is said to be in a zombie-like state, though there are traces of Parasite within there, will that turn into something? Who knows. Still that evolution was a long time coming since I had Stinger evolve twice in the second chapter and Silk as a Butterfree by the time the third chapter came around. Parasite took six to evolve.
Also Violet finally has a victory over Green in terms of getting the badge before him while he lost to Surge, boy won't he be infuriated right? Plus she's finally using the Pokedex more, my fault for not bringing it out as much as I should.
Originally I wanted to do some stuff between Cerulean and Vermillion but sadly I couldn't really think of anything, sorry about that.
Chapter 13: Downtime
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet could scarcely believe her luck as she was in the waiting room, looking at her badge case which held the Thunder Badge, something she didn’t really show off considering the amount of trainers in the room that didn’t earn it.
She wasn’t one to really brag about it to random people.
Still, three badges and not only that but she was the only bug trainer to earn the Thunder Badge in years if Surge was to be believed.
It was hard to imagine.
Especially when she looks at the date being May 4th.
One Month since she started her journey and she managed to get this far.
And the tournament was in five months which would be around October.
She had five months to get the rest of the badges and a full team.
But right now she is going to relax because the SS Anne will be in two days and she needs time for Stinger to heal up once the Full Restore procedure is done.
It’ll be a week-long cruise before she continues her journey, so plenty of time and while there could be some battles on there considering it was a trainer cruise he should be healed up enough for that, right?
What should she do until the cruise though?
Checking the tourist guide that was available in the waiting room, Violet saw that the beach was one of the most popular destinations along with a self-proclaimed Pokemon Fan Club which looked really interesting to her.
Perhaps she could do the fan club tomorrow and then spend the next day at the beach right before the cruise?
As she made those plans, Violet wondered how Green was doing.
He wasn’t here after she got back, most likely taking his Pokemon to train a bit more to have a rematch against Surge.
After all he didn’t look like one to take a loss very well.
Shaking that from her mind, Violet already knew her next destination.
Celadon City.
Now that one would be quite the journey because she had to go back to Cerulean and through Rock Tunnel to get to Lavender Town and then head out west of there to make it to Celadon.
All together that would be another month of traveling.
Normally she would be able to cut through Saffron City but with the gates closed off and the way to Lavender Town through Route 11 which was east of Vermillion was closed due to repairs because of a recent incident involving a Snorlax going on a rampage due to being woken up, she has no choice but to take the long road.
Which was a shame because the route between Vermillion and Lavender Town was where she could find Venonats, so she had to wait to get that particular bug.
Still Celadon would be a rather big City, nowhere close to Saffron obviously but a big one nonetheless. It was where the Grass Gym was which Violet will be rather confident in winning due to finally having a type advantage for once. Not only that but the Game Corner where she’ll get herself a Pinsir was there.
She’ll get one of the best bug types on her team, not that she was saying none of her Pokemon were great because they were amazing, but people take bugs like Pinsir and Scyther as very serious threats and she knew how powerful they could be.
There were also some TM’s that she could buy there to give her team a bit more of a boost in a battle and she was wondering if she could trade the TM’s she has for some she could use?
After all, no Bug Types could learn Water Gun, Bubblebeam or Thunderbolt so they were doing nothing but taking up space in her bag.
Sure she could sell them but if she could trade them in that would save her some money in the long run.
“And then after Celadon we have Fuschia City where the Safari Zone is, but I think I’ll head back to Lavender Town to get a Venonat first that way after the Safari Zone I’ll have a full team.” Violet began muttering in a rapid pace, not noticing how the trainers in the waiting room were giving her weird looks, some of them slowly inching away from her as if she was contagious. “From Fuschia I can either head to Saffron or I can take a boat out to Cinnabar Island and then towards Pallet Town, but which way is faster? I’m on a time limit until the Tournament.”
And that’s assuming she can beat the Gym in Cinnabar given how its Leader was a former member of the Elite Four and a Fire Type expert.
That would be her biggest challenge yet.
Once she has seven Badges she’ll be able to challenge the Viridian Gym Leader who is said to be the strongest one in Kanto and the Viridian Gym was a Ground Type Gym which meant that they probably had rock type moves so she had to be on guard when it came time for that.
“ Violet Hawke your Pokemon are ready for pick up. ” Violet perked her head up at that as she closed the badge case to put up.
From there it didn’t take too long to make it to the Nurse who gave her a tired smile. “How are they?”
“They’re in good condition thanks to the Full Restores,” Nurse Joy told her before giving a stern look. “However I’d advise against letting your Beedrill and Parasect battle for a few days given the amount of damage they took. Your Butterfree was lucky in regards to them.”
Violet gave a nod, remembering how brutal the Raichu was and how it took Parasite down before savagely attacking Stinger.
And that was without Surge giving it any orders in the beginning.
To think that he trained the Raichu how to fight without his instructions, but in a way it made sense.
If Surge fought in the war that meant there were times he could’ve been incapacitated so he trained it for the possibility?
Perhaps she should do the same for her Pokemon given her bad luck with running into trouble?
Best to prepare, no?
“Thank you.” Violet smiled at the Nurse as she placed the Pokeballs on her belt.
“And Violet, congratulations on beating Surge.”
Hearing that made Violet duck her head with some embarrassment at the unexpected praise while the nearby trainers who were waiting for their Pokemon stopped what they were doing and stared in disbelief.
And that was when the whispers started.
“That kid defeated Surge?”
“What, seriously?! I barely stood a chance and I’ve been a trainer for years.”
“What sort of Pokemon did she use? Perhaps she has some strong ground types?”
“I think she’s a Bug Catcher.”
“Pft, no seriously what Pokemon did she use?”
“He’s serious, I was in front of her in line, she said she had three Bug Pokemon that she uses.”
As the whispers continued, Violet found herself feeling rather awkward as the hushed whispers continued showing that she was starting to get a bit of a reputation.
“Bzzt.” Stinger looked rather uncomfortable as he was sitting in the hotel room alongside Parasite and Silk, Violet placing their food down.
“The aching will go away soon, you guys were awesome.” Violet told them with a smile, Silk soaking up the praise despite being the first one knocked out.
Something that Stinger made a remark about earning a glare from her.
Ignoring the glare, Stinger glanced over at Parasite to see her already eating her food and he noticed that they had a bit extra in their bowls.
Probably as a reward for winning the Gym Battle and Stinger felt elated.
It took some time but he finally won a Gym Battle for his trainer.
Being the ‘Starter’ of this team he was always annoyed that he never won the first Gym and didn’t even participate in the second one. So finally winning one was a relief.
That meant that he was truly getting stronger and he was proud of himself for taking down that Raichu, even if he was still feeling pain in his body and wings.
“Fweh?” Silk questioned leaving Stinger to realize that he hadn't started on his meal while she was halfway through her’s and Parasite already finished up and was looking at him with the zombie eyes.
At first he thought he saw concern in the latter, but it was gone before he could make sure which made Stinger think he imagined it.
Instead of answering he began to eat while Violet took her hat off and began to watch TV where the news said that it would be sunny but next week there would be some thunderstorms.
“Thunderstorms while we’re on a cruise ship?” Violet looked rather worried before shaking it off.
It’ll be fine.
Besides that the news was showing something interesting about the weather.
Just like how the thunderstorms were becoming more frequent near Rock Tunnel it seems like there was a hailstorm of unnatural blizzards near Seafoam Island making it impossible for people to get there.
Violet blinked, never seeing the weather act like that before or hearing about it.
Flipping through the News Channel, Violet however stilled when she saw that Team Rocket attacked the Pewter City Museum attempting to steal one of the Aerodactyl Fossils but were stopped by Lance himself who happened to be in the area.
Because of that the Pokemon League had to take possession of the fossil to prevent anymore thefts, leaving the Museum without an exhibit.
Seeing amateur footage of the Dragon Type Master/League Champion with his Dragonite tearing through the group of Team Rocket Grunts without breaking a sweat was awe-inspiring for Violet as not only did he take them down efficiently, he was obviously holding back otherwise the Rocket Grunts would be incinerated.
To be able to do that while holding back made Violet think about her status infliction moves back in Mt. Moon and she wondered if someday she would be that strong.
That was when she remembered Pete’s words.
‘ Fair enough, but the chance to win and take on the Elite Four is a huge motivation. ’
Despite knowing that she was nowhere close to that level of strength, Violet won’t lie, the chance to do that was very tempting.
However to do that she would need to win the League Tournament and she’ll be at a huge disadvantage.
First she was still a new trainer despite her achievements. Secondly she was using only Bugs and while she’s proud of that she wasn’t foolish enough to think that no one would prioritize her weakness and Bugs had a lot of them. Thirdly she’ll only have six Pokemon by the time the League comes around while others who aren’t raising one type will have much more to choose from.
While winning the League was tempting she had to be realistic.
For her, just making it to the League will be an achievement.
That night Green Oak was training with renewed vigor, having his team of Pokemon out.
Currently his Pidgeotto was flying at high speeds, doing aerial maneuvers whenever his newly evolved Kadabra shot a Psybeam his way, while his Raticate and Eevee were racing to improve their speed, tackling each other to improve their accuracy and reaction timing.
Along with them he had a few new additions, such as a Shellder he caught that day and a Sandshrew he caught before making it to Vermillion, that were doing a mock battle to catch up with the rest of his team while he checked his Pokedex, already having captured at least 45 different Pokemon.
His Grandfather both commended him for catching so many in under a month but also admonished him for doing that trying to remind him to care for each Pokemon while Green just scoffed at that.
The extra ones he caught for his research, this is his main team for now.
Though he will admit that Raticate was falling behind but he wasn’t going to drop him considering it was one of his first few catches and he already has some strategies to incorporate to make up for the lack of progress.
Especially when he gets to Celadon to buy some TM’s. He was also going to attempt to win that new Pokemon ‘Porygon’ to see how it does. If it does well he might have it as a permanent member of his team.
From there he has some other plans such as a Gyarados, Ninetales, Rhydon, Exeggutor and Magneton. He’ll keep those ones along with the current team and swap around them to give him type coverage. While he’ll also evolve his Eevee at some point it wasn’t going to be the usual three Kanto Ones, after all he knew about the other Evolution's due to his time in Johto before his journey.
It’ll just take time for Eevee to reach that form.
Shellder and Sandshrew need to catch up as well, but they give him some defensive options, especially since he needed a Ground Type to take care of his electric weakness that both his Pidgeotto and new Shellder suffer from. Which was why he caught and trained him up for the fight against Surge.
Thinking of that match against Surge, Green glowered as while he knew that he was probably a bit too cocky he didn’t expect to be completely destroyed like that.
That Raichu was something else to take down his Sandshrew like that even with the training he implemented.
Sure he accepted the loss given how Sandshrew was still a new addition, but then he heard a rumor when he returned to the Pokemon Center earlier after fishing up Shellder to catch.
Apparently a female bug catcher was the talk of the Center, one who defeated Surge’s Raichu.
While initially surprised, Green was furious.
After all he remembered defeating her soundly back in Cerulean, to hear that she succeeded when he failed made his blood boil.
So he was going to use Eevee to take that Raichu down, something he should’ve done the last time instead of testing Sandshrew.
But deep in the back of his mind, Green found himself respecting the Bug Catcher a little bit more and made plans to challenge her again to see if it was a fluke or if she did get stronger.
“So this is the Pokemon Fan Club?” Violet mused early the next morning as there was a sign on the rather plain looking building along with it being unlocked as she entered to see quite a few people, some of them her age while others were older and they had various Pokemon out.
Clefairy’s, Seel’s, Pikachu’s, even some of the rarer Pokemon such as Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur.
Just seeing Pokemon like that was a surprise for Violet as she found herself standing awkwardly given how she didn’t know anyone around here. Right now she was just looking around.
“Young lady,” Violet didn’t answer at first before realizing that was directed at her as she turned towards the voice. “Those balls on your belt, are you a visiting Pokemon Trainer?”
The one who spoke was clearly an adult man, though he was the same size as Violet, which boggled her mind a bit. But he was wearing a black suit tailored for his size and a black fedora with a grey full face beard and mustache, his eyes hidden by sunglasses while he was leaning on a cane.
Blinking at the short man, Violet gave a nod. “Yes, I’m a trainer.”
“Good for you, it’s great to see a girl as young as you training Pokemon.”
“As young as me?” Violet tilted her head to the side with a quizzical expression. “But everyone my age has a Pokemon.”
“Yes but they don’t travel that much until they’re almost teens.” The man explained with Violet giving a surprised look.
Then again it made sense. A lot of the trainers that were close to her age always stuck close to home. Just because they had their trainer license didn’t mean that they were confident enough to travel.
And with the League Tournament being once every three years no one had a reason to actually all that much.
“Still welcome, you won’t find obsessed Pokemon lovers anywhere else in the world.” The man said before grinning. “I’m Sukizo, the chairman of this Fan Club.”
“Nice to meet you.” Violet said politely.
“Now what Pokemon do you have?”
“Beedrill, Butterfree and Parasect.”
“Ah, it’s rare to see a Bug Trainer around these parts, even rarer for a young lady to be one.” Sukizo said in surprise, but he had a grin. “You must really love them.”
“I do, they really helped me in a ton of battles.”
“Y-You battle with them?” Sukizo asked with a tensed expression.
That change of demeanor worried Violet who bit her lower lip and gave a nod, wondering what was up?
Of course she battled with them, what else would she do?
“I-I know that it’s a common thing these days, but a lot of us here don’t like the idea of forcing them to fight.” Sukizo said with a sigh as he looked over the other fan club members as they showed off their various Pokemon. “We cherish them immensely, seeing them in pain isn’t something we like.”
“Forcing?” Violet sounded appalled by the accusation. “I’m not forcing my Pokemon to fight.”
She wasn’t… Right?
In school they taught that Pokemon loved to fight, always testing each other to make themselves stronger. It was one of the reasons why some of them chose to be trained because they know they can get stronger than if they were by themselves.
After all you can’t really force a Pokemon to do something given how catching them doesn’t brainwash them and they can easily kill a person if mishandled.
‘ Though it’s not uncommon for people to abuse them. ’ Violet relented thinking of how Team Rocket were said to do that to make their Pokemon obedient.
Sukizo gave her a side glance before giving a nod, not saying if she was wrong or right.
He wasn’t accusing her. It was just his personal opinion, nothing more.
So he changed the subject. “I have a lot of Pokemon myself, though my personal favorites are my Fearow and my Rapidash, they’ve been with me since I was a young lad.”
Violet will admit she kind of tuned him out as he began to gush about his Rapidash, wondering if that was how she sounded when it came to bugs.
“Don’t you agree?!” Sukizo asked, breaking her out of her thoughts.
Panicking, Violet gave a nod and thankfully Sukizo gave a gleeful grin, not catching that she wasn’t paying attention.
“I knew that you would,” Sukizo laughed but then broke out in a cough. “But enough about that, how would you like to become a member of the fan club?”
“I’m honored, but I’m going to be leaving Vermillion soon.” Violet declined as Sukizo looked disappointed for a second but brightened up.
“Well then how about this, as thanks for listening to my go on about my Rapidash here,” Sukizo walked over to the nearby table and pulled a voucher out. “The Bike Shop in Cerulean gave me this and I never really used it, after all I can fly anywhere on my Fearow.”
With that said he handed her the voucher showing it to be for a free Bike which made Violet gasp considering how expensive the bikes would be and they were useful for making quick progress on a journey.
Even if it’ll take some time to get back to Cerulean this bike would make traveling to Rock Tunnel and then Celadon a breeze.
She wasn’t going to turn this one down.
“Thank you.” Violet said to Sukizo who gave another laugh.
“So you defeated Lt. Surge?” Oak asked that evening as Violet called him up after spending the rest of her time exploring Vermillion, though she hasn’t gotten any supplies thinking she could do that after the cruise.
“It was the toughest battle I’ve ever had,” Violet confirmed with a nod. “Stinger really gave it his all when he fought the Raichu.”
“Enough to learn a move like Rage, you’ll have to be careful about using that move.” Prof. Oak warned, surprising Violet with his serious tone, this being the second time she’s heard it.
“Why’s that?”
“Rage is a pretty volatile move that’s powered by their anger and the more a Pokemon uses it without stopping the more blinded by the anger to where they’ll even attack their own trainer during it.” The explanation made Violet’s eyes widen, given how she had no idea about that. “It went well this time, but you need to train your Beedrill to avoid the move consuming him.”
“I’ll add it to his training.” Violet promised even if it was hard to imagine Stinger to go off like that.
He was like a baby Growlithe when he was a Weedle and even if some of that playfulness disappeared upon evolving he was always so gentle outside of a battle.
Prof. Oak gave a nod, happy to see that she would. “I’m also happy to see that you’re using the Pokedex more.” He said, this time in a stern ‘joking’ tone while Violet blushed.
“I wanted to be stronger before I risked having it out.” Violet explained her reasons as she tapped the desk. “That way I could keep it from being stolen.”
Professor Oak softened up a bit at that. “That’s understandable and I’m glad to hear that you’re keeping it safe, but the reason I gave it to you and Green were to gain access on the Pokemon of the Kanto Region, you two are the first of many trainers that will gain this Pokemon Encyclopedia once the prototype stages are done.”
And that was something that Violet was proud of.
“To do that you need to use it more and I’ll be expecting you to use it more now that you have three badges under your belt.” Prof. Oak continued before actually looking proud. “Three badges in a month though, you’ve made a lot of progress in so little time.”
Hearing that, Violet blushed at the praise. “I-It’s because of you I was able to make it this far.”
If she hadn’t met Professor Oak or if he never dropped the Pokedex she would probably still be in Viridian City in class. Granted Stinger would’ve been a Beedrill and she might still have a Butterfree, but she wouldn’t have Silk given how deep into the forest she went to get her. And she definitely wouldn’t have Parasite at this point.
So many things started by her picking up the Pokedex.
Without that she wouldn’t be here today.
“No I only gave you the tool, you made the effort.” Prof. Oak corrected her. “Don’t get the two mixed up.”
After a second, Violet gave a low nod to show she understood before hiding a yawn.
Prof. Oak however saw that and sighed. “We should leave it off here, you need your sleep and I have some research I need to get to.”
“Anything interesting?” Violet asked not wanting to sleep at the moment despite how tired she was.
“Stuff I can’t disclose at the moment,” Prof. Oak sounded apologetic. “Let’s say the League asked me to look into something.”
That made her eyes widen in surprise but she didn’t push as she said goodnight with Prof. Oak hanging up.
About to place the phone down, Violet paused and dialed in another number only to hear the message machine again.
Not leaving a message like last time, Violet hung up wondering why her Dad wasn’t picking up the calls.
Then again it was probably because they were unknown calls to him as opposed to home.
Thinking on that, Violet found herself feeling like an idiot.
“Wow.” Violet was rather ecstatic the next day.
It was beautiful out, the air was warm with it being mid-spring and she was at the beach for the first time, smelling the saltwater in the air, having on a swimsuit that she bought for today.
She was wearing a simple red one-piece swimsuit, though she kept her hat on and she finally got that haircut she’s been debating about, now having a pixie-cut look rather than pigtails.
Quite a lot of people were out and about, enjoying the sunshine.
“Bzzt.” Stinger buzzed as he was flying around her, out of the Pokeball with his wings fully healed alongside Silk while Parasite stood next to her, watching the other people.
“Race you guys.” Violet grinned as she took off running, her bug team right behind her as they looked for a spot to claim as their own on the beach.
Nothing was going to stop them from having fun today.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle and Rage.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 6th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Notes:
Alright that’s enough here, the next chapter will be on the SS. Anne.
This one was more of a cool down one that’s needed before the next event starts up, Violet did just win her third badge after all and not only that but she is finally gaining a reputation among other trainers because of that.
But we introduced the Fan Club, I used the Manga version of it but gave him the anime name for those of you who google it. Not only that but I showed a bit more on Green’s Side by showing the team he has and the team he will get-it’ll match his game team little by little along with showing his annoyance at Violet beating him to get Surge’s badge, but also making him respect her a little more even if he denies it.
I thought about adding more to the beach segment but decided against it considering the SS. Anne will be happening, but I gave Violet a new hairstyle mostly to show that time has passed given how some people do something new every now and then and I even got the date showing for the story to keep a bit of realism to it and to help me keep track of the damn date considering how I’ve been writing it by having a certain amount of time pass between cities/towns, it was a pain to go back and count to find out how long I’ve had the journey be already.
Oh and I want to thank YuriGardenOG for recommending this story on Reddit and Jpvo99 who did the same on thousandroads. net. I usually skim through the two sites to find different stories to read myself so it was a surprise to see this one being recommended.
Chapter 14: All Aboard the SS. Anne
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet was humming as she was now reading up on the SS Anne late at night given how tomorrow would be the day she would be on the ship.
Nothing interesting happened at the beach, well except for her just having fun with her Pokemon, something she needed after everything else so she wasn’t complaining. No one approached her though given how she had a Beedrill out at the Beach, but Violet didn’t mind.
Even Parasite seemed to act a bit more alive despite her current muted state so that was a big plus for her.
Though right now she wished that she was smart about being out there for so long given she had a bit of a sunburn now.
Still it was worth it.
“I’m definitely coming back to the beach again someday.” Violet whispered as she saw that the ship was going to be passing by the Seafoam Islands and reach Cinnabar to dock for at least two days before turning around to come back to Vermillion.
Seeing that, Violet pondered on if she should challenge the Cinnabar Gym Leader, but decided not to.
She was nowhere ready for any of Blaine’s fire types, that was one type she had little to no counters for, something she needed to work on.
Besides, she was more interested in the Seafoam Islands, even if there weren’t going to be any bugs to catch there, she heard stories of how beautiful the caverns were.
But due to the bizarre blizzard going on, the plans for the ship to dock there were cancelled which was a shame.
At least the ship will have countless other things to do, there were trainers from all over Kanto so chances were that she would be able to get some training in for her team.
Besides that there were other things to do in order to keep busy on the ship. Ballroom Dancing, a makeshift rock climbing wall, mini golf, a pool out on the deck, a room specifically for trading Pokemon.
The possibilities were endless.
“I want to do everything.” Violet decided before wincing. “Except for trading.”
Don’t get her wrong, she see’s why some people do that and it helps when some of the Pokemon that are traded are happier for it, but she doesn’t like the idea of trading any of her Pokemon.
Early the next morning, Violet was standing in line to get on the ship, it was a ridiculously long line given the amount of people trying to get on, something that she understood given how luxurious the ship was.
She didn’t talk to anyone in the line like she did for Surge’s Gym, instead just kept quiet, wanting to get onto the ship to see what it would be about.
Eventually after a half hour, she was finally able to get on as one of the Sailors who wore the trademarked white uniform they were known for holding a ticket scanner.
“Ticket or Badge?” The Sailor asked as Violet hesitated before bringing the ticket out.
Sure she could use the badge, but the ticket was a gift from Bill so it would be better to use it right?
As the ticket was scanned, the Sailor blinked in surprise before giving Violet a one over look.
He then shrugged and gave it back to Violet. “Your room is in FC24, you can ask for directions at any part of the ship, but we have a map near the entrance.”
Entering the ship, Violet saw quite a huge crowd of people walking through the halls, from adults to kids.
Actively trying to avoid bumping into anyone, Violet eventually managed to find where the maps were and stared as she read it.
Apparently FC24 stood for First Class Room 24 which nearly made her drop the map in shock.
F-First Class?
Thinking it over it made sense given how the ticket was supposed to be for Bill, but she didn’t even think about that when she used the ticket.
And the First Class rooms were a bit away if the map was any indication.
As she made her way towards where her room would be, Violet was rather overwhelmed by how luxurious the ship seemed with its rich looking carpets, beautiful paintings and most of the occupants were much better dressed than she was right now.
It really made her feel out of place.
Eventually she made it to the first class halls and if she thought the earlier part of the ship looked luxurious this part blew it out of the water.
She could see fancy scriptures on the wall along with ice sculptures by certain rooms and chandeliers every so often.
The occupants looked even better dressed than the other ones, without a speck of dirt or a stain on their clothes that looked to be worth more than everything she owned.
Violet certainly got some confused looks when one factored in her clothes in comparison as hers were well worn with wrinkles and smudges of dirt from all of the traveling.
Finally she made it to her room and entered it only to stare at how big it was.
It was bigger than all of the rooms back home in Viridian.
There was a huge king sized bed that could fit even a Machamp and an Arcanine with ease and still have a lot of room left over along with a very expensive looking red carpet and a huge aquarium which had to be for trainers with Water Pokemon and perches for Flying Pokemon.
There was even a desk with a computer on it and a wide screen TV on the wall near a mini fridge and a bookshelf filled to the brim with books.
Besides that there were two doors, Violet opened one to see a huge walk-in closet.
A bit scared at the amount of space, she opened the other to see one of the most lavish bathrooms she’s ever seen with white walls that shone without a speck of anything to show it was very clean with a walk in shower and even a freaking hot tub.
Do rich people live like this every day?! Seriously, there was so much she had no idea what to do.
If all of the first class rooms were like this then Violet was wondering how they managed to fit it on this ship?
Shaking her head, Violet dropped her bag and sent her team out where each of them gave a different reaction to the room they were in.
None of them have been anywhere like this room, only being at camp sites or the Pokemon Center rooms.
Stinger looked as if he was on a different plane of existence from how uncomfortable he looked, keeping to the air as he felt that stepping on the ground would most likely ruin the carpet. Silk was on the floor, slowly looking around without uttering a single sound, her eyes wide in disbelief.
Parasite just stood there though one of her claws twitched showing she was just as uncomfortable.
“We’re on the SS. Anne,” Violet explained to her team, looking relieved that they were feeling the same way she was about this. “It’s only a week cruise and there are a lot of trainers on board for us to battle, think of it as a vacation after everything that’s happened.”
Her explanation did little to make them comfortable but they gave a nod to show that they understood.
It’ll just take some time for them to adjust to this.
Seeing them exploring the room, Violet checked the mini fridge and saw it stocked with cold drinks such as soda, lemonade, water and tea.
There really wasn’t much else to do as the books looked a little too advanced for her.
Violet walked around with only Silk out as Parasite just wanted to sleep and she left Stinger inside of her room to keep Parasite company since she can’t exactly walk around with him on this ship without scaring a lot of people.
Silk on the other hand wanted to explore the ship and was capable of doing so without scaring anyone and she sat on her head, her wings kept still as she eyed some of the passengers while Violet walked through the ship, in awe of the amount of stuff that was inside of the ship, a lot more than what people would think from looking in on the outside.
She already passed by the cafeteria which was massive and right next to the ballroom where people would often dance together. There was an onboard casino but they didn’t have the prizes that the Game Corner did, in fact that was just for the sake of gambling or making money.
Violet did purchase a Coin Bag there though for whenever she did go to the Game Corner.
There were night clubs, karaoke bars, theaters showing various movies, the list was endless as Violet discovered. Though she was confused when she passed by an ‘Adult’ bar that they turned her away from due to her age despite how she was legally an adult but shrugged it off as she continued.
Sadly she didn’t see any Bug Catchers on this ship showing she might be the only bug trainer, but she didn’t let that get her down, instead she took that with pride, especially when she finally came to what looked to be a battling arena where she saw a ton of trainers duking it out.
They were using Pokemon she’s never seen before such as Magmar, Hypno, Jynx, Vileplume.
That really put quite a few entries into her Pokedex and Violet knew that Prof. Oak would be happy about that.
And the battles were paired up with the amount of badges that people had which made it fair and to avoid people facing those stronger than they are. It also helped avoid stronger trainers taking advantage of the weaker ones to take their money.
“Once we finish exploring and pick up the other two we are definitely having some battles.” Violet said with Silk giving a cry of confirmation.
Eventually she came to the deck where the pool was and saw a series of slides that looped all around it along with countless pool chairs where people could sit and relax and a part of the deck that people stayed at for sunbathing, it was packed due to how the storms in the next few days would prevent them from using this for awhile.
Upbeat music was playing, adding to the shouts and laughter that accompanied this part of the ship.
“Fweh?” Silk looked up at the air, seeing the countless flying types that most likely belonged to other passengers and Violet grinned.
“Go ahead, have fun.”
Hesitant to leave Violet alone, Silk gave a nod and took to the air thinking she could do this and keep an eye on the trainer.
Violet watched her fly off when someone spoke. “I’m surprised you’re not letting your Beedrill out to fly with her.”
Knowing exactly who it was, Violet took a second to take a deep breath and turned to see Green.
“I would if he was with me, he’s keeping Parasite company back in the room.” Violet said, attempting to be civil as even if she was usually annoyed by the other Pokedex User, he didn’t really say anything snide this time.
Green gave a nod and glanced up, seeing his Pidgeotto in the air. “Same thing with Raticate and Sandshrew.” He revealed and Violet was actually thrown off by how he wasn’t being his antagonistic self that she got to know.
She didn’t bring up asking how the rematch with Surge went given how it was obvious he won if he was here, plus she figured doing so would probably ruin the fact that they were being civil for once.
So instead she looked back up at Silk seeing how happy she was to be flying high into the air, doing a few twirls in the process.
Seeing as she was being silent, Green continued. “I want a rematch while we’re on this ship.”
That completely surprised Violet who glanced at him, not expecting that due to what happened last time.
“It’s because of the rumors that you defeated Surge on your first try.” Green said already guessing what she was thinking, though there was a hint of annoyance at saying that before he continued in a calmer tone. “I want to see for myself if you improved or it was luck.”
‘ And all's right with the world. ’ Violet couldn’t help but think now that Green sounded normal again.
That didn’t mean she wasn’t annoyed at how he said that. “What, you think I can’t win without luck?”
Green said nothing but he turned and walked off. “Prove me wrong, I’ll book a battle on the field for tomorrow night.”
Despite how Violet was glaring at him, she realized something.
He said ‘Prove him wrong’
Before he would’ve scoffed and said that luck was all she had.
So why did he word it like this?
“He is so confusing.”
Stinger had his forearm stingers crossed as he tapped his foot rather impatiently, while Parasite sat in the corner of the room tucked into her mushroom fast asleep.
Sure he did understand why he couldn’t fly around like Silk could but this was so boring.
He wanted to be where the action was, to be with his trainer.
Instead he was babysitting Parasite who honestly freaked him out with how she’s been acting since evolving.
Sure he was getting used to it, but seeing this in comparison to how she was when she first joined the team was rather jarring.
At least she was definitely stronger than she used to be.
Feeling bored, he uncrossed his stingers and jabbed them back and forth as if he was a human doing shadow boxing, practicing his Fury Attack in a way.
Unknown to him however, Parasite was awake and watching from beneath her mushroom.
There was a little emotion showing than usual with Parasite looking rather entertained at seeing how Stinger was acting.
Right now Parasite’s thoughts were rather foggy compared to before as if she was lost, unable to think straight or recall anything.
Yet whenever she heard her trainer’s voice it was as if something pierced the fog and she recalled various memories.
Such as when she first evolved she was nothing but at seeing Violet cry, something stirred.
The longer she’s been around this team the more it’s happened and some of the fog lifted in the process.
It was enough for Parasite to jumble some thoughts together, though she still had trouble doing so.
“Bzzt?!” Stinger finally noticed Parasite and seeing the pale white eyes peering from beneath the mushroom made him jump into the air, staying there while buzzing with anger to hide the fear he felt.
Parasite did nothing.
Stinger then buzzed again, demanding that she stopped doing that.
Then Parasite did something that Stinger wasn’t expecting.
She let out a small laugh but it was gone as Stinger just stared in confusion before the mushroom now covered the eyes as Parasite went back to sleep.
Now she was back to creeping him out.
Time flew for Violet as the first day on the ship just about came to an end.
All she did really was explore, never staying in one spot for too long, she was just amazed at everything on the ship and wanted to see what was available for her to do.
It wasn’t long before she ended up finding herself at some sort of evening show with a magician named Will who she heard was from Johto which surprised her.
She watched as this Magician who looked quite peculiar, though it's probably a part of his act. First off he had lilac colored hair that fell over his left eye, though you couldn’t see the eyes due to how they were covered by a domino mask. Besides that he wore some rather flamboyant clothes such as a black sleeveless tailcoat vest over a pink tuxedo and pink pants with black shoes on.
He also seemed to be a psychic trainer due to how he had Pokemon such as Jynx, Alakazam, Hypno and an Exeggutor out.
She watched as Will opened up his sleeve after showing that there was nothing up them and countless Pidgey and Spearow flew out without the telltale sign of a pokeball opening up before the flying types flew together and vanished, instead rose petals replacing them.
This was amazing.
As the rose petals fell, Will grabbed a few and closed his hand before opening it to show another Pidgey that flew around him before he did the same thing and the pidgey was replaced by a black staff that extended into a cane that he twirled.
She couldn’t even imagine how he was doing this and she knew that none of his Pokemon were helping him because if they were one would’ve seen their eyes glowing, instead they were there just for show.
“Now for my next trick I shall require a volunteer from the audience,” Will said twirling the cane again as it aimed at the audience with them roaring with excitement, a lot of hands going up before he tutted playfully. “How I choose them is rather unorthodox and they will be chosen randomly, fair warning.”
Suddenly a loud bang went off as something shot out of the cane and into the audience, but no one saw what it was and were left confused while Violet felt something poking her much to her irritation.
“Now my chosen volunteer should have a Queen of Hearts right behind their ear.” Will said with a smile as everyone began to check.
Hearing that however made Violet pause as she checked behind her ear where she felt something poke her and she pulled the card out much to her shock.
How did he-?
“Hey it’s over here!” Someone shouted as suddenly a light shined on the now nervous Violet who was definitely not expecting this.
“Wonderful, step right up, no need to be shy.” Will said, now resting his cane on his shoulder with a smile.
Swallowing the lump that formed in her throat, Violet walked up to the stage, painfully aware of all of the stares she was getting from the audience and she felt like hyperventilating a bit.
“You can relax, this will be an easy one for you.” Will assured her, seeing her nerves. “First please introduce yourself.”
“V-V-Violet.”
“I assume you’ve never been in front of so many people?” Will asked with her slowly nodding. “Well then don’t focus on them, instead focus on your own heartbeat.”
Violet wasn’t sure how that would work but she did so as Will then returned his Pokemon much to everyone’s confusion. “For this trick this young girl will disappear from the room.” He explained to them. “As you can see, all of my Pokemon are recalled, so no one will accuse me of using their teleport and there are no trap doors on the stage.”
Twirling his cane once more, Will winked at Violet behind his mask even if she wouldn’t see it before focusing with her swearing she saw a blue glow emanate from the mask before suddenly she was outside of the room where she heard the audience thunder in applause.
Violet on the other hand felt like her stomach did several flips as she nearly doubled over in surprise, wondering what just happened.
Placing a hand on the wall, Violet realized that she was inside of a dressing room and almost left when in a split second, Will appeared right next to her, making the girl jump.
“Bravo, well done on helping me with the act.” Will said as he placed his cane up against the wall. “Sorry for springing that on you.”
“Um, it’s alright.” Violet wasn’t sure what to say as she felt like asking how he made her disappear without using any Pokemon.
As if he knew what she was thinking, Will gave a sly grin. “Now, now as a magician I can’t reveal my secrets,” He said to her. “Besides the true magic is in the mystery now isn’t it?”
After all, if he divulged how he did it, then no one would be in awe of it.
“I suppose so.” Violet was more worried about how he knew what she was thinking.
“Ah, but where are my manners,” Will acted a bit dramatically by placing the back of his left hand on his head. “Do you want anything to drink before heading back out?”
Violet shook her head politely.
“Very well, then I shall bid you adi-,” Will stopped however when his eyes fell upon the hat she was wearing, or rather the feathers on them. “Could it be?”
Violet shifted uncomfortably as the magician looked at her as if reevaluating her.
“Is something wrong?” Violet asked not sure what was going on and she guessed it showed as Will gave a small laugh and backed off.
“Apologies, it's just that hat seemed a bit familiar,” He said, surprising her. “Would you happen to know of a Yukiko Sakura?”
“You know my Mom?” Violet sounded even more surprised, the question catching Will off guard.
“Your mother? That would explain-,” Will cut himself off as he gazed at the feathers on her hat before smiling. “I met her once in Ecruteak City, her family lives there.”
That made Violet even more curious because this was the first person who knew her Mom that wasn’t her Dad.
“How did you meet her?” Violet asked, kind of pressing for details as Will chuckled, now sitting in a chair.
“It was about thirteen years ago, I was only six when I was with my own parents attending a festival in Ecruteak, she was helping her family set up the dance theater.” Will sounded nostalgic at the memory that he looked back onto fondly. “I got separated from my parents due to my excitement and I ended up bumping into her, instead of scolding me like others would, she smiled and let her Eevee entertain me until my parents found me. Since then whenever we were in Ecruteak we would always visit with her becoming a great friend to my parents.”
Violet smiled at this, never knowing that her mother had an Eevee, or that her family worked at some sort of dance theater.
She’ll have to visit some day, though there were restrictions to traveling outside of one's home region.
Trainers have to be at least thirteen before they can travel to a different region due to being so far away from home, so even though she does want to go, she has to wait a bit before she can.
“How is she doing?” Will asked showing that he didn’t know making Violet wince. “I’ve heard she lived in the Kanto Region, but that was all I managed to find out.”
Will then saw how Violet shifted and it took a moment to guess why as he grimaced.
“I see, I’m sorry if I brought up any bad memories.”
“It’s fine, I’m just happy to be learning more about her.” Violet said as Will looked taken aback before smiling.
“I’ll be happy to tell you what I recall, I believe my parents have pictures that I can send if you want.” He offered with Violet giving a rapid nod.
It was enough to make him chuckle.
As he began to tell Violet a few more stories of what he knew about her mother, Will was momentarily distracted by his thoughts as he remembered why he was here.
He was in reality an Ace Trainer that was a trainee for the Elite Four, alongside a good friend of his from Johto and due to how no one knows that as of yet, he was placed on the SS. Anne in order to help with security due to how Lance wanted to ensure that nothing happened in case Team Rocket, who were making waves at a rather alarming rate compared to before, gained any funny ideas about ambushing the cruise ship due to the amount of money and rare Pokemon that would attract them.
Yet he runs into the daughter of an old family friend?
Fate works in rather mysterious ways.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle and Rage.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic and Whirlwind.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 7th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Notes:
Another filler chapter with it showing the very first day on the SS Anne and I think this chapter revealed some rather interesting stuff, am I right? I wanted to do more character interactions such as both Violet and Green actually interacting without being snide with each other showing that they were starting to respect one another in a way, though they have a ways to go and then we had another Pokemon only scene, this time with Stinger and Parasite, adding a bit more depth to the latter despite her zombie-like state her evolution gave her.
Then I finally revealed the name of Violet’s mother, adding hints to who her family was which I think everyone will find rather interesting as well as introduce Will of the Johto Elite Four, I hope you all enjoyed how I wrote him due to how interesting his character could be from what was shown in both the game and Manga, though unlike the Manga Path for the Rocket Executives, Will isn’t anywhere close to being his Manga counterpart.
Instead I had him as a bit of a Magician, he kind of looks like one if I’m being honest and he’s shown to be a bit showy and flamboyant when it comes to his description in the game, so I decided to add to it.
Now next chapter will be a fun one as you’ll be shown the rematch against Green, will Violet win or will the results be the same?
Oh and did you know that the last bug catcher you run into in the Red/Blue/Green/Yellow games was right before Rock Tunnel? There aren’t any on the ship either, man Bug Types were more ignored than I originally thought back when I made the comment about it during the Mt. Moon chapter.
Chapter 15: The Rematch on the SS. Anne
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Green huffed as he looked over the Pokemon he had with him, contemplating on which one to use to fight Violet in this rematch that he instigated, his Pokedex on the nearby table in his room while his Pokemon were all asleep in their Pokeballs with the exception of Eevee who was curled up in his lap with him idly stroking his fur.
Right now he had a full team while Violet had half of one which would make this battle a three-on-three just like last time.
Last time he used Pidgeotto, Rattata who then evolved into Raticate and his newly caught Abra who was now a Kadabra. The only one who lost was Pidgeotto but that was because none of them were expecting for her to teach that Paras Bide.
Given the rate that bug types grow, Green had no doubt that her Paras was most likely a Parasect at this point and it probably has more moves compared to last time.
Then there were the strategies that she used before he turned it around on her, most likely she would have some new ones that he wouldn’t expect.
Should he switch his team up a bit? Use the same team as last time?
Considering she defeated Surge on her first attempt, Green knew that he had to think about this carefully and while his newer Pokemon were catching up at a good rate it wasn’t fast enough in his opinion.
He already gave just about all of the extra Pokemon he caught to his Grandfather to help him with his research with the exception of one that he recently bought on the SS. Anne.
A Magikarp that he planned to train up into a Gyarados to give his team a bit more versatility and to have a back-up water type so he wouldn’t have to rely on his Shellder.
Given how that would take awhile, he was going to focus on the six he has right now and then add in the Magikarp after a bit.
After a bit, Green came to a decision on what team he’ll use for this rematch.
Meanwhile Violet was doing the exact same thing in her room, biting her lower lip in worry, the results of the last match vividly going through her mind as she was worried that they would remain the same.
Even if she told herself that her team was much stronger than last time she couldn’t help but be concerned.
Sure she lost some other battles that weren’t to Green, such as the more experienced bug catchers when she was in the Forest with only a Kakuna and a Caterpie and she did lose against Samurai on their rematch.
But those loses pale in comparison to the one with Green with how much he berated her team.
She wanted to prove that her team was strong.
Green was the obstacle she needed to overcome to prove that.
“He already knows my team and I know half of his.” Violet began muttering, cupping her chin as she thought back to their last battle. “His Abra most likely evolved and is even more dangerous given it can learn a ton of TMs much like his Raticate. I haven’t seen his Eevee battle but from what I can conclude it’s most likely his starter so it has to be powerful.”
And she has no clue what moves it knows.
His Pidgeotto is the biggest threat given how it was a natural predator to Bug Pokemon and Green could have a fire or rock type for all she knew.
“His level could be far ahead of mine as well given how dedicated he is to training his team, he’s strong for a reason but he’s also catching a lot of Pokemon from what I’ve gathered so he can’t train them all which slows his progress if he switches between them. He also said he had a Sandshrew earlier so I should take that one into account.”
Could it have the move Dig like Parasite does?
A part of her thought about calling Prof. Oak to learn about his team, but she shook her head.
Even if she could convince the Professor to tell her and she doubted that given how he most likely wouldn’t and she was certain that he would refuse to tell Green if the trainer asked about hers, she wanted to win on her own terms without an unfair advantage.
Speaking of advantages, Violet turned her head towards the desk where two TM’s lay.
After she was done speaking to Will, the man ended up giving her one TM which she did try to refuse but the psychic trainer insisted given how she helped with his show.
That TM was for the move Rest, a psychic move that puts the user to sleep and restore energy, useful but Violet wasn’t sure which Pokemon to teach it to.
The other TM she got was Body Slam and she bought it from another trainer who was trying to make some quick cash.
To be fair the second one was a lot more useful given how powerful Body Slam was but the only Pokemon who could learn it was Parasite and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, Violet realized that whenever she got a TM she used it exclusively on Parasite when she should be trying to keep it fair between her team.
Sure it was because Parasite had less moves to learn naturally then the others but she was worried that it would feel like she was playing favorites, even if she doesn’t have a good selection to teach them given how none of her team could learn the other ones.
“I suppose I could teach Rest to Stinger to give him a way to restore health but it’ll leave him open to attacks,” Violet theorized in concern. “Silk already has a bunch of moves that she learned leaving her to be versatile and Body Slam for Parasite will give her a better normal move than Scratch.”
After a few seconds, Violet decided to do that.
Even if she doesn’t use Rest in battle, she could have Stinger do that outside of battle to help him recover a lot faster.
Early the next morning Violet was readjusting her hat while her team was out and about in the room doing their own thing.
She could already hear Parasite in the Hot Tub given how her Dry Skin ability made water very enjoyable to her.
Stinger and Silk already ate and seemed to be conversing with each other, though from how they sounded she was able to decipher that they were being competitive again.
Though there were hints of them being playful in that one as opposed to how they were a bit more hostile in the beginning showing that they were just playing around.
‘W ish I could understand them fully. ’ Violet mused with a smile before she grabbed her satchel and then her team’s respective Pokeballs to place on her belt after she returned them.
Just a few more hours until the rematch and this time she planned to win.
“Bzzt?” Violet was broken out of her thoughts as Stinger broke off from the conversation with Silk, turning his attention to her much to the trainer’s confusion.
Then she realized that her fists were clenched so hard that they were turning white and her nails were digging into her palms.
Thankfully not enough to make them bleed as she quickly relaxed and put a smile on her face.
“I’m fine Stinger.” Violet promised the Beedrill despite the uncertain expression the bug was showing.
A few minutes later, she was leaving her room with her team returned to their Pokeballs as she moved to find something to keep her occupied until the battle.
Maybe they were showing something good at the theater?
“I see.” Prof. Oak mused back in his lab in Pallet Town as he was studying the findings that the League had on the Kangaskhan that went on a rampage in Viridian Forest.
To his surprise the toxicity in the blood levels matched the one taken from the Snorlax that went on the rampage out near Route 11 before Bruno managed to take it down which had him worried.
Especially given how much more advanced the one in the Snorlax was with it surviving, but completely feral until it had to be put down considering it took out two of Bruno’s Pokemon putting them in critical condition.
Team Rocket were getting more dangerous with each passing day and if they ever get this serum they’re working on finished they could be unstoppable.
But why would they test it on a Snorlax? What purpose did they have in destroying the bridge leading to Lavender Town?
Leaning back, Oak began to write down his findings only to feel a chill down his back that he hasn’t felt in years and smirked.
“You know you can always call when you visit Agatha.” He said, turning to see an elderly woman leaning on a cane, with blonde hair that was on the verge of being grey wearing a sleeveless purple dress with a white shirt beneath it, black leggings and boots, slowly walking out of the shadows. “Don’t you ever get tired of the theatrics?”
“Like you’re one to talk you old duff.” Agatha, the Ghost Master of the Elite Four scoffed at the Professor. “Lance wants to know what you found.”
“Nothing good, I can tell you that much.” Prof. Oak got straight to the point, knowing how his old rival was. “The rate they’re advancing is a cause for concern, especially when we don’t know who’s giving the orders.”
“Tch, Lance was a fool to let them form in the first place.” Agatha’s tone told volumes of her thoughts of the champion despite the respect she did have for the Dragon Master.
“Times were desperate back then.” Oak reminded her, but Agatha waved that off, knowing that he did agree with her opinion on that matter despite what he said.
“Doesn’t excuse him for not stomping them out after the war, if he did then we wouldn’t be here discussing this.”
“That’s why he’s been working overtime to try and take them down.”
The two of them were silent as Prof. Oak began to gather the papers he made copies of while Agatha glanced at the pictures that Oak had on the wall, particularly one showing a younger him alongside a younger Agatha after their last official battle many years ago.
“So your Grandson is on his journey now?” Agatha asked in a curious manner as Oak gave a nod. “Tch, let’s hope he isn’t as spineless as you are.”
“If you’re only here to berate me, you can leave.” Oak held out the papers in an annoyed tone. “I made my choice a long time ago, I’m a researcher, not a trainer.”
“To think you were my rival.” Agatha snatched the papers away as her shadow began to twitch, red eyes showing in it. “Gengar get ready.”
As she was about to use her Ghost Pokemon to leave, Agatha however stopped.
“Samuel, do you ever regret it?” Agatha looked over her shoulder as Oak’s shoulders sagged, knowing what she was talking about.
“Every single day.” He admitted, his eyes looking towards a picture where it actually showed him and Agatha looking happy, the woman holding a baby. “But we can’t change what happened.”
“No, I suppose not.” Agatha turned and disappeared into the dark as Oak placed a hand in his hair to signify some frustration.
He rarely got like this these days, the only times he did was whenever she was involved.
“And what’s this about my Grandson? He’s your Grandson too.” Oak muttered, wishing that they could mend what happened.
But that bridge burned a long time ago.
Soon enough it was night time as Violet was moving to meet Green for their rematch, a look of determination on her face.
She went through so many strategies during the day, thought of different ways to counter the Pokemon she knew she had, even if she had nothing for the ones he hasn’t shown yet.
‘ I can do this. ’ Violet thought to herself, clenching a fist before seeing her opponent.
Green was waiting by the door leading to the battlefield, leaning on the wall with his arms crossed and eyes closed, his Eevee sitting right by his foot.
As she got closer, Eevee made a small noise, resulting in Green opening one eye to see her.
Pushing himself off the wall, Green spoke. “You ready?”
“This time I’m going to win.” Violet promised and Green actually gave a smirk at that.
“Prove it.”
Nothing else was said as they entered, Violet almost freezing up a bit when she saw the rather large crowd who were watching some of the other matches that were happening on the other battlefields, a cold realization washing over her.
They would be battling in front of a crowd.
How did she not think about that earlier?! Of course they would, they were on a ship with a ton of trainers.
She’s never battled in front of so many people before.
“Hey are you coming or what?” Green turned and glanced at her with some annoyance for the hold up.
‘ Come on, just bear with it. ’ Violet told herself as she forced herself to walk.
She was going to fight in front of a crowd eventually when the League Tournament started, so best to get used to it now.
She just had to focus on the battle, nothing else.
“Same rules as last time?” Violet asked, hating how it almost came out as a squeak.
“Three on Three, best of two wins.” Green said, placing a hand on one of the Pokeballs on his belt.
Violet gave a nod and grabbed Silk’s Pokeball, deciding to start off with her while Green frowned a bit before deciding who to send out.
A second later, both Raticate and Silk were out on the field, the former narrowing his eyes at seeing Violet, obviously remembering her while Silk took to the air, knowing who they were battling and remembering how this Pokemon cracked Stinger’s carapace with his fangs.
“Bubblebeam!” Green started the battle with Raticate immediately firing the barrage of bubbles at the Bug showing an increase in speed while Silk quickly flew around them, having practiced dodging projectiles from Stinger as practice.
‘ Need to slow it down, but I don’t want to reveal Esper Spore yet and I know that setting up String Shot won’t work. ’ Violet theorized remembering last time.
“Stun Spore, but twirl in the air to send it everywhere!”
Silk gave a cry as she flew up, far above Raticate’s reach as she twirled and the Stun Spore did indeed begin to go everywhere showing how the range of her attack increased through training.
“Dodge with Dig.” Raticate immediately dove into the ground, dodging the spores much to Violet’s frustration.
Man this Raticate was versatile.
Too bad she had a way to counter that.
“Use Confusion to find it and rip it out of the ground.”
Green didn’t seem to expect that as Silk did so easily, the Raticate being surprised as he was pulled straight out, making another hole in the process, screeching and hissing as he tried to break free before the damage of the psychic attack began to take effect.
But Green smirked.
“Thunderbolt.”
Eyes widening, Violet didn’t have any time to tell Silk to drop the Raticate as electricity erupted from him and slammed into Silk knocking her out of the sky as she hit the ground with a harsh thud.
Thankfully she was still awake as she got up, sparks emanating from her to show paralysis.
Raticate however landed wrong on the ground and hissed in pain, favoring his left foot.
‘ Of course he had Thunderbolt, he obviously defeated Surge. ’ Violet reprimanded herself for that.
‘ And here I was originally going to teach that to Kadabra. ’ Green silently thought taking into the actions already happening. ‘ She has gotten stronger, I’ll admit that much. ’
But he was going to win.
“Hyper Fang!”
Raticate surged forward as Silk struggled with the Paralysis before breaking through it.
“Fweh!” Flapping her wings in an attempt to fly up as Raticate got closer, no one was prepared for the gust of wind to blast out, slamming into Raticate sending him skidding across the floor.
Violet recognized the move immediately due to the number of times it was used against her team by anyone with a Pokemon from the Pidgey line.
Gust.
Seeing the damage it did to Raticate, Violet knew it was because of the STAB bonus considering Silk was part flying and grinned, happy that Silk gained a move that could take advantage of that.
But Green ordered another Thunderbolt and this time Silk stayed down upon being hit.
As Violet returned Silk, thanking her for the hard work, Green took into account the amount of damage that Butterfree did compared to last time when he fought it with an Abra.
But he shook it off and returned Raticate, sending his Kadabra out with Violet tensing at seeing the evolved Psychic, no doubt recalling how tough it was before she decided to send Parasite out.
No sense in sending Stinger out due to the type disadvantage and she knew that Parasite’s bulk would be handy for this battle.
Their battle has actually drawn up a bit of a crowd however with some of the battles in the other fields finishing up.
Green crossed his arms while Kadabra held his spoon with finesse, a bit of an arrogant manner overcoming the psychic while Parasite just stood there as Violet clenched a fist.
“Psybeam.” A blast of psychic energy erupted from Kadabra that Parasite dodged with Dig, with the energy exploding on the ground where she stood a second ago, knocking dust into the air. “Find it.”
Kadabra went to do so only to pause.
He couldn’t sense the Mushroom Pokemon’s mind.
It would seem that the parasitic mushroom prevented psychics from finding it.
Suddenly the ground shifted behind Kadabra as Parasite launched out of it, landing on Kadabra with a Body Slam, surprising the Psychic who didn’t sense it coming.
Green looked irked by that while Violet grinned and ordered a Leech Life while he was pinned.
“Disable!”
The moment the bug move made contact, Parasite froze as the attack locked it up before she was hit by a Mega Punch.
While it didn’t do too much damage, Parasite was knocked off the Kadabra who lifted himself into the air with his own confusion and fired another Psybeam at Parasite, knocking her back again.
“Whack-A-Mole!” Violet ordered as Parasite dove into the field once more, Green momentarily raising a brow from the oddly named move but refocusing on the battle itself.
“Teleport, keep it guessing.”
From there, the battle turned into an impromptu game of cat and mouse as neither Pokemon could guess where the other was as Parasite always came up at odd times while Kadabra was constantly teleporting in and out of danger.
Neither Pokemon could land a hit like this.
That was when Green noticed Violet smirking and frowned in response, wondering why she was smirking before Kadabra stiffened up as sparks emanated from him making his eyes widen.
How did he get paralyzed-?
It clicked when Green realized out of all the holes in the field this ‘Whack-A-Mole’ strategy that Violet used had spores emanating from them and he saw that Parasite wasn’t just doing hit and run tactics, she was creating a connected series of tunnels all over the field to where she would be able to safely use Stun Spore in with the spores going through all of them.
“You know Disable should’ve worn off by now.” Violet had a grin as she said that in a sing-song tone, being surprisingly playful when she said that.
And she was proven right as Parasite erupted from one of the nearby holes and connected to Kadabra who tried to fight off the paralysis.
But he was unable to do so and Parasite knocked him out by keeping a hold of him, restoring health in the process.
So the score was one-one like last time.
And it was with the same Pokemon she used last time to given how Parasite caught him off guard with Bide in their last battle, but this time she didn’t rely on it at all.
Green actually found himself smirking despite the annoyance he felt.
He didn’t like being so close to losing, but he was also enjoying having someone push him.
The last few battles that weren’t Gym Battles have been painfully too easy, so this was a nice change of pace.
Returning Kadabra, Green glanced down as his Eevee ran out and Violet returned Parasite with a grin and sent out Stinger, saving her Starter for last once more.
‘ Last battle, we can do this. ’ Violet told herself. ‘ We can win this. ’
Stinger buzzed and slammed his forearms together in an attempt to intimidate the Eevee who just looked at him in a calm manner, idly liking a paw to run over his ear.
“Twineedle!” Violet started things up with Stinger giving a cry as his stingers glowed but Green ordered a Quick Attack to slam into him, before running off, dodging the attack as the bug recovered.
While running, the Eevee did a growl, lowering Stinger’s attack a bit, before jumping over a Twineedle, doing a tail whip in the process with Violet now understanding the strategy with this particular Pokemon.
An Eevee’s true strength came from when they evolved, as Green hasn’t evolved it yet, he’s been working on other ways for it to win by having stat changes.
It was one of the studies showing that Pokemon were able to weaken others through non attacking moves such as Tail Whip, Leer, Growl, moves that held some sort of energy that many researchers have looked into.
One scientist theorized it had something to do with the same energy Pokemon emitted when they evolved, but there were still studies to it to this very day.
So she countered it by ordering a Harden, with Stinger doing so, grunting as he was hit by another Quick Attack and that was before a Sand Attack slammed into him, lowering his accuracy making it harder for the bug to see.
Another Growl lowered his attack again as Stinger had enough and began to fire Poison String all around in hopes of poisoning the Pokemon and lowering his speed.
“Stinger calm down, just because you can’t see doesn’t mean you can’t hear!” Violet told him as Stinger tensed up before giving a nod.
That was ruined when Eevee slammed into him with a Tackle, making him slide back a bit, his leg stepping in his own webbing as it got stuck.
From there, Eevee began to do hit and run Tackles, chipping away at his health.
But the Eevee made a crucial mistake in doing so, falling into a pattern that Stinger was able to learn and before long he fired a String Shot, managing to take the Eevee by surprise, knocking him to the floor as he struggled before the Beedrill manage to rip his leg out of the webbing and flew towards the sounds that Eevee was making, firing a Twineedle.
That attack connected, knocking Eevee back as he began to glow purple, showing that he was poisoned and that was before Stinger performed Fury Attack, hitting at least three times.
However the attack managed to break the webbing holding the Eevee down as he managed to get away, the two of them panting heavily.
Seeing that, Violet grinned. “Rest!”
Green obviously wasn’t expecting that as he cursed. “Eevee quick take it out before it wakes up!” He ordered as the poison was surging through Eevee faster the more she moved as she did a Quick Attack on the sleeping Beedrill before biting him.
The results did bring the damage that was healing back and had the effect of waking him up, but it also wasted time for the poison to surge faster and Eevee was nearly out before they both fired off one last attack.
Twineedle versus Quick Attack as they both flew past each other after making contact, both Pokemon landing on the ground with bated breath before they both fell over.
“A tie?” Green asked not expecting that outcome while Violet looked disappointed that they didn’t win.
But she did grin given how she didn’t lose either and this was proof right here that they definitely got stronger since the last time they battled.
Green returned Eevee to his Pokeball to let him rest and frowned at seeing how fast she seemed to be catching up.
He needs to rework his training to avoid losing in future battles.
But he glanced up to see Violet hugging the Beedrill with a grin and turned to walk away.
He did stop however and said something. “I expect to see you at the League.”
That really surprised Violet who glanced up at him but he was already leaving before she could ask what he meant by that before smiling.
“I’ll be there.” Violet promised, finally returning Stinger.
Deep beneath the waters, a submarine was moving through, slowly catching up with the SS. Anne as water Pokemon such as Seaking, Tentacruel and even the ferocious Gyarados avoided it due to how the vehicle emitted an electrical pulse to anything that got too close.
Inside of it, Lt. Surge was watching through the periscope as he could see the ship in the distance, this time however he was wearing the Rocket Uniform, only with a black unzipped jacket on while a belt was strapped around his shoulder with countless Pokeballs.
“Sir, we’re getting close to the Seafoam Islands.” One of the grunts told him. “Should we prepare for landing?”
“Change of plans, we’re boarding the SS. Anne.” Surge said, surprising the Grunt.
“Sir? But our orders-.”
“Belay them, we’ll get there for our mission after we take care of a nuisance.” Surge said, this time in a tone that told the Grunt that talking back would have consequences, something that made the grunt swallow the lump forming in his throat nervously.
As the grunt went to let the others know, Surge knew that he couldn’t afford to let anyone on that ship know who he was given how many of their plans relied on the Gym Leaders having the element of surprise so he went to grab something to hide his identity.
‘Hope you enjoyed your time on the ship Runt.’ Surge thought, his mind flashing back to that last battle with Violet at the Gym. ‘Because you’re about to experience the consequences of interfering with Team Rocket.’
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle and Rage.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind and Gust.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life and Dig
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 8th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Now for Green’s Team, just to give an idea on what he has.
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 30
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 28
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeotto
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack and Whirlwind
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable and Psybeam
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandshrew
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 20
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig and Slash
6th Pokemon
Species: Shellder
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 19
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw and Supersonic
7th Pokemon
Species: Magikarp
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 5
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Swift Swim
Moves: Splash
Notes:
Phew, this took a bit to type, but I really hope it was enjoyable, as short as it was.
Especially the rematch between Green and Violet despite it being a tie it showed how much farther that Violet has gotten considering the last time they fought Violet barely did anything to Green and even when she did it was out of pure luck.
This time however she held her own and more which in turn made Green finally acknowledge her as his rival with the Pokedex and I finally got to show how his Eevee fights before it does evolve, even if it’s not for awhile.
We also had a scene showing Prof. Oak and his ‘relationship’ with Agitha along with the revelation that she is Green’s grandmother due to how in the games it was stated that she once thought Oak was ‘handsome’ in their youth showing some attraction. Furthermore remember the Snorlax that went on the rampage I mentioned in an earlier chapter? Yes Team Rocket was behind it showing that they’re affecting the world even if Violet isn’t involved with them, something that I figured would be interesting to show.
But now we’re getting out of the filler parts of the story and we have the main storyline continuing with Team Rocket going to attack the Cruise Line, all to eliminate Violet for all of the times she got in their way, even if they were accidental.
And let it be noted that this is the result of Surge going AWOL to take her down considering the Executives were ordered to leave her alone, Giovanni thinking she’s a nuisance at best.
So you can bet that the next chapter will have some good stuff showing.
Chapter 16: Attack on the SS. Anne
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
It’s been one day since Violet fought Green in a rematch and she was frowning in thought.
Right now she was in the training room available on the ship, having all three of her Pokemon out, trying to get some training in, especially with the ship sailing through another storm right now.
She says trying because something weird was going on.
The moment Stinger hit thirty in terms of levels, he was starting to slow down a bit compared to past training which baffled her because she knew bugs grew quickly compared to other Pokemon, but for it to just slow down like that?
Perhaps she should call Prof. Oak to ask about that?
But he did learn a move called Pin Missile so that was some progress and they were currently trying to get the move Rage down, the memory of Oak’s warning going through her head at that.
While she knew that Stinger would rather injure himself than attack her, she wasn’t naive enough to think that using Rage wouldn’t change that, it was why they needed to train it before an incident happens.
Which was why she had both Silk and Parasite facing him at the same time, just in case he would lose himself when he used Rage and from how loudly he was buzzing and stabbing at them wildly, it was clear that he was losing himself.
So she kept a hand on his Pokeball, ready to recall him the moment she needed to, given how he was the strongest member of her team in terms of level.
But she didn’t need to worry as Silk used Confusion long enough to hold him, allowing for Parasite to knock him down with Body Slam.
Seeing Stinger hit the floor rather harshly made Violet wince but she knew he could take it and it knocked some sense back into him given how the buzzing died down as Stinger shook his head before lowering it in shame.
Seeing that they were done for the moment, Violet walked over towards Stinger and crouched to be at eye level with him. “Hey it’s fine you’re making good progress.” She said despite how the bee didn’t believe her. “You’ll get it down.”
On the bright side this was also good training in teamwork with Silk and Parasite given they were working well together and Stinger was learning to take on more than one Pokemon at a time.
She should see about doing training that required all three of them to work together soon enough. And someday hold a free-for-all fight to see which one of them could win if it came down to it, they might enjoy that one honestly.
“Then we should do the same once we have a full team, should probably make that a regular training session to keep their skills up, perhaps once we have a full team we could do three on three, switching it up on occasion so they can keep their teamwork up.” Violet began to mumble at a rather quick pace with her team just ignoring it at this point, though Stinger and Silk did so in a fond manner. “Perhaps we can go back and revisit each Gym to challenge their real teams after getting the Gym Badges? Doing so would be great training for the League, but would I have time to do so? If I can get the TM for Teleport it would be easy considering Silk or the Venomoth I plan to get can learn it.”
Teleport would really make going around the Kanto Region much easier, provided she trains it up enough.
Especially if she wants to visit the friends she made over the course of her journey with Brock, Misty and Bill coming to mind immediately.
“Bzzt!” Stinger flew up and landed on her hat, breaking Violet out of her mumbling considering she was starting to go on and on with it.
That was when Violet realized that some of the other trainers in the training room were staring a bit weirded out and she blushed in embarrassment, idly pulling the front of her hat down a bit while Stinger stayed on easily.
Though she did glance back at her team and wondered what else they could train up.
Stinger is starting to resist psychic attacks a little, but only with the lower tier ones, if a Pokemon used the move Psybeam or Psychic however he would easily be taken down, it would be awhile before he could resist those ones.
Then you have the frailty that Bug Pokemon were known for, sure both Stinger and Silk knew Harden, but she rarely used it anymore, even then it would only work for the Physical Defense, not the Special one which would defend against non contact moves such as elemental or psychic attacks.
She’ll have to work on that.
Right now, Parasite was her bulkiest Pokemon but her typing made her very frail against Flying and Fire Types due to the double weakness she has to both. Dry Skin made fire types even worse which was why she’s been working on her speed and evasion including with moves such as Dig.
It didn’t matter if she can take more hits than the other two, she didn’t want her to take any if possible. Once she has Scyther and Pinsir she’ll have more much needed bulk on her team.
Silk is the only Pokemon with long range attacks, sure Stinger has Pin Missile now, but it was one move while Silk has a whole arsenal such as Confusion, Gust, the spore attacks and will most likely learn more as time goes on.
Double Team and Substitute would be a good move to learn now that she thinks about it.
“Focus.” Violet told herself. “Just work with what you have.”
She needed to have them master what’s already available before she tries to think of other moves.
Meanwhile on the other end of the ship, Green frowned as he was on the phone with Prof. Oak, exchanging his Kadabra for Magikarp to begin his training.
“So you plan on catching a Vulpix over in Cinnabar Island?” Prof. Oak asked curiously, knowing his grandson’s plan for a team.
“I’m lacking a fire type and considering who my rival is I need to have one.” Green said that part without thinking, the act making Prof. Oak smile as he saw that he was finally accepting Violet as a rival. “And considering the next badge is in Celadon it would be a good time to train one up and I’m going to try and train my Pidgeotto up to evolve.”
Once that happens he’ll be able to fly anywhere he wants as many trainers have a Pokemon like Pidgeot to get around easily.
“I also want to try and get Magikarp to evolve before then if I can.” Green continued and that made Prof. Oak give a concerned look.
“Just be careful, Gyarados are very dangerous and prone to being vicious, even to their own trainers.” Prof. Oak told his grandson. “And I can attest to how true that is.”
Green gave a nod, knowing that his Grandfather has a Gyarados of his own from his Trainer Days much like how the Champion Lance has one.
That’s how powerful Gyarados were.
It was why a lot of trainers sought one out. But they don’t try to raise one from a Magikarp. Doing so actually makes them less vicious, it doesn’t take it away completely but it’s much easier than trying to catch a wild one that won’t respect them.
Any further conversation was interrupted when the power just cut off much to Green’s surprise, now in a dark room as he wondered what that was about.
Did the storm do something about the power?
Feeling a little uneasy, Green sent Raticate out so he can investigate.
“Huh?” Violet blinked as the power was cut off while she was now leaving the training room to head back to her room.
Was this a part of the cruise or something? They did some strange things to entertain the guests at times.
Apparently the other day there was some sort of ‘Murder Mystery’ Event that some passengers could take part in, it happened while she was battling Green so she missed it.
Still she sent Silk out considering she could see in the dark and continued to walk, noting how surprised the other trainers were, some of them releasing Pokemon that helped light up the area such as Electabuzz, Pikachu, Ponyta, anything that helped light things up.
“I have a bad feeling about this.” Violet muttered to herself as Silk landed on her back, giving a small cry of agreement as she saw the other trainers moving out of sight towards where the ballroom was, probably wanting to be in a big area while this was happening.
So she followed them.
Unknown to her, she was being watched as a Magneton was outside of the window, tracking her progress before it crashed through the window, the sound making her head turn towards it as it seemed to stare her down.
“What in the-?” Violet whispered right as it began to glow blue, teleporting a figure right in front of her.
Violet took a step back, fear beginning to show when she spotted the red ‘R’ on the jacket the figure wore, his face obscured by a mask of red bandages wrapped around his face, his eyes glaring down at her.
“Well, well, well if it isn’t the Trainer that keeps getting in our way,” The voice sounded distorted showing that whoever this person is, they were disguising their voice. “And all alone too, no Gym Leader in sight to save you now.”
Ignoring the fact that Magneton can apparently learn teleport, Violet took a step back in fear, something that amused the man who took a step forward, pulling some Pokeballs out as he sent a few Grimers out.
Violet couldn’t breathe the moment she saw the Grimers as suddenly it was like she was back in Mt. Moon, the stench filling her nose as she shook, obviously having flashbacks to her near death experience as Silk quickly got in front of the girl.
The figure gave a dark laugh. “I was right, it would seem your experience with Grimers left you traumatized,” He said purposely picking them to mentally attack the trainer who he assumed had some slight PTSD when it came to the sludge Pokemon before snapping his fingers. “Kill her.”
Silk immediately began to use Confusion on the Grimers, but the Magneton unleashed a Thunder Wave that paralyzed her right when the Grimers were about to reach Violet.
“Thunderbolt!” A blast of electricity knocked both the Grimer’s back as Raticate got in front of Violet while Green ran towards them.
He was investigating nearby when he heard the window breaking as he passed the hallway.
“Are you trying to get killed?” Green asked, a bit annoyed that she didn’t seem to try and dodge only to realize she was hyperventilating, the annoyance now disappearing as he turned from her towards the Rocket Executive, tensing as he knew all about Team Rocket. “So you’re behind the power going out.”
This was bad, they needed to get out of there, but he was pretty sure that this guy wouldn’t just let them.
Checking his Pokedex, he cursed when he saw that the Magneton was at least 55.
Way too strong for either of them to take on.
The Executive took notice of that, now very interested in what that device is if two kids had them.
Instead however he returned the two Grimers and sent out an Electabuzz that the Pokedex identified to be around Level 52.
They were really outmatched here.
So he quickly placed a hand on Violet’s shoulder, surprised when she violently flinched. “Come on, we need to move!”
“You’re not going anywhere.” The Executive said snapping his fingers as both electric Pokemon fired a blast of Thunder at them, Green having to tackle Violet out of the way to make sure they didn’t get hit, but his Raticate and her Butterfree took the hit and were instantly taken out.
Being tackled out of the way was enough to snap Violet out of her panic attack as she shook her head while Green returned his Raticate, annoyed that he sent his Kadabra back to Prof. Oak as Teleport would’ve really come in handy here.
Now back to her senses, Violet quickly returned Silk and went to send out Stinger only for Green to grab her wrist and take off running. “Wha-?!”
“Their levels are too strong, there’s no way we can win in a straight up fight.” Green said quickly as the Executive had them fire another blast of electricity, nearly hitting them, but it hit the roof above the kids, collapsing their escape path, trapping them with the man. “Damn it!”
“Shouldn’t have stuck your nose where it didn’t belong kid, the girl is the one I’m here to kill.” The Executive said, shaking his head at how stupid these kids seem to be.
Hearing that, Green frowned.
“Why?” Green asked cautiously, not sure why Team Rocket would bother with someone like Violet.
Yes he was starting to accept her as his rival but for criminals to want to kill her?
Something wasn’t right.
“None of your business, if you’re smart you’ll leave,” The Executive moved to the side to allow him to pass. “You’re not the target after all.”
Green answered by glaring.
He might be cold, but he wasn’t going to just leave someone to die.
The Executive actually seemed amused by the glare before nodding to his Electabuzz who began to walk towards them, sparks emanating from its fur as both kids tensed.
“I believe that will be enough of that.” A voice spoke out as both kids suddenly disappeared from view with a blue flash.
“What?!” The Executive asked before hearing a noise behind him and he dove out of the way, coming up to a roll as a Psybeam nearly hit him while Will stood there as he was giving a grin, an Alakazam being out along with a Slowbro.
“I knew something was off when the power went out.” Will said, still grinning but none of that was reaching his eyes behind his mask. “I didn’t think Team Rocket would be stupid enough to attack a Cruise Ship like this.”
The Executive said nothing, tensed up as he heard stories of the Ace Trainer Will who was said to be close to Elite Four Level and that was without his own latent psychic abilities.
The only positive thing about this encounter was that none of the psychic Pokemon could read his mind thanks to the electromagnetic interference coming from his electric Pokemon.
And none of the Grunts would be able to give anything due to the mental blocks placed by their own Psychic who the Executive knew was leagues ahead of Will in terms of being a Psychic despite her young age.
But then he relaxed and straightened his posture before placing a hand to his ear where the com link he had was. “Plan B it is, all of you know your target, kill her and be done with it.”
Will’s smile dropped as he knew exactly who this Executive was planning to kill now, no longer keeping the fake act of being amused up.
He wasn’t going to let Yukiko’s daughter get killed.
Both of them stared each other down before the Rocket Executive reacted first, throwing a Pokeball right at Will who tilted his head to keep it from hitting his head, only for it to open to show an Electrode that was now glowing.
Alakazam barely had enough time to use both Reflect and Light Screen as the Electrode exploded, keeping his trainer safe only for the Magneton to fire a Thunder Wave at the psychic, slowing it down as Electabuzz went to deliver a Mega Punch.
Slowbro intervened, delivering a Psychic that blasted the electric type back while Will brandished his cane only to pull a short blade out of the end of it, having been trained to fight with it.
The executive smirked as Will disappeared from view, the man drawing a combat knife from his jacket, feeling the air shift behind him as he spun around and blocked the strike, Will’s eyes widening when he saw the knife.
It was a knife that was forged during the war for exceptional soldiers.
That meant that this man was a veteran or it was stolen from the dead.
If it was a veteran there was a suspicion on who this was, but Will wasn’t sure because it didn’t make any sense.
Surge would never go against Kanto.
Yet there weren't many that were this tall, this man specialized in Electric Pokemon and handled himself like a Veteran.
Whether it made sense or not, Will was almost certain that this was Surge.
“Where did you get that knife?” Will asked in a rather dangerous tone
“It's quite easy to steal them from the crypts of the dead soldiers.” The man stated with Will narrowing his eyes at that before he begin to teleport around the man who was on the defensive, blocking strike after strike with ease, showing experience with psychic users.
Meanwhile the Pokemon were trading blow after blow but the Executives Pokemon seemed to have an advantage as they were trained specifically to fight without direction while Will’s haven’t reached that level yet and with Alakazam paralyzed things weren’t looking good for the psychic trainer.
Both Magneton and Electabuzz were aiming to take down the Alakazam but Slowbro managed to back it up by hitting an Ice Beam on the Electabuzz, freezing its leg as Alakazam attempted to recover, before the Magneton unleashed a Toxin on the Hermit Crab Pokemon.
Will cursed as he teleported a few feet away from the Executive, starting to feel a bit of a strain given the number of times he’s been teleporting.
To think this man was capable of keeping up with his team after the training he’s been implementing to join the ranks of the Elite Four.
He’s heard rumors of how strong the Executives were, but this was something else.
And he can’t have his Slowbro use Earthquake given they were on a ship, that would cause more damage than good.
“You’re good,” The Executive complimented with earnest showing in his tone. “Better than I expected, but it’s time to end this.”
With that he pulled out another Pokeball with an electrode and threw it straight at Will.
“Oof.” Violet grunted as both she and Green were now in the Ballroom where countless other trainers were, a lot of them surprised by the sudden entrance the two ten year olds made while the room was lit up thanks to the work of some electric Pokemon.
“Get off of me.” Green said in annoyance as she landed right on him.
“S-Sorry.” Violet apologized, immediately getting off, looking around cautiously, only to sigh in relief.
They were surrounded by trainers, enough to where Team Rocket wouldn’t try anything.
Green pushed himself up and did his own observation, wondering how they got here.
Obviously someone teleported them but he didn’t know who and that made him uneasy.
But there was something more important to investigate.
“Why was he trying to kill you?” Green asked looking at Violet who tensed up, unsure of how to even begin to explain this.
“I-.” Violet looked down, her mind kept flashing back to Mt. Moon as she lowered her head, the hat hiding her eyes.
First there and now here?
She wasn’t even looking for Team Rocket, why can’t they just leave her alone?!
“-y!”Green shook her shoulder given how Violet wasn’t saying anything, the young trainer now looking annoyed by how she was acting. “Are you going to answer or what?”
Slowly, Violet looked up at Green before she began to explain, lowering her tone so none of the other trainers could hear. “In Mt. Moon I ran into them when they were digging for fossils, I had Silk put them to sleep so I could slip by, but one of their Executives got a hold of me and-,” She shook, remembering the Grimer before pressing on. “If Brock didn’t show up when he did I would’ve died, but I ended up getting a lot of their members arrested because of that.”
Green looked rather surprised, not expecting for someone like Violet to do damage to Team Rocket of all people, but it made sense given how that man was dead set on killing her.
And now he was most likely on that list too due to interfering.
“What a mess.” Green muttered, shaking his head. “And you dragged me into it too.”
“I didn’t ask for you to help.” Violet snapped at him.
“Well excuse me for making sure you didn’t get yourself killed.” The sarcasm was evident in Green’s tone while Violet glared. “Still we need a plan, if Team Rocket is willing to board this ship to kill you, there’s no telling what else they will do.”
Plus with the communications down they were cut off from any possible help.
With Raticate unconscious all he had was Eevee, Pidgeotto, Sandshrew, Shellder and Magikarp, the last one wouldn’t be of help that’s for damn sure.
And he knew that all Violet had was her Beedrill and Parasect.
But none of that matters given how the Executives Pokemon were pretty high in comparison to theirs.
Loud crashes could be heard as people screamed, making the two snap towards it to see countless Pokemon breaking through the windows.
Golbats, Arboks, Weezings, Raticates, Hypnos.
All Pokemon that Team Rocket were well known for using.
They were followed by their trainers who clearly had more considering the amount of Pokeballs on their belts, showing that it was like a small army.
Green cursed when he pulled out the Pokedex, seeing that they were in their late thirties in comparison.
Not as tough as the Executive, but tough for the average trainer.
The Weezings began to unleash a toxic gas while the others were dispatching the trainers before they could release their Pokemon, causing for quite a few of them to fall, much to Violet’s horror as she was unsure if they were unconscious or dead.
But there were also Trainers who began to release their Pokemon in retaliation and soon enough the Ballroom was turning into a war zone.
Green followed them by releasing all of his Pokemon except for Magikarp while Violet did the same with Stinger and Parasite.
The two Bugs went off upon seeing Team Rocket, with Stinger almost falling into Rage from how loudly he was buzzing.
“Pidgeotto, use Whirlwind!” Green ordered as the bird began to do just that, the attack, knocking the gas away and causing some of Team Rocket’s Pokemon to return to their Pokeballs, causing enough chaos for some of the other trainers to make a counter attack, one of them using a Pikachu to Thunder Wave a few of them while a Gloom was switching between Sleep Powder and Stun Spore.
Violet took note of that in case she ever needed to have Silk use the attack like that.
A Raticate nearly took her head off before a Pin Missile slammed into it with Stinger sticking close to Violet, his head snapping left to right to take down threats.
Parasite on the other hand was using Stun Spore on any other ones that got too close in tandem with Green’s Shellder using Supersonic, leaving them open to a Slash from Sandshrew and a Quick Attack from Eevee.
“Here!” Green tossed her a Revive. “Use that on your Butterfree, we could use some psychic coverage here.”
“What about your Kadabra?” Violet asked, letting Silk out to wake her up with the Revive, the bug Pokemon looking a bit dazed before she pulled out a Potion to heal her.
“I sent him back to Gramps to begin training up a new Pokemon right before the ship's power went down.” Green was kicking himself for that.
If they survive this he was making sure to keep Kadabra on him at all times.
But he pulled out another Revive and used it on Raticate, allowing for his now awakened rat to let off some elemental coverage with both Thunderbolt and Bubblebeam.
Silk added to it with Esper Spore, taking control of the spores to make them fly towards the right targets.
The executive smirked as the explosion blew part of Will’s face off only to be surprised when the body dissolved into nothing showing it to be an illusion.
“The hell?” He asked, not expecting that only for Will to appear behind him, aiming his cane at the man who turned in time for the magician to fire a card out of the cane, the edges actually cutting into his hand forcing him to drop the knife.
“Now, now a magician never reveals his secrets.” Will tsked at the man. “It’s over.”
“For you maybe.” The Executive snarled with Will frowning only to be hit by a blast of Thunder Wave making him cry out, his limbs locking up as he fell to his knees. “You should’ve kept an eye on your Pokemon.”
Fighting against the paralysis, Will was able to turn his head to see both his Alakazam and Slowbro taken out while both the Electabuzz and Magneton were still ready to fight despite the damage done to them.
The Executive picked the knife back up with his good hand and glanced back at Will. “I think I have you figured out, you’re quite the illusionist that’s for sure.”
Still trying to move, Will forced a grin on his face. “Then you should know that things aren’t what they seem.”
Suddenly both the Alakazam and Slowbro melted much to the Executive’s surprise that turned into caution when he recognized the move only for his Electabuzz to take a combination hit of Hydro Pump and Psychic as both the Pokemon he thought he took down were now standing up, stepping between Will and the Executive.
He should’ve expected Substitute.
Their files on Will always said that he wasn’t one for a head one battle, always liking to use tricks in his battles.
Electabuzz was panting rather heavily while his Magneton was wary of taking both on at the same time.
Seeing that happen, the Executive gave a sigh as he pulled out a syringe with Will tensing despite the paralysis, having been informed of the drug that Team Rocket has been developing.
The reports of the Rampaging Snorlax was fresh in his mind right when the Executive did something Will wasn’t expecting.
He injected the Electabuzz with it as it convulsed.
“You did it to your own Pokemon?!” Will asked with anger at the callousness of the Executive who gave him a look.
“To fight what’s coming, we need to do what we must.” The Executive said in a simple tone, but there was a hint of anguish showing that the man didn’t want to do this.
But his wants didn’t matter right now.
Will was confused by his sentence.
To fight what’s coming? What did he mean by that?
He had no time to think on it as the Electabuzz began to discharge a ton of electricity, going beyond the wattage limit its species were known for as the Alakazam kept Will safe, the Slowbro however was blasted back with so much that it was going into cardiac arrest.
Eyes widening, Will fought against the Paralysis and returned the Slowbro, putting him in stasis in hopes of being able to save him while the Executive turned and left, the Magneton teleporting him away.
Leaving him with the feral Electabuzz that was now charging at him, bolts of electricity spiraling off its fur making it impossible to touch.
The electricity was also messing with Alakazam’s psychic abilities, unable to reach its mind to shut it down, instead using Psybeam to blast it away, but the Electabuzz just backhanded the energy away, the Alakazam having to push his trainer away right as the Electabuzz made contact, grabbing the Alakazam with enough force to break an arm as electricity began to surge through the psychic Pokemon.
Raising a fist to deliver a finishing blow, the Electabuzz stopped as a strange feeling overcame it.
That was followed by blood dripping down its face, barely registering Will with his blade piercing the skull, having to teleport above the Pokemon with his blade, letting gravity do the work while he convulsed from the voltage going through it, blasting him away into unconsciousness as the Electabuzz fell over, dead to the world, the only one still awake was Will’s injured Alakazam who leaned against the wall with exhaustion showing.
The Alakazam forced itself up, ignoring the pain of its broken arm as he made his way to Will, his trainer’s safety being his main priority. But he collapsed halfway towards him, the injuries being too much for him to keep awake.
It was still complete chaos in the ballroom as a lot of the trainers on the cruise ship were down and out, though Team Rocket lost some of their members too, so things weren’t looking too good.
Stinger kept close to Violet the whole time, firing String Shot to blind the Pokemon, having used Harden multiple times to prevent himself from being so frail, Silk having done the same.
Throughout the fight both her and Green ended up on the outside deck, out in the rain both barely keeping the Rockets that attacked them at bay.
Violet was very grateful that she had Silk practice Esper Spore given how it kept a lot of the Rocket Pokemon away or took them out of the fight.
Green’s Eevee kept close to him while Pidgeotto was providing air support to ensure that none of the Golbats got close enough to bite any of them, Silk pausing from Esper Spore to use Confusion whenever she could to help him out.
“This is getting worse.” Green mused, forcing himself to be calm, something that Violet will admit to being envious of. “We might have to rush past them to get inside.”
At least that way they wouldn’t run the risk of being surrounded.
“We could use Parasite or Sandshrew to dig a way out.” Violet suggested, given how that would be a good ticket in, given how there were still a good few floors before the bottom.
Green gave a surprised grunt, but acknowledged it as a good way of escape.
They were about to enact that plan when a familiar voice spoke. “Tri Attack.”
Before they could react, a blast of energy slammed into the ground between them, the attack separating the two as the Executive ended up teleporting behind them.
“Now where were we?” The Executive asked with a smirk.
He did give his men a look, telling them to leave this to him as they backed off, going in to handle the other trainers.
Green took note of the injured hand and the fact that he only had the injured Magneton.
They might have a chance-.
A cry made his attention snap towards Violet to see quite a few Magnemites surrounded her, blasting Stinger, Silk and Parasite away before unleashing a Screech on her, making her cover her ears as she fell to her knees.
Eyes widening, he went to have Raticate use Ice Beam only for the Magneton to blast his entire team with a Thunder, taking them down showing that despite being weakened this man’s Pokemon was not one to be messed with.
Green almost cried out when he saw his Shellder get knocked into the water, not knowing if he would be able to find it again.
“I have to say, I didn’t expect this much resistance from you brat,” The Executive said to Violet despite how her hearing was currently impaired. “To think we gave the Grunts so much trouble in an actual fight instead of sneaking around them, I was right to come after you while you’re weak.”
Giving a nod to the Magnemites, he watched as they began to electrocute Violet who screamed in pain.
It wasn’t enough to kill her, the man planned to throw her into the ocean when she was unconscious, have her drown as a message to anyone who tries to interfere with Team Rocket.
Green bit back a curse given how the only Pokemon he had on him was his Magikarp and that would be of no help.
He tried to pull out some revives, but the Magneton wouldn’t have that and blasted the ground near him.
“Don’t even think about it.” The Executive said without turning around, watching as the Magnemites finished electrocuting Violet with her slipping unconscious. “You have guts but this doesn’t involve you.”
But Green didn’t listen and managed to get one of the Revives to his Pidgeotto with the Executive looking amused at his action, thinking that he would just end it easily only for Green to call out a move that he wasn’t expecting.
“Whirlwind!”
“Thund-.” The Executive went to call out but the blast of wind hit both the Magneton and the group of Magnemites, forcing them to return to their Pokeballs.
Cheeky little-.
Green quickly followed up with a Sand Attack, keeping the man busy while he returned his other Pokemon, doing the same to Violets.
But he barely had time to pick Violet up only for the man to have enough as he managed to get his Magneton back out, taking the bird down, forcing Green to return it.
“No more games.” The Executive told them as he nodded at the Magneton who blasted Green with a Thunder, the force of it making him cry out in agony as he was blasted off the deck, still holding Violet into the waves before as the man watched them disappear before turning to walk away.
It took longer than he thought it would, but that nuisance was taken care of so he placed his hand on the com link.
“We’re done here, pull out before any of the League show up.” The man ordered in a strict tone.
He had no idea if Will managed to get word out or not, but he wasn’t risking it anymore now that his target was dead and he sent a message on how dangerous Team Rocket was, now he needed to continue the mission.
Hopefully their intel on the Legendary Bird Articuno being in Seafoam was correct while Koga was checking the Abandoned Power Plant for the Legendary Bird Zapdos.
They had a theory that the sudden surge of storms and the strange blizzard were caused by the two legends.
If they were true then that meant finding the last of the Legendary Birds Moltres would be a piece of cake.
The man did glance back, feeling some guilt over what he did but like with everything else that he felt guilty for he pushed it down.
There was a time and place for it and it wasn’t here.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 30
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle, Rage, Rest and Pin Missile.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind and Gust.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life, Dig and Body Slam
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 9th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Now for Green’s Team, just to give an idea on what he has.
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 30
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 28
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeotto
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 29
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack and Whirlwind
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra *Stored*
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable and Psybeam
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandshrew
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 20
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig and Slash
6th Pokemon
Species: Shellder
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 19
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw and Supersonic
7th Pokemon
Species: Magikarp
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 5
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Swift Swim
Moves: Splash
Notes:
Well who expected any of this to happen? From there being a fight scene between Will and Surge-the trainers themselves-to how much more of a threat that Team Rocket is in comparison to Canon?
There will be repercussions for this attack as now the League will come down harder on Team Rocket in response, but Surge believes that it’s worth it considering how he took down someone who is a threat to their plans or will be.
… Or did he?
But we now have the very reason he’s going to Seafoam Islands in the first place to catch Articuno and I’ve been giving hints on Articuno and Zapdos appearing for the last few chapters every time I brought up the sudden storms near Rock Tunnel or the intense blizzard on Seafoam?
I’m surprised no one caught onto them to be honest, I thought everyone would’ve when I first typed the hints.
Now I have quite a few things to explain.
I hinted at how Stinger was beginning to slow down in terms of levels? It’s because I wanted to show what the average level was for various trainers being in their thirties while the more experienced ones were reaching the forties.
With the Pokedex both Green and Violet were actually making strides in reaching those levels sooner given the amount of information it shares.
It’s my own explanation on why despite it being years for some trainers they’re barely in the fifties in terms of levels while the Elite Four have Pokemon higher than that in the sixties.
I’ll try to have a more detailed explanation later on.
Next up we have Will and his fight with Surge, I figured anyone joining the Elite Four would be trained to dispatch the trainer they’re fighting if it’s a life and death situation which Team Rocket certainly qualifies as given how once you take the trainer down the Pokemon would be left on its own, most likely enraged after seeing its trainer taken down making it much easier to subdue if one knew what they were doing. Will is a powerful trainer but the weakest of the Elite Four because he’s still training to take his place amongst them which was why he was evenly matched with Surge’s real team. His true strength comes from both his latent psychic abilities and his knack for illusions, being a magician and all, hopefully that shined on through in this chapter.
As for his psychic capabilities? While powerful they pale in comparison to Sabrina who is a prodigy with them as I’ll show much later on. Unlike her he can’t use telekinesis to pick things up, only teleport and read minds. Sabrina can do that and more.
I also tried to have a bit of a counter for Psychics being the electromagnetism that Electric Pokemon give off, it’s not a complete weakness but it prevents them from reading minds whenever a strong Electric Pokemon is present.
I do plan to eventually post a side story of one shots to further expand this particular Pokemon world showing stuff I had mentioned such as the Rampaging Snorlax or Team Rocket’s attempt at stealing from the Museum?
They obviously wouldn’t be as long as the actual story chapters, but it would show stuff happening without Violet being involved if I do it, still haven’t decided yet or not.
I did post another Pokemon Story though, this one being centered on the Shadows of Almia game, it only has one chapter so give it a look if you’re interested.
And I finally got a cover art for this story by my own attempt at drawing Violet along with her three Pokemon, here’s the link if you’re interested.
https://www.Deviantart.com/encryption5461/art/Trials-of-a-Bug-Catcher-Cover-Art-847454465
Two more things.
I took out the Secret Requirements to the Gyms, I tried to make it match the Anime in a way like how Ash always got a badge in some gyms despite not winning but it was pointed out to me on how that was a stupid idea and looking back on it I agree.
Finally this story is officially a year old! Hell yes!
Chapter 17: Perils of Seafoam Island
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Samuel Oak was beside himself with worry as he watched the News showing how the SS. Anne was attacked by Team Rocket the other day which resulted with multiple people injured along with their Pokemon stolen and at least a dozen casualties.
This was by far the biggest thing Team Rocket has done in years, or the biggest thing that’s out in the open that is. It was a whole mess with both PR and with people questioning if the League could really protect them.
But what had Oak worried the most was that two trainers were unaccounted for.
Violet Hawke and Green Oak.
That part wasn't in the News, but with how high up Prof. Oak was within the League despite now just being a Researcher, he was one of the few that knew, especially considering how the last one was his own Grandson.
Looking down from the News as it began speaking about a rise of crime in the cities Celadon and Saffron, Oak saw his untouched coffee most likely cold due to how long it sat there.
Feeling exhausted from the stress, Oak rubbed his face in an effort to keep awake before he stood up to pace.
Pacing was one of the ways he calms himself, it helps him think of ideas.
There has to be something he can do to make sure that they were alive.
Yet he didn't know how, if they weren't on the ship then they probably fell in the sea and that meant they could be anywhere.
If only there was some way to-.
An idea struck Oak as he made his way out of his study towards his lab, nearly tripping over the scattered research papers that were all over the place showing that he needed to clean up.
But that can wait.
Eventually he came to his lab where a third, unfinished Pokedex was, he was in the process of making it to catalogue Pokemon that weren't from Kanto should they return, but it was a long way from being finished.
And it wouldn’t be finished until every Kanto Pokemon was fully catalogued and added.
What was on there was the tracking system he implemented into the first two, so there was a chance he could use it to find Green and Violet.
Plugging it into his computer, Prof. Oak typed relentlessly, booting up the Prototype Mk. II Pokedex and activating its systems, bypassing the unfinished subroutines before the map came up with two dots blinking, making him grin in relief.
Green woke up in pain.
Not too surprising given what happened, but he was surprised that he actually woke up at all.
Weren't they blasted into the Ocean?
Shifting a bit, Green grimaced as he felt something poking him and he glanced down only to see two things.
One was Violet who thankfully didn't drift off in another direction, though how her damn hat remained on was a mystery in itself, the other thing was the Pokemon that was ferrying them despite the small size.
It was a Pokemon with a spiky purple shell that was opened wide to help accommodate both of them, showing a grey spiky shell and a round inky black sphere with white eyes and teeth.
"Ster!"
Staring at the Pokemon in confusion, Green's eyes widened when he made the connection. "Shellder?" He asked, remembering seeing that Pokemon being blasted off the ship.
This Pokemon was Cloyster, the evolved form.
But it didn't make any sense, Shellder only evolved with a Water Stone, so there was no way she should've evolved.
Unless when she fell there happened to be a Water Stone in the ocean.
If that was the case that was some extreme luck right there.
Cloyster made another sound as she grinned and kept moving.
Allowing a small smile at Cloyster, Green turned from her to Violet, making sure that she was still breathing after everything that happened.
Once that was done, Green breathed a sigh of relief, allowing for him to see his own breath showing how cold it was.
This wasn't good, he wasn't feeling the cold which meant he was freezing and was close to getting hypothermia.
"Wake up." Green shook Violet harshly.
She wasn't waking up showing how bad this was.
Looking around, Green could see land nearby, but an intense blizzard was practically surrounding it.
Gritting his teeth, Green made his decision.
They had no idea when they would see land if they passed this place. If he didn't get Violet to wake up soon or at least somewhere dry and warm then she would still die.
Same with him if he didn't get out of the water.
"Cloyster get us to that island." Green ordered with the Cloyster changing directions at once, wanting to make sure her trainer survived.
It didn't take too long, but the cold was even worse, biting at his skin the moment they got there with Green now realizing where they were.
Seafoam Island.
Not wasting any time as he managed to get out of the water, his wet clothes making the cold worse, Green managed to send out Raticate and Sandshrew who managed to recover a little bit in the time he was out.
As he did that, he didn’t notice the glazed look that Cloyster was starting to show.
"D-Dig a small cave." Green ordered through chattering teeth, knowing that they needed shelter fast.
As they did that, Green thanked Cloyster and returned her before grabbing Violet, trying to wake her up again.
This time it worked as she groaned, her eyes a bit unfocused. "W-Wha-?"
"Later, get up and keep awake." Green said in a harsh tone, not wanting to waste any time. "Once Sandshrew and Raticate finish digging we need to get out of this blizzard."
Hearing that, Violet sneezed as she tried to reach Parasite's Pokeball before sending him out, seeing the bug shiver from the cold. "H-H-Help dig the cave please."
Parasite gave a small cry as she dove in the hole to help, earning a surprised cry from the other two but they kept going.
It didn't take too long as they both ducked into the makeshift cave before Green opened his bag and began to pull some stuff out.
Violet blinked at seeing him pull out a tarp before giving her a look. "Send out either your Beedrill or Butterfree." He said, confusing her, but she complied, sending Silk out.
"What do you need her to do?" Violet asked, rubbing her arms together in an attempt to get warm.
"Help me hold this up and have her string shot the top and bottom of the tarp to the entrance." Green explained rather quickly, wanting this done with. "That way we keep the wind out."
Giving a nod, Violet helped hold it up as Silk followed the directions and soon enough the entrance was sealed and their Pokemon recalled to keep them out of the cold.
With that done, he pulled out a small battery powered lantern to give them some light. "You do have extra clothes right?" He asked given how they needed to get out of their wet clothes.
"They're in my bag." Violet managed to get out while shivering.
Thankfully the contents of the bag were untouched by the water.
She was also happy that her hat didn’t go flying off while she was unconscious.
"Then hurry up and change while I get the heater running." Green was already pulling it out showing that it was another appliance that was battery powered.
"W-Wouldn't a fire work better?" Violet asked only for Green to make a tsk sound out of annoyance.
"Do you see any wood nearby?" Green asked sarcastically with Violet rolling her eyes at how he was being. "Besides even if there was wood, we would risk carbon dioxide considering we have the entrance sealed."
Giving him that, Violet checked her bag and pulled out a second set of clothes that matched the first set to change into as the heater kicked on with heat flooding their small cave.
It was even better when she was in dry clothes.
Moments later Green was wearing a black shirt and purple pants with a green jacket, the two of them sitting near the heater.
“So where are we?” Violet couldn’t help but ask after a few minutes of awkward silence.
“Seafoam Island.”
Violet winced at the answer, now understanding the reason they were trapped in a blizzard.
Of all the places to end up at.
“There should be a lull in the blizzard at some points, we wait for that before we use Cloyster to get to Cinnabar.” Green told Violet his plan as now that he knew where they were, finding the next island should be easy.
The hard part would be getting out of here.
Nothing was said for a bit as Violet squirmed a bit awkwardly.
She just had no idea what to say.
It was almost enough for her to send out Stinger given how she felt more comfortable with the Beedrill out.
But she figured that would’ve been a bad idea. None of her bugs would do well in this cold, even if they were in a heated space.
“Are those the only clothes you have?”
Violet said nothing at first, taken by surprise with Green starting the conversation, disbelief evident in his tone.
“It’s what I’m more comfortable wearing.” Violet answered, not sure what he was getting at.
“We’re in the middle of a blizzard, you’re telling me you never packed anything in case you got caught up in one?” Green continued with Violet now understanding what he was getting at.
“Hey I wasn’t expecting to be caught up in one.” Violet snapped, glaring at him.
Green muttered profanities under his breath at her idiocy. “It’s called being prepared, if you’re a trainer you need to think about this stuff.”
Violet had just about enough. “Are you just going to berate me the whole time we’re here?”
She was tired and the stress of everything that happened was making her a bit testy.
No answer came before Green scoffed. “Whatever.” He said looking away.
Once more silence surrounded them as both trainers refused to look at each other, ignoring the sounds of the wind howling outside.
Eventually however, Violet looked down. “Sorry.”
The unexpected apology caused Green to give her a curious look while she pulled her hat down to hide her eyes.
“It’s my fault that we’re stuck here.” She said in a low tone.
“Tch, do you really think that?” Green asked in disbelief.
“Team Rocket attacked the ship to kill me.” Violet pointed out given how the Executive made it very clear he wanted her dead.
All because of what happened in Mt. Moon and most likely because of that incident in Cerulean City.
Everything that happened on that ship was on her.
“You’re a bigger idiot than I thought you were.” Green scoffed, earning a scandalized look.
He then leveled a look at her.
“You didn’t attack that ship, Team Rocket did, plain and simple.” Green felt like this was a waste of time trying to tell her something that should be freaking obvious. “Instead of wallowing about it, at least try to do something about it.”
The scandalized look turned into another glare. “And what exactly do you expect for me to do?!” Violet asked, not understanding Green at the moment.
“For the love of-Just get stronger!” Green finally snapped at having to literally spell it out, a confused look crossing Violet’s face. “They already showed how far they’re willing to go to kill you.”
And once they make it off Seafoam Island it would be apparent that they failed to do so and there was no doubt in Green’s mind that they’ll try again.
“You can either wallow and wait for them to find you while you’re still weak or you can get stronger to avoid this happening again.”
Green didn’t care how harsh he was being right now. They had little time to waste at the moment.
Checking the heater to ensure that it wouldn’t go out while they slept, Green looked to the side showing that he had no desire to continue this conversation while Violet hesitated before leaning back, lost in thought.
“Sir, we’ve arrived.” A Rocket Grunt said as Surge walked out of the submarine, making land on Seafoam Island with the blizzard howling in the middle of the night.
He only had a small group of Grunts with him now considering how many were taken down on the SS. Anne but Surge wasn’t that bothered by it.
The ones that were captured had a psychic block that prevented them from giving out any secrets to their plans.
However due to having to sacrifice his Electabuzz to take down Will, Surge was no fool in thinking that the League would definitely have him being a suspect considering everything that happened.
But they had a contingency plan for that.
All that mattered right now was the mission.
“Spread out in groups of two and search this area, you see anything out of place you check it.” Surge ordered, giving them a harsh look. “You find our target and you radio it in, do not engage under any circumstance.”
He wasn’t that much of a fool to think that the Grunts would be able to handle something like Articuno.
Hell in a straight up fight there was no doubt that Articuno would easily be able to beat him just like how it could easily defeat the Elite Four despite their years of experience and power which was why these Legendary Pokemon were absolutely vital for what was coming.
Everything depends on him catching the Legendary off guard.
Seeing the men leave, Surge checked over his Pokeballs, only to still at the obvious one missing as memories of meeting Electabuzz went through his mind before he squashed it down.
There was a time and place for sentiment and this wasn’t either.
Unknown to him however, Surge walked right by the small cave that Violet and Green hid in, the blocked entrance completely covered by snow.
Violet blinked drowsily as Green shook her awake, hours after their talk. “Wha?” She muttered, trying to wake up.
“Come on, I think the blizzard died down,” Green said, sending Raticate and Sandshrew out to dig their exit. “If we’re leaving now is our chance.”
Giving a nod, Violet straightened her hat and stood up, ignoring the aching in her body from how they slept.
They both stopped however as Raticate began to snarl, glaring at the makeshift entrance that they did have.
That was enough for both of them to be wary.
So Violet sent Parasite out and kept a hand on Stinger’s Pokeball while Green did the same with Eevee’s Pokeball considering he had two Pokemon out already.
“Parasite, get ready to use Stun Spore.” Violet whispered to the bug right as Green’s Pokemon quickly dug their way out, the snow falling in much to their annoyance while the sunlight blinded them momentarily.
Eventually their eyes got used to the light as they climbed out only to be greeted by a submarine of all things.
While elated at first, Violet’s small amount of relief faded when she saw the red ‘R’ on the side signifying who owned the vehicle.
Green cursed when he saw that. “How did they know we were here?!” He asked, looking around to make sure no one saw them leave.
There’s no way for Team Rocket to know they were on Seafoam… Right?
Unless they were here for something else.
Whatever it was they weren’t sticking around to find out, they needed to get out of there before anyone found them.
“Wait.” Violet said right before Green went to send Cloyster out, making him turn to give her an annoyed look.
“What?!”
If she even suggests they investigate why they were here he will knock her out himself.
“What if we sabotage the submarine and strand them here?” Violet suggested, a look of surprise spreading across his face. “That way we can call the authorities to get them?”
That wasn’t a bad idea.
But there was one problem.
“Submarines were built to withstand damage caused by a Gyarados, I doubt we have anything that comes close to that right now.” Green poked a hole in that plan with Violet wincing. “Not without going inside to tamper with it, but we’ll risk running into Rockets if we did that.”
And considering their Executive has Pokemon that can Teleport that wasn’t ideal.
“Come on, we need to go before we’re seen.” Green said, returning his two Pokemon while gripping Cloyster’s Pokeball.
Violet gave a nod and returned Parasite.
Sending out Cloyster, Green was unprepared when the Pokemon went feral much to his surprise, barely missing a Tackle that would’ve stabbed him with one of the spikes.
“Cloyster?!” Green shouted in shock, quickly returning her.
Violet stared, not expecting that. “Did her evolution do something to her?”
“No, if that was the case she would’ve attacked instead of ferrying us this far.” Green quickly shot down that theory, trying to come up with an explanation on why his Pokemon did that.
It wasn’t normal.
But the situation just got worse.
They were stuck here with Team Rocket with no way off unless he gets his Magikarp to evolve and he really doubted it would fare much better given the temperament of a Gyarados that he knew he wouldn’t be able to handle right now. Pidgeotto wasn’t big enough to carry both of them and he didn’t have Kadabra with him, so Teleport was out of the question.
Adding onto that, all of their Pokemon were still tired and injured from the fight with the Executive-tch he couldn’t even call it a fight considering how the man completely destroyed them both.
Violet fidgeted, seemingly coming to the same conclusion as he did, glancing around to make sure that no one from Team Rocket was around.
“We need to move, if we stay out in the open Team Rocket will definitely find us.” Green took the lead quite easily as he moved. “If we’re lucky we can find another way off.”
In fact, if he catches a Pokemon here he could send it to Prof. Oak, letting the man narrow down their location because his Gramps has to have heard about what happened by now.
Violet quickly followed after him, keeping her Pokemon in their Pokeballs, not wanting them to suffer the cold, hugging her arms to keep warm.
Note to self, buy a coat once she gets to the next city.
And a pair of pants.
Unknown to them however, one of the Rocket Grunts saw them as he was coming back to the submarine and began to radio in.
“Damn, we just missed it.” Surge muttered as they were in the depths of the cave where the temperatures were well below freezing.
The cold was biting, even with their uniforms that were specifically tailored for the cold.
“Should we call this mission a failure?” One of the Grunts asked in a hopeful tone, wanting to get back to the warm submarine.
Surge however shook his head. “No, just because Articuno isn’t in this room doesn’t mean it’s not on the island.”
After all there was a lull in the blizzard, it’s not completely gone and the Pokemon here are feral and much more powerful then they usually are.
Blaine theorized that it was because of the energy a Legendary Pokemon can give out when they’re in the area, with Articuno being an ice type, the energy it gives out amplifies the power of other ice types.
Just like how Moltres and Zapdos do the same for fire and electric types respectively.
If they can just harness that type of power-.
Hearing his com link go off, Surge pressed it. “What is it?”
“ Sir, we might have a problem. ”
Not liking that, Surge frowned. “Well? What is it?”
“ The target from the SS. Anne is still alive. ”
Hearing that made Surge stiffen up.
No, there was no way for that kid to be alive.
He electrocuted her enough to ensure she would’ve been paralyzed long enough to drown, same thing with that other kid.
All of their Pokemon were unconscious and none of them even had a water Pokemon-.
Just like that Surge remembered the Shellder that he knocked overboard, the only Pokemon one of those kids owned that wasn’t returned.
But that didn’t make any sense, there was no way for a Shellder to be able to carry both of them.
It would’ve sunk even if it only carried one of them.
“Was she alone?”
“ No sir, she’s with that kid that fought alongside her. ”
Hm, that meant that either that other kid had another water Pokemon he didn’t send out, or his Shellder evolved.
He wasn’t sure which one it was but right now he didn’t care.
“Follow them, don’t let them see you.” Surge ordered in a dark tone.
Articuno was still the prime target, but he wasn’t going to let those kids leave this Island.
But he has to say, despite his annoyance of the situation his respect for them has gone up. Not a lot of people survive when he gets involved.
Violet sneezed again as they continued their trek through Seafoam Island, hugging her arms to try and keep herself warm.
“I swear if we get caught because you sneezed.” Green grumbled in annoyance, leaving for Violet to stick her tongue out at him in an immature fashion.
They were really starting to grate on each other’s nerves.
The constant cold didn’t help matters at all.
Once more she sneezed and Green sighed before throwing his jacket at her, making her cry out in surprise.
“Put it on.” He said, not caring if he had a short sleeved shirt on.
At least he had pants compared to her shorts.
Hesitating a bit, Violet did so and was happy at having some warmth.
Sure it was cold, but this was better than before.
She’ll definitely be buying winter clothes after this.
“Thank you.” Violet didn’t want to sound ungrateful.
“Tch, whatever.” Green said in his usual fashion, not even looking her way.
Watching him walk off, Violet followed him, taking the time to look at the scenery around them.
Everything was ice and snow, but it was more than that.
There looked to be flowers made completely out of ice, giving the island a bit of an aesthetic feel to it.
Green saw them and frowned, finding that a bit odd.
But it could be a wild ice Pokemon making them.
That was when he stopped, nearly making Violet walk into him with her barely stopping in time.
“What is it?” Violet asked, finding that strange as Green looked around cautiously.
“Listen.”
Tilting her head, Violet did so, hearing only the howling winds that were normal to the island. “I don’t hear anything.”
“Exactly, where are the wild Pokemon?” Green asked the question making Violet’s eyes widen in realization.
“You don’t think Team Rocket were behind it do you?”
“They could be, but I doubt it.” Green had a hand on Eevee’s Pokeball with a frown. “As dangerous as they are, the Ice Pokemon here are said to be powerful, there’s no way they could take them down unless all of them were like that Executive.”
They haven’t run into any Team Rocket members either and he didn’t like that.
Not that he was complaining, but he didn’t like not seeing them more.
They could just be in the Caverns rather than on the island… Perhaps it has something to do with the intense blizzards that happen once a year here?
Was it being caused by a powerful Pokemon?
“Come on, we should keep moving.”
Giving a nod, Violet followed after him as they kept waking in silence with her wanting to say something to avoid it being silent but felt like now wasn’t the best time.
Then again, when wasnt there a good time with them?
Reaching up to readjust her hat, the two found themselves in a rather large area surrounded by snow filled cliffs.
There was even some ice on the walls, acting as mirrors, but the thing that caught their attention was the giant block of ice at the end of the room, a large shadow seemed to be inside of it, but they couldn't make out what it was.
Green frowned and aimed his Pokedex at it and they were surprised by what it said.
“ Articuno, the Freeze Pokemon. A Legendary Bird that can control ice and create blizzards with its presence alone. The passive one of the Bird Trio, Articuno will hide itself when it detects danger. Current Level is-error-error unable to determine level. Gender is error-error. ”
Despite the Pokedex doing that, both Violet and Green were floored by what this was.
An Articuno.
Legendary Pokemon were-well Legendary. Completely powerful, very rare and hard to find.
Violet was amazed as this was the second one she’s seen.
“Huh, now that’s an interesting device you have.” Both of them spun around to see the Executive who stood on top of one of the cliffs, giving them a dark grin as various Team Rocket Grunts could be seen. “I’ll have to take one of them back to HQ to get it looked at. Not only that but you found our target, we owe you.”
Green took a step back, grabbing Eevee’s Pokeball despite knowing it was hopeless as there were too many and they were outmatched.
Violet felt her throat go dry, grabbing Stinger’s Pokeball.
There was no way they could win.
But Team Rocket was after Articuno, just like how they were after Mew.
No surprise given how strong Legendaries were, but Violet was scared because she knew they couldn’t let them get this Pokemon.
So she got to work and sent out all three of her Pokemon. “Parasite, Quicksand! Stinger, String Shot as many Grunts as you can! Silk, Esper Spore on everyone!”
Green seemed to have moved at the same time, sending everyone out. “Pidgeotto, Eevee, use Sand Attack to give us cover. Sandshrew, help Parasect out. Raticate, Bubblebeam!”
He figured the blizzard would freeze the Bubblebeam, turning it into hail and give Team Rocket a bit of trouble.
But they were just as fast, sending out their Pokemon as Zubats, Golbats, Ekans, Arboks, Koffing and Weezings erupted onto the scene, though the Executive didn’t send any of his out, instead keeping his focus on the Legendary.
Especially when he saw the shape shift inside the ice.
Articuno was well aware of what was going on, but it seemed to be lying in wait. Was it because of the kids in front of it?
That was something he could use to his advantage.
So he turned his attention back to the kids, seeing that they were actually working well together against the Grunts. Using status conditions to take a few of them down and even use moves such as Sand Attack to blind them, String Shot to bind them together and that damned Parasect was making the ground beneath the grunts fall along with that Sandshrew learning from her.
By doing that they were leaving the Pokemon that belonged to the Grunts without orders as they weren’t trained to fight by themselves, making them easier to defeat.
It was infuriating on how two ten year olds were outsmarting these Grunts who are years older and much more experienced.
It was also baffling because he’s seen these grunts take down other trainers with ease due to some of the training he had a hand in, so either they were truly underestimating these kids or they were prodigies.
He was leaning towards the latter given how he knows the boy is an Oak.
Having enough, he sent his Magneton out and called for a Thunderbolt, aiming right at Violet.
This time he wasn’t going to paralyze her, cursing himself for making a mistake like that the last time, he was going to kill her through electrocution.
As the electricity surged towards the girl who looked up, seeing it come, but having no time to dodge it, he saw the fear in her eyes.
And that was when it happened.
The ice containing Articuno exploded as the Legendary fired an Ice Beam that slammed into the Thunderbolt, obliterating it with the Executive forcing his Magneton to teleport them out of the way, going into hiding to avoid being targeted.
That just proved his earlier theory right.
Articuno was rumored to be the most gentle hearted of the birds, so if any of them were to put their life on the line for an innocent it would be this one.
And given how easily it tore through his Magneton’s thunderbolt, the Executive knew his suspicion about not standing a chance was right.
So he had to be smart on how he did this.
Articuno however wasn’t finished and turned its attention towards the Grunts who panicked as they were all frozen into statues in an instant with a flap of its wings, their Pokemon following suit just as easily.
Seeing that made Green and Violet take a step back as even if the attack wasn’t aimed anywhere close to them, the cold and wind from it still hit as they were in shock at seeing firsthand how powerful a legendary could be.
The same could be said about their Pokemon who could feel the power emanating from Articuno, looking absolutely floored by the severe difference in power.
Articuno then fired another Ice Beam towards where the Executive was forcing him to teleport again, reaching into his pocket to pull out another syringe.
It was his last one of the serum that Team Rocket was developing and he knew that his only chance at winning this was to inject something.
At first he was thinking of using one of the Pokemon belonging to those kids, but knew he couldn't get close to do that without Articuno taking him down.
Needing to buy himself time, the Executive threw out two Electrodes, making them appear in the air where the cliffs were, having them self-destruct, causing an avalanche to start.
Just like he predicted, Articuno abandoned looking for him to save the kids, using its wings to shield them and their Pokemon from the snow.
It gave the Executive enough time to run into the nearby cave where he knew some wild Pokemon were and he saw a Tentacool one of the pools of water that lead to the Ocean.
‘ Perfect. ’ The Executive smirked, approaching the Pokemon with the serum.
Once the avalanche stopped, Articuno unfurled its wings, blasting the snow away as it gazed down at the two children who stared up at it in awe.
“Incredible.” Violet whispered.
Green was silent but he agreed, never seeing power like this before and he’s seen his Grandfather's championship team.
They paled in comparison to Articuno who barely gave any effort in this situation.
But the awe turned into wariness as Green looked around. “He’s gone.” He muttered, feeling a bit of relief.
If Articuno wasn’t here, there’s no doubt in Green’s mind that they would’ve been killed.
The relief disappeared as an inhuman roar sounded from nearby, the sound making Articuno tense as it looked towards the nearby cave with a narrowed eyed look.
Then the same roar sounded from behind them, beyond the cliffs right as a black tentacle slammed into it, destroying it, revealing a giant Tentacruel that looked as if it was in a crazed frenzy.
Green and Violet tensed up, recognizing that look as their minds flashed back to the day they met in Viridian Forest. Well that and the shock at seeing a Tentacruel taller than buildings one would see in Saffron City.
Articuno wasted no time in unleashing a Blizzard that made the giant Tentacruel stumble but it powered through and shot a Hydro Pump that slammed into Articuno, making it shriek in pained surprise.
It actually hurt the Legendary.
Now deeming the Tentacruel to be a danger, Articuno unleashed Mist to hide not only itself, but also the kids before taking flight, causing another snow storm in the process.
“Now where were we?” The Executives voice spoke up, but neither Violet nor Green could see him before the bug catcher looked up to see the man standing in the air, surrounded by four Magnetons that were creating an energy field due to their magnetic energy.
Green actually looked surprised, not knowing Magnetons could do that.
“Thunder.” The Executive ordered as one of his Magnetons broke away from the group leaving three to keep him in the air as it unleashed a blast towards the two who quickly got out of the way, Green’s Sandshrew jumping to take the blast, not being affected.
“Whirlwind.” Green tried to order with his Pidgeotto, but the Magnetons unleashed a screech that negated it.
“Nice try kid, but that’s not going to work a second time.” The Executive tutted, a grin on his face. “Tri Attack.”
The Magneton then fired the elemental attack at Sandshrew, taking it out of the fight with very serious injuries that forced Green to return him, leaving him with only three Pokemon.
While he did that, the Executive suddenly disappeared, leaving the two to wonder where he was only for Stinger to go into a frenzy, shooting forward to block a knife that nearly hit Violet from behind, using his stinger to protect her, catching her off guard right as the Magnetons unleashed another screech that sent them back.
Green quickly had his Eevee and Pidgeotto fire off another Sand Attack and Violet followed suit with Silk using Gust on it, creating a sand twister that forced the Executive on the defensive.
They were doing much better this time, the snow storm giving them a lot of cover.
“We can’t keep this up forever.” Green muttered, knowing that it was only luck that they’ve lasted for so long.
But he didn’t see how they would be able to win with Articuno busy giving the roars that were sounding throughout the blizzard.
And even if they do beat the Magneton, this Executive would’ve had three more to send out.
Still that was all he had, the two Electrodes were unconscious and these four would make six, but that doesn’t take into account the Electabuzz that the saw on the ship.
Why didn’t he send it out?
Violet looked around before thinking about something.
“I have a plan.” She said getting Green’s attention. “Parasite, start using Bide. Stinger, use Twineedle on Parasite.”
A bit caught off guard, Stinger followed a second later while Parasite began to use it immediately.
Green caught onto what Violet was doing and he had to say, that was clever.
“Can you have your Raticate use Bubblebeam to heal Parasite up?” Violet requested as she knew they needed to build up a lot of energy if they wanted this to work.
And for that, they needed to keep Parasite’s health up.
Green smirked.
While this type of technique wouldn’t work in an official battle, it would easily disqualify a person should they try it like this, in a life or death situation it was ingenious.
The Executive cursed as he had to shield his face to keep sand out of his eyes, hating at how long this was taking.
He didn’t know how long that Tentacruel would last against Articuno, he certainly wasn’t expecting for it to be a giant after all. Heck he wasn’t expecting for it to do much damage against Articuno showing that if they did fully perfect the serum they would be unstoppable.
Still it should weaken it enough for capture, but he wanted to kill these damn brats before that happened.
It took a bit, but eventually he found them, though he arched a brow as it looked like they were attacking their own Pokemon.
Why in the world would they do that?
Despite being cautious, the Executive wasn’t taking any chances. “Thunderbolt!” He ordered, taking care to get rid of the Pidgeotto and Butterfree to avoid them using that sand twister combination.
As they went down, Violet smirked. “Now Parasite, Bide!”
Just like that it clicked as the Executive wasn’t able to call a Teleport in time, being too close to react, instead his Magneton’s coming together to shield him from the huge blast that sent him flying back despite his Pokemon's protection, skidding across the snow before coming to a stop as all of his Pokemon were out.
It also had the added effect of blasting his mask off, showing his face to the kids who froze in shock.
“Surge?” Violet asked in disbelief, not expecting the Vermillion Gym Leader to be a part of Team Rocket as the man forced himself to his feet.
Seeing that, Green got over his shock and glared. “Don’t try anything, you don’t have any more Pokemon.” He warned, his Eevee and Raticate getting ready to attack while Stinger and Parasite, tensed up.
Surge just grinned. “Have to say you runts are impressive, both of you would’ve made great additions to Team Rocket.”
“Like we’d ever join.” Violet snapped at him, being reminded of the other Executives offer at Mt. Moon. “After everything you guys do?!”
“Must be nice looking down on others with that simple view of yours.” Surge sneered at the kid. “Not everything is as black and white as you think.”
“Save it, you can tell all of that to the Police.” Green told him, ready to have him knocked out.
“That’s cute, you think you’ve won.” Surge said, getting ready. “Just because I don’t have any Pokemon doesn’t make me defenseless.”
He then glanced up with a smirk, causing the two to glance up in time to see Articuno finally beat the Tentacruel, the serum finally taking its toll on the Giant Pokemon, but it looked very injured, panting from exhaustion, never having to exert itself in such a way for a long time.
Seeing as how this was his chance, Surge pulled out a modified Ultra Ball and threw it with pinpoint accuracy at the Articuno, catching it off guard as it was sucked in.
Eyes widening, Violet sent Stinger to destroy the ball and free Articuno but much to their surprise, Surge unveiled a seventh Pokemon, being his Raichu, a different one from his Gym battle as it blasted Stinger back, giving the Ultra Ball enough time to click, confirming the capture.
“You really think that we would limit ourselves to only carrying six Pokemon?” Surge asked in a mocking tone, picking up the captured Articuno, his Raichu giving a dark grin as the two kids were horrified at what just happened. “You might’ve won the battle earlier, but I’m winning the war.”
Green cursed himself for not thinking about that.
Of course Team Rocket being criminals wouldn’t care about the only carrying six Pokemon rule that was in place, they break laws all the time, so why wouldn’t that be any different?
“Hyper Beam.” Another voice called out, catching them all off guard as a beam of pure energy slammed into the Raichu, making them look up on the remnants of the cliff to see a Gyarados, the blue serpent Pokemon, snarling at Surge.
Standing next to the Gyarados, with an Exeggutor, an armless Pokemon whose body resembled a palm tree, three yellow coconut like faces glaring alongside the Gyarados despite the different facial expressions each head showed however was Professor Oak who had a furious look on his face as he had another Pokeball that was primed and ready to go.
An ancient one compared to the Pokeballs of today.
“To think you’re a part of Team Rocket.” Professor Oak said to Surge who took a step back, now knowing he couldn’t win.
Because those two Pokemon that Oak had out were a part of his Champion team and he had no doubt that Oak had the rest of his Champion team with him. Even if they’re well past their prime they were still powerful.
And even if he had Articuno now, the Legendary was still too powerful for him to command at this moment, not to mention injured.
“Gramps?!” Green called out in surprise, allowing for Oak to look at him, the fury softening a bit.
“It’s a relief to see you two alive.” He said in a warm tone before glaring at Surge. “You have nowhere to go, Surge, it would be wise for you to surrender.”
Surge gritted his teeth before he felt the air shift behind him as he saw Oak tense up and he knew what that meant.
“About time you showed up.” Surge glanced back at the last Executive who was levitating in the air, wearing the standard Rocket uniform that hugged her body, a helmet covering her face and hiding any feature that could give away who she was.
“I trust that your mission was a success?” The woman asked, her voice synthesized to further hide her identity, looking at the three trainers who remained.
To answer her, Surge held up the ball that contained Articuno.
“Good, this might redeem how you disobeyed your orders, the boss wants to have a word with you about your attack on the SS. Anne.” The woman said in a dangerous tone that wiped the smirk off of Surge’s face.
Surge figured he would face consequences, but it didn’t matter.
He did what he thought was the right call, even if it didn’t work out he still completed his mission.
“Exeggutor, Barrage! Gyarados, Hydro Pump!” Oak ordered, trying to stop them, but the woman teleported herself and Surge out of there. “Damnit.”
Taking a deep breath to calm his anger at letting them get away, Professor Oak made his way towards his Grandson and Violet to make sure they were okay, seeing Violet collapse in relief at how close that was while Green gritted his teeth.
“Do either of you have any injuries?” Oak asked looking them over, seeing some slight burns that showed some electrocution, along with how the cold was affecting them.
If they spent too much time here they might get frostbite.
“How did you find us, Gramps?” Green asked, ignoring that other question showing that he was fine, allowing for Oak to have some peace of mind.
“The Pokedex is still connected to my lab, I used that to narrow down your location.” The Professor answered with a smile. “I had to let Exeggutor rest between teleports though, he’s not as spry as he used to be.”
He then sneezed as the cold was making his joints ache.
“Neither am I for that matter.”
Violet still hasn’t said anything and that worried Oak as he turned towards her, seeing Stinger and Parasite, close to her.
“Violet?” Professor Oak placed a gentle hand on her shoulder.
“Team Rocket, they captured Articuno.” Violet managed to get out, surprising Professor Oak as he didn’t know the Legendary was involved.
But he refrained from cursing at how bad this situation got.
If Team Rocket had a Legendary the Elite Four needed to be notified.
But right now, he needed to get these kids out of here.
“Exeggutor, teleport us to Cinnabar.” Prof. Oak ordered knowing that his Pokemon would need to rest for a little bit before they teleport back to Pallet Town.
The rest can come once the kids are safe.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 33
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle, Rage, Rest and Pin Missile.
Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind and Gust.
Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life, Dig, Body Slam and Spore
Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 10th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Now for Green’s Team, just to give an idea on what he has.
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 31
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 31
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeotto
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind and Wing Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra *Stored*
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable and Psybeam
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandshrew
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 21
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig and Slash
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 19
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw and Supersonic
7th Pokemon
Species: Magikarp
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 5
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Swift Swim
Moves: Splash
Notes:
Phew this one took forever, mostly because it would be the chapter that would finally introduce a Legendary, and frankly I think I might’ve screwed that one up.
Articuno is powerful, but the birds aren’t god-like. In fact, up until Hoenn none of the Legendaries were too powerful for people, lore wise that is. Starting with Hoenn you had the weather trio and then in Sinnoh you had god-like Legendaries who can control space and time.
So compared to them the Birds aren’t as powerful, though they can still mess someone up if they have to such as Articuno easily taking down the various Team Rocket Grunts in this chapter, it could’ve easily taken down Surge if he didn’t have the Serum that’s been a crucial part of this story. Especially when he used it on the Tentacool, forcing it to evolve into the Tentacruel that appeared in the Anime-I think it was in one of the banned episodes.
Then you have both Green and Violet surviving Seafoam Island and I don’t know a damn thing about survival, especially in blizzards so I most likely screwed that one up too.
I’ve been rewriting this chapter over and over again, trying to make it work without ruining the story, it was enough that I went back to reread the Manga only to see how they handled Articuno and I realized I probably had nothing to worry about on that front. I also did some work on earlier chapters, I didn’t change anything related to the story, just some very small stuff that’s probably not noticeable. Like taking out the reference to HM’s in the last chapter, I can't believe I tried to make sense of that.
Anyways who expected for Surge to actually succeed in capturing Articuno? Or for the giant Tentacruel to appear? I figured with the serum it would make more sense then in the Anime-I can’t even remember how it appeared in the Anime I”ll have to check again.
Then we have Violet and Green actually beating four of Surge’s Magnetons in a battle, using tactics that wouldn’t fly in a tournament but outside of one anything goes, I figured it would be a smart way to show how Bide could be utilized in life or death situations and frankly it was the only way they could’ve won at that moment.
Most likely wouldn’t work a second time because Surge now knows about that move but hey it did work.
And now the next chapter will be them resting up and then the normal journey continuing.
Chapter 18: Cinnabar Island Part 1
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Surge kept his head up high as Giovanni stared him down in the base hidden beneath the Viridian Gym.
Even though he was prepared for the consequences, there was something about the man that made Surge a little uneasy.
“I believe the orders I gave were to leave that girl alone.” Giovanni began in a harsh tone, a look of barely concealed fury showing in his eyes. “Care to explain yourself, Lieutenant?”
Taking a deep breath, Surge matched Giovanni’s harsh look with his own, showing that even if he was feeling uneasy he wasn’t going to cower away.
“With all due respect sir, leaving her alone is a stupid decision.” Surge said with no hesitation, making Giovanni’s eyes narrow.
Not many people can get away with doing that to his face, but it’s one of the few reasons Giovanni respected Surge.
“I gauged her strength when I battled her at the Gym, she’s getting strong at a pretty quick rate, faster than anyone should, leaving her alone would only ensure we have a threat to deal with in the future.” Surge explained his actions. “Even with only a Beedrill, Butterfree and Parasect, she was able to come up with a plan to defeat four of my Magnetons who are up to par with my real team.”
That made Giovanni pause, not expecting that.
After hearing how Professor Oak showed up on Seafoam Island, he thought the former Champion was the one who defeated Surge.
“That’s why she needs to be removed now before she can become a greater threat.”
Giovanni went quiet in thought as he left the girl alone because he knew that the child wasn’t actively searching for Team Rocket, she only ran into them through bad luck at Mt. Moon.
And given her Pokemon he figured she wouldn’t be an issue, especially after looking into her himself. Not that he thought Bug Pokemon were weak, he has a Beedrill of his own from when he began his career as a trainer. No it was because no matter how strong she was getting, she was nothing more than a child.
He might have to get involved if she does interfere more however.
But he forced that thought away and leveled a glare at Surge. “That doesn’t excuse your actions, not only did you disobey your orders but you were revealed to be a part of Team Rocket.”
Years of secrecy and working in the shadows gone up in flames because of this one mishap.
“I don’t regret my actions.” Surge said, his shoulders squared only to be surprised by how quickly Giovanni stood up, showing how pissed he was.
A rare sight for any of the executives.
“Shut up and think for a moment, because you were revealed, the Elite Four now know how deep we were able to infiltrate them, they’ll suspect the other Gym Leaders and your attack on the SS. Anne is going to make the Elite Four come down even harder on our organization forcing us to use resources we can’t afford to lose,” Giovanni had to work hard to keep his tone even, clasping his hands behind his back before his Persian who was sleeping nearby walked up to stand next to him. “Not only that but your foolish actions showed our plan on capturing the Legendaries, the only reason you weren’t left to fend for yourself was because you managed to succeed in capturing Articuno.”
If he failed that then Surge wouldn’t even be standing here.
And Giovanni had no qualms about letting him be arrested and interrogated as like the Grunts, the Executives had a psychic block placed on them to prevent any betrayals.
The only one who didn’t was Sabrina, but Giovanni had no concerns there given how loyal that girl was.
Forcing himself to calm down, Giovanni turned away from Surge, walking back to his seat, pausing to scratch his Persian’s head, making the Pokemon purr. “But what’s done is done, we need to move on to the next phase of our plan.”
And they need to harness the Legendary before the League can find them because Giovanni could probably take down two of the Elite Four, but all of them at once was beyond even his strength.
And that’s not even counting the fact that he wasn’t a match for Lance given how powerful the Champion was… Not yet at least.
Not only that but Blaine needed to hurry with his work on cloning Mew, but they have yet to get any sort of DNA from that Mythical Pokemon, speaking of which-.
Giovanni pulled out a Pokeball and tossed it to Surge who caught it, his eyes widening as he saw his Electabuzz inside of it. “How-?” Surge asked, not expecting this.
He knew the Electabuzz was dead.
“One of the successes of Blaine’s cloning procedures, consider it payment for capturing Articuno.” Giovanni said, knowing how attached to the Electabuzz Surge was.
Even if this wasn’t the exact same, the man would need it for his team.
“You’re dismissed.”
Surge hesitated but gave a salute, his face showing how caught off guard he was with this new addition to his team before he walked off as Giovanni sat back down and brought up the different results of the Serum that their Organization produced.
The Kangaskhan, Muk, Snorlax, Electabuzz and Tentacruel.
Each one of them made stronger than they usually are, but at the price of dying in the end.
The first two were disappointments and considered failures due to one being a baby Pokemon while the other was easily taken down by Brock.
Yet the last three showed immense promise after some changes to the formula.
The Snorlax hospitalized half of Bruno’s team. The Electabuzz putting Will, an Elite Four Trainee in a coma after nearly killing two of his Pokemon and now the Tentacruel going toe to toe with a Legendary, weakening it enough to be captured.
Imagine if that formula was perfected and injected into a Legendary.
Or even better, was added to Project Mew to make it even stronger.
But they needed to hurry before they’re discovered.
And to harness the legends they needed a test rattata.
‘ Didn’t one of those kids have an Eevee? ’ Giovanni mused in thought, wondering if they could use its unique genetic code to help with the formula.
Food for thought.
A call interrupted his work, so he shut everything off and answered. “What is it?”
Koga’s voice came through. “We’ve succeeded in capturing Zapdos.” He answered, sounding hoarse and tired. “But we’ve lost ten grunts in the process.”
More casualties, something they couldn’t afford, but Giovanni kept that to himself. “Good, report back to base and get ready for your next mission, I’m sending you to Lavender Town.”
Even with the setbacks, things were coming along nicely with two of the Legendary Birds now in their possession.
Now they need only Moltres and they’ll be ready to begin harnessing them.
But right now they needed to refocus on gathering more resources to replace what they lost.
And possibly send a small group to begin taking over Johto on the off chance they fail in Kanto, a group that will take to the shadows and not draw attention while looking into the Legendaries there.
Violet just stared at the cup of hot cocoa that was in front of her, sitting in the Pokemon Center on Cinnabar Island while Prof. Oak was making a call, most likely to the League to update them about what happened after a day of rest.
Green was already gone, saying something about catching a Pokemon while he was here, already taking his jacket back since she didn’t need it anymore.
That just left her alone with her thoughts given how her team were being checked by Nurse Joy at this moment.
She kept replaying everything in her head.
The attack on the SS. Anne. Being Stranded on Seafoam Island. The reveal of Surge being a part of Team Rocket. And finally Team Rocket succeeded in capturing Articuno.
Everything just went wrong in every way possible here.
She didn’t know what to do.
What can she do?
‘ You can either wallow and wait for them to find you while you’re still weak or you can get stronger to avoid this happening again. ’
Green’s words went through her head and Violet found herself clenching a fist.
He was right.
She can’t keep going on her journey, praying that she won’t run into Team Rocket again.
After what happened, she now knows that they will do whatever it takes to kill her, she needs to get stronger for the next time she does run into them. No more being the victim.
And to be stronger she needs to face the next Gym.
With one being on Cinnabar Island.
The Fire Type Gym Leader Blaine, a former member of the Elite Four.
Taking a deep breath, Violet knew what her next move was.
She doesn’t care if she’ll be at a disadvantage in this Gym, that’s nothing new and she succeeded in beating Brock despite being at a disadvantage.
Violet wasn’t going to back down and she’ll make sure to beat this one.
Hearing footsteps, Violet glanced up to see Prof. Oak who looked more tired than usual as he sat down across from her.
“I just got off the phone with Lance,” Prof. Oak began, just him dropping that name made Violet’s eyes widen in surprise. “Capturing Surge has become a top priority with the Elite Four, but they’re preparing for the worst case scenario considering what just happened.”
Not to mention how now the Elite Four aren’t sure which Gym Leaders to trust right now with one of their top suspects being Erika given how she trained under Surge to become a Gym Leader.
And they were also keeping it all under wraps because if it got out that a Gym Leader was in Team Rocket, all of Kanto would be in a panic, no one would be sure of who to trust and they would probably suspect one of the Elite Four to be a part of the criminal organization making their job of protecting Kanto even more difficult than it was before.
While Prof. Oak agreed with them for that reason, he knew that if it got out in another way, the results would be catastrophic.
If he didn’t quit drinking he would’ve gladly poured himself some whisky right now regardless of how early it was.
“Once your Pokemon are healed and Green gets back, I’ll have Exeggutor teleport us to Pallet Town-.” Prof. Oak began only for Violet to surprise him.
“I want to battle Blaine while I’m here.”
Prof. Oak blinked in surprise, sure he knew she was doing the Gym Challenge, but after what happened, he figured she would take a small break.
“I suppose you could, we do have time, but why now?”
Especially with her team, he’s not doubting her strength, seeing how far she’s come with only three Pokemon, but Blaine was a different matter altogether. Violet will have every disadvantage possible. From the typing to her Parasect being in the worst case scenario thanks to her ability.
“I want to get stronger.” Violet said as if it was that simple, and perhaps it was for her. “After everything, I need to push my team to their limits.”
And this Gym is perfect for that.
Win or lose, she needs to do this.
Prof. Oak gazed at her carefully before giving a nod.
It was her choice after all.
“Alright, after you battle Blaine we’ll head back to Pallet Town.” Prof. Oak relented, taking note of how Violet was acting. “Do you mind if I see your Trainer ID?”
The question caught Violet off guard before she gave a nod and pulled it out to hand over to the Professor.
“You’ll get it back once we’re in Pallet Town,” Prof. Oak explained, confusing Violet. “You know how your current ID is blue?”
“To show me to be a rookie right?” Violet remembered that lesson from school on how depending on the skill of the trainer their ID comes in different colors.
“Normally trainers don’t go to the next rank until a year after they begin, but after everything you’ve more than earned it, rather impressive considering how long you’ve been a trainer.”
He was amused at how Violet’s mouth dropped in shock.
Having your Trainer ID updated like that was a big thing as a Trainer.
It basically shows how skilled of a trainer one is and allows for them to be able to buy items that Rookies can’t such as Hyper Potions, Full Restores and Ultra Balls.
None of them were within her budget sadly enough.
There were five ranks.
Blue for Rookies, such as what she was which signified them as beginners and allowed for them to get simple medicine for Pokemon which was more than enough.
Green for Intermediate Trainers, usually reserved for those who have eight badges or a year of experience.
Bronze was for Advanced Trainers who have up to three years and some League Titles, some of them becoming Gym Leaders at this point.
Silver was mostly Ace Trainers who work for the League and have at least eight years worth of experience.
Finally you have Gold for the Elite Trainers, or rather those who become a part of the Elite Four, only a handful of people can make it that high.
Not many trainers make it past Bronze, finishing their journeys at that point.
“Slash!” Green ordered as his Sandshrew was battling a Vulpix, deep within the Ruins of the Cinnabar Mansion, having explored it for quite a bit, training up his team against the countless fire and poison types there, switching his Magikarp and Cloyster in and out to help train them up.
None of the other fire Pokemon caught his attention, not even some of the Vulpix’s he ran into near the entrance who he defeated easily, not considering them to add to his team with the exception of a Ditto that he caught during his exploration.
This one however was pretty strong.
It already defeated his Raticate and Eevee, being up to their level, even if its move pool was rather limited, its use of Quick Attack to dodge and Confuse Ray to keep him on his toes impressed him.
Its Ember was powerful as well, though that could be because of its drought ability making it feel like harsh sunlight was inside of the building.
It wasn’t actual sunlight but it could be used like one for certain situations just like the ability Drizzle which makes a small rainstorm appear in a small area powering up water Pokemon and weakening fire types, not real rain but similar enough.
He knew adding this Pokemon would power up his team, especially when it evolves and learns better moves.
Plus the ability would be very useful in taking care of Violet’s Parasect the next time they battled.
But the Vulpix slammed into Sandshrew who was badly damaged showing that the fire type might get a third win.
Though the Vulpix was panting heavily showing that despite this winning streak, she was getting tired.
Moving to return Sandshrew and send out his Pidgeotto, Green stopped when Sandshrew gritted her teeth and gave a cry, glowing in the process.
Hmph, it’s about time.
He said nothing as brown spikes erupted from his Pokemon’s back, sharp white claws erupting from her hands and feet as Sandslash stood there, glaring at the Vulpix who didn’t back down.
Vulpix tried another Quick Attack, but Sandslash quickly curled up into a ball, using Defense Curl, just in time for the fire type to ram into her, the spikes injuring her and that was enough for Green who threw a Great Ball, watching as the Vulpix was sucked in, barely putting up a fight and being captured, watching as the Pokeball disappeared with Vulpix ending up at Pallet Town.
His team was coming along nicely. A new addition and an evolution.
Taking a few revives and potions out of his pack, Green got to work healing his team up, wanting to take advantage of the strong wild Pokemon here to train up a bit.
Violet had to focus as she walked around countless tourists that were on Cinnabar Island, enjoying the sights and the warmth, the latter she shared considering the cold of Seafoam Island was still fresh in her mind.
But she pushed that thought out of her mind as she wondered what she’ll face at the Gym.
Unlike Brock who didn’t use rock moves against trainers with no badges, Blaine would no doubt try to fry her bugs with fire moves which will make moves such as String Shot and Harden useless, so she can’t rely on them like she did in the other gym battles.
Then there were the powder attacks that Silk has, given the chemicals in them they were no doubt flammable which could cause an explosion if she tried them against fire Pokemon.
Finally there was Parasite who would be struggling throughout the whole thing, though Dig would really come in handy.
Stinger and Silk can fly so they’ll have an easier time dodging and Silk’s confusion could help redirect the fire moves to keep them at bay.
Gust might make the flames stronger or blow them out, Violet had no clue on that but Supersonic would be invaluable if she can get that off.
Twineedle despite being a bug move could still poison a Pokemon, so she can try for that too.
That was all she could do for now, she didn’t have any other techniques to counter fire types, something she’ll definitely need to change in the future.
Eventually the gym came in sight as Violet went to walk in, only to end up walking into the doors given how they didn’t slide open like the other gyms do.
Rubbing her face in annoyance, Violet tried to push the door open only to realize that it was locked.
Don’t tell her that the Gym Leader wasn’t even here!
“Are you challenging the Gym?” The sudden voice surprised Violet as she turned to see a man fishing nearby, chewing on a toothpick.
This man looked a little older than Professor Oak, with a long mustache and shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a pair of sunglasses to cover his eyes, the light glinting off them as he gave Violet a look, he also had a tropical buttoned up red shirt and blue shorts, sandals nearby as his feet were in the water.
“I wanted to, but he’s not here.” Violet muttered, not seeing the man grin in amusement.
“Don’t worry this happens all the time, Blaine just has a bit of a test for his gym challenge.” The man elaborated, earning a surprised look from Violet.
“A test?”
The man gave a nod, his grin getting bigger. “I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?”
He barely refrained from chuckling at Violet’s very confused face. “What?”
“It’s a riddle, a pretty simple one, I have four for you to solve in order to find the test.”
“Or you can just tell me.” Violet tried, not wanting to waste any time or keep Professor Oak waiting.
The man tutted, waving his finger at her. “Sorry but this is a part of the test, Blaine is rather picky about who battles him.” He said watching as Violet groaned.
Riddles, of course it had to be riddles.
She’s never done one before.
“... What was it again?”
The man wasn’t that bothered as he repeated it to her, watching her cross her arms in thought. “I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?”
Turn once, turn twice. A safe lock?
No that didn’t sound right.
A door knob?
Looking towards the door, Violet noticed a keyhole and just like that it clicked as she slammed a fist in the palm of her hand.
“A Key!”
The man grinned, happy to see that she got it. “Exactly, the test is to find the key to the Gym, Blaine began doing this because of all the tourists.”
There was some bitterness in his tone that Violet noted. “What’s stopping them from doing these riddles?”
The man just grinned and began a second riddle. “I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings, what am I?”
Violet felt her eye twitch at her question being ignored.
But she began to think, hoping that she wasn’t wasting her time with these riddles.
Lakes with no water… Unless there’s a drought that should be impossible. Mountains always have stones and she’s yet to see a city with no building.
You would think that something like that would be on a map-... Oh, now she gets it.
“Map.”
“Indeed, you need the key and the location is hidden on the map.” The man revealed, now making Violet suspicious as to who this was, but she pulled her map out and glanced at Cinnabar Island.
“Alright what’s the third riddle?”
“Pretty eager aren’t you?” The mask asked, having some fun, happy that she was answering the riddles easily. “I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?”
Always hungry? Sounds like a Snorlax but they don’t die if they’re not fed, they don’t turn anything red upon touching it either.
This one was a tough one.
What turns something red upon touching it?
Thinking it over, Violet remembered all of the times she started a campfire.
“Fire.”
But wouldn’t that mean the key was hidden around the gym?
“Correct, now for the last riddle.” The man said, turning back to focus on his fishing as he reeled in a Magikarp, only to throw it back in. “What building has the most stories?”
That was actually an easy one.
“A library.”
The man didn’t answer, leaving for Violet to frown.
Key. Map. Fire. Library.
What do they have in common?
Looking at the map, Violet remembered the historic Cinnabar Mansion which was said to have a huge Library that caught on Fire due to an attack during the war. It was enough to place it on the Map.
“The Mansion.” Violet glanced at the man who turned towards her, his grin betraying the answer. “The Key is inside the Mansion.”
“And protected by a powerful Pokemon, only true trainers can get it, tourists can’t get close.” The man said to her. “Good job deciphering the riddles, not many are patient enough to do that.”
Well that and he purposely pisses people off for his own amusement while doing this.
Violet pursed her lips in thought. “You’re Blaine aren’t you?”
Even if the Fire Gym Leader was supposed to be bald, she figured that was a wig.
And if he was, it would explain how he knew so much about where the key was.
“Maybe I am. Maybe I’m not. What can you keep after giving to somebody?”
Resisting the urge to groan at yet another riddle, Violet didn’t have to think too long about that one. “Your word.”
“Correct, if you get the Key, you have my word that we’ll battle Miss Hawke.” Blaine knowing her name caught her off guard before Violet remembered how Misty said the Gym Leaders talked.
Though given what happened with Surge, Violet felt like she had a good reason to be paranoid.
But the Mansion could be good training, so she wasn’t going to complain.
Walking off towards the direction it was at, Violet didn’t see how Blaine glanced back her way with a thoughtful look.
He wasn’t expecting to see that girl yet given their different types, or at all really after hearing about Surge’s attack on the SS. Anne. Yet here she was.
Blaine wondered if he should try to finish what Surge started but discarded that thought immediately.
Unlike the soldier, he wasn’t one to pull something like that.
Giovanni didn’t want to waste any resources trying to kill her and he agreed, they needed to keep focus.
And he had his own jobs to do after this small break to calm himself down from some failures.
Both from not being able to go anywhere with Project Mew due to a lack of DNA from said Pokemon and from the multiple failures of the serum he was trying to perfect.
He was repeatedly hitting a wall with them and the many failures of the serum resulted in quite a few deaths from other Pokemon, enough to make him sick.
Yes he knew the importance of finishing it, but it didn’t make it any easier, seeing the pain those Pokemon went through.
Perhaps the battle with that Violet girl will help him out here?
Upon making it to the mansion, Violet was surprised to see Green exiting, the boy not even looking that surprised. “Training?” He asked as the girl gave a nod, not wanting to say anything about the key that was in there.
Otherwise they might compete for the key and she didn’t want to focus on that right now.
“Tch, at least you’re working on it.” Green walked by her before pausing. “There are a ton of fire Pokemon in there, some of them were strong enough to knock out half of my team.”
That warning put Violet on edge, but she steeled herself and gave a nod only to blink when Green pulled a green TM out of his bag.
“I also found this in there, I have no need for it.” Green said, pretending that this wasn’t unusual for him.
Truthfully he found two TM’s in there, one of them being Blizzard which he used on his Cloyster immediately to help give her an ice attack since her premature evolution would stunt her growth move-wise.
This one was SolarBeam however and while he could teach it to his Vulpix after evolving it, he knew that the Exeggutor he planned to get could learn it naturally.
And he figured that with how often his rival gets into trouble, she could use a move like this to help her survive considering he wasn’t planning on being her babysitter each time she gets caught up in something.
Plus if she learns how to use it right then she’ll be stronger which will in turn give him a better challenge that will make him stronger.
“Are you going to take it or what?” Green asked, a bit annoyed that she was just staring in shock. “If you don’t want it, I’ll just sell it.”
That snapped Violet out of her shock as she accepted the TM. “T-Thank you.” She stammered out.
Green just walked off, not even bothering to acknowledge that.
As he walked out of sight, Violet sighed.
She just can’t get a read on him.
But she pocketed the TM, planning on using it later before she entered the mansion.
Immediately after entering, Violet sent Stinger out, watching as Beedrill took to the air, looking around for any threats before glancing at Violet in concern.
It seems he was worried about what happened on Seafoam Island.
“We’re looking for a key so we can challenge the next gym.” Violet explained, seeing his cautious nature turned to one of excitement.
After everything that happened, a gym battle was what they needed.
A nice break from the life and death situations that’s been happening lately.
So he flew on ahead, keeping close in case some wild Pokemon attacked Violet who looked around, the floors creaking with each step showing how old this abandoned mansion was.
As she walked, Violet wondered what her next move after battling Blaine would be?
Perhaps she should take a small break from her journey and relax at home? Prof. Oak did say that they would be heading back to Pallet Town so she could walk home.
A week of relaxation could do some wonders before she continues her journey.
Though she would lose valuable time given how the Indigo Tournament was getting closer and she needs to have all eight badges by then.
… But should she really be worrying about this? Team Rocket captured a Legendary Pokemon.
That seemed a bit more important than some tournament.
‘ What am I thinking? ’ Violet chided herself, passing by some empty rooms, taking note of the Rhydon Statue before coming to a pair of stairs.
Every encounter with Team Rocket nearly killed her because of how outclassed she was. Their Executives were powerful and while she was stronger than before she was still a speck compared to them.
So imagine their leader.
While Violet didn’t know what to imagine, she shivered, not wanting to run into someone who can command the executives like that.
Yes she’ll try to be even stronger to avoid another near death experience, but would it be enough?
“Bzzt!” Stinger’s cry caught her attention as she looked up to see him battling a wild Grimer.
Just like with the SS. Anne, Violet felt like she couldn’t breathe upon seeing the poison Pokemon, taking a step back shaking in fear before closing her eyes and forcing her to be calm right as the Grimer slammed into Stinger, making him fly back.
“Focus Energy and Twineedle.” She ordered, knowing that it would still be strong despite how the Grimer would resist it.
Stinger listened immediately and stabbed forward, after focusing, sending Grimer flying back, the focused attack doing some major damage before the wild Pokemon took off with fear in his eyes.
Stinger crossed his arms, looking very proud of himself, having a bit of a grudge against those Pokemon because he remembered Mt. Moon just as vividly.
So winning against one felt good.
He was so caught up with his victory that he didn’t notice the ember flying towards him until it hit him, making him cry out in pain and surprise, being burnt in the process while a pack of Growlithes began to surround him.
Seeing that, Violet didn’t hesitate to send Silk out who immediately blasted them back with Confusion leaving for Stinger to hesitate before being stubborn, saying that he could’ve handled them.
Hearing that, Silk just shook her head and made a few noises at him, asking if that was before or after being cooked.
Stinger jabbed one of his stingers at her in retort, but it was light hearted given how Silk was shaking with laughter, but the Butterfree focused as she kept an eye on their surroundings, using Confusion to catch another Grimer that tried to ambush them and send it flying down the stairs into the basement where they heard the crash of it landing.
Seeing the danger was taken care of, Violet walked forward and pulled out a burn heal to treat Stinger, making him grimace a bit before sighing in relief.
“You need to work on your surroundings a bit Stinger.” Violet gently chided with a smile, standing up after treating him. “But you’re both doing good so far.”
If they can keep this up, then finding the key would be a cinch.
So she continued on, walking downstairs to see the unconscious Grimer and while she grimaced, Violet pulled out an Oran Berry and tossed it, watching as it landed in its mouth, melting in the process.
It had the effect of waking up, giving her a surprised glance before slinking away, knowing it couldn’t beat her.
Violet let out the breath she had as it disappeared.
While they made her uneasy, she didn’t want to leave it unconscious like that, it wasn’t the Grimer that attacked her after all.
From there it didn’t take too long to really explore the basement, the wild Pokemon not really being too much of an issue.
Not to say that she was being cocky, no she was being very careful, using Esper Spore any time she saw a fire type to take it out of commission before it could do anything, usually before it saw her. Perhaps she was being too cautious but she didn’t want her team to be too injured for the fight with Blaine.
Eventually she saw a rusty old key on a table and made to grab it only for a Flamethrower to barely miss her, Silk using Confusion to pull her out of the way in time as a Magmar landed between her and the key.
This must be the Pokemon that Blaine had protecting the key, makes sense given how the average tourist wouldn’t be able to make it this far, much less beat the Magmar.
Unlike the other fire types, none of the spore attacks Silk knew would work given how the burning flames on Magmar’s body would make them combust.
So she pulled out her Pokedex and scanned it.
“ Magmar, the Spitfire Pokemon. Born in an Active Volcano, its body is always cloaked in flames allowing it to hide perfectly in a fire. Warning: Magmars are very temperamental and are known to hold grudges with those who defeat them, enough to hunt its opponent down if it wants to. Current Level is 55. Gender: Male. ”
Eyes widening at the huge power gap between this Pokemon and hers, Violet looked terrified, especially as the Magmar just scoffed at seeing her two bug Pokemon who looked just as terrified, but ready to battle.
This Pokemon was way out of her league.
‘ No, stop, you can win this. ’ Violet told herself as Surge was out of her league too but they managed to beat his Magnetons despite the power gap.
So they can win here.
Knowing that she would need everyone, Violet sent Parasite out to join Stinger and Silk, outnumbering the Magmar. “Quicksand now!” She shouted with Parasite listening with no hesitation. “Stinger Poison Sting, try to poison it. Silk, Supersonic, keep it unbalanced!”
If they played this smart then they can win.
Seeing the enemy in action, Magmar just smirked and unleashed a Fire Blast at the Pokemon with them barely getting out of the way in time.
All it would take would be one hit, especially with Parasite who, despite being in the state she was, felt immense fear at the idea of being hit by that.
Seeing the sonar from the Supersonic coming towards him, the Magmar just punched it with his Fire Punch, giving a taunting grin only to feel annoyed when the barrage of Poison Stings hit his back, his flames burning the poison before it could take effect.
So it focused and teleported.
‘ Oh come on! ’ Violet mentally complained at fighting another Pokemon who can use Teleport before Stinger cried out in agony as Magmar appeared behind him, unleashing a Fire Punch, sending him flying before taking him down with a Psychic, making him slam into Silk to stunning her.
Taking action to unleash another Flamethrower, the Magmar was caught off guard when the ground beneath him collapsed, showing that Parasite was moving as quickly as she could, the dirt from the Quicksand smothering the Pokemon a bit.
That gave Violet enough time to reach Stinger, reaching into her bag to pull out a Potion.
It wouldn’t heal everything but it should be enough to get him to wake up.
Silk seemed to have recovered while Parasite kept Magmar busy and fired a Gust, the mixture of the dirt and wind making the fire on Magmar’s body weaker, practically pissing the spitfire Pokemon off.
It wasn’t teleporting, so perhaps it had to focus before doing that? That meant as long as they kept it busy it wouldn’t be able to disappear out of sight.
Stinger pushed himself up despite not being fully healed and rushed back into the fight, unleashing Rage on Violet’s command with his stingers slamming into the distracted Magmar, this time injecting the poison into the Pokemon, ignoring the burning sensation from its Flame Body ability taking effect.
It was a battle of stamina now given how the Magmar was Poisoned and the Beedrill was burned and if it was one on one the Magmar would win, but another Confusion hit him before Parasite jumped out, unleashing a Scratch barely avoiding being burned before diving back into the ground.
The Magmar felt its jaw clench up in annoyance at having bugs push him this far before stomping a foot on the ground, making flames erupt from his body pushing them back, using Psychic to pull the Parasect out of the ground, not knowing that the bug was beginning to use Bide before pulling her in for a Fire Punch.
The moment he made contact, Parasite hissed in agony, her dry skin coming back to bite her, nearly taking her out of the fight with barely any sense of consciousness remaining.
Seeing that set Stinger off who was barely holding back his Rage after using it as he began to combine it with his Fury Attack, losing control of himself while Silk flew in front of Parasite, ready to defend her while Bide was continuing to gather energy.
Tanking the Raged induced Fury Attack, Magmar easily grabbed Stinger by the arm and slammed him into the ground, stunning him and breaking him out of the frenzy he was in.
It was about to take Stinger down for good, but the distraction allowed for Parasect to finish focusing on Bide, now unleashing everything back at the Magmar who had no time to react, sending it flying back through a few walls, knocking it through several different rooms.
They waited with bated breath only to sigh in relief as Magmar didn’t get back up, unconscious from the blow he just took.
Violet let the breath she was holding out, scared out of her mind from how intense that was.
What was Blaine thinking in letting that Pokemon be the test to get the key?!
Seeing her team relax despite being nearly unconscious, Violet returned them, ignoring how her Pokedex was beeping, showing that Stinger and Silk ended up learning a new move from the fight.
She’ll look into them later once they’re all healed up.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust and Psybeam.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam and Spore.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 11th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeotto
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind and Wing Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra *Stored*
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable and Psybeam
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig and Slash
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 24
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Magikarp
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 17
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Swift Swim
Moves: Splash and Tackle
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: None
Lv. 30
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix *Stored*
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar and Confuse Ray
Notes:
Heh well this escalated quickly, who expected for me to update this quickly? After the long break I took from this story I felt the urge to continue it, especially since I finally finished up with the SS. Anne/Seafoam Island Arc. Now we’re on Cinnabar Island and whether or not Violet gets the Volcano Badge for her fourth badge will remain to be seen.
Then you have the Magmar, note the Pokemon was holding back a bit given the difference in levels, it’s a trial for trainers to get the key, if it didn’t hold back Violet’s team would be burnt to a crisp, but I think it shows how far Violet came with taking it down regardless.
Finally you have Blaine being shown as a mixture of all his counterparts, more on him will be shown in the next chapter and we have a lot going on in the background that will be expanded upon later like the capture of Zapdos, I plan to go back and have it shown either in a flashback or one of the one shots I have planned.
Chapter 19: Cinnabar Island Part 2
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Green grumbled as he was back in Pallet Town, using his Gramps Exeggcutor to get back with the Pokemon heading back to Cinnabar after dropping him off.
Currently he was at the lab, going through which Pokemon he was going to have with him, taking care to swap Raticate for Kadabra, giving him a bit of a break before doing the same with his Cloyster for Vulpix.
No sense in having two water Pokemon at once given how he needs to train Magikarp up to be a Gyarados and he had no plans to leave Sandslash in the lab, wanting a ground type to cover his electric weakness.
And he was keeping Pidgeotto because he was close to evolving and having a flying type was a must for a team.
So after careful consideration, he finished sorting through his Pokemon with Eevee, Pidgeotto, Kadabra, Sandslash, Magikarp and Vulpix.
He did consider grabbing his Ditto but decided not to for the moment.
He’ll work with that one later.
So his next stop was the Route next to Rock Tunnel where he can get a Magnemite, he did plan on getting one earlier, but seeing how Surge utilized his Magneton made him realize just how useful that Pokemon could be, especially if he could train it to do what Surge’s Magneton could.
Plus he needed some electric coverage and Magnetons were pretty tanky, so it would give him another bulky Pokemon along with his Cloyster.
His team did have a bit of a flaw when it comes to taking hits, Kadabra wasn’t strong physically and will still be as vulnerable as an Alakazam, Eevee’s specialty resulted in not being hit. Pidgeotto was strong but could be crippled easily. Magikarp will be strong defensive wise upon evolving but a good shock would take him out.
So having two or more Pokemon that can take a hit would be crucial if he wanted to win future battles.
… Perhaps he should train up at the Tower in Lavender Town, he might catch a Gastly there if he’s lucky.
With a plan set in his mind, Green sent out Kadabra to teleport him to Cerulean City, not wanting to waste anymore time.
“Were you trying to get me killed?!” Violet asked after getting her team healed up, showing the key to Blaine who looked mildly surprised that she got it.
“Magmar knows when to hold back, he’s a deterrent to keep tourists from challenging the Gym.” Blaine retorted, remembering how annoyed he was at rarely getting good battles before doing that. “To be perfectly honest I figured you would’ve left it alone until a few more badges.”
If she got the key that meant that she either distracted Magmar long enough to swipe it, or she defeated him.
And that made his blood boil with some anticipation.
It’s not too often that happens, even if he would be using one of his weaker teams to battle her, he was itching to see how a team of bug types would handle a fire master such as himself.
Bug Trainers were always crushed around getting two badges, so for one to make it to him, that has never happened before unless they had bugs from the other regions.
So he grinned. “An outcome already written, fight it and you’ll be smitten,” He began, enjoying the annoyed look Violet was now sporting. “By it you may be blessed, or put up to the test. And take you places you have never guessed.”
“What is with you and riddles?” Violet couldn’t help but ask, earning a laugh from Blaine.
“We all have our hobbies, every trainer needs one to keep them going,” Blaine told her, seeing her pause in thought. “While there’s nothing wrong with just focusing on training your Pokemon, a trainer needs something to keep from losing themselves.”
It was a thing that usually happens with trainers, it was why some of them become hermits that live away from civilization.
Violet pushed the advice away for the moment and thought about the riddle, but unlike the other times, she couldn’t think of what it could be.
“I give up.” Violet admitted defeat on this riddle.
Blaine seemed to expect that. “The answer is Destiny.”
That confused Violet. “What does destiny have to do with anything?”
“Many would say the outcome to our battle is already written,” Blaine revealed, referring to the typical bug versus fire match-up. “And many of them would be right as to fight like that is asking to be burnt.”
That made Violet grit her teeth as she opened her mouth to defend her team, but Blaine continued before she could.
“You however might be the exception.” Blaine crossed his arms, remembering the reports. “You faced things that many would’ve buckled under. Every fight you’ve been in tested your resolve and took you places that people couldn’t even fathom.”
Surviving Team Rocket, actually taking on some of Surge’s strongest Pokemon. Meeting a Legendary Pokemon.
No one would expect that from a journey, much less for a ten year old to be involved in it.
So was it destiny that she made it this far? Did she have a role to play in the days to come?
Many would scoff at that motion, Blaine himself would’ve done that with no hesitation in his youth, being a man of science.
But he’s seen some amazing and terrifying things in his decades as a trainer.
So he was a bit more open-minded than other scientists.
Violet slowly closed her mouth, not expecting that or how it did basically summed up her whole journey.
But she wasn’t so sure about calling it ‘destiny’. Just luck.
Good and bad luck.
“Still I think it’s time we start the battle.” Blaine said knowing he had to get back to work soon, so he might as well finish this up quickly. “Normally for a trainer with three badges, as rare as they are, I would use four Pokemon, but I can only see three Pokeballs on your belt, so I’ll make it three-on-three.”
With that said, Blaine pulled out a key from his pocket and unlocked the door, grinning at Violet’s dumbfounded expression.
“What, you didn’t really think I would leave the actual key in an abandoned mansion would you? I only want to test trainers, not leave my place open to being robbed.” Blaine explained, walking in as Violet took a deep breath and entered behind him.
She needed to focus on the battle itself and she needed to try and think of which Pokemon he would use.
Would they be evolved or not?
What techniques will they know?
The moment she entered the Gym, Violet began to sweat from the heat that was inside there while Blaine seemed at home with it due to years of exposure. Though he did take the wig off to show his bald head.
No doubt this heat would help him immensely in battles, leaving for the challengers to be fighting with an unfair advantage, most likely to force them to try and come up with strategies to counteract it.
Makes sense given how some of the fields at the Indigo League were randomized at times.
Eventually they were at the battlefield, where heat vents were all around them, the vents filled with actual lava which explains the heat as Blaine made his way to the side he would be on, pressing a button on the wall to make a rack of Pokeballs come out, showing different teams for the amount of badges, grabbing three from the three badge section.
As he placed them on his belt, Blaine glanced towards Violet who was now in the trainers box on her side. “Hah, I guess you’re ready, hope you have a burn heal for when I incinerate your Pokemon.” He said with a smirk, gripping one Pokeball. “Now the rules for this battle are simple. Three-On-Three and only you can switch.”
Violet frowned as she thought back to all of her Gym Battles, of how she never tried switching her Pokemon out, always sticking with her choices despite how sometimes it might’ve been for the best.
Perhaps she should try it this time?
So they both sent out a Pokemon with Violet starting off with Stinger while Blaine sent out a Growlithe.
Pulling out her Pokedex, Violet scanned it.
‘ Growlithe, the Puppy Pokemon. It has a friendly nature and is extremely loyal to its trainers, willing to do anything to defend them even against bigger and stronger foes. Current Level is 33. Gender: Male. ’
So she had an advantage in terms of strength, but she couldn’t be cocky.
After all she did defeat a Pokemon that outclassed her earlier so that was proof that levels weren’t everything.
“Let’s speed this up, Stinger try out Agility!” Violet ordered, remembering how the Pokedex told her that Stinger learned it.
Perfect chance to try it out.
As Stinger focused, showing how inexperienced he was in using it, Blaine reacted rather quickly. “Dragon Rage.”
The Growlithe shot forward, blasting the blue draconic energy out of its mouth right at Stinger, breaking his concentration as he was sent back.
But he did manage to get a bit of a boost from the Agility.
“Using a new move without training it? Rather risky.” Blaine said while Violet was surprised, not expecting Dragon Rage.
Sure it was a TM, but that came out of nowhere.
Still she got what she needed.
“Poison Sting on the field, keep moving don’t let the Growlithe hit you again.”
Stinger buzzed in agreement, moving faster than he did before, being a bit of a blur as he fired Poison Sting after Poison Sting on the field with Growlithe jumping and dodging them, but Blaine knew what she was doing.
She was trying to turn the tides by covering the field so any Pokemon he sends out would be poisoned.
Smart but futile.
“Use Dig.” Blaine ordered in a curt manner, his fingers twitched weirdly with Violet blinking in confusion while the Growlithe listened and dug in there.
“Careful Stinger, he could be anywhere.” Violet warned the Poison Bee Pokemon who looked around cautiously. “Agility again.”
Might as well make him faster while it was busy.
As Stinger did that, Blaine let out a sharp whistle only for the ground beneath Stinger to explode, unleashing a Fire Blast that Stinger barely dodged, the blast destroying all of the poison needles on the ground, undoing Violet’s work.
Taken aback, Violet was shocked at how Blaine ordered that just by whistling-wait his fingers twitching.
Was he doing sign language too?!
That was ingenious, he was ordering his Pokemon without talking, laying out a strategy without giving it away.
But what did the finger twitching mean?
Putting it in the back of her mind, she called out for Stinger to use Focus Energy before going in with a Pin Missile, the attack piercing the Growlithe only for it to disappear, showing that it was a substitute.
Something he most likely set up underground.
The moment the Substitute Growlithe disappeared, the real Growlithe shot out and grabbed Stinger with a Bite.
Seeing that, Violet wasted no time recalling him to send out Silk, taking advantage of the switching rule as Blaine’s mustache twitched.
“That Beedrill is strong but limited, you need to work on his range and that agility a bit more.” Blaine advised, knowing he wore it down and the agility boost was gone now.
But his Growlithe was also getting tired.
It wasn’t like his Arcanine which can use Fire Blast continuously.
That combined with the Substitute left it at low energy.
So he gave another whistle, this one a higher pitch then the last, watching as the Growlithe began to use double-team.
“Twirl around and use Supersonic!” Violet ordered, the Butterfree listening with no hesitation as she flew up, spinning to use the move.
By doing that she increased the range of the move where it hit all of the ‘copies’ at once with them disappearing as the Growlithe stumbled, out of it.
“Now Psybeam!” Violet decided to try that move out, watching as the Growlithe hit itself in confusion, seeing that Blaine wasn’t trying to do any more unique commands.
Doing a flip as she focused, Silk formed a ball of purple energy between her hands that expanded before firing into a beam right at the Growlithe, taking it out of the fight.
Returning the Growlithe, Blaine sent out his next Pokemon, being a Ponyta with Violet checking the Pokedex again as the cream colored equine Pokemon pawed at the ground, its flaming mane and tail flickering to show its strength.
‘ Ponyta, the Fire Horse Pokemon. Capable of jumping high into the air, its hooves and legs absorb the impact of a harsh landing. It’s noted that its hooves are ten times stronger than diamonds and can trample anything in its path. Current level is 35. Gender: Female. ’
Blaine let out another whistle as the Ponyta began to use Double Team, Embers shooting out at Silk, keeping her from using Supersonic in the process.
So Violet ordered Gust to blow the small embers away, but the Ponyta suddenly kicked off the ground, using her strong legs to leap into the air and deliver a double-edge on Silk, sending her flying back.
“Psybeam before it gets away.” Violet focused to keep calm, knowing that losing focus would make things worse for her.
Thankfully Silk managed to tag the Ponyta with Psybeam, sending it flying, but it rolled with it and did a flip, landing on its feet before unleashing a Fire Blast that Silk used Gust on the ground to launch herself over it.
She then used Confusion to take a hold of the Fire Blast to send it back at Ponyta who absorbed it.
Oh great, it had Flash Fire.
Blaine just grinned at the mistake that Violet made while the fires on Ponyta burned brighter then ever before.
“Horn Drill.” The Ponyta took off, becoming a blur thanks to the power up from her ability, giving Silk no time to dodge as the bug/flying was sent rolling across the ground before coming to a stop, knocked out.
Ponyta slid a hoof across the ground in anticipation while Violet returned Silk.
“Good deal of range on that Butterfree.” Blaine complimented, watching to see if she would send out the Parasect or give Beedrill another try. “Plenty of ways to use its strengths, but its lack of versatility is very obvious. Nothing a few TM’s won’t fix though.”
Violet gave a small nod to show that she heard, knowing that Blaine was critiquing her team’s weak points.
If it made her a better trainer then she’ll take them.
“Go Parasite.” Violet sent out the Parasect, knowing that Stinger still needed some time to recover.
As the Parasect appeared, the Ponyta crouched, ready to fight.
Violet immediately ordered whack-a-mole, the Parasect diving straight into the ground with Blaine just calmly crossing his arms, watching as the bug Pokemon popped out randomly before diving back in, dodging the embers that Ponyta fired in response, one time unleashing a scratch as she jumped by.
It wasn’t too hard to see what she was doing, so Blaine decided to finish this. “Fire Blast in one of the holes.”
He wasn’t even going to try and be subtle with this one.
The Ponyta neighed as she calmly approached one of the holes, preparing a Fire Blast, only for Parasite to actually lunge out of that hole and Body Slam the fire horse, unleashing a spore in the process, making her limbs lock up before the mushroom Pokemon unloaded with countless scratch attacks.
Finishing off with one more Body Slam that knocked the Ponyta out.
Blaine hummed as he returned the Ponyta, obviously not expecting that outcome due to the major disadvantage Violet had.
“Physically strong and fast despite her size, has a good selection of moves, but just like your Beedrill you need to work on her range.” Blaine summarized, having a good idea on how each of her three Pokemon fight now.
Despite their obvious flaws, they each play into their strengths along with the strategies that Violet incorporates, it’s not hard to see how she made it this far.
Now he was curious to see how well she would do against his actual team once she’s gained enough strength.
But the battle had to continue, so Blaine sent out his last Pokemon that crouched on all four with reddish-orange fur, long ears with black interiors and black eyes, a tuft of yellow fur on top of its head along with a bushy tail that swished and a mane, both the same color as the tuft on its head.
Without a word, Violet scanned the new Pokemon.
‘ Flareon, the Flame Pokemon. When storing thermal energy in its body, its temperature can soar to 1600 degrees. It can also fluff out its fur collar to cool its body temperature down. Current Level is 36. Gender: Male. ’
‘ Wait, so this is one of Eevee’s evolutions? ’ Violet was amazed at actually seeing one, remembering how strong Green’s Eevee was.
Putting the Pokedex away, Violet knew that Stinger was still tired and injured from the fight with the Growlithe and while Parasite was in better health, she still had to finish this quickly.
Thankfully, Flareons were pretty frail to physical attacks, it can tank a special move sure, but a physical one would be its downfall. Just like how a Vaporeon’s strength was how many hits they can take and a Jolteon was the fastest of the three.
It got silent as both trainers were waiting for whoever made the first move, Violet finally noticing how much she was sweating as with the battle, the heat rose due to all of the fire attacks, it was enough for her clothes to stick to her skin and she was feeling a bit dehydrated.
No doubt it was worse for Parasite.
But they can overcome this.
Finally, Blaine let out a shrill whistle, this one an octave higher than the last one right when the Flareon unleashed a Fire Spin, forcing Parasite to dodge with dig.
Not wasting any time, Violet came up with a strategy. “Make the field collapse!”
She needed to hinder the Flareon as much as possible.
It wasn’t the fastest Pokemon but with it being limited in how to move, that will make things easier in the long run.
“Mimic.” Blaine smirked as the Flareon focused before diving into the ground after the Parasect, making Violet go on edge as both trainers couldn’t see what was going on down there.
Fire erupted from one of the holes, showing a Fire Blast before dying down, an Ember shot out of a different hole a few seconds later.
It seemed that Parasect kept digging a new tunnel to dodge the attacks, sealing it behind her, but she could only do it for so long. And she can’t focus on collapsing the field with this Flareon chasing her down.
And it was too dangerous to even try to Scratch or Body Slam without much room to move.
It did however begin to unleash pores of Stun Spore as she went through the new tunnels, knowing that the Flareon would be right behind her.
And it worked, the Flareon didn’t expect them, his limbs almost locking up, but it didn’t matter as it unleashed a Fire Blast, the spores igniting to cause an explosion, this time hitting the Parasect who was blasted out of the ground, hitting the ceiling before slamming into the ground unconscious and badly burnt.
The Flareon stepped out, panting to show how exhausted he was, especially since he used that Fire Blast to burn the stun spore away, ensuring that his paralysis was gone.
Violet returned Parasite, putting her in stasis so the burns wouldn’t get worse while Blaine hummed in thought, knowing that she was down to her last Pokemon like he was.
Both were exhausted.
It could go either way.
And his blood was pumping right now.
“It’s all up to you Stinger.” Violet sent Beedrill out who managed to recover a little bit since he was recalled, taking to the air while the Flareon gritted his teeth and glared at the last opponent.
‘ Can’t afford to use Agility, one hit and he could go down. ’ Violet thought, quickly going over the moves he did know. ‘ That leaves Rest out of the question, Harden won’t work and Flareon can just burn the poison away like he did the stun spore-. ’
It clicked.
‘ Of course, burning away the stun spore ate up a lot of energy. ’ Violet grinned as a plan came to mind. ‘ So if he keeps burning things up, he’ll be too exhausted to fight. ’
“Poison String, wrap that Flareon up!” Violet ordered, using a classic combo that Stinger was quite proficient in.
The Flareon dodged as the poisoned string shot went past the Pokemon, littering the ground before the Poison Bee began to fire more, covering the area around the Flareon who dodged and weaved around them.
‘ Clever. ’ Blaine saw through it immediately, knowing how exhausted his Flareon was.
“Trap it with Fire Spin.” Blaine went to focus more on the Beedrill than the Poison String, knowing that doing that would ensure a victory.
But it seemed that even without the agility boost, the Beedrill was still pretty fast given how it flew around the flames, buzzing in agitation due to the heat it could feel from the attack before firing a Poison Sting, forcing the Flareon to dodge as the stingers stayed in the ground, firing more, both at the Flareon and around it, hoping that the flame Pokemon would mess up and step into one of its traps.
And eventually it did, its left upper paw landing on one of the stingers as the poison began to surge into him, his head drooping now.
There was no chance of him using flames to expel the poison now.
“Pin Missile.” Violet ordered, using one of Stingers strongest attacks, as the Beedrill aimed its third stinger, energy shooting out of it right at the Flareon, hitting it dead on at least three times before he had to stop as the Pokemon fired one last Fire Blast in retaliation.
Thankfully he dodged and the Flareon collapsed, using up all of his energy with the poison sapping the last of his strength.
Blaine’s mustache twitched in surprise at the outcome while Violet blinked.
S-She won?
Okay sure he didn’t use fire Pokemon like Arcanine, Ninetales or Charizard, no doubt they would’ve destroyed her.
But she won against the fire trainer.
A victory she didn’t expect because she wanted to push her team to their limits, which this battle provided, but winning wasn’t the plan.
Can’t say she’s not unhappy about it though.
As if to agree, Stinger let out a cry of joy, flying down to land on Violet’s hat, making her laugh.
Blaine meanwhile returned Flareon, a small smile on his face.
He could see why Surge went after her, she was getting strong fast.
And seeing how she was with her Pokemon, it reminded him of when he and his starter would always celebrate a win like that.
Just like that a small bit of bitterness flooded him as he remembered his old Arcanine.
A Pokemon that perished during the war.
He shook those thoughts from his head and approached Violet, holding out a red badge shaped like a flame with a pink diamond in the center. “Heh, you’ve burnt my team down to nothing, not even the ashes remain.” Blaine said with Violet accepting the badge. “You’ve more than earned the Volcano Badge.”
Violet looked at it before something else registered.
She had four badges.
She was halfway done with the Kanto Gym Challenge.
“Now I’m sure you’re aware that some of the badges boost a certain trait of your Pokemon, the Volcano Badge boosts the special side of things.” Blaine explained with Violet remembering that.
She still had no clue how that worked, but right now she didn’t care.
Especially when Blaine handed over the TM38 also known as Fire Blast.
“Don’t know how much use you’ll get out of that, but it’s the standard TM I give out for beating me.” Blaine watched as Violet placed it in her bag, crossing his arms in thought. “Don’t let your fire burn down.”
That brought Violet up short. “Sorry?” She asked, not sure what he meant.
“You’ve come a long way, but you’re at the crossroads now.” Blaine elaborated, not using a riddle which surprised Violet who was expecting one. “At this point you’re as strong as the average trainer in Kanto, but most don’t go further due to stagnation. Don’t be one of them.”
He wants to see how far her flames can burn.
Violet gave a nod of understanding before she turned and left, leaving Blaine to his thoughts.
The man thought that this battle would clear his head, but it only made things worse.
For the first time, he was starting to question the path he took upon joining Team Rocket.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust and Psybeam.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam and Spore.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 11th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Badges Gained: 4
Not showing Green’s Team this time.
Notes:
Heh, a pretty short chapter but it was enough for the Gym Battle to happen, along with showing Green’s plans and then that last part with Blaine beginning to question his own path.
So it had a lot going on.
Hopefully the Gym Battle in itself was good enough because that took a bit to type, what with me trying to decide which fire Pokemon to use and I didn’t want to use Magmar again given the last chapter. But while Violet did win, she would’ve lost if Growlithe was an Arcanine or Blaine had a Charizard instead of a Flareon.
More than that, I need to explain this part, it’s about how Violet has been able to gain so much strength despite the short time as a trainer and it's simple really.
The Pokedex.
Sure the love for her Pokemon is one of them, but the Pokedex provides so much that it’s almost an unfair advantage. It gives the user the strength of the Pokemon they’re fighting, how strong their Pokemon are, their condition, what food to use in their diet to make them stronger.
As opposed to other trainers who made do without as they need to be more careful then Violet, the same for Green who is more at ease with using it then Violet is.
That’s how the two of them got so strong so quickly in the span of a month.
And now they’re as strong as the average trainer in Kanto because getting to the thirties is the easy part despite it taking a year for the average trainer which is why some of them take a few years before attempting the Gym Challenge, beyond that is what takes a long time, it’s why the Elite Four despite having years of experience only have Pokemon in their sixties-at least in this fic, I know it’s the fifties, but I digress.
And due to not many trainers being that high, their strength stagnates as well.
Chapter 20: Returning to Viridian City Part 1
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet fidgeted a bit as she found herself in Prof. Oak’s study after the man managed to get them back to Pallet Town around the evening.
If she was being honest, it felt strange to be in a familiar place after a month of traveling and experiencing the unknown sights of Kanto.
To think it was here that her journey truly began.
Back when Stinger was just a Weedle.
And it was only because she just happened to find the Pokedex and made the decision to try and find the Professor despite not knowing who he was.
Funny how one action snowballed into everything else.
And to be honest, Violet knew if she could relive it, she would still make that one decision because as dangerous as this journey was, she loved traveling.
Seeing Pewter City, Cerulean, Vermillion, Seafoam and then Cinnabar Island. Then the people she met.
Samurai. Brock. Misty. Bill. Will.
People she wouldn’t have met if she didn’t go.
Along with Silk and Parasite who have easily become a part of her family that the thought of not having them with her was strange to even consider.
The door opening broke Violet out of her thoughts as she saw the Professor entering with an annoyed look before it disappeared when he closed the door. “Sorry to keep you waiting Violet.”
“It’s fine Professor.” Violet wasn’t sure why he felt the need to apologize.
He was the regional Professor and with everything that was happening it was understandable for him to be so busy.
She watched as the man made his way to the seat across from her where he sat down with a thoughtful look.
It looked as if he was trying to think of how to start this conversation.
So Violet took the initiative. “Is everything alright?”
She knew that was a loaded question given how it shouldn’t be given Surge being a part of Team Rocket.
It was still hard to wrap her head around a Gym Leader being part of a criminal organization, one that’s officially being branded a terrorist organization after the SS. Anne was attacked.
After a bit, Prof. Oak answered. “Besides the immense paperwork, yes everything is alright.” He said, a bit of humor in his tone before it disappeared.
With Articuno in the hands of Team Rocket, the whole League was in a frenzy.
The Elite Four were doing their best to fix this as quickly as possible, though there were talks of possibly cancelling the Indigo League Tournament despite how it’s been a part of the Kanto Region’s tradition to always have it happen.
As it was, they were looking for the other two legendary birds to try and set up a protection detail in case Team Rocket found them, it was easy to find Moltres in Victory Road if one considered the immense heat there matching the frigid blizzards that happen around Articuno.
They sent Lorelei and Agatha to investigate the abandoned Power Plant near Rock Tunnel due to the heavy storms, but given how it stopped it would mean either Zapdos left if it was behind them or Team Rocket captured it too.
Obviously they were hoping for the former if that was where he hid, but they were preparing for the fallout if it was the latter.
Bruno was training up his team, having to replace two of his fighting type Pokemon with two Onix’s to give him some coverage and a defensive base against the legends and Lance was going through every bit of paperwork that mentioned Team Rocket despite hating that type of work with a passion, wanting to get ahead of them before it got worse.
The worst case scenario Prof. Oak could think of would be the region erupting in a Civil War with Team Rocket and given how they were still healing from the Kanto-Johto-Orre one that was something they needed to avoid at all cost.
Violet fidgeted again from the silence and that was enough for Prof. Oak to continue.
“First of all I want to say this, I’m sorry.” Prof. Oak said, confusing Violet. “Each time you ran into Team Rocket, none of that should’ve happened in the first place.”
“It’s okay-.” Violet went to wave the apology off, but the Professor shook his head.
“No it’s not.” He said, Violet going quiet when he spoke. “It should be handled by the authorities. You are on your way to being a strong trainer, but you’re ten years old.”
He couldn’t stress that enough.
“You should be focusing on your journey, on seeing new sights. Not fighting criminals.”
And even then she shouldn’t be out there, Prof. Oak was one of the people who was against lowering the age limit that one had to be to become a trainer despite knowing why it was happening.
It wasn’t just them either, Johto had the age lowered to ten to build their trainer ranks up as well. He could just imagine how the other regions took that given how before then the lowest age one had to be was thirteen and that was in Hoenn.
“It’s not like I’m looking for them.” Violet whispered, looking down.
Each time was an accident in running into them on her part.
She didn’t want to interfere because she was terrified of them.
All she wanted was to gain a team of bug Pokemon and prove their strength.
“I know.” Prof. Oak relented knowing she was right in that regard.
“Y-You’re not taking my license away are you?” Violet asked, that question coming to mind.
She really hoped not.
Prof. Oak went silent at that because he did think about it, not to punish her but to protect her as he knew Team Rocket wouldn’t give up so easily.
He almost did the same with Green only for his Grandson to yell at him for even considering it, saying that he wasn’t hiding like a coward.
He swears that boy takes after Agatha a bit too much.
And he could tell that Violet wouldn’t take kindly to that either because of how determined she was to battle Blaine. Not only that but to beat him despite the severe disadvantage.
His silence however was scaring Violet who looked at him in despair, but he shook his head.
“I’m not, but I want to stress on how careful you need to be.” Prof. Oak told her before he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a purple TM, surprising Violet as he slid it over to her. “This is the TM for the move Teleport, your Butterfree can learn it.”
Hearing that made Violet’s eyes widen, remembering how that move was used in so many ways during her fight with both Surge and the Magmar.
“I’m giving you this because it’ll give you a way to escape if Team Rocket comes after you again.” Prof. Oak told her sternly. “If you even suspect that Team Rocket is in the area, I want you to promise me that you’ll get out of there immediately, do you understand?”
Violet gave a nod, accepting that because she had no desire to run into them again so having a way to escape something like the SS. Anne would be of great help.
And Teleport would really cut down on making it back to Cerulean.
Though she’ll have to train Silk up in using it before she can go long distances.
That’ll be something to work on when she’s taking that small break in Viridian.
Seeing her accept the TM, Prof. Oak felt relief wash over him because he didn’t have to worry about Green due to his Kadabra knowing Teleport, he could get out of a situation easily as long as he had the psychic Pokemon with him.
So Violet having Teleport to save herself would take a load off his mind in the long run.
“And while I’m at it, here.” Prof. Oak placed her newly updated trainer card on the table, sliding it over to her. “You’ll need this to continue your journey.”
It was quiet that night as Violet slept in the same guest room that she used the last time she was in Pallet Town, the young girl tossing and turning due to a nightmare that was forming in her head.
This nightmare kept changing from what could’ve happened in Mt. Moon if Brock didn’t show up to how the SS. Anne could’ve been if Green didn’t save her.
Small whimpers emitted from Violet.
Unknown to her however, a certain Pokemon was watching her curiously from a nearby window, the usually playful eyes it sports looking a bit concerned before it focused and teleported into the room.
Mew floated above Violet, remembering the young girl who helped it escape the clutches of Team Rocket in their last encounter, it usually stayed in Pallet Town due to how peaceful the place was, taking a small role of being a guardian of the town unknown to its inhabitants, mostly by helping them sleep peacefully whenever they had a nightmare.
It even plays with the children by taking the form of a different Pokemon such as a Rattata, enjoying those simple times.
So imagine its surprise when Mew sensed someone having a nightmare and it turned out to be the same child from before.
Poking Violet with its tail, Mew focused and began to use Dream Eater, watching as the whimpers in Violet died down to show the nightmare ending, a peaceful look returning.
But what it saw disturbed Mew.
It saw Articuno being captured by the same people that chased it and that made the Mythical Pokemon hesitate.
It’s been so long since anything threatened the legends, enough that even when Team Rocket chased it, Mew treated it like a game of hide and seek mixed with tag.
Mew didn't take Team Rocket too seriously, but now that might change.
While it would be outnumbered should Team Rocket get their hands on the other two, Mew is more than confident in its abilities to deal with the trio should things get too out of hand.
What it isn’t confident about however was this serum.
Mew needed to find the source and destroy it.
Giving one last look to Violet, Mew left knowing that when the time comes it’ll repay the girl for helping it out in their last meeting.
It was rather nostalgic for Violet as she walked through Route 1, the area feeling completely different compared to last time.
Last time she only had a Weedle, the Pidgey and Rattata seemed terrifying due to how easily they could lose in a fight against them or how the former was one of Weedles predators.
Now however they were hardly a threat, barely worth mentioning compared to how much stronger Stinger was and that wasn’t even taking into account Silk and Parasite.
Speaking of which, Silk was out right now flying around due to how Violet wasted no time in using the teleport TM on her and while she could use it to teleport to different places, it’s only to places that Silk remembers, so she can’t teleport Violet to Viridian like the others.
She also taught Parasite SolarBeam, however that one would need to be trained due to how powerful the move was, using it once would no doubt tire the bug out to the point of being unable to move for a bit.
The max any Pokemon can use SolarBeam is ten times, some can go use it sixteen times with enough training, but they have a long way to go before they can even use it twice.
“Fweh.” Silk flew around Violet, breaking the girl out of her thoughts with her smiling before she pulled an Oran Berry out of her bag, holding it out to the Butterfree who eagerly accepted it.
It seemed that Silk found this Route to be very relaxing compared to anywhere else.
The fact that it was so close to her original home in Viridian Forest was a plus.
A scream made their heads snap up in shock before Violet ran towards it, not even thinking of what it could be.
What she found was a kid being surrounded by a group of Spearow which surprised her.
Spearows aren’t usually seen in this Route.
But she knew how temperamental they could be, so Violet worked fast, seeing how scared the young boy was.
“Psybeam!” Her voice caught the Spearow’s attention right before Silk shot in there, firing the psychic attack that took out half of their flock with one hit.
Seeing that, the rest scattered in fear, knowing how outmatched they were while the young boy looked at Violet in awe.
“Are you alright?” Violet asked looking over the boy for any injuries.
There were some claw marks from the talons and light scratches, but nothing life threatening, though Violet had a feeling this kid might be scared of Spearows from now on.
It was a young eight year old kid with messy brown hair, wearing blue shorts and a yellow shirt, staring at her in awe.
That was kind of weird, she never had anyone look at her in awe before, usually confusion, sometimes respect when she beats others in a battle but most times people look down on her team.
So awe was a new one.
Silk landed on her hat, looking at the kid before deeming him no threat.
The kid still said nothing, now Violet was getting worried.
“Do you need medical help?”
“N-No.” The kid finally spoke before he jumped to his feet in excitement. “Oh man that was amazing, you took those Spearow down with ease!”
Violet took a step back in surprise, not expecting that type of reaction. “It was nothing.”
“Nothing? That wasn’t nothing.” The kid denied, stars in his eyes.
Deciding to change the subject, Violet spoke. “What are you doing out here?”
It was strange for an eight year old to be by himself, even more so for one to be attacked by Spearow who while temperamental usually attacked to defend themselves.
Just like that the kid seemingly deflated, looking nervous.
“I wanted to get a Pokemon so I can prepare to be a trainer.” He muttered knowing that while he won’t be able to travel, having a Pokemon wasn’t against the law.
“So you came here by yourself?” Violet asked, earning a nod from him. “You’re lucky you weren’t hurt.”
He was lucky he wasn’t killed, but Violet wasn’t going to say that.
“Come on, I’m sure your parents are worried about you, where do you live?” Violet asked, wanting to get him home.
“V-Viridian.” The kid muttered. “But Mom said I’m not supposed to go with strangers.”
‘ Yet you decided to go into a Route without anyone watching you. ’ Violet thought in amusement.
Instead she smiled and held out a hand. “I’m Violet.” She introduced herself. “What’s your name?”
“J-Joey.” The kid whispered, accepting the handshake, looking a little red.
“Nice to meet you Joey, now we’re not strangers.” Violet said, using that logic for the kid, though she was confused on why he was red.
Was he sick?
A rustling made Joey tense up while Violet got ready only for a small Rattata to exit the bush, sniffing around.
It didn’t seem to notice them before Violet gained an idea.
“Want to catch that Rattata?”
The question made Joey stare at her in surprise before he gave a nod, excitement filling him again.
“Alright, Silk here will help you out.” Violet pulled out her Pokedex and brought up the moves she had, scanning the Rattata as well to show it to be lv. 3.
Joey tilted his head in confusion, wondering what the Pokedex was while Violet showed him the moves Silk knows. “Try either String Shot, Supersonic or Stun Spore.”
“Um… Use String Shot?” Joey felt like he was asking, given how Violet was teaching him.
Silk looked from Joey to Violet who gave a nod before doing so, the attack catching the Rattata by surprise as its back legs were wrapped up, preventing it from running as it struggled.
“Good job, but it’s still strong enough to break out of a Pokeball, to catch a Pokemon you need to weaken it first.” Violet explained to Joey who listened. “Silk however is strong enough to knock the Rattata out even with a small Tackle, so you should try one of the status moves to make it easier.”
“I-I remember that lesson.” Joey said, having been in class for that one. “Stun Spore.”
He said that one a bit more confidently, watching as Silk used the attack now paralyzing the Rattata.
“That should do it, you have a Pokeball?” Violet asked, making Joey hesitate. “You didn’t bring one?”
“No I did, but the Spearow broke out.”
Ah, that explained why the Spearows attacked him.
“Alright, here you go.” Violet handed him one of her spares.
“A-Are you sure?” Joey asked, not expecting that.
“Your first capture is always an important one, go ahead.” Violet reassured him as Joey smiled brightly before throwing the Pokeball to catch the Rattata.
The Pokeball shook for a bit before clicking, Joey was now celebrating while Violet watched with amusement.
It reminded her of when she caught Stinger, or rather when that old man in Viridian showed her how to catch Pokemon, so in a way this mirrored her first capture, only this time she was the one teaching.
“Congratulations, Rattata is officially your Pokemon.” Violet said, pulling a Paralyze Heal out of her bag. “Now let’s get him all healed up.”
Moments later, Joey was holding the Rattata who looked a bit uncertain of what was going on, now healed from the paralysis along with the string shot not being on him. “T-Thank you Violet.” Joey said, looking down to hide his red face.
“It’s not a problem Joey.” Violet smiled before reaching over to mess with his hair, the boy freezing up at that, caught off guard. “Just promise me something.”
Joey blinked and looked up at her in confusion. “What?”
“Promise me that you’ll treat your Rattata not as a tool but as a friend, as family.” Violet told him, remembering seeing how some trainers didn’t get that and how bad Team Rocket were. “Do that and you’ll make it far as a trainer.”
“I will.” Joey promised, earning a smile from Violet.
“Thank you, now let's get you home.”
From there it didn’t take too long for Violet to get back to Viridian, the moment they entered the city, Joey left to go home after thanking her once more after she returned Silk to let her get some sleep.
It was rather odd to travel with someone for a short time, Joey spent so much of the walk asking question after question.
What was it like being a trainer? How strong are you? Are you competing in the upcoming tournament?
She said yes to that last one and Joey said she’ll win for sure which surprised her but she appreciated someone saying that.
Right now however, she just wanted to get home and just relax.
Now that she had teleport, she was planning to take two weeks off rather than one to rest up, using that time to train before she continued her journey.
That should give Silk enough time to master Teleport enough to get them to Cerulean where she’ll get a bike and then go through Rock Tunnel.
“Well isn’t this a surprise.” That smug voice made Violet come to a complete stop, not hearing it in a long time. “Haven’t seen you since you dropped out Violet.”
Slowly, Violet turned to see Lucy who was giving her a smirk.
… In all honesty, with everything going on Violet forgot all about Lucy, or how she started this journey as a way to show her up.
With Green being her Rival, the Gym Challenge and Team Rocket, Lucy just took a back seat and ended up being forgotten.
“What no words? Here I was thinking you might’ve started being homeschooled to avoid being embarrassed.” Lucy continued, thinking that her lack of talking was from how shy Violet seemed. “Still training your weak bugs I take it-.”
“Are you done?” Violet asked in a calm tone, pushing down the anger she felt, though really her tone sounded bored.
The question caught Lucy off guard, never having Violet speak back like that.
Even when she defended her bug, Violet sounded scared.
So for her to just do that was new territory for Lucy.
Violet however didn’t care.
Compared to her real problems, Lucy isn’t worth being angry at.
“Oh grew a backbone?” Lucy asked, trying to act like that didn’t happen.
Violet took a deep breath before giving Lucy a bored look. “I guess, honestly this is just pathetic.”
That made Lucy take a step back in shock.
Did Violet really just say that.
It seemed that Violet wasn’t done as she continued. “The Pokemon I train are none of your business for one and really your insults don’t even bother me anymore.”
“You’re acting pretty big headed, I suppose you want to battle?” Lucy challenged, wanting to knock her down a few pegs.
But to her surprise, Violet just shook her head. “I don’t have anything to prove to you.”
If anything, that was the most surprising part.
All she could think of in the beginning was to get strong enough to beat Lucy but looking back that didn’t matter anymore.
Especially because Violet knew that Lucy didn’t get too much stronger due to staying in Viridian.
Not that she’s weak because Lucy was one of the strongest trainers in the school, but compared to the rest of Kanto that wasn’t much.
Lucy was the big fish in a small pond if Violet wanted to compare it to anything else.
Maybe Violet was getting a bit cocky, maybe she wasn’t but she came back to Viridian to relax, not to settle an old grudge.
“Scared to lose?” Lucy however seemed to ignore that. “Makes sense since you dropped out-.”
Some of her patience running out, Violet spoke. “I have my license.” Once more, shock washed over Lucy who stared at her in disbelief.
“No, that’s not possible, you need to graduate from school to get your license.” Lucy denied, thinking that Violet was lying.
School didn’t end until next month, so there was no possible way for her to get her trainer license.
And even then Lucy refused to believe that someone who decided to train bugs was able to do it before her.
At that point Violet was starting to see that Lucy wouldn’t take a no for an answer and decided to get it over with.
“Two on Two?” She offered, breaking Lucy out of her shock. “Or do you have a third Pokemon now?”
“I only need one.” Lucy glared at Violet who didn’t look too bothered.
Whispers broke out as the two girls made their way to the trainer school where the battlefield was.
Violet on the other hand just looked around, recognizing a few faces from her old class and it felt odd seeing them again.
Even though school was over, the field was always open to let the students who want to be trainers practice their skills for when they do get their licenses.
She could still see some of the kids with unevolved Pokemon such as Rattata, Mankey, Pikachu, Pidgey, Nidoran.
It was rather strange but she kept quiet as she heard the whispers.
“Wait, isn’t that Violet? I thought she ran away.”
“Maybe she was homeschooled?”
“A straw hat? Is she still training bugs?”
“Can’t believe she’s battling Lucy, does she want to be embarrassed?”
At that point, Violet just tuned it out as they made it to the field, the two getting into position.
Lucy wasted no time in sending her strongest Pokemon, Nidorina out, the light blue Pokemon giving a cry as her red eyes stared cockily at Violet showing that the amount of wins Lucy had affected her starter.
Violet calmly took out the Pokedex and scanned the Nidorina, Lucy looking confused by the device.
‘ Nidorina, the Poison Pin Pokemon. The Female’s Horn grows slowly compared to its male counterpart. As such Nidorina prefers biting and clawing their opponents. When its horn retracts, the Pokemon is relaxed. Current Level is 22. ’
Despite thinking this would be easy, Violet will give credit where it’s due considering how Lucy was the strongest at the school for a reason. No doubt when she does begin traveling she would grow stronger rather quickly.
But for now she was outclassed.
So she sent out Stinger who gave an agitated buzz, only to stop at seeing the Nidorina, already feeling the difference in strength, resulting in him glancing at Violet as if to ask ‘seriously?’
Though he was wondering why their opponent seemed familiar.
The Nidorina however faltered despite the cockiness it had.
She could tell the difference just as easily but stood her ground.
“Tch, I take it that’s the Weedle you bragged about?” Lucy asked in a mocking tone just as Stinger finally realized who they were battling and the disbelief turned into anticipation.
This girl made his trainer cry last time they were in Viridian. He was going to enjoy this immensely.
Violet said nothing, waiting for Lucy to make the move as she frowned.
“Double Kick, follow with Scratch.”
Nidorina shot at Stinger with speed that would’ve been impressive if they battled a month ago, but Stinger made a show of dodging it, giving a mocking buzz in doing so.
Violet however took note of the moves Lucy called out showing that she wasn’t using any TM’s, makes sense considering how rare they were and Lucy couldn’t afford them at the moment.
So all she had were moves that Nidorina could learn naturally and they weren’t enough right now.
But Nidorina would definitely beat Brock’s no badge team quite easily and Lucy would be able to round her team out a bit more in the future to be more of a challenge.
Still, Violet had no desire to draw this out.
“Twineedle.”
It was an instant KO as the move connected, sending Nidorina flying back as she was unconscious much to Lucy’s shock.
There was no way that actually happened.
It was dead silent around them, none of the other students expected this outcome.
“Good job Stinger.” Violet said with the Beedrill crossing his arms in satisfaction.
Lucy stared at her unconscious Nidorina, still trying to comprehend losing like this, falling to her knees in shock.
She hasn’t lost in a long time, ever since her Pokemon learned Double Kick they’ve been taking down the others left and right, the wins making her Pokemon stronger before the evolution only added to their strength.
So why? Why did she lose to a bug of all things?!
Bug Pokemon were the weakest types of Pokemon, that was what they learned in school. No one used them in the Indigo League tournaments, that was proof in itself that bug Pokemon were weak.
Bug Catchers were trainers that were usually mocked and used by other trainers to train up their team during the beginning portion of their journeys.
She was so lost in thought, she didn’t notice Violet approaching before holding a hand out.
A hand that Lucy smacked away without hesitation, not wanting to be pitied.
This was a fluke.
It had to be.
If she used Spearow, she would’ve won.
Lucy kept trying to tell herself that, trying to come up with a reason for what happened.
Giving a glare at Violet, Lucy took off running with Violet comparing this to the last time they saw each other, only for the roles to be reversed.
A month ago, Violet would’ve felt satisfaction at doing this, but now she was worried about Lucy but knew there wasn’t anything else she could do.
Lucy had to come to terms with this on her own.
Clapping could be heard as some of the other students began to cheer, having lost to Lucy quite a few times they were happy to see that she could be defeated.
Looking around at the other students, Violet felt some annoyance because she remembered how a lot of them agreed with Lucy on her choice of Pokemon. Of how none of them stood up for her back then. How they avoided being associated with her. To see them act differently just because Lucy lost was infuriating.
So she returned Stinger and left, not wanting to be at the school anymore.
She just wanted to go home right now.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 12th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Notes:
About the same length as the last chapter, but nothing much happened here except for Violet going back to Viridian where she ran into Lucy, who hasn’t been seen since the first chapter. I wonder how many of you forgot she existed with everything going on?
Even Violet did because Lucy used to be the one person she wanted to beat back in the beginning, always thinking of beating her but overtime that disappeared as everything else happened and she actually stopped thinking about Lucy which was what I had in the last few chapters, I was surprised no one noticed that part.
Then we had Mew show up again, the Phantom Pokemon taking a liking to Pallet Town and may come to Violet's aid when the time comes to face the legendaries.
Finally yes Violet is responsible for Youngster Joey in this fic who might be a supporting character later on, but it also references where Red met Yellow in the Manga as well, allowing for Violet to take up a role of being a teacher.
So in reality a lot did happen despite me thinking otherwise.
Oh and I'm also doing a Sinnoh Based Pokemon story following the Platinum games, it has five chapters if anyone is interested in reading it.
Chapter 21: Returning to Viridian City Part 2
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
The first thing Violet did upon getting home was go into her room and collapse on the bed despite the dust that kicked up, making her cough a bit.
But she laid there, happy to be somewhere she felt at ease.
Though she will have to dust eventually because it wasn’t just her room, the whole house was dusty.
It meant that her Dad hasn’t been home once in the last month.
That was rather concerning.
But it also made sense given how Saffron City has been on lockdown for quite awhile, last she checked, it was still locked down, so no one can get in or out.
Violet had hoped it would end by now, but the fact that the gates were still closed really concerned her.
‘ Perhaps I should call again? ’ Violet thought, pushing herself off the bed before taking the hat off, not wanting to call him while wearing that.
She did pause to let Stinger, Silk and Parasite out.
While the latter two were confused by their surroundings, Stinger gave a buzz of recognition, remembering this place.
“Go ahead and look around, this is where I live.” Violet told them, walking out of her room. “I’m going to make a call.”
Once she talks to her Dad, she’s going to at least dust a little bit so she could breathe without feeling the need to sneeze.
Then she’ll work on training her team.
They were staying for two weeks after all.
Easily finding the video phone, Violet pushed the numbers and waited, some nervousness settling into her stomach.
Especially when it went straight to voicemail again.
Okay now she was getting worried.
She could forgive him missing the first call because it was from Cerulean instead of Viridian but she left a message and along with when she tried calling in Vermillion.
But missing a third call, this time from the home number?
Was he really too busy to speak with her?
“Dad, what’s going on?” Violet muttered, wanting to head to Saffron immediately, but she knew that wouldn’t work.
Especially with it being on lockdown, she wouldn’t even get past the gates.
… But she could have Silk fly in there and teleport her-no that won’t work, their Gym Leader probably had a hand in preventing something like that, otherwise people would be teleporting out.
If anyone could counter that, it would by the Psychic Prodigy known as Sabrina.
So she couldn’t do anything but wait for it to end.
‘ Dad, I hope you’re safe. ’ Violet thought, turning the video phone off.
She turned only to jump as Parasite was right behind her, staring at her with her cloudy eyes.
Placing a hand over her heart, Violet gave a small chuckle. “Make some noise next time.” She said, playfully rubbing the mushroom that covered her body. “You took some years off my life.”
But it did take her mind off her worries, so Violet didn’t mind that much.
It didn’t take too long to finish dusting as the house was now opened up, Stinger flying out to the nearby routes with Silk to gather honey while she did that and Parasite played bodyguard.
Even if she felt safe at home, it was still a good idea given everything that happened. The thought of Team Rocket attacking her at home was a scary one.
But right now she was outside at Route 31 doing some light training with Silk focusing on mastering Teleport while Stinger was focusing on Rage.
Parasite kept an eye on Stinger, ready to intervene the moment he lost control.
So she kept her focus on Silk who was able to Teleport a few inches after focusing for a good minute.
Not good, but to be expected considering how advanced Teleport could be.
It needs time to be mastered and right now she has time.
But there was something she wanted to try with Silk and the reason being was when she saw how Surge fought back in Seafoam Island.
While the man terrified her now, she couldn’t help but be amazed at how he fought alongside his Pokemon rather than giving an order and staying on the sidelines.
He teleported with his Pokemon to take his opponent out, he was in the thick of it alongside them.
That was something she needed to learn in case she runs into him again.
She’s not going to look for him obviously, but she needed something to give her an edge and she came up with one the other night.
It had to do with Silk’s usage of psychic energy.
Many trainers who had a psychic Pokemon could set up a link between them, it works with Pokemon who can use psychic attacks as well, so it’s possible to do that with Silk. Difficult, but possible.
Sadly it can’t be used to communicate with Pokemon, many have tried it but never gotten anywhere, so she wasn’t going to bother attempting the impossible. It’s more of a being in sync than understanding them.
If they could work on that then Violet could use that to give orders without speaking, giving her an advantage.
But right now, she was only working on teleport.
“Bzt!” Stinger erupted as he couldn’t contain Rage anymore, using Pin Missile to slam Parasite back, but Silk stopped working on Teleport to hold him in place with Confusion, giving Parasite enough time to recover and slam into him with a Body Slam, breaking the Poison Bee out of his rage.
Seeing that he was back to normal, Silk let him go, only for Stinger to look down at the ground in annoyance.
He just couldn’t keep control.
“Hey it takes time.” Violet told him with a smile. “Just keep trying.”
Stinger kept quiet before giving a nod, flying back into the air with determination showing.
He was going to master this dammit.
Seeing him doing that, Silk went back to practicing Teleport.
Three days passed since Violet got home and so far that have been slight improvements.
Silk can use teleport after twenty seconds of focusing compared to the minute and can go a few feet now instead of inches.
Stinger is now able to keep his focus while using rage for longer before it overwhelms him. His usage of Agility has also improved to where he is able to use the attack without having to stay still like he did in the battle against Blaine.
And Parasite has been practicing SolarBeam trying to improve how quickly she can gather sunlight and how often she can fire it.
The first time she saw SolarBeam in action left Violet in awe due to how bright and powerful the beam was with Parasite firing it into the sky where it made some distance before dissipating.
But it was extremely taxing for Parasite, enough that she had to stop and rest for a long time before continuing.
So it was still a last resort one shot for now.
Hopefully they can master it before the Tournament because having a move like this would make many future fights a lot easier.
But Violet noticed something about Parasite.
Slowly but surely, Parasite was beginning to act like how she did as a Paras, the clouded look in her eyes disappearing before reappearing at times.
More than that, the clouded look was getting less and less.
And that made her extremely happy because it meant that the Parasite she knew before the evolution was slowly gaining control back.
As Parasite was resting against a tree with her other two Pokemon now doing a mock battle against each other, Violet sat down next to Parasite and went through her Pokedex, reading the entries on Pokemon she’s seen.
There have been so many things she missed over the time.
For example Pidgeys usually fight by kicking sand up to hide itself. Rattata can breed like crazy but their teeth are sharp enough to bite through stone itself, their teeth can also grow continuously, so trainers need to have their Rattata’s gnaw on something to ensure it doesn’t get too big and be unable to eat.
Maybe she should look for Joey to make sure he knew about that.
Then you had Ekans who can dislocate its jaw to swallow prey whole, terrifying but interesting. And Diglets were used by farmers to help till fields to plant crops.
So many things she overlooked on her journey.
Things that would’ve been helpful to know earlier, so right now she was reading everything she can to learn more about the Pokemon she’ll run into in the future.
She was so caught up in reading the entries, she didn’t notice that Stinger and Silk finished up their spar and were doing their own thing with Stinger landing on a tree branch above Violet to use Rest and gain energy back as Silk flew around, now practicing Teleport again, wanting to master it.
“Double Kick.” Lucy had a frown as her Nidorina took down another wild Pokemon out in Viridian Forest.
It was a Pikachu that she immediately captured to give her a third Pokemon.
She was taking advantage of it being the weekend to train in a different place and to add another Pokemon to her team, the battle against Violet making her grit her teeth.
She still couldn’t believe she lost against a bug catcher.
After all the wins she had, to lose against a Beedrill of all things was really getting to her.
Along with how there were whispers whenever she went to school with that blemish to her battle record.
Whispers that she knew wouldn’t go away.
The only reason she lost was because she was complacent after so many wins, she just needs to get stronger.
One more month and she’ll graduate and get her trainer license.
Once that’s done she’s doing the Gym Challenge and she’ll show Violet that she just got lucky.
She needed to evolve her Spearow and then train her new Pikachu up to catch up with her other Pokemon.
After getting her license and first badge, she’ll head into Mt. Moon and catch a Clefairy, a Pokemon she won’t leave the mountain until she can find it.
Seeing a nearby Bug Catcher, Lucy gritted her teeth and got ready to battle, imagining this one as Violet.
“Hm.” Prof. Oak mused, watching over the gym battle Violet had with Blaine, a contemplative look on his face.
He was taking a small break from his research and wanted to see how the battle turned out given how he was unable to watch the last few days.
And he has to say, she’s certainly improved over the course of this month.
It was enough that he rewatched the other three Gym Battles along with his Grandson’s Gym Battles to compare them, though with Surge’s he gained a dark look.
Surge effectively disappeared off the face of the earth, Lance himself led a small raid inside the Vermillion Gym where they uncovered a hidden room where his Rocket equipment must’ve been.
There were files that they took for evidence that spoke of certain missions he was a part of, most likely reports Surge read to whoever led Team Rocket.
Frustratingly enough, Surge never once put a name that wasn’t his own on the file but it was to be expected.
Currently one of the Gym Trainers was put in charge of the Vermillion Gym with the cover story that Surge was on leave after an extensive background check to ensure none of them were a part of Team Rocket.
It would keep people from figuring out what happened for the moment, but Prof. Oak worried on how Kanto would react should the truth ever become public.
It was theorized that Surge was most likely out in the sea given how the Rocket Submarine disappeared from Seafoam Island, so the man was most likely on the move and given how he had Pokemon that could teleport, the man could be anywhere, making it hard for the League to pin down where he could end up.
Pausing for a moment, Prof. Oak turned on the Pokedex tracker and saw that Violet was still around Viridian while Green was getting closer to Rock Tunnel.
It was a relief for him to know where they were given everything that happened on the off chance he needed to get to them quickly.
At least until Team Rocket was taken care of permanently.
He already told Lance that he wanted to be there when they took the group down for good and the Dragon Master accepted the request, willing to do anything to stomp them out.
Especially now that Team Rocket has made it personal with Will being in his Coma and being behind two of Bruno’s Pokemon being badly injured.
Contemplating everything for a second, Prof. Oak pulled out a very old Pokeball, one that contained his starter.
“Charizard old friend, we might have to do some training to get back into shape.”
It’s been so long since they’ve truly battled anyone that some of his skills as a trainer waned over the years, no doubt the same was for his Pokemon despite how powerful they were.
He needs to get back into the swing of things.
So he made a call, using the Pokegear.
It rang for a split second. “What do you want you old duff?” Agatha’s voice came through, showing some annoyance. “I’m busy.”
Ignoring that, Prof. Oak spoke up. “How long until you’re done looking into Zapdos?”
There was something about his tone that made Agatha pause instead of hanging up in annoyance at the question.
It was a tone that she hasn’t heard in years.
“A few weeks, Lorelei is planning on patrolling the area in case any remnants of Team Rocket are in the area.” Agatha narrowed her eyes on her end. “Why?”
“I want to battle you.”
If anyone could push him and get him back into shape it would be his old rival.
Agatha went silent, clearly not expecting that. “What, you bored of tinkering over your Pokedex?” She asked, using a mocking tone to hide her surprise.
She’s been trying for years since the man retired to get him to battle again, but he always refused, saying his time as a trainer was over.
So why now?
Was he having a midlife crisis?
Professor-No, Samuel Oak ignored the mock and looked at her with narrowed eyes, showing fire she hasn’t seen in decades. “Do you accept or not?”
Pushing down how unusual this was, Agatha grinned, not letting this chance go to waste. “I’m not taking it easy on you, if you lose remember you only have yourself to blame Oak.”
“I would be insulted if you did go easy on me.”
Just like that Agatha felt like she was back in time during their teenage years where they would always compete for every little thing.
Violet took a deep breath as Silk was attempting to form a small link with her trainer.
It’s been another seven days and while Violet felt the urge to travel, she kept home for the moment.
She planned on staying home for another four days before she left.
In this time, Teleport has been enough to get them to Pallet Town and back, though Silk had to rest for a bit in between.
So they could use it to shorten the travel distance between areas they’ve been to, eventually Silk would be good enough to go to the other side of Kanto but that won’t be for a long time.
Violet pushed those thoughts away as she felt something in her head, it reminded her of when Bill’s Abra connected only this time it was less intrusive given the nature of what was going on.
Slowly, Violet opened her eyes before blinking as she was seeing… Herself?
Everything was red and she took a step back only to trip and fall, breaking the connection.
Silk made a noise, trying to see if she was alright while Violet tried to comprehend what just happened.
Did she just see through Silk’s eyes?
That wasn’t something she was expecting, she was just trying to make a small link to silently make a strategy, but in a way that was pretty cool.
And Violet could already see how useful that would be if they were in a dark area like a cave and ended up in a fight.
Silk’s compound eyes could see through illusions, smoke and the dark, so being able to do something like that would make a lot of things easier when it came down to it.
“Let’s try again.” Violet said, wanting to make progress on this new development.
It took some time for them to connect like that again as this time, Violet didn’t take a step back while Silk flew around her, the view changing as the bug flew with Violet now seeing the back of her head.
She went to turn towards her and that was when she found something wrong with this connection.
By seeing through Silk’s eyes, she was turning the opposite direction then what she was trying to do and ended up hitting the wall face first, making her grab her nose as the connection ended once again showing how volatile it was.
Three more days passed and Violet was nowhere close to getting anywhere on that, having more headaches than achievements, but it was the night before she would continue her journey and she'd been busy that day preparing.
She sold some of the jars of honey that Stinger and Silk got, getting quite a bit of money that she used on both supplies for the roads such as Potions, Antidotes, Food. Then she bought new clothes.
She ended up buying a black jacket and some blue pants, deciding to forego the shorts for them and buy the jacket along with some thermal clothes in case she ends up in a cold place again.
Say what you will, Seafoam Island was definitely an eye opener on being prepared, even if you think you don’t need it.
Currently her three Pokemon were sleeping in random places in her room, Silk was on top of the dresser, Parasite was curled up in a corner near her closet while Stinger sat on her desk.
They were just as ready to leave like she was, wanting to continue on the road due to how restless these two weeks have been.
Not that she can blame them, she was just as restless after experiencing what it was like to travel and she wanted to see more places.
Though perhaps when they teleport to Pewter City, she can see how Brock is doing while Silk recovered before doing the same to Cerulean and seeing how Misty and Bill are.
Once that’s done she’ll make her way to Rock Tunnel.
Checking her team’s overall strength, Violet saw that despite spending the last two weeks training, they didn’t get that much stronger compared to before.
At most they only gained one level each.
Probably due to how weak the wild Pokemon were in Viridian compared to them and Violet couldn’t help but be amused, remembering how terrifying these Pokemon seemed in the beginning.
Giving a yawn, Violet glanced at the time before she figured she should go to sleep to ensure that she gets up early in the morning.
That way she wastes no more time in continuing her journey.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 26th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Notes:
Heh, another chapter so early, but also a rather short one due to how not much was happening besides Violet taking two weeks to recuperate from that mess against Team Rocket.
Not that relaxing was the only thing she did, she learned a bit more about her Pokemon due to the Pokedex entries and did some light training to try and have her team master Rage, Teleport and SolarBeam respectively.
Though they haven’t fully mastered the three moves, it’s a lot better than it used to be.
And before anyone says anything about the psychic link with Silk that doesn’t mean Violet will suddenly be a psychic, its because of Silk’s latent psychic abilities that Butterfree’s have and in the Manga Pokemon do quite a few things to fight alongside their own trainers, seriously they do things you really don’t expect like the GSC Antagonist using Ice Pokemon to manipulate ice sculptures making i seem like they could move on their own and I want to add that type of stuff into this story to make it a bit more engaging, so her seeing through Silk’s eyes is only scratching the surface as while its useful for her to be able to see it doesn’t really do much in a fight if you think about it.
Then you have Lucy catching a Pikachu and while it seems like she’s not changing all that much that’s because right now she’s still coming to terms with what happened, in a way that loss has given her a goal to beat Violet the next time they meet which will help her grow stronger and be another rival.
Speaking of rivals we finally have Prof. Oak getting back into the mix with him contacting Agatha to have a battle, wanting to be ready for the final confrontation with Team Rocket who not only made it personal with the League but with him considering how his own Grandson was nearly killed by them.
Finally you have Violet now being worried about the fact that her Dad hasn’t been in contact and anyone who plays the game knows why given how Saffron is on lockdown.
Oh and I also started a third Pokemon Journey story in the form of an Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire walkthrough, it's called Delta Emerald if you're interested and only has one chapter so far.
Chapter 22: Back on the Road
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet hummed as she got ready to leave home once again.
Her team were already in their Pokeballs, all rested up and eager to get on the road.
Her bag was filled to the brim with medical supplies, extra clothes, food and a newly bought survival kit.
She had no desire to end up in another situation like Seafoam, so she made sure to be prepared for whatever could come her way this time.
Pulling the jacket on, Violet checked her image before putting on her straw hat.
Once that was done, she was ready.
And she had plans for today.
First, teleport to Pewter to see how Brock was doing, then teleport to Cerulean to get herself a bike, then do the same thing with Misty and visit Bill.
Checking herself in the mirror once more, Violet thought back to when she first left home for the first time after getting her license.
Back when she was nervous and thought Prof. Oak was making a mistake.
Now however, none of that was showing.
Instead she was confident.
Both in her team and her skills as a trainer despite the short time.
Amazing how much a person can change in a month.
So she smiled and left her room, making it downstairs where she once more stood in front of the shrine to her Mom.
A shrine that felt empty without the hat.
“Hey Mom, it’s been awhile.” Violet said, smiling at the picture. “So much has happened since we last spoke, I don’t know where to begin.”
How could she summarize her journey?
“Oh I met Will, he told me a lot about how you were,” Violet’s smile got bigger as she remembered the conversation with the magician. “I have to remember to visit Ecruteak City at some point.”
Especially since she had family living there if what Will revealed was any indication.
Just the thought of meeting them, made her excited.
But that excitement fell when Violet remembered other things about her journey.
How would her Mom feel about Violet’s run-ins with Team Rocket?
What kind of question was that? She would be horrified.
“A part of me actually thought about staying home.” Violet revealed, looking a bit defeated. “After so many close calls, it was nice to not have to worry about Team Rocket wanting to kill me.”
She wanted to keep it that way.
“But I can’t just hide forever, and I owe it to my Pokemon to get stronger.”
Violet clenched a fist, feeling her nails digging into her palm.
Even if she wished they would leave her alone, Violet knew deep down that she was in too deep with this situation for them to even consider it.
Especially given how Surge himself tried to kill her.
Who knows, the man might try again, so staying home would do nothing but paint a target on her back.
What’s more, if she did just stay here, then everything her team worked for along with all of their accomplishments would be for nothing.
And she refused to let that happen.
Slowly, Violet took a deep breath.
No use in getting worked up about this.
Instead she gave the shrine one last look before turning to leave, with every intention of coming back someday.
Teleporting was… Unique.
That was what Violet thought about it, given how she stumbled, a bit nauseous while Silk looked tired.
No matter how many times they practiced teleporting in the last week, Violet didn’t think she would ever get used to the sensation.
Shaking her head, Violet looked around to see that they were on the edge of Viridian Forest, out near Pewter City.
It wasn’t in the city itself, but close enough.
“Thanks Silk, that was a good job for such a long distance.”
After all, compared to Pallet Town, this was three times the distance from Viridian.
Though that’s because of how the forest was a natural maze, so it takes much longer due to that.
Violet returned Silk to let her rest and approached Pewter with a smile.
Soon enough, she was walking the streets of the city.
It didn’t look like it changed that much, the same could be said for Viridian really, but Violet felt that was to be expected given how long it’s really been.
She recognized the cafe where Green first challenged her, the Museum where she met Kanna, though it looked like it was demolished which was a given due to what she saw on the News.
Good thing she visited when she was in Pewter last time.
The Pokemon Center and the Pokemart were still the same and she could see the Gym from here.
There was no line, so she walked in only to see Brock waiting for any challengers.
The Gym Leader paused however at seeing Violet, taking a moment to recognize her.
Once he did, Brock gave a friendly smile and nodded in her direction. “Violet, it’s been awhile.”
Violet agreed, remembering the last time she saw Brock was after he saved her in Mt. Moon.
“Any strong challengers?” Violet asked to start off the conversation.
“A few, most of them are rookies but I do get some trainers who have four or six badges,” Brock admitted, idly wishing that he gets stronger ones more often. “Though it’s been dull today.”
So he raised a brow in her direction.
“Are you here for a rematch?”
A part of him was hoping she was because he was eager to see how much she improved over the month.
“One on one?” Violet suggested, looking a bit eager herself. “Silk is still resting from using Teleport, so I won’t use her.”
It took Brock a moment to remember which one was Silk before he gave a nod.
So her Butterfree knows Teleport?
That’s certainly a useful move.
And an annoying one given how none of his rock Pokemon can learn it.
But he stood up and walked over to where he keeps his different Pokemon teams.
He already had a certain Pokemon he was willing to use, one that was still being trained but strong enough to give her a challenge.
Grabbing it, he gestured for Violet to go to the field.
Violet found herself feeling a sense of deja-vu by standing on this field, memories of her first Gym Battle going through her head.
The memory made her smile before she sent out Parasite.
Seeing that, Brock smirked before sending his Pokemon out.
It was a Pokemon on all four with grey rocky plate-like armor and piercing red eyes on its triangle shaped head, a single horn protruding from its nose.
Recognizing the Pokemon as a Rhyhorn, Violet scanned it with the Pokedex.
‘ Rhyhorn, the Spikes Pokemon. Its massive bones are 1000 times harder than human bones. It can easily knock a trailer flying. However once they start charging, they forget the reason they start in the first place showing a one track mind. Current Level is 38. Gender: Male. ’
Despite what the Pokedex said however, this Rhyhorn seemed pretty sharp showing that it was close to evolving.
The stronger a Rhyhorn got the smarter they became given how their memories improve as a Rhydon.
Still this should be a cakewalk for Parasite because as strong as Rhyhorns are physically they were very slow and weak against special attacks.
And even if Dig won’t do that much damage as a physical attack, it was still a good move along with how she can slow the Rhyhorn down even more with Stun Spore.
Still, she can’t get cocky, Violet knew by now that this Rhyhorn could have a move that can turn the tide.
Brock wouldn’t have sent it out if it didn’t.
“Take Down!” Brock ordered immediately with the Rhyhorn rushing at Parasite who calmly jumped out of the way, showing that even if she was rather slow herself, she was still faster.
The Rhyhorn actually managed to slide to a stop, turning as it did so before pawing at the ground, ready to charge again.
Instead however, Brock began to change up his tactics and ordered a Rock Slide with the Rhyhorn slamming its upper legs into the ground, causing the rocks on the field to break apart and shoot out towards Parasite who quickly dug into the ground.
Violet looked around the field, trying to find a good advantage.
Solarbeam was their best bet here, but there was no sunlight in the Gym so it would take far too long to charge, especially with Parasite’s inexperience in using the move.
Brock surprised her by ordering an Earthquake with Rhyhorn rearing up before slamming its front feet on the ground, causing a massive tremor, cracking the whole battlefield as rocks began to shoot up from the ground.
Earthquake was one of the strongest moves out there, almost mimicking an actual Earthquake, the exception was that when it’s used by a Pokemon it’s only in a certain radius.
Such as a battlefield.
If it’s used on a Pokemon that’s underground however its power is doubled.
Something that was shown as Parasite slowly crawled out badly injured but still capable of fighting.
Violet kicked herself for not expecting an Earthquake because Brock would definitely have a move that would counter one of the weaknesses.
And that takes out the usage of Quicksand and Whack-A-Mole, leaving Parasite to be limited even more.
Brock then ordered a Fire Blast that Parasite quickly dove to the side to dodge.
Quickly focusing, Violet called out for Leech Life, needing Parasite to get his health back up, but that was a ruse given how she just needed to get close.
Something that Brock didn’t realize as he ordered a Horn Drill.
Once the Rhyhorn was close enough with its horn spinning, Violet ordered her true plan of attack.
“Stun Spore!”
Parasite easily leapt out of the way, its mushroom shaking to unleash its spore right as the Rhyhorn passed, making his limbs lock up before she jumped and latched onto its back with Leech Life, taking advantage of its paralyzed state to regain some energy.
Rhyhorn didn’t seem to notice his energy being sapped, but he did notice the weight.
So he ran around, trying to throw the mushroom Pokemon off.
Satisfied with the amount she got, Parasite jumped off with Violet now ordering SolarBeam, more confident due to the Rhyhorn being paralyzed.
Brock actually looked surprised by that order as the mushroom on Parasite began to glow.
It was clear that he wasn’t expecting that move.
Ryhorn was rather slow in turning around because of his condition, giving Parasite enough time to gather enough energy and fire the beam right at the Pokemon.
Knowing he couldn’t dodge, Brock ordered Fire Blast.
Thankfully, Rhyhorn managed to break free of the Paralysis and blasted the beam right before it could hit him, the Fire Blast obliterating the SolarBeam, hitting Parasite who was too exhausted to dodge.
Parasite flew back, skidding across the floor before collapsing, unconscious.
Brock let out a sigh of relief, knowing it was only luck they won that.
If that SolarBeam hit, the results would be very different.
Not only that, but Fire Blast only tore through it because of the difference in experience.
When he first caught this Rhyhorn, it was to train up for his team that would test trainers with four badges, so he taught it moves to take care of weaknesses such as Thunderbolt for Water Types and Fire Blast for Grass Types.
He then had the Rhyhorn practice them vigorously.
From what he can tell, Violet’s Parasect only recently learned the move SolarBeam so it wasn’t as strong as it should be.
If it had a bit more experience in using it, it would’ve tore through the Fire Blast instead given how it wasn’t a fire type using it.
Violet didn't seem too upset by the loss as she returned Parasite.
Instead, she went over the entire battle in her head, noting how different it was from the past Gym Battles.
Rhyhorn had a counter for everything she did.
If she used Stinger or Silk she probably would’ve won because they weren’t affected by Earthquake and they were both much faster than Parasite so they could easily outspeed the Rhyhorn.
More than that, they had better moves that could’ve worked better than SolarBeam.
Such as Stinger using either Poison Sting or Twineedle to poison the Rhyhorn or Silk using either Confusion or Psybeam to take advantage of how it’s lackluster special attribute.
Once more Blaine’s advice about her team's flaws went through her head.
Along with his warning of how things only got tougher from here on out.
If this battle was any indication, then that meant that the next four gym battles would be similar and they would get tougher with each badge.
So she needed to round out her team even more and work on their flaws.
“You did an amazing job, Parasite.” Violet said to the Pokeball with a smile, watching as Brock returned his Rhyhorn. “Man that Rhyhorn is going to be a terror when he evolves.”
Brock let out a chuckle when he heard that. “He definitely will.”
Especially when he can get around to teaching him Mega Punch, Seismic Toss and Submission.
“That aside your Parasect is powerful, you’ve had Rhyhorn on guard quite a bit out there.” Brock noted with Violet glowing with pride at hearing that.
“Thank you, still need to work on her range and variety.”
Hopefully she can find the TM’s for Mega Drain and Double Team at the Celadon Department Store.
Those two would be a must have for the Mushroom Pokemon.
Perhaps Swords Dance for Stinger to boost his attack?
“So how has your journey been?” Brock asked curiously.
Violet went quiet, her mind flashing towards the run-ins with Team Rocket and then Articuno.
She had no idea if Brock even knew about that or if he knew about Surge being in Team Rocket given how the public didn’t know.
It was something Professor Oak had to explain to her before she continued on her journey.
So after thinking it over, she answered. “It’s been… Eventful.” She chose her words carefully. “I’ve seen quite a few amazing places and I’ll be heading for Rock Tunnel soon.”
Once that was done, she planned to add a Venonat to her team by heading south of Lavender Town before she attempted to head towards Celadon to get her a Pinsir.
Brock gave a nod at hearing that. “Be sure to take a few batteries for a flashlight and some glow sticks,” He advised her. “Rock Tunnel is more of a maze then Mt. Moon, especially with it being a breeding ground for Onix.”
Thankfully it was only young Onix that remained there while the older, more powerful ones usually stayed in either Cerulean Cave or Victory Road.
Violet however felt rather nervous at hearing that Rock Tunnel was full of those Pokemon.
She could remember vividly seeing Brock’s Onix for the first time and how powerful it was.
After saying good-bye to Brock, Violet smiled as she walked through Pewter after healing up her team, just taking in her surroundings.
Sadly she couldn’t go into the Museum considering how they were still rebuilding after the incident where Team Rocket tried to steal the fossils there only for Lance to intervene.
It’s too bad, they were supposed to have a new exhibit by this point.
And she didn’t feel like heading for the Cafe again.
Instead, Violet found herself at a river where an abandoned building with a water wheel was and sat near the edge of the water, looking up at the sky where the clouds passed overhead.
She’s only been in Pewter City for three hours and she had no clue how close to Cerulean that Silk would teleport her to.
Chances are it would still take awhile considering how often they would have to rest in between teleports.
‘ I wonder how far Green is. ’ Violet couldn’t help but think of her rival.
She had no idea how to feel about him.
A part of her still didn’t like him because of their first meeting and how he demeaned her at Nugget Bridge.
That was something that would always remain in her head.
But then he ended up helping her through so much ever since they battled on the SS. Anne.
If it wasn’t for Green, she would be dead.
Either from Surge taking advantage of her fear of Grimers or from drowning after being electrocuted.
So were they still rivals?
Were they friends?
Violet had no clue how to describe what they were.
But it didn’t change the fact that she wanted to beat him with a full bug team and he knew that.
It took a day for Violet to get to Cerulean with Teleport, having to use it at least three different times to even get to Mt. Moon.
And it took even more to get through the cave, especially because Violet had to figure out where in the cave they teleported into.
Thankfully, nothing bad happened this time and Teleport did save them a lot of time considering how long it took to get through there on foot.
Violet even found a small Moon Stone in the process that she took as a souvenir.
With Silk resting once more, Violet already knew where she was heading first.
The Bike Shop.
Having a Bike would definitely cut down travel time to places that Silk couldn’t teleport to as of yet.
At least it wasn’t that hard to find, she just had to look for a place where bikes were seen on the outside along with a huge sign showing a bike on it.
So she entered, looking around as she saw quite a few people looking through the different bikes.
Some of them were normal everyday bikes that were for exercise while others were used for traveling over different terrain.
They even came in different colors which Violet found rather nice.
“Welcome,” The owner of the Bike Shop greeted Violet with a smile. “Are you here to buy a Bike?”
“Actually, I came to use this.” Violet pulled out the voucher, giving it to the man who blinked in surprise.
“Where did you get this?” He asked, knowing that they haven’t had anyone win a voucher in a long time.
“The Vermillion Pokemon Fan Club.”
Raising a brow, the man checked to see if it was legit before giving a nod.
“Alright, what type of bike are you looking for? Do you have a preference?” The man asked, seeing Violet cross her arms in thought.
“One that can be used to get through caves.” She said after a bit.
Moments later, she was leaving with a red bike along with a booklet on how to maintain the bike, including replacing the tires should they pop and how often to clean the chain.
She’ll read through it that night, for now she has two people to visit.
So she got on the bike and began to peddle through the streets of Cerulean, finding it a bit shaky with keeping her balance.
Nothing a bit of practice won’t cure though.
Sadly the Gym was closed for the day with a note saying she would be gone for a week, so Violet decided to head out to Cerulean Cape to visit Bill.
There were a few trainers to battle on the way, some of them recognized her from the last time she’s been there while others were new.
Surprisingly they were all very easy to defeat.
Probably because of how strong her team was compared to the wild Pokemon of this area.
It was kind of nice to win these battles easily considering how last time she was there, the trainers were a lot tougher.
That meant she really was getting stronger.
There were a few exceptions, such as a Picknicker named Kelsey who kept her on her toes with a Nidorino and a Nidorina considering how last time she only had two Nidoran.
Then she had a run in with a Youngster named Chad who had an Ekans and a Sandshrew last time, but this time he had an Arbok.
So she wasn’t the only one getting stronger.
“Aw man, I thought I had you this time.” Chad complained, hanging his head while his Arbok was unconscious, Stinger looking confident at another win.
“Your Arbok is pretty strong, I’d say you’re one of the stronger trainers in the area.” Violet complimented him as a way to keep his spirit up.
She wasn’t lying either, according to the Pokedex the Arbok was almost in the thirties.
Pretty impressive for this area.
Stinger buzzed in disagreement, though Violet ignored that.
“Thanks, but I think that title goes to you.” Chad shook his head, returning his Arbok. “You’re definitely living up to your reputation.”
Violet blinked.
Reputation?
What Reputation?
“I have a reputation?” Violet asked, confusion showing in her tone.
Chad looked taken aback.
“You don’t know?” Chad asked, the question making Violet shake her head. “People have been talking about you, you have a file in the Fame Checker.”
Violet had no idea how to take that.
Watching as Chad left to heal up his Pokemon, Violet made a mental note to buy a Fame Checker to see this for herself.
Violet found herself at Bill’s Cottage shortly after that battle, only to be disappointed that no one was home.
Maybe she missed him?
Or was he on a trip of some kind?
“I guess I’ll visit later.” Violet muttered, turning to leave before seeing Cerulean Cape and smiled.
At least the view was still nice.
Stinger was out and about, flying around the area in a curious manner, same with Silk who took to practicing her Teleport while they were resting.
Parasite was currently in her Pokeball asleep, so Violet didn’t want to wake her.
Instead, she began reading the bike manual only to blink.
The Bike could fold up?
Huh, so that’s how they can fit it inside of a bag.
Good to know.
Hearing a splash, Violet glanced up to see a Goldeen jump out of the water before diving back in and she tilted her head as Blaines words went through her head.
‘ We all have our hobbies, every trainer needs one to keep them going. ’
‘ While there’s nothing wrong with just focusing on training your Pokemon, a trainer needs something to keep from losing themselves. ’
A hobby.
Would fishing count?
She obviously wouldn't be catching them, just as something to pass the time.
Of course she doesn’t have a fishing rod.
Or maybe her hobby could have something to do with her bike?
Or both?
… She needs to look into hobbies a bit more before deciding.
That night, Violet was at the Pokemon Center, holding her new Fame Checker in her hand.
It cost quite a bit of money, something she was hoping to get back in the form of battles on her way to Lavender Town, but she was too curious about what Chad told her.
Turning it on, Violet saw quite a few files on famous trainers in the Kanto Region such as Brock, Misty, Lance, Professor Oak.
Skimming through them, she wasn’t that surprised to find one on Green.
Violet ignored that and skimmed further down past other notable people such as Giovanni, Bill, the Captain of the SS. Anne, heck even Pete Pebbleman was on here before eventually she found her own name.
It was a bit surreal to see because the Fame Checker only had people who were well known or famous.
So why was she there?
A part of her didn’t want to click on it, but eventually her curiosity made her cave.
The moment she clicked on it, the information popped up.
‘ Name: Violet Hawke
Age: 10
DOB: July 23rd, 20XX
Home Town: Viridian City
Known Pokemon: Beedrill, Butterfree and Parasect.
Profile Started May 5th, 20XX
Not much is known about this young trainer, but what is known is the fact that she’s a Bug Catcher that has managed to obtain several Gym Badges, one of which being the Thunder Badge from the Vermillion Gym, a notoriously difficult Gym for even seasoned trainers.
Quotes said about this Trainer
“Has to be a fluke, I mean a Bug Catcher getting Gym Badges? Give me a break.”
“She sounds pretty strong, I want to battle her.”
“I’ve been trying to beat Surge for months and this kid with bugs does it on her first try? What the *Censored* ?!”
“I’ve heard the other Bug Catchers talking about her, I think they’re happy to have someone to look up to like how martial artists look up to Bruno or Ghost Specialists look up to Agitha.”
“It’s just a kid who got lucky, big deal.”
“I battled her before, it was before the SS. Anne was attacked, trust me when I say that anyone who underestimates her for her bugs would find a nasty surprise waiting for them.”
“A girl that raises bugs? That’s kind of weird.”
Info Added
May 11th, 20XX
This young trainer has been sighted alongside upcoming Rookie Green Oak battling Team Rocket during the SS. Anne's attack that happened on the 9th, but was knocked into the water after some time, it’s unknown if she’s still alive.
May 13th, 20XX
Reports of her being seen on Cinnabar Island alongside the esteemed Professor Oak were confirmed as of today along with the fact that she’s said to have challenged and defeated Blaine who refused to comment when questioned about it.
*Due to these rumors, a fan base was formed by the Bug Catchers who reside in Viridian Forest upon hearing of her, giving her the nickname of the Insect Queen.
End of Profile. ’
Violet blinked, unsure of what to say.
This was... How did-?
What?!
They even knew her birthday?
And people have been keeping track of where she’s been?
What if Team Rocket got that info?!?
More than that, she looked at the date the profile was started and recognized it as the day after she got the Thunder Badge.
If she remembered correctly, didn’t Nurse Joy congratulate her in front of a crowd of trainers?
Was that how this started?
Looking back over the information, Violet saw the added note on the 13th of May, along with the nickname the other Bug Catchers have given her.
Her face went red with embarrassment, unsure of how to feel about the nickname.
Or this whole thing in particular.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand and Whack-A-Mole.
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: May 28th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month
Notes:
This one seems to be a bit of a filler chapter, doesn’t it?
A rather short one compared to how long it took for me to get motivated to write it due to how I want to get back to the main story immediately. Honestly I’m not too sure about this chapter compared to the others, so if it’s not liked I’ll take this one down and rework it.
It was basically her retracing her steps all the way back to Cerulean with the move teleport, a few battles along the way such as the rematch with Brock who won showing that Violet was reaching a roadblock with her team's strength at the moment, it’s something she’ll definitely be working on later.
But more than that she got a Bike finally along with her having more rematches, the Trainers Kelsey and Chad were in FireRed and LeafGreen where their team gets stronger with the VS. Seeker, my way of incorporating it in a realistic manner.
Along with the Fame Checker, mostly because I wanted to have a scene where Violet realizes she has a bit of a reputation now considering the amount of badges she has.
Technically she is the strongest Bug Catcher in Kanto right now which gives other Bug Catchers from that Region a figurehead to look up to and place on a pedestal like how Johto Bug Catchers look up to Bugsy or the Sinnoh equivalent would look up to Aaron.
So she’s pretty much an idol to Bug Catchers at this point considering how many of them gave up to train other Pokemon while the stubborn ones always remained in the Forest.
And the Insect Queen was a title I had planned for her to obtain since I started this story, basically a title for her like how Brock had the Rock Hard Brawler or Misty had the Tomboyish Mermaid.
But enough on that, the filler stuff is over and next chapter we’re finally getting back to the main story which will start with her journey to Rock Tunnel before she ends up in Lavender Town.
Chapter 23: The Ice Mistress
Notes:
Before this chapter is posted I want to apologize for dropping off the grid for the last few weeks. I've been working a lot because this time of the year is quite busy for me.
Then I got sick which only extended my small hiatus from fanfiction.
So this chapter isn’t as long as I wanted it to be originally, but I didn’t want to keep anyone waiting for any longer. I promise to make the next one even longer to compensate for this.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet couldn’t help but smile as the wind was rushing past her face while she biked down Route 9.
The weather was great, especially for late spring and Violet was just happy that she was making her way through this area before it turned to summer.
It’s already been three days since she left Cerulean City and she knew it would take a good week before she got through Rock Tunnel depending on if she got lost or not. But it would take a good four more days before she got there to begin with.
Definitely making good time due to how before it would’ve taken her a month to get this far, but with both Teleport and a Bike, she managed to shorten the time quite a bit.
She did have to stop and battle a few people during her time in this Route, but they went down rather easily due to them having some unevolved Pokemon such as Pidgey, Machop, Oddish, Bellsprouts and Geodudes.
Much like how it was near Cerulean Cape, the trainers weren’t really that strong in this area.
Glancing up, Violet could see Stinger flying high above with Silk, the two of them enjoying the warm air themselves.
The bike jerked as Violet almost cycled off the path and she panicked for a second before she fell, crashing into the ground with a grunt of pain.
Man that hurts.
‘ That’s what I get for losing focus. ’ Violet pushed herself up, looking herself over before wincing as she felt a bit of pain in her knee.
Thankfully her pants didn’t tear but there was probably a scrape there.
“Bzzt?” Stinger flew down in concern, followed by Silk as Violet ignored the pain and pushed herself up.
“I’m alright.” Violet reassured them with a smile.
If anything her pride took the biggest hit there.
So she got back on the bike and continued on, not seeing her two Pokemon exchange concerned glances.
But they followed her as she continued to cycle, seeing a wild Nidorino herding some Nidoran, both male and female.
The evolved Pokemon gave her a cautious look, but she cycled past with no problem.
‘ Hard to believe this Route was the victim of thunderstorms for the past month. ’ Violet couldn’t help but think, remembering the bizarre weather reports that happened here.
Looking at the sunshine now, she couldn’t believe those reports.
Shaking her head, Violet refocused to avoid crashing again.
The next four days passed quite as easily as the first three, the trainers were getting more and more scarce the further down the Route she went and Violet made it to Route 10 rather quickly, now being a good hour away from the Pokemon Center near Rock Tunnel.
A good thing because her team was exhausted, enough that all of them were in their Pokeballs at the moment.
Due to the lack of trainers, the wild Pokemon were more apparent and she found herself attacked by wild Fearow, Machokes, Arbok, Primeapes and Raticates.
All in their early to mid twenties, so not that hard to defeat.
But they did attack in hordes, a lot of them involving their unevolved forms and the numbers were enough to wear her team down at times to where they had to hole up somewhere to recover.
Violet yawned as she was walking now, due to how dangerous the path was given how high up in the mountain portion of the route she was in.
She had no confidence in her skills to even attempt to cycle this path.
Eventually however she began to smell salt water in the air, showing she was close.
So she began to run, only for someone to shout.
“Acid!”
Eyes widening, Violet barely came to a stop when the ground in front of her erupted with an Arbok spitting the poison move right at her.
Without even thinking, Violet dove to the side, barely evading the attack before she saw something that terrified her.
Various Team Rocket grunts were coming into view, most of them hiding behind various rocks while others were using Golbats to get down from a higher path.
“So you’re the brat that’s always getting in our way.” One of the grunts spoke, the one who commanded the Arbok. “We knew you would have to come by here eventually.”
Violet cursed as she went to send Silk out to teleport, but the ground behind her erupted with another Arbok showing itself, quickly wrapping around her, followed by a group of Ekans.
“So we figured we could set a trap for a child like you.” Another grunt said with a vicious smirk as the Arbok squeezed, not enough to kill but to cause some pain to Violet. “Do you realize how much money and people you cost us?!”
Not only that but one of their Executives being revealed to be a Gym Leader was because of this kid.
Their reputation would be ruined if it ever got out how a kid has done more damage to them than anyone else.
So they were taking matters into their own hands on orders from the Admins.
Violet struggled despite the discomfort, still trying to reach her Pokeballs, chiding herself for not keeping one of them out.
But deep down she knew even if she did there were too many Grunts here and with her Pokemon exhausted it probably would’ve ended the same.
“Remember, don’t kill her.” The Grunt in charge ordered in a sharp tone. “We’re taking her back to base alive.”
After all, Admins Petrel and Arianna have plans for her.
And given how sadistic Arianna can be, it would definitely be the best revenge.
“Oh come on, they didn’t say we couldn’t rough her up a bit.” Another Grunt protested, wanting to hurt Violet for her actions. “What’s a few broken bones? I say we break her limbs to make sure she doesn’t get any ideas.”
“Hold it.” A new voice spoke up before any of the other Grunts could agree or disagree with the idea.
‘ Great a witness. ’ The Rocket Grunt in charge thought with a sigh, turning to deal with this new threat only for his eyes to widen in fear.
Violet blinked as she barely managed to turn her head towards the voice to see someone she didn’t expect, slowly walking towards them.
K-Kanna?
“Hold it, w-we’ll kill her if you take another step.” One of the Grunts ordered in fear no longer caring about bringing the kid in alive, recognizing who this was, only to gasp as Violet disappeared from the Arbok’s grasp.
The young bug catcher reappeared right next to Lorelei alongside a Slowbro, the girl falling to her knees in relief at being free.
“What’s a member of the Elite Four doing out here?!” One of the Grunts demanded in fear.
‘ Elite Four? ’ Violet looked up only to feel some pressure in her head as the Slowbro sent a small surge of psychic energy into her head, lulling her to sleep.
“An astute question, unfortunately for you I’m in no mood for answering anyone who gangs up on a child.” Lorelei said, giving a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.
Instead her eyes that usually held warmth were now full of nothing but malice.
“But I’m fair, I’ll give all of you one chance to surrender.” Lorelei offered them. “I’m sure all of you know how the League has deigned to deal with your Organization after your stunt on the SS. Anne.”
And she planned to take full advantage of that which was why she had Violet be put to sleep to avoid traumatizing her should they decline her generous offer.
She could see just about all of them actually considering taking her up on that offer showing that despite the time it’s been, her reputation as the Sadistic Ice Mistress from the war was still intact.
“H-Hey she’s only one person, it doesn’t matter if she’s in the Elite Four she can’t win against all of us!” The lead Grunt who owned the Arbok that captured Violet said, glaring at the others, making them nod.
Though some of them were uncertain.
“Oh? Quite confident aren’t you?” Lorelei asked in a mocking tone, reaching up to take her glasses off. “Alright then, go on and try.”
Taking offense to that, the Rocket Grunts went to rush her, all of their Pokemon out showing an entire army.
Lorelei just smirked as an explosion of ice erupted in the battlefield, spikes protruding from the ground impaling some of the grunts in the legs while their Pokemon were frozen solid.
“W-What the-?” One of them asked, coughing up blood before he heard movement and turned to see a Pokemon that was swaying back and forth as it walked.
It was a humanoid, bipedal Pokemon wearing a red gown with two gold circlets on its chest. Its face was pitch black, being formed by shadows as the only identifying features were its red lips, long blonde hair and wide saucer-like eyes.
“Jynx~.” The Ice/Psychic Pokemon chanted as a snow storm began to fill the air before the grunt saw black as all of them were frozen solid.
Then Jynx blasted the ice sculptures of the grunts with psychic energy shattering them, having enough precision to only hit Team Rocket while leaving the Pokemon alone.
All except one who witnessed the whole thing, his whole body frozen with the exception of his head.
“Y-You monster.” He managed to get out, giving Lorelei a fearful look as she gave him a rather sadistic grin.
“Oh? Rather hypocritical of you isn’t it?” Lorelei asked, walking forward towards the Grunt, placing her left hand on her hips before cupping his chin with her right hand. “But I won’t deny it.”
She knew that she was a monster, much like how the rest of the Elite Four were monsters in their own right.
And Team Rocket pretty much taunted these monsters for far too long.
“Don’t worry I’m not going to kill you, after all I need to have a lovely chat with you on what Team Rocket’s plans are.” Lorelei grinned as the man’s face paled. “Be a good boy and I won’t get too rough with you~.”
But for now she gave a nod to Jynx who finished freezing the Rocket Grunt solid.
Unlike the actual cold, ice from Pokemon attacks don’t cause hypothermia unless the Pokemon has the intent.
Instead she turned as Jynx and Slowbro teleported the Grunt away to the Indigo Plateau for interrogation, now approaching Violet who was currently asleep.
The sadistic look faded as she gave her a genuine smile. “For a young girl you seem to get into trouble a lot.” She said, gently picking Violet up.
Luckily there was a Pokemon Center nearby.
Violet felt groggy as she woke up, oddly comfortable.
It took a second for her to realize she was in a bed and the confusion she felt disappeared as she remembered what happened.
Now sitting up, Violet winced as her body ached before she saw that there were bruises all over her arm.
“Finally awake?” The voice made Violet jump as she turned towards it to see Lorelei sitting in a nearby chair, reading a rather large book. “You’ve been out for a good day.”
“A day?” Violet muttered, not expecting that.
“Thankfully the worst you seem to have is mild bruising on your arms and legs from the Arbok wrapping around you, they’ll go away eventually.” Lorelei informed Violet.
“... You’re Lorelei.” Violet finally said after a few seconds of silence, recalling hearing that she was a part of the Elite Four.
Lorelei just smirked. “I am, Kanna is a fake name I like to use to avoid attention.” She revealed, looking a bit mischievous.
That… That made sense.
Violet was essentially a stranger when she met Ka-no when she met Lorelei, so the woman had no obligation to reveal who she was.
“Why did you put me to sleep?” Violet asked, knowing it was her.
She practiced enough with Silk to know what psychic energy in her head felt like.
Lorelei was quiet for a bit, an internal debate going through her head before she spoke. “Let’s just say the fight with Team Rocket got a bit messy.” She said, watching Violet closely for a reaction. “It’s nothing a child should see.”
Violet frowned at being reminded of her age.
Just because she was ten didn’t mean she was an idiot.
“You killed them.”
Lorelei didn’t deny it. “Does that bother you?”
It should bother her.
Violet knew it should.
But Violet remembered hearing about the crimes and the pain that Team Rocket caused before seeing first hand how cruel they could be.
How far they were willing to go.
So she looked away, not answering.
“I see.” Lorelei mused as if knowing what she was thinking.
Somehow that wouldn’t have surprised Violet if that were the case.
Watching Violet for a few seconds, Lorelei decided to ask. “You were on Seafoam Island when Surge captured Articuno, correct?”
That got a reaction with Violet whipping her head around with wide eyes.
Even if it was obvious that a member of the Elite Four would know, she wasn’t expecting for her to just ask that.
“We’ve read the report that Prof. Oak submitted to the League, he left out the names of the two trainers that were there, but it’s rather obvious given how often your name has come up in the last few weeks.” Lorelei revealed, sounding rather amused at her reaction. “I daresay Lance was impressed with your achievements.”
Even if it stung his pride that she’s done more to Team Rocket in one month than what the entire Elite Four has been attempting for a good decade.
Violet had no idea what to say about that.
Was she still asleep?
“But I’m afraid the situation has gotten a bit more serious since Seafoam Island.” Lorelei mused a bit before deciding to share this little tidbit. “Team Rocket might’ve captured Zapdos as well.”
As she watched Violet pale at hearing that, Lorelei knew that the girl was most likely wondering why she shared such sensitive information.
It was simple really.
Violet was the whole reason they found out that the Organization was going after Legendaries and thanks to her they realized how deep Team Rocket has infiltrated the League.
She wasn’t going to hide this information, especially when Team Rocket has already made multiple attempts to kill her.
Keeping her in the dark would do nothing but leave her unprepared in the future.
‘ That makes it two Legendaries. ’ Violet thought in horror.
And for good reason.
She saw first hand how powerful Articuno was and who knows how Zapdos compares.
With just one Team Rocket could cause massive damage and now they had two.
“What about Moltres?!” Violet asked, not wanting to imagine if they found the third and final one.
“We found that one and we have countless Ace Trainers keeping watch alongside Bruno,” Lorelei told her to ease her worries. “If they even attempt Moltres we will know.”
Hearing that, Violet took a deep breath to calm herself down.
That was certainly some good news.
But that also left one more Legendary.
Violet recalled her very first encounter before looking up. “They’re also after Mew.”
Surprise flickered on Lorelei’s face. “Mew?” She asked, raising a brow. “I didn’t think they would waste their time on a myth.”
That threw Violet off before remembering how rare it was to even see Mew.
Even Prof. Oak was surprised when he found out that Violet met the legendary.
“They almost caught it near Pallet Town,” Violet revealed, now having Lorelei’s full attention. “It was before I started my journey, Mew was being chased by them.”
“You say that you saw Mew?” Lorelei asked, making sure she was hearing correctly.
“I only had a Weedle with me and Mew transformed into a Caterpie to hide from Team Rocket before taking off after losing them.” Violet thought back to that moment. “I didn’t know what Pokemon that was at the time or what was going on really.”
‘ So she even met Team Rocket back then. ’ Lorelei crossed her arms in thought. ‘ And she said Pallet Town, I need to let Lance know so we can keep watch there. ’
They can’t let Team Rocket get the last two Legendaries.
Checking the time, Lorelei knew she had to get going so she stood up. “Thank you for sharing that information,” She said with a smile. “The League will take it from here.”
A part of Violet wanted to protest and that surprised her.
Perhaps it was because of how many times she ended up in these insane situations, but that was why she knew that she couldn’t get any more involved.
‘ You should be focusing on your journey, on seeing new sights. Not fighting criminals. ’
Prof. Oak’s words went through her head and she gave a nod, trusting Lorelei on this matter.
“And don’t worry about Team Rocket coming after you, after what I’ve done they’ll think twice before wasting any time doing so.” Lorelei promised, a sadistic grin on her face.
That sent a shiver down Violet’s spine before the Ice Trainer left.
Needless to say Violet decided to rest for another day before attempting Rock Tunnel, entering the cave as Silk was resting on her head.
To say that it was dark would be a massive understatement because Violet could barely see what was in front of her.
Normally one would use a glow stick or a flashlight to get through this place, or have a Pokemon that produced flames such as a Magmar, Ponyta or Charmeleon to get through here.
Violet however had her own way.
“Silk?”
Upon being prompted, Silk focused and connected with Violet, allowing her to see through the bug's eyes, the Compound Eyes ability making the place light up quite a bit.
Whenever they stopped for the night during the last few days, Violet took time to work with Silk on this, wanting to get it working to test out in Rock Tunnel.
It got to the point where they could keep this up for about an hour, though it required complete focus so if something attacked them or something distracts Silk then the connection would break.
But using it this way would make for good practice.
And this way Violet would be able to make the batteries for her flashlight last given how she wasn’t completely sure how long this trip would take.
Violet smiled as she made her way through Rock Tunnel, letting Parasite out to go on ahead, using Dig to make sure nothing would ambush them while priming Stinger’s Pokeball in case she needed to let him out.
Given her last adventure through a mountain and what happened two days ago, she’d rather be safe then sorry.
Hearing movement, Violet didn’t move as Silk looked up, allowing for her to see a horde of Zubat passing by with quite a few Golbats, some of them eyeing her with a hungry look.
Silk gave a low cry, most likely warning them not to try anything watching as they flew off.
Three days have passed since Violet entered Rock Tunnel with the young girl using the flashlight whenever Silk had to rest due to exertion, having Stinger out in her place.
Parasite also kept rather close despite going on ahead and would sometimes walk alongside her before digging back down.
Surprisingly the wild Pokemon were pretty scarce with the exceptions besides that horde of Zubats being a few Machop and Geodudes.
She has yet to stumble across an Onix, but Violet wasn’t complaining, not wanting to do anything to piss off a wild one.
Violet did run into trainers, mostly just Hikers who were rather used to traversing mountains like this, those types of trainers having Machokes and Gravelers.
Normally the latter would actually pose a bit of trouble for Violet considering she was using Stinger in most of those fights depending on if Silk had enough energy to battle or if Parasite was with her rather than ahead of them.
But the Hikers, they weren’t that tough.
She’s not saying they were weak because they really weren’t, but they don’t battle a lot so their Pokemon weren’t as tough as some others she faced over her journey.
Or maybe it was because Violet was getting more experience in battling other trainers.
Whatever the reason, the fights would always end rather quickly.
Twineedle, despite being weak against both Rock and Fighting types, was pretty strong, especially if she used Focus Energy to raise its power to match Stinger’s ability and if they poisoned the opponent.
Combine that with Agility and Stinger pretty much swept their team while using Harden to make himself more durable considering how their opponents were more physical fighters.
Pausing to take a break, Violet sat on a small rock after making sure it wasn’t a sleeping Geodude and pulled out a bag of chips to eat.
She could see Parasite nearby due to the white eyes piercing through the darkness while Silk was resting by sitting next to the rock, her wings drooping to show her exhaustion.
Perhaps she should just use the flashlight for the rest of the cave?
Stinger just crossed his arms rather impatiently, wanting to get to the next battle.
Violet smiled at them before looking up where the ceiling would be despite not seeing it.
To think once she was out of this cave she’ll finally get herself a Venonat.
It’s been quite awhile since she caught Parasite that she was excited to catch a new member of the family.
And after that they were heading to Celadon City to take on Erika.
So for the very first time they’ll be the ones with the advantage against a Gym Leader instead of being the ones at a disadvantage.
After facing Brock and Blaine, Violet was rather confident in her chances here, not to mention they would finally be able to buy some TM’s to round out her team a bit more and then get a Pinsir.
Then she would just need three more badges.
‘ I wonder how Venonat and Pinsir would change the team? ’
After all, adding two members to their group would definitely change up the dynamic quite a bit.
She was excited for that, but also a little terrified.
After all, the more Pokemon a trainer has the harder it was to keep up with their training, one of the things that were taught in Trainer School.
In a way that made Green a good trainer given the amount of Pokemon he caught for the Pokedex while she only had three.
Would that change when she adds more and Green surpasses her? Or will she be able to keep up with their training?
“Bzzt?” Stinger approached Silk while their trainer was taking her break, taking a small jab at how exhausted she was while he was the one fighting.
Silk gave him a dry look, about to use a small confusion to launch a pebble at his forehead before shaking her head.
She was too exhausted to be annoyed.
That made Stinger tilt his head, the poison bee Pokemon rubbing the back of his head with the side of his arm.
Perhaps he went a bit far with his small taunt.
He truly didn’t mean anything by it, they just got along well with the banter.
Though he did remember their first time arguing while he was a Kakuna and Silk was a Caterpie.
Thinking back to how they just covered each other with String Shot until they couldn’t move, he let out a small chuckle.
Things seemed a lot simpler back then, they were just Pokemon going on a journey.
Then the Kangaskhan incident happened.
From there things just got a bit more complicated the further they got.
Stinger had to wonder, do other Pokemon go through this stuff with their Trainers or were they just unlucky in general?
Don’t get him wrong, he would keep fighting for Violet, but it was getting a bit exhausting to be running into danger like this.
Stinger figured he was quiet for a bit too long given how Silk idly flew towards him despite her exhaustion and gave him a concerned look.
He tried to play it off by turning around only to jump and hover in the air as Parasite was right there looking at him.
Dammit, he hates it when she does that.
It always scares the crap out of him when she comes up with little to no noise.
His reaction elicited a small chuckle from Silk who gave a nod towards Parasite to say hello.
Parasite just gave a nod in return, actually muttering an apology catching the two by surprise.
It was the first time in so long that Parasite actually said anything to them.
Parasite looked at them before turning away, being uncertain of where to proceed from there.
Their conversation was interrupted as Violet stood up, putting her chips up. “Ready to go?” She asked, wanting to get out of the cave.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 9th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Notes:
Alright, this chapter took a bit, mostly because I’ve been writing, deleting, rewriting everything going on, especially with Lorelei’s involvement and if I wanted to add it to the story or not.
It’s a bit of a reference if you will because Lorelei does help out the protagonist against Team Rocket in the Let’s Go Eevee and Pikachu games, something I loved seeing because it added a bit to the character. Plus it would also give Giovanni a bit more of a headache when he realizes more of his operatives went rogue showing a bit of discord within their ranks and to name drop some important Rocket Characters from the game.
More than that, I wanted to show how I planned to implement the Manga sides of the Elite Four, such as how sadistic Lorelei got in the Manga with her opponents and to show how powerful a true Elite Four would be when they don’t hold back.
After all Lorelei wasn’t in public or had any civilians with the exception of Violet to worry about getting caught in the crossfire, open space to let loose so she took advantage of that. Something that Will couldn’t do because of the small shape of the SS. Anne and how he couldn’t let loose without risking sinking the ship.
And it was to show how terrifying Ice Pokemon could be in a realistic manner given how they can freeze someone then shatter them in an instant.
Then we finally have another scene between Violet’s team to flesh them out a bit more, I need to do them more often.
Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
“Finally.” Violet breathed out in relief as she exited the cave after spending another two days lost in the maze like tunnels.
Parasite stood next to her as she took in the sunlight after not seeing it for such a long time.
She really didn’t like being in caves, even if she knew that traveling through it was necessary.
Right now however she wanted to hurry and get her Pokemon healed before heading right out to Route 12 and finally catching a Venonat.
So with a determined look, Violet began to run towards the direction of Lavender Town, seeing the sign pointing her in the right direction.
The first thing that Violet noticed about Lavender Town was how ancient the buildings looked.
Compared to the other places in Kanto she’s been, Lavender Town was like stepping back in time from the Feudal Era in the History Books.
It did make sense considering how Lavender Town was one of the first towns in Kanto that were built right after Vermillion and Saffron City, though those two were little more than towns back then.
Unlike them however, this place stayed the same.
It was also rather cold despite it being bright and sunny out, but Violet easily ignored that considering Seafoam was a lot colder in her opinion.
‘ It’s not like I’ll be staying for long anyways. ’ Violet fought the urge to shiver as she passed by a house window where she saw her reflection grin maliciously with red eyes.
Thankfully she knew that this town was the official home to many Ghost Type Pokemon, so she didn’t panic as one might think.
Something that the ‘ghost’ in the window noticed if the frown was any indication before disappearing.
“Excuse me, do you know where the Pokemon Center is-?” Violet began to ask for directions only for the person to give her a harsh glare before walking off without a word.
Well that was rude.
So she tried again only for the person to grit their teeth. “Find it yourself.”
Geez, what was with this town?
She walked around the corner only to bump into someone. “Sorry-.” She began only for the person to jump back as if stung.
“Watch it brat!”
Violet glared as the person left.
She was beginning to really hate this town.
Eventually she found the Pokemon Center and entered a bit on edge before relaxing as Nurse Joy who was at the counter gave her a warm smile. “Welcome, how may I help you?”
“Can you check my Pokemon?” Violet asked, handing the Nurse her team. “We just got out of Rock Tunnel.”
“Of course, it shouldn’t take too long though if you’re looking for a room I’m sorry to say that we’re pretty full.” Nurse Joy apologized as she placed the Pokeballs in the machine to scan them.
“That’s fine, I don’t plan to stay too long,” Violet said before sighing. “Any idea what’s going on with everyone?”
Nurse Joy looked perplexed before realization dawned and she gave Violet an apologetic look. “Sorry, this town isn’t usually this bad, but there have been some issues lately.”
Violet adopted a confused look. “Issues?”
“The Ghost Pokemon have been acting out, it got to the point where people are paranoid of each other due to how often they use their illusions to mess with others.” Nurse Joy revealed with Violet remembering seeing the trick with her reflection earlier. “They usually never leave the Pokemon Tower, so no one knows what’s going on.”
“The Tower, isn’t that the graveyard for the Kanto Region?”
That was all that Violet knew about it really.
The Pokemon Tower was a sacred site for many people in the Kanto Region due to how many Pokemon were buried there over the years, so much that someone was almost lynched when they brought up the idea of turning it into a tourist attraction or a radio tower.
People do go in every now and then to pay respects or to capture a Ghost Pokemon, but they never go beyond the first two levels given how territorial Ghost Pokemon could be.
The only ones allowed to go up there was the family that founded Lavender Town.
The family that the Elite Four member Agatha belonged to.
“Have you tried contacting the League?” Violet asked curiously, knowing this was something they should look into.
“We sent a message out but haven’t heard back yet, the League is pretty busy this time of year.” Nurse Joy answered Violet right as the machine beeped, showing that Violet’s team was healthy. “There you go, good luck on your journey.”
A part of Violet wanted to investigate the Tower, mostly out of curiosity but she pushed that part down given how she didn’t want to get involved in anything else.
Besides, she was a bit behind on her journey.
Once she catches Venonat, she’ll immediately head out towards Celadon to get her fifth badge and a Pinsir.
And then she just needed Scyther and she’ll have all of the bug Pokemon in Kanto.
“See anything?” Violet called up as both Stinger and Silk were in the air, looking for a Venonat.
Thankfully they knew what to look for given how they saw Samurai’s Venonat back when Parasite was still a Paras.
‘ I wonder how Samurai is doing right now? ’ Violet mused wanting a rematch to even out the score from their last battle.
“Fweh!” Silk called out, flying in a direction with Violet quickly taking off after her to see a Venonat drinking from the lake.
“Yes.” Violet grinned as she primed a Pokeball. “Psybeam!”
The Venonat was caught off guard as Silk fired the beam of energy right at it before Violet lobbed a Pokeball.
As it was sucked in, Violet cheered only for the Venonat to break out and take off running.
“Oh come on.” Violet groaned in frustration.
That’s never happened to her before.
Probably because the Pokemon in this area were a lot stronger than the ones where she caught Stinger, Silk and Parasite.
“Probably should start using Great Balls.”
She heard Stinger snickering, making her give her Starter a dry look.
Her string of bad luck continued however as each time she found a Venonat, it kept running before she could do anything.
“This is getting ridiculous.” Violet finally complained after two hours of this, sitting on a bridge in annoyance while both Stinger and Silk sat next to her. “It shouldn’t be this hard to catch a Venonat!”
Looking up with her arms crossed, Violet paused at seeing another Venonat coming out of the grass, not seeing her as it began to look at its reflection in the water.
It was a weird looking one too.
Unlike the other Venonats she’s seen, this one had blue eyes instead of red while its bushy fur was a darker shade of purple.
It was so bizarre, but Violet didn’t care.
She wasn’t wasting this chance.
“Silk Confusion to hold it in place, Stinger bind it with String Shot!” Violet ordered, startling the odd colored Venonat right when her Bug Pokemon shot into action.
The Venonat tried to run but Silk’s Confusion prevented that right when Stinger coated its feet with String Shot to keep it from running.
It seemed to be more irritated at the String Shot then anything else given how its struggling increased after being hit by it.
Stinger then zoomed in with a Twineedle before Silk finished it with a Psybeam.
As the Venonat fell over, Violet pulled out a Great Ball and threw it.
She watched with bated breath as the Venonat was sucked in and was obviously struggling given how the Pokeball shook before it gave the ding sound showing that the capture was complete.
“Alright!” Violet cheered, happy to have finally captured a Venonat. “Nice job guys.”
Stinger just gave a small buzz, holding his head high at the praise while Silk preened from the attention.
Grabbing the Pokeball, Violet pulled the Pokedex out to scan her new addition to the family.
“ Pokemon Registered. Venonat, the Insect Pokemon. ”
‘ Pokemon #48
Species: Venonat
Gender: Female
Current Level: 26
Height: 3’03
Weight: 66.1 lbs.
Ability: Run Away- Allows the Pokemon to escape from battle with relative ease.
Nature: Mild
Characteristic: Loves to Eat
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion and Poison Powder
Information: Its eyes act as radars. In a bright place, one can see a cluster of tiny eyes. Venonat is said to have evolved with a coat of thin, stiff hair that covers its entire body for protection. It possesses large eyes that never fail to spot even miniscule prey.
Needed for Evolution: Raise to Level 31
Special Note: This Pokemon has been registered as a Shiny Pokemon.’
“A Shiny?” Violet muttered, never hearing that term before.
Was it something to do with its weird color? She’ll ask Professor Oak when she calls him.
But she grinned in excitement.
A new member of the family.
And she couldn’t wait to bond with her.
Stinger however looked visibly annoyed.
Was it too much to ask for another guy on the team?
“Seriously?” Violet muttered at her luck, making it back to Lavender Town right as a downpour started, trying to find some shelter, her jacket and hat getting drenched.
But with how rude everyone was and the Pokemon Center being full, that might be a pipe dream right now.
Her team with the exception of Parasite were inside of their Pokeballs while the Mushroom Pokemon was enjoying the storm.
‘ Should’ve bought an umbrella. ’ Violet thought kicking herself for forgetting that compared to everything else.
Of course the one thing she didn’t get turned out to be the one she would need.
Looking around, she couldn’t see anyone before seeing the Pokemon Tower and after a moment of hesitation, she ran towards there to take shelter.
She would leave as soon as the rain stopped.
Making it inside, Violet breathed a sigh of relief, happy to be out of the rain while Parasite made a small noise, showing some sadness which made her smile.
“At least someone is enjoying the surprise storm.”
Rubbing the mushroom on Parasite, Violet looked up to see the countless headstones on the first floor of the Tower and felt a bit awkward.
Hopefully if anyone finds her they would be understanding.
It should be fine as long as she doesn’t go past the second floor.
So she sat down, Parasite moving to lay next to her.
“I hope it’s a quick shower.”
If it turned out to be a storm that would last a few days, Violet might lose her mind.
Hearing a noise, Violet tensed and turned, seeing a shadow disappear.
Right, Pokemon Graveyard, of course there would be Ghost types in the tower.
“As long as I don’t bother them, they won’t bother me.” Violet whispered to herself, though she was doubtful about that.
They were tricksters and Nurse Joy said that they have been acting out as of late.
As if to prove that statement right, Violet was caught off guard when her hat was suddenly snatched off of her head.
Eyes widening, Violet shot to her feet and glared to see a Haunter going to the next floor with her hat, sticking its tongue out at her in a mocking manner.
“Hey!” Violet took off after the Haunter, not wanting to lose that hat, Parasite moving behind her as fast as she could go.
Making it to the second floor where there were even more headstones, Violet looked around not seeing the Haunter.
No, she couldn’t have lost her hat.
Taking a deep breath, Violet went to look for that Haunter, ready to let Silk out to Psybeam the Ghost type.
But with each step she took, an uncomfortable feeling began to flow through her.
Like she was being watched and she could see red eyes in the shadows that flickered and disappeared when she got close.
Feeling her throat go dry, Violet felt like she was entering the setting of a horror movie before a noise behind her made her shriek.
Falling to the floor as her scream echoed throughout the tower, Violet turned only to feel embarrassed.
That noise was just water dripping from the ceiling.
Covering her reddening face, Violet stood back up, hearing mocking laughter of the Ghost types at how easy she was to scare there.
“They’re only Pokemon.” Violet whispered to herself, trying to calm down. “Nothing to worry about.”
Looking up, she saw the Haunter now wearing her hat, turning her slight fear into anger as it laughed at her before going to the third floor.
Just like that Violet knew that she was in trouble.
If she went further she would be breaking an ancient tradition that’s been set in Lavender Town from ancient times.
But if she doesn't, then she’ll lose the only physical connection she has to her Mom.
Biting her lip, Violet came to her decision and began to climb to the next floor.
The Ghost Pokemon behind her that were watching were getting a bit more agitated when she did that.
Making it to the third floor, a thick fog enveloped the area with Violet having trouble seeing in front of her.
The countless shadows that she could see in the fog that disappeared only made her heart beat faster.
“Come on, this isn’t funny, I just want my hat back.” Violet called out, hoping the Haunter could hear her.
When no answer came, Violet grimaced and walked further into the fog only to see a Psyduck looking at her.
What was a Psyduck doing here?
“Hey, are you lost?” Violet asked, approaching the Psyduck, kneeling down to reach out.
Only to shriek as the skin began to melt off of its body, showing its bones before the Psyduck lunged at her.
Parasite intervened, using Body Slam to knock it away, but that seemed to set off a chain of events as the ground around Violet began to shake, countless limbs springing to life as zombified Pokemon began to pull themselves out of their graves.
This was very terrifying to the ten year old as she sent Silk and Stinger out.
The two bug Pokemon froze at what they were seeing, trying to comprehend this before springing into action with Silk firing Psybeam at the decomposing Pokemon while Stinger used Pin Missile to keep them at bay.
“What’s making them move?” Violet asked herself, trembling as some of the corpses fell lifeless after being hit.
Parasite suddenly jumped in front of Violet, taking a Flamethrower that nearly hit her, taking the Mushroom Pokemon out of the fight.
Taken by surprise, Violet looked where the move came from to see Green, standing next to a Vulpix, his face as he looked down.
The surprise turned into anger. “What the heck Green?!” She shouted at her rival. “What was that-... For?”
The anger turned back into fear as Green lifted his head, showing his pupiless white eyes that held nothing but malice.
Suddenly the Vulpix shot another Flamethrower, forcing Violet to dive to the side, returning Parasite while Stinger shot forward, using Agility to make himself faster before slamming into the Vulpix with a Twineedle.
Forcing herself to her feet as Green sent out Kadabra, Violet glared.
“I might now know what’s going on, but if it’s a fight you want, it’s a fight you’re going to get.” She said, nodding to Silk who fired a Psybeam to counter Kadabra.
While that was going on and Stinger kept the Vulpix busy, Violet sent Parasite back out, taking a revive from her bag, pouring the contents in her mouth.
It took a few seconds for Parasite to regain consciousness as it gave a small muted cry.
“Dig and sneak up on Kadabra, finish him with Leech Life.” Violet whispered, remembering how she won against the Psychic type last time.
Parasite wasted no time in following the order while Violet pushed down the uneasy feeling of ordering her Pokemon to dig in a graveyard.
But given what’s going on she had to ignore that.
Green ended up sending out Pidgeotto and Sandslash as well, outnumbering her and Violet almost sent out her new Venonat but decided against that.
She had no idea if Venonat would even listen to her.
Besides, checking the levels on Green’s team, they were all pretty much even with Violets so Venonat would be outmatched.
On paper, Green should beat her in this fight but there was one advantage.
It was that Green himself wasn’t talking, so his Pokemon were fighting without his command.
Or rather under someone else’s given how his Pokemon had the same pupiless white eyed look as Green did.
So who was controlling him?
Stinger managed to take down the Vulpix only to grimace as Pidgeotto used Wing Attack on him, sending him towards Sandslash who used Slash attack.
Righting himself after the two hits, Stinger began to use harden and agility simultaneously to enhance his capabilities while Silk was in a losing battle against Kadabra who managed to Paralyze her with Thunder Wave before pulling her in with Confusion to let out a Mega Punch, sending her skidding across the floor.
Thankfully, Parasite chose that moment to lunge out of the ground, taking the Kadabra down with a Leech Life, restoring the rest of her health while taking the frail Psychic down.
With that done, Parasite went to help Stinger, using Body Slam on Sandslash, leaving the Poison Bee Pokemon to focus on an aerial fight with Pidgeotto.
While that was going on, Violet pulled out a Super Potion and a Paralyze Heal to take care of Silk, watching as Green’s two Pokemon went down.
Thinking it was over, she tensed when Green released another Pokemon.
It was a large serpentine Pokemon with blue overlapping scales and a yellow underbelly, giving a roar with a large gaping mouth that had four extremely large teeth showing with small white fins on the side of its face as it glared down at her.
“A Gyarados.” Violet whispered, taking a step back before it unleashed a Dragon Rage, damaging her three Pokemon as they were nearly taken out. “Silk, Esper Spore! Stinger, String Shot to slow it down! Parasite, go underground and charge up a Solarbeam!”
They needed to hinder it as much as possible before they could take it down.
As her Pokemon sprang into action, Violet glanced over only to see Green gone.
Where did he-?
Rushed footsteps behind her made Violet go left, avoiding a fist as Green nearly punched the back of her head.
Taking a step back, Violet breathed only to cough as something felt off.
Feeling light headed, Violet swore she saw movement in the fog, red eyes piercing through it from behind Green.
Was that what was controlling him?
Seeing the true enemy now as Green lunged at her again, Violet called out having to tear her eyes away from the entity as she realized it was using Hypnosis. “Silk, Psybeam the shadow behind Green!”
The Butterfree turned and saw the shape before listening right as Parasite shot out of the ground, firing a Solarbeam at the Gyarados that was currently blind from Stinger’s string shot.
Both attacks hit their target as the shape controlling Green turned out to be a Gastly that gave a haunting screech before dissipating while the Gyarados slowly fell over with a loud thud.
With the Gastly gone, Green regained consciousness, though he fell to one knee light headed as he gripped his temple. “The hell?”
“Oh thank goodness, you’re back.” Violet whispered, her voice making him look up to see her before scanning the room, seeing five of his Pokemon unconscious.
It didn’t take him long to connect the dots as he gritted his teeth, angry that he let this happen to him.
Slowly he pushed himself to his feet, ignoring Violet’s hand to help him up, making the girl frown.
‘ Well at least he’s back to his jerkish self. ’
But she looked around unsure of how to feel about this victory.
Figures the one time she actually beats Green’s team it was because he wasn’t in control of himself.
Green kept silent, pulling out some Revives but he paused. “... Thanks.”
That caught Violet off guard who stared at him as he got to work, healing his team.
Did he just thank her?
Maybe he was still being controlled?
Once his team was healed up, Green went to return them only to freeze as he quickly patted himself down. “No!” He muttered, turning to Violet. “Did I have Eevee out?!”
Surprised, Violet shook her head as Green’s annoyed face turned to one of anger.
“Eevee is missing and so is my Pokedex.”
Shocked by that, Violet pulled hers out but it appeared that either the tracking system was off on Green’s Pokedex, it was destroyed or it was out of range because it wasn’t going off.
“Dammit.” Green punched the ground ignoring the pain that followed from doing that.
His own Starter was stolen from him while he was being controlled.
Whoever did this was going to pay.
“Calm down.” Violet tried to say but he glared at her.
“Don’t tell me to calm down!”
Turning away from her, Green saw the stairs to head up and went that way. “Whoever is behind this has to be near and I’m not letting them get away.” He vowed, heading towards it.
After a second, Violet followed.
“I don’t need your help anymore.” Green said, without looking back.
“Oh really?” Violet raised a brow at him. “Considering you were being controlled, I think you do.”
“They just caught me off guard.”
“All the more reason to not go alone.” Violet returned.
“Tch, fine.” Green relented, seeing how she wasn’t going to leave. “Just stay out of my way.”
Making it to the fourth floor, the fog seemed to have cleared up as the two trainers moved through the tower.
“Why are you here anyways?” Green asked, glancing back. “I came to catch a Ghost Pokemon.”
He still needs to do that.
“Came in to take shelter from a storm and a Haunter stole my hat.” Violet answered.
Green blinked as in his anger he didn’t even realize that Violet’s hat was gone.
“You broke ancient tradition for a hat?” Green scoffed at that. “You’re a bigger idiot than I thought.”
That made Violet glare. “That hat is all I have left of my Mom.”
Green went silent at that, now understanding why she was so protective of that hat.
It was something he noticed in their small interactions over the course of their journey.
“Besides you broke tradition as well.” Violet pointed out.
Green said nothing, not wanting to say that he technically didn’t, considering who his Grandmother was.
That was none of Violet’s business.
Tensing up, Green sent out Kadabra who teleported them a few feet away as a pile of acid landed near where they were, sizzling the ground as an Arbok slithered towards them.
But it was the man that was behind the Arbok that made Violet tense up in fear.
The Rocket Executive from Mt. Moon.
“It seems that we meet again Ms. Hawke.” The Executive mused, his eyes glaring at the two. “And it seems that your knack for interfering is contagious.”
“Shut up, where is my Eevee?!” Green demanded, his Kadabra ready to unleash a Psybeam on the man while Stinger, Silk and Parasite got ready, no doubt the former two remembering their last encounter with this man.
“I’m afraid that information is classified.” The Executive smirked at how easily Green was losing his cool. “Not that it matters, neither of you will be leaving this place alive.”
With that said, he sent out a Muk to accompany the Arbok.
Violet took a step back, once more feeling like she was in Mt. Moon before forcing that out of her mind.
No, she was stronger now.
And since Green didn’t have his Pokedex, she scanned the Muk and Arbok with them being in their fifties.
“Minimize.” Koga ordered with Muk grinning as it began to shrink.
Minimize was a rather unique move where a Pokemon compresses energy to shrink itself.
Both to dodge attacks and to have the element of surprise as not many can counter it.
Thankfully, Violet had a way.
“Silk, Psybeam, don’t lose track of it, Stinger use String Shot on the Arbok. Parasite, use Spore.”
“Kadabra, work with the Butterfree! Thunder Wave. Pidgeotto, Sand Attack the Arbok to weaken it. Sandslash, Dig and Slash, keep it guessing.”
He had a hand on the Pokeball containing his Gyarados, waiting for the right moment to send it out so they could Dragon Rage the two Pokemon-.
Violet immediately tackled Green out of the way as some shuriken nearly sliced into him.
“Careful, one of them could be a Pokeball.” Violet warned, remembering how this Executive caught her off guard last time.
And she was right as all of them held Golbats that were released to use Confuse Ray on them.
Something that Green countered by having Vulpix who he kept nearby, use Flamethrower, taking a few of them out as they were at a much lower level then the Arbok and Muk.
Muk roared and went to use Sludge on the two Pokemon attacking it, but they both teleported before they could be hit with Silk firing a Supersonic, her Compound Eyes negating the Minimize while Kadabra fired a Kinesis to blind the Muk.
Meanwhile with the Arbok, it was getting nailed from all sides with a String Shot catching its tail, making it stick to the floor while Pidgeotto blinded it with Sand Attack, making it harder for the Cobra Pokemon to see, countless marks from the hit and run attacks from Sandslash.
The executive watched as the two were actually holding their own showing that they’ve been busy since their run in with Surge on Seafoam Island.
‘ Surge was right, they’re becoming quite the problem. ’ The Executive thought with a dark look, sending out a Gengar that sank into the ground.
He didn’t even need to give it an order as it easily made its way to the trainers before popping out in front of them, giving a malicious laugh.
It fired a Night Shade at the two, hitting them as their minds were assaulted by nightmarish visions distracting them long enough for when the Executive threw a few senbon at the two, watching as they pierced the two, hitting pressure points in their leg and arms, forcing them to go down.
“This battle is over, those senbons are filled with poison from my Pokemon, within minutes the poison will reach your hearts.” The executive told them, watching as their Pokemon became more frantic at seeing their trainers down, making them easier to deal with before a bright light engulfed the area as Pidgeotto began to glow.
Seeing the flying type evolving, the Executive ordered for Arbok to finish it before it could happen, but Sandslash reared back with one more Slash, tearing into the Arbok, slicing it in half.
Eyes widening, the Executive snarled at seeing one of his prized Pokemon go down like that right when the Pidgeotto finished evolving.
Now standing a foot taller with its wingspan expanded, Pidgeot gave a cry, its plumage now having the colors brown and cream mixed with the red before unleashing a Gust, the power of its evolution giving it the boost needed to get the Muk stunned long enough for Silk and Kadabra to finish it and take out the countless Golbat due to the Flamethrower being used mixing in with the Gust to unleash a makeshift fire storm.
That left the Gengar who was surrounded by all of the Pokemon that remained.
But the Executive wasn’t worried in the slightest.
He won’t lie though, he was rather impressed by the two.
Even if they were going to die they put up an admirable fight.
“Gengar, use Toxic to melt the children-.” He began only to feel a cold chill before another Gengar took to the field, slicing through his, taking it out with ease as it landed near the Executive.
“Now that’s enough of that.” An amused voice spoke up as slow footsteps echoed around the room, making the man turn to see Agatha coming out of the shadows, another Gengar with her as she used her walking stick to keep her balance. “To think Team Rocket would even go as far as to disturb the dead? For all your deeds this is the lowest your little group of miscreants has fallen.”
She then snapped her fingers as some Haunters appeared. “Be a dear and get the problem children and their Pokemon to the Pokemon Center.” She said, not taking her eyes off of the criminal as the Haunters grabbed the two and pulled them into the shadows, using Psychic to pull the Pokemon in.
With them gone, she began to approach the Executive who threw a few Kunai, but the Gengar who remained in Agatha’s shadow came out to knock them away with ease.
“Please, you think just because I’m old, I’m also stupid?” Agatha asked, amused by his attempts. “I’ve been around far too long to be caught off guard by any of your tricks… Koga.”
She cackled as the man tensed.
“Who else would use the tricks you do? Now is it just you and Surge or are there more Gym Leaders in Team Rocket?” Agatha asked, tapping a finger on her cane.
Not answering, Koga threw a smoke bomb down, causing the two Gengars to hover over Agatha aggressively before the air got colder.
By the time the smoke cleared, Koga was long gone, but she could see the empty syringe that held the formula they’ve been working on along with the formerly knocked out Gengar convulsing as shadows began to gather around it and the nearby graves began to tremble as the dead were being brought back once more in greater frequency.
“I’m getting too old for this shit.” Agatha muttered, watching as the Gengar exploded with power, the shadows adding to its height as it roared at the old crone who didn’t even flinch.
Instead she scrunched up her nose due to the bad smell from the decomposing corpses.
“Gengar, go wild.” Agatha was calm when both her Gengars shot at the giant one, before pulling out two more Pokeballs. “Arbok, Glare! Golbat, Razor Wind on the corpses.”
She wasn’t taking any chances with this before her Haunters returned, going into her shadow to protect her as she watched her team going against the threat.
While Golbat kept the corpses at bay, her Arbok managed to paralyze the enhanced Gengar, leaving hers to lay into it with Psychics and Night Shades.
The fact that it was tanking them showed how powerful it was, especially when it broke free and unleashed a Hyper Beam that tore right into Arbok, forcing Agatha to recall it before it fell, putting her old friend in stasis.
She could see why Bruno had so much trouble with that Snorlax if this was the case.
The Gengar went to attack her, but her Haunters pulled her into the shadows before it could hit as she ended up on the other side of the room, not fazed in the slightest.
Her Gengars were using both Double Team and Substitute to get around without getting hit, doing so in the shadows as opposed to the enhanced Gengar showing that with the power it gained, it seemed to have lost its ability to slink into the shadows.
An advantage she was more then willing to use for her own benefit.
It managed to catch her Golbat with a Thunder, sending it flying with frayed wings, but Agatha returned him just as easily before smirking as one of her Gengars managed to sneak up on it, merging with its body before tearing its core apart with a Psychic, effectively finishing it for good.
The moment the Gengar fell, the rest of the corpses that her Golbat didn’t get fell over, dead once more.
“Tch took longer than I thought.” Agatha mused given how she couldn’t really use her usual Toxic and stall tactics on this one due to it being part poison.
She went to leave only to snap her fingers as the Haunter that stole Violet’s hat appeared.
“Next time, don’t involve a child in affairs like this.” She reprimanded the wild Pokemon in a hash tone as she snatched it back.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
4th Pokemon
Name: ???
Species: Venonat (Shiny)
Type: Bug/Poison
Gender: Female
Nature: Mild (Up Sp. Attack/Down Defense)
Characteristics: Loves to Eat (Up HP)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 26
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion and Poison Powder
Was captured in Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 12th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee *Stolen*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeot
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind and Wing Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 33
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable, Psybeam and Recover
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig, Slash and Poison Sting.
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster *Stored*
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Gyarados
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 28
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Splash, Tackle, Bite and Dragon Rage
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar, Confuse Ray and Flamethrower
10th Pokemon
Species: Magnemite *Stored*
Type: Electric
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Notes:
Man, a lot happened in this chapter, though honestly I think I did better with the Seafoam Island Arc compared to this one, but I’ve been rereading this chapter for awhile before deciding it was as good as it was going to get for the moment.
First Violet gets herself a Shiny Pokemon, I was playing Fire Red when I did the bug run and had a lot of bad luck with trying to catch Venonat before running into a Shiny one, so I wanted to add that here, her personality will be shown later.
Then you have the events of the Pokemon Tower, referencing both the Manga with how Koga was there and the desecrated corpses brought back to life and then the game where the battle with the Rival happens, only he was being controlled at the time.
Though he was brought back to his senses, there’s trouble as his Eevee is missing as well as his Pokedex leaving Green out for blood by this point.
Next you have the fight against Koga and the two really held their own against him showing some rather impressive teamwork and Violet showing how far her team has come against Koga after their last run in was basically a curb stomp.
Though Koga, being the ninja he is, doesn’t play fair, given his weapons giving him another advantage over the kids. Especially when some of them are coated with poison and his knowledge of the human body that allows for him to hit vital areas.
Fortunately Agatha came to the rescue showing their immense luck to having people show up in the nick of time and got to show off her style of battling and despite her old age, she kept up pretty well in that fight, even calling out Koga on who he was showing that as careful as he is, she was the furthest thing from an idiot.
Chapter 25: The Road to Celadon Part 1
Notes:
Hey sorry for the silence, a lot has been going on, I’m not saying what it is, just some family stuff and being busy with work. I’ve also finally started that Youtube Channel I’ve been wanting to do and so far have three videos with it being a playthrough of Pokemon Desolation, though honestly I sound awkward as hell through it all and I have no skills in editing, so they’re probably horrible.
Here’s the link to my channel if anyone’s interested. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveFz7nmWhsBlO1qQ3046PQ
Still here’s the next chapter to my Pokemon Story, hope you enjoy.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
“I’m really starting to hate waking up in random beds.” Violet muttered to herself after regaining consciousness, her throat parched.
It took a few seconds for her to remember what happened and she was rather annoyed by how easily she was taken down again.
Even if her team put up a much better fight this time.
At least that was proof that her team was getting stronger.
Speaking of teams, she saw their Pokeballs on the nearby table showing that they were currently in stasis. Her bag was next to them along with her hat which was a pleasant surprise for the ten year old.
Sitting up, Violet’s stomach churned showing that even if the poison was out of her system, she was still a little sick and needed some more time to recover.
Reaching into her bag, Violet pulled out the Pokedex and saw that two days have passed since she went into the tower.
She’s been unconscious for two days?!
No wonder she felt sore and tired.
Looking around the room, Violet was surprised to see that it didn’t look like your typical hospital room.
It was a rather dark room despite the sunlight coming through the windows, she could see cobwebs on the corners of the ceiling and specks of dust everywhere.
Where was she?
Turning her head, Violet was face to face with a Gastly making her shriek as she fell out of the bed, the Ghost Pokemon howling with laughter at her reaction.
“That’s enough out of you.” Agatha who was just entering the room told off the Gastly, earning a look of displeasure before the Gengar in Agatha’s shadow made a noise rectifying the look. “Now get out of here.”
The moment Gastly left, Agatha calmly walked over to where Violet fell, seeing her pale face that turned into shock at seeing her.
“Tch, are you just going to lie there all day or are you going to get up?” Agatha asked, not even waiting for an answer as she turned around. “This isn’t a five star hotel.”
Pushing herself up, Violet watched as Agatha left the room, trying to comprehend this.
This was the second Elite Four member she met in under a week.
And it was Agatha the Ghost Master.
Or was it Poison? No one can tell with her considering how many poison types she has compared to Ghosts.
Shaking her head to focus, Violet pushed herself up, her limbs protesting from the action.
Placing her hat on her head, Violet smiled in relief that she didn’t lose it.
Wanting to get moving, Violet quickly grabbed her team and her bag before walking out, going down the long, narrow hallway while she found some rather old paintings on the walls.
Paintings with red eyes that were following her.
Makes sense considering this was most likely Agatha’s place so it had to be full of Ghost Pokemon.
Violet gave a start when a Haunter came out of her shadow, hands outstretched at her face before laughing at her reaction as it disappeared.
‘ Starting to see why people are wary of Ghost Pokemon. ’ Violet thought in annoyance, wanting to get out of here.
Eventually she found herself in what looked to be a foyer, though it was a rather decrepit one that was slowly falling apart.
Agatha was waiting rather impatiently by the door, tapping a finger to her cane in the process. “You sure took your time.” She said rather sharply.
Violet winced at that, not sure how to respond.
Instead she kept silent.
Agatha’s frown deepened at that. “Tch and here I thought one of Samuel’s sponsors would have a bit more backbone.” She muttered, not thinking much of Violet even with all she heard. “You’re even more spineless then he was after his glory days.”
“I’m not spineless.” Violet protested while Agatha raised a brow.
“Perhaps foolish would be a better word given how you chased after Haunter past the second floor.”
Violet tensed at that, feeling pretty nervous now.
Right, with what happened she forgot she did break an ancient rule.
Was that why the Ghost Pokemon in this place were messing with her?
They were pretty vindictive at times and very dangerous to those who do go up the tower without permission.
Watching her squirm a bit was amusing to Agatha, but she decided to continue. “Given what happened though, we’ll overlook it this time.” She said, her eyes shifting to the side where she saw another Haunter about to scare Violet, the same one who stole her hat. “Technically you did have permission when your hat was stolen.”
Her look made the Haunter pause and back up with a pout before disappearing.
Any response Violet would have was cut off when Green entered the foyer, looking rather angry.
Given his Starter and Pokedex were missing, Violet couldn’t blame him and she felt some concern for him.
She knew that if something ever happened to her Pokedex or to Stinger then she would’ve been beyond worried.
The fact that it was Team Rocket who had both only added to the concern.
Green said nothing to either of them, instead heading for the door only for a Gengar to pop out of Agatha’s shadow and get in his way.
“Not so fast, we need to have a little chat.” Agatha said, eyes glinting with amusement as Green glared at her.
“We have nothing to chat about.” Green spat out at her.
Violet looked pretty alarmed by that.
Sure Green always said what was on his mind without fear of angering people, but there was actual venom in his tone when he spoke to Agatha.
So she had no idea what to make of that.
And the Gengar narrowed its eyes, not liking the tone one bit.
“Oh really?” Agatha asked, smirking at him. “I see Samuel hasn’t taught you any manners.”
“What. Do. You. Want?” Green said through clenched teeth, glaring at her.
“I’m making something clear, if you go after the Eevee you lost, you’re going to get yourself killed.” Agatha said in a simple tone, not bothered by him.
If anything, Green’s glare deepened. “You don’t get to tell me what to do after you walked out on Gramps.”
That got a reaction out of Agatha who clenched her staff rather tightly. “And you don’t get to talk about stuff you clearly don’t understand. Grandson or not, I won’t take that lightly.”
“Wha?” Violet took a step back, not expecting this.
Agatha was Green’s grandmother?!
Green glanced at Violet for her reaction with an annoyed look.
So much for not telling anyone.
Agatha however huffed. “Yes we’re related, keep up brat.” She said not even looking at the Bug Catcher before she continued. “All you’ll do is get yourself killed because you’re too weak to stand up to Team Rocket or did you forget how I had to intervene the moment you went down?”
Not to mention how they only survived Surge because of how Oak intervened.
They can’t get lucky forever.
“I’m not weak.” Green protested, taking a step forward but the Gengar made a noise of warning, already losing its patience with the boy.
“Oh really? Then you wouldn’t have let yourself be controlled or lost your Eevee.” Agatha said, a rather sarcastic tone in her voice, Green gritting his teeth as she said that last part. “Or you wouldn’t let Koga take you down so easily.”
Green went quiet but Violet blinked. “Wait Koga? The Fuschia City Gym Leader?”
This was ridiculous, how many Gym Leaders were secretly Team Rocket Members?!
“Former Fuschia City Gym Leader, while you both were out the League raided the Gym but he was already long gone.” Agatha looked from Green to Violet when she answered. “Right now we have another trainer taking over temporarily until we can find a replacement.”
She huffed in annoyance at the paperwork this involved, especially with her having to intervene.
The sooner this League passes by the sooner she could relax in her retirement.
Agatha then glanced at Green, seeing that he wasn’t paying attention and promptly turned away, her Gengar going back in her shadow. “Whether you listen to me or not is your call, just know that I won’t bail you out again.”
Gritting his teeth, Green just left the place, leaving for Violet to awkwardly glance at Agatha before following suit.
Making it outside, she ran to catch up to Green who didn’t even glance at her as they walked in silence before he sighed after a few minutes. “What?” He asked, coming to a stop the moment the old Lavender mansion was out of sight.
Violet shifted uneasily, not really sure what to say and she didn’t want to ask about the problem with Agatha because it was clearly some family drama she didn’t want to get involved in.
“What’s the plan?”
That surprised Green who gave her a look, barely covering it up. “None of your business.”
“Considering how many times I’ve run into Team Rocket it kind of is.” Violet shrugged at how he said that. “I’m not going to stand by while your Eevee is in their hands.”
“I don’t need or want your help.”
Ignoring his harsh tone as he walked ahead, Violet pulled her Pokedex out. “So I guess you don’t need this to try and track yours down?” She asked, making Green come to a complete stop, trying to ignore how she actually sounded a little smug for once.
While he wasn’t looking, he knew exactly what she pulled out and resisted the urge to groan before swallowing his pride and turning to her, his face adopting a confused expression.
“Why?”
He didn’t expect her to offer any help.
Violet frowned, not sure how to answer that.
Finally after a few tense seconds of silence, she spoke. “You helped me on the ship, Seafoam Island and even in Cinnabar with the TM you gave me,” She said in a careful tone. “Is it really that hard to believe I want to help you?”
“I just figured you would do anything to avoid Team Rocket, not actually look for them.”
That was true.
This was the first time Violet was going to actually search for them, even after promising Prof. Oak that she would avoid them.
Violet gave a small laugh, a bitter tone showing. “At this point I’m starting to give up on ever avoiding them.” She said, remembering all the times she either ran into them or they hunted her down.
Outside of Pallet Town.
Mt. Moon.
Cerulean City.
The SS. Anne.
Seafoam Island.
Outside of the Rock Tunnel.
And finally the Pokemon Tower.
Seven separate times in the span of two months.
“And you have to admit, we made a good team against them,” Violet reminded Green who looked away in thought. “I’m not saying we travel together every step of the way in Kanto, but if you’re going to go looking for them to get your Eevee back wouldn’t it be better with someone watching your back?”
Though he hated to admit it, Green knew that Violet had a point.
Especially because of how strong Surge and Koga were along with how they had Articuno.
And then you had that woman on Seafoam who teleported Surge out of there.
Despite how strong he claimed to be, they were stronger.
Turning away, Green huffed. “Don’t you dare slow me down.” He said, missing how Violet looked surprised as he walked off.
She honestly didn’t think she could convince Green but she smiled and followed after him.
Until they found his Eevee it seemed that they were going to be travelling together.
The sun was setting by the time the two were ready to make camp, making some progress from Lavender Town towards Celadon City, the only way for them to go for the moment.
The whole walk was rather silent except for whenever Violet was checking the Pokedex to see if Green’s was in range, though they had no luck on that front.
Still they had a few more days until they could reach Celadon, so it might start beeping before then.
Closing the Pokedex after checking it one final time, Violet glanced up to see Green releasing all of his Pokemon except for Gyarados.
Pidgeot, Kadabra, Sandslash and Vulpix all appeared, stretching before pausing as they saw her along with Green, the former three glancing at their trainer as if wondering if they were having a battle while the latter was curious in who she was, only seeing her once in the chaos that was the tower after being freed from the hypnosis mind control.
Green paused to give Pidgeot a nod, showing his own congrats on his evolution which made the bird puff his chest out in pride.
“You’re not sending Gyarados out?” Violet asked curiously.
“Gyarados prefers to sleep in water, so he remains in his Pokeball unless there’s a battle, training or a lake when we camp.” Green answered her before he began to take a tent out of his bag to unfold.
The minute he did that, his Pokemon took off with Sandslash using Slash on some branches on a tree with Kadabra using Confusion to hold them in the air, waiting for the ground type to use dig to make a fire pit where he slowly lowered the sticks in before using Confusion to grab some nearby rocks to place around the pit.
Then the Vulpix came over and lit the branches on fire with a small ember.
Violet looked surprised by all of this.
Whenever she camped, neither she nor her Pokemon did anything like this.
They just plopped down wherever they could and slept.
Still, not wanting to stand there doing nothing, Violet let Stinger, Silk and Parasite out with the three panicking for a brief second before seeing she was fine.
Oh right, the last thing they saw before being placed in stasis was her and Green going down.
Speaking of which, they noticed Green and tensed up, probably thinking that some sort of battle was about to happen.
“We’re traveling with Green for now.” Violet said in a simple tone with her Pokemon looking very unsure about this.
But they kept that part to themselves before the two flyers glanced at Parasite, making a few noises as they took off.
That made Green look over with a raised brow. “Where are they going?”
“Whenever we make camp both Stinger and Silk go to collect honey from nearby plants and tree sap, it makes for some good income with the right people and it adds some flavor whenever we eat.” Violet then pulled some empty jars from her bag for whenever they returned. “Though it’s only if Parasite is out that they do this so I’m not left alone.”
Otherwise they won’t leave the camp.
Green hummed in thought.
Parasite slowly walked over towards Green’s Pokemon, making some noises with Pidgeot actually looking concerned at how emotionless Parasite was as he remembered this Pokemon back from when it was a Paras.
Kadabra however turned away, the loss against this bug still going through his mind along with the more recent one he could barely remember.
Sandslash just took a few steps back a bit weirded out while Vulpix calmly groomed herself, not that bothered.
While that was going on, Green noticed Violet holding a fourth Pokeball. “You have another one?”
If that was the case, then why didn’t she let it out against Koga?
“Kind of, I caught Venonat right before the Tower, so I haven’t really gotten to know her yet.” Violet gave a low chuckle, gripping the Pokeball. “With everything that happened I almost forgot I caught her.”
Shaking her head, Violet let Venonat out and the minute she appeared Green actually let out what sounded like a strangled cry, looking in disbelief.
“You caught a Shiny?” Green asked, not expecting that.
“Is that bad?” Violet wasn’t sure what to make of his reaction. “I was just trying to catch her before she ran off like the other Venonats.”
“Is tha-?! Do you not realize how rare shiny Pokemon are?”
Violet shook her head.
Green stared before sighing, not sure why he was surprised at this point.
While this was going on, Venonat was just looking around rather nervously, taking a few steps back as she could see all of the strong Pokemon around her that dwarfed her in both size and strength.
Seeing that Violet approached Venonat and crouched to appear smaller. “Hey there.” She said with a friendly smile to Venonat, reaching a hand out.
The next thing Violet knew, Venonat used Confusion to launch her away from the bug.
Thankfully, Green’s Kadabra caught her easily with his own Confusion, but the actions of Venonat caused Parasite to slam into her with a Body Slam, pinning it down as it struggled, sounding very annoyed with the dirt going in her fur.
As Kadabra lowered Violet down, Green gave her a deadpanned look. “You do realize you’re lucky it didn’t go for Poison Powder right?” He shook his head. “What were you thinking?”
Just going up to a newly caught Pokemon like that?
Especially when her only Pokemon in the area wasn’t close enough to prevent something like that from happening?
If Kadabra wasn’t here then she could’ve been seriously injured.
It’s like she has no sense of self preservation.
“I just did what I did with the others.”
That made Green go silent. “How are you even alive?” He asked in a confused tone.
Weedles were well known to be temperamental to new trainers at best and downright deadly at worst with their Poison Stings.
Paras could pierce a person’s skin and drain their nutrients with their claws after using their spores from their mushrooms to incapacitate the person in question.
The fact that neither of those things have happened to Violet was a testament to her luck if that was how she approached each of them.
If she even tried that with a Scyther or a Pinsir she would’ve been crushed like a grape or sliced to ribbons in a split second.
Only Caterpie was safe to approach in that manner because the worst one would experience was a bad smell due to the stench they give out to ward off predators.
Violet said nothing in response to that.
She knew the reason was because of who her Pokemon were.
Stinger was playful as a Weedle, not a dangerous playful like some Pokemon can be but he showed a lot of affection the moment she caught him.
Silk only joined because of the food, being a little wary of Violet but not enough to actually do anything.
Parasite was too timid to even try anything back then, especially with Stinger and Silk out.
She knew that when she approached them and after those three she kind of assumed it would work the same with Venonat.
Speaking of which, Venonat was trying to use Confusion on Parasect but the bulky mushroom Pokemon resisted it quite easily due to training with Silk who was much better with that certain attack.
“Parasite you can get off.” Violet called out with the mushroom Pokemon glancing towards her and after a few seconds listened, leaving for Venonat to stand up, glaring at the one who attacked her before turning away in a huff.
Green shook his head and got back to work on the tent, wanting it up before the sun set.
“Sorry, Parasite is rather protective.” Violet said to the Venonat who glanced at her with the girl approaching again, this time however she kept her distance a little to avoid making the bug uncomfortable. “My name’s Violet, it’s nice to meet you.”
Venonat kept looking before turning away as it shook its fur, trying to get the dirt off.
Seeing that, Violet remembered how the Venonat didn’t notice her before being captured by looking at its own reflection.
So this Pokemon was more interested in her own looks?
Deciding to use that, Violet reached into her bag to pull out a small towel. “Need some help?” She offered, catching Venonat’s attention once more.
The Venonat tilted her head before deciding to allow it if it meant this dirt would get off faster.
Smiling, Violet walked closer and began to use the towel to wipe the dirt off, being careful not to do it too hard otherwise the Venonat might send her flying back with another Confusion.
‘ Maybe I can look into getting grooming tools in Celadon? ’ Violet thought to herself.
It was something she didn’t have because neither of her other Pokemon were ones to care about their appearances, same with her really.
But considering what she figured out so far with Venonat, that would be the best way to bond with her.
As she got the dirt off, Venonat gave a low cry, finding this kind of nice.
Though she still was wary of Violet, mostly annoyed by the surprise attack from their first meeting and how dirty she got with the String Shot.
“There you go.” Violet said, managing to get as much of the dirt out as she could, though Venonat looked irked because of how her fur was now messed up. “I don’t really have a brush, so I won’t be much help there.”
Hearing that, Venonat began to groom herself, leading Violet to stand up and glance at Green who was almost finished with the tent. “Anything I can do to help?” She called out, not wanting to leave him to set up the camp by himself.
At first Green said nothing but he nodded to Pidgeot who took to the air, making a cry as he began to fly in a certain direction. “Pidgeot can see a stream up there, I have some water canteens that need to be filled.” He told her, accepting that bit of help. “Pidgeot will lead you there and keep an eye in case something happens.”
Violet gave a nod while Venonat perked up at hearing the word stream, something that Violet noticed.
“Parasite, you stay behind to let Stinger and Silk know if they get back before me.”
She was going to use this walk to get to know Venonat for the moment.
Violet hummed as she walked in the direction Pidgeot was leading her, carrying the empty flasks to fill, Venonat walking behind her, keeping a fearful eye on the Pidgeot.
She had no idea if the flying type would try to eat her or not, so she wanted to be cautious.
The sky was darkening showing that they didn’t have too long before it was dark out, so Violet was hoping to get to the stream and back before then.
But she was getting tired of the silence, having kept it all day so she spoke. “You want a nickname?”
Venonat’s antenna twitched as she looked at her new trainer.
“It’s something I’ve been doing for the other members of the team, I’m trying to prove to the world that Bug Pokemon can be just as good as any other ones.” Violet continued, glancing at the sky. “It’s been a dream of mine ever since I set out with Stinger.”
And she already came so far with half of a team.
Venonat kept quiet.
Hearing all of this showed that if she officially joined, then Violet would be expecting her to battle and she didn’t like the sound of that.
While most Pokemon enjoy battles, she much preferred being clean and scar free, thank you very much.
Though she’s not blind to the fact that her unusual color, something she takes pride in, is basically a beacon for people trying to catch her wanting a shiny of their own or for predators to easily spot her.
Up until Violet, she’s been able to avoid them with ease.
Then she remembered overhearing Violet and that boy before she approached Venonat the first time.
‘ You caught a Shiny? ’
‘ Is that bad? I was just trying to catch her before she ran off like the other Venonats. ’
This kid didn’t try to catch her just because she was shiny, so that was a point in her books.
Might as well go along with this for now, though she’s definitely not going to try and battle, that’s for sure.
So with that done, Venonat ran forward making a noise, watching Violet’s face light up as she guessed what the Pokemon was saying.
“Okay, before I caught you I had quite a few names thought of already such as Amethyst and Dusk, but I don’t think the former would work when you evolve.” Violet did look into how a Shiny Venomoth looked. “What about the latter?”
Venonat shook her head, not liking it.
“Scales?”
Another no.
“Okay this is going to be a tough one-.” Her eyes lit up. “What about Sapphire?”
That was the color that Venomoth would be once Venonat evolved.
Venonat perked up at that, liking the thought of being named after a jewel and preened.
“Alright, Sapphire it is.” Violet grinned her way before they made it to the stream.
“Bzzt.” Stinger buzzed lightly, finding a flower field and ignoring the Growlithe that came up to sniff him as he began to get some honey, watching as the fire puppy ran off afterwards.
While he was doing that, his mind kept flashing to everything that happened so far.
Once more his trainer was taken down despite how much they improved and it frustrated him immensely.
The fact that it was that same exact man who nearly killed her in Mt. Moon only added to that.
Still he did have some gratification at seeing the Arbok get sliced in half.
Normally he wouldn’t take pleasure in that but considering the pain that particular Pokemon and its trainer has been causing them, he’ll take what he can get in regards to payback against it.
More than that, he was rather against traveling with that Green boy.
After all he remembered the insults against him and his teammates along with how he talked down to Violet quite clearly.
Hearing a noise, Stinger didn’t turn around thinking it was Silk and went to ignore her wanting to be by himself only to be surprised when an Ekans shot out of the tall grass and bit him before wrapping around him.
Buzzing in anger, Stinger fired a String Shot at its face, forcing it to let go before jabbing it with a Twineedle, knocking it out entirely as it was sent flying.
He was really starting to hate that evolution line and was angry that he let himself be attacked like that.
Especially by a Pokemon that was obviously much weaker then he was.
“Fweh.” Silk commented, making him turn to see another Ekans that was being held down by a Confusion and came to a startling realization.
This second Ekans was about to attack him while he was held by the first one, Silk intervened which gave Stinger enough time to use his String Shot.
If Silk wasn’t here that second Ekans would’ve stopped him before he could do that and he didn’t want to picture what would happen next.
“Bzzt.” Stinger muttered a low thanks, catching Silk by surprise before she began to violently slam the Ekans into the ground with surprising ferocity as she sent it flying in the same direction as the first making him stare in stunned silence.
It appeared that he wasn’t the only one starting to hate the evolution line.
Sure it wasn’t fair to the Pokemon but their experiences with Ekans and Arboks were never good considering how many members of Team Rocket had them.
Feeling some discomfort, Stinger glanced at the bite in his shoulder seeing that it pierced his carapace.
Thankfully he was a Poison Type, otherwise that would be a very serious injury along with poison in his veins.
It’ll heal, but it was annoying.
Silk noticed and flew close with concern.
Stinger played it off and continued to gather honey, ignoring the ache before he thanked her.
This was just a reminder that no matter how strong he was getting, even weaker Pokemon could get the jump on him if he wasn’t careful.
Something he really should’ve known already given how many times he and the others fought and won against Pokemon that were much more powerful then they were.
Silk seemed surprised by the gratitude.
Normally Stinger would’ve played it off like he had it under control and that worried her.
It was funny in a way, they always tried to one up each other ever since they met and antagonized one another, the memory of them firing String Shot back when they were a Kakuna and Caterpie along with flinging honey at each other came to mind and Silk couldn’t help but giggle at the memories in fond amusement.
Compared to everything else, she was starting to treasure those moments.
Stinger tilted his head, wondering what she was giggling about before she flew close and used String Shot on his shoulder, catching him by surprise as the bite was covered.
She didn’t need to do that, he would’ve taken care of it himself.
Tilting her head, Silk flew off to a nearby flower and after a moment Stinger gave a low buzz, showing some gratitude.
It seemed that he wasn’t going to get the alone time he wanted when he did this.
But maybe that wasn’t so bad.
By the time Violet made it back to the camp, she saw Green’s Pokemon having a fourway fight between Kadabra, Sandslash, Vulpix and Gyarados.
“What’s going on?” She asked a bit panicked, only seeing Green standing to the side watching.
“We’re training, I suggest you do the same if we’re going to be going after Team Rocket.” Green gestured to a nearby hole. “Your Parasect decided to burrow down there if you’re wondering where she is.”
He then glanced towards her, not bothered when the Gyarados nailed Vulpix with a Dragon Rage only for the vixen to get back up immediately to launch a Confuse Ray, being backed up by Kadabra’s Psybeam and Sandslash using Poison Sting.
“Any trouble getting the water?”
He doubted it because Pidgeot would’ve gotten their attention if there was any trouble.
“None.” Violet handed him the flasks. “It was a quiet walk and I think I made some progress with Sapphire.”
Sapphire didn’t answer, instead looking terrified at how brutal this training session was.
Was this what she had to look forward to?!
Green made no comment on the nickname. “Vulpix.” He called out, catching her attention, leaving for the other three Pokemon to leave her alone as she made her way towards him with Pidgeot taking her place with a Quick Attack.
Her newfound bulk pushed Gyarados back, making him roar a challenge at the bird Pokemon.
“Doesn’t this seem a bit much?” Violet asked, seeing Sandslash use a slash on Gyarados, cutting into the scales.
Instead of answering, Green held the flask out as Vulpix did a low flamethrower on it.
It was fireproof and he was only doing this to boil the water, getting rid of any bacteria that could be inside of the stream.
Violet frowned, thinking he was just ignoring her before he spoke. “How serious do you take being a trainer?”
That took Violet aback a little, not expecting that question.
Green didn’t wait for her to answer.
“I can’t afford to go easy on them, especially during training. As their trainer it’s my responsibility to make them as strong as I can and I can’t do that unless I push them past their limits.” Green told her, looking back at his team, eliciting for Violet to do the same.
She could see how exhausted Sandslash and Kadabra were along with how Gyarados was panting, but they kept going with grins on their faces.
“You know better then anyone how dangerous Team Rocket are and we can’t afford to slack off at any point.”
“I do but if you push them too much they’ll be exhausted by the time we get ready to fight them.”
Their conversation was cut off when Stinger and Silk made their way back to the camp, leaving for her to turn her attention to them.
Green watched as she made a small fuss about the makeshift bandage on the Beedrill’s shoulder before turning his attention back towards his training regime with Vulpix rejoining.
It was close to the middle of the night by the time Green finished training, his Pokemon looking exhausted as they were all lying in different parts of the camp with the exception of Gyarados who opted to return to his ball.
Meanwhile, Violet spent most of the time getting to know Sapphire and integrating her to the team.
“You wasted tonight.” Green told her in a sharp tone.
It was baffling to him on how she didn’t even try to train today.
Violet just gave him a look. “Oh really?” She asked with a grin. “I think tonight was time well spent for me working on my bonds.”
Green snorted. “Bonds? Now you’re sounding like Gramps.”
He’s not saying it’s not important because he had a bit of a bond with his team, but it wouldn’t matter when they get to the actual fight.
“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Violet pointed out before nodding to Stinger who took to the air.
Another reason she didn’t train was because she knew that Green’s Pokemon would be exhausted tonight, so it left her team to be the guards for tonight given how well rested they were.
Parasite meanwhile dug underground while Silk flew towards Sapphire and began to speak with her.
“Besides, Sapphire is new and I want to take things a little slow with her.”
“Coddling won’t do anything.”
That made Violet glare. “Neither will training her so hard she won’t move.”
Green scoffed at that, before turning away showing that the conversation was over before entering his tent.
Rolling her eyes, Violet walked away to where she placed her sleeping bag, taking her hat off to place on her backpack itself.
However, she couldn’t get what he said out of her head, staring at the stars above, knowing that no matter how close she was to her Pokemon, they do need to train a bit more.
Unknown to her, Green was the same way inside of his tent as he thought about what she said about bonds remembering the conversations with his Grandpa on the importance of them.
“I see.” Giovanni muttered as Koga finished giving him the report, the former sitting on a couch while Persian laid next to his feet while he leaned forward, lacing his fingers together in thought. “So our plans for the Haunted Tower ended in a failure.”
They were hoping to use the tower as a base after clearing it out of the Ghost Pokemon, but they almost succeeded given how they caught plenty of them, the Grunts and Admins getting Gastly’s and Haunters to help diversify their teams a bit.
“And the Hawke girl was there?” Giovanni asked, glancing up at Koga.
The same girl who kept getting in their way to the point where he was beginning to really dislike this child.
The first few times he’ll admit it was on them considering how she wasn’t looking for them with bad luck involved and some of his men took it upon themselves to go after her in vengeance, causing them to lose even more assets that they sorely needed.
Surge and the Admins coming to mind.
It was why he sent the Admins to Johto to integrate themselves over there and await future orders.
But now she was starting to push her luck.
“She was.”
Giovanni narrowed his eyes.
He might have to get involved personally if this kept up.
“Head to Saffron City and lay low in the safe house alongside Surge.” He ordered the former Poison Gym Leader. “With you exposed, having you in the field is too dangerous.”
And they can’t afford to lose any of the executives at this point.
Especially now that Koga can’t send anymore Safari Pokemon to the Game Corner to help fund their activities.
“I want you to work on your control over Articuno while Surge works with Zapdos, when we have Moltres we’ll work on the next phase.”
Koga gave a nod and left without a word, leaving for Giovanni to turn his laptop on to show the Eevee they procured from the failed mission crying out in pain as it was being experimented on.
So far it was going well as he saw the Eevee’s form shift to show a Flareon before becoming a Vaporeon and then a Jolteon before going back to normal.
He then switched the camera over to show one of the scientists going over this device that Eevee’s trainer had.
The man was looking over it slowly to see how it worked with very promising results.
“Tell me Sabrina,” Giovanii spoke, feeling a presence behind him as the masked woman who saved Surge appeared out of nowhere. “How much of a problem will she be?”
Knowing he was referring to Violet, Sabrina took off her disguise, showing a young nineteen year old girl with pink eyes and long black hair that was currently pulled into a bun.
Focusing as her eyes began to glow blue, Sabrina saw into the future before nodding.
“She will cause more problems, however it will be her end.” She said to Giovanni who listened intently. “Our plans for Silph Co. She'll come into contact with Surge again while he controls Zapdos and will perish during the fight.”
The images raced through her head with everything the young bug catcher would accomplish.
Facing the other Gyms, completing her bug team, facing Surge only to have her heart stop via electrocution.
From there, nothing.
Her death will be meaningless and she will be forgotten in the grand scheme of things.
As was fate.
Giovanni gave a low nod, knowing how accurate Sabrina’s predictions were.
It was one of the reasons he personally recruited her in the early stages of Team Rocket, back when she was a child who lost everything, ensuring her loyalty to the Organization.
Coughing could be heard as Lucy exited Viridian Forest, her Spearow on her shoulder as her clothes were wrinkled and full of dirt, having finally made it out after a week inside.
Her first week after gaining her trainer license, she was intent on getting her first badge and moving to build her team up before continuing so she can try to enter the upcoming Indigo League Tournament.
Then when she sees Violet again, she’ll crush her in their rematch.
No matter what bugs she sends out.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
4th Pokemon
Name: Sapphire
Species: Venonat (Shiny)
Type: Bug/Poison
Gender: Female
Nature: Mild (Up Sp. Attack/Down Defense)
Characteristics: Loves to Eat (Up HP)
Lv. 26
Caught at Lv. 26
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion and Poison Powder
Was captured in Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 14th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee *Stolen*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeot
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind and Wing Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable, Psybeam and Recover
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig, Slash and Poison Sting.
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster *Stored*
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Gyarados
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Splash, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage and Leer
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar, Confuse Ray and Flamethrower
10th Pokemon
Species: Magnemite *Stored*
Type: Electric
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Lucy’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Nidorina
Type: Poison
Gender: Female
Lv. 24
Caught at Lv. 6
Ability: Hustle
Moves: Tackle, Scratch, Growl, Double Kick and Poison Sting.
2nd Pokemon
Species: Spearow
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Unknown
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pikachu
Type: Electric
Gender: Unknown
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Notes:
Alright, finally got this chapter out and man oh man a lot is happening.
From Green and Violet making a temporary truce in their rivalry to go after Team Rocket, a very stupid move on their part but given the reason it’s understandable, to Giovanni’s reaction to hearing about the failure in the Haunted Tower.
And then Sabrina’s Vision, that certainly adds a lot of worries in the future.
We also finally have Lucy starting her journey, making it out of the Forest showing how far behind she is, but she is beginning to catch up and is determined to pay Violet back for her loss.
Not to mention I’m pretty sure everyone now knows what I have planned for Green’s Eevee at this point, am I right?
Now the reason I’m having Violet and Green travel together for the moment is because it makes sense really.
At this point in their journey Violet is starting to consider Green to be more of a friend rather than a rival after everything they survived. Though Green will probably deny that if asked. And she’s not the type of person to let a friend go into danger like this alone.
Plus with how many times she ran into or was ambushed by Team Rocket, she’s finally getting to the point where she’s willing to take the fight to them, especially since she is getting strong enough to hold her own.
And she also doesn’t want to know how dangerous Team Rocket can be if they can duplicate the Pokedex so that’s another reason why she’s making such a reckless decision right now.
This also gives me a chance to develop their characters a bit more because both of them have a different style of training.
Green favors overpowering his enemies by focusing entirely on training, combined with the strategies he’s employed it would make him a fierce opponent.
Violet on the other hand focuses too much on her bonds and doesn’t train her team until they’re about to collapse.
Both have their pros and cons, as such both of them will learn from one another on this short journey.
And don’t worry, once they find Eevee they’ll go their separate ways and be back to being rivals.
Oh and we have Sapphire (I know it’s unoriginal but I like it) showing her prissy personality as she’s one of the Pokemon that would care more about her appearance then battling.
That’s not to say she won’t hold her own if she has to, which she will, but she prefers not to if the option is there.
Chapter 26: The Road to Celadon Part 2
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
“Nice job Parasite.” Violet had a grin on her face as the mushroom Pokemon just won another battle, the trainer grumbling as they left.
It’s only been a single day since she and Green started traveling together and they were running into trainers who were out on the road right now, both of them taking turns in who would battle.
Parasite made a small noise that almost sounded like she was happy and Violet beamed at her.
Green kept quiet, instead looking at the town map he had to see how long it would be to Celadon City.
If they couldn’t find Eevee there he would leave immediately to check Fuschia City regardless of there being a Gym there.
He’ll focus on Gyms when he has his starter back.
Glancing up, he saw Violet returning Parasite before walking towards him with a grin on her face.
“So what Pokemon are you going to use for the next battle?” She asked curiously as Green has been switching it up with each battle.
He kept Pidgeot and Gyarados rested in case they ran into trouble, but he’s been switching between Sandslash, Vulpix and Kadabra with each trainer.
It was rather interesting to see Green battle up close without being the opponent for once.
“I’d rather not waste anymore time.” Green answered immediately.
But he knew that the battles helped a lot with the training and with getting money to restock supplies.
Putting the map up, Green got back to walking with Violet frowning before following after.
Hearing her catch up, Green kept his eyes on the road, hands in his pocket as he walked.
It was… Strange to be travelling with someone else right now.
For the longest time it’s always been just him and his Pokemon whenever he was on the road.
Catching Pokemon to help with Gramps research.
Moving from one challenge to the next with the Gyms.
Doing whatever it took to build the best possible team he could make.
Those were the three things he set out to do despite Gramps trying to get him to slow down at times.
As usual he would ignore it, wanting to get strong enough to win the Indigo Tournament.
So to have a human companion, even for a short time, was new territory for him and Green wasn’t sure what to make of it.
Or of Violet.
The girl he immediately thought of as weak upon their first meeting when she only had a Kakuna and a Caterpie. The one he defeated with no effort on Nugget Bridge despite the surprise Bide on her Paras.
Yet since then she became strong enough to tie with him on the Ship, to take on the likes of Team Rocket and even take his Pokemon down in the Tower.
Even if Green didn’t count the tower battle, technically she still won.
It was baffling.
Even more so when he saw that she didn’t train like he did, instead she just made friends with and coddled them.
This whole time he thought she pushed them as hard as he did with his team.
Hearing a noise, Green turned to see that Violet let her Butterfree out, watching as it landed on her hat as its antenna began to emit a soft blue glow as if it was using Confusion.
Yet nothing was happening.
“What are you doing?”
The question caught Violet off guard as Silk looked at him. “Oh it’s um… How do I explain?” She crossed her arms as they walked. “The last few weeks I’ve been working on Silk’s psychic abilities and tried to form a psychic connection with her so I could silently give orders during a battle.”
Green raised a brow in surprise.
It was something he himself had worked on with his Kadabra, but he didn’t think a Butterfree could be trained that way too.
“But instead somehow whenever the connection activates I’m actually seeing through Silk’s eyes.” Violet grinned, seeing the dumbfounded look on Green’s face from Silk’s point of view. “It’s not that stable or good in the middle of a battle, but it’s getting better and with it I was able to get through the darkest parts of Rock Tunnel.”
“I didn’t know that could happen.” Green muttered, remembering how he would always look inside of the Pokedex for countless info on various Pokemon.
Not once did something like that come up.
“I know, it was weird at first, but it’s amazing.”
Violet then tripped over a rock that was in the path, not seeing it due to the connection and fell forward with Silk breaking the connection to use Confusion to catch her before she did a faceplant.
“But it still has its downsides.” Violet gave an awkward chuckle. “Thanks for the catch, Silk.”
“Fweh.”
Green just stared in silent contemplation as Silk placed Violet back on her feet.
“Come on Sapphire, at least give it a try.” Violet was frowning at her newest team member that night, wanting to get some training in to help her catch up with the others.
Right now she had them working on their moves with Stinger still attempting to master Rage and Silk was alternating between Teleport and Psybeam to help do hit and run tactics.
Parasite was focusing on gathering energy for SolarBeam despite it being evening wanting to work on how fast she can gather the energy for it.
She wanted to have Sapphire practice how much she could carry with Confusion and to work on how fast she can use Disable to have her be useful for support until she does catch up.
But the shiny kept turning away, absolutely refusing to even train.
Green kept his attention on his team, having Pidgeot and Gyarados battle each other so they could keep their skills sharp, but he had the other three working on their individual strengths due to the number of battles they’ve been in earlier.
He was trying to have his Sandslash work on that Quicksand technique Violet has had Parasite do, thinking it would be useful to know, or at least know how to counter it effectively for their next battle once they were done traveling together.
Kadabra was meditating, wanting to increase its mental state to allow its psychic attacks to be even more effective against opponents which would make it even stronger when he finally evolves.
Vulpix was using Quick Attack to move around, hitting targets he had set up for her with Ember, keeping an eye out in case he needed to have Sandslash use Sand Attack to put out a stray flame before a fire would break out.
He’ll have to see about buying a Fire Stone in Celadon to evolve Vulpix once she learns all she can.
Finally he turned to see Violet looking frustrated at Sapphire who sat down and began to groom herself.
That made him frown.
“Vulpix.” He called out, catching the fire vixen’s attention before nodding in Sapphire’s direction. “Quick Attack.”
Vulpix listened immediately, slamming into Sapphire causing the Insect Pokemon to squeal in surprise.
Violet jumped before whirling around to glare. “What the heck, Green?!” She asked in anger. “That was uncalled for.”
Green crossed his arms as Vulpix backed off, leaving for Sapphire to glare her way. “The way I see it, it was completely necessary.” He said, not bothered at all. “Your Venonat is wasting time that we don’t have, she won’t listen to you to train then we’ll battle until she does.”
“But-.” Violet went to protest before Green cut her off.
“Venonat is your weak link right now,” He said in a harsh tone. “Your other bugs are strong, but Venonat will only drag them down if we let this continue and that could lead to her death as well as ours.”
Violet hesitated at that before her shoulders sagged.
He was right.
If they were still just doing Gyms only then she would take her time to help adjust Sapphire to being on the team.
But with what they were doing, she couldn’t afford that luxury.
She glanced towards the others who saw the action but they didn’t intervene.
Even though they looked just as hesitant.
It seemed they agreed with Green on this one.
Taking a deep breath, Violet focused. “Don’t hold back.” She said, getting ready to battle.
Sapphire gave a protest at hearing that while Green smirked. “I already know not to underestimate you by now.” He then got ready. “Flamethrower!”
Vulpix reared her head back before firing the flames at Sapphire who understandably panicked, quickly running out of the way using her special ability to move quicker.
“Disable.” Violet called out, wanting to lock the move away.
Sapphire however used Confusion instead, not listening to the trainer because right now she was trying to get out of this fight.
Vulpix easily ignored it due to the training with Kadabra who was much stronger with that move and ran in, hitting Sapphire with another Quick Attack before firing a close ranged Confuse Ray.
Sapphire stumbled around, attempting to use Confusion again only to use it on herself, making her cry out before an Ember took her down.
Now laying on the ground with messy, scorched fur, Sapphire made noises of pain while Green shook his head in annoyance of the easy battle.
He knew that it could fight better, but the Pokemon needed to listen to its trainer rather than panic and use moves that obviously weren’t going to work.
Violet meanwhile ran and gently picked Sapphire up with a sad expression.
She obviously didn’t like this solution.
Green turned back to his team while Violet began to heal Sapphire with both a Burn Heal and a Revive before returning the Pokemon to give her some rest.
“Until she decides to join your team in training we’re going to do this every night.” Green warned his rival. “I’ll use Sandslash to give her a fighting chance though.”
After all, using Vulpix right off the bat was a little much.
He’ll admit that much.
But it did send a message to the shiny.
Violet looked like she wanted to argue but kept silent knowing that it was necessary.
Instead, she turned back to the others, seeing Stinger erupt in a fit of rage before Silk and Parasite knocked some sense into him once more.
He was definitely lasting longer before he lost it.
Taking a deep breath, Violet came to a decision. “Stinger! Silk! Parasite!” She called out, getting their attention. “I want you three to battle each other to train up.”
Much like how Green did with his team the other night.
Stinger actually perked up at that, finding the idea interesting while Silk flapped her wings with eagerness, wanting to throw down a bit.
Parasite tilted her head in interest, her eyes showing some more emotion before they got ready.
Without a word they all launched at each other with Stinger using Agility to outspeed them while Silk fired a Gust at the two to immediately cause some damage, Parasite grumbling at that before using Dig to dodge, setting up some spores to launch.
Easily flying around the makeshift twister, Stinger began to jab at Silk with a Fury Attack, the Butterfly Pokemon being pressed to dodge them as she used Harden to try and make her skin tougher to tank the hits, before firing a Psybeam that Stinger tried to block with his Stingers, sending him back.
As he went flying back, Parasite struck, lunging out of the ground with a Body Slam, hitting Stinger before using Stun Spore to paralyze him and then going back into the ground, seeing him as the big threat compared to Silk.
Stinger grunted in annoyance at that, feeling his limbs lock up before Silk slammed into him with a Tackle.
She then used Teleport to appear above the Poison Bee, forming a Psybeam to fire but Stinger broke through the Paralysis and returned fire with a Twineedle, hitting the psychic energy before it could be complete, causing a small explosion that damaged Silk, sending her to the ground.
That was when Parasite struck again, doing the same tactic against her with Body Slam and Stun Spore, hindering both opponents.
But before she could go back underground, Stinger used Twineedle again, causing some major damage to the Mushroom Pokemon, leaving her to go back underground to keep in the fight.
Silk then fired multiple String Shots at the ground, in an effort to trap Parasite should she come out again.
Violet began to take notes of how the team fought by themselves without her giving orders and she was rather intrigued.
Parasite was obviously the strategist between them, doing whatever she could to hinder her opponents, giving her the advantage she would need to win while Stinger would be the one to set himself up before going into the thick of things.
Silk didn’t do either, instead being the first one to cause damage while using her psychic energy to keep her distance before setting traps.
Late that night, both trainers sat at the campfire, their Pokemon out and about resting after the training session, exhausted beyond belief.
Except for Sapphire who was now paranoid that she was going to be attacked again, despite how everyone was eating.
Violet meanwhile was looking through her Pokedex, trying to use the tracker to see if Green’s was in range.
Sadly, there was still nothing.
Frowning, she checked to see that Celadon was another eight days away showing that they’ll be on the road for awhile.
Putting the Pokedex up, Violet lightly tapped her knee as she glanced over at Green who was silently eating a sandwich he had out.
The silence was really getting to her but she had no idea what to say.
Back with her other-.
Do Brock, Misty, Samurai and Bill count as friends?
She didn’t really know much about them despite how friendly they were to each other, but the only time they really interacted were greeting one another or to battle.
That was it.
Heck, she only met Bill once, so he was more of an acquaintance at this point.
All of them were now that she thought about it.
Pushing those thoughts away, Violet realized that despite being a little more social now compared to her school day, she was still awkward around people unless it was a quick meet and greet.
That was kind of sad now that she thought about it.
“What?” Green asked in annoyance and Violet realized she was staring, making her wince.
“Nothing… Just-I’m not really used to traveling with someone, so this is new for me.” She admitted, hoping he would accept that explanation.
Green kept silent at that as she fidgeted.
Finally after a bit, he actually continued the conversation. “Why did Gramps give you the Pokedex?”
He wasn’t trying to be insulting, he was genuinely curious about the reason.
Violet blinked at that, not expecting for him to keep the conversation going, but she took to it without much thought, not wanting the awkward silence to be back.
“Oh um, I bumped into him back in Route 1, Stinger was just a Weedle then and I was-.”
She stopped remembering how she was crying after being picked on in school.
There was no way she was admitting that to him.
“I was trying to train.” Violet lied despite how Green seemed to notice her hesitance but didn’t call her out on it. “When I bumped into him, I didn’t know who he was and apologized, but when he left I realized he dropped the Pokedex when that happened, not that I knew what it was at the time.”
She then smiled.
“It surprised the heck out of me when it turned on and scanned Stinger.”
Green twitched at that, a bit in disbelief at the fact that she got hers by accident.
“I remembered him saying he was heading back to Pallet Town so I went to go and return it and I guess that made the impression with him.”
She left out the first run in with Team Rocket and Mew, thinking Green wouldn’t believe the latter even though she could prove it by showing the data in the Pokedex.
She didn’t want to sound like she was bragging about it.
Reaching up to mess with her hat, tracing the edge with her finger, Violet glanced at Green. “Can I ask you something?”
Green raised a brow but braced himself.
“Why do you want to be strong?”
The question surprised Green.
He figured she was finally going to ask what his problem with Agatha was.
He’s been waiting for that question ever since they left Lavender Town, but so far she hasn’t brought it up once.
Truth be told, he appreciated that.
Still he thought about her question and if he truly wanted to answer before sighing.
It wouldn’t be fair to not answer after she answered his question.
“You know how strong my family is right?”
Violet blinked before giving a nod.
His Grandfather was Professor Oak, a former Champion and the Regional Professor, who put Pallet Town on the Map as it were while his Grandmother was a member of the Elite Four.
Pretty big shoes to fill-oh.
Understanding dawned on Violet as Green continued. “Even though people don’t know about Agatha,” He said that name in anger before he took a deep breath, calming himself. “Whenever I grew up, they only saw me as Oak’s Grandson and how I’m expected to be as strong as him. Most of the time they never even knew my first name.”
Even in the Fame Checker, it mostly spoke about his relation to Gramps, something that annoyed him greatly.
So he wanted to win the Indigo League in his first year, proving his own strength because Gramps didn’t win until he was fifteen.
And then try to work his way through the Elite Four
By winning at his age he would prove himself to be stronger and be out of his grandfather’s shadow.
Violet kept quiet at hearing that, now understanding her rival a bit.
Green then gave a low curse. “Tch, why am I telling you this?” He muttered, not meaning to let that much out.
Not waiting for an answer, Green stood up and headed for his tent showing that he didn’t wish to talk anymore.
As he left, Violet pursed her lips in thought, looking at the fire.
‘ Bugs can be strong too. ’
The words she said before her journey began went through her head.
In a way, they were the same but for vastly different reasons.
Green wanted to be strong to escape his family’s shadow while Violet wanted to be strong to prove something.
“I never saw you as his Grandson.” Violet whispered, thinking back to when she first met Green.
When they first met she thought he was a jerk because of how he was annoyed about her having Bug Pokemon along with the Pokedex.
The next few times they met, she wanted to do nothing but beat him in a battle despite how much stronger he was each time they met.
To Violet, he was a rival that she wanted to overcome.
Then he began to confuse her ever since the SS. Anne where he not only finally accepted her as a rival but even saved her life from Surge.
It got to the point where she had no idea what to think of him.
Three more days have passed as they continued on their way to Celadon City, the two rookies were starting to get used to one another’s presence as they moved forward.
So far it was good progress to Celadon with them being five days out and they spent each moment when they weren’t traveling, training their teams up.
Though Sapphire has still kept being difficult, having lost every fight against Sandslash the last few days due to refusing to listen to Violet, especially after being ‘forced’ into these fights by both trainers.
It was rather frustrating to the Bug Catcher but in a way, Sapphire was starting to get a little stronger having learned Leech Life in the midst of the battles.
But it wouldn’t be enough.
Right now however she was carrying Sapphire, hoping to find some common ground during the day, but the bug refused to even look at her despite allowing herself to be carried.
“Hm.” Green hummed in thought, eliciting for Violet to glance his way.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s pretty quiet… We haven’t run into a single trainer in a few hours.” Green muttered, having one hand on his belt, around Pidgeot’s Pokeball. “Why is that?”
They knew that the route to Celadon was long, but they usually ran into a trainer by now.
Violet frowned, remembering the last few times this happened to her and she kept an eye out for another ambush on the off chance that Team Rocket would continue what they tried before Rock Tunnel.
A few minutes later however, the two paused as they heard a rumbling noise.
One that was slowly getting louder.
Frowning, Green sent Pidgeot out to take to the air on the off chance they needed the support and after a second of hesitation, Violet did the same with Silk.
As the two went into the air, they saw a few specks in the distance with dust being kicked up behind them.
The specks were getting closer along with the rumbling getting louder as Green huffed.
Bikers.
That’s right, he forgot that Route 8 was considered Biker territory by a few trainers.
So far he could count at least four Bikers that began to circle the two, the dust being kicked up made Violet cough while Sapphire gave a low cry of annoyance-.
Just like that, Green tensed up.
Violet had her Shiny Pokemon out in the open.
In plain view of the Bikers who were known to exact tolls on Trainers making their way through Route 8.
Eventually they all came to a stop, each of them holding various Pokeballs while the fourth Biker got off his bike, showing himself to be the leader who had a cleanly shaved head wearing a sleeveless brown jacket over a black shirt and blue jeans.
“Well isn’t this a surprise, two kids walking through our turf.” Paxton, the leader of the self-proclaimed Kanto Pokemon Federation commented with a smug grin. “Now we can’t have that, now can we?”
He looked the two over, but his eyes lingered on the Shiny Venonat the longest, his grin turning into a greedy smirk.
“Now I’m sure kids like you don’t want any trouble, so hand that Venonat over and we’ll be on our way.” Paxton offered, giving the kids an easy way out.
He wasn’t going to bother mugging them because the dough they could get for a Shiny alone would be more than whatever these kids were carrying.
Violet took a step back, tightening her hold on Sapphire, leveling a glare at Paxton. “Not happening.” She told the Biker.
Instead of being angry, Paxton just looked amused. “Aw look at that, the little girl thinks that she’s tough.” He commented, his goons breaking out in chuckles. “It’s cute how you think you can play with the big boys kid, but that wasn’t a request.”
To follow up on that threat, he let out a Muk.
Violet tensed up at seeing that, taking another step back, this time in fear.
‘ Suffocate her. ’
Koga’s words went through her head, but Violet ignored it despite the fear on her face.
“Are you quite done?” Green asked in a bored tone, watching how the other Bikers let out their Pokemon.
Koffings, Marowaks, Haunters, Lickitung, Magmar and-.
One of them had a Flareon.
Green’s boredom and annoyance turned into anger at seeing another reminder of his failure in keeping his starter safe.
Now Paxton was frowning, his patience already being tested. “You kids aren’t the smartest bunch are you?” He asked, thinking that they didn’t understand their situation. “There’s no way you can let a Pokemon out now.”
Just like that, Green smirked. “Who said we haven’t?”
Furrowing his brow in confusion, Paxton was caught off guard as Pidgeot shot down with a cry, using Gust to blow their Pokemon back followed by Silk coming down to fire a Psybeam at the Poison Pokemon that were out, causing significant damage.
That was followed by Green and Violet releasing the rest of their team.
Seeing Gyarados made some of the Bikers hesitate, but Paxton snarled. “Hmph, so be it.” He said, deciding to hell with giving them an easy way out. “Dwayne. Harris. Zeke. You take the small fry Pokemon, I’ll handle the Pidgeot and Gyarados.”
And once they’re down, he’ll take them along with the Shiny.
With that plan in motion, Paxton let his Weezing out to fight alongside his Muk.
Not giving them a chance to call a move, Green got to work. “Sand Attack!” He called out with Pidgeot and Sandslash immediately getting to work.
Violet followed up on that. “Gust!”
Silk gave a cry, using the wind from her move to make the sand twister, quickly irritating the Biker’s Pokemon while Gyarados launched a Dragon Rage at the group with the Bikers having to dodge only for their bikes to be destroyed.
“You brats.” Paxton snarled at that. “That tears it, you both are getting a beating of a lifetime here.”
Parasite quickly dove underground to begin her strategy while Stinger was both firing String Shot with shards of Poison Sting mixed in and using Harden to make himself durable.
Kadabra used Psybeam in tandem with Silk while the Sand Twister was going on to take most of the Poison Type Pokemon down before the Flareon shot in with a Fire Spin on the Bug Pokemon.
Silk grimaced in pain as the flames flickered around her, trapping her in place before the Haunters unleashed multiple Night Shades to injure her.
With her trapped, Flareon went to use Flamethrower but Vulpix leapt in, taking the hit before doing a Quick Attack to knock the eeveelution off balance, allowing for Sandslash to rush in with a Slash before dodging a lick from the Lickitung.
The Muk roared as it unleashed a Thunderbolt, clipping Pidgeot while Gyarados quickly swerved to avoid it, treating the Muk with more caution than before right when the Weezing unleashed a Toxic, badly poisoning the Gyarados who began to grimace as the poison quickly surged through his veins.
“Tch.” Green looked very annoyed by that before Parasite lunged out of the ground, hitting the Muk and Weezing with a Stun Spore before diving back in.
Stinger shot in after using an Agility to make himself faster, began to unleash an assault of Fury Attacks on the Weezing, wearing it down while ensuring to back off every now and then in case it used Self-Destruct.
While Weezing was focused on him however, Pidgeot swooped in despite the electrocution he suffered and used Wing Attack to send it flying into Muk, the latter wasn’t that affected by the hit but was visibly annoyed before the ground beneath it crumbled showing that Parasite began to use the Quicksand maneuver.
A Bonemerang shot from one of the Marowaks, catching Stinger off guard before a Magmar shot in with a Fire Punch, hitting the Poison Bee and sending him skidding across the ground.
While Stinger was stunned, Silk managed to break free of the Fire Spin and unleashed a Psybeam at the Magmar, making it back off before Parasite shot out to use Stun Spore again, but hearing the noise, Magmar spun around, its tail catching the Mushroom Pokemon by surprise and stunned her long enough to be hit by a point blank Flamethrower.
Parasite went down at that.
Violet quickly returned him only to give a yelp when Paxton grabbed her arm, using the battle to sneak his way to her to make a grab for the Shiny.
Seeing that, Stinger went to rush in but Marowak kept him at bay with another Bonemerang.
“Let me go.” Violet kicked at him before Sapphire gave a cry and used Confusion to lift a pebble and launch it at high speed towards Paxton, hitting his temple making him let go and grab it in annoyance at a small amount of blood showing due to the impact.
Sapphire made a low growl at him.
While she currently didn’t like being on this team, she knew that she would prefer Violet in comparison to this brute.
While Paxton was distracted, Green quickly moved in and kicked the man between the legs, catching him off guard as he leaned forward in pain.
That unbalanced him enough for Green to spin around, kicking his knee allowing for him to tumble to the side before he reached in and pulled out a repel, spraying the man in the face making him cry out at being momentarily blinded.
As Paxton fell over, Green turned to see Violet staring at him with her jaw dropped, not expecting for him to take down a guy as large as Paxton in that manner. “What?” He asked with a raised brow.
He trained under Chuck, the Fighting Gym Leader in Johto, so of course he knows self-defense.
He just didn't get to use it that often.
“Nothing.” Violet whispered, not sure what to say about that.
Turning away from her, Green was rather pleased when he saw Kadabra unleash a Psychic showing that the battle was enough experience for him to get stronger and the move absolutely decimated the rest of the Pokemon who were extremely weakened.
Seeing that, the goons who were helping the boss up were about to book it, but Stinger and Silk shot a String Shot, binding them together to prevent their escape, making them fall over in shock that two kids just took them down.
Giving a sigh of relief, Violet fell to her knees at how that went while Green moved forward, taking their Pokeballs to return their Pokemon. “I’ll be right back.” He told Violet before turning to Kadabra. “Teleport us to Lavender Town.”
Kadabra gave a nod before he disappeared along with Green and the Bikers, leaving Violet by herself with her team and the rest of Green’s.
She knew he would be back pretty soon as the Abra line were known to be the best at using the move Teleport, being born knowing the move.
So they would make it to Lavender Town without having to stop at another place like how she would’ve with Silk.
And he would easily be able to make it back by focusing on his other Pokemon which was why Green left them here.
Speaking of which, she saw Gyarados writing in pain from the Toxic and pulled out an Antidote along with a few potions, deciding to heal up their teams while waiting.
“Alright, they’re with the authorities in Lavender Town so they shouldn’t be bothering anyone else.” Green returned five minutes later before looking surprised to see Violet at work with healing everyone, the worst of the injuries already taken care of.
“That’s good.” Violet breathed out, using another Potion on Pidgeot due to how he took a Thunderbolt earlier.
Seeing that everyone was taken care of, Green gave a nod and returned his team, watching as Violet did the same with hers.
“We should continue to make some more progress before evening.” Green began to continue their journey.
Violet moved to catch up with him and after a few seconds she spoke. “Hey… Thanks for earlier.” She muttered referring to when he took Paxton down, rubbing her arm where she was grabbed.
Knowing what she was talking about, Green grunted.
It really said something when Violet just rolled her eyes with a smile at that when before she would’ve been annoyed.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile and Agility.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam and Teleport.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
4th Pokemon
Name: Sapphire
Species: Venonat (Shiny)
Type: Bug/Poison
Gender: Female
Nature: Mild (Up Sp. Attack/Down Defense)
Characteristics: Loves to Eat (Up HP)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 26
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion, Poison Powder and Leech Life
Was captured in Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 18th, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee *Stolen*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeot
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 39
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind and Wing Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Kadabra
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable, Psybeam, Recover and Psychic
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig, Slash, Poison Sting and Swift.
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster *Stored*
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Gyarados
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Splash, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage and Leer
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar, Confuse Ray and Flamethrower
10th Pokemon
Species: Magnemite *Stored*
Type: Electric
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Notes:
Alright another chapter for this story is done and next chapter we’ll finally be getting into Celadon City where some major plot points will happen!
I mean we have a lot to do in Celadon City. It'll definitely take more than one chapter to show off everything there.
But still in this chapter we had both Violet and Green getting some character development along with their interactions slowly getting better along the way.
Green’s development is a little more subtle, but he’s already starting to pace himself a bit more with his training as opposed to pushing them to their limits every day and is even adopting one of Violet’s strategies for his Sandslash.
Violet on the other hand is learning to be a bit tougher on her team’s training and despite not liking the idea of forcing Sapphire to battle like that she allowed it due to how they didn’t have time to properly integrate her into the team. She’s also taken to his way of training by having a no holds barred spar between her three main Pokemon showing their preferred method of battling when they’re not taking orders.
Then you have the bikers or the Kanto Pokemon Federation as they’re called in the Manga, these bikers were shown in the game, though they were given more of a presence in the FireRed and LeafGreen game.
Having them appear showed a few things.
Such as the fact that not every trainer who steals and sells for profit is a part of Team Rocket in Kanto. Also to finally show that Green does know some self defense considering how back in Chapter 04 it was hinted that Chuck had a hand in teaching Green at some point in his life.
Chapter 27: Arrival in Celadon
Notes:
Phew, this one took a bit to get, sorry for the long wait, I’ve been very busy with both life, working and recently last month I started to upload a lot more videos on Youtube with that last one still being a work in progress.
All in all, I haven’t had the time I used to have in writing, but I’m still doing it. Enough that I redid the first three chapters of Land of Termina and posted them, making some small changes and corrections to the story with more to come.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Violet yawned as they were setting up camp once more, having made a bit more distance since their run in with the Bikers.
Surprisingly Green wasn’t planning on having any training sessions due to that mess, instead giving his team the night off.
And it seems that was unusual given how his team exchanged concerned glances at that.
But right now she was focusing on her team, seeing them do their usual things with Stinger and Silk heading out while Parasite dug her way into the ground and Sapphire began to groom herself, though she kept a wary eye on Sandslash and Vulpix all the same showing that she was expecting this ‘time off’ to be some sort of trick.
Violet found herself concerned about the paranoia that Sapphire seemed to have, but decided to leave her alone for now, wanting her to enjoy her time off, instead she set up her side of the camp, which was really only her sleeping bag.
“What do you do if it rains?” Green’s question caught Violet by surprise with the boy glancing over his shoulder while he finished setting up his tent before he paused. “Do you even have a tent?”
“I pay attention to the weather reports and plan from there.” Violet answered with a shrug.
“So you have nothing for when it does rain and you’re out in the field.” Green deadpanned, not surprised at all to hear this.
Violet went to argue before keeping quiet because she couldn’t really counter that.
She never needed anything more than a sleeping bag while out and about.
And after that time waking up with a sword to the face courtesy of Samurai, she kept her team out at all times when she slept to avoid being robbed or attacked.
“I like sleeping beneath the stars.”
Though she should probably get a tent because she can’t get lucky forever.
Green went quiet after that, leaving for Violet to turn her attention to her team before she approached Sapphire who tensed up before the bug catcher sat next to her.
“Don’t worry there’s no training tonight, you can relax.” Violet told the shiny, but she saw that the bug still kept on guard.
It made her sad.
So she looked up at the stars.
“I never wanted to integrate you into the team like this.” She spoke to Sapphire who eyed her warily. “While I do want to battle with you eventually, I would rather it be your own choice then forcing you into it, it’s just-.”
Violet paused, trying to think of how to say this, reaching up to take her hat off and place it in her lap, her fingers tracing the edges of it.
“We have a tendency to end up in trouble every other day, that mess with the bikers wasn’t anything too unusual.” Violet revealed to Sapphire, the bug now looking more worried. “And everyone needs to be strong if we want to survive.”
She then looked over to where Parasite dug herself underground.
“Stinger, Silk and Parasite are very strong, but the people we fight are stronger and I’d rather you know how to fight against them so you can defend yourself.”
Sapphire kept quiet, turning away from Violet who stood up to leave after seeing that this was getting nowhere.
Now alone, Green’s words from that night Sapphire began her training came to mind.
‘ Venonat is your weak link right now. ’
‘ Your other bugs are strong, but Venonat will only drag them down if we let this continue and that could lead to her death as well as ours. ’
Why was it so hard to understand that she didn’t want to battle?!
Then the ground near her shifted as Parasite came out, looking at her.
Sapphire tilted her head at the Mushroom Pokemon, wondering what she wanted.
Parasite said nothing, creeping Sapphire out as the mushroom Pokemon looked at the sky.
It was like that for a few seconds before Parasite finally spoke, asking how she was doing.
That question made Sapphire frown pretty much answering the question.
How else would she feel?
Parasite tilted her head before making another noise, basically telling her that it wasn’t so bad.
Now Sapphire was glaring at her.
But Parasite continued, reminding Sapphire that if she wanted to leave she could’ve done that at any point.
After all, the only ones up at night were Stinger, Silk and Parasite, the three sleeping in intervals to ensure no one snuck up on them.
If Sapphire attempted to leave, none of them would’ve stopped her.
Yes Violet would’ve been sad about it, but they would’ve helped her get through it because if Sapphire left then they weren’t going to waste time worrying about her compared to the problems they regularly get into.
Sapphire hesitated, unsure of what to say to that.
A part of Sapphire wanted to argue that the others would stop her, not knowing they wouldn’t, but the real truth was because despite everything it was safer then being in the wild.
Sure as a wild Pokemon she was never forced to fight, but she was always on the move to escape predators.
Unlike those times she had food and security here, something that was a rare commodity for her.
Plus despite her distaste for the situation, Violet did protect her from that brute earlier.
Parasite watched her silently contemplate before going back underground having said what she needed.
It was either going to be her or Stinger who spoke to Sapphire and Parasite knew that Stinger would've been much harsher than she was.
The next five days passed with no incident with the two trainers being very close to Celadon and they were very eager to get to the city.
Especially with how dangerously low their supplies were getting.
Thankfully they have run into plenty of other trainers and won enough money to replenish the amount of supplies.
Violet was looking through her Pokedex as they walked, though Green pointedly ignored that part because all it did was remind him about what he lost.
“Still nothing.” Violet finally said after a few minutes of messing with the tracking system. “We don’t even know if we’re heading in the right way.”
Or if the Pokedex would be where the Eevee was being kept.
Green gritted his teeth but said nothing.
He didn’t even want to contemplate that possibility.
The only reason he kept going on was to save his Eevee.
Nothing else mattered at the moment.
“Not to mention we don’t know if Surge or Koga will be there.” Violet began to mutter, cupping her chin in thought looking at the Pokedex entries she had for the Pokemon they knew those two Executives had. “If they are then we need to be very careful, especially if Koga uses anymore of those tricks he used on us earlier, at least with Surge we don’t have to worry about him using actual weapons with the exception of his knife or the Voltorbs who can use Self-Destruct, and if they’re together then it will definitely be the toughest battle of our lives.”
It kept going for a few minutes before Green had enough and looked at her.
“Will you be quiet?” He asked, getting a headache from all of the muttering.
Violet gave a start before giving a sheepish smile. “Sorry.”
It’s been awhile since she’s done that.
Putting the Pokedex up, Violet looked up at the sky to see that it was still Noon.
They had to be close to the city by now.
Clasping her hands behind her back as they walked, Violet tilted her head towards Green. “So, what TM’s do you plan to get for your team?”
After all, Celadon was the best place to update their Pokemon’s movesets.
Especially for her considering how Stinger and Silk can’t really learn much else on their own according to the Pokedex.
“I’ll decide when I get there.” Green answered in a curt tone.
Violet just shook her head with a smile at how he was being.
It seems he wanted to keep some surprises for their next official battle.
So she began to think about what TM’s she’ll get.
Once they get all of their supplies, she’ll only have enough for five TM’s at most.
Three at minimum if she wanted to try and get Pinsir at the Game Corner.
Though if they don’t find Eevee there then she might not get the chance to get Pinsir.
After all, Green has made it very clear that he wanted to put finding Eevee first above all else, which she completely understood given everything that happened.
Enough that she was willing to wait on getting Pinsir until they got his Pokemon back.
Besides, she can just have Silk teleport them back to Celadon afterwards.
Still, the TM’s she chose to get were two Double Teams, Reflect, Swords Dance and Substitute.
All support moves, but they would go perfectly with her team, powering each of them up even more.
She’ll come back every now and then once she gets more money to add more TM’s to her bugs arsenal overtime.
“Hm?” Green’s voice brought Violet out of her thoughts, confusing her until she saw what looked to be a parade of people on the road ahead. “What’s going on there?”
Most of the people there seemed to be wearing kimonos as they walked by, though what really caught attention was the Palanquin that was being carried by four members of the parade.
Though it was at a reasonable distance, they could see a young woman with pale skin, short black hair with the bangs cut, an elegant red hairband keeping her hair in place, wearing a white kimono and a purple skirt with a black suspender around her chest.
Seeing that, Green felt on edge. “Erika.” He said now knowing what this was.
“Wait really?” Violet asked, not expecting that.
Erika Wisteria was a rather well known figure even if one didn’t take her being the Celadon Gym Leader into account.
She’s pretty much the closest thing that the Kanto Region has to royalty.
But just like Green, Violet began to feel on edge.
Not a surprise given how they found out that two Gym Leaders were a part of Team Rocket.
They had no idea if there were more Gym Leaders in the group or not.
The only Gym Leaders that Violet actually trusts were Brock and Misty.
“What should we do?” Violet asked, turning to Green who narrowed his eyes in thought.
After a few seconds, he finally answered.
“Nothing, whether she’s a part of Team Rocket or not, it seems that we arrived in Celadon during a festival, she’ll be too busy to do anything against us and with so many people she won’t want to risk her reputation.”
It seemed until proven otherwise he was assuming that she was a part of Team Rocket.
Violet had no problems with that.
They waited at a reasonable distance for the crowd to disappear before they continued on their way.
“Whoa.” Violet had wide eyes as she looked around Celadon the minute they entered the city.
It was huge, one could fit all of the other places in Kanto in Celadon and still have a lot of room.
And this was the second biggest city in Kanto with Saffron being even bigger.
How could anyone find their way through a place like this?!
Green on the other hand seemed at ease, not too bothered because he had been to Celadon with his Grandfather during one of his talks at the Celadon University.
So he was more familiar with the place then Violet who was having trouble adjusting considering how Viridian was pretty much a small country town.
“Come on.” Green called out, heading in the direction of the Pokemon Center, not even waiting to see if Violet was following him.
From the quick footsteps behind however he knew she was.
Thankfully, the Pokemon Center was pretty empty with the exception of a few trainers that were most likely just arriving, as the two handed their Pokemon to Nurse Joy to be healed before sitting in one of the waiting booths.
Green already had the town map pulled out and looked over it. “It’ll take some time to comb through the city, but if Eevee is here then I want to find him.” He said, planning to look through every nook and cranny. “We’ll restock the supplies and get the TM’s to give our Pokemon a better fighting chance.”
Violet gave a nod agreeing to the plan. “Where should we look?”
Green went quiet at that.
In truth he had no idea.
But with how big the city was, Team Rocket had to have a foothold here, or were they in Saffron?
If it wasn’t for the path being closed, they would’ve gone to Saffron instead.
“Can you detect the Pokedex here?” Green asked, watching as Violet pulled hers out.
After a few seconds she sighed. “Nothing.”
So if it was here, then something must be blocking the signal.
Green leaned back. “Of course it’s never easy.”
Looks like they’ll be doing this the old fashioned way.
Before they could continue however, someone passed by the table, but paused at seeing the occupants. “Violet?”
Green tensed up at the unfamiliar figure, but Violet smiled. “Bill!” She exclaimed, not expecting to see the Pokemaniac here. “What are you doing here?”
Not that she wasn’t happy to see him, but this was pretty far from Cerulean Cape.
Bill just gave a wry grin. “I got called in to work on some of the PC’s, the Pokemon Center here has been having some trouble with them.”
Nothing he couldn’t handle, but Bill was still unsure of what was causing the PC crashes or why it kept happening.
A concerned look crossed his face before he continued. “I heard about the SS. Anne, sorry you got caught up in that.”
He gave her the ticket as thanks so she could have fun.
Hearing about how Team Rocket attacked it made him feel nothing but guilt.
Violet hesitated, her smile nearly disappearing before she forced it. “It’s fine, no harm done.”
Green almost let out a snort, as if begging to differ.
He remembered Violet getting electrocuted, the two of them being blasted off the ship, nearly freezing to death and the fight against Surge while Articuno fought the genetically enhanced Tentacruel above them.
No harm done his foot.
“That’s good.” Bill looked a bit better, not seeing through the fake smile Violet put up before he glanced from her to Green. “Sorry for being rude, I’m Bill.”
He held his hand out to the boy who gave him a cold stare, making him pull the hand back with an awkward expression.
“Don’t worry, Green’s like this to everyone.” Violet said despite the look Green gave her. “He’s my rival.”
Hearing that, Bill chuckled. “Ah I see.” He didn’t look awkward anymore. “I guess you two were discussing having a battle?”
“Something like that.” Green said, not trusting Bill in the slightest.
Given how open Violet seemed to be with him, he was being the cautious one here.
“Alright, I can take a hint.” Bill’s tone conveyed amusement at the conversation. “Just wanted to say hi, good luck on your next Gym Battle Violet.”
“Thanks.”
The moment he left, Green closed the map up, to put in his bag. “Friend of yours, I presume?”
“Kind of, I only met him once after helping him out of a spot of trouble.” Violet answered with a shrug. “He gave me a ticket to the SS. Anne as thanks.”
She said nothing about what the trouble was thinking that Green wouldn’t believe her about how Bill was turned into a Rattata.
Come to think of it, she’s seen some bizarre things on her journey.
“ Violet Hawke. Green Oak. Your Pokemon are all healed. ” The intercom went off, putting an end to their conversation.
It didn’t take too long for the two to make it to the Department Store given the sheer size of the building made it easy to spot from anywhere, the two were looking around at the different items they could see.
This store had everything from Full Restores to Ultra Balls to even Max Revives, though plenty of them were unavailable due to the amount of badges they had.
Their Trainer Rank and their current number of badges only let them buy items such as Great Balls and Super Potions, items that were much better than the standard Pokeballs and Potions, but weren’t as strong as the other items.
Though Green was admittedly a little annoyed when he learned that Violet had four badges instead of three, not knowing that she challenged Blaine.
It was a little infuriating to be behind her when before he was the one in the lead.
The moment he gets Eevee back, he’ll have to fix that.
Seeing some evolutionary stones, Green grabbed a Fire Stone for Vulpix and a Leaf Stone for when he catches Exeggcute.
After a moment a thought came to him.
“When we get back to the Pokemon Center, I want to trade Kadabra with you.” He said, catching Violet by surprise.
And she knew why he was asking.
Evolution for Pokemon was a rather strange concept, most of them evolve as they get stronger while others require a stone to evolve.
However the strangest one that has baffled many people was the concept of trade evolutions.
Trading Pokemon has become a concept for trainers around thirty years ago where there were some cases where a Pokemon liked a different trainer better and wanted to travel with them.
Or sometimes trainers who became friends would trade to remember each other.
It wasn’t one many people liked and it was also difficult because of how the Pokemon were linked to the Pokeballs that were linked to their trainers license.
The only way it worked in the past was by releasing the Pokemon to allow them to be recaptured.
It wasn’t until the trading machine was created by Silph Co that trading Pokemon became an instant process.
The process became a hit and before long it was discovered that trading used some sort of energy that envelops the Pokemon, most of the time it’s harmless and nothing happens.
But some Pokemon were affected by it with people discovering a new way of evolving their Pokemon.
To this day in Kanto, only four Pokemon were found to be affected by the energy provided by trading.
Machoke, Graveler, Kadabra and Haunter.
Though some trainers had to be careful in who to trust to get these trade evolutions considering how some of them would keep them for themselves.
And she knew that Green having an Alakazam would be a great help against Team Rocket.
More than that, it would make for an exciting battle the next time they face off.
So she grinned. “Sure, I can’t wait to see how trade evolution works.”
With that deal made, the two continued replenishing their supplies before they moved to the next floor to head for the TM shop, but they actually stopped near the clothing store where Violet blinked in confusion.
Apparently there was a part of the store dedicated to the Elite Four that sold stuff such as copies of Lorelei’s glasses to Lance’s capes. There were even walking sticks that resembled Agatha’s and metal bracelets that matched Bruno’s.
And there were also action figures, vhs tapes with various League Matches of the Elite Four and clothing brands in their names.
Quite a few kids were around that area, chatting excitedly about their favorite Elite Four Member.
Though she had to stop herself from chuckling at how strange some of the kids looked as many of them had the capes.
Green just straight out ignored that section, not finding any of that to be useful for the journey ahead.
The sun was starting to set by the time they got back to the Pokemon Center, booking a room for the night as they were going through their supplies.
They currently had a huge pile of Super Potions on the table along with Antidotes, Paralyze Heals, Awakenings and Burn Heals, the two attempting to even them out between each other.
Their Pokemon were currently in their Pokeballs and their Pokemon Food was already packed up in case they needed to get going.
“There.” Violet smiled after they finally managed to even the pile out. “I don’t need that many Antidotes given how half of my team are part poison.”
“I wouldn’t risk it, your other two Pokemon are vulnerable and so are we.” Green rebuked, reminding her that with Team Rocket they can never be too sure.
After all, they’ve attacked the trainers themselves more than once in the past.
Violet gave a nod, conceding his point.
As they went through their items, Violet pulled out the TM’s she had with her.
Currently the TM’s she just bought and the ones she hasn’t used were Swords Dance, Bubblebeam, Water Gun, Thunderbolt, two Double Teams, Reflect, Fire Blast and Substitute.
Nine TM’s in total.
And four of them were completely useless to her.
Frowning in thought, Violet blinked when she remembered that Green could use these more than her.
“Here.” Violet slid Water Gun, Bubblebeam, Thunderbolt and Fire Blast towards a surprised Green. “None of my Pokemon can use these.”
“Then sell them.” Green told her, not wanting to accept due to some pride.
He didn’t need any charity.
Violet rolled her eyes. “How is this any different to you giving me SolarBeam back on Cinnabar?” She asked, earning a bout of silence. “Exactly, this way they’re useful and your team are more prepared to take on Team Rocket.”
Green kept silent before raising a finger as he dug through his bag.
He eventually pulled out four TM’s that he just bought.
Dig, Swift, Dream Eater and Skull Bash.
“We’ll trade.” Green said, his voice showing no room for arguments. “These TM’s I can get again in the future and right now they’ll work much better for you.”
He already used the Sky Attack TM he bought on his Pidgeot and bought another SolarBeam for Vulpix.
Briefly surprised, Violet gave a nod with a grin.
New moves she could use were always welcome.
With the TM trade now done, she began to get to work on who would learn what.
Sword Dance, one of the Double Teams, Substitute and Skull Bash would go to Stinger.
Reflect, the other Double Team, Dream Eater and Swift would go to Silk.
That just left the remaining Dig TM which she’ll keep for the future Pinsir.
Green however made the decision to use Bubble Beam to give his Gyarados some water coverage, saving Water Gun for Cloyster, he used Fire Blast and SolarBeam for Vulpix and made the decision to use his Thunderbolt for Magnemite.
Though none of their Pokemon would be able to use the moves well without extra training but they now knew them.
“We’ll train them up tomorrow before we comb the city.” Green said, wanting to at least get a start in mastering these new moves before they attempt to go after Team Rocket. “But first we have one more thing to take care of.”
He pulled out Kadabra’s Pokeball with Violet giving a nod, pulling Parasect’s out.
“Let’s get it done.”
Thankfully no one was using the trading machine at the moment, leaving for both Violet and Green to easily use it, placing their respective Pokemon on the machine before Green pulled the lever.
Lights flashed as energy enveloped the Pokeballs, the screen on the machine showing the trade happening as the Pokemon swapped Pokeballs before dying down.
It took a split second before the Pokeball containing Kadabra glowed a bright white signifying the evolution.
Once the light show was finished, Green wasted no time in using the machine again to trade back.
With the trade done, Green sent his newly evolved Alakazam out, watching as the Psychic type stood still, getting used to his newly heightened psychic powers as he could sense so many minds within the city before blinking as something seemed to be blocking it.
The block catching his complete attention, Alakazam focused, the temporary energy gained from just evolving made it simple to break through before it heard the tortured cries of various Pokemon.
But one stood out to it.
Eyes widening, Alakazam staggered back as he heard Eevee’s pained cries, catching Green by surprise.
“Alakazam?” Green asked, wondering if he was experiencing a side effect of evolution.
Shaking his head, Alakazam focused and injected what he just experienced into Green’s mind, making him stiffen up.
“You found Eevee?”
Alakazam gave a nod, watching as Green’s face contorted into fury.
As relieved as he was that they found him, hearing the pained cries only enraged him.
Forget the plans they made. They were getting Eevee back now.
Surprised by this new development, Violet took a deep breath to calm the nerves that were threatening to erupt.
This was it.
For the first time in her journey, she was about to attack Team Rocket head on instead of just defending herself.
Once she does this, there will be no going back and no doubt they’ll increase their attempts to kill her.
It would be the equivalent of kicking a Beedrill nest.
But she wasn’t going to back out now.
She was done with being the victim.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile, Agility, Sword Dance, Double Team, Substitute and Skull Bash.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam, Teleport, Reflect, Double Team, Dream Eater and Swift.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore and SolarBeam.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
4th Pokemon
Name: Sapphire
Species: Venonat (Shiny)
Type: Bug/Poison
Gender: Female
Nature: Mild (Up Sp. Attack/Down Defense)
Characteristics: Loves to Eat (Up HP)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 26
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion, Poison Powder and Leech Life
Was captured in Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 23rd, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee *Stolen*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeot
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 39
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind, Wing Attack and Sky Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Alakazam
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable, Psybeam, Recover and Psychic
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 37
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig, Slash, Poison Sting and Swift.
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster *Stored*
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Gyarados
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Splash, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage, Leer and Bubblebeam
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar, Confuse Ray, Flamethrower, SolarBeam and Fire Blast
10th Pokemon
Species: Magnemite *Stored*
Type: Electric
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Notes:
Here we are the chapter right before the fight at the Game Corner against Team Rocket and hopefully this chapter did well to set things up.
Not only do Violet and Green finally make it to Celadon, but they updated their movesets immensely with Stinger and Silk learning a ton of moves, though they need to train to use them effectively.
As for Parasite and Sapphire, well Parasite has plenty of moves already and always got the TM’s whenever Violet had one. Sapphire still isn’t listening to Violet so she’s not going to waste any TM’s on her yet along with the fact that Sapphire can learn moves naturally still compared to the others.
More than that, Green got the TM’s that Violet can’t use which resulted in her getting more for her team, effectively making them both stronger for the fights to come.
Then we had Green’s Kadabra evolve, giving them even more power to use and giving them a way to actually find Eevee because I doubt the two would think to look inside the Game Corner on their own.
In my opinion, Pokemon get a boost of energy upon evolving as I’ve shown when Pidgeotto evolved into Pidgeot in Lavender Tower, so the same thing happened to Alakazam who with that boost was able to locate the Team Rocket hideout that is normally hidden from psychics and zeroing in on the one familiar thing inside said hide-out.
Now the two are ready to storm the Rocket Base, that chapter will be a long one because I’m not planning on splitting it into parts.
However, truth be told it would be smarter if they called the Police, or Professor Oak who could round up the Elite Four for this, especially with Giovanni there they have a chance to end Team Rocket then and there, but there are several reasons why.
First off, they’re ten.
No matter how mature they are for ten year olds, they can make stupid decisions, this being one of them.
Secondly, Green is enraged by Team Rocket and isn’t thinking clearly along with Violet having so much experience with them and due to having two Gym Leaders who work with the Police being executives, she isn’t sure who to trust with that information, well that and she’s tired of being hunted by them so she’s choosing to fight back for once.
Oh and the talk with Bill will develop into something else after the Game Corner incident along with the ‘Festival’ that Green mentioned earlier, just something to look forward to.
Chapter 28: Storming the Game Corner
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
“You have to be kidding me.” Green muttered in annoyance as both he and Violet stood outside of the Rocket Game Corner, one of Celadon City’s biggest attractions.
It was also the main casino in the Kanto Region where many trainers could get rare Pokemon that were said to be hard to find.
This was where Alakazam sensed Eevee and the two were in a state of disbelief.
“Rocket… Game Corner, they were hiding in plain sight this whole time?” Violet asked, trying to figure out how no one suspected this.
It was a pretty bold use of a name, she’ll give them that.
That’s probably why no one suspected it.
“In other words, they found a way to be funded legally.” Green shook his head, not knowing if he wanted to be angry or impressed by that.
For a criminal group, that was quite the achievement.
But he chose the former due to why they were here.
“Come on.” Green opened the door with Violet right behind him. “And stay close, the last thing we need is to be separated here.”
Due to the Game Corner being a Casino, it was one of the many places that was open twenty-four seven in Celadon with countless trainers inside of it, attempting to get enough coins for a rare Pokemon or a powerful TM.
While it was normal, Violet felt a surge of dread.
“Green,” She whispered, making him glance towards her. “What are the chances that Team Rocket kept some of the rare Pokemon they use for prizes here?”
That made Green tense, not even thinking about that.
He knew for a fact that the Game Corner had access to Dratini’s that were bred for it, so the thought of Team Rocket with an army of Dragonites was a terrifying one.
And that’s not even going into the fact that the newly created Porygons were here as well with no one knowing how strong those ones were.
“The minute we find the hideout, send your Butterfree out.” Green suggested as he already planned to have his Alakazam disable any grunts they see. “You put the Rockets to sleep while I disable them. If we’re lucky, we can take a large number of them out before they know we’re here.”
“What about the cameras?” Violet brought up, already seeing a few.
If this place was a hideout, then Team Rocket already knew they were there.
Or they knew she was there given how many times she ran into them and she was starting to have flashbacks to the number of times they attempted to ambush her.
Green kept quiet at that before hearing a shout as someone blew their money. “We can actually plan around that, they don’t know that we know this might be a hideout.” He whispered, not wanting to be overheard by anyone they were passing. “For now we need to blend in, act like we’re here to gamble.”
That made Violet nod.
What he said was true, after all one of the prizes here was a Pinsir, so if Team Rocket was aware of her being here due to the cameras, they probably think it’s because of that.
Side stepping someone who was clearly drunk, Violet swallowed nervously as an idea came to mind.
“I think I might have a way to find the entrance.” Violet whispered as the two began to wait in line to buy some coins.
Green didn’t look at her, but he grunted to show he was listening.
“You know how Team Rocket had ambushed me in the past right?” Violet asked, being as quiet as possible while Green gave a barely noticeable nod, remembering that whole SS. Anne mess quite vividly. “What if we use that?”
Hearing that made Green turn towards her with an unreadable expression. “You can’t be serious.”
Violet just shrugged.
Chances are, if Team Rocket were still after her to get revenge, they can use this place to their advantage to get her alone.
“It’s one of our best chances.”
“You really do have no sense of self-preservation.” Green muttered in annoyance, not liking the idea.
It was far too risky.
“Do you have a better idea?” Violet asked in a harsh whisper, feeling insulted by what he said.
She does have self preservation… Though given what she’s doing right now she supposed that could be argued.
Green couldn’t answer as they made it to the counter where the worker smiled, but both kids saw the worker stiffen up the moment she saw Violet.
It seemed that they were right about the fact that she was well known in the ranks of Team Rocket.
But the worker quickly acted as if that didn’t happen. “Hello, are you here for coins?”
If they didn’t know there was a hideout here, they would’ve missed that completely.
“We are.” Green took over. “Five Hundred Coins.”
He placed the money on the counter.
“S-Same, how much for Pinsir?” Violet asked, using that to push the idea that they were here for the Pokemon, placing her money on the counter alongside Green’s.
It seemed to work as the worker’s shoulders relaxed for a split second.
“Five Hundred coins each and the Pinsir will take 6500 coins.”
Green narrowed his eyes, knowing for a fact that it should be 2500 coins.
So it seemed that they were using this as a chance to be as petty as legally possible.
Violet seemed to know this as well, but she held her irritation in and nodded.
The minute they left, the worker had someone else take her place and pulled out a pokegear as she entered the backroom.
Giovanni frowned as he was going over some old reports that he’s been putting off for the sake of keeping up appearances at the Viridian Gym.
While he was a suspect by the League due to Surge and Koga being revealed, he’s been playing his role well to keep from being outed until he was ready.
Both Surge and Koga were in Saffron City alongside Sabrina, the two former Leaders working on their control of Zapdos and Articuno, though there were some slight complications as with Zapdos, Surge had some trouble due to how the Legendary makes any nearby electric Pokemon feral.
Not to mention they had to do it deep underground to avoid their presence causing it to hail or a thunderstorm.
That would be a dead giveaway to their location.
It was only a matter of time before the League realized that Team Rocket already took the city over, having used the Ace Trainers his organization infiltrated to send false messages to them.
If they could get the project they needed Silph Co for completed and capture Moltres along with Mew, they would be nigh unstoppable.
The nearby phone rang, pulling Giovanni out of his thoughts as he took a deep breath and answered it. “I believe I said that I didn’t want to be bothered.” He said in a stern tone, knowing he had too much work to be done.
“ Sorry boss, but the Hawke girl is here. ”
That one sentence made Giovanni pause before he turned towards the computer screens on the wall behind him and brought up the camera footage, easily finding her in the establishment.
It helped that she was the only one wearing a straw hat in the casino.
Alongside Green Oak, another child that was starting to become an annoyance.
“Is she here for us?” Giovanni asked in a dark tone.
He gave her too many chances as it was.
Out of everything they’ve done, the Game Corner was their best source of income that he ensured remained off of any record that Team Rocket held, not wanting it to be compromised with the hideout being built by professionals that had their memories wiped by Sabrina’s Alakazam using Dream Eater.
If anything threatens it, then he will take care of it personally.
“ Not that I know of, I think she’s here for the Pinsir prize. ” The worker said, making Giovanni frown in contemplation.
That would make sense.
Considering she was a Bug Catcher, he should’ve expected this.
But as he watched the screen, he saw how tense she was, looking over her shoulder as if ready to be attacked.
That nearly made Giovanni snarl in frustration.
She knew.
And that meant they were compromised.
“ Boss? ” The worker’s voice spoke up with uncertainty.
“I want every bit of information wiped from our servers.” Giovanni spoke up, knowing they had back ups in their true base. “Move as many of the rare Pokemon as you can and set up the Electrodes to detonate on my order.”
“ S-Sir? ” The worker sounded worried.
“You have your orders.” Giovanni didn’t even bother to hide his anger at being questioned.
It was already known among the ranks how angry he got with so many of his organization going against his orders in the first place.
“ Y-Yes sir. ”
The line went dead as Giovanni placed it down and clasped his fingers together.
Given the funds this base provided, he would rather avoid destroying it, however at this point it was inevitable.
But he stood up and walked to a nearby painting, pushing it to the side to show a safe.
Taking a deep breath, Giovanni opened the safe to show a metal helmet that he grabbed to hide his features and placed it on before he got to work on placing the rest of the evidence that could be used against them in his suitcase where one could see a dark black Pokedex that was created from the studies of the one they took from Oak’s Grandson.
Once that was done, he sat down to wait for Hawke to come to him, knowing that she would find the hideout, a pair of goggles on the table in front of him.
It was about time for them to meet face to face.
“Stop looking over your shoulder.” Green said as they were looking at the different machines. “You’re being suspicious.”
“Excuse me for being worried,” Violet quietly snapped, giving him a glare. “We’re in the Arcanine Den here.”
She couldn’t help but be paranoid right now.
Green frowned, looking out of the corner of his eyes, past the machines. “We just need to find the entrance to their base.”
It’s too bad that Alakazam couldn’t locate the exact location of the entrance, but at least they knew it was somewhere here.
“It’s probably in the back where only the employees go.” Violet muttered in thought, cupping her chin. “They do have to keep customers from finding it after all.”
Green grunted in agreement.
It’s not like they would put the entrance behind a poster or something.
Eventually the two made it to the far back of the Game Corner where there was rarely anyone around, the two still trying to act as if they were looking for a machine to play.
It wouldn’t work for long and Green really didn’t want to pretend to play a game while searching.
Looking around, Violet paused as in the far corner the wall looked a little weird.
So she approached it, catching Green’s attention as he looked over to see her inspecting it. “Find something?”
“I think so.” Violet placed a hand on it before pushing as a hidden door opened up.
There was a pair of stairs behind the hidden door, going down.
“Finally.” Green muttered looking behind them to see that no one noticed. “Come on.”
With that said, he moved in with Violet following after, closing the door behind her.
Last thing they needed was someone innocent being caught up in this mess.
Immediately she sent Silk, Stinger and Parasite out while Green sent Sandslash, Alakazam and Vulpix out.
Due to how narrow the staircase was, there was no room for Pidgeot or Gyarados and he doubted they would fare well due to how this base was underground.
Raising a finger to his lips, Green opened the door at the bottom of the stairs showing a pure white hallway with potted plants nearby, black lines going across the wall.
The R emblem on the floor however was a dead giveaway showing they really did find it.
So far there didn’t seem to be anyone around, but given the nearby cameras, they knew that would change.
“You ready?” Green asked with Violet giving a nod. “Sandslash, Dig and scout ahead.”
“Parasite help him out.”
Both Pokemon gave a low cry and dug into the ground while Alakazam’s eyes glowed before shaking his head.
There was a psychic block in the area that kept him from detecting anyone and he no longer had the burst of energy from the evolution to help him out.
So they needed to tread carefully.
“Vulpix, do you smell anyone?” Green asked, looking down at the Fox Pokemon watching as her tails were twitching from side to side before she gave a nod.
He didn’t like this.
Still they moved as slowly as possible, the two peeking around corners as they went to avoid being ambushed.
It went on for ten minutes and nothing happened.
That already told them that something was wrong.
A pained cry however made them jump, not expecting it, but Green’s face contorted in fury as he recognized the cry.
“Eevee!” He rushed on ahead, attempting to get to his starter, his Pokemon behind him while Violet’s eyes widened as she moved to follow only for a metal door to burst out of the floor, separating the two.
That made Green stop and turn in surprise but he couldn’t say anything as suddenly nearby doors burst open and countless Grunts came out.
The same thing happened on Violet’s end as she spun around seeing the Grunts sending their Pokemon out.
And while they did have Grimers, Ekans, Arboks, Koffings, Golbats, Hypnos, Machokes, Glooms, Haunters and Raticates, some of them did have some Pokemon that were the prizes at the Game Corners such as Dragonairs, Kadabras, Nidorinas and Nidorinos.
“Give it up, you’re completely outnumbered.” One of them called out as Violet had her back pressed against the metal door, Green doing the same on his side. “Can’t believe you kids just waltzed right into our base like that.”
“Alakazam, can you teleport Violet to us?” Green asked, seeing his Psychic type shake his head. “Of course, that would be too easy.”
And this meant they couldn’t teleport out unless they took down whatever was causing the disruption.
“Hopefully Sandslash and Parasite can get back to us, so we can dig under the door.” Violet whispered, eyeing the threats.
She couldn’t pull the Pokedex out without setting them off, so she had no idea how strong they were.
Green gave a low nod despite how Violet couldn’t see it. “We’ll try to regroup, think you can handle yourself?” He asked, not knowing how much opposition she had on her side.
Despite the nervousness she was feeling, Violet gave a shaky grin. “Worry about yourself.” She said before calling out. “Stinger! Agility and String Shot! Silk alternate Esper Spore and Psybeam!”
Immediately Green called out his orders. “Alakazam, use Thunder Wave and Psychic! Vulpix, Confuse Ray and Flamethrower!”
Their Pokemon sprang into action as Team Rocket quickly called out their attacks and it was complete chaos with how much Pokemon were involved.
Violet had to move as some of the attacks were shot at her, having to dodge a Dragonbreath, Sludge and Psybeam from some of their Pokemon, stumbling as some of them were very close calls, Silk and Stinger keeping as close as possible as they went on the offensive with the former firing String Shot with precision, hitting the eyes of some of the Pokemon as well as covering the ground to slow them down allowing for Esper Spore to fly through the air, causing massive problems for the Pokemon they affected.
Though the Glooms weren’t bothered by the spores one bit due to being part Grass.
As the Spores took effect, Silk fired Psybeams at the Pokemon weak to psychic attacks, taking down countless poison types while Stinger had to use his increased agility to dodge the psychic attacks thrown at him, using Pin Missile to counter some of the psychic types.
On Green’s end it was complete chaos Alakazam managing to disorientate the Grunts by pulling parts of the ceiling down, bits of it over the Grunts to take them down and make the Pokemon easier to take down, using Thunder Wave to paralyze them while Vulpix was keeping anything at bay with the flames she was firing, switching to using Confuse Ray to disorientate anything nearby.
“Green, keep going if you can.” Violet called out, watching as more grunts were starting to appear. “If we stay in place, they’ll overwhelm us. Find your Eevee!”
After all that was their objective here.
Knowing she was right, Green looked at Alakazam. “Make a path.” He ordered before calling out to Violet. “Meet up as soon as you can!”
Once he gets Eevee, they’ll need to fight their way out.
He didn’t hear an answer, but from the noise, he knew she was still fighting so he booked it right as Alakazam blasted a path with Psybeam, moving after him while Vulpix used Quick Attack to get ahead and keep it clear with Flamethrower.
“Meet up as soon as you can!”
Violet barely had time to process that, nearly getting hit by a poison gas from a Koffing that got close, but Silk easily caught the attack with Confusion making it hit the other Grunts as they coughed and fell to their knees.
She then used Psybeam to blast chunks out of the floor and used Confusion to slam the chunks into some of the other Pokemon, doing a makeshift rock slide.
Not wanting to be outdone, Stinger used String Shot on a Koffing and used it as a wrecking ball, making it slam into a group of Pokemon, the action causing the Koffing to erupt as a massive explosion sounded due to there being quite a few Koffings in said group.
An explosion that was no doubt heard by the people in the Game Corner which would cause the Police to be called.
Seeing a path made from the explosion due to it being in the wall, Violet moved through it, her Pokemon behind her as they string shot the hole to slow the Rockets down.
Now she was running through the hideout, hearing the shouts behind her as they were trying to destroy the String Shot barricade before Silk pulled bits of the ceiling down to block it off even further.
That will definitely buy them some more time.
Making it around another corner, an Arbok burst out of the ground, attempting to bite her but it was intercepted as Parasite came out of nowhere, using Body Slam right out of the ground.
Stunned, Arbok went to bite the Parasect only for Silk to muzzle it with String Short and Stinger used Twineedle to take it down.
“Nice job!” Violet praised her team, panting from how much was going on at once. “And welcome back Parasite!”
She was happy that Parasite finally returned from scouting ahead.
They kept moving, Stinger taking the time to set up Sword Dance and Double Team while he could.
Given how unfamiliar he was with the attacks, he needed the time to set them up, Silk doing the same with her own Double Team.
So the next pair of grunts they ran into practically screamed as it looked like she came in with a horde of Beedrills and Butterfrees, not knowing they were illusions, easily taken down in the process.
Parasite dove into the ground once more, going on ahead to use Quicksand on any opposition that would be ahead, but keeping close to prevent any more ambushes.
Knocking a nearby door down, Violet was surprised to find herself in a room full of caged Pokemon who shrunk down at seeing her.
Seeing something like this just made Violet angrier.
Sure she knew that Team Rocket illegally trafficked Pokemon but seeing it in person was just infuriating.
So she got to work, ordering her Pokemon to destroy the locks, catching the Pokemon by surprise.
“Hey, what do you think you’re doing?!” Some of the grunts from earlier caught up with her and the sight of them infuriated the caged Pokemon that were just freed as they attacked the Grunts, not even bothering to go for their Pokemon, leaving them free for Violet’s team to take them down without too much trouble.
Violet felt pale at seeing some of the Grunts literally getting torn apart by the freed Pokemon, nearly throwing up but she looked away, trying to ignore the sounds.
Great, more material for her nightmares.
She supposed she should be lucky that none of them attacked her.
Following the pained cries of his Eevee, Green didn’t stop for anything.
Not even when a Nidorino attempted to run him through, his Sandslash coming out to save him in time.
He did give a quick nod to the Sandslash as he ran, showing his appreciation.
There were multiple sounds of explosions behind him and he was actually curious in how much damage Violet was actually doing to cause that sort of noise?
Or maybe the Grunts were stupid enough to keep using Self Destruct.
Either one was possible.
Still he needed to focus.
One Grunt attempted to grab him as he rounded the corner, but Green just ducked the arm, kicked him in between the legs and elbowed his face, making the grunt fall down in pain with a broken nose and a bruised groin.
He then got assaulted by Alakazam, sending him flying with a small confusion with enough force to knock him out.
Enough to keep him down for good.
After checking a few rooms, Green felt his blood go cold when he found a lab where he saw Eevee inside of a machine being electrocuted as various empty syringes were nearby.
It looked as if they were trying to pack up, but Green didn’t care for that, the sight of Eevee made his mind fill with rage, Green didn’t even comprehend the scientists seeing him as Alakazam blasted them with Thunder Wave, taking them down before they could send a Pokemon out.
Rushing to the machine, Green had Sandslash use Slash on it, breaking the glass open before he grabbed Eevee, grimacing from the shocks as he pulled him out.
Eevee cried out, not opening his eyes as he bit on Green’s arms, trying to defend himself.
Green gritted his teeth but held on.
“It’s okay.” He whispered, trying to calm Eevee down. “You’re alright.”
Eevee didn’t seem to recognize his voice as he bit down harder, drawing blood.
Seeing that, Alakazam, Vulpix and Sandslash went to intervene, but Green spoke through the pain. “Eevee, it’s me!” He exclaimed, giving his team looks, not wanting them to hurt Eevee.
After everything he’s been through, that was the last thing he needed.
At first Eevee kept biting but after a few seconds, he finally opened his eyes and looked at Green, a pained expression on his face, not recognizing him but after a few seconds, his eyes widened as Eevee gave a low cry.
He then looked down and realized what he did before gently licking the wound, showing concern for Green.
“I’m fine.” Green whispered, nearly crying as he had his Pokemon back. “You’re going to be okay.”
Standing up, he looked around before finding Eevee’s Pokeball along with his Pokedex that was nearly torn apart showing that Team Rocket has been studying it.
So he grabbed both, returning Eevee and putting him in stasis before glancing towards the door.
He needed to regroup with Violet.
But with how big this place was, it would take forever to find her.
Unknown to him however, the screen of the Pokedex flashed as if something was inside of it.
Violet knew they couldn’t keep this up forever as she got further into the base, her Pokemon were starting to get exhausted from how many Pokemon they were taking down.
They could still fight and it seemed that the adrenaline was keeping them going, but it seemed that for every member of Team Rocket they did take down, another three took their place.
Makes sense considering this was their base, but it didn’t make it any less annoying.
Still, she couldn’t help but be proud.
They were actually taking down a small army by themselves, a lot more then the amount they faced on Seafoam Islands.
And by doing this, Team Rocket’s activities should be severely limited due to how much money they will lose with this place closing down.
Eventually however she made it to a small office, seeing a single person sitting on a couch, a metal helmet covering his features, fingers locked together as he leaned forward.
Right behind him, countless screens showing the base as well as the Game Corner played, the latter had people running in fear due to the sounds of explosions that happened with the Police just now showing up.
Though she did see a nearby lamp near the door which she found an odd place to put one, she ignored it and kept her focus on the man.
“Violet Hawke.” He spoke, a voice changer disguising his voice. “We meet at last.”
Violet tensed as the man stood up, not having a single Pokemon out while her three Pokemon got ready despite their exhaustion.
“Let me guess, another executive?” Violet asked, watching him carefully.
If he was, she couldn’t afford to let him send out a Pokemon.
The man chuckled in amusement.
Instead he turned away from her as he walked towards the screens with Violet wondering why he just turned his back on her.
Was he really that confident?
Unless he had a Pokemon already out and it was hidden.
Eyes scanning the room, Violet didn’t see anything out of the ordinary when the man spoke. “You’ve caused us quite a few problems.” The man said, pressing a button as various images of Violet fighting Team Rocket at different points of her journey were shown with Violet wondering how he got the footage for some of them. “When I first heard of you, I thought you were nothing but a child that wasn’t worth killing, that’s why I ordered my men to leave you alone at first.”
Hearing him say his men made Violet tense as a horrifying realization washed over her.
This wasn’t just an Executive.
This was the Boss of Team Rocket.
Their Leader.
Oh this was much worse then she thought.
“However, you kept interfering with my organization.” The man turned and gave Violet a look from behind his helmet. “And now here you are at the heart of one of our bases, I’m afraid that I can no longer abide by your actions.”
Immediately the ground erupted as a Golem shot out with a roar, using Rock Slide, nearly killing Violet immediately if it wasn’t for Stinger using String Shot to pull her out of the way.
Her Pokemon were barely able to dodge the attack as the Boss clasped his hands behind his back.
“Still, I will commend your strength.” The Boss commented as if she didn’t just dodge the attack. “You’re certainly a cut above some of the other nuisances that we’ve faced in the past. It’s not often that one would be so brazen as you.”
He then nodded.
“Golem, kill her.”
Golem roared and attempted another Rock Slide that Silk blasted back with Psybeam.
Seeing that, Violet couldn’t afford to wait as she ran to the side. “Parasite, Solarbeam!” She called out as the Mushroom Pokemon began to charge. “Silk, Esper Spore! Stinger, Poison String!”
The Boss waited until the spores got close. “Fire Blast.”
A massive explosion erupted, with Parasite abandoning using Solar Beam to dig underground to dodge while Silk had no choice but to use Confusion around herself to try and lessen the damage, grimacing in pain as Stinger barely got out of the blast, looking very concerned at how powerful that move was.
Violet bit back a curse at seeing that.
“It’s too bad you didn’t take Koga’s offer in Mt. Moon, I daresay you might’ve lived long enough to be an adult.” The Boss commented with a smirk.
Violet said nothing, glancing towards Silk as the flames died down, seeing her burnt and weary but still conscious as she was still ready to fight.
Parasite burst out of the ground but the Golem saw it coming a mile away and grabbed the mushroom Pokemon by her big claw and slammed her into the ground, raising a foot to use Stomp to crush her.
Buzzing angrily, Stinger shot in, using String Shot on the foot before flying past, still holding onto the string to make it miss, giving Parasite a chance to back away but Golem then grabbed the string and used his strength to slam the Beedrill into the wall, cracking it.
Even with it being three on one, this Golem was doing a lot of damage.
Violet finally pulled the Pokedex out to scan it.
“ Golem, the Megaton Pokemon. Said to live in Volcanic Craters on a mountain, its boulder-like body is extremely hard. It sheds its rock hard skin once a year and can withstand dynamite blasts without damage. Current Level is 63. ”
Seeing the level, Violet felt fear.
This was the highest level Pokemon she’s ever encountered.
“Quite the interesting device you have, to think it gives you so much information.” The Boss commented, seeing the fear on her face. “I assume you got it from Professor Oak given how you’re registered as one of his assistants.”
Violet put the Pokedex away and tried to think of a strategy as she ordered for her team to encase the Golem in a String Shot.
While she knew it wouldn’t hold, it would at least slow it down and give her some breathing room.
While Stinger and Silk did that, Parasite began to use Stun Spore to slow it down even further, watching as the spores made contact with the Golem who snarled in annoyance before his eyes were covered and before long Golem could barely be seen.
The Boss huffed before closing his eyes. “Explosion.”
Eyes widening, Violet had no time to react as a massive explosion detonated with the silk from the String Shot erupting everywhere, sticking to the walls, ceiling and floor.
It even knocked quite a few items off the nearby desk, one of them being the pair of goggles that landed near Violet who glanced at them curiously.
Thankfully the cocoon of silk actually lessened the damage to her team but they were now on their last legs while the Boss was hidden from view due to the dust that was kicked up.
Suddenly a Rhydon shot through the dust, slamming a tail into Silk, taking her out of commission before hitting Stinger with a Mega Punch knocking him out and slamming into Parasite with a Stomp, the Mushroom Pokemon barely conscious.
The Boss just walked forward enjoying the look of fear showing on Violet. “As impressive as your achievements were, the fact that you came here shows you to be nothing more than an arrogant child.”
A scratching noise made him look down to see Parasite trying to use Scratch to get Rhydon off of her despite looking ready to pass out.
“And you’ve raised arrogant bugs as well.” The Boss continued as if that wasn’t happening.
“Say what you want about me, don’t you ever insult my team.” Violet snapped, trying to hide her fear.
“Oh is that so?” The Boss smirked, wanting to have her suffer before he actually kills her.
And he found the perfect way to do so.
“Rhydon, rip the mushroom off of the Parasect and do it slowly.”
That order made Violet’s eyes widened as she remembered the Pokedex entry that she read before making it to Vermillion.
Should the mushroom be removed, this Pokemon will die.
“No.” She whispered, seeing Rhydon grasp the Mushroom as he began to pull.
Parasite began to scream in agony as it was feeling the Mushroom being removed.
“Stop it!” Violet shouted running towards them, not wanting Parasite to die.
It was stupid because she knew that she was running to her own death, but she had to do something.
She couldn’t just stand by.
Especially when blood began to drip from Parasite as the Mushroom was getting looser.
She tried to return her to the Pokeball, but the Rhydon turned, preventing that from working as the beam hit its back.
In her desperation, Violet almost resorted to sending Sapphire out despite knowing that it wouldn’t work, but suddenly the ground beneath Rhydon caved in as Sandslash shot out, slashing Rhydon across the face, leaving deep scratches.
That made Rhydon roar in pain as he spun around, flinging Parasite into the wall where she fell unconscious, leaving Violet free to return her with a look of relief.
That was way too close.
Ensuring that she put Parasite on stasis, Violet found that she couldn’t breathe right as the wall imploded with Gyarados making his entrance, Green right behind it with Vulpix and Alakazam surrounding the Rhydon.
Seeing Stinger and Silk unconscious, Green knew what that meant as he kept an eye on Rhydon, seeing the fresh blood on its hands and the ground.
That made him tense up as he knew he had to be very careful here.
“Ah, the second annoyance to my organization.” The Boss didn’t seem bothered by the sudden appearance of Green.
While it was annoying that he intervened right when Rhydon was about to kill the Parasect, he supposed it didn’t matter.
After all, from how the Hawke Girl was shaking, he made his point.
“Rhydon, to me.” The Boss ordered with the Drill Pokemon listening with no hesitation.
While that was going on, Green took a moment to glance back at Violet to see how she was still shaking. “Get it together and grab your revives!” He snapped, knowing they didn’t have too much time.
At first it seemed as if Violet didn’t hear him before she blinked and realization dawned. “G-Got it.”
She turned towards Stinger and Silk with a look of dread on her face.
She was surprised the Boss didn’t order Rhydon to kill them while she was out of it.
Seeing that, Green was uncertain of why she was acting like this, but turned his attention back to the Boss whose stance showed amusement at how they were acting.
The man even waited for Violet to revive Stinger and Silk when he could’ve stopped it at any moment.
He wasn’t taking the two seriously at all and that pissed him off.
Instead, he looked at the Pokemon that surrounded him and he chuckled.
While Violet only had bugs they were strong in their own way, but it was Green’s team that impressed him.
A trainer with only two months of experience having a Gyarados and an Alakazam on his team?
If left alone he could be more of a threat then the Hawke girl has been.
“I suppose you only came here for your Eevee?” The boss asked, seeing him retrieve it on the screen.
The mention of Eevee set Green off with how he glared at the Boss who chuckled.
“You children seem to cherish your Pokemon with the utmost care.” He commented, shaking his head. “Neither of you can ever hope to understand what I hope to accomplish-.”
“Shut up.” Green said in a low tone, cutting the Boss off. “You have no room to talk with everything your organization has done.”
Of how many people they killed.
Of the Pokemon they tortured and sold off.
“And you never cared until your Pokemon was stolen,” The Boss brought up, seeing Green tense. “Don’t act all high and mighty.”
Green wanted to shout at him, but deep down he knew the man was right in a way.
When he heard anything to do with Team Rocket, he ignored it.
Most of it was because he was too focused on his own goals and yes it could be argued that he was a child so he shouldn’t have to care about all of this.
But it still stung.
“Stinger, ignore Rhydon, use Pin Missile on his trainer.”
The order caught Green off guard as Stinger, who hesitated at first, actually fired the move right at the boss only for Rhydon to deflect it.
From the Boss’s posture, Green could tell that even he was caught off guard.
While Violet has attacked Team Rocket grunts before, it was only with status moves using Silk or Parasite to take them down, ensuring that she never did anything that would cause serious damage.
Same with him, sure he used actual moves that can cause damage, but his Pokemon always held back to avoid that.
This time however, she actually tried to kill someone.
Turning, Green saw Violet who had her head down, the hat hiding her features, but she was shaking while Silk looked at her in visible concern.
It took a second to realize that Violet was shaking in rage, not fear.
Slowly, Violet raised her head to show nothing but hatred on her face.
“You’re the last person to be lecturing anyone.” Violet told the Boss, clenching a fist, her nails digging into her palms.
If the man said anything else, she didn’t hear it, instead her mind flashing back to hearing Parasite screaming in agony and that just fueled her anger.
“Stinger, if you can, inject him with the most painful poison you have.” Violet hissed out, wanting the man to suffer in the same way he inflicted on her Pokemon. “Silk, back him up.”
Both bugs were unsure about this, but they listened while Green was actually feeling concerned for Violet.
This was-he didn’t think she was capable of ordering something like that.
But they were in the middle of a fight for their lives, so he couldn't afford to say anything.
Rhydon responded to the threat against his trainer with a flamethrower, keeping the bugs at bay before quickly using Double Team to dodge a Psybeam from Alakazam, following up with an Earthquake to damage all of the ground based Pokemon, tanking a Dragon Rage from Gyarados in the process.
The Earthquake began to damage the room as cracks were appearing in the ceiling with bits of it falling down, the kids having to move while the Boss was actually intrigued by the change in the girl who has been a constant thorn in his side.
The Gyarados then attempted to use Bubblebeam, but Rhydon stomped on the ground to kick bits of the floor up, slamming the debris with his tail to send it flying into the water serpent, distracting it long enough to take it down with a Thunderbolt.
Green cursed, seeing how versatile this Rhydon was as it kept everyone at bay, showing it to be capable of taking on an army by itself, keeping every threat in its sight.
From keeping his team at bay to protecting his trainer from Stinger and Silk who attempted to bypass at every turn.
Just how strong was this Rhydon?!
Sandslash kept making the ground unstable to try and knock the Rhydon off balance while Vulpix kept trying to burn and confuse it.
But Rhydon just shrugged it all off, firing a Toxic at his Pokemon to force them to back off before using another Fire Blast to ensure the bugs stay back, that move being the reason Silk never tried to use any spores.
Having enough of Sandslash, Rhydon waited until it dug again to use Earthquake once more, making more of the ceiling cave in with Vulpix going down to the attack as the Mouse Pokemon quickly came above ground only to take a point blank Ice Beam to the face, taking it out of commission.
Two String Shots blinded Rhydon who snarled before Alakazam fired a massive Psychic at the Drill Pokemon, causing some cracks to appear in its armor but it unleashed a Hyper Beam, forcing the Alakazam to dodge out of the way.
Given how it had to rest after that move, Silk finally managed to tag it with Esper Spore, weakening Rhydon leaving Stinger to fly past it, going straight for the Boss who didn’t seem that bothered.
Both trainers were surprised when a flash of light erupted as the man had his own Beedrill that countered Stinger, leaving the Poison Bee to be surprised only to take a Hyper Beam to the face showing how outclassed he was.
For a split second, Violet’s anger was gone in the shock that the leader had his own Beedrill but it was back after seeing the damage done to Stinger.
Alakazam did one more Psychic, damaging the Boss’s Beedrill but it left him open to a Horn Drill from Rhydon that impaled him, forcing Green to return him immediately.
The only awake Pokemon on their side was Silk and Green couldn’t let Pidgeot out in here.
About to give the finishing blow, the Boss was caught off guard when an arrow pierced his shoulder, making him grit his teeth as another arrow hit the wall behind him.
Turning, he saw that a Pokeball was attached to said arrow and moved right as a Vileplume appeared, firing a Solar Beam right at Rhydon who spun around, hitting it point blank.
When that happened a Pokeball landed between the kids and the severely weakened Rhydon, letting out a Venusaur that immediately shot a vine whip right at Rhydon, taking it down, sending it flying into the Beedrill to take it out of commision.
“I believe that’s enough of that.” Everyone turned to see Erika herself entering the room as she had a bow out with another arrow notched, ready to fire, this one aimed towards his heart.
If he so much as twitched, she will go for the kill.
Her normally serene face was twisted with anger at what was happening.
When she first got called due to the report of explosions being near the Game Corner, the last thing she and the Police expected to find was a Team Rocket Base beneath the place.
Once it was discovered, she used her Pokegear to report it to the League and went on ahead with a few officers, the latter having to stay behind to detain both the Rocket Grunts that were already down and the frenzy Pokemon that had escaped showing that someone else was here.
And after seeing bits of String Shot all over the place, Erika had a feeling on who it was, remembering hearing all of the reports the last two months of a bug catcher interfering with Team Rocket.
The fact that a Rocket Base was under her nose the whole time infuriated her, along with the fact that two children thought it would be a good idea to take matters into their own hands instead of calling the police, while she will be having words with them about this, right now she was more focused on the big threat in the room.
“Get on the ground.” Erika ordered while the Boss just smirked.
She really thought she had the upper hand.
Behind the three of them, the lamp near the door twisted, changing colors as it became a light purple blob before lunging at Erika, quickly forcing the bow away from the Boss right as she fired, barely missing the man who moved as her Pokemon were distracted by the Ditto attacking their trainer.
“Silk, stop him!” Violet ordered, not wanting him to get away, but the man sent out a Nidoking that fried Silk with a Thunderbolt, allowing for him to press a button on his desk, causing a glass window to slam down, separating him from the others right as the Ditto was taken care of.
“I’m afraid this is where we part ways.” The Boss said, watching as Erika ordered a Solar Beam to hit the glass, barely leaving a scratch showing how durable it was. “Rest assured, this isn’t the last any of you have heard of Team Rocket.”
He then turned his attention to Violet.
“As for you Hawke, you will pay for everything you’ve done to my organization, what you’ve experienced today was only the beginning of your suffering.”
With that warning, he pressed another button as the building began to shake with multiple explosions going off from the Electrodes they had set up, causing the building to shake right as a Hypno appeared behind the Boss before teleporting them away.
“Return your Pokemon now!” Erika ordered, sending out an Exeggutor showing that she intended to teleport them out.
She didn’t worry about the Officers inside the base because each of their Partner Arcanines already knew Teleport.
As they did that, Violet took an extra moment to grab the goggles that landed near her earlier, thinking that they might be important if the Boss had them before the Exeggutor teleported them out of the hideout right as the room imploded.
To Be Continued…
Party Data
Starter
Name: Stinger
Species: Beedrill
Type: Poison/Bug
Gender: Male
Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)
Lv. 40
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Sniper
Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy, Twineedle, Rage, Rest, Pin Missile, Agility, Sword Dance, Double Team, Substitute and Skull Bash.
Became Violet’s Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.
Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
2nd Pokemon
Name: Silk
Species: Butterfree
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)
Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)
Lv. 41
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Compound Eyes
Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind, Gust, Psybeam, Teleport, Reflect, Double Team, Dream Eater and Swift.
Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.
Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.
3rd Pokemon
Name: Parasite
Species: Parasect
Type: Grass/Bug
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)
Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)
Lv. 39
Caught at Lv. 7
Ability: Dry Skin
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Dig, Leech Life, Body Slam, Spore, SolarBeam and Slash.
Special Move: Quicksand
Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon
Evolved in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle
4th Pokemon
Name: Sapphire
Species: Venonat (Shiny)
Type: Bug/Poison
Gender: Female
Nature: Mild (Up Sp. Attack/Down Defense)
Characteristics: Loves to Eat (Up HP)
Lv. 27
Caught at Lv. 26
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Tackle, Disable, Supersonic, Confusion, Poison Powder and Leech Life
Was captured in Chapter 24: The Haunted Tower
Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX
Current Day: June 23rd, 20XX
Time Spent as a Trainer: 2 Months
Green Oak’s Team
1st Pokemon
Starter
Species: Eevee
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 35
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite
2nd Pokemon
Species: Raticate *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Male
Lv. 34
Caught at Lv. 3
Ability: Guts
Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.
3rd Pokemon
Species: Pidgeot
Type: Normal/Flying
Gender: Male
Lv. 39
Caught at Lv. 2
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack, Whirlwind, Wing Attack and Sky Attack
4th Pokemon
Species: Alakazam
Type: Psychic
Gender: Male
Lv. 42
Caught at Lv. 9
Ability: Magic Guard
Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable, Psybeam, Recover, Psychic and Reflect.
5th Pokemon
Species: Sandslash
Type: Ground
Gender: Female
Lv. 38
Caught at Lv. 13
Ability: Sand Veil
Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig, Slash, Poison Sting and Swift.
6th Pokemon
Species: Cloyster *Stored*
Type: Water
Gender: Female
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 12
Ability: Shell Armor
Moves: Tackle, Withdraw, Supersonic and Blizzard
7th Pokemon
Species: Gyarados
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Lv. 36
Caught at Lv. 5
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Splash, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage, Leer and Bubblebeam
8th Pokemon
Species: Ditto *Stored*
Type: Normal
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. 32
Caught at Lv. 30
Ability: Limber
Moves: Transform
9th Pokemon
Species: Vulpix
Type: Fire
Gender: Female
Lv. 40
Caught at Lv. 32
Ability: Drought
Moves: Ember, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Roar, Confuse Ray, Flamethrower, SolarBeam and Fire Blast
10th Pokemon
Species: Magnemite
Type: Electric
Gender: Nonbinary
Lv. Unknown
Ability: Unknown
Moves: Unknown
Notes:
I’ll go ahead and say it. I feel like this chapter could be much better. I've been rewriting this one for the last five months because I haven’t been satisfied with it, but after a few rewrites, I feel like this is probably the best it’ll be.
Originally I was going to have Giovanni use a completed version of the Serum on his Rhydon, but then decided against it as having him easily hold his own and take down both Violet and Green at the same time without using the Serum would show him to be an incredibly dangerous threat along with the level of his Golem showing why he’s the strongest Kanto Gym Leader as it was very close to the strength of the Elite Four in this story.
Also, it was the first official meeting between Giovanni and Violet that’s been building up ever since the incident at Mt. Moon with the former knowing about her and even though she lost, she did show why she was dangerous as Giovanni didn’t underestimate her one bit. Sure he allowed her to revive her bugs while Green was in the room, but that was more confidence in his Rhydon rather than looking down on them, contrary to what Green thought.
Which leads me to what happened to Parasite.
Originally she was supposed to die.
I actually went back and forth about killing Parasite off here as a turning point of the story due to how I’ve shown death in this story quite a few times, but never the protagonist losing one of her Pokemon, but after speaking about it to a friend, going over pros and cons, I decided in the end not to do that.
But Violet still snapped in the way I intended for her with her actually attempting to straight up kill Giovanni.
I mean if you think about it, this whole journey took place in two months.
In those two months she’s nearly died multiple times, poisoned quite a few times, technically stabbed by the throwing needles in the Lavender Tower, electrocuted to the point of being unconscious, nearly froze to death, almost drowned, hunted by a criminal organization for having bad luck in running into them, almost strangled by the Arbok outside of Rock Tunnel, just about suffocated from the Grimer in Mt. Moon and now one of her Pokemon was practically tortured and nearly murdered.
I think anyone would snap after having to deal with that much crap in the span of two months.
Finally Erika had a moment to shine, coming in to save the kids, using a bow like her Manga counterpart did and like Koga she had specially made Pokeballs with the arrows to give her a bit more strategy along with three of her strongest Pokemon being shown with a Vileplume, Venusaur and an Exeggutor.
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