Side Chapter: Butterfree!

[VIRIDIAN CITY, A DAY LATER]

Viridian Forest was brimming with excitement, Pokémon were flying through the sky and Birds chirping as they searched for their Breakfast, Caterpie. Rick's house was lively as two of us were outside the house.

"Boy, You need to become stronger. Let's have a 2-on-1 battle and see who wins!" Rick had said and he agreed. We went outside and the battle began. Jenny was staring at us from the window, She secretly hoped that I would win.

I sent out my only Pokémon, Pikachu and Rick sent out his Rhyhorn.

Rhyhorn was a Pokémon known for its hard skin and its ability to charge in one direction, It had low intellect and therefore only listened to its trainer.

"Rhyhorn, Begin the match with Horn Attack!" Rick ordered.

"Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" I ordered. I was only testing out a theory, Would Pikachu's electric type attacks be able to bring about damage to this Dual typing Pokémon.

Thunderbolt hit Rhyhorn who was charging directly at Pikachu, It was hurt a little but shrugged off the damage as it wasn't much. It was about to hit Pikachu with Iron tail.

"Pikachu! Dodge then use Double Team!" I ordered. Pikachu swiftly evaded the attack and then used Double team to create multiple illusionary copies of itself, "Now, Hit it with Iron Tail!"

All of the Pikachus hit Rhyhorn's back with Iron tail but they came in contact with Rhyhorn's spikes, injuring their tails. The illusionary copies faded, revealing Pikachu who held its tail.

"Sand Tomb, Finish it!" Rick ordered. Rhyhorn slammed its feet on the ground and brought about a crazy sand tomb which concealed Pikachu.

Pikachu fainted. I quickly returned Pikachu into its Pokéball.

"Kid, If I was an enemy, You would have died. You can't rely on only one Pokémon or you'd get yourself killed. I want you to catch another Pokémon, A Pokémon that you can trust with your life and then come and beat me," Rick said.

I nodded and Rick gave me a full restore, I soon healed Pikachu and went on my way. The path I was walking on was bushy and several wild Pokémon appeared in the area.

Rick had given me some Pokéballs yesterday, They were 15 in total. As I walked down the path, I encountered several wild Pokémon but they weren't the Pokémon I was looking for, I met Weedles, Caterpies and even Beedrills but Pikachu could handle them.

I finally found a nice oak tree. It strangely had pink leaves which sprouted beautifully, It gave the tree a beautiful appearance.

'Butterfrees like to stay in trees,' I recalled and quickly climbed up the Oak tree.

Once I was at the top, I could see the entire Viridian Forest. No Butterfree here! As I was about to lose hope, I saw a Butterfree coming here from a distance. I scanned it with a scanner. It was a Black (Monstrous) potential.

I smirked and ordered Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on it. Pikachu's Thunderbolt blasted it out of the sky and I threw a Pokéball at it, instantly catching it.

The Scanner reported that Butterfree knew 5 moves: Tackle, Stun Spore, Poison powder, Sleep powder and Confusion. This was good enough for me as I put the Pokéball into my pocket.

Now, All I had to do was to was to train it a little and Blam! It would be more powerful. I had no hope of defeating Rick though so I went to the Dept. Store in my Team Rocket uniform and strangely enough, Everything was stocked up again.

"I want your TMs and nothing more," I told the Shopkeeper and he ran inside. He got wind of Officer Jenny being captured by Team Rocket so he complied quickly.

Out of all of the TMs provided to me, I picked TMs

o Poison Jab

o Acrobatics

o Sunny Day

o Brick Break

o Solarbeam

o Bug Buzz

After I took them, I left and taught them to Butterfree. After learning these moves, I was sure that it would be able to protect me.

Yesterday, We got our pay for that Beedrill job, it was 50,000 Poké so I had a total of 150,000 Poké in my bank account. I planned a way to try and defeat Rhyhorn although I was oblivious to the next Pokémon he would use.

"HEY, RICK. I'M BACK!" I shouted.

Rick came outside with a smirk.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

"Yeah, yeah. Lay it on me!" I said.

We began our battle again.

"Rhyhorn! Go!" Rick ordered.

"Butterfree! Go!" I ordered.

We threw the Pokéballs into the air and the Pokémon burst out of their Pokéballs.

"Rhyhorn! Rock throw!" Rick ordered.

Rhyhorn smashed the ground with its feet and a large rock flew into the air, It used its horn to smash it into several pieces before they flew to Butterfree.

Butterfree had the ability; Compound eyes so it could perfectly see this and calculate the trajectory to dodge. It dodged them easily and then got right in front of Rhyhorn.

"Poison Jab right now!" I ordered. Butterfree's fists glowed in a purple color before it smashed them against Rhyhorn, Rhyhorn became poisoned.

"Rhyhorn, Horn Att..."

"Butterfree! Confusion!" I ordered. Butterfree was shrouded in a purple aura as it used its Confusion attack. Rhyhorn got confused and began attacking the ground continuously.

"End this with Sunny Day and Solarbeam!" I ordered. Butterfree used Sunny day and fired a green beam of light at Rhyhorn, Since Sunny day was activated, It was instantly charged.

The Solarbeam collided with Rhyhorn and the Pokémon fainted.

"You win but my next Pokémon is Weavile!" He ordered as he returned Rhyhorn and sent out Weavile.

Weavile extended its claws threateningly at Butterfree.

"Butterfree! Poison powder!" I ordered. Butterfree sprayed a purple spore which caught Weavile, Weavile became poisoned. Before She could attack Butterfree, Butterfree was returned into its Pokéball.

'Nice move, Kid.' Rick thought.

"Pikachu! Come on out and use Double Team!" I ordered. Pikachu came out of its Pokéball and instantly created illusionary copies of itself.

"Foresight then Night Slash!" was Rick's command and Weavile immediately detected the real Pikachu. It's claws radiated with dark type energy before it rushed towards Pikachu at incredible speed.

My eyes widened, Pikachu wouldn't be able to dodge that.

"Double team again!" I ordered. Pikachu split into several more illusionary copies, messing Foresight up.

"Now! Brick break!" I ordered. Pikachu's fists glowed in fighting type energy and it slammed his (Pikachu is a male) fists on Weavile, giving it a dozen of punches.

"WEAVILE! DARK PULSE!"

"PIKACHUUU!!! SHOCKWAVE!!"

The two attacks struck against each other, creating a big explosion. Weavile had fainted and Pikachu was barely standing.

"You win!! Hahaha, I didn't expect to have this kind of battle with you," Rick said.

"Neither did I, Anyway, Is there any lunch?" I asked. We walked inside together.

"Yes, There is." Rick replied.