Pokemon: Keith's Quest

I have posted this before but due to inactivity it was moved to archived. However I am back and planning on updating it once more.

So before I dive too far into this fanfiction I thought that I should probably make a prologue like thing to show the appearance of my characters (since I haven't really given my characters a great description fanfic) and talk about their personalities. I should note that of my current major characters, only one of them is an OC, however all of them have personalities that differ from their cannon Pokémon counterparts.

Keith:


Keith is an extremely cynical, apathetic and isolated teenage boy. He was originally from the Orre Region but rather recently moved to Johto for as of yet unexplained reasons with his Mother. Thanks to the scarcity of wild Pokémon in the Orre Region, he has had very limited experience with Pokémon. Despite this however, Keith seemed to naturally enjoy the company of Pokémon more so than the company of other humans. Keith's only Pokémon at the start is a Magikarp he purchased as a 10 year old, and thanks to owning it for so long he has grown a deep connection with the Karp.

Crystal:


Crystal's personality contrasts Keith's as she is rather sociable and cheery. Crystal has been a Pokémon trainer for the past year, and was previously travelling with Gold, a Pokémon Champion whom she didn't like at all, with the feelings being mutual. Despite this experience though, she has a rather clear lack of skill. So in order to get better and maintain her pride she has ditched Gold and decided to follow a less experienced trainer so she could somehow learn how to be a better trainer.

Lyra:


Lyra is a selfish, vain and rude individual. When she was young, her father gifted her an Azurill, and it has since evolved into a Marill and the two have developed similar personalities. She has up to this point never left New Bark Town, so she is eager to leave and see the sites of Johto. Ever since Lyra and Keith were introduced to each other, they have extremely disliked each other.

Silver:


Silver is similar to Keith in that he is unsociable and slightly apathetic. He was born in the Kanto region, but has very recently moved over to Johto for unknown reasons. He is an extremely determined individual, who is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He despises people who aren't determined, and treats those he doesn't like as less than human.

And I guess that is my little discussion of my 4 main protagonists and antagonists. So yeah....... enjoy I guess.

 

Chapter 1: Unhumble Beginnings​

Keith yawned as he walked down the road to Professor Elm's laboratory. It wasn't like he wasn't excited about getting a Pokémon, he was just not as excited as most people naturally seem to be. To be fair though he knows more or less nothing about Pokémon, mainly because he is from The Orre region, where wild Pokémon are extremely scarce. Anyway, it wasn't like he was about to get his first Pokémon, he already has a Pokémon in a special golden ball that he purchased from a really nice, quick talking man who talked about how amazing this Pokémon was.

Keith started to smile, imagining Professor Elm's shocked face when he revealed his extremely rare Pokémon. He suddenly heard someone cry out "Hey, can we trust you to own a Pokémon, or are you going to make it evil?" He turned around to see the sneering face of that Lyra girl, with her stupid looking Marill jumping around her legs. Keith didn't respond as she ran up to him. "Keith, can you hear me?" Keith looked up at her and said "You're hair and that Marill makes you look even more stupid than normal. No one is around, you don't need to act like you like me."

Lyra sighed and said "Well, at least my hate for you is justified by that statement." Whilst her Marill just glared at Keith. She was about to say something else when the two reached the door of the large lab Elm worked in. Keith went to open the door when Elm's assistant burst open the door, almost hitting Keith in the face. Obviously overexcited he loudly said "Oh my god, you two are finally here! Come in, come in." And he ran behind the two and herded them in, and pushed them over to Elm who was standing there with three Pokeballs on a table, looking at the group nervously.



Elm nervously smiled he was a rather shy man who contrasted his overly excitable assistant rather extremly. "Ummmmmm, thank you two for coming, well. There is your Pokémon, so go and pick them I guess."
"Ummmm, can we see what is in them first?" Lyra asked.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Elm said and he quickly picked up the three balls and threw them to the ground. And out of the balls popped out an anteater with fire coming out of its back, a baby crocodile and a cute looking plant thing with a leaf on its head. "So, in order these guy are called Cyndaquil, Totodile and Chikorita."

Lyra smiling said "Well Keith, you can pick first." with an evil grin on her face.

Keith acted completely unaware of her obvious attempt to pick the Pokémon elementally stronger than his and walked up close to the Pokémon. First he looked at Cyndaquil and said "This thing seems a bit timid and pathetic. And what is the point of a Pokémon that is on fire, like how would you be able to touch it?" The Cyndaquil glared at him as he looked at the Totodile and said "This thing looks extremely derpy, like it has down syndrome." The Totodile also started to glare at him when he looked at Chikorita for a few minutes. He smiled and said, "Well this thing is really cute, in fact I want it. So I pick Chikorita."



The Chikorita looked shocked and suddenly really happy, and smiled. However it lost it's smile when Lyra laughed at Keith and said "You know that is the worst choice of the three, right professor?"

Elm stuttered and said "Umm..w-well technically it is considered the weakest competitively."

Chikorita looked at the ground upset, mainly because it had experienced this same thing, where someone had picked it but was talked out of it by others. However its face lit up when Keith shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't care. I still want it. The fact that you don't approve of it Lyra makes me want it even more to be completely honest." The Chikorita ran up to Keith's leg and began to nuzzle herself against his leg. Keith smiled and picked up his excited grass type Pokémon.

Lyra just rolled her eyes and said "Well in that case I pick Cyndaquil." and walked over to its Pokéball and retrieved the timid looking fire type. Lyra smiled and said "Thank you professor, and quickly ran outside."
Elm started to mutter something, but coughed and stopped. He looked at Keith and said "You know she picked the Pokémon that has a type advantage over yours right?"

Keith smiled and said "So she thinks, but I already own a really awesome water type. Before waiting for Elm to respond and ask what it was, Keith unclipped his golden Pokéball from his belt and threw it onto the ground, and out of the ball popped out a Magikarp that simply flopped around on the floor.



Elm looked at it and said "Ummmmmmm Keith I am not so sure about how powerful that Pokémon is. I mean Magikarp are renowned for being weak."

Keith smiled and said "Well, I know this one isn't professor. Trust me, he is great, right Magikarp." Keith looked at the fish flopping on the floor as cried out its name every couple of seconds.

Elm shook his head and decided not to comment. He turned around and got an egg out of a machine from behind him and said "Keith, I wanted to ask both you and Lyra for this but I guess you can do it alone." He handed Keith the egg and said "I need you to go to Oak's house on route 30 with this egg, because I think it may contain some amazingly rare Pokémon."

Keith nodded and grabbed the egg and put it into his bag. He returned his Magikarp and said "Ok, then." He reached over and grabbed his Chikorita's Pokéball and returned the very happy looking grass type. He turned around and walked outside.

 

Chapter 2: Phantastic

Keith was slowly making his way towards the exit of New Bark Town, when he heard a shrieking voice shout "HEY KEITH WAIT UP!" which made him turn around. He stared in horror as he saw his Mother sprinting over to him. He was about to speak when his mother started to ecstatically and loudly shout "So Keith honey, I heard the Elm gave you that Pokémon right?" Before Keith could respond and remind his mother that she was the one who set up the meeting with Elm, so she obviously knew that he was getting a Pokémon she continued to shout "So I packed a bag for you with Pokeballs, a Pokédex and your Pokegear. Do you know who to use them?"

"Yes I do, I own the damn things." Keith reminded his mother.

Completely ignoring Keith, she continued to talk for 5 minutes whilst Keith looked to the ground, imagining how good life will be when he is free from his mother. When she finished talking, Keith just smiled nervously and said "Well I need to go, so bye Mum." And before even waiting for her to respond he turned around and walked away, and as he did he heard his loud mother shouting about how she was going to miss him and about how this moment was making her teary.

By the time the shrieks from his mother were out of earshot Keith heard another annoying voice calling him to come over. Keith turned his head to see a schoolkid type person with a Rattata waving to him. Keith simply ignored him but the guy decided it would be best to run in front of him, stare at him and ask "Do you want to learn how to catch Pokémon?"

Keith sighed and looked at the kid, and simply said "No, I'm not an idiot." And walked away before the guy could respond.

As Keith walked away, he realized that he would probably need to catch other things, but he had no idea what to catch. He was known for being extremely picky about everything, and that was demonstrated perfectly when he picked his starting Pokémon. He looked around trying to see any visible Pokémon, and all that he could see was these fat rodent things called Sentret, those disgusting purple Ratatta's that no one likes and birds that were flying way to high in the air named Pidgey. He just shrugged his shoulders, and decided to ignore catching other creatures until he got this damn egg out of his bag.

Half way through the Route Keith reached a fork in the road, and then he realized he really had no idea where he was actually going. Keith paused for a while, shrugged and took the northern path, assuming this would work out. This path lead him to some weird kind of plain, full of other Pokémon Keith didn't really seem interested in. As he was looking at the Pokémon he remembered that his mum had somehow acquired Keith a Pokédex, and quickly went to fish it out of his bag. He got it out and flipped it open, and went around an immediately scanned the surrounding Pokémon. All he seemed to be able to see in the immediate vicinity though was a few Geodude and Spearow, disgusting looking things that he would never want to catch. Keith however for some reason couldn't seem to understand why this area existed, it seemed to be some kind of weird, walled of pasture that seemed to serve no purpose.

He sighed and just decided to cut his loses and leave when he seemed to spot something from the corner of his eye. It was this weird, blue elephant thing that seemed to be battling and beating all of the Geodude and Spearow in the vicinity. Curious, Keith opened up his Pokédex and pointed it at the elephant, and in response it chimed in a robotic, female voice "Phanpy, the Long Nose Pokémon. Despite this Pokémon's compact size, its strength is phenomenal" Keith smiled, he had found something that he liked.



Keith walked up to it, and quickly assessed the situation. The thing was a ground type, which meant that both of his Pokémon typed well against it, however he couldn't use Magikarp, because he didn't want to kill the thing, just weaken it. So he reached to his belt, and threw down Chikorita's Pokéball. Chikorita looked up at Keith and smiled, and then ran towards him and started to rub its head against his leg affectionately and it softly said "Chiko-chiko." Keith just started at it, having no clue as to why it was doing this. Keith just coughed and said "Ummmmmmmm, Chikorita stop...whatever that is and listen to me, because we need to go an capture that." and pointed towards the Phanpy. Chikorita stopped, turned to it and with a determined look in her eyes said "Chikorita."

Keith smiled, and realized that this would be his first wild Pokémon battle ever, which made him nervous. However this nervousness somehow filled him with confidence, which just made him even more nervous. He pointed towards the Phanpy and shouted "Chikorita use Tackle!" and Chikorita immediately responded and charged at the unsuspecting elephant. Phanpy turned its head just as Chikorita rammed itself into him, and knocked him to the ground. Phanpy stood up quickly, and blew on its nose loudly, signalling that it was annoyed. "Chikorita, do it again!" Keith called, as Chikorita ran at the Phanpy again, this time however the Phanpy was ready, and curled itself into a ball and started to roll on the spot, then shot itself at Chikorita, trampling the poor Pokémon. Keith looked shocked, and was about to ask Chikorita if it was ok, but Keith sighed in relief as it got back on its feet.
"You're going to have to use a grass type move idiot."

Keith turned around, to see Lyra looking at him condescendingly. "I was about to do that, so shut up and go away." Then Keith turned to Chikorita and said "Chikorita, use...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm." Keith quickly looked down at his Pokédex and looked up Chikorita's moves, and ignored the cackling laughs of Lyra behind him. He looked up when he found a move and said "Chikorita, use Vine Whip!" and on command Chikorita's buds around her neck extended out into vines, and whipped the Phanpy that was rolling towards it, knocking it to the ground. Keith smiled, quickly glanced at his Pokédex and said "Now, use Razor Leaf!" and the vines from Chikorita's neck retracted, and it waved its head in circles and leaves shot down to the Phanpy that was still trying to pick itself off the ground, and knocked it down again. Then Keith smiled, grabbed an empty ball from his bag and threw it at the Pokémon. The ball engulfed the Phanpy and seemed to swallow it. The ball started to wildly shake for what seemed an eternity, before it stopped, and a loud ping noise echoed throughout the area. Keith smiled, and walked over to his new Pokémon's ball and picked it up. He look over at Lyra and said "Well, who's the loser now?"

Lyra rolled her eyes and said "You still." and walked away.

Keith didn't bother responding, he was just happy about his capture. He turned to Chikorita, knelt down and said "Good work Chikorita!" smiling. His grass type Pokémon seemed to blush and then ran at Keith and lept into his arms. Keith was really confused about how Chikorita acted, but decided to ignore it and stood up and started to carry his probably tired Pokémon. "Well Chikorita, I need to go and find a Pokecenter to heal you and your new teammate." "Chiko." Chikorita said enthusiastically as the two walked south to try and find the way to Cherrygrove city.

 

Chapter 3: One Annoyance After the Next

Keith found his way back to the fork in the road, however this time he went westwards with the aim of reaching Cherrygrove, so he could heal his hurt Phanpy and Chikorita, the latter of whom was being carried in his arms. Keith had to carefully avoid every Sentret and Rattata in his path, because his only Pokémon that could fight still would be his Magikarp, but that would honestly be overkill on those poor weak normal types.

Within a few minutes, Keith could see Cherrygrove City in the distance. He looked down at his Chikorita who was struggling to remain conscious. Keith decided that this probably wasn't healthy for it, and picked up the pace and ran to the entrance of Cherrygrove. As he was about to enter, some old man ran in front of Keith, grabbed his hand and said "You are new to the town aren't you? Well I have lived here all my life, so I will show you around."
"Ummmm, well I kinda need to go to the Pokémon Center." Keith said, trying to avert eye contact whilst pulling his arm away, but the old man's grip was firm and he would not let go.

"Well I will show you the way to the Pokémon Center!" The old man shouted as he proceeded to drag Keith through town. When they reached the large red and white building the old man pointed to it and said "Now that is the Pokémon Center." And then he pointed towards the building next to it and said "And that's the Pokemart." Then he turned his head towards a nearby lake and said "And that's some water. Now take this map." And he threw a map at Keith's face and ran off. Keith didn't really know what to say, so he just shoved the map in his Pocket and entered the Pokémon Center.

The inside of the building was playing some soft, easy listening music, and was almost disturbingly calm. Keith walked to the counter and put his Chikorita and his other Pokeballs on the table. He looked at the brown haired girl behind the counter and said "Ummmmmm, can you heal my Pokémon?"

The girl simply smiled, picked up Keith's Pokémon and said "OK. This will just take a few minutes." She grabbed Chikorita's Pokéball and returned it back into the ball, then she put the three balls in a machine behind her, which lit up and started to randomly flash. Keith just stared at it until it finished flashing, and once it was done the girl grabbed the Pokeballs and handed it back to Keith. A little skeptic of the validity of this machine, Keith grabbed his Pokémon and walked to the side of the building, sat down and threw out his Pokémon. And once the vibrant white flash of the Pokémon exiting their balls ended, Keith was greeted with his Chikorita, Magikarp and Phanpy all of whom seemed to be perfectly healthy and energetic. Chikorita jumped into Keith's lap whilst Keith moved his head closer to Phanpy and said "Well, I hope you enjoy travelling with us Phanpy." Phanpy blew his trunk in approval. Keith looked over at Magikarp and said "So, how have you been doing Magikarp?" to which Magikarp seemed to reply by flopping around a little faster and saying "Karp. Magi-karp." Keith smiled, his Magikarp was a badass.

Keith was about to say something else when he saw some blue haired girl looking at him inquisitively. When she noticed he was looking at her, she looked away. Keith just shrugged and assumed that she was jealous of his awesome Pokémon. He sighed, and thought that it was time to go and take this egg to that Oak person. He returned his Chikorita and his Magikarp, and looked at Phanpy and said "Well, do you want to walk with me for a bit Phanpy?" Phanpy nodded his head and started to follow Keith out the door.

Keith left the City and walked down to Route 30 with his Phanpy eagerly following him. He was happy, because soon this stupid errand of his would finally be over. He was on the Route where Oak's house was located, and it would only take a few minutes to get there. Keith had a quick glance around at the Pokémon, and could only see a few Weedle and Kakuna around, which he avoided like the plague. He looked at his Phanpy and said "Well, after we deliver this egg we need to battle a fair bit." Phanpy looked excited, and smiled.

All of a sudden, Keith heard someone shout "Hey, wait up." He turned to see the blue haired girl from the Pokecenter running after him. He sighed, and in his head he thought about turning around and running away from this weird looking girl. He couldn't believe how hard it was to do anything without a loud person stopping him. He quickly noticed that the girl had a weird Pokémon floating behind her.

When the girl caught up to him, she doubled over and was panting loudly. She looked up and whilst pantiing said "Hey, you look like you could use some help being a trainer. So I am going to help you be the best." She managed to say whilst she was panting heavily.

Keith looked a her, and asked "Can I decline?"

The girl looked up at him and said "Nope, because I am bored and have nothing better to do. Also, because you are so new you will need a Pokémon veteran like me to help you out. Anyway my name is Crystal."

Keith sighed, and silently swore under his breath.

 

Chapter 4: Another Annoyance

Keith was slowly walking through Route 30, with Crystal still following him. He looked behind him and saw Phanpy staring up at the two. Keith sighed and asked "So why exactly are you following me?"

Crystal smiled and said "Well, as you can probably tell I am a world class Pokémon trainer, and I thought I might as well teach people who are younger than me how to become as good as I am."

Keith looked at up and down at her, she looked barely a year older than he was. "I highly doubt that."

Crystal glared at him, reached for her belt and threw 2 Pokeballs on the ground. Out of the balls appeared a stingray and a small pink humanoid thing, and the weird head shaped Pokémon that was floating behind her floated over next to Crystal's other Pokémon. "So who's the master now?" Crystal asked smugly.

Keith pulled out his Pokédex and scanned the three Pokémon. The Pokédex bleated "Misdreavus, the Screech Pokémon. This Pokémon loves to startle people. It feeds itself on people's fear. Mantine, the Kite Pokémon. If it builds up enough speed swimming, it can glide through the water. Remoraid are often attached to them. Tyrogue, the Scuffle Pokémon. It is famous for its eagerness to fight and will challenge stronger foes to make itself stronger." Keith put his Pokédex back in his pocket. "I kinda don't need help."

Crystal smiled condescendingly and said "Trust me, you certainly do." Then she retrieved her Mantine and Tyrogue, but allowed her Misdreavus to continue floating behind her. The embarrassing thing about Crystal is that she wasn't actually a good trainer, in fact she was a terrible trainer. Despite the fact that she had traveled all over Johto, her Pokémon were all rather underwhelming in the strength department. The real reason she was doing this all was so she could learn how to actually battle by watching someone else do it, whilst still maintaining her sense of dignity.

Keith gave up trying to flick this person away for now. He could only hope that this person wasn't as annoying as Lyra. "Well, if you are going to follow me I need to run an errand that involves dropping off this egg to some geezer so yeah." Keith said as he started walking north again.

Crystal followed him, she was already regretting her decision to follow Keith, someone who seemed extremely antisocial. However it was too late for her to turn around, so she just decided to try her best to tolerate his antisocial mannerisms. She looked over, and saw Misdreavus trying its best to somehow startle or scare Phanpy by randomly disappearing and reappearing. However Phanpy just seemed to stare at it puzzled, unfazed by the attempted frights.

Keith and Crystal were walking through a valley of trees, and at the end of it Keith could see a small house that he could only assume was Oak's home. He picked up the pace, eager to get rid of this stupid egg. When he was within a few 100 meters from it, a young boy stepped in front of the two. He smirked and proudly proclaimed "Hello, my name is Joey, and I challenge you to beat my Rattata!" He then sent out is Rattata without warning, and the purple Pokémon ran into Keith's unprepared Phanpy.

Keith sighed, and knew that he had to battle this guy. He looked at Crystal and asked "Well, if you are supposed to teach me how to be a decent trainer, tell me what to do."

Crystal gulped, she didn't quite know what to say. "Ummmmm, well I would tell you but you need to learn by yourself."

"Well then what good are you?" asked an exasperated Keith. He sighed, and knew that he needed to do this himself. "Phapny use Rollout," The blue Pokémon rolled itself into a ball and charged itself at the Rattata. Rattata sprinted towards the rolling Phanpy, trying to use a Tackle. However Phanpy simply rolled over the purple rat Pokémon and crushed it, causing it to faint immediately. When the fight finished, Joey ran over to his Rattata, picked it up and started running off with the Rattata in his hands, blubbering and crying about how Keith had to be cheating whilst Phanpy was blowing its trunk in celebration. Keith just scoffed and said "People really need to stop annoying me today" as he walked towards that house. Crystal just followed Keith, with Misdreavus following her closely.

When Keith reached the house, he opened the door without bothering to knock and busted into the house. He looked around the house, it had two people inside of it. "Ok, which one of you is Oak?" Keith said, looking at the two.

One of them raised his hands and said "Ummmmm, well I am."



Keith walked up to him, pulled the egg out of his bag and gave it to him "Take that stupid egg. Its from Elm." At the same time, Crystal was staring at Professor Oak in awe, shocked that Keith was not only performing an errand for Professor Oak, but was acting so normal around such a famous Pokémon Scientist.

Keith turned around and was about to start to leave when Oak said "Wait you two were sent from Elm, hasn't he called you yet?"

Keith stared at Oak puzzled and pulled out his Pokegear, to see that it he 5 missed calls from Elm. He started to dial Elm's number when it rung in his hands. He answered it and said "What happened Elm?"

Uncharacteristically Elm screamed into the phone. "KEITH WHERE WERE YOU. EVERYTHING'S GONE WRONG. GET HERE NOW!"

Keith pulled the Pokegear away from his ear, because the Professor was loud. It wasn't on loudspeaker yet Oak and Crystal could hear Elm. "Calm down Elm, what is wrong."

Elm coughed and calmed himself down a little. "Someone with red hair came in here and stole Totodile. I need you back here as soon as possible."

Keith nodded and said "Ok, I got it." Keith hung up, put his Pokegear away and walked out the door as quickly as possible. Once he left the house he started to run as fast as possible, down to Cherrygrove City, leaving Phanpy, Misdreavus and Crystal behind.

Crystal shouted "Wait up Keith" as she, Misdreavus and Phanpy started to run after Keith.

 

Chapter 5: Silver Lining

Keith made it to Cherrygrove quickly. However after reaching Cherrygrove he stopped running and doubled over panting. He wanted to keep running, but he physically couldn't anymore, he really wasn't very athletic, considering he hated physical exercise. This pause allowed Crystal, Misdreavus and Phanpy to quickly catch up to him, and once they did catch up they also started panting. "Keith, you don't need to run so fast. Getting there faster won't help at all." Crystal said.

Keith stood up, and looked at his Phanpy, who was obviously tired. He returned it, deciding to give him a rest. He sighed and said "Well, I guess you are right. But we need to get there quickly." and started to slowly walking to the other side of Cherrygrove.

Crystal returned Misdreavus into its Pokéball and said "Wait up Keith." and walked after him.

As the two were getting close to Route 29, someone stepped in front of them. The guy had bright red hair, and seemed to be glaring at Keith. Keith and Crystal stopped in their tracks, and Keith coughed and said "Can I help you at all? Because if not I am busy."

The guy continued to glare at Keith and said "That Chikorita of yours... I need it."

Keith looked at him puzzled and asked "What?"

"That Chikorita of yours, you will give it to me." The red head reiterated and sent out a Totodile.

Keith immediately realized who this man was, he was the guy who stole Totodile from Elm. Keith sighed and said "So you are the guy who robbed Elm, and it seems one Pokémon wasn't enough for you. Well too bad, because not only are you not getting Chikorita, but you are returning that Totodile."

The red head shook his head, and said with contempt "I guess I will have to do this the hard way then."

Keith smirked, and said "Too bad for you because I have a Pokémon that will blow you completely away." Keith grabbed his Golden Pokéball and sent out his Magikarp who after being summoned started to pathetically flounder around.

Crystal blushed with embarrassment, she wasn't a good trainer but even she knew how bad Magikarp was. The red head guy just frowned, and said coldly "You're a complete moron, Magikarp is considered the worst Pokémon in existence. You honestly should give up and give me that Chikorita, because I know what to do with it."

Keith just smirked and said "Don't you dare underestimate me. Magikarp, use bounce!" Magikarp then jumped up rather high in the air, as the Totodile kept his eyes on the fish.

"Totodile, just move irregularly." Silver commanded. Totodile, jumped up in the air and then started running around randomly. Thanks to the random running, Magikarp landed right into the ground from the bounce attack, hurting itself. "Now use Bite!" The red head cried, and Totodile bit into Magikarp.

Keith panicked for a little, and pulled out his gold Pokéball and returned his Magikarp. "Damn, you got lucky." Keith said.
"He didn't get lucky, Magikarp is just awful!" Crystal shouted.

Keith ignored her and thought about what his next move would be. He couldn't use Phanpy, because he was still tired, so it was time to show the guy how great his Chikorita really is. "Ok, well its time to show you the Pokémon you will never get. Go Chikorita!" Keith exclaimed as he threw his Pokéball onto the ground, and his grass type Pokémon popped out. When Chikorita got out of the ball she ran up to Keith and started to rub her head against Keith leg affectionately. Keith looked at Chikorita and asked "Ummmmmmm, what are you doing?"

Crystal just looked at Chikorita and smiled. It seemed to her like Keith's Chikorita has a crush on him, which is common for most Chikorita's who have trainers of the opposite gender. Fortunately for Keith they usually grow out of it by the time they evolve. Still, Crystal had only ever read about this, and had never seen it in person.

The read haired person just scoffed, and said "You are a disgrace and an embarrassment to trainers everywhere. Acting like that with your Pokémon, it makes me sick. Totodile, use scratch!" commanded the red head, and his Totodile charged at Chikorita.

Chikorita noticed Totodile charging and quickly ran out of the way. However the dodge was so last minute that Totodile couldn't stop its attack with its swinging claw, and scratched Keith right leg. Keith fell down and grabbed his leg and tried not to shout in pain. His leg was bleeding kinda badly. Crystal looked at the red head and said "Why the hell would you do something like that?! Apologies you moron."

The red head shook his head, and coldly said "He deserved it." Crystal went to reach into her bag for her Pokeballs, to try and send out her Tyrogue.

As this was happening, Chikorita looked at the Totodile in anger. "Chiko" it said, seething. Chikorita quickly extended the vines out from its neck's and hit the Totodile over the head with them, and knocked it to the ground. Then before Totodile could get even attempt to get up, Chikorita ran at it and angrily used Tackle.

The red head's eyes opened wide in shock, puzzled as to why that Chikorita was fighting so passionately, without orders. He quickly shouted "Ok, Totodile use Water Gun!" Totodile then quickly jumped up, and shot a jet of water at Chikorita, which Chikorita took to the face, unaffected by the attack that was elementally weak to it.

Keith still lying on the ground holding his leg smiled and said "Chikorita, use Razor Leaf!" And then Chikorita flicked its leaf at Totodile and a large amount of sharp leaves flew at Totodile, and hit it hard, knocking it down to the ground. Smiling Keith said "OK, now use Tackle Chikorita!" Chikorita then ran at the Totodile, who was struggling to stand up. As Chikorita was about to hit the Totodile, the Pokémon was suddenly returned into its ball. Keith looked up and saw the read head guy putting the ball in his pocket. Keith sighed, "Why didn't I predict that was going to happen?" he muttered.

The read head turned around and said "I underestimated you and I apologize. You deserve to know that my name is Silver. And I am sorry for trying to take you Pokémon, I just need it." Then he turned around and ran off.

Crystal thought about chasing him, but she decided to help Keith instead. She kneeled down and asked "Are you OK Keith?".
Keith looked up at her and loudly said "Where the hell where you during that?"

Crystal smiled, just glad that Keith seemed to be alright. Chikorita then ran to Keith, visibly upset. The grass type ran to Keith's leg, and started to lick his wound in an attempt to heal it. Keith just looked up at the sky, and wondered how he had gotten into this mess.