Total Trust Chapter Five: To Ecruteak
#5 of Total Trust
(Max)
"It's Nurse Joy. How are you two?" Nurse joy replied. I sighed once I had my shirt on and reached for my jeans. "We are doing well. Is anything wrong?" "Nothing is wrong. I wanted you to know that if you traveled up the road to Ecruteak City and then to Goldenrod City you can catch the Magnet Train to Sinnoh."
"Thanks for the information." I called before turning to Mist. Let's go home. I grabbed the rest of my things and then applied the ointment to my arm once more. I glanced over at Mist and shared a smile with him before we left the room and I dropped the keys off at the desk.
The Pokémon Center had a nice feel to it but I wasn't really paying attention to the details. I had taken out my Poketech and scanned a map on the wall. The device beeped and seemed to be recalibrating itself before my location was shown on the map I had just scanned as a glowing red dot.
I held out my hand for Mist and together we walked outside. _ What are you thinking about Max? He asked as we turned down the road heading out of town. **_That I wish we would stop being interrupted every time we are together.** We appeared to be on some type of farm road and a cow like looking Pokémon would stare at us as we walked by.
I decided to let out Noctowl and hoped it wasn't still mad at me. I reached for The Great Ball and released her. Once she had formed she looked at me curiously. "I figured you might want a chance to stretch your wings." I said in way of explanation. She hooted at me and then took off to the sky but she did stay in sight.
I looked to Mist. Could you talk to her for me? See if she is still mad?" He nodded and the two began a rapid exchange in Pokespeak.
Lu car Lu! [Hey my name is Mist] Noc towl Noc [That's nice.] Car io Lu [Are you feeling better?] She suddenly turned around and dove at Mist. I stood back and watched quietly. Mist dove to the ground as she just missed and then she tried a confusion attack on him. "Hey Enough of that!" She flew to me and started rapidly pecking my head with her beak.
I tried to wave her off with my hands but to no avail. Mist fired an Aura Sphere at her when he recovered and she fell to the ground. Panting I grabbed her great ball and threw it at her as she tried to move. Once she was safely caught I turned the ball around and hit the blue button on the back causing a beam of red light to shoot from the ball and she emerged free.
"Get out of here!" I shouted and pointed. She used Confusion again and I got slammed against a fence post before she flew off. I came off the ground holding the back of my head. "Ow ow ow!" I said wincing in pain as liquid fire raced across the back of my skull.
Mist ran forward with concern on his face. " Max are you OK?" I shakily got to my feet and he rushed to support me making sure I didn't fall again. "I'll be OK. How are you Mist? That attack hit pretty hard."
Mist nodded while the cow behind us appeared to be laughing. Mist looked like he was about to say something but I put my hand on his shoulder and shook my head. Let them laugh I imagined it looked pretty funny. Let's get out of here before something else decides to attack us.
We followed the farm road until it started to turn to a paved path and took a break beside a row of bushes. It was midday by now and the sun was at its zenith. The heat wasn't too bad and there was a nice breeze. Mist sat down beside me with his feet pointed towards the road and resting his weight on his fore paws. I lifted one of his legs over to me and he looked at me quizzically before begging to murr as I started massaging his feet.
" Oh Max that feels amazing" I smiled and kept at it enjoying the sounds of pleasure that I heard. Then the bush behind us rustled a bit. He jumped back to see what looked to be a raccoon looking at us. Sentret Sen? I looked to Mist and he translated.
What are you doing here? I nodded and gave him my response which he translated back. Cario Lu [We were just resting. We mean you no harm] The Pokémon puffed up and stood to its full height like it didn't believe us. It pointed towards the road and getting the unspoken hint we went on our way.
Mist was muttering something but I wasn't paying full attention. The scenery was getting nicer until in the distance two towers could be seen. One looked like it had been horribly burned and the other seemed to be shining like it was on fire in the sun.
I shielded my eyes with my hand to block the glare as we continued forward. Mist tugged on my pants leg and I looked down at him. Can we eat? He asked and my stomach rumbled just then making him laugh in response.
We moved to the side and used a few flat boulders there to set up our meal. I pulled out two sandwiches and gave one to Mist and then dug through my bag looking for something. "I swore I packed some water." I said aloud as I moved the contents of my bag around. I found it on the bottom of the bag near my berry case. I set them both aside for a moment and packed everything back into the bag.
I went to reach for the berry case and instead felt the dirt of the path. I glanced up hurriedly to see that Mist had grabbed it and I smiled in relief. He unzipped the case and chose a Cheri Berry before zipping it back up and tossing it to me.
I caught it and checked on the amount we had left. I made a mental note to try and collect more soon then put it away and bit into my own sandwich. The ham and cheese was lukewarm and the condiments didn't taste that good on my tongue but I gritted my teeth and swallowed eating hurriedly while trying not to taste it.
When I finished I inhaled my water bottle making a face. Across from me Mist seemed to be having a similar problem. From behind him I saw another trainer heading up the road and as she approached she stopped she had silver hair and her dark purple eyes made me feel like I was drowning.
"Hello. What brings you this way?" I shook my head to clear it and said "We are headed back to Sinnoh. We just finished our lunch. I'm Max and this is Mist."
"I'm Riley. Care for a Pokémon Battle?" I stood up and said "Sure I'm game." She walked backwards until there was at least ten feet between us and Mist moved in front of me and stopped as we waited to see her Pokémon.
"Go Slowbro!" she shouted throwing a Pokeball. It landed and a pink Pokemon with a vacant looking stare appeared. It appeared to have some type of shell on its tail and the eyes there glared fiercely at us.
"Amnesia" she shouted and Slowbro still stared at us. I looked at Mist and he glanced back at me. "Use Aura Sphere!" Mist nodded and made the sphere in his palm running forward.
"Jump!" Slowbro jumped at the last second and Mist unable to stop himself in time went underneath him. The aura sphere went flying past Riley and exploded a few feet behind her. She screamed then shouted. "Headbutt!"
Mist ate dirt as Slowbro slammed into him. He skidded forward a few feet and then got up looking a bit winded. Before he could move he was hit with another confusion attack and slammed back towards me.
He got up growling and formed two aura spheres in his paws but he seemed to be trembling from the exertion. _ I beleive in you Mist _ He smiled and then turned his attention to his opponent.
"Use Disable!" the move did work and Mist's Aura spheres fizzed out. _ Use Close Combat. Let them come to us first thought. _ Mist nodded and soon enough "Use Headbutt again!"
Slowbro ran forward with its head down ready to ram Mist. I waited until it was a step away. "NOW!" I shouted and Mist jumped over the charge and then rushed up behind it rapidly kicking and punching its back using its own momentum against it.
It fell to the ground and seemed to be struggling to get up. " Force Palm!" Mist obeyed and his attack slammed Slowbro deeper into the dirt where it stopped moving. "Oh no Slowbro!!!!" She returned her Pokemon and then grabbed another ball.
"You got lucky! Go Wobbuffett!" A blue blob with a black tail emerged from the Pokeball and stared at us. "Force Palm!" I shouted. "Counter!" Riley shouted and Mist flew backwards into my chest and we flew into the stones that we were at a few minuets before. I lost conciousness but I did feel Mist move off of me before I did.
(Mist)
I hurridley checked over my trainer and saw that he was only knocked out. I sighed with regret and then turned back to the battle. I can't use a physical move. So what happens when I use a special one? I moved back towards the battle field and used toxic attack. "Safeguard!" and it was covered in a green veil that blocked the thick poison.
I tried forming an Aura sphere again and this time it worked. I Formed a Second one and fired them both off before Riley said "Magic Coat" I barley managed to Stop them as they came rocketing back at double their initial strength.
I was pushed backwards towards my trainer before slamming both spheres into one giant one and with my last reserves of energy shooting it forward once more. Wobbeffet's magic coat had faded now and before his trainer could even open her mouth to issue another order he was blasted past her and she barley dodged, A large cloud of debris rose from the spot of impact and she ran to check on her partner as I turned and slowly made my way to Max sweat dripping from every pore of my body.
I felt like collapsing myself but I forced myself to keep moving towards Max. I made it to his side and grabbed his hand before collapsing against him.
(Riley)
I ran to Wobboffett to see that he was also knocked out. I glanced back at the Lucario and his trainer and saw them both out cold. I winced. _ "That wasn't supposed to happen. _ I thought to myself before returning Wobboffett and I sat beside them on the path waiting for them to wake up as I munched on a salad I had bought a few days ago.
When I finished I noticed that Max had started to stir. With a groan he sat up and winced visibly holding his head for several minuets before looking down at his partner and gently holding him in his arms. "Here." I handed over some cash since he won the match. He glanced up and then it must have clicked as he nodded and pocketed it.
"Lets get you to Ecruteak." I said and helped him up after packing away the remains of my meal.