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Retribution by Parker314
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Chapter 1
(Nick Hale’s POV)

That day I awoke later than usual and stretched my body before noticing that the sun was 
already up quite high, which meant that midday was approaching. I looked around the 
clearing I called ‘home’ to see if I still had anything left to eat from yesterday till I spotted a 
small blue round-shaped berry lying about and picked it up.

“Oh beauty, An Oran berry. Better than nothing I guess.” I grumbled, before taking a bite 
from it. 

When I finished eating the Oran I, surprisingly seeing as my small belly was quick to fill, was 
still a bit hungry and wanted to eat some more.

“Gotta watch out with them Oran’s.” I thought to myself “Don’t want to get drunk from 
eating too much of ‘em and get into trouble.”

Oran berries were really handy; having the ability to re-energize tired Pokémon and even heal 
wounds. They were considered important to have with you at all times. Especially while 
traveling. Too much of these blue berries however, especially for someone as small as me, 
could result in intoxication. A danger I was well aware of.

“Getting tanked in a big and dark forest like this could be dangerous for the health of a lone 
Pichu.” I said aloud, sighing. “A big, tasty apple is what I need right now, which can mean 
only one thing: It’s time to go looting in the forest and score me some booty.”.

I set of into the forest, leaving the clearing behind me, to go get some food supplies and do 
some exploring while I’m at it. I didn’t really like the forest that much, even after living here 
for more than a month now I still hadn’t gotten used to the dark and grim looking Viridian 
forest. Though I suspected that being small like this might add to grim and intimidating 
atmosphere.

“Now where is that damn apple tree at?” I wondered after walking around for a while. I knew 
there was one around as I’ve visited it before a while back. But since the forest was quite big 
and I usually only went into it to get myself some grub I wasn’t sure what its exact location 
was. I was rewarded for my search with the sight of the large, sturdy looking apple tree filled 
with tasty looking apples. 

“Jackpot.” I said with a grin on my face. 

The area around the tree was deserted, which was kind of odd seeing as this forest was filled 
with all kinds of Pokémon that loved eating apples. In fact, last time I went for the tree there 
was a whole clan of Pichu, Pikachu and some Raichu. Not surprising as the Pichu evolution 
line loved apples. They were curious when they saw a Pichu that didn’t belong to their clan 
walking alone in the forest and tried to approach me. I wasn’t in the mood for a questioning so 
I simply told them to back off, which they did. Or at least, all of them except a Raichu who 
was probably some kind of an elder. 

He had asked me why I was alone and if I was exiled or an orphan, to which I replied that it 
was none of his business. When he kept bothering me and I had enough of his nagging I just 
said that I was a demonic parasite who kills and eats Pokémon and then takes on their 
appearance, that I didn’t really like the look of my current appearance and that I was looking 
for something bigger, after which I just stared at him with a smirk on my face. 

I still chuckled whenever I thought of that stunned look on his face when I had said that.

My stomach reminded me that it was still hungry so I decided to get to work. I soon spotted a 
large and good looking apple up high in the tree and build to charge up energy in my cheeks. I 
had to hit it on a good spot so that it would fall of the tree unharmed, which required both 
accuracy and power. Both of which Pichu’s don’t exactly excel at. Came to think of it, there’s 
nothing a Pichu is good at, it’s a baby Pokémon that relies on its parents or clan for food and 
protection. 

“Well, screw reliance!” I shouted before shooting up a jolt of electricity aimed at the apple, 
missing it completely. “Oh great, I forgot how much I suck at aiming.” I muttered when I 
realized how big of a failure that had been. 

“Well I don't need to be a better shot, I just need to shoot out more jolts!” I yelled out before 
shooting off several jolts rapidly towards the tree, all of them missing their mark and striking 
the tree instead. For a second I feared that I had put the thing on fire but I quickly realized that 
I wasn’t strong enough to incarnate things. 

“Note to self: practice the aiming and power of my electric moves” I said to myself with a 
sigh.

Practice was going to have to wait however, as I suddenly heard a buzzing sound coming 
from up the tree behind the thick layer of leaves. “What in the…” is all I was able to say 
before a whole group of winged bugs with black stripes on their yellow bodies came out from 
the layer. And boy, did they look pissed.

“Oh dear.” I said before turning around and dashing away from the pissed off bugs. They 
weren’t going to let me get away of course and they started chasing me while buzzing louder 
than ever. “Well at least it seems I hit something.” I thought while going back to concentrating 
on getting the hell out of the area.

They were gaining on me very quickly as my small legs couldn’t carry me as fast as their 
wings could and for a moment it seemed like was going to get killed by these buzzing 
monsters.  

Then one of the worst things that could happen in a scenario like this, happened. In my rush I 
didn’t see a root from a tree sticking out of the ground and tripped over it. “Fuck, Fuck, 
FUCK!” was all I could say as I saw the Beedrill approaching and one diving from the sky 
with its needles ready to strike and kill me.

Before it could strike however, I heard a feminine voice shout out Bullet seed and saw how 
the Beedrill got hit by a stream of seeds, knocking him back a bit. Unsure of what happened 
and what to do, I heard the voice shout out once again.

“C’mon, don’t just sit there you idiot! Run!”

That, she didn’t have to tell me twice as I got back up and dashed off towards the direction of 
the voice, when I saw the Pokémon it belonged to. It was a small blue shaped ball shaped 
Pokémon with leaves sticking out on its head. “An Oddish, female it seems.” I thought to 
myself. Always had to watch out and try not to guess a Pokémon’s gender from its voice 
alone, as I had encountered male Pokémon with feminine voices before. This reminded him of 
some awkward encounters he had in the past, making him shiver. 

“Move it, if you don’t want to get paralyzed!” she shouted as I saw a orange coloured spore 
come from her leaves heading towards the Beedrill. “Stun Spore, very han-” I managed to say 
before she interrupted me shouting “Stop your yapping! The spore will only slow them down. 
We need to get the hell out of here!” and she started running, me following once again. 

We ran through the forest for a few minutes when we started to hear the buzzing behind us 
again, the sound becoming louder and louder. “Well, those bugs are persistent, if nothing else. 
A word of advice: keep running!” I shouted while trying to pick up the pace.

Suddenly 2 Beedrill appeared came out of a tree and blocked our path. “Oh great, backup for 
the already overpowered group of angry bugs.” I said as I saw that the other Beedrill had 
reached us too. There were 7 of them now, all surrounding us in a circle.

They moved in to attack and I saw how the Oddish used Bullet seed once again in an attempt 
to hold them off. I decided to follow her example and shot of some jolts of electricity which 
the Beedrill easily dodged. 

“It’s no use dammit! My Bullet seed has almost no effect on bugs and your Thundershock is 
worthless,” the Oddish said, before being struck from behind by a Twinneedle of one of the 
Beedrill. “Ow.” She managed to say before falling down on the ground, unconscious I hoped. 

“Oh this is just perfect!” I said before launching another series of Thundershocks towards the 
Beedrill, actually hitting one of them. It didn’t have much effect though as the Beedrill simply 
shook his head and dived, needles first, towards me.

Just mere moments before I was going to get hit, the Beedrill smashed into an invisible wall. 
“What the hell? “ I said loudly, unsure of what just happened. Other Beedrill were also trying 
to attack, but were unable to reach both me and the unconscious Oddish as they were blocked 
by this mysterious force. 

“Is that... Could it be Reflect? But who?” I wondered before getting the answer as a tall, 
pinkish Pokémon jumped out of a bush and slammed its fist, which also happened to be on 
fire, into one of the bugs. Who dropped onto the ground after getting hit by it. “Fire punch” I 
thought “That’s one mean Fire punch…”. 3 of the 7 bugs fell out the air on the ground as they 
were also hit by the flaming fist.

The pink Pokémon then continued by simply charging and slamming into the remaining 
Beedrill, taking out another one of them. 

“Tackle? No, no, no. This is more brutal and powerful than Tackle. Take Down? Yes, that 
must be it.” I thought to myself, still surprised by the sudden interference of the Pokémon that 
I now knew was a Wigglytuff. I wasn’t complaining though, seeing as I was going to get 
slaughtered by those bugs without its help.

It seemed like the Beedrill finally understood that it’d be better to just run instead of fight, as 
the Wigglytuff was too strong for them to take on. The Wigglytuff stared at the direction 
where they fled to, until I decided to talk. 

“Uhm, hello?” I said.

The Wigglytuff turned around to look at me with it’s big eyes.

“Thanks for the help, miss…?” I asked, hoping to find out what just happened.

For a second I saw some confusion in the Pokémon’s eyes. “It’s Greg,” the Wigglytuff said 
with a masculine voice. “And last time I checked, I’m not female.”.

“Ah shit, how typical,” I thought “screwing up in the first conversation I have with the 
Pokémon who just saved my life. Looks like guessing a Pokémon’s gender from its looks alone 
is also a no-no.” 

The Wigglytuff, or Greg, shifted his attention to the Oddish that also happened to have saved 
my life. 

“The name’s Hale and sorry, I just assumed that you were female,” I said “with the pink fur 
and all.”

“Did I seriously just say that? Oh good going Hale, you’re such a bloody idiot.” I thought to 
myself again. “Not that it makes you look girlish or anything, but… Okay I’m just going to 
shut up now.” I said with a sigh. 

“Don’t worry about that, it happens.” Greg said, as he was heading for the downed Oddish.

“Hmmm, direct hit from Twinneedle. Poisoning cannot be ruled out. Should be interesting to 
see how it turns out.” I heard him mutter while examining the Oddish.

He then turned back to me and reached for his pouch he had hanging around his neck. He 
pulled out 2 berries I recognized as a Sitrus and a Pecha berry and gave them to me.

He looked “Your friend here got a direct hit from a Twinneedle, lucky for her that she is part 
poison, which means that the bug weakness of her grass-type is negated. However, 
Twinneedle is also on of the few attacks that can poison anything. Even, the normally 
immune, poison types. I’m unsure if this will be the case here but keep the Pecha berry in case 
she is poisoned. She’s going to be knocked out for a while, but when she wakes up you should 
try and mash this Sitrus berry and feed it to her so she can regain her strength more quickly, 
do you understand?” He was speaking quickly and I was astounded by the sheer knowledge of 
the pink Pokémon and wasn’t sure how to reply. Not that he gave me the time to do so as he 
turned around and walked away again. 

“Good.”, he said while walking away “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some urgent business 
to take care of. Have a nice day.”

I stood there looking at the berries, still confused. 

The Wigglytuff turned around once more “Oh and by the way, I believe you were trying to 
acquire one of these, right?” he said, tossing an apple towards me which I managed to catch.

“Yes, Th- Thanks.” I said.

“Not a problem, goodbye now!” he said before turning around and started walking again.

“Well, looks like I scored some booty after all.” I thought to myself as I turned around to look 
at the unconscious Oddish. “Now how the heck am I going to get her to safety?”

A few hours later as darkness started kicking in and I was eating dinner, which consisted on 
half of the apple Greg gave me. I kept the other half in reserve for when the Oddish decided to 
wake up. I felt tired after the long day and having to transport her to my ‘home’. Which 
wasn’t all that hard when you think about it. After attempting to carry her and barely making 
any progress, I just decided to ‘roll’ her along with me. Using her ball-shaped body as a ball. 
It worked out pretty well, actually.

“I think it’s in my best interest that I tell her I just carried her on my shoulders, all the way to 
my clearing.” I thought to myself, chuckling.

My chain of thoughts was interrupted when I heard the Oddish waking up. 

“Ugh, where the hell am I?” she said while looking around her till she spotted me. 

“Oh, it’s you again. What the hell happened?” she asked while trying to get up. She got onto 
her legs, but collapsed with a grunt. 

“I doubt your going to be able to get to your feet right now, or anytime soon for that matter.” I 
said with a faint smile on my muzzle “You got hit pretty hard, you see.”

“No shit right? Damn Beedrill and their stupid needles.” She grumbled before having a 
puzzled look on her muzzle “Wait, how the heck are we still alive anyways? Don’t tell me 
you took on all of those Beedrill.”

I was really tempted to say that I did, but realized how unlikely it sounded so I just decided to 
tell her the truth. 

“Nah, after you got knocked out cold, a Wigglytuff popped in out of nowhere and went 
zubatshit on those bugs.”.

“A Wigglytuff?” She asked, tilting her head to the left.

“Yep, his name is Greg. He took care of those Beedrill with some Fire punches.”

“A male Wigglytuff?” She asked, tilting her head even more to the left. I was almost  
expecting her to fall over. “Man, never heard of something like that, sucks to be that guy I 
guess” she chuckled.

“Which reminds me, he gave me a Sitrus and a Pecha berry to get you back to normal, in case 
you were poisoned.” I said with a worried look on my muzzle.

“Hah, don’t worry about that. I can handle some poison.” she said with a grin on her face. “I 
don’t think I’ve been able to introduce myself because of all that stuff that happened today. 
My name is Leaf.”

“Nice to meet you Leaf.” I said, wanting to shake paws when I realized she had none. “My 
name is Hale.”

“Hale? That’s an odd name.”

“Well, it’s my surname. My first name is Nicholas. But I don’t like the sound of that. Though 
you may call me Nick as well.”

She gave me a confused look “That’s even weirder, do you live with humans or something? 
Those names of yours sure sound human.” She asked

“Errr, it’s complicated.” I said quickly. I picked up the other half of the apple and gave it to 
her “You must be starving.” I said, wanting to change subjects.

“You guessed it.” she said before taking the apple and started eating it.

“By the way, thank you for saving me today. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.”

“It’s nothing, really. I saw that you were in trouble and decided to give you a hand. There has 
to be at least someone who helps out others in this damn world.” she said bluntly.

We were both quiet as Leaf kept on eating her apple. When she was finished, she looked over 
to me and asked “So this is where you live? How did you get me over here while 
unconscious? Did you roll me all the way over here or something?” she asked with a smile.

“Oh no, I wouldn’t dare doing that. I simply carried you. Hard work seeing as you’re about 
the same size as I am.” I said quickly “And yes, this is where I live. It’s nice and quiet, I like 
it.”

“You live alone then?”

“Yeah.” I said with a sharp nod.

“How come? Don’t you have any family or a clan or something? I mean Pichu usually don’t 
live on their own.”

“I got exiled from my clan” I lied. The truth was oh so complicated and strange, I doubt she’d 
believe it anyways.

“For what reason?”

“Ugh, all these damn questions.” I thought to myself “I don’t really want to get into it right 
now. I’m very tired and would like to catch some sleep.” I said before turning around and 
heading for my ‘bed’ made out of leaves “Feel free to stay here for as long as you wish. 
Goodnight.”

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