It had been three days since Josh beat Flint. His Kakuna and Metapod had evolved into Beedrill and Butterfree. He had caught two Fearows and a Rattata and was getting close to the Mount Moon gym. Then suddenly a little balloon came out of the bushes and jumped at Josh. He looked closer and saw that it wasn't a balloon, but a pokemon. According to his pokedex, it was a Jigglypuff. "Wow, a Jigglypuff!" said Josh. "I'm gonna catch it. Squirtle, go! Use your water gun before it puts you to sleep!" Squirtle blasted Jigglypuff with water again and again. Josh eventually threw a pokeball at Jigglypuff. The pokeball shook, but Jigglypuff didn't escape. "Yes!" said Josh. "I got a Jigglypuff!" Josh headed on to the gym. He got there in about 20 minutes. There was a long line to battle the gymleader, so Josh went to the pokemart. He bought some more supplies and a book called, "The Big Book of Battle Tactics." Finally he was called to battle the gym leader. He stepped onto the battleground where the gymleader was waiting. "Mister, I challenge you to a pokemon batt-"said Josh as the gym leader cut him off. "Never call me mister!" yelled the gym leader. "My name is Seymour. Seymour the scientist! Next time I may not be so forgiving. Anyway, this will be a 2 on 2 battle. If you can beat me, you will receive the Comet badge." "Okay then. Squirtle, go!" "Lunareon, go!" "Skull bash!" "Meteor!" Squirtle lowered its head and charged at Lunareon. Squirtle dodged the giant meter that was coming at him and bashed Lunareon. "Water gun!" "Comet Speed!" Squirtle's water gun missed Lunareon, who was running so fast it was just a blur. Lunareon turned into a comet, and hit Squirtle at full speed. Squirtle was knocked off its feet. "Squirtle, bite it!" "Lunareon, sand-attack!" Squirtle just washed away the sand and bit Lunareon. Suddenly there was a flash of white light. When the light cleared, Squirtle was gone and in its place stood a Wartortle. "You've evolved!" exclaimed Josh. "Wartortle, tackle it!" Wartortle tackled Lunareon, who fainted. "Lunareon, return! Clefable, go! Double-slap!" "Wartortle, flash-flood!" Suddenly the arena was chin-deep in water. Wartortle discovered that the flood was no use because Clefable was just hovering over the water. It flew over to Wartortle and slapped it in the face two times. "Wartortle, tail whip!" Wartortle whacked Clefable into the water, who was drowning, but managed to fly out. Wartortle made the water disappear. "Okay Wartortle! Knock it out of the air with a water gun!" Clefable was knocked to the ground by the water, but wasn't fainted yet. "Clefable, Metronome!" Clefable shot an ice beam at Wartortle who was frozen solid. "Wartortle, return! Meowth, go! Fury swipes!" Meowth charged at Clefable in a blind fury and gave it some very nasty gashes. Clefable had almost fainted. "Meowth, finish it off with a slash!" "Sing it to sleep!" Meowth rushed at Clefable before it had a chance to start its song. Clefable got a deep gash in the face and fainted. "I can't believe you beat Lunareon and Clefable!" said Seymour. "Oh well, I guess you've earned the Comet Badge. Here ya go." "Yes! That's 3 badges!" said Josh. He headed over to the pokemon center to heal his pokemon. But right before he left, Nurse Joy stopped him. "Wait! I need to ask you a favor," said Nurse Joy. "Some trainer abandoned a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Oddish and I need some one to take care of them. Will you take them with you on your journey?" "Will I!?" said Josh. "Of course! I need all of those pokemon anyway. So Josh excepted the pokemon and continued his journey to Mt. Moon. Are the 6 new pokemon that Josh got any good? Will Josh pump them up to be fighting machines? Will Josh encounter Team Rocket in Mt. Moon? Find out all this and more by reading on! Chapter 9-Jesse and James
Josh had just arrived in Mt. Moon. It was sort of like an abandoned mine shaft, but without the lights and wood and a lot bigger. Josh used Growlithe and Charmander as his "torches". He had encountered a few trainers, and he beat all of them. "Aren't there supposed to be Clefairys in this place?" asked Charmander, "Because I sure don't see any." "Well, they're very rare, so don't expect much," replied Josh. "Only about an eighth of the trainers that pass through here even see them. But who knows, we might get lucky." They walked on for a half-hour when they saw a pokemon hop down one of the paths. "Hey, that pokemon looks like a small version of Clefable," said. "I wonder what it is-, hey! That's a Clefairy! Charmander, go! Fire-storm!" Charmander started spinning around in circles and little balls of fire came out of its tail. They went to the top of the cave and started coming down like rain onto the Clefairy. The Clefairy somehow dodged all of the flames and jumped down the path. "Darn, it got away," said Josh. He took a step forward, but then suddenly he tripped over an issue of the Mt. Moon times. "Oof!" grunted Josh as he hit the floor. He got up and saw the newspaper that had tripped him and was about to rip it up in his anger when suddenly an article caught his eye. It said: WARNING! Team Rocket squads have broken out of jail all over the nation. Be on the lookout for squads. They'll usually be a male and female with white/black clothing and a theme pokemon, sometimes a talking Meowth. If you see any, report to the nearest police station or call this number: (555)-555-5555 Suddenly Josh heard a cry from Clefairy. It sounded like a cry of terror. He also heard another voice say: "Hey Clefairy, remember your buddy Meowth? Well I remember you. I remember that we have a score to settle!" Josh ran on the path that Clefairy had gone. He ran for about a minute when suddenly he saw two figures and a talking Meowth aiming a tranquilizer gun and cornering the Clefairy. He figured it was Team Rocket, and when he got closer and saw the R's on their shirts, his suspicions were confirmed. He tried to sneak up on them, but he accidentally kicked a rock that echoed off the stone floor. "Hey, did you here something?" said the Meowth. "Yeah, and it was probably your stomach. Just hand me those tranquilizer darts-Ahhh!" said the female as the Meowth scratched her in the face. "That's for saying it was my stomach," said the Meowth. "Why you little rat, I'd shoot you with the tranquilizer gun, but you'd probably snore! Now give me those darts, you dirty cat!" "Jesse, I'm getting tired of holding this cage. Why can't you hold it?" whined the male. "Because I'm carrying the gun, you bonehead! Now be quiet or I'll turn Arbok on you!" "You can't threaten me! I've got Weezing, and he's much stronger than your puny Arbok!" "What!?! Arbok could beat Weezing any day!" "They're both weaklings!" said Meowth as he scratched both of the Rockets in the face. "I'm the only strong pokemon here! Hey wait a minute, I just heard another noise. It's coming from over there!" Meowth pointed to the shadow that Josh was hiding in. "Hey! There's some nosy pokemon trainer in the bushes! Let's steal his pokemon!" said Meowth. The Clefairy was momentarily forgotten. "Okay!" said the female. "But first, the motto." The female took a mini Walkman out of her pocket and music began to play. "To protect the world from devastation!" said the female. "To unite all peoples within our nation!" said the male. "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" "To extend our reach to the stars above!" "Jesse!" "James!" "Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" "Surrender now or prepare to fight!" "Meowth, that's right!" "Arbok, Lickitung, go!" said Jesse. "Weezing, Meowth, go!" said James. "Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, Mew, go!" said Josh. "Bite to Charmander and tongue-wrap to Bulbasaur!" "Sludge to Wartortle and slash to Mew!" "Charmander, dodge Arbok and get Team rocket with fire- storm! Bulbasaur, poisonpowder on Lickitung's tongue! War-tortle, dodge the sludge and give Weezing a water gun! Mew, confusion to Meowth!" Arbok tried to bite Charmander, but Charmander just hopped out of the way. Then a cloud formed over Jesse, James, and their pokemon. Little balls of fire came out of the cloud and burned Arbok, as well as Team Rocket and the rest of their pokemon. Likitung wrapped up Bulbasaur its tongue, who shot some powder out of its bulb onto Likitung. Likitung instantly withdrew its tongue and slipped after Bulbasaur tackled it. Meanwhile, Weezing shot some sludge straight at Wartortle, who countered with a water gun. The water hit the sludge and knocked Weezing out of the air. Meowth, in its confusion, didn't slash Mew but instead got Weezing who went out cold. The air was full of pokemon battle cries, and they were especially loud because they echoed off the stone walls. It was now Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, and Mew vs. Lickitung and Weezing who was being attacked by Meowth. Mew just used psychic and Meowth was really weakened. Bulbasaur vine-whipped Lickitung and it fainted. "Arrgh!" yelled Jesse in anger. "Arbok, Likitung, return!" "Weezing, smog, then return! C'mon, Meowth, lets go!" It was impossible to see through Weezing's smog and Team Rocket got away with the tranquilizer gun, the darts, and the net. All this time the scared Clefairy was watching from behind a rock. As Josh was about to continue through Mt. Moon, Clefairy ran up to Josh. "Wait!" said Clefairy. "You saved me from those mean people and you seem like a good trainer. Can I come with you on your journey?" "Of course!" said Josh. Clefairy hopped into the pokeball and Josh continued on. Will Josh encounter Team Rocket again? If they do, will Clefairy be brave and stand up for itself? Also if they do, will Josh be able to beat them? To find out all this and more just read on! Chapter 10-Mankey Madness
Josh had just gotten out of Mt. Moon. While inside he had caught a Paras and he was headed to Cerulean City. Finally, it was time for lunch. Josh was just about to eat when a pokemon came out of the bushes. "Pokedex, identify," commanded Josh to his pokedex. "Mankey," it said. "Pig-monkey pokemon. Extremely quick to anger. It could be docile one moment, then thrashing the next." "Mankey!" it said. Josh decided that it was hungry, so he gave it a piece of bread. Mankey took it and gobbled it down. Suddenly Mankey jumped on Josh and took his shoes and his hat, and one of his pokeballs. "Hey, give those back!" yelled Josh. But Mankey just jumped out of reach. It put the shoes and the hat on and started dancing around. Apparently it was trying to do an imitation of Josh. Mankey took the pokeball and threw it, pretending he was Josh. This made Josh really mad, and he told Eevee to jump over and snag the hat in its mouth. Eevee thought that maybe it should use leer first and then while Mankey was weak get the hat and get away from Mankey as fast as he could. Eevee used leer and stared Mankey straight in the eyes, forgetting that it is suicide to do so. Mankey saw what Eevee was doing and came for Eevee. "Oh no! Eevee, never look a Mankey or a Primeape in the eyes! Never!" screamed Josh. "Oops," said Eevee. "Sorry." "Don't be! Just run!" yelled Josh. "Everyone into their pokeballs except for Scyther. Scyther, since the fastest pokemon that I can ride on, I'm going to need to ride you." "Okay," said Scyther. "Hop on!" Josh started flying on Scyther. Even though Scyther would normally be faster than Mankey, there were lots of twists and turns in the path and little mountains. Scyther couldn't go its top speed because it might fly off the path and get lost or crash into one of the mountains. Mankey was gaining on Josh and Scyther little by little. Mankey had abandoned the shoes, and Josh called out Bulbasaur to get them. When Mankey saw josh get his shoes back, he got very, very angry. In fact he got so angry, he evolved into Primeape! Primeape could run much faster then Mankey, so now Primeape was getting closer to Josh and Scyther by the second. Finally Josh realized that sooner or later Primeape would catch them. Josh got off Scyther and faced Primeape, who still had on the hat and had the pokeball. "Bulbasaur, go!" he said. "Razor leaf!" Primeape just batted away the leaves and gave Bulbasaur a karate chop. "Vinewhip, then solar beam!" Bulbasaur tried to hit Primeape with its vines, but Primeape grabbed them. Then Primeape swung Bulbasaur by the vines around and around and then let go. It had used seismic toss. Bulbasaur warmed up for solar beam. Primeape almost mega punched Bulbasaur, but Bulbasaur shot a powerful beam at Primeape. It injured it, but didn't make it faint. Primeape fainted Bulbasaur with scratch. "Bulbasaur, return! Charmander, go! Fire spin!" Charmander tried fire spin, but Primeape jumped out of the way just in time. "Flame-thrower!" Charmander breathed a massive amount of fire at Primeape. This also weakened it, but Primeape didn't faint. It gave Charmander its fury swipes and followed through with seismic toss. "Charmander, return! Mew, go! Psywave!" Mew shot some psychic waves at Primeape and it wobbled around blindly. "Mew, Psybeam!" Mew shot the beam straight at Primeapes face who flew backwards. "Pokeball, go!" The pokeball hit Primeape and it was sucked in. The ball shook once, twice, and then stopped. Josh had caught Primeape! "Yes! I got Primeape!" said the enthusiastic Josh. Josh could see Cerulean City already. He was almost there. Will Josh get to Cerulean City safely? Will he be able to control Primeape? Will Josh ever get that pokeball he lost? You can find out all this and more. Just read on! Chapter 11-Leafeon and the Cascade Badge
Josh arrived at the Cerulean City pokemon center. It was about 9:45, and the gym had already closed. Josh went to bed. He needed to be rested in the morning if he wanted to get the Cascade badge and start off to Freezer Mountain. It was the next day. Josh was in line to battle the Cerulean Sisters. He went in the pokemart and bought a Lapras. It was expensive, but Josh could just barely afford it. While he was waiting, he started reading the book he had gotten at the Mt. Moon gym. Also, his Eevees confronted him and said that they wanted to evolve, so he evolved all 10 of his Eevees into the 10 evolution forms. According to his pokedex, 1/3 of the population of Eevee's has special DNA that allows it to evolve into Spectreon when exposed to the mist stone and the other two thirds has DNA that allows it to evolve into Freezeon, making Spectreon the rarest Eevee evolution. He also managed to give the Eevees forms that they wanted so they were all happy. Here is a list of the forms and what stone it took to get them. Flareon......................Fire Stone Jolteon......................Thunder Stone Vaporeon...................Water Stone Ultreon......................Fire, Thunder, & Water Stones Leafeon......................Leaf Stone Lunareon....................Moon Stone Wingeon.....................Flight Stone Psyconeon...................Mind Stone Spectreon....................Mist Stone Freezeon.....................Mist Stone Finally the receptionist, whose nametag said Jenna, called Josh's number. Before he went into the arena, he asked the receptionist, "By any chance, do you have a bunch of twin sisters who are all receptionists at gyms and are all named Jenna?" "Don't ask," muttered the receptionist. Josh stepped into the arena, which was a swimming pool with a couple of platforms for the trainers and the pokemon and saw three people returning from the showroom. "Are you the Cerulean Sisters?" asked Josh. "Like, yeah, that's us," replied the oldest one. "Do you, like, want an autograph? Or are you a reporter? Cause, like, we don't do interviews on such short notice. We have, like, a busy schedule." "Well actually," said Josh, "I wanted a pokemon battle with the gymleader." "Ohhh," said the oldest one. Then, pointing to the youngest one she said, "Why don't you battle him?" "Okay!" said the youngest one, who's name was Daisy. "This will be a 2 on 2 battle. Staru, go!" "Leafeon, go! "Water gun!" "Vine whip!" The water hit Leafeon, but hardly did anything to it. It absorbed most of the water and wrapped up Staru in its vines. Then it pounded Staru against one of the platforms over and over again. Finally, Staru managed to escape the vines. "Tackle!" "Leech seed, then razor leaf!" Staru was hit by the seed in mid jump and landed on the middle platform. While it was down, Leafeon used razor leaf on the Staru. Staru fainted. "Staru, return! Vaporeon, go!" "Leafeon, solar beam!" "Vaporeon, take down!" Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon. It had almost landed on the platform when Leafeon suddenly shot a giant beam at Vaporeon. Vaporeon flew in the direction that it had come from and hit the far platform. "Vaporeon, do the same thing again, except use the reflect TM that I taught you!" Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon. This time when Leafeon shot the beam at Vaporeon it bounced off the reflector shield. Vapor-eon landed on Leafeon and ripped off some of the leaves that were growing on its body. "Counter attack!" said Josh. Leafeon stuck its head up and bit Vaporeon in the face. Vaporeon staggered back. "Leech seed and then double kick!" "Acid armor and then body slam!" Leafeon shot a seed at Vaporeon as it was doing acid armor. The seed started to slowly drain Vaporeon's energy. Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon but Leafeon kicked it in mid-air and it landed out of the pool, which was out of bounds. "Dang!" said Daisy. "Beaten!" She clapped her hands and a Seel came. It opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue. Daisy picked up the Cascade badge that lay there and gave it to Josh. He left the gym and headed for Freezer Mountain. He heard that there were Articuno there, so he was anxious to go. Will Josh get to Freezer Mountain? Will he catch an Articuno if he does get there? And will he get any other ice pokemon? You can find out all this and more by reading the rest of the story! Chapter 12-Rescuing Articuno
Josh had arrived at Freezer Mountain and had started the climb up the steep trail to the Ice city gym. He had been climbing for several hours and it was getting late. Josh saw a cave and decided to stop in it for the night. After he set up his little "bed" he heard a loud screeching sound. It sounded like this: "CuuuuNOOOOO!" Josh woke up with a start and tried to find the source of the sound. He decided to get up and look for it, but he couldn't move his feet. He looked down and saw that his feet were frozen solid! "What the-, Growlithe, melt the ice." "Okay, but would you mind telling me why your feet are frozen solid?" "I'd tell you if I knew, believe me, but right now just do it!" "Alright, alright, don't be so pushy," said Growlithe as he burnt the ice. "Okay, that over with. Now time to find the source of that sound," said Josh. "C'mon, lets go." Josh started walking through the cave. He didn't know what he would find, but he was hoping for some kind of pokemon. He walked even deeper. Josh had been walking for about an hour. Suddenly he felt something cold on his arm. "First your feet, now your arm, what next?" said Growlithe. "What do you mean?" asked Josh. "I mean now your arm is frozen. Here, I'll take care of it," replied Growlithe as he shot some flames at Josh's arm. The ice quickly melted. Chapter 8-The Comet Badge It had been three days since Josh beat Flint. His Kakuna and Metapod had evolved into Beedrill and Butterfree. He had caught two Fearows and a Rattata and was getting close to the Mount Moon gym. Then suddenly a little balloon came out of the bushes and jumped at Josh. He looked closer and saw that it wasn't a balloon, but a pokemon. According to his pokedex, it was a Jigglypuff. "Wow, a Jigglypuff!" said Josh. "I'm gonna catch it. Squirtle, go! Use your water gun before it puts you to sleep!" Squirtle blasted Jigglypuff with water again and again. Josh eventually threw a pokeball at Jigglypuff. The pokeball shook, but Jigglypuff didn't escape. "Yes!" said Josh. "I got a Jigglypuff!" Josh headed on to the gym. He got there in about 20 minutes. There was a long line to battle the gymleader, so Josh went to the pokemart. He bought some more supplies and a book called, "The Big Book of Battle Tactics." Finally he was called to battle the gym leader. He stepped onto the battleground where the gymleader was waiting. "Mister, I challenge you to a pokemon batt-"said Josh as the gym leader cut him off. "Never call me mister!" yelled the gym leader. "My name is Seymour. Seymour the scientist! Next time I may not be so forgiving. Anyway, this will be a 2 on 2 battle. If you can beat me, you will receive the Comet badge." "Okay then. Squirtle, go!" "Lunareon, go!" "Skull bash!" "Meteor!" Squirtle lowered its head and charged at Lunareon. Squirtle dodged the giant meter that was coming at him and bashed Lunareon. "Water gun!" "Comet Speed!" Squirtle's water gun missed Lunareon, who was running so fast it was just a blur. Lunareon turned into a comet, and hit Squirtle at full speed. Squirtle was knocked off its feet. "Squirtle, bite it!" "Lunareon, sand-attack!" Squirtle just washed away the sand and bit Lunareon. Suddenly there was a flash of white light. When the light cleared, Squirtle was gone and in its place stood a Wartortle. "You've evolved!" exclaimed Josh. "Wartortle, tackle it!" Wartortle tackled Lunareon, who fainted. "Lunareon, return! Clefable, go! Double-slap!" "Wartortle, flash-flood!" Suddenly the arena was chin-deep in water. Wartortle discovered that the flood was no use because Clefable was just hovering over the water. It flew over to Wartortle and slapped it in the face two times. "Wartortle, tail whip!" Wartortle whacked Clefable into the water, who was drowning, but managed to fly out. Wartortle made the water disappear. "Okay Wartortle! Knock it out of the air with a water gun!" Clefable was knocked to the ground by the water, but wasn't fainted yet. "Clefable, Metronome!" Clefable shot an ice beam at Wartortle who was frozen solid. "Wartortle, return! Meowth, go! Fury swipes!" Meowth charged at Clefable in a blind fury and gave it some very nasty gashes. Clefable had almost fainted. "Meowth, finish it off with a slash!" "Sing it to sleep!" Meowth rushed at Clefable before it had a chance to start its song. Clefable got a deep gash in the face and fainted. "I can't believe you beat Lunareon and Clefable!" said Seymour. "Oh well, I guess you've earned the Comet Badge. Here ya go." "Yes! That's 3 badges!" said Josh. He headed over to the pokemon center to heal his pokemon. But right before he left, Nurse Joy stopped him. "Wait! I need to ask you a favor," said Nurse Joy. "Some trainer abandoned a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Oddish and I need some one to take care of them. Will you take them with you on your journey?" "Will I!?" said Josh. "Of course! I need all of those pokemon anyway. So Josh excepted the pokemon and continued his journey to Mt. Moon. Are the 6 new pokemon that Josh got any good? Will Josh pump them up to be fighting machines? Will Josh encounter Team Rocket in Mt. Moon? Find out all this and more by reading on! Chapter 9-Jesse and James Josh had just arrived in Mt. Moon. It was sort of like an abandoned mine shaft, but without the lights and wood and a lot bigger. Josh used Growlithe and Charmander as his "torches". He had encountered a few trainers, and he beat all of them. "Aren't there supposed to be Clefairys in this place?" asked Charmander, "Because I sure don't see any." "Well, they're very rare, so don't expect much," replied Josh. "Only about an eighth of the trainers that pass through here even see them. But who knows, we might get lucky." They walked on for a half-hour when they saw a pokemon hop down one of the paths. "Hey, that pokemon looks like a small version of Clefable," said. "I wonder what it is-, hey! That's a Clefairy! Charmander, go! Fire-storm!" Charmander started spinning around in circles and little balls of fire came out of its tail. They went to the top of the cave and started coming down like rain onto the Clefairy. The Clefairy somehow dodged all of the flames and jumped down the path. "Darn, it got away," said Josh. He took a step forward, but then suddenly he tripped over an issue of the Mt. Moon times. "Oof!" grunted Josh as he hit the floor. He got up and saw the newspaper that had tripped him and was about to rip it up in his anger when suddenly an article caught his eye. It said: WARNING! Team Rocket squads have broken out of jail all over the nation. Be on the lookout for squads. They'll usually be a male and female with white/black clothing and a theme pokemon, sometimes a talking Meowth. If you see any, report to the nearest police station or call this number: (555)-555-5555 Suddenly Josh heard a cry from Clefairy. It sounded like a cry of terror. He also heard another voice say: "Hey Clefairy, remember your buddy Meowth? Well I remember you. I remember that we have a score to settle!" Josh ran on the path that Clefairy had gone. He ran for about a minute when suddenly he saw two figures and a talking Meowth aiming a tranquilizer gun and cornering the Clefairy. He figured it was Team Rocket, and when he got closer and saw the R's on their shirts, his suspicions were confirmed. He tried to sneak up on them, but he accidentally kicked a rock that echoed off the stone floor. "Hey, did you here something?" said the Meowth. "Yeah, and it was probably your stomach. Just hand me those tranquilizer darts-Ahhh!" said the female as the Meowth scratched her in the face. "That's for saying it was my stomach," said the Meowth. "Why you little rat, I'd shoot you with the tranquilizer gun, but you'd probably snore! Now give me those darts, you dirty cat!" "Jesse, I'm getting tired of holding this cage. Why can't you hold it?" whined the male. "Because I'm carrying the gun, you bonehead! Now be quiet or I'll turn Arbok on you!" "You can't threaten me! I've got Weezing, and he's much stronger than your puny Arbok!" "What!?! Arbok could beat Weezing any day!" "They're both weaklings!" said Meowth as he scratched both of the Rockets in the face. "I'm the only strong pokemon here! Hey wait a minute, I just heard another noise. It's coming from over there!" Meowth pointed to the shadow that Josh was hiding in. "Hey! There's some nosy pokemon trainer in the bushes! Let's steal his pokemon!" said Meowth. The Clefairy was momentarily forgotten. "Okay!" said the female. "But first, the motto." The female took a mini Walkman out of her pocket and music began to play. "To protect the world from devastation!" said the female. "To unite all peoples within our nation!" said the male. "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" "To extend our reach to the stars above!" "Jesse!" "James!" "Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" "Surrender now or prepare to fight!" "Meowth, that's right!" "Arbok, Lickitung, go!" said Jesse. "Weezing, Meowth, go!" said James. "Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, Mew, go!" said Josh. "Bite to Charmander and tongue-wrap to Bulbasaur!" "Sludge to Wartortle and slash to Mew!" "Charmander, dodge Arbok and get Team rocket with fire- storm! Bulbasaur, poisonpowder on Lickitung's tongue! War-tortle, dodge the sludge and give Weezing a water gun! Mew, confusion to Meowth!" Arbok tried to bite Charmander, but Charmander just hopped out of the way. Then a cloud formed over Jesse, James, and their pokemon. Little balls of fire came out of the cloud and burned Arbok, as well as Team Rocket and the rest of their pokemon. Likitung wrapped up Bulbasaur its tongue, who shot some powder out of its bulb onto Likitung. Likitung instantly withdrew its tongue and slipped after Bulbasaur tackled it. Meanwhile, Weezing shot some sludge straight at Wartortle, who countered with a water gun. The water hit the sludge and knocked Weezing out of the air. Meowth, in its confusion, didn't slash Mew but instead got Weezing who went out cold. The air was full of pokemon battle cries, and they were especially loud because they echoed off the stone walls. It was now Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, and Mew vs. Lickitung and Weezing who was being attacked by Meowth. Mew just used psychic and Meowth was really weakened. Bulbasaur vine-whipped Lickitung and it fainted. "Arrgh!" yelled Jesse in anger. "Arbok, Likitung, return!" "Weezing, smog, then return! C'mon, Meowth, lets go!" It was impossible to see through Weezing's smog and Team Rocket got away with the tranquilizer gun, the darts, and the net. All this time the scared Clefairy was watching from behind a rock. As Josh was about to continue through Mt. Moon, Clefairy ran up to Josh. "Wait!" said Clefairy. "You saved me from those mean people and you seem like a good trainer. Can I come with you on your journey?" "Of course!" said Josh. Clefairy hopped into the pokeball and Josh continued on. Will Josh encounter Team Rocket again? If they do, will Clefairy be brave and stand up for itself? Also if they do, will Josh be able to beat them? To find out all this and more just read on! Chapter 10-Mankey Madness Josh had just gotten out of Mt. Moon. While inside he had caught a Paras and he was headed to Cerulean City. Finally, it was time for lunch. Josh was just about to eat when a pokemon came out of the bushes. "Pokedex, identify," commanded Josh to his pokedex. "Mankey," it said. "Pig-monkey pokemon. Extremely quick to anger. It could be docile one moment, then thrashing the next." "Mankey!" it said. Josh decided that it was hungry, so he gave it a piece of bread. Mankey took it and gobbled it down. Suddenly Mankey jumped on Josh and took his shoes and his hat, and one of his pokeballs. "Hey, give those back!" yelled Josh. But Mankey just jumped out of reach. It put the shoes and the hat on and started dancing around. Apparently it was trying to do an imitation of Josh. Mankey took the pokeball and threw it, pretending he was Josh. This made Josh really mad, and he told Eevee to jump over and snag the hat in its mouth. Eevee thought that maybe it should use leer first and then while Mankey was weak get the hat and get away from Mankey as fast as he could. Eevee used leer and stared Mankey straight in the eyes, forgetting that it is suicide to do so. Mankey saw what Eevee was doing and came for Eevee. "Oh no! Eevee, never look a Mankey or a Primeape in the eyes! Never!" screamed Josh. "Oops," said Eevee. "Sorry." "Don't be! Just run!" yelled Josh. "Everyone into their pokeballs except for Scyther. Scyther, since the fastest pokemon that I can ride on, I'm going to need to ride you." "Okay," said Scyther. "Hop on!" Josh started flying on Scyther. Even though Scyther would normally be faster than Mankey, there were lots of twists and turns in the path and little mountains. Scyther couldn't go its top speed because it might fly off the path and get lost or crash into one of the mountains. Mankey was gaining on Josh and Scyther little by little. Mankey had abandoned the shoes, and Josh called out Bulbasaur to get them. When Mankey saw josh get his shoes back, he got very, very angry. In fact he got so angry, he evolved into Primeape! Primeape could run much faster then Mankey, so now Primeape was getting closer to Josh and Scyther by the second. Finally Josh realized that sooner or later Primeape would catch them. Josh got off Scyther and faced Primeape, who still had on the hat and had the pokeball. "Bulbasaur, go!" he said. "Razor leaf!" Primeape just batted away the leaves and gave Bulbasaur a karate chop. "Vinewhip, then solar beam!" Bulbasaur tried to hit Primeape with its vines, but Primeape grabbed them. Then Primeape swung Bulbasaur by the vines around and around and then let go. It had used seismic toss. Bulbasaur warmed up for solar beam. Primeape almost mega punched Bulbasaur, but Bulbasaur shot a powerful beam at Primeape. It injured it, but didn't make it faint. Primeape fainted Bulbasaur with scratch. "Bulbasaur, return! Charmander, go! Fire spin!" Charmander tried fire spin, but Primeape jumped out of the way just in time. "Flame-thrower!" Charmander breathed a massive amount of fire at Primeape. This also weakened it, but Primeape didn't faint. It gave Charmander its fury swipes and followed through with seismic toss. "Charmander, return! Mew, go! Psywave!" Mew shot some psychic waves at Primeape and it wobbled around blindly. "Mew, Psybeam!" Mew shot the beam straight at Primeapes face who flew backwards. "Pokeball, go!" The pokeball hit Primeape and it was sucked in. The ball shook once, twice, and then stopped. Josh had caught Primeape! "Yes! I got Primeape!" said the enthusiastic Josh. Josh could see Cerulean City already. He was almost there. Will Josh get to Cerulean City safely? Will he be able to control Primeape? Will Josh ever get that pokeball he lost? You can find out all this and more. Just read on! Chapter 11-Leafeon and the Cascade Badge Josh arrived at the Cerulean City pokemon center. It was about 9:45, and the gym had already closed. Josh went to bed. He needed to be rested in the morning if he wanted to get the Cascade badge and start off to Freezer Mountain. ***************************************************************** It was the next day. Josh was in line to battle the Cerulean Sisters. He went in the pokemart and bought a Lapras. It was expensive, but Josh could just barely afford it. While he was waiting, he started reading the book he had gotten at the Mt. Moon gym. Also, his Eevees confronted him and said that they wanted to evolve, so he evolved all 10 of his Eevees into the 10 evolution forms. According to his pokedex, 1/3 of the population of Eevee's has special DNA that allows it to evolve into Spectreon when exposed to the mist stone and the other two thirds has DNA that allows it to evolve into Freezeon, making Spectreon the rarest Eevee evolution. He also managed to give the Eevees forms that they wanted so they were all happy. Here is a list of the forms and what stone it took to get them. Flareon......................Fire Stone Jolteon......................Thunder Stone Vaporeon...................Water Stone Ultreon......................Fire, Thunder, & Water Stones Leafeon......................Leaf Stone Lunareon....................Moon Stone Wingeon.....................Flight Stone Psyconeon...................Mind Stone Spectreon....................Mist Stone Freezeon.....................Mist Stone Finally the receptionist, whose nametag said Jenna, called Josh's number. Before he went into the arena, he asked the receptionist, "By any chance, do you have a bunch of twin sisters who are all receptionists at gyms and are all named Jenna?" "Don't ask," muttered the receptionist. Josh stepped into the arena, which was a swimming pool with a couple of platforms for the trainers and the pokemon and saw three people returning from the showroom. "Are you the Cerulean Sisters?" asked Josh. "Like, yeah, that's us," replied the oldest one. "Do you, like, want an autograph? Or are you a reporter? Cause, like, we don't do interviews on such short notice. We have, like, a busy schedule." "Well actually," said Josh, "I wanted a pokemon battle with the gymleader." "Ohhh," said the oldest one. Then, pointing to the youngest one she said, "Why don't you battle him?" "Okay!" said the youngest one, who's name was Daisy. "This will be a 2 on 2 battle. Staru, go!" "Leafeon, go! "Water gun!" "Vine whip!" The water hit Leafeon, but hardly did anything to it. It absorbed most of the water and wrapped up Staru in its vines. Then it pounded Staru against one of the platforms over and over again. Finally, Staru managed to escape the vines. "Tackle!" "Leech seed, then razor leaf!" Staru was hit by the seed in mid jump and landed on the middle platform. While it was down, Leafeon used razor leaf on the Staru. Staru fainted. "Staru, return! Vaporeon, go!" "Leafeon, solar beam!" "Vaporeon, take down!" Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon. It had almost landed on the platform when Leafeon suddenly shot a giant beam at Vaporeon. Vaporeon flew in the direction that it had come from and hit the far platform. "Vaporeon, do the same thing again, except use the reflect TM that I taught you!" Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon. This time when Leafeon shot the beam at Vaporeon it bounced off the reflector shield. Vapor-eon landed on Leafeon and ripped off some of the leaves that were growing on its body. "Counter attack!" said Josh. Leafeon stuck its head up and bit Vaporeon in the face. Vaporeon staggered back. "Leech seed and then double kick!" "Acid armor and then body slam!" Leafeon shot a seed at Vaporeon as it was doing acid armor. The seed started to slowly drain Vaporeon's energy. Vaporeon jumped at Leafeon but Leafeon kicked it in mid-air and it landed out of the pool, which was out of bounds. "Dang!" said Daisy. "Beaten!" She clapped her hands and a Seel came. It opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue. Daisy picked up the Cascade badge that lay there and gave it to Josh. He left the gym and headed for Freezer Mountain. He heard that there were Articuno there, so he was anxious to go. Will Josh get to Freezer Mountain? Will he catch an Articuno if he does get there? And will he get any other ice pokemon? You can find out all this and more by reading the rest of the story! Chapter 12-Rescuing Articuno Josh had arrived at Freezer Mountain and had started the climb up the steep trail to the Ice city gym. He had been climbing for several hours and it was getting late. Josh saw a cave and decided to stop in it for the night. After he set up his little "bed" he heard a loud screeching sound. It sounded like this: "CuuuuNOOOOO!" Josh woke up with a start and tried to find the source of the sound. He decided to get up and look for it, but he couldn't move his feet. He looked down and saw that his feet were frozen solid! "What the-, Growlithe, melt the ice." "Okay, but would you mind telling me why your feet are frozen solid?" "I'd tell you if I knew, believe me, but right now just do it!" "Alright, alright, don't be so pushy," said Growlithe as he burnt the ice. "Okay, that over with. Now time to find the source of that sound," said Josh. "C'mon, lets go." Josh started walking through the cave. He didn't know what he would find, but he was hoping for some kind of pokemon. He walked even deeper. Josh had been walking for about an hour. Suddenly he felt something cold on his arm. "First your feet, now your arm, what next?" said Growlithe. "What do you mean?" asked Josh. "I mean now your arm is frozen. Here, I'll take care of it," replied Growlithe as he shot some flames at Josh's arm. The ice quickly melted. Chapter 8-The Comet Badge It had been three days since Josh beat Flint. His Kakuna and Metapod had evolved into Beedrill and Butterfree. He had caught two Fearows and a Rattata and was getting close to the Mount Moon gym. Then suddenly a little balloon came out of the bushes and jumped at Josh. He looked closer and saw that it wasn't a balloon, but a pokemon. According to his pokedex, it was a Jigglypuff. "Wow, a Jigglypuff!" said Josh. "I'm gonna catch it. Squirtle, go! Use your water gun before it puts you to sleep!" Squirtle blasted Jigglypuff with water again and again. Josh eventually threw a pokeball at Jigglypuff. The pokeball shook, but Jigglypuff didn't escape. "Yes!" said Josh. "I got a Jigglypuff!" Josh headed on to the gym. He got there in about 20 minutes. There was a long line to battle the gymleader, so Josh went to the pokemart. He bought some more supplies and a book called, "The Big Book of Battle Tactics." Finally he was called to battle the gym leader. He stepped onto the battleground where the gymleader was waiting. "Mister, I challenge you to a pokemon batt-"said Josh as the gym leader cut him off. "Never call me mister!" yelled the gym leader. "My name is Seymour. Seymour the scientist! Next time I may not be so forgiving. Anyway, this will be a 2 on 2 battle. If you can beat me, you will receive the Comet badge." "Okay then. Squirtle, go!" "Lunareon, go!" "Skull bash!" "Meteor!" Squirtle lowered its head and charged at Lunareon. Squirtle dodged the giant meter that was coming at him and bashed Lunareon. "Water gun!" "Comet Speed!" Squirtle's water gun missed Lunareon, who was running so fast it was just a blur. Lunareon turned into a comet, and hit Squirtle at full speed. Squirtle was knocked off its feet. "Squirtle, bite it!" "Lunareon, sand-attack!" Squirtle just washed away the sand and bit Lunareon. Suddenly there was a flash of white light. When the light cleared, Squirtle was gone and in its place stood a Wartortle. "You've evolved!" exclaimed Josh. "Wartortle, tackle it!" Wartortle tackled Lunareon, who fainted. "Lunareon, return! Clefable, go! Double-slap!" "Wartortle, flash-flood!" Suddenly the arena was chin-deep in water. Wartortle discovered that the flood was no use because Clefable was just hovering over the water. It flew over to Wartortle and slapped it in the face two times. "Wartortle, tail whip!" Wartortle whacked Clefable into the water, who was drowning, but managed to fly out. Wartortle made the water disappear. "Okay Wartortle! Knock it out of the air with a water gun!" Clefable was knocked to the ground by the water, but wasn't fainted yet. "Clefable, Metronome!" Clefable shot an ice beam at Wartortle who was frozen solid. "Wartortle, return! Meowth, go! Fury swipes!" Meowth charged at Clefable in a blind fury and gave it some very nasty gashes. Clefable had almost fainted. "Meowth, finish it off with a slash!" "Sing it to sleep!" Meowth rushed at Clefable before it had a chance to start its song. Clefable got a deep gash in the face and fainted. "I can't believe you beat Lunareon and Clefable!" said Seymour. "Oh well, I guess you've earned the Comet Badge. Here ya go." "Yes! That's 3 badges!" said Josh. He headed over to the pokemon center to heal his pokemon. But right before he left, Nurse Joy stopped him. "Wait! I need to ask you a favor," said Nurse Joy. "Some trainer abandoned a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Oddish and I need some one to take care of them. Will you take them with you on your journey?" "Will I!?" said Josh. "Of course! I need all of those pokemon anyway. So Josh excepted the pokemon and continued his journey to Mt. Moon. Are the 6 new pokemon that Josh got any good? Will Josh pump them up to be fighting machines? Will Josh encounter Team Rocket in Mt. Moon? Find out all this and more by reading on! Chapter 9-Jesse and James Josh had just arrived in Mt. Moon. It was sort of like an abandoned mine shaft, but without the lights and wood and a lot bigger. Josh used Growlithe and Charmander as his "torches". He had encountered a few trainers, and he beat all of them. "Aren't there supposed to be Clefairys in this place?" asked Charmander, "Because I sure don't see any." "Well, they're very rare, so don't expect much," replied Josh. "Only about an eighth of the trainers that pass through here even see them. But who knows, we might get lucky." They walked on for a half-hour when they saw a pokemon hop down one of the paths. "Hey, that pokemon looks like a small version of Clefable," said. "I wonder what it is-, hey! That's a Clefairy! Charmander, go! Fire-storm!" Charmander started spinning around in circles and little balls of fire came out of its tail. They went to the top of the cave and started coming down like rain onto the Clefairy. The Clefairy somehow dodged all of the flames and jumped down the path. "Darn, it got away," said Josh. He took a step forward, but then suddenly he tripped over an issue of the Mt. Moon times. "Oof!" grunted Josh as he hit the floor. He got up and saw the newspaper that had tripped him and was about to rip it up in his anger when suddenly an article caught his eye. It said: WARNING! Team Rocket squads have broken out of jail all over the nation. Be on the lookout for squads. They'll usually be a male and female with white/black clothing and a theme pokemon, sometimes a talking Meowth. If you see any, report to the nearest police station or call this number: (555)-555-5555 Suddenly Josh heard a cry from Clefairy. It sounded like a cry of terror. He also heard another voice say: "Hey Clefairy, remember your buddy Meowth? Well I remember you. I remember that we have a score to settle!" Josh ran on the path that Clefairy had gone. He ran for about a minute when suddenly he saw two figures and a talking Meowth aiming a tranquilizer gun and cornering the Clefairy. He figured it was Team Rocket, and when he got closer and saw the R's on their shirts, his suspicions were confirmed. He tried to sneak up on them, but he accidentally kicked a rock that echoed off the stone floor. "Hey, did you here something?" said the Meowth. "Yeah, and it was probably your stomach. Just hand me those tranquilizer darts-Ahhh!" said the female as the Meowth scratched her in the face. "That's for saying it was my stomach," said the Meowth. "Why you little rat, I'd shoot you with the tranquilizer gun, but you'd probably snore! Now give me those darts, you dirty cat!" "Jesse, I'm getting tired of holding this cage. Why can't you hold it?" whined the male. "Because I'm carrying the gun, you bonehead! Now be quiet or I'll turn Arbok on you!" "You can't threaten me! I've got Weezing, and he's much stronger than your puny Arbok!" "What!?! Arbok could beat Weezing any day!" "They're both weaklings!" said Meowth as he scratched both of the Rockets in the face. "I'm the only strong pokemon here! Hey wait a minute, I just heard another noise. It's coming from over there!" Meowth pointed to the shadow that Josh was hiding in. "Hey! There's some nosy pokemon trainer in the bushes! Let's steal his pokemon!" said Meowth. The Clefairy was momentarily forgotten. "Okay!" said the female. "But first, the motto." The female took a mini Walkman out of her pocket and music began to play. "To protect the world from devastation!" said the female. "To unite all peoples within our nation!" said the male. "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" "To extend our reach to the stars above!" "Jesse!" "James!" "Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" "Surrender now or prepare to fight!" "Meowth, that's right!" "Arbok, Lickitung, go!" said Jesse. "Weezing, Meowth, go!" said James. "Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, Mew, go!" said Josh. "Bite to Charmander and tongue-wrap to Bulbasaur!" "Sludge to Wartortle and slash to Mew!" "Charmander, dodge Arbok and get Team rocket with fire- storm! Bulbasaur, poisonpowder on Lickitung's tongue! War-tortle, dodge the sludge and give Weezing a water gun! Mew, confusion to Meowth!" Arbok tried to bite Charmander, but Charmander just hopped out of the way. Then a cloud formed over Jesse, James, and their pokemon. Little balls of fire came out of the cloud and burned Arbok, as well as Team Rocket and the rest of their pokemon. Likitung wrapped up Bulbasaur its tongue, who shot some powder out of its bulb onto Likitung. Likitung instantly withdrew its tongue and slipped after Bulbasaur tackled it. Meanwhile, Weezing shot some sludge straight at Wartortle, who countered with a water gun. The water hit the sludge and knocked Weezing out of the air. Meowth, in its confusion, didn't slash Mew but instead got Weezing who went out cold. The air was full of pokemon battle cries, and they were especially loud because they echoed off the stone walls. It was now Charmander, Bulbasaur, Wartortle, and Mew vs. Lickitung and Weezing who was being attacked by Meowth. Mew just used psychic and Meowth was really weakened. Bulbasaur vine-whipped Lickitung and it fainted. "Arrgh!" yelled Jesse in anger. "Arbok, Likitung, return!" "Weezing, smog, then return! C'mon, Meowth, lets go!" It was impossible to see through Weezing's smog and Team Rocket got away with the tranquilizer gun, the darts, and the net. All this time the scared Clefairy was watching from behind a rock. As Josh was about to continue through Mt. Moon, Clefairy ran up to Josh. "Wait!" said Clefairy. "You saved me from those mean people and you seem like a good trainer. Can I come with you on your journey?" "Of course!" said Josh. Clefairy hopped into the pokeball and Josh continued on. Will Josh encounter Team Rocket again? If they do, will Clefairy be brave and stand up for itself? Also if they do, will Josh be able to beat them? To find out all this and more just read on!