From: Tharag (tharag@aol.com) Subject: [PW!] Viridian Encounter Part 2 (willis) Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/07/27 TITLE: Viridian Encounter Part 2 SUB-TITLE: Shadows Best Forgotten AUTHOR: Tharag@aol.com CHARACTER: Willis LAST TIME: while hiking through the Viridian Forest my sister and I found a whole bunch of Caterpie. Maybe she didn't find them cute enough, but I was catching one. As Blade riled them up I watched on, when one brave little Caterpie fought back against Blade. Impressed with the little guy's cunning and courage I caught him. Later when we set up camp for the night I talked with my new Pokémon and named him Scriggles. After Lela turned in for the night I decided to spend the next several hours playing mini-games on my laptop. Getting bored I decided to spend the final hour till sunrise play demon killer with blade, but as we fought in our mock battle I heard laughter, but who could it be? I stopped and turned to see some older kid holding a bottle and smoking a cigarette, "And praytell who are you jolly sir?" I asked, still in character. "That's priceless, I just love watching people making total fools of themselves," he said contiuning to laugh stopping only for a moment as he took a drink form his beer bottle. I spun my sword once and thrust it's motion towards my other hand that I held at my side, collapsing the blade and hooking the handle to my belt in a single motion, "Glad you find it so entertaining, I guess now my work in life is complete," I said with sarcasm, but it was clearly lost on him as he just kept laughing to himself. "Anyway like I asked before, just who are you, and don't you think your a little young to have such nasty habits." This caught the guy's attention "&*$% you, I'm plenty old enough and my habits are my business anyway. And if you really must know who I am then all you need to know is that I'm the greatest trainer in all of Pewter City, even the Gym Leader Brock cowers at my feet!" he took another drink and then continued laughing. Now I had battled at the Pewter City Gym and I somewhat doubted that Brock would cower to this guy. Anyway the sun was coming up and Lela would be waking up soon and I didn't feal like hanging around this guy any longer, "Come on Blade let's get back to camp." As I leaned down to give Blade a scratch on the head before leaving the guy seemed to finally notice my Pokémon, "Wow a white Raticate! I haven't seen anything like that since got rid of my old Rattata," something about that made Blade cringe for a moment. Blade was a Rattata when I found him all beat up, could this guy... "You used to have a white Rattata. What happened to it?" "Not that's any of your business but yeah, when I first saw it I thought it looked cool, but then all my friends teased me about how puny and small it was so I finally ended up releasing the thing. But the stupid little runt just kept following me back home every night. I finally had to beat the &*$%'n thing half to death to convince it that it wasn't wanted," with that the trainer started laughing like what he had just said was funny. That was awful how could this guy treat his actions as if they were all some big joke, "And you still call yourself a train after trying to kill a Pokémon who just wanted to be your friend!" Despite my outburst the guy kept chuckling to himself. I was furious and I could tell by Blade's aggressive stance that he was to, but anger wasn't going to solve any thing. So I took a moment to calm my temper as best I could, "Well at least I owe you some thanks, if it weren't for your cruelty and irresponsibility I would have never found my best friend and strongest Pokémon." Suddenly the guy stooped his chuckling and stared at me shortly, then darting his eyes towards blade then back to me, "Holy shit, you mean that's my runt! Wow, I'd always figured it died or something." The guy then resumed a light chuckle as he finished talking, "Well, well, it looks like the little runt evolved into a big runt." This guy was really asking for it, I was ready to explode, but no, he shouldn't get off that easy. Still though it was all I could do to hold myself from wanting to personally pound this guys attitude out of him, but I managed to contain my rage and channeled the burning flame of my temper, channeled it to a cold and calculating desire to teach this guy a lesson. "You know, I could call you a big jerk and a lousy trainer, but I'm not since that would be an insult to all big jerks and lousy trainers every were." The guy stooped laughing and was clearly enraged buy my words. "Why you little &*$%'n brat! You have some nerve to insult my training skills, at least I know not to waste my time training shit-ass weak Pokémon!" Good, now that I had him angry it was time to start the lesson. "Well then, shall we find out just who the better trainer is?" I said as I held up my hand tightly grasping Blade's empty Pokéball in it. The guy laughed, "A battle? Against you? Sure. But if that runt is really your best Pokémon then you'll lose hard and fast. And just to make sure I choose GRAVELER, GO!" the guy threw out his Pokéball and in a flash of light it released a Graveler. "You better have something better then just that Raticate if you want to even come close to competing with my Graveler." "Blade is more then capable of pulverizing that big boulder into little pebbles." Blade rushed forward ready to fight. "Graveler, crush that runt with your Takedown attack," the Graveler jumped high into the air ready to crush Blade beneath him but Blade's way to quick to be caught by such a sloppily executed attack and so he was easily able to dodge to the side before the Graveler impacted. "Don't let that runt make a &*$%'n fool out of me, crush him with your Rock Throw attack now!" As the Graveler lifted a huge rock from the ground I called to Blade, "You know how to handle big lugs like this, dive under!" The Graveler hurled the rock at blade but blade dug down into the ground leaving it to impact harmlessly. "That cowardly runt can't escape, my Graveler'll crush it as soon as it comes up." "Just wait and we'll see who gets crushed," and right then Blade burst from the ground cracking the earth around him and half burying the Graveler with a powerful rolling mound of dirt. "Good work blade, that Graveler can't take much more of that." "You little shit, you won't hurt my Graveler again once it Hardens its defense to its maximum." The Graveler then crossed its arms and began to shine like metal as he increased his already rock hard defense. "We'll just see about that, Blade, Focus Energy." Blade began to glow as he readied for his next attack. "Go ahead and try to attack but nothing will hurt my Graveler, keep Hardening." The Graveler's metallic sheen increased as it became even harder Big mistake, he should have taken the opening to attack, well now he'll learn better. "Blade, now! Hyper Beam!" the glowing energy that Blade had focused now condensed, forming a ball of energy at his mouth as he opened it wide, and then in one thrust he shot forward a might blast of raw energy. Graveler stood his ground trying to absorb the impact, "That's it Graveler maximum Hardness," shouted it's trainer, and for just a moment it looked like it might, but then, CRACK, the Graveler was sent flying back as its defense shattered against Blade's critical hit. "That's impossible!", the guy shouted as his Graveler lay unconscious at his feet. "No &*$%'n way can a &*$%'n normal type beat a rock type! You're a &*$%'n little cheater!" he screamed. "It's not cheating, your just a sore loser as well as a poor trainer." I said adding a chuckle to the end of my words. "I'll show you, you little &*$%!" he shouted as he through four Pokéballs. In a flash four Pokémon appeared, Nidorino, Nidorina, Kingler, and Machoke. "Like I said, a sore loser, but if that's your game then let's have at it. Go Loopy, Go Screwy, and let's not forget Scriggles, Go!" my three other Pokémon all materialized ready to go. "These guys shouldn't be much problem, Blade, you've got command, make me proud." Blade turned his head to Loopy and Screwy, "Cate, rat rat cate ratica rat!" with that Loopy and Screwy went to fight Nidorina and Nidorino. Blade then turned to Scriggles, "Raticate, icate rati?" Scriggles nodded and then wriggled over to Blade who lowered his head. Scriggles leaned half his body over Blade's head and with a quick flip Blade tossed Scriggles gently onto his back. Now with Scriggles mounted on his back Blade turned and charged Machoke. Blade dove between Machoke's legs leaving the fighting Pokémon momentarily confused. When Machoke leaned its head between its legs to see were they went Scriggles sitting by a hole in the ground, but not for long as Scriggles quickly blasted it in the eyes with a String Shot. As Machoke staggered around blind Blade popped out of the ground striking Machoke with his attack. Blade then tossed Scriggles onto his back again and charged at Kingler. He made a wide circle around the crab, and Scriggles fired a String Shot at one of Kingler's back legs. Blade then started darting in and out between Kingler's as Scriggles continued firing his String Shot, and then finally with the string wrapped and tangled around all of Kingler's legs Scriggles and Blade gave one big tug and pulled all of its legs out from under it. The water Pokémon struggled to get back to its feet but was having trouble untangling its legs. Meanwhile, Loopy had just been knocked into a tree by Nidorino, who was about to charge her again. As he bared down on Loopy he was smashed in the side by Screwy's Take Down attack and knocked away. Loopy started to thank her rescuer when suddenly she jumped over his head and smashed into Nidorina, who was trying to attack Screwy from behind. Loopy then hit the disoriented Nidorina with a second Take Down attack knocking her to the ground. Loopy and Screwy didn't have long to celebrate, though, Machoke had the string out of its eyes, was back on its feet, and mad as could be. It began to steam as it Focused the Energy of its Rage. He lunged at Loopy and Screwy but they dodged aside narrowly evading its vicious attack. As it turned its Eyes still red with Rage it saw all four of my Pokémon standing together. Blade shouted out orders and Loopy and Screwy both nodded, simultaneously hit Machoke with double Take Down attacks and then each rolled away to either side. Machoke staggered but stood its ground as its Rage grew. It charged at Blade, bad choice, right before it reached him Blade let loose with a Hyper Beam at nearly point blank range. Machoke was sent flying and smashed trough a tree. It struggled to get back up, breathing heavily. It got to one knee the looked at the enemy in front of it with intense Rage. The Pokémon it saw was my Scriggles who promptly smashed it full in the chest with a Tackle attack, it wasn't much but it was enough and Machoke fell to the ground completely KO'd. "What the &*$%!" shouted my opponent, "This is &*$%'n crazy, I'm getting the hell out of here!" He turned to run, apparently ready to leave all his Pokémon behind, but he didn't get far before Scriggles fired a Sting Shot at his feet causing him to trip and fall face first in the mud. I laughed as all my Pokémon came back over to me. "You all did great," I congratulated. Then I noticed that Loopy and Screwy were exhausted, "You two had better get back to your Pokéballs and rest." After recalling them I looked to Scriggles, "Well you don't look nearly as tired but don't think you didn't help, I couldn't have won this one without you," Scriggles was very pleased and danced around happily as I called him back to his Pokéball. "As for you Blade you made a great leader, I'm very proud of you." "Cate rati!" he answered back with a modest enthusiasm. "So let's head back to camp," Blade came and walked by my feet as we returned to camp leaving his defeated and humiliated former trainer were he belonged, in the mud. When we got back to camp Lela was already eating breakfast, "Hey were have you been?" "Oh just teaching a lesson to a bad memory of Blade's," I answered. Then Blade and I looked at each other and laughed a little. Lela stared at us for a momment but then went back to her food not caring to discuss the matter further. After breakfast we packed up camp and continued our hike through the forest. By midafternoon we were out of the forest and I told Lela it was her turn to chose were to go next. Either follow the road north to Pewter or take the underground tunnel to Vermilion, either way she could try and challenge the local Gym Leader for a badge. Lela stood for many moments pondering that.