A Rare Sight

Life’s A Beach

“Give it!”

“NO!!”

“GIVE IT TO ME!!!!”

“NEVER!!!!!”

“Chole I swear to god if you don’t give me those berries I will hand you over to those Houndoom,” I said to Chole while trying to grab some berries from her hand.

“This sucks!” She said, finally giving up the food.

I then threw the berries into the ocean and got back in line.

“Dammit, why won’t this boat let any food come into it?” Chole asked.

“Probably because they want passengers to pay to eat their own food and not bring their own,” I replied back.

“Well I think that’s stupid.”

“Go to the manager then.”

“I think I will.”

“I think you won’t!”

“Why not?” Chole pouted.

“Because you’re a Mew dumbass; even if you were to change as a different Pokemon, if people saw you talking, they would consider you some freak experiment and try to catch you.”

“Fine!!”

The line to get a ticket was just like waiting at the DMV, fucking long. I decided to brush Buddy’s fur to pass time, he liked getting brushed, and also he looked like shit. Chole and Treeco, who were standing right next to me, were playing some game with their hands, I had no idea what it was and I didn’t care. That leaves Zigzagoon, he was doing what he does best, not moving; I decided to let Zigzagoon out of his Pokeball and let him sleep inside my backpack because it was such a great day, it was pretty funny seeing nothing but his head sticking out and constantly looking around and falling asleep every 10 minutes.

After a good full hour, we get to the front. We get our ticket and start to head to our cabin.

Once we got into the cabin, we started to unpack and get settled; I turned on the news to see what was going on recently.

“In other news, a group of people wearing black cloaks have invaded a science facility and taken control of its Pokemon inside. Surprisingly, the building was surrounded and when police got inside, all equipment was gone along with the invaders. More updates will be told as soon as possible.”

“…You don’t think,” I said.

“I wonder if that Jake guy was involved in that,” Chole said.

“What on earth do you think that science equipment was?” I asked.

“I don’t know but whatever they did do it, it’s probably for no good.”

For twenty minutes, Chole and I talked until we both fell into a deep sleep; well at least for her.

I saw myself and some blurry image; I could see myself checking my pockets if anything were left empty.

“What do you expect to do, go in there and shoot everything on sight?” The blurry image said.

“Well I’m sure as hell not going to ask please,” I replied.

“Do you at least have a plan?”

“I’m going in there to save my friends and come out without a scratch,” I said while checking out a very unusual gun then putting it back into its holster.

“Good luck,”

“I’ve gotten this far, I don’t need luck,” I said as I opened up a door and went into another room.

I open my eyes to find everyone awake; Chole was in the shower, Buddy was stretching, and both Treeco and Zigzagoon were helping themselves to a whole can of Pokemon food.

I quickly grabbed the can before they could eat the entire thing, “hey you two, that’s very expensive, we have to have some food for the others to you know.”

Zigzagoon was to busy licking his chops and paws to even listen to what I had to say and Treeco was in his little treat daze. I went ahead and brought out Buddy’s food dish and gave him his breakfast, there was only a little bit left so I just put the can next to Chole’s bed so she could have the rest.

“OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THIS STUFF? I THINK IT MOVED!!!!” Chole yelled out after looking at the can.

“What the hell Chole, its Pokemon food, what do you think I was feeding the others?”

“Not this shit!”

“Are you really that dedicated to berries?”

“YES!”

“Jesus, fine, I’ll order you some berries if it makes you happy.”

“Thank you.”

I then grabbed the can and poured the rest right next to Zigzagoon. Zigzagoon happily accepted the food but he didn’t really eat it he just sucked up the whole damn pile like some giant living vacuum cleaner, I had to pry the can away from him before he swallowed the whole thing.

An hour later of getting ready and waiting for “The Queen” to finish her meal, we were ready to go explore the ship.

We all started to look at a map to see what this cruise had, it apparently had what we all loved, there was an all you can eat buffet for Pokemon, Zigzagoon eyes lit up; there was a jungle gym, Treeco started to dance; there was a spa, Chole nearly fainted; and for me and Buddy, an arcade, we gave each other high fives.

“Alright guys before you go off, make sure to be back at the room at 4 for dinner and some training, you got it?” They all nodded.

“Good, now let’s make the most of this trip,” we then all ran off.

Buddy and Garrett

Buddy and I decided to take our time before reaching the arcade. We were taking in the sights when we reached the upper deck; we looked at the sea, the cloudless sky, the women (yeah that’s right; you didn’t think I would leave that out).

We then stop at the end of a hallway with a door blocking us from reaching our goal.

“Are you ready Buddy?”

“Vee, Eevee!” Buddy then jumps onto my shoulder.

I open the door to discover the Promised Land; there were rows and rows of arcade machines, the room was so large I could barely see what was going on at the other side of the room. I quickly went to the counter and bought two time cards, I put mine in my pocket and then placed Buddy’s card around his collar.

“Here boy, with this card you can play any game at any time for the whole trip, now let’s become two mindless zombies.”

I didn’t really have to say that, Buddy was already playing a game with an open mouth and drool coming down. I went straight for the pinball machine, I swiped my card onto the reader; all of a sudden, lights that could make any person have a seizure started to come on.

I then cracked my fingers and my neck, “let’s begin.”

I wasn’t the only one having a great time, Buddy was on one of those DDR machines; he was jumping from arrow to arrow. Although he was too small to hit two arrows at once, Buddy was able to hit two arrows with his body on one arrow and hit another arrow with a small Shadow Ball attack on the other at the exact same time.

The song ended and I quickly grabbed Buddy, “nice moves you got there, but I bet you can’t beat me at those shooting games.”

“Eevee,” told me almost as if he was saying “you’re on.”

Zigzagoon

“Zagooooooooooooon,” Zigzagoon said with teary eyes while taking in the sight of a 50 foot long table of different types of Pokemon food. He didn’t know where to start; all he knew was that by the end of the day, this food will be gone. Zigzagoon went for the plates but then noticed a piece of paper hanging on the wall right above him.

Zigzagoon couldn’t read but he was a good at reading pictures; it was a Pokemon eating contest, apparently it’s being held today at the buffet and the winner will receive a ribbon along with a year’s supply of Pokemon food. He looked around and found a sign up counter, Zigzagoon quickly put his name down, (or in this case, his paw prints), and went off to get ready for the contest.

An hour passed and the contest was about to start.

“Attention contestants please report to the eating table so we may begin,” said the announcer.

Zigzagoon walked over to the table and jumped onto the stool, he looked to his right to notice his opponents; there was a Grimer, a Wrumple, a Munchlax, and a Growlithe.

The announcer then stated the rules to the contestants and the audience, “each of you will receive five bowls of Pokemon food, and you may only use your mouth. If you use any move to gain the advantage, you will be disqualified, this is a contest of pure eating skill. Now, are you ready?”

The contestants nodded. Bowls of food were then passed out.

The announcer brought up his hand, “ready………EAT!”

Zigzagoon dived into the first bowl; he instantly got to the bottom of the bowl without any trouble. Zigzagoon went to the second bowl, he started to use his vacuum mouth and sucked all of the food down his throat, he didn’t even bother chewing, just swallow the pieces whole.

Zigzagoon looked back at the other contestants, all of them were just starting their second bowl except for the Pokemon he least expected, the Wrumple. Not only was Wrumple ahead, but was halfway done with his third bowl. Zigzagoon focused back onto his bowl and started to chew away. Only two mouthfuls of food and Zigzagoon finished his third bowl.

“It seems everyone except Zigzagoon and Wrumple have given up, both are on their forth bowl and still not showing any restraint,” the announcer said while looking at the split screen on the monitor. Both Pokemon were munching away at Pokemon food like they were eating it for the very first time. Zigzagoon quickly looked back at Wrumple, he was very close to the bottom of his forth bowl. Zigzagoon quickly swallowed the food whole and started on his very last bowl.

Zigzagoon was full, his jaw felt like fire every time he chewed but kept going. Closer and closer he got, only a quarter of food left, he opened his mouth one last time and sucked in the rest of the food. He was done but still had to swallow the food before winning, the chewing felt like forever. After what felt like an eternity, Zigzagoon started to swallow, but when he thought he won the fight, “WE HAVE A WINNER LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIVE IT UP FOR WRUMPLE!!!”

The crowd started to clap and cheer for the inhuman eating machine, Wrumple was half the size of Zigzagoon but somehow beat him. Zigzagoon fell off the stool and rolled on the ground, groaning in pain, Zigzagoon had never eaten this much and probably would never again.

After 10 minutes of cheering and presenting awards, the crowd died down and people started to leave. Zigzagoon was about to fall asleep when he felt a hand rubbing his full stomach. He opened up his eyes to find the Wrumple and supposedly his trainer looking at him.

“Hey there boy, you’re a fast eater; I thought you were going to win at first,” the trainer said to Zigzagoon.

“Zaaagggguughhhh!” Zigzagoon responded with a painful groan.

The trainer laughed and picked him up, “that’s one of the side effects of so much eating, you’ll get used to it later on; come on, I’ll take you to your trainer, do you know where he is?”

Zigzagoon shook his head.

“Well…do you know where you’re staying?”

Zigzagoon nodded.

“Alright then, I’ll take you there, maybe we’ll meet your trainer when we get there; lead the way.”

Treeco-For this little section, I’m going to replace the Pokemon language into English.

Slides, monkey bars, swings, rock climb, and trees all over the place; Treeco stared in fascination as he saw the biggest playground he has seen in his entire life (even though this was the first time he saw one).

Treeco didn’t spend any time just staring, he immediately jumped on the swing and started to swing back and forth, he was now getting really high now and when the swing reached its limit, Treeco jumped off and landed on the top of the monkey bars. Treeco could see all around the jungle gym, there were hundreds of Pokemon playing having just as fun as Treeco was.

Treeco continued to look around when he saw a group of Pokemon huddled around in a circle with two Pokemon in the center. Treeco jumped off the monkey bars, doing a flip in the process, and started to head over to the circle. Treeco fought through the crowd to see what was happening in the middle. After reaching the goal, Treeco found a Mankey and a Chikorita, the Chikorita was laying on the ground, looking pretty beat up, while the Mankey was just standing over her making no sudden move. Treeco didn’t like what he was seeing; he had to help her out somehow.

“Plea…se,” the Chikorita said in pain as she was trying desperately to get up.

The Mankey just chuckled and slammed her right back into the ground.

“Try to get up again, I dare you,” the Mankey told her.

“I-I don’t understand, what *groan* what did I do?”

“You know what you did; you pushed me when I wasn’t looking.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to i-it was an accident.”

“Shut up! I’m going to make sure that you won’t push me again,” the Mankey was about to do a finishing blow when suddenly the Mankey was knocked down by a Bullet Seed.

“What the, who did that!?” The Mankey yelled in anger.

Treeco then stepped forward, “you leave her alone.”

“Oh tough guy huh, well take this,” Mankey then sprinted toward Treeco, attempting to land a karate chop on him. Treeco on the other hand just stood still and disappeared before Mankey could land an attack on Treeco. Mankey furiously looked around for Treeco when he was knocked down again by a Bullet Seed again.

Mankey started to growl, he sprinted again waving his arms around in attempt to land Fury Swipes. Treeco didn’t even use Quick Attack, Treeco just jumped to the nearest tree trunk and shot back like a bullet and slammed Mankey’s face on the ground with his tail. Mankey blacked out.

Everyone started to cheer for Treeco for beating up the bully. Treeco walked over to the hurt Chikorita and slowly picked her up from the ground.

“Are you alright?” Treeco asked.

“Ughh, no I don’t think so, I think one of my hind legs is broken,” the Chikorita said.

“Here I’ll bring you over to the tree.”

“Thank you, you’re really kind.”

With Chikorita being carried by Treeco, Treeco walked over to the tree and set her down under the shade.

“Here, my trainer gave me one of these just in case I was hurt and he wasn’t around,” Treeco lifted up his tail and grabbed a potion from under it that was wrapped around his tail.

Treeco then started to spray the potion on Chikorita, “I may not be a doctor but my trainer has shown me how to use one of these.”

“Thank you, my trainer calls me Sunshine,” Sunshine responds to Treeco.

“It’s nice to meet you Sunshine, my trainer just calls me Treeco, but I don’t mind.”

“Thanks for saving me from that bastard, it looks like you didn’t even break a sweat.”

“Ah, he was nothing, I’ve faced stronger opponents, and I helped my trainer win his Stone Badge.”

Sunshine started to blush, “my trainer caught me after he won his.”

“Don’t worry; you’ll get much stronger pretty soon. All done, how do you feel now?”

Sunshine started to slowly shake her leg, “yes much better, thank you so much Treeco.”

“Hey no problem, why don’t we go find your trainer before anything else happens.”

Both Pokemon then walked out of the playground and looked around in the main hall for Sunshine’s trainer.

“Hey look there he is,” Sunshine pointed to her trainer.

“What is he carrying?” Treeco asked.

“I don’t know, lets go find out,” both of them run towards Sunshine’s trainer.

“Hey there Sunshine, is that one of your friends?” Sunshine’s trainer asked.

She nodded, Treeco looked closely at what the trainer was holding, “Zigzagoon?” Treeco called out.

“Uggggghhhhh my stomach, oh hey Treeco, what’re you doing here?”

“I could ask you the same thing.”

“I was in a eating contest and lost to a Wrumple, his trainer decided to take me back to Garrett since I couldn’t move an inch.”

“You lost to a bug, congratulations you officially suck.”

“Shut the hell up!”

“Um…Treeco, do you know this Pokemon?” Sunshine asked.

“Yeah me and him belong to the same trainer.”

“Hey you two, why don’t you both come along, I can have someone to talk to besides a snoring Zigzagoon.”

Both obliged and followed the trainer.

Chole

To avoid people seeing a rare Pokemon on a ship, Chole changed into a Charmander. Chole opened up the door into the spa; she looked around and immediately fell to her knees.

“Lord, I would like to thank you for this gift; I am in debt to you.”

Chole then got up and went straight to business.

“Hmm, what should I do…AHA!”

Right in front of Chole was a mud bath; she never had one but heard it felt really great. She felt the mud with her toe to check the temperature, it was warm, the exact temperature that she was hoping for. Chole slowly dipped into the pool of mud and covered everything besides her face.

“OHHHHHHHHYYYYEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHH!”

Chole relaxed for about an hour and decided that it was about time to get out. She looked around to find something else to do when she noticed a wooden box with a door, when she opened the door steam shot right into her face.

“HOLY SHIT, wasn’t expecting that.”

Being born curious, Chole went into the box, once she entered she saw four other Pokemon sitting all around and relaxing, she decided to join them. No one spoke the time she entered, Chole thought this was boring and decided to leave.

Chole walked around some more in search for more relaxation until finally, she met the mother of all relaxation, a massage. Chole jumped onto the bed, which almost broke all four legs because of her landing, and began to wait for someone to join her.

After an hour of waiting, Chole started to get mad, “where the hell is this massage guy or girl or whatever the hell I’m waiting for!”

Chole then noticed buttons right next to her, she pressed one and all of a sudden the bed started to shake.

“o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-y-y-y-y-y-y-e-e-e-e-e-a-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h-h-h”

Rollers started to rise up on her back and began to go back and forth like someone who would be kneading some bread dough. Chole instantly fell asleep.

After waking up, Chole jumped off the bed and went back into the main hall. She looked at the clock, it said 3:50.

“Oh shit, I overslept. Garrett’s going to kill me if I don’t get back to the room in time.”

Finding a safe place, Chole quickly changed into a Growlithe and sped off to get to the room.

4:00 P.M.

“Well Buddy, did you have fun?” I asked Buddy.

“Eevee, Vee Eevee!” Buddy responded back.

“Well I’m glad, hopefully the others are……”

*BAM*

One second ago I was standing and another second later I got slammed to the ground by a Growlithe.

“WHEW I MADE IT! Hey Garrett, why are you on the ground?” Chole asked me.

“Gee, I don’t know maybe it was the wind.”

“Oh, alright.”

“I fucking hate you.”

“Language mister, geez.”

We go back inside and started to get ready for dinner.

“Hey guys have you seen Treeco or Zigzagoon around yet?”

“Nope.”

“Eevee.”

“Hmm, I wonder where th….”

We then hear a scratch at the door; that must have been them.

I open up the door and sure enough, Treeco and Zigzagoon are standing on the other side of the door.

“There you are guys, you both have fun?” I ask them.

“Treeco!”

“Zagoon!” Both respond back.

“Is this where you are staying guys? Well it was…..HOLY SHIT GARRETT WHAT’S UP DUDE!!” The trainer yells after spotting me.

“JOHN!?”