Against all Odds

The path to Viridian

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Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon
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"Abra ,Fire punch."

Brenden muttered for what seemed to be the 100th time that day, watching as 1 out of the hundreds of pidgeys that had attacked them, fell into unconsciousness.

"It's official, I hate pidgey, I hate rattata, and I hate that there's so many of them!!!" Tyler yells from a few yards ahead of Brenden, as he and his Beldum, Tank are bombarded by a pack of Rattata.

"Tank, HEADBUTT THEM ALL!!!" He yells out as a Rattata bites into his leg.

Tank obliges and within a minute, all of the rattata had fallen to the ground, except for the one latched onto Tyler's leg. He furiously shook his leg back and forth, trying to unlatch the rat Pokemon, but only succeeded in making it hold on tighter.

With a sigh of irritation, Brenden gestured at Tyler.

"Abra, grab Rattata with a fire punch and teleport it as far away as you can."

Abra carries out the order immediately, grabbing onto the irritating Rattata with a flaming hand, making it squeak in pain. With a flash it was gone, and Tyler let out a sigh of relief as he rubbed his leg.

"I want to get to Viridian soon.." He says mournfully, covering his eyes as Abra appeared right next to him. He scratches behind its ear as it hovers, rewarding his efforts with a purr.

"And thank you Abra for getting rid of that irritating nuisance." He says while grinning at Abra. The psi Pokemon simply hums in acknowledgment, and floats over to Brenden, who sits a few feet away from Tyler.

"This has been a long week."

"And we still have a day or two of walking ahead of us."

Brenden sighs at Tyler's statement, taking in his and Tyler's appearance.

Tyler was the worst off, he had his legs bleeding slightly from Rattata that seemed to always attack his legs, his shorts were ripped and his shirt had a tear from the neck to right below his pecs. Brenden had fared a little better, but had scratches along his face from the rare pidgey that was fast enough to get past his Abra, and a tear from the bottom of his shirt up to his belly button.

He huffed and started to walk to a few trees off in the distance, Tyler not questioning him, but instead recalling Tank into his pokeball.

"Bring me some food back will ya?"

"You better have our sleeping bags out and a fireplace set up or I'll eat the food I grab for you!!"

Tyler shook his head while chuckling, and grabbed two sets of sleeping bags from the backpacks Oak had given them.

He had just started to make a fire circle with stones when the sound of footsteps reached his ears.

"Hey I thought you went... Too.. Look for food..." He says as he stands and turns, realizing as he speaks the person walking wasn't Brenden.

It was little kid, with a backwards blue cap on, shorts, and a small tee on. And a pokeball shining in his hand.

Tyler stood up and pulled out Tank's pokeball, looking determinedly at the young trainer.

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In the middle of collecting an apple from a tree, Brenden stops and stares back towards where he came from and frowns.

"Aaab?" His Abra calls out from above, hanging upside down from a branch, and holding about four apples.

"I have a bad feeling Tyler is doing something besides making camp Abra."

"Aaaab..."

"Yeah, probably just me."

"Abrr... Aaa."

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"Get em Tank!!"

"Go Pidgey!!"

Both trainers released their respective Pokemon, the youngster (as Tyler Dubbed him) looking dumbfounded at Tyler's Beldum.

"What is that thing?"

"It's your defeat!! Use Take Down!!"

Beldum shot forward, building up speed before slamming into the pidgey, sending it flying past its trainer.

"No pidgey!! Get up and use Sand Attack!!" The little boy yells, and his pidgey flies in front of Beldum, albeit slowly, and throws up dirt into Beldums eye.

It shakes around, trying to get its bearings, and the youngster uses that to his opportunity.

"Pidgey!! Use gust!!"

"Pidg, pidg, PIDGEY!!" The pidgey screeches as it picks up wind with its wings, and sends it at Beldum.

Beldum finally gets out of the dustcloud, just in time to see the gust heading toward it.

"Beldum, stay still."

Tyler commands, as the gust hits his Pokemon, not even phasing it.

"How did it not even get a scratch!?!" The youngster yells out as Tyler cracks a smile and points at the pidgey.

"Because it's made of steel. Beldum, finish it with a takedown."

He commands and Beldum shoots forward again, picking up even more speed, and Rams into the pidgey for the second, and last time. The pidgey flies back into the youngsters arms, and the little boy is quick to tap its head with the pokeball and return it.

With a last withering glare, he runs back where he came, and Tyler shakes his head.

"They never learn."
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