"The Wrong Crowd"

Erika and I walked through the rain. "No Pokemon Center for two miles," I said groaning. "I better put on my jacket." Pikachu put on his tiny jacket. It was black and had a hood. It was actually kind of cute.
    Erika had on a pink jacket and I put on the one I packed which was red. "It wasn't supposed to rain today," Erika groaned. "What a downer."
    "Speaking of downers, look out!" I cried as a Noctowl flew down at Erika and almost hit her in the head. Erika screamed as it tried to use Psybeam on her. She jumped out of the way.
    "I don't think so! Pikachu, Tackle," I instructed. Pikachu jumped off of my shoulder and tackled Noctowl. Then I realized there was something weird about this Noctowl. It had a yellow body and green wings instead of black wings and a brown body. It must have been extremely rare!
    Pikachu curled into a ball and tried to tackle Noctowl again, but Noctowl used Gust and send Pikachu flying back to the ground. Pikachu landed on his feet.
    "Pikachu, it's wet, and it's a bird type, so use a Thundershock, quick!" Pikachu was about to shock Noctowl, but Noctowl used Drill Peck and knocked Pikachu down before he could pull it off, but Pikachu grabbed onto Noctowl's talons. Noctowl tried to fly up and shake Pikachu off, but Pikachu's cheeks glowed white and a huge bolt of lightning shot out of the sky and zapped Noctowl! "Pokeball go!"
    I threw my Pokeball into the air. It sucked Noctowl inside of it and fell to the ground. It shook four times and then PING!
    "Oh, yes!" I yelled. I caught Pikachu as he fell from the sky and hugged him. I picked up my Pokeball and put it in my pocket.
    "Great job you two." Erika kissed-- Pikachu on the cheek and gave me a hug. "Well, in all this rain, I hope I find a water Pokemon. Staryu and I are in a drought. We haven't caught any Pokemon yet."
    "It's alright," I said. "I mean, we've only been training for three hours. Hey, look! A cabin."
    I opened the door. "Anyone here?"
    The cabin was empty. "Hey, we can spend the night here," I said. "I guess this cabin is for trainers who happen to come passing by. There was nothing in the cabin except for a little stand and a tall black lamp. "Okay, I'll set up my portable laptop," I said. I took my laptop out of my backpack and set it on TV mode. "We can watch TV on it now. I think there is a huge Pokemon League battle on."
    We set up our sleeping backs and then Erika tapped my shoulder. "Hey, there is a stove in the corner. I'll cook some soup, and we'll eat."

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE 99th ANAUAL POKEMON LEAGUE TORNAMENT!" the announcer on the Pokemon sports channel said. "IN OUR FIRST MATCH FOR OUR EXCITING NEW SEASON, WE HAVE MINDY JORELLA AGAINST BROCK BOULDER ON THE ROCK FIELD! WE INTERVIEWED OUR POKEMON TRAINERS EARLIER TODAY AND NOW IT'S TIME TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP! OKAY, BROCK CALLS OUT HIS POKEMON, AND IT'S GRAVELER! MINDY IS CALLING OUT HER POKEMON AND SHE CHOOSES HAUNTER!"
    I looked on as Graveler used Rock Slide and then Hanuter used Shadow Ball. "HAUNTER IS USING ANOTHER SHADOW BALL, BUT GRAVELER USED DIG! BROCK IS 40 YEARS OLD. PEOPLE SAY THAT HE IS TOO OLD TO COMPETE, BUT HE SEEMS TO BE WINNING HERE! OH, LOOK! BROCK'S GRAVELER COMES BACK WITH A ROCK THROW! HAUNTER HAS FAINTED! MINDY CAN'T BELIEVE IT. BROCK HAS WON ON THE ROCK FIELD, BROCK'S SPECIALTY."
    "Great match, so far," I said as Erika brought the soup. "Oh thanks for the soup." Mindy had sent out Poliwrath and knocked out Graveler. Brock sent out Crobat. Crobat knocked out Poliwrath with a Hyper Beam, instantly.
    "Pikachu, Pika," Pikachu said as Mindy sent out a Raichu. "Yeah, that's an evolved Pikachu," I said. Raichu used Thunder and knocked out Crobat, but Brock sent out Steelix, and beat Raichu with an Iron Tail.
    "We're going to the Pokemon League, someday," I said to Pikachu. "Noctowl, come out and eat." Noctowl pecked at some bird feed. The next match was Nancy Filder against Orange Findem. Nancy's Vileplume beat all 3 of Orange's Pokemon which were Nidoqueen, Magmar, and Hitmontop. The last match of the evening was Gregory Mountains against Larry Gersi. Gregory's Blastoise, Venasaur, and Thysplosion beat Larry's Primeape, Alakazam, and Butterfree.
    "I'm tired," I said.
    "Do you guys want to sleep out of your Pokeballs, today?" Erika asked.
    "Starya!" Staryu said. Pikachu and Noctowl both nodded.
    I smiled. "Okay, time to go to sleep."

In the morning I woke up to hear a pawing at the door. It was only seven. It wasn't even raining anymore. "Who's knocking on our door?" I muttered to myself. I was just in my pajama pants, so I put on my shirt and opened the door, but it wasn't a person. It was a wild Houndour!
    "Houndour!" it growled as it tried to tackle me. I jumped out of the way.
    "Eeeeeek!" Erika screamed as she jumped up from her sleeping bag.
    Noctowl jumped in front of me and Pikachu got beside him. Staryu stood next to Pikachu. The Houndour shot a fireball at me. I fell back and held my arm in pain, crying out. Pikachu, Staryu, and Noctowl got angry, quickly. Noctowl used a huge Psybeam, Pikachu used Thunderbolt, and Staryu used Bubblebeam!" The attacks all hit Houndour at the same time. I took a Pokeball out of my pocket. I had no strength to throw it, so I rolled it to Houndour. Houndour was sucked into the ball. It only shook twice and then PING!
    I then realized I had no stregnth, and passed out.

I opened my eyes. I was in the Pokemon center. My left arm had a cast on it, and there was a bandage on my head. "Hey," Erika said getting up from a chair. "Are you okay? Houndour used Ember and now you have a chipped bone in your arm and third degree burns."
    "As long as it won't kill me," I said.
    Erika then looked at the ground. She sighed. "DK, there's something I have to tell you."
    "Okay. Shoot," I said.
    She sighed again. "This is hard for me to say. They took a look at your Houndour and-- when it burned you, it was poisened and angry. It was poisened for a while and it eventually went crazy. It didn't mean to hurt uou. So-- now you're poisened also."
    "Wha- what?" I couldn't believe it.
    "Don't worry," Erika said. "Everything will be okay, Nurse Joy is coming in with the cure, she's making it, but she doesn't know how long it will take to brew it. By the time she's finished, it could spread through you're whole body."
 
It was nighttime now. I was feeling really awful, but Nurse Joy came in with the antidote. "Okay, open up, DK," she said. I smiled. Thank goodness.
    She poured the cup of blue liquid down my throat. This stuff was disgusting! But if I didn't drink it I'd just get worse in health. After about a minute, my body started to tingle, and then I felt much better!
    "Wow," I muttered. "That medicine worked fast. I feel great." Before I could jump up and give Nurse Joy a huge kiss, the wall exploded!
    Erika and I covered our heads as the debree of the wall flew everywhere. It eventually stopped and a huge machine stood outside of the building. There were screams from people around the center. The machine looked like a Goldeen with wings and wheels. Another green laser beam shot out of the metallic horn. The Pokemon center wall started to cruble again and then the cieling started to crumble. "Oh no!" Nurse Joy yelled. "They're going to destroy the center. It's Team Rocket! We have to teleport the Pokemon to safety." She gasped and ran downstairs. Erika and I followed her.
    "This is Joy of Yellowbear City. Gravel Town, do you read me?"
    "Yes," the other Nurse Joy said.
    "We're under attack," our Nurse Joy said. "I'm teleporting the Pokemon here over there, okay?"
    "Okay!" the Gravel Town Nurse Joy said. "The transportation is commencing!" All of a sudden the Pokemon in the boxes around us vanished. "Transportation, complete."
    "Thanks, big sis," our Nurse Joy said.
    The face on the picture phone went off.
    "We have to stop Team Rocket," Erika said. "Staryu, go!"
    "Noctowl, houndour, I choose you! Pikachu, you get in there too." We ran out of the center and faced the Goldeen robot.
    Two seventeen-year-olds, a boy and a girl jumped out of the robot. "Get out of the way," the girl said. "We've come for the Pokemon!"
    "Too bad!" Nurse joy said. "We've transported them to another city. Blissey, Chansey, go!"
    A Blissey and a Chansey appeared out of the two Pokeballs that Nurse Joy threw. Houndour, Staryu, Noctowl, Blissey, Chansey, and Pikachu faced the two teenagers.
    "We didn't do our introduction," they said. "Grandpa James always said that me need to introduce ourselves."
    "To protect the world from devestation."
    "To unite all people within our nation."
    "To denounce the evils of truth and love."
    "To extend our reach to the stars above."
    "Jill."
    "John!"
    "Team Rocket, taking on evil day and night."
    "Surrender now or prepare to lose the fight!"
    "Yeah, right," I muttered rolling my eyes. "Guys, it's time for our first actual battle." All of our Pokemon got in fighting stance, waiting for anything that TR might throw at us.

                                                                                                        To be continued