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Pokemon - The Tokko Adventures

Episode2 - Chikorita's Big Day

Morty woke up a little before Yui that morning… she had a very bad habit to sleep in. During the night, her blanket had fallen off of the couch, and she lay uncovered in a silk pink nightgown, her bright flaming red hair curled all around her face. The fire had been put out, so nothing was blocking the rays of sunlight that blazed down on her face. Morty stared at her for a while, just thinking about how pretty she looked. He wanted to wake her up and tell her how he felt… but he thought that telling her so soon would scare her; or worse, make her hate him. He came to the conclusion to keep his mouth shut, and sat down to wait for Yui to wake up.

Finally, at least a half-hour later, there was a sign of life from the small couch. Yui sat up and yawned loudly, then looked over at Morty with tired eyes. "Good morning…" she said slowly, almost like she didn't understand her own words. She pulled the skirt of her nightgown down as far as it went, and grabbed her backpack, heading towards the ladies room. "I'll be right back, Morty… Get the nurse to give Chikorita a check-up, would ya?" As she said this, she took Chikorita's PokeBall from the inside of her backpack and tossed it over to him.

"Um… Sure," Morty agreed, catching the awkwardly-aimed ball. He brought it up to the desk and handed it to Joy with a yawn.

Joy smiled at Morty and accepted the PokeBall. "Just a routine check-up? Right away," she said, placing the ball in an incubator-like machine. Red lasers scanned the ball, and seconds later a green light flashed from the side. "The Pokemon is in fine health!"

"Thanks," Morty said. Just then, Yui came out from the washroom, changed into a pair of blue jeans and a pretty pink shirt. Her hair was combed neatly back, and her backpack was slung over her shoulders.

"PokeBall, please, Morty," she said. As soon as she had the ball in hand, she tossed it down, revealing the little leaf Pokemon. It stretched its tiny body out a little, and jumped to its feet. "Chiko!"

"Ready to hit the road, Chikorita?" Yui asked, cracking her knuckles.

"Chikorita!!!" cried the little Pokemon, hopping around Yui's feet. Morty smiled, and shook his head to shake away the blush on his cheeks.

"Where are you headed off to first?" Morty asked.

"To the lab," Yui replied. "I'm hoping they can tell me a bit about Tokko before I go and get myself lost."

"Smart," Morty said. "Bye, nurse!"

"Good-bye!" she said, waving cheerily. "Good luck on your adventure!"

"So where is this lab, anyway?" Morty was asking. Yui was leading him around Starlet Town, and Chikorita was lagging behind, chasing a butterfly.

"This way! I saw in on the way in," Yui said. "Come on!"

As the two trainers walked around a corner and away, Chikorita was crazily following the butterfly in the other direction. It led her almost to the other end of the city before it finally flew off higher than Chikorita could reach. Chikorita swatted at it with her vines extended a little bit, but didn't bother for very long. Eventually, she just shrugged it off and turned around to finally realize that her trainer was nowhere to be found.

(*All the Poke-speech will now be magically dubbed into English. Thank you.)

"Hey, where'd they go?" Chikorita questioned, looking around innocently. "Yui? Morty?"

She looked up, down, and all around, but there was no sign of her trainers anywhere. "Yui? Where are you? Aren't we going to… the lab! That's it! That's where Yui is… now all I have to do is get there. But which way did I come from?"

"Hey, you there," said a tough-sounding female voice. "You look new in these parts." Chikorita glanced down an alleyway to see another Pokemon standing there; it was smaller than her, but a lot more wild-looking. It had a cream-white mane and a small body covered with light brown fur.

"I… I am," Chikorita said nervously. "My name's Chikorita Kinomoto, what's yours?"

"Heh, just Eevee," said the stray. "I don't have a last name. Why do you?"
"Yui… Yui always says I'm part of the family," she said. The Eevee stared at her skeptically, and laughed.

"So, you have a trainer, huh?" Eevee said. "I never bothered with a trainer or a last name. And I'm just as powerful as I want to be."

"But having a trainer is so much fun!" said Chikorita. "She plays with me, feeds me, and helps me learn new things…"

"You know," Eevee said slyly, "you don't necessarily have to be a trainer for all that fun stuff to happen. Want me to give you a little tour of Starlet and show you what I mean?"

Chikorita looked up thoughtfully. "Well, OK," she said. "But I have to be back at the lab before Yui notices that I'm gone. Otherwise I'll be in big trouble."

Eevee sighed. "That's another thing about being independent like me," she said. "You don't get in trouble."

Meanwhile, at the Starlet Town lab, Yui was getting quite the lecture from the resident expert, Professor Willow. It wasn't boring, or anything… just all the different cities, and the things she had to look out for… it's just that it was taking forever!

"Wow, Chikorita sure is being quiet," Yui said. "She hasn't bothered the Professor at all!"

"She's probably waiting outside for us," Morty said. "You've got a well-trained Pokemon there."

Yui smiled. "I know. I love her."

"Are you two listening?" Prof. Willow asked. The two turned red, and sweat-drops appeared on their foreheads. "Yes…" they droned.

"Good," Willow finished. "Now, what was I saying…? Oh, yeah…."

"This is the coolest place in town," Eevee said. "This is the restaurant… it's pretty small, so the guys in the back are pretty stupid. It's easy to sneak back there and swipe some goodies."

"You mean steal?" Chikorita asked. "That's kind of unfair, don't you think?"

"Unfair? Hmph," Eevee said. "What other way do you expect us to eat? Ask them nicely?"

Chikorita stared into the open doors of the restaurant's kitchen. "Ok, but just this once," she agreed.

"That's the spirit," Eevee said, quickly dashing in and moving under a table covered by a white cloth. "Hurry, under here!"

Chikorita followed, and Eevee pointed out a small dish on top of a high table. "Can you smell that?"

"Smell… what, exactly?"

"It's mixed soup!" Eevee announced. "To suit everyone's finer tastes!!! Steak bits for me, vegetables for you? Sound good, kid?"

"Ooh, great!" said Chikorita. "How are we going to get it down?"

Eevee smiled strangely. "That's where you come in," she said. "While I distract the cooks, you grab the dish with your vines and high-tail it outta here. Ok?"

"O...Ok," she agreed reluctantly, ducking underneath the tablecloth while Eevee ran out.

"I'll meet you in the alley out by the Pokemart!" she announced as she dashed under the legs of one of the waiters.

"What's this? You again?" he announced, eyeing the all-too-familiar Eevee. "Well, this time you're not gonna get away with dinner!"

"No, I'm not…" Eevee said (and of course, only she could understand ^_^), "but my friend will. Come and get me, suckah!"

While Eevee ran agilely around the lone chef in the room, Chikorita's vines trembled as they reached for the steaming bowl. She quickly wrapped her green vines around the dish and bolted, lightly tapping the bottom of the dish against the table. The waiter heard the sudden sound, and directed himself away from Eevee to find out who the new intruder was.

"Hey… HEY! You get back here!" he yelled, chasing down the little Chikorita, who still held fast to the bowl of soup. She ran, but it didn't seem like she was running fast enough.

"Oh, no," Eevee thought. "I'd better put my two cents in…" She ran up, bolting circles around the man's legs and throwing him off his center of balance. He stumbled and landed on his rear while Eevee took off after her accomplice.

"Oh man… That was fun!" Eevee said when she finally caught up to Chikorita. The two of them were in the very alley that Eevee had been talking about, with about half a bowl of soup left. The rest of it had spilled all over the streets while Chikorita was running.

"You've gotta be kidding me! Fun?" Chikorita protested. "That was scary!"

"Ha, but look at what we got outta it," Eevee said, scooping up a huge piece of steak in her mouth. "Mmm…" she said as she swallowed. "Good! Try some!"

Chikorita looked into the dish, and saw fresh carrots, peas, celery, tomatoes, and other delectable veggies. She slurped up a mouthful and chewed rapidly. "It is great!" she said upon finishing. After finishing up a great breakfast, the two Pokemon abandoned the bowl and took off elsewhere in the city, Eevee in the lead.

"Where are we going now?" Chikorita asked, keeping the pace behind her daring little friend.

"Hm, you'll see," said Eevee. Chikorita rolled her eyes, and kept running.

"I hope we're going back to the lab," she thought aloud.

"Not quite yet," said Eevee, "but I'll take you there when we're finished with the tour. Deal?"

"Deal," Chikorita agreed. She didn't necessarily want to, but it was the only way to for sure get back to the lab…

"Where are we going?" Chikorita questioned as Eevee pushed open a thin wooden door, allowing them admission to a totally empty building. They walked down the hallway and ended up on a stage, surrounded with tattered red curtains.

"This is the old Starlet Town drama theatre," Eevee explained. "It used to be big and full of business, but now it's deserted. They're probably going to build a newer better one."

"Wow!" Chikorita said. "At least we won't get in trouble for playing here. There's no one else around," she thought.

"Hey, look!" Eevee said, running to the side of the stage. She picked up a black and purple mask that was sitting on the floor, and lifted it to her face while sitting on her back legs. "How do I look?"

But Chikorita wasn't concentrating on Eevee. She was staring above her, where the walls backstage seemed to be moving… "Um… Eevee? You might want to turn around…"

Eevee did, dropping the mask. There was nothing there… only walls. "What are you saying?" Eevee asked. "There's nothing there."

"But I… I could have sworn…"

"Look! Do you see anything now?" Eevee said. "There's nothing there, kid. Get over it."

"If you say so," Chikorita said. "What now? Should we go?"

"I wanna look around a bit more," Eevee said, jumping down from the stage. "Then we'll go find your trainer."

Chikorita sighed. "Okay," she said, jumping down after Eevee. The two of them wandered around the floor, darting around the chairs. They started a small game of Tag, and were running around, laughing and trying to catch each other. Then, Chikorita noticed something that wasn't exactly normal…

"This is great, huh?" Eevee said. "Chikorita?"

"E…Eev…. Eevee…. Take a… Look at this…" she stammered, pointing up at the ceiling. Eevee looked, and sweatdropped… the mask that she had been wearing was floating a good five feet above the stage.

"Aah!" Eevee exclaimed. "How'd that happen?"

"There's something in here besides us!" Chikorita declared. "Let's get out of here!"

"I agree," Eevee said. The two Pokemon rushed up on the stage, and darted out the back door just as the mask dropped down below them. The wild Gastly floated there, laughing furiously at them….

"And that's about all you need to know about Tokko," Willow concluded. Yui let out the breath she'd been holding, and Morty stood up to stretch out his legs and yawn.

"Thanks, Professor," Yui sighed, blinking a few times. "That was… certainly informative."

"Well, you're welcome," she said, beaming. "I know you already have your PokeDex and PokeBalls, so I think all you need is this." She handed Yui a folded piece of paper, which she unfolded to stare at. "It's a map of the Tokko region. You should be able to navigate easily with this."

"Thank you!!" Yui exclaimed, not bothering to mention the fact that she'd forgotten half of what the Prof. had said already…

"So, ready to go?" Morty asked. "Let's go get Chikorita."

"Okay!" Yui said. "Bye, Professor! Thanks again!!"

"Good luck, Yui, Morty," Willow said, waving.

At that very moment, Chikorita and Eevee burst through the door of the lab, breathing heavily. Yui and Morty walked into the lobby right after, chatting with each other. Yui's eyes lit up when she saw the Eevee.

"Oh, how cute!" she said. "No wonder Chikorita was so quiet! She's made a new friend!"

Morty smiled. Yui ran to Eevee and picked her up. "You're just the cutest," she said. "Do you have a trainer?"

Eevee shook her head, a huge sweatdrop forming on her fur. "Well, then, why don't you come too? You can spend as much time as you like with my Chikorita!!" Eevee looked down at Chikorita, who also sweatdropped. Eevee gave Chikorita a look that said, "Look what you've gotten me into," and turned back to Yui, nodding yes.

"Really??" Yui exclaimed. "Oh, yay! Morty, look! A new Eevee friend!!"

Morty shook his head and laughed. "You're too hyper for your own good, Yui-chan," he said. Yui blushed, and brought out a PokeBall for Eevee.

"Ready?" she asked. Eevee nodded, and Yui placed her new Pokemon inside the PokeBall. Then, with a flick of her wrist, she set Eevee's PokeBall on her belt and took Chikorita's, recalling her. "That's perfect! Now I have two Pokemon to train for the gym match!"

"Okay, let's get going then," Morty said. "I guess we can try to get to the first gym by tomorrow. What gym is it again?"

"The electric gym on Mt. Lightning," Yui said. "We could get there if you wanted to walk all night… Do you think that's a good idea?"

"You're right," Morty said. "Let's go stay at the Pokemon Center again, and we can leave for Mt. Lightning in the morning. Ok?"

"Ok!" she said enthusiastically. "Race ya there, Morty!"

With that, she took off running out the door. Morty smiled, blushing, and took off after her.