Pokémon Adventures 1: Red & Blue Chapter (slow updates)

(4) Wanted: Pikachu

Pewter City, in the West

"Get it!"

"Hurry!"

People were running past Red, carrying bug nets and other items.

"There it goes!" Their footsteps faded away as they ran together.

"Huh?" Red asked, noticing a poster on the wall of a building.

WANTED: PIKACHU

Mischevious electric mouse

Reward for capture

-Pewter City Merchants Association

"So that's what all the fuss is about," Red said and smiled to himself. "Guess I'll give 'em a hand!"

The crowd was not hard to miss; their loud chatter cane from nearby- not to mention it was huge.

"We've got you now, you pest!" "That's the last time you'll eat my produce!" The people shouted at a Pikachu who was staring at them all with a confused and amused face.

"Get it!!" Almost as one, everybody charged at the electric mouse, arms outstretched.

Pikachu waited until they were nearly on top of it before it began its escape. The people fell on top of each other. "Hey!"

"Chuuu! Chuuu!" Pikachu sang happily as it bit but into an apple.

Behind it, a man crept closer, his net held securely in his hands.

"Now!" He shouted as he brought his net down.

Pikachu blinked a few times, the net surrounding it on all sides. Its eyes suddenly squinted shut and it released a powerful electric Discharge.

The man cursed something as he fell to the ground, the net now released from his hands.

"Hey, it's getting away again!" A woman from the crowd pointed at Pikachu, now running away from them all. "Get it!!" They ran past Red, who had been watching them this whole time.

"Tsk. I can't watch any more of this." The red-eyed Trainer sighed, smiling, and tossed his Poké Ball into the air.

"Okay..." The Poké Ball landed back in his hand.

"Saur- Go!" He threw the Pokémon towards the chaos, a wide grin on his face.

"Pi?" Pikachu stopped and turned around to face its challenger. Saur stood before it.

"A Pokémon!" The crowd called out, amazed. They began muttering amongst themselves.

Pikachu sneered, thinking how easy this battle would be for it.

It released a strong Thunderbolt down on Bulbasaur.

"Auugh!" Red has been standing beside his Bulbasaur, and he was also feeling some effects of the Thunderbolt.

"Oh... man..." "It's no use..." The crowd's faces drooped down in disappointment.

The dust cleared, revealing a standing Red and Saur.

"Pi?!" Pikachu cried out in disbelief.

"Now it's our turn! Saur, attack!"

Saur nodded at its Trainer and sent out a small seed from its bulb on its back.

It went to Pikachu before opening up above it.

Pikachu narrowed its eyes in frustration, but then its ears fell down and it staggered sideways, exhausted.