Chapter One
A Big Mess
A Big Mess
xxxxx"Aipom! To your right!" Aipom jumped into the air and grabbed onto the tree branch with his tail, then propelled himself straight down, hitting the Noctowl with a powerful headbutt. Aipom let go of the branch and dropped to the ground. The Noctowl, who was now recovering from its dizziness, stood up and twisted its head around. "Aipom, now!" The Noctowl used Hypnosis, but was too late. Aipom had already used double team, and had put one of the three clones to sleep. The other two clones ran towards the Noctowl, who took flight. The Aipom jumped into the air and kicked the Noctowl back towards the ground. The clones disappeared when the real one appeared underneath the Noctowl and slammed its fist, tail, fisttail, into its abdominal region, disorienting it. The noctowl tried to fly away, but the trained threw a pokeball and the Noctowl was brought inside. Aipom flipped up onto its feet. The pokeball rocked back and forth a few times, but in the end, the Noctowl was caught. The trainer trotted over to the pokeball and picked it up. "Success." He said to himself. The Aipom ran and jumped onto the trainers shoulder. "Good job Aipom, you deserve a rest." Aipom nodded as the trainer returned the Aipom to its pokeball. There was a ringing sound and the trainer looked down onto his rist and saw that the professor was beeping in. The trainer held the watch thing on his wrist close to his mouth and pressed a button. "Hey prof. What's up?"
The sound of ruffling papers could be heard on the other line. "Rhode, I need you to come back to the lab. I need your help with something."
"Alright." Rhode said as he started walking back to the lab.
xxxxxRhode had made it back to the professors lab. The prof's lab was far away from any town. At least twenty miles away. Luckily, Rhode had been in the general vicinity of the lab. The lab was in the middle of a forest, and two miles behind the lab was an open plain with a large lake in the middle of that. The land was prime for pokemon research. But, as Rhode approached the lab, he could tell that something was off. It was eerily silent in the lab. On a normal day, you could here all of the commotion going on in the lab from half a mile away. But now, it was completely silent, even as he was approaching the door. Aipom, who had come out of its pokeball during the long walk, eager to be out and engaged in play with nature, was now on his shoulder. Rhode knocked on the door, and it creaked a little as it slid slightly open. Rhode slowly pushd the door open and looked around. The lab was dark. Too dark, especially for the morning. He walked into the lab and looked to his right. He started walking to, and up, the stairs that he knew too well. Once up stairs, he scanned teh area infront of him, while Aipom scanned behind him. Rhode heard something wall and shatter and his head whirled to the left. The door to his lab looked slightly damaged. He silently walked over to the door and opened it up a little. He peeked through to see a dark figure standing over the Prof's desk. He knew it wasn't the professor, because this person was a foot or so too short.
xxxxxAipom was climbing on the ceiling into the room that the shadowy figure was in. The figure was looking through some folders and scattering around papers, and was obviously looking for something. But what, was a mystery to Rhode at the moment. When Aipom was directly above him, Rhode slammed the door open. The person quickly looked to the door and started reaching for his belt. Aipom how ever, had different ideas. He jumped down and missed him slightly, on purpose. He grabbed the persons semi-long hair with his tail hand and attempted to pull him down to the ground, but nothing happened. The person didn't even flinch. Aipom let go of his hair and kicked out both of the persons knees on the way to the ground. And once on the ground he dashed over to Rhode and jumped onto his shoulder. Something was strange, the person wasn't moving.
xxxxxRhode, who was now in the middle of the room, began to hear maniacal laughter. A pokemon burst through the bottom of the desk and punched but missed, then came around with a second punch and made contact with his stomach. Aipom, so fast he liked like a blur, jumped off of Rhode's shoulder and attempted to give a nice pound to the pokemon, but the pokemon disappeared. It then reappeared behind him and kicked him off to the side. Rhode gritted his teeth, but managed a smile. Rhode's Noctowl burst through the wind and headbutted the pokemon square in the chest. It was sent back wards about five feet and then was punched in the back by the now recovered Aipom. Suddenly, the room got cold. Noctowl, because his wings were so could he couldn't move them, was hopping on the ground towards Rhode. Snow and a powerful, freezing wind was emitted from the pokemon. Aipom was frozen in his place, as was Noctowl. Rhode could no longer move because his shoes were frozen the floor. The pokemon disappeared, the person's body blurred out, and the real trainer walked into the room. "Come on Sneasel."
xxxxxThe boy was a short as the double team. He had red hair, and a blue jacket and blue jeans. He had red eyes, and a serious and scary look in his eyes, like he despised everything in the world. He returned Sneasel to its pokeball. He walked over to the broken window and pressed a button on some device on his wrist, probably pokegear. "I only managed to find two of them. I've searched everywhere, but I can't find the third." He said into the device. there was some crackling in the background but it cleared up when the other person was about to talk.
xxxxx"It's alright, you're next mission is to-" That's when the boy jumped out of the window. Rhode tried his hardest to get his feet free, but to no avail. He felt even worse because Noctowl and Aipom were completely frozen. Who ever this person was, he had to be really strong, to immobilize the professor and his pokemon, and then Rhode and his pokemon. But he was still confused. What was the boy looking for?
xxxxxRhode spent the next fifteen minutes trying to warm up the bottoms of his jeans so that he could sleep his feet out of his shoes without breaking his pants. When he finally managed to slip his feet out of his shoes without breaking those either, he went through his back pack, trying to find some of his thawing devices. After dumping every pocket of his backpack out onto the floor, he manged to find four of them. First, he put them on his Aipom. Almost immediately he started to thaw, but it was kinda slow. Once they were placed on Aipom, he started looking around for the professor. "Professor Maple! where are you!?" He shouted, hoping the prof was still alive. Rhode heard muffled shouting from inside a nearby closet and opened it up. "P-professor!" The professor was bound and gagged on a stool that had tipped over. Rhode pulled out a pocket knife and started cutting his binds. "Professor, are you okay?" Rhode asked him.
xxxxx"Yeah, my joints just hurt a little." He said to Rhode. The first thing the professor did after cutting his binds was to reach into his pocket and pulled out a pokeball. "The only one I managed to save" He said before handing the pokeball to Rhode.
xxxxx"...What is it...?" Rhode asked. The prof just shook his head before looking around the room.
xxxxx"It should help thaw your Pokemon" He said to Rhode before standing up. "Thaw your Pokemon out and go. The reason why I wanted you was to give you that Pokemon. I figured it would help you on your journey." Rhode smiled and released the Pokemon in the pokeball. Rhode just looked at the Pokemon and raised an eyebrow.
xxxxx"What is it?"
xxxxxThe professor couldn't help but laugh. "It's a Charmander. It's only found in the Kanto region. Professor Oak sent it and two other Pokemon to me as gifts, and for some research" He explained to Rhode. Now, you must be thinking about old Prof. Oak, aren't you? That's not who he's talking about. It's the new Professor Oak. Blue Oak. He followed swiftly in his grand fathers steps.
xxxxx"Oh, sweet." He said, a grin now on his face. "can you go un-freeze Noctowl Charmander?" The Charmander nodded and ran over to Noctowl and put his flame near the ice, which quickly started to thaw.
