Episode 3Deadly Encounters
There was a flash of lightning all of a sudden in the middle of the night,"Pika," Pikachu woke up all of a sudden. Yawning he glanced around, realizing it was just a thunderstorm. Pikachu was about to curl up and just fall back to sleep when his ears perked up again,"Pika chu?" He thought he heard voices downstairs. Pikachu looked at the clock beside the bed. It read 12:00 midnight.
Pikachu decided to get up and go take a look around. He went out the small Pokemon door at the bottom of the door. And then walking on all fours he made his way downstairs to see what all was going on down there. He put his nose to the air and smelled,"Pika!" Pikachu got stars in his eyes as he thought he smelled something sweet. It smelled like...APPLES!
Apples were Pikachu's favorite food. Well, he wasn't the only Pikachu who enjoyed eating apples. There were tones of other Pikachu who also enjoyed eating them as well. Even Pikachu's pre evolved form, Pichu loved apples. It was a fact that Pikachu's species loved apples.
Pikachu put his nose to the floor and started smelling the floor, until he came across an apple that was just lying on the floor,"Chu?" Pikachu wondered how that had gotten there. He figured maybe someone must have just dropped it. It looked in pretty good shape for having been lying on the floor, like it hadn't been there too long.
Pikachu didn't know who would be up at this hour of the night but he took the apple anyway,"Pikachu," he grinned happily as he started chowing down on the apple he'd found. The apple was very juicy and very sweet. Pikachu loved it very much.
Just then right after finishing the apple Pikachu heard the same voices again,"Pika? Chu?" Pikachu followed the sounds and came across two strange looking humans who were wondering around the center. They looked like they were up to something. It was so dark that Pikachu couldn't tell what they looked like. But from the sound of their voices it sounded like a man and a woman.
"Why do we have to sneak around the Pokemon Center in the middle of the night for anyway?" The guy asked.
"Why else? We're here to steal Pokemon aren't we, Butch?" The woman told the man, Butch.
Pikachu panicked from hearing that and ran from the room before they even noticed they were being watched. Pikachu ran and got Kairi, shaking her,"Pikachu! Pika pika!" Pikachu panicked as he shook Kairi trying to wake her up.
"Aww, not now," Kairi moaned in her sleep. She rolled over right on top of Pikachu, as she drooled.
"Pika! Pika pika!" Pikachu wiggled underneath his trainer trying to get free. When that didn't work, Pikachu started getting mad,"PIKACHU!" Pikachu let loose with a ThunderShock attack.
Kairi screamed jumping straight up into the air in a panicked state, the electric sparks going though her body. Pikachu hurried and moved out of the way so Kairi wouldn't land on him when she came back down,"What is it, Pikachu?" Kairi asked, blowing a puff of smoke out of her mouth after she'd landed back onto the bed. Her hair was sticking out every which way.
Pikachu, jumped back up onto the bed,"Pikachu, chu! PIKA! Pika pika!" Pikachu tried explaining that the Pokemon Center was under attack.
"What? I don't understand that," said Kairi. She reached over to cut her lamp on. But it wouldn't come on at all,"Great! More good news. A power failure." Just then there was a huge blast from downstairs like something had exploded,"What was that!" Kairi got up and ran out in her pajamas . When she got out into the hallway Paul was already exiting his room.
"Kairi, what are you doing up? I thought you were hurt," Paul told her.
"Well, now that you mention it. Your right! There is no pain anymore in my ankle. But never mind that. Didn't you hear that explosion from downstairs? Whatever it was just cut the power to the Pokemon Center," Kairi told Paul.
"Well, with a noise that loud it would be impossible not to. Come on! If your ankle's better let's go," Paul said as he turned and ran off in the direction of the blast.
"Hey! Wait up! Why is he always doing this?" Kairi wondered as she and Pikachu ran to catch up to him. Once Kairi caught up to Paul she said, breathing hard,"Didn't….I tell…you to wait.."
Paul stuck out his arm in front of Kairi preventing her from going any farther ,"Stay back!" He screamed. Kairi looked ahead of her. There was a huge fire.
"Oh my god!" Kairi screamed.
Paul took her by the hand,"Come on!" He pulled Kairi along by her hand though the smoke and the fire.
Just then a wall of flames blocked there way,"What are we going to do now!" Kairi panicked. A few tears fell from her eyes. She was scared.
Paul then did something very unlike him. He reached over with his thumb and brushed the tears out of Kairi's face,"Shh! It's ok. I'll get you out of here somehow." Kairi stopped her tears and nodded, putting her complete trust in Paul.
Just when Paul was getting ready to do something about the fire though, a Water Gun attack hit the flames in front of them,"Oshawott!" Screamed a voice from behind them. Both Kairi and Paul turned around and saw a small blue looking Pokemon that looked like a otter with a shell on it's stomach.
"What's that?" Kairi asked Paul.
"It's just an Oshawott. Now hurry! Let's go!" Paul pulled Kairi along before she even had a chance to check out Oshawott in her Pokedex. She could do that later. Right now they had to get out of this fire and fast. Pikachu was ridding on Paul's shoulder again, as he led Kairi though the burning building. A lot of the center's Pokemon ran ahead of them desperate to hurry out as well. Oshawott ran in front of them straying water at the flames that was in there path, as they made there way outside to the backyard of the Pokemon Center. Seemed like though the flames they hadn't known where they were going and went out the wrong side.
Paul then turned to Kairi checking her over, after they've gotten out of the burning building,"Are you ok?" He asked, concern showing on his face.
"I'm fine," Kairi answered. She wondered why Paul was all of a sudden acting so friendly for? Before he had been a jerk. She guessed, maybe being in a burning building had messed up his head and made him not be able to think straight, or something.
Just then the two heard Pokemon cries. Kairi then noticed,"Paul, the center's Pokemon that followed us out, aren't here," Kairi explained.
"Oshawott!" Oshawott said running, ahead.
"Hey, wait for us!" Kairi called out. Her and Paul, ran, following after the Oshawott into the bushes and the trees ahead. Ahead they found the center's Pokemon in a huge net. And standing beside the net were two people wearing black uniforms with a red letter R imprinted on there shirts. One had short blue hair. That was the guy. And the girl had long orange hair tied in two low hanging ponytails.
"Hey! Give those Pokemon back! There not yours!" Kairi screamed in anger.
"If you want them back so badly, then you've better prepare for trouble," said the girl.
"Huh? What do you..." Kairi got ready to say but was interrupted by the guy.
"And make it double," He said.
The girl then said,"To infect the world with devastation."
"To Blight all peoples in every nation," the guy then said.
"To denounce the goodness of truth and love!" The girl cried.
"To extend our wrath to the stars above!" The guy hollered out.
"Cassidy!" The girl said her name.
"And Butch!" The guy also said his name as well.
"Team rocket circling the earth both day and night!" Cassidy did a pose leaning her leg up in a triangle shape with her foot touching her other leg.
"Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight!" Butch then mirrored Cassidy's pose.
Then a rat type Pokemon jumped between them screaming out,"Raticate!"
"I don't have time for this!" Paul screamed in rage. NOW he was angry again,"Turtwig! Razor Leaf!" Paul screamed throwing Turtwig's Poke Ball. Turtwig came out of his ball, releasing razor sharp leaves at Butch and Cassidy.
"Pikachu.." Kairi got ready to say when the Oshawott stepped in,"Oshawott?"
"Osh," he nodded his head, showing Kairi he wanted to help.
"Ok! Oshawott, Water Gun!" Kairi called pointing at Team Rocket. Oshawott, shot out water from his mouth at the two villains. They jumped out of the way, and the attack, hit there Raticate.
"Raticate!" The Raticate was mad at getting splashed with water and cut by leaves. Without being given an order, he attacked with Hyper Fang.
"Oshawott!" Kairi screamed. Oshawott flipped though the air as he was sent flying, landing perfectly onto his feet.
"OSH!" He screamed in rage, using Hydro Pump on Raticate, sending the rat Pokemon flying into the two Rocket members. Paul then pointed at the net. Turtwig nodded and used Razor Leaf and cut the net open.
"Quickly! Run away!" Kairi screamed to the Pokemon, who were now out of the net. The Pokemon ran away.
"You'll pay for that!" Cassidy screamed. She pulled out a gun and pointed it at Paul.
"NOOOOO!" Kairi screamed getting in front of Paul just in time, taking the bullet meant for him.
Paul looked shocked that anyone would do that for him. The stern look he normally has on his face was gone,"Why did you do that? WHY!"
"Because..." Kairi leaned over clutching her chest as blood spilled out,"Your a very special person." She fell to the ground, weakly onto her stomach.
All this had taken about six hours and the sun was rising in the distance. For the first time in his life, Paul leaned his head down and cried. He then screamed out in absolute rage,"TURTWIG! SOLAR BEAM!" As he sobbed.
"Uh oh!" Butch and Cassidy sweat dropped as they knew what was coming. Cassidy had dropped the gun, in shock. Turtwig, after gathering enough energy flipped up into the air and shot the attack from his mouth straight at Butch and Cassidy. They both screamed in terror as the attack knocked them out.
The screaming and the gun shot had brought Officer Jenny around back. The fire at the center had already been put out awhile ago. Paul ran to Kairi's side,'You better be ok. If your not that proves your weak," Paul thought, actually pulling Kairi into his arms, tapping her cheek trying to wake her. Officer Jenny arrested Butch and Cassidy, and put them in the truck to take them to jail.
"Looks like Team Rocket's carted off again!" They both cried from the back of the truck. Nurse Joy came around back and took care of Kairi. A few hours later She was sitting in the Pokemon Center with Paul, having breakfast. Luckily the bullet hadn't gone all the way in, just kinda gazed her skin somewhat. But she had still bled a lot. She had been bandaged up by Nurse Joy.
Just then Paul cleared his throat to get Kairi's attention,"What is it?" She asked him.
It took a few moments for Paul to find the right words. This wasn't easy for him to say, to anyone,"Kairi, I'm...sorry I treated you like a weakling."
"Why are you apologizing! I know you don't mean it!" Kairi screamed clenching her fist in anger,"So stop playing games with my head!" What was Paul's problem anyway? First he acts like a jerk to her. Now he starts treating her nicely, out of the blue for no reason, what so ever.
"I do mean it. Your strong, very strong. I was wrong, about you. Would you like to come with me?" Paul asked Kairi.
"On your Pokemon journey?" Kairi asked. Paul nodded, as she answered with,"Sure, I'd like that." She then giggled.
Paul just said,"Hn," going back to his old quiet self again, going back to his meal. They both were sitting in the kitchen of the Pokemon Center at the table, eating cereal. Apparently, the fire hadn't did too much damage to the place. There were a few burnt spots, here and there, left over from the fire. But that was about it. After they finished, there breakfast, Paul grabbed his bag and told Kairi,"Well, come on. I'd like to get an early start."
Kairi picked up her bag, and Pikachu got on her shoulder as she followed Paul outside the Center. Oshawott was still with them. It followed them. Then about, halfway down the road, Kairi sighed as she turned around and said,"Would you like to come with me, Oshawott?"
"Osha...wott!" Oshawott grinned happily, stars in his eyes as he ran straight into Kairi's open arms knocking her over onto her back, hugging her and licking her on the cheek. Both Oshawott and Kairi were giggling. Her hat had been knocked off her head as well.
"Welcome to the team, Oshawott," Kairi giggled.
"Now, now, we don't have all morning. Hurry up or I'll leave you," Paul told Kairi.
"Same old Paul. Glad your back to your old self," Kairi giggled, as the setting changes to a view point of the sky.
"What was that?" Paul asked.
"Nothing, nothing," Kairi giggled.
