Calista

Chapter 2

As Valentine calmly climbs the stairs. He was actually nervous on his first battle. Luckily Zen Headbutt is super effective against Poison types. Move combinations that doesn't work in game is actually useful in real life.

Quick Attack is a priority move in the game perhaps also in real life too, knowing that Gastly out levels his Zubat he couldn't take any chances and decided to use it despite knowing that it doesn't really affect Ghost Type Pokemons. Luckily his Theory works, although the Quick Attack didn't hit Gastly but with the movement speed boost, Zubat managed to use Zen Headbutt in quick succession.

The fact that his Zubat didn't throw any tantrum the moment it was summoned by a random stranger and based on its appearance, it seems that it has a very healthy condition.

"I'm really lucky." Valentine smirked inside his mind after all he doesn't want to be seen by others smiling alone and looking like some kind of Psychopath.

After climbing the stairs for a while, Valentine finally reached the first floor.

A man with teal hair was standing in front of another crowd.

"Finally the last of the Second Batch has come. I am Team Rocket Executive, Proton, I'm not going to wait any longer for that guy, Petrel, for his speeches. Listen up!, thanks to our special contacts, we have been informed that a lot of fossils were found in Mt Moon. You guys will be sent there to assist us in our search for some fossils. At the back of the Celadon Game Corner lies our airship. Head straight towards it immediately within 1 hour or face consequences. The first batch is already at the Mt Moon so you guys be better hurry up."

The Team Rocket Executive, Proton has teal hair and similarly colored eyes. His uniform consists of an open-collared black shirt with yellow stripes and the Rocket logo, black pants, a white belt, white gloves and boots with a single red stripe near the top, and a black flat cap akin to the ones Rocket Grunts wear.

He looked at another Grunt, seemingly his assistant, and nodded at him. "There are 5,000 PokeDollars for each of you, you can buy some preparation items before you go to Mt. Moon or you can just keep them all for your personal use, I don't care. There's a shop around here selling all sorts of items you can browse for some items there." as he speak, his assistant began to give the money to the Grunts.

"Remember you only have 1 hour left, now I'm going to head to our Airship, for those who doesn't want to buy anything, you can follow me."

As soon as he finished speaking he immediately left. Soon, some of the Grunts decided to follow him, not even bothering to buy or browse items in the shop, probably because they just want to pocket the money.

Valentine was quite curious and decided to stay for a while in the hideout as he went towards the so-called Shop where the Team Rocket Executive, Proton, pointed out. In front of him is a PC filled with a bunch of catalogs. Some Pokeballs, Potions, Antidotes, etc though he can only buy a few of them.

Valentine browsed the Pokemon Catalog and surprisingly at the end, he saw familiar Pokemons being sold.

Abra: P25,000

Clefairy: P25, 000

Dratini: P100, 000

Scyther: P100, 000

Polygon: P250, 000

"It seems that the Pokemons being sold here is even more expensive as compared to the game. More importantly, they aren't bought in coins but in PokeDollars instead. Is this the original price?" Valentine quietly thought to himself.

Aside from the five PokemonS, he saw a bunch of similar common Pokemons like Metapod, Pidgey, etc though those Pokemons doesn't really interest Valentine.

Seeing that there isn't much interesting in the Shop he just decided to buy a typical 5 Potion which costed him P1,500 and a single Antidote for only P100 just in case a random pokemon poisoned him. After all, reality is still different from the Pokemon Game or the Anime. Hopefully, the Laws of this World are distorted enough like in the Anime, where he wouldn't die if he got hit by a random Shadow Ball out of nowhere.

As soon as Valentine finished buying, he immediately went towards the direction Proton headed towards to.

Beyond Celadon Game Corner's back door lies an Inconspicuous Team Rocket Airship with a Giant R at the center.

Seeing this giant Team Rocket Airship just at the back of the Celadon Game Corner, Valentine can't help but wonder just how much of a klutz the Gym Leader of the Celadon City, Erika is, to the point that she doesn't even know of their existence.

As Valentine entered the Airship he saw a short-haired woman with an eyepatch sitting alone with her Scyther. Her amber eye is looking menacingly and intimidatingly towards the other Grunts near her. In front of her is a fainted Pidgey and a Team Rocket Grunt knocked out surrounded by a bunch of other intimidating grunts although all of them seemed to be scared of the eye-patched woman.

The moment she saw Valentine, however, her eyes began to brighten up. She rushed towards him, hugged his head, and proceed to rub her huge breast on Valentine's face which nearly caused him to suffocate.

"It's been a long time since I saw you Valentine!" the short-haired woman happily said completely unlike her appearance a few minutes ago. Like a girl who finally found her lost toy, the short-haired woman continued hugging Valentine due to her over-excitement.

Valentine although somewhat enjoying having his face being shoved to a beautiful woman's huge breast, still tried to break free because if not, at this rate he'll suffocate. Though then again dying from breast suffocation wasn't really that bad.

Seeing that Valentine is trying hard to break free although failing because he's really physically weak. The short-haired eyepatched woman graciously let go of him.

"Calista it's been a long time. After all these years you still haven't changed a bit." Valentine while hiding his annoyance as he fixes his ruffled clothes said.

"My Personality may have not changed but..." Calista stopped as she smirked. "Clearly you haven't seen what's in front of you. Even though you were just resting your face on it a while ago." She hugged her stomach, trying to emphasize her Chest as she feigned her disappointment, obviously trying to tease Valentine.

The surrounding Grunts seeing the situation was shocked and most importantly Jealous. After all, a few minutes ago she was beating the crap out of everyone but the moment Valentine arrived, she suddenly went Lovey-dovey. They didn't however dare to show these feelings because they don't want their ass to get beaten again by this wild woman.

Suddenly having an Idea, Calista spoke "Valentine, now that you're here I assume you already got your first Pokemon? If so do you want to have a Pokemon Battle? Don't worry I won't use my Scyther against you." as soon as she finished her words, she patted her Scyther's head. "Apparently I was given a new Pokemon recently so how about a fight?"

Valentine quickly switched his attention on Calista's Scyther. Scyther can also be considered as their childhood friend as Scyther grew up together with them.

Pokemon: Scyther

Type: Flying/Bug

Gender: Female

Ability: Technician

Level: 30

Seeing the level of her Scyther, Valentine isn't surprised that everyone is scared of her. Unfortunately, it seems that he can't see other trainers' Pokemon's moves besides his own. Scyther obviously grew up a lot after all the years they have separated.

Valentine nodded his head "Sure, it's been almost 6 years already since the last time we met. Took me a while to get my first Pokemon."

Seeing that Valentine agreed towards their match, Calista gleefully threw her Pokeball.

"Let's go Zubat!" as soon as she said that, the Pokeball shot out a white light as Zubat appears.

Pokemon: Zubat

Type: Flying/Poison

Gender: Female

Ability: Inner Focus

Level: 14

"Another Zubat huh?" Valentine murmured to himself as he threw his Pokeball upwards.

"Come, Zubat." Valentine said as his Zubat appears outside the Pokeball.

Although this is the second time they met, Valentine's Zubat just calmly observed his surroundings without panicking at all. He then switched all his attention towards the female Zubat in front of him.

Seeing that Valentine's Pokemon is also a Zubat, Calista can't help but say "To think that you'll also be given a Zubat, what a Coincidence, a male one at that too no less. Maybe we could breed them together once they grow." as she rubs her fingers towards her chin.

Calista's Zubat, hearing what her trainer said suddenly got goosebumps meanwhile Valentine's Zubat is just constantly flying there awkwardly waiting for orders.

"Meh, Let's start the battle!" Calista shouted.

As soon as Valentine heard her, he immediately commanded. "Do the usual, use Quick Attack then follow it up with Zen Headbutt."

Hearing Valentine's command, Calista was slightly surprised then after that smirked. "Flashy moves right of the bat eh? No pun intended." She chuckled. "Unfortunately you seemed to have forgotten a piece of important information..." as soon as she finished, she ordered her Zubat "Zubat retreat and use Supersonic!" she then looked at Valentine "Zubats are unfortunately weak to sounds."

As soon as she finished speaking her Zubat produced a huge soundwave causing Valentine's Zubat to nearly collapse.

Valentine seeing that his Zubat is seemingly in a state of confusion and Calista using Supersonic, he nearly slapped his face.

"How could I forget this? I got used to Pokemon Battles one-shotting each other to the point that I got comfortable. Especially after beating that Gastly Guy." Valentine clenched his teeth at his own stupidity.

Trying to think hard of anything to do, Valentine shouted. "Zubat snap out of your confusion!"

Hearing what his Trainer said, Zubat looked behind him and finally snapped out of his confusion as he shook his head.

"Not so fast." suddenly Calista spoke. "Now is the time, Zubat, use Quick Attack.

Calista's Zubat dashed towards Valentine's, almost knocking it out.

Seeing the situation as he watch his Zubat getting repeatedly beaten, Valentine is getting annoyed.

"Zubat endure it! I know you can do it!" Valentine shouted as Zubat shakily flies around.

Hearing his command, Zubat went into a defensive stance once more.

"Not going to do anything about it huh? Still, the fact that you didn't try to use Supersonic proves that you aren't stupid as we both know that it'll be useless. "

"For the final move, Zubat, use Quick Attack once more!"

"Zubat endure it! "Valentine shouted

Calista's Zubat dashed towards Valentine's once more, intending to knocking it out once and for all.

As Calista's Zubat hits it's Quick Attack, thanks to Valentine's Defensive Stance, it failed to fully knock it out.

Seeing that his Zubat hasn't fainted yet, Valentine shouted from Joy "Great Job Zubat, now finally use Payback! "

As soon as Calista saw the opposing Zubat's wings began to darken she shouted to her Zubat " Zubat dodge it!" Unfortunately due to their point blank distance, her Zubat was quickly hit by Payback.

Seeing that he's getting advantage, Valentine quickly followed up his orders "Use Quick Attack and Follow it up with Zen Headbutt!"

Calista's Zubat who is still unfortunately recovering from the Payback suddenly saw her opponent rapidly dashing towards her.

Knowing that this time her Zubat can't dodge this second attack, Calista to fight it head on hoping that she'll be able to knock it out.

"Zubat..... use Quick Attack!" Calista sighed at first but then she suddenly spoke filled with Determination.

As the two Zubats dashed towards each other, Valentine's Zubat's head began to glow in purple as it hits his opponent. Smoke began spread out inside the airship.

"I wonder who won." A Monkey-faced Team Rocket Grunt suddenly spoke, breaking the silence. As the smoke disappears produced during the battle, only one remaining flying Zubat left.

"Which Zubat is that?" One of the Grunt asked though no one can answer him since they can't differentiate the two Zubats in the first place.

"It seems that I have lost." Calista said defeatedly, "I grew arrogant from my advantage, most importantly my Zubat has much more to learn." Calista then looked at Valentine as she sighed. "I really didn't expect that Payback, actually I doubt anyone did." she said as she looked around Team Rocket Grunts. She approached Valentine's Zubat as she patted it. "Such a lot of movepool for a Zubat. I'm sure you'll grow even stronger."

Suddenly the door which the Control Room of the Airship is located, opened. Proton looked around and said We have 5 minutes left, they still aren't here. You guys better be cleaning up the mess you made from your battles. We don't prohibit Pokemon Battles but make sure you know the price of problems you have created." After speaking he went back inside the door and locked it.

A few seconds later, Other Grunts have finally arrived.

The Airship began to take off as it starts to head off towards the Mt Moon.