A Rare Sight

A Fighting Chance

“Oh my god, where is he!?” Chole yelled while waving her arms like a mad person.

“He’s a fat ass what do you expect,” I reassure her, brushing Buddy’s fur as I talk.

“Well damn, I don’t think it takes a fat ass almost four hours to pack his shit.”

“You have no patience Chole.”

“I ran out after the three hour mark.”

“OK OK I’M HERE!!!” John yells as he struggles through the door.

“Jesus Christ, did you bring the whole room with you?” I ask.

“One shirt per bag,” Chole mumbled.

“Shut up Gar..ahhhhhhh!” he trips from his own luggage.

“HAHAHA, that was funn….mmmmrmmmrmrmr,” I quickly cover Chole’s mouth.

“Shut up you dumbass, do you want others to notice a talking Charmander?” I whisper to Chole.

“What was that?” John asks.

“Nothing, my Charmander can’t control her laughter, don’t want to cause a scene,” I say.

“Oh, well let’s get settled then meet back downstairs,” John says.

“Already have, we’ll just wait for you.”

“Alright, be back soon.”

John then goes upstairs, we all sit back down to wait again for god knows how long. I check my Pokedex to find out more info on this town’s gym leader. Both Buddy and Chole climb up on my shoulders to take a look as well.

“Ok, Brawly’s the gym leader here, he specializes in fighting Pokemon,” I say out loud.

“Ouch,” Chole says.

“We have two normal and a grass, this won’t work,” I rub my head

“Well, fighting is weak against flying, we could catch a Wingull,” Chole pats my back.

“Or…” Buddy and I look at Chole.

“…No, you’re not actually…”

“OH COME ON, you could change to any Pokemon you want, you’re with me all the time, and you might as well make yourself useful besides giving me a headache.”

“But what if I don’t want to; I haven’t fought my entire life.”

“I’ll train you; you have Zigzagoon, Treeco, and Buddy, along with John’s Pokemon that are willing to help you train.”

“But…But…”

“Do this and I’ll give you a massage before bed and feed you berries for breakfast after the gym battle.”

“Deal!”

“Glad to negotiate with you, thank you and have a nice day.”

We go outside to start our training; I take out my Pokedex and show Chole the screen.

“Could you turn into this?”

“Sure but why a Pidgeotto? Why not a Pidgeot to make things easier? Chole asks.

“I’m going for my second badge, if I arrive with a Pidgeot, others will become suspicious of how a starting trainer could already have a fully evolved Pidgeot.”

“Point…taken.”

Chole then starts to glow white and begins to change form of a medium sized bird; as the glow begins to fade, I could now see Chole in the form of an ordinary Pidgeotto. She then checks her new body and quickly flies up into the air.

“Good job Chole,” I clap.

“Thanks, I actually like this form.”

I pull out my Pokedex to check out her form’s attack moves.

“Holy shit, this is a good selection of moves for a fake Pidgeotto.”

“What does it say?” Chole asks, still twirling around in the air.

“Peck, Sand Attack, Aerial Ace, and Tackle.”

“Geez, I hope I remember all of that,” Chole says, finally landing back down.

“Remember what?” I hear from behind me.

“Oh shit, hey John, I was just saying to myself that I hope I remember my Pokemon’s moves while under pressure when I’m fighting the gym leader.”

“Yeah, Yeah, whatever. When in the world did you get a Pidgeotto?”

“Oh, I got her a while back, I just never showed you her yet. Her name is Chole.”

“Chole? That’s an interesting name,” John says as he carefully inspects Chole’s bird form.

“Well it seems now you’ll have no problem getting the second badge now.”

“Yeah sure, hey I haven’t trained a whole lot with Chole, do you think you can help me out with some training?”

“Sure I guess.”

“Good, Chole use Sand Attack.”

Chole then shot around and flung a chunk of dirt at John’s face.

“GOD*PFFT*DAMN*PFFT*UGHHHH*PFFT*STOPIT*PFFFFFFFFFFT*,” John yells as he attempts to cover his face from dirt.

“EEVEEHEHHEEVEEHEHEHEEVEE,” Buddy starts to roll on the floor, laughing.

“SHUT*PFFFT*UP*PFFFT*,” John then spat a rock at Buddy’s face, although he was to busy laughing to even feel the rock hit his head.

After ten minutes, it seems John spat up enough dirt to create a small island.

“Now that we had our laugh, let’s get to some serious training, we’re going against our second gym battle tomorrow and Chole hasn’t gotten any progress yet,” I say to everyone.

“Got it,” John says while drinking some water.

“John you go do something else for now I need to strategize.”

“Whatever dude,” he then walks away.

My team then gets around in a circle.

“Chole, what were you doing when you were in the air?”

“Um, from what I recall it’s called dancing you idiot.”

“Hmmmm, I got an idea, listen to this…..”

A few hours later of strategizing and planning

“Sounds stupid, but hey, you’ll never know if you don’t try it,” John says.

“John I want to help me train with Chole now,” I tell John.

“Finally.”

“All I need you to do is use Tackle attacks and dodges, nothing extreme.”

“Awww that ruins the fun.”

“Do it and I’ll buy you a box of Twinkies.”

“Done!”

John then moved over to the other side and threw out Sunshine onto the field.

“Ready!” John yells

“Got it. Chole, up in the air!” I command Chole.

With one flap of her wings, Chole flies up into the air like a bullet.

“Chole, use Aerial Ace!”

Chole does a flip in the air and shoots toward Sunshine.

“Sunshine, use Vine Whip!”

Two vines then grow out of Sunshine’s neck. A second before Chole makes contact; Sunshine puts the vines on Chole’s neck and does a sort of leap frog jump over her.

“Ha u mi….”

*BAM*

Sunshine flew and hit the ground from the attack.

“How the?”

“Aerial Ace never misses John; you should have done your research.”

“Tackle!”

Sunshine then leaps into the air.

“Dodge it Chole.”

Chole flips in the air before Sunshine hits her.

“Grab her,”

Before Sunshine made contact with the ground, Chole grabbed her and flew further in the air.

“Peck!”

Chole then let her go and slammed Sunshine in the ground with her beak.

After the dust cleared, we could see Sunshine not moving.

“Wow that was something,” John said as he brought back Sunshine into her Pokeball.

“I’m still in shock,” I said, trying to recap what had just happened.

“I’m hungry, lets go have some lunch now.”

“Give me a second John, I’ll meet u inside.”

“Don’t take too long.”

“I’ll try not.”

As soon as the door closes, I called over Chole.

“What’s up?” she asks.

“How the hell did you learn to fight like that?”

“Oh that little thing?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“Well, I never told you this, but I actually…have some…fighting experience…heh heh.”

“………..”

“What?”

“You’re telling me this now, that’s what!”

“I didn’t think it was that big of a deal.”

“It is, you could have helped us out with fighting.”

“That’s exactly why I never told you, I really hate fighting; I just don’t like the fact that I could do serious harm to others because of me.”

“You could have at least told me this earlier.”

“I’m sorry alright? Lay off already.”

“It’s ok Chole, it’s just that you can’t continue to keep secrets away from me. You’re sort of part of my team, I need to know that you’re not hiding something.”

“Ok, ok, you’re right.”

“Can you promise that you’ll never keep any more secrets away from me?”

“Yes…I promise Garrett.”

“Thank you Chole,” I then gave her a hug and stood back up.

“Come on, John’s waiting for us, we’ll want to get some lunch before he eats it all,” I pet Chole’s head.

“Got it,” Chole said, smiling as her cheeks begins to turn a little red.

After dinner, 20 minutes later.

“WHEW I CANNOT EAT ANOTHER BITE,” John says as he slaps his stomach.

Buddy, Chole, Treeco, as well as me, stared blankly at John as we just witnessed him eating twice his body weight in less than fifteen minutes. Zigzagoon on the other hand, didn’t care, him and Wrumple were to busy having another eating contest.

“Zigzagoon, slow damn dude damn, tomorrow is the gym battle and I don’t need you having a stomach ache,” I said, taking away his food bowl.

“ZAGOON ZIGZAGOON!!!” Zigzagoon yelled as he quickly grabbed his food bowl and started to gobble down his food again.

“Whatever, don’t you complain to me that your stomach hurts when you’re fighting tomorrow.”

Zigzagoon just grunted in response.

Buddy began to yawn and buried his face into my lap.

“Heh, guess that’s my cue to get ready for bed,” I tell John as I pet his head.

“Alright dude, I’ll see you tomorrow morning,” John says, continuing to rub his stomach.

“Have a good night John.”

“You to Garrett.”

We all headed towards our room, but when Chole jumped off the booth, she accidently dropped something. Catching his attention, John picked up the object, it appeared to be some sort of computer chip.

“Um, hey Chole you dropped something!”

Chole didn’t hear him though.

Quickly trying to catch up, John could see Chole down the hallway. He was only a few feet away from her.

“Hey Chole you dropp…”

“What is it now Treeco?” Chole asked in a annoyed mood.

“………..”

Chole turned her head and saw John staring at her.

“Oh uhhh, peep, peep, peep.”

“You, you talked,” John said, pointing at her.

Chole looked around, “follow me fatty.”

Both of them quickly entered a closet.

“What the fuck is going on?”

“Shut up for a second,” Chole began to glow and change shape.

“What the?”

The glow then resided and Chole stood in front of John in her original form.

“Yo-you’re a Mew.”

“No shit.”

“WHAT THE FU...mmmmrrrmrrr,” Chole quickly covered John’s mouth.

“Be quiet or someone will hear you.”

“Ok, ok, what is going on already?”

“Long story short, Garrett saved me from some Houndoom and now I follow him around so it doesn’t happen again.”

“O……k.”

“Listen to me, you fat ass, you cannot tell a soul or else others might take me away.”

“But…But.”

“You will not tell anybody or else I will hunt you down and cut off all your fat until it looks like you’re a walking skeleton.”

“Alright, fine.”

“Good, now what is it that you wanted?”

“Y-You dropped something as you were walking to your room.”

Chole’s eye widened, “give me that.”

Chole quickly grabbed the chip, a green sphere then formed around the chip and it disappeared.

“What the…”

“I cloaked it, listen to me John, you can’t tell Garrett about this chip, do you promise me?”

“Sure I suppose.”

“No John you must promise me that you won’t tell him, please, I don’t want him to be hurt, I can’t tell him about this yet, it’s to soon.”

“Alright, I promise I won’t.”

“Thank you John,” Chole hugged his arm and then formed back into a Pidgeotto, she then opened the door and entered our room.

“Where have you been?” I asked Chole as she came through the door.

“Talking to John,” Chole says.

“Oh alright I was just wond….WHAT!?!?!?!”

“Don’t worry John knows but he isn’t going to tell anyone.”

“HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT, FOR ALL WE KNOW HE COULD SELL US OUT FOR A TWINK….”

*BAM*

Chole had used a Mega Punch and knocked me out instantly.

The next morning

“Ughhhh what happened, Chole are you ow, ow, ow, my head, Jesus did I get drunk or something last night?” I rubbed my head.

“No, but it’s about time you woke up,” Chole said, floating around me.

“Chole I would choke you but that would just make the pain worse, where’s the Tylenol?”

“I took care of breakfast so all you have to do is get ready and we can get out of here.”

“Thanks.”

After taking a shower, putting on some clean clothes, and ate breakfast, we started to head downstairs.

“Hey what’s up everybody,” John said, waving us over.

“Sup dude,” I said with a tired tone.

“Hello John,” Chole said, in the form of a Pidgeotto now.

“Oh yeah, I forgot he knew now.”

“Yeah, I felt more shocked than you were last night.”

“Are you ready?” I ask John.

“More than ever.”

“Alright then, let’s go.”

We make our way out of the Pokemon Center, as we walk towards the direction of the gym; Buddy turns his head back to the Center. Looking right at us was a man dressed in a black cloak.

“….Eevee, Vee, Eevee!” Buddy starts to nip at my shirt.

“Not now Buddy, we need to get this gym badge first.”

Buddy then turns back his head, but now the man was gone. Maybe it was all in Buddy’s mind.

We finally reach our goal; opening the doors to the gym, we can see a large battlefield; it’s pretty much a giant lake with giant boulders scattered around the place. On the other side of the gym, we could see the gym leader, Brawly, surfing on one of those mechanical surfing machines.

“Umm, hello?!” I call from across the room.

“Huh? WHAAAAAAOOHHHHH!” Brawly focused his attention on us and immediately wiped out from his surfing frenzy.

“You didn’t see that,” Brawly said as he dried himself off with a towel.

“See what?” John asked.

“Good boy, now what can I do for you?”

“You know exactly what you can do for us,” I say to Brawly.

“Heh, I know, kind of a habit that I have to say that.”

John, Treeco, and Zigzagoon go to the benches to watch the upcoming battle.

I then go to one side of the field while Brawly walks over to the other.

A referee then comes out of nowhere and takes his place.

“This will be a two on two battle, the trainer is allowed to withdraw their Pokemon at anytime, the first trainer who defeats the other side’s Pokemon will win the match.”

The ref then looked at both sides, “begin!”

“Get out there Buddy,” I said, doing a gentle push on his body.

“Eevee!” Buddy had no objections and quickly jumped out into the battlefield.

“Machop, show these guys what you’re made of,” Brawly said as he threw his Pokeball into the air and out came a Machop.

“Machop!” The Pokemon yelled out as he began to flex his muscles.

“Machop, use Karate Chop!”

Machop ran towards Buddy with an open hand, ready to strike at his opponent.

“Use Tackle Buddy!”

Eevee began to run towards Machop.

At the exact middle of the field, both Pokemon make contact with each other and started to do a regular defend then attack kind of fight. Machop would attempt to use Karate Chop but miss because of Buddy’s dodges and superior speeds. Although it was the same problem with Buddy, he would attempt to slam against Machop, but with superior strength, Machop would just block Buddy’s attacks with his arms and hands.

“Machop, use Low Kick!”

“More speed Buddy, get some Quick Attacks going!”

This time, Buddy had the upper hand. It would seem as if Machop is trying to kick a ghost because as soon as his foot would make contact with Buddy, he would then disappear and slam his body at Machop’s back.

Eventually, Machop fell down painfully.

“Get up Machop, this is one big ass wave and you just finished standing up on the board.”

Slowly, Machop stood back up and puffed out his chest to show he was ready for more.

“Buddy, he’s asking for more so bring it.”

“Machop use Low Kick on the ground!”

Using all his strength, Machop slammed the ground with his foot, not only making a hole in the ground but also creating a small earthquake. Buddy suddenly stopped his Quick Attack and was trying to regain his balance.

“Use Karate Chop!”

Machop then charged towards Buddy and smashed his hand into Buddy’s back. Buddy immediately fell to the ground, passed out.

“OOHHHHHH SHIT!!” John yelled, covering his and Treeco’s eyes.

“Eevee is unable to battle, Machop wins the rounds,” the ref speaks out.

I run towards Buddy and picked him up, he slowly opened his eyes and frowned a little bit.

“You did a great job Buddy, I’m so proud of what you have done for me,” I said, hugging him and giving him a treat. Buddy’s frown then turned to a little smile and he began to wag his tail slowly.

“You do realize that Karate Chop was super effective,” John told me.

“Yes I do dumbass, now hold him until we are done,” I say to John, giving Buddy to him.

I turn around and knelt down to make eye contact with Chole

“Are you ready?” I ask Chole.

“Just be ready to yell out orders, I swear if something bad happens to me, I’m leaving,” Chole said.

“Yup, you’re ready, now get in there and win me a badge.”

Chole flew over to her position while I walked over to mine.

“Trainers ready?”

The ref looked at both of us, “begin!”

“Chole, up in the air!”

Chole flapped her wings and shot up into the air.

“Machop, don’t let her get to high.”

Machop then ran after Chole; after being right below her, Machop jumped in attempt to grab her legs. Unexpectedly, instead of grabbing Chole, it was Chole who grabbed Machop.

“Chole use Aerial Ace!”

With Machop still in her grip, Chole sped towards the wall.

“Machop, watch out!”

Too late, only five feet from the side wall, Chole let go of Machop and slammed him into the concrete wall, making a hole that led outside.

“Machop is unable to fight, Pidgeotto wins the round.”

Chole then flew back to her place in the battlefield.

“Hey Chole turn around,” I say to her.

“Hmmm…..” her eyes widened when she saw a pile of berries lying on the floor for a reward.

“It’s no wonder you saved your Pidgeotto for last, she’s very strong,” Brawly called to me. Chole began to blush.

“To bad that you’ll be going back to the Center with a beat up bird,” Brawly then threw a Pokeball and out came a Hariyama.

“Hariyama, after we win this, we are hitting the ocean.”

“Hariyama,” Hariyama clapped.

“Chole, don’t let his size get to you, you can do this,” I tell her.

Chole just mumbled.

“Trainers ready?”

The ref looked at both of us, “begin!”

“Chole, Aerial Ace!” I yell to her.

Chole flipped and dove at Hariyama.

“Hariyama, use Force Palm.”

Hariyama shot back his open hand then threw all his strength into the oncoming attack. Chole flew back and hit the ground.

“Good job Chole, are you ready?” I ask her.

“Good job?” Brawly whispered to himself.

“Chole use Aerial Ace!”

Chole flew back up and repeated her attack, shooting towards Hariyama once again.

“Hariyama, use Force Palm”

Once again Hariyama got ready for the attack. Closer and closer she got until finally…

“Lets do The Twist Chole!”

Instead of going head on, Chole quickly flew around Hariyama, making him turn around as well to hit his opponent. Around and around she went Hariyama, like a merry-go-round that has gone insane. Over time, Hariyama became dizzy and stopped his attack to regain his balance.

“Now Chole, use Sand Attack!”

Chole stood in front of Hariyama and flung sand into his open eyes with her wings.

Hariyama began to cover his eyes with his hands, making himself an open target.

“Hariyama get yourself together!”

“Chole use Peck on his hands.”

Chole then jumped up and started to peck at Hariyama’s hands, making him flail his arms all over the place.

“Start sliding Chole.”

Chole would then slide around Hariyama whenever he would get close to Chole with his arms. As soon as she had the chance, she would peck at his weak spots.

Finally, Hariyama could see again, it was now his chance to retaliate.

“Chole fly back up into the air.”

“Hariyama, use Hi Jump Kick!”

Hariyama then jumped into the air with his leg facing Chole.

“Chole use Aerial Ace!”

Instead of a back flip, Chole did a front flip, appearing behind Hariyama. Chole then drove her beak into Hariyama’s back. With a little twist adding to the attack, Chole drove Hariyama right into the ground, making a giant hole in the ground.

As the dust cleared, the ref spoke out, “Hariyama is unable to fight, and the fight goes to Pidgeotto. The winner goes to Garrett.”

I ran over to Chole and hugged her, making us fall to the ground.

“You did it Chole, I’m so proud of you,” I hugged her again.

“I’m never fighting for you again. Ughhhh.”

I picked her up and laid her down on the benches while I talked to Brawly.

“I must admit, I have never seen a battle strategy like that before, after your Eevee was defeated, I believed that I had this match in the bag, I was a little cocky and lost my focus,” Brawly said, shaking my hand.

“Hey, everyone is cocky once in a while,” I replied back.

“Here you go Garrett, the Knuckle Badge is yours.”

“Thank you.”

“No prob.”

I shook his hand once again and went back to the benches. I picked up Buddy and sat

him on my shoulder. Before picking up Chole I slapped John on the back very hard.

“Your turn fat ass, I need to get these two back to the Center, tell me how is goes.”

“Ok I’ll see you then.”

I open up the door and begin to head to the Center; soon enough Chole wakes back up.

“G-Garrett,” Chole said.

“What is it winner?” I asked, rubbing her head.

“Thank you.”

“Thank you? I should be the one saying that, you won me a badge after a..OW!”

Buddy bit me on the shoulder.

“Alright, sorry Buddy, you both helped me win a badge.”

Buddy then began to lick my wound.

Chole began to chuckle, “what I mean is thank you for believing that I could fight even though I had doubts that I would lose.”

“Aw, no problem Chole. Even if we lost, I would still appreciate you for your hard work.”

“Thanks.”

“Anytime Chole, now rest, you earned it,” I then kissed her forehead, making her blush once again.

“Garrett.”

“Yes Chole?”

With her eyes still shut, “turn around.”

“What do you mean turn aro….HOLY SHIT!”

“Good to see you again Garrett, how’s your champions?”

“Jake?”

“Surprised to see me again?”

“Um….yeah.”

“Hmmm, I see that your Pidgey evolved, congratulations.”

“Thanks…”

“Let me get straight to the point, ever since we met, have you seen anything unusual happening.”

“Besides you appearing right next to me after I won a badge the second time?

“Yes, besides that.”

“Well, I don’t know if you did see the news or not, but a science facility has been taken by a group of people with the same cloaks as you.”

“Yes I heard about that, so terrible about what happened to those people, is there anything else.”

“Nope can’t say.”

“Alright, keep your eyes and ears open, things are happening now that could change the world forever, can you give me your promise you will call me if something comes up?”

“Sure…I guess.”

“Good, you have my card, I must be going now,” Jake then ran behind me and disappeared into the shadows.

The next day

We were all eating breakfast when John came running down the stairs.

“There you guys are, you were in bed when I came back,” John said.

“Sorry, we were all tired from what happened yesterday,” I said with a mouthful of food.

“Well anyways, take a look,” he held out his hand to show a Knuckle Badge.

“Congrats, now lets all eat.”

“You don’t have to say that twice.”

After breakfast, when everybody was packed up and ready to go

We all met outside to set off to our next destination which would be Mauville City.

“So…ready to go John?”

“No.”

“No? I said to be ready after we ate breakfast.”

“Well I am ready to go but I decided to not go with you.”

“And why the fuck not?”

“Well…when we all made our little promise to each other, we all said we were going to ride solo.”

“Well yeah but…”

“Garrett just go on ahead, I believe that I still need to do some training here, I almost lost during the gym battle anyways.”

“W-Well are you sure that you don’t want to come?”

“I’m sure Garrett, don’t worry we all promised to meet again during the Pokemon league right?”

“Yeah, you’re right.”

“Make sure to leave some food for me when I get there,” John said, slapping my back.

“Sure thing, well I guess this is goodbye then.”

“Nah, it’s a see you later.”

“You’re right, I’ll see you later then,” I punched John in the stomach, making him fall to the ground in pain.

“I’ll see you later as well John,” Chole said, making her hand glow and then impaling it onto John’s stomach as well.

We all ran away from John, thinking any second the police might come. And although that the fat ass wasn’t coming with us to our next stop, I knew that we will meet again.