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Andy stood in a clearing in the forest not far from the research facility where he worked and looked at the sky with his hands in his sides. His Furret sat next to him on the ground, she too looked up in the sky. His Butterfree inspected some flowers that grew nearby for a quick snack. Andy waited for Edmund to return, the guy was a friend of his brother, both archaeologists. Matt and Edmund had asked if they could borrow his Primeape and Noctowl for a moment, they could use their help with something, and Andy had agreed. That was a good two hours ago. Edmund had promised he would return them two hours later, which was about now, and Andy waited for him. He didn’t mind the other was running a bit late, but he was certain they were on their way. If not Matt would have let him know they were going to be a little late. As he waited a young man walked up to him, Andy turned his attention to him and greeted him with a nod of his head.
“Do you battle?” he asked as he pointed to the Furret.
“Sure,” Andy replied, “but not with Kim. If you want to battle, you’ll have to take on Benny.” He gestured to the Butterfree as he said that, who flew towards them at the mention of his name.
“Okay.”
“The name is Andy, by the way,” Andy said.
“Nice for you. Alakazam!” The young man threw a Pokéball into the air and after it opened it revealed an Alakazam. “Let’s battle.”
Andy frowned a bit, but shrugged and looked at Benny, who nodded to him. Apparently this guy wasn’t interested in making friends, he just wanted to battle. While Andy didn’t particularly like such trainers, there was nothing wrong with a battle if his Pokémon agreed with it.
The battle began, Benny showed that despite his appearance he was strong, he took the hit of a Psybeam and tackled the Alakazam after it. When the Alakazam used his Confusion to throw him away, Benny managed to come to a stop in the air and used a Confusion of his own. The battle went on for a few rounds, but in the end the Alakazam won by using his Psycho Cut. Benny fell to the ground and Andy looked at his opponent.
“That was a good battle,” he said.
“Since we won, we deserve a price.”
Andy frowned at the comment. “We didn’t agree on a prize for the winner, that should be decided before the battle starts.”
The young man pointed to Kim. “She will serve as the price.”
“No,” Andy said firmly as Kim moved behind his legs. “You will definitely not get her as a prize.”
“You don’t understand, I don’t want to have her. Just use her. Well, my Alakazam will use her for a while. Then you can have her back.”
Andy narrowed his eyes, he didn’t like the sound of that either. He took her Pokéball from his pocket and aimed it her. “Kim,” he began, but he didn’t have a chance to finish the sentence or return her to the safety of the Pokéball. Using Confusion the Alakazam knocked it out of his hand. The Alakazam then turned his attention to Kim, who became surrounded in a light blue light, lifted into the sky and was pulled back to the Alakazam. “Now wait a second,” Andy said as he walked towards the Alakazam, but he crossed his spoons and released his multicoloured Psybeam. It hit Andy in the chest and he stepped back with a painful expression on his face as fingers dug into the clothes over the area where he was hit. “Damn, and you withstood that?” he groaned at Benny, who tried his best to get up with a worried look in his big eyes. “Talking about Pokémon being more tough then Humans...” He looked at his Furret, who looked back at him while making pleading and fearful noises as the Alakazam positioned himself behind her. Andy immediately started running towards them, but he soon was surrounded in the blue light belonging to Confusion. “Crap,” he muttered as he felt how tight that was. Suddenly he got thrown back and hit a tree with his back. The blow knocked the air out of his lungs and he heard the cracking sounds of ribs. As the blue light faded he sank to the ground, gasping and groaning as he held his side. He heard Kim scream as the Alakazam had his way with her and he got up again. It didn’t matter how much that hurt. He walked forward, holding on to his ribs and taking one painful breath after another, but he got hit by a Psybeam yet again and sank down on his knees. “Damn...” he muttered as he worked himself up on his feet for the second time. It hurt so much, but he couldn’t give up.
Kim cried out to Andy, the sound of her cries ached his heart. He couldn’t understand her words, but he knew what she meant. As he stepped forward he noticed Benny fly passed him and towards the Alakazam, but he got thrown back by a Psychic attack. After Andy did one step forward he too got thrown back by a Psychic attack. He scowled as lay on his back and turned to his good side with a grimace of pain as Benny flew towards the Alakazam again, only to be hit by a Psybeam. Benny fell down, panting heavily. Andy worked himself up and glared at the Alakazam when he was hit with another Psybeam too. He lay on his stomach and he tried to gather strength to get up again. During all these attack the Alakazam raped Kim, who couldn’t get away from him and she cried out as tears ran down her face.
“Kim...” Andy whispered as his hands turned into fists and he attempted to rise up once more, but his body refused to move properly. Pain shot through his upper body with every breath he took and his arms trembled as he moved them under him to help him get up. A shadow flew overhead and a ball of fire almost hit the Alakazam. He looked up and much to his relief he saw a Charizard above them. A Primeape jumped down, roaring in rage and landed on top of the Alakazam. He started pounding on the Pokémon, but he soon got surrounded in the blue light of Psychic and was thrown back. Kim used this moment to hurry over to Andy, who held his breath as he sat up slowly and took her in both arms so he could hold her tight. He could feel the fur on her face was wet from the tears. “I’m so sorry I couldn’t get to you,” he whispered as he stroke her head and back in an attempt to comfort the crying Furret.
Now that Kim was out of the way, the Charizard went all out and engulfed the Alakazam in a mighty Flamethrower. When the fire died out the Alakazam sank to his knees.
“You have some explaining to do,” Andy growled at the trainer.
“You will never,” the trainer began, but was cut short by a Wing Attack from a Noctowl. When the trainer made the mistake of looking at him, Merlin’s eyes turned yellow and he successfully hypnotized the trainer to make him fall asleep. The Alakazam prepared his teleport, but a second Flamethrower defeated the already tired Pokémon.
Edmund jumped down from the Charizard and walked over to Andy, who slowly let go of his Furret and carefully stood up, holding the side with his broken ribs with a painful expression on his face.
“I’m glad you came,” Andy said to Edmund.
“I’m sorry I didn’t get here earlier.” He looked back at the trainer and the Alakazam. “If you will tell me exactly what happened, I will go to officer Jenny with them.” His eyes moved to the Furret, who had her tail wrapped around her lower body and made herself as small as she could possibly make her. “Then you can take her home.”
Andy nodded and told Edmund everything that happened. As he talked the Primape walked over to Kim and reached out to comfort her, but she cowered under his touch. Bear looked sad, but decided she needed the space and walked over to Benny instead to pick him up, the Butterfree looked all battered and bruised.
“Merlin,” Andy said as he looked at his Noctowl. “Can you find Kim’s Pokéball for me? It’s somewhere over there.” He pointed at some trees and Merlin nodded. He flew up and sat down on a branch. From there he looked down in the grass and it didn’t take long for his keen eyes to pick up the red and white ball. He flew down and picked it up with a claw. He brought it to Andy who returned Kim to her Pokéball.