Panic! At Pewter City

[mrfancypants]

The Pok?mon center was bright and roomy. A couple of trainers were chatting in the right hand side. At the counter was a mysterious looking boy. He looked around the room often, as if he were lost, and his fingers tapped on the counter impatiently.

At the same time he appeared to be watching three Pok?mon that were roaming around the room contently.

The boy let out a sigh of frustration and walked around the room once before heading towards the corner where there was another trainer. They both took out their pokedex and started to compare and trade. Every once and awhile, the boy would look over his shoulder at the door. "Where the heck is he?" he muttered under his breath.

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

The cheerful atmosphere was broken by the arrival of Giovanni. He rushed into the Pokémon Center and violently shoved a Pikachu, who was happily walking around, out of his way.

When he arrived at the counter, he fumbled through his jacket pocket for Persian's Luxury Ball. When he found it, he slammed it onto the counter in attempt to get the attention of Nurse Joy. The impact made a loud "THUMP" on the corner that echoed through the whole room.

Mona scurried in quickly behind Giovanni, and was breathless when she met him at the corner. "Man! You're fast!" she told him looking through her bag for Spinarak's Pokeball, "Its almost like...you were trying to avoid me or lose me or something! But luckily...I found ya!"

Giovanni rolled his eyes without commenting. He was much more focused on having Persian healed than anything.

Mona then rubbed a speck of dirt off of her pok?ball before placing it carefully on the table aside Giovanni's. She stood smiling beside him, not sure what they were waiting for exactly...

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After Giovanni rushed in, the boy stated to him in his high prepubescent voice "Finally, you came! After you kept me waiting so long!" He tried to act annoyed though there was a hint of relief in his tone of voice.

The guy he was trading with suddenly packed up his pokedex and scurried out, he seemed to be in a rush....

He bumped into someone on the way out.


"Owwwwww" Yuan whined. "Watch where you're going you little punk!"
He limped into the building. He felt like fire was shooting up his legs, both of which had swollen up considerably, probably due to his beedrill's poison. He limped himself over to a wall lined with seats and sank himself into on of the chairs before shooting back up again from the pain. He bit his lip as tears started to form in the corners of his eyes.

Beedrill was still latched onto Yuan's neck, humming happily and seemingly oblivious to the pain he had caused for his owner.

[Mage]

Joy smiled at Giovanni when he came up. "Hello how ca..." She jumped at the huge THUD the pokeball's impact made, but shook it off. "Two Pok?mon? Alright." She put the two in a trey and on a machine starting to recover they're injuries.

Cricket wasn't too far behind Mona and the devilishly dressed trainer, Giovanni. "Mona! Where were you going, we have to go back to the company!" As said before, the reason hes with Mona is the fact he just found her and is determined to take her back home peacefully...or at least he hoped.

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

"About time..." Giovanni said under his breath when Nurse Joy took the pokeballs away. He sighed and began to tap the corner as he now waited for them to be healed.

"Can't you see that I'm having my Pokémon fixed, Black Widow?" Mona told Cricket, "Maybe when I'm done!"

The Gym Leader heard a familiar voice but it was awfully low. He had a a confused expression on his face and looked at Mona. "Did you hear something, dollface?" he asked a bit bewildered.

Mona giggled at her nickname. "Nuh-ah!" she replied, "All I heard was that guy with the blue hair's girly scream!" She moved closer to Giovanni and whispered, "I think he's stalking us...!"

"Don't worry about it," he told her while looking over his shoulder, at Yuan. "He won't be able to follow us any longer in that condition..." Giovanni reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet. "Which reminds me...I need to stop by the store to buy Antidotes."

Mona couldn't help put peek as he shuffled through his wallet. It was full of dollar bills and plastic cards! Jackpot! "WHOA YOU'RE LOADED!" Mona gasped, "Erm- I mean- yeah thats quiet a lot of money you have there!" She laughed nervously, "I'm so happy for you!" There was no way she was going back to the company any time soon now.

"Suure..." Giovanni stated sarcastically while putting his wallet away. "And I should really be looking around for my son..." Giovanni sighed, "The little brat ran off ahead of me...! I'm sure he's fine on his own, but still--"

"Ah!" Mona peeped, "You have a son?" She had a mixed feeling of pleasant surprise and sorrow. What if this guy is married? she thought to herself, but these days just cause someone has a kid, doesn't mean they've got a spouse too! So she looked around the center, maybe his son happened to be in the room. She could mooch some answers off of him!

There was a red haired, serious looking boy standing next to her. "Hey! Have you seen Giovanni's kid around?" she asked him, "He's kinda lost!" Giovanni said he was the greatest trainer in the world, he must've been famous!

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The red head just shook his head in disbelief and rubbed his temples. To the girl who seemed to be his dad's new bitch had asked him the question he answered bluntly. "Giovanni? Yea, I'm that poor sad weak old man's kid. The name's Silver." He was actually tempted to stick his tongue out at his father since his back was turned but decided he was waay to mature for that.

Seeing his father with a girl made him kind of jealous. To compete he scanned the room for "prey" and spotted the perfect damsel in distress who seemed to be having some beedrill troubles. He walked up to her and took out a repellent. He sprayed the beedrill with it "Die beedrill, DIE!!!! D:< and it retreated. "Are you alright, miss?"


"HEY!" Yuan shouted, "Just WHO are you calling MISS?!" He snapped angrily.


Startled, Silver took a couple of steps back. "I....apologize. I just assumed-"


"It's cause of my long hair huh? Well just so you know, guys can have long sexy hair too! And you know what happens when you assume, you make an--" Yuan stopped to grimace in pain.


"I uh have some antidote that should help that...." Silver said, in almost a whisper. He was kind of afraid of the man that stood before him and didn't want to be the cause of another 'outburst.'


"Well what are you waiting for, kid? Hand it over!" He extended his hand out, his fingers wiggled as he waited expectedly.



"Oh...um" Silver went through his bag for a couple of minutes before plopping it into his hand. "I have somewhere I need to be going. Bye." He walked back towards Mona and his father awkwardly and seeking protection.

[Mage]

"But the boss..." However Cricket had come to a conclusion. Since the man that Mona had just met was unbelievably rich, and knowing her strange attraction towards men with a vast amount of wealth, and seeing as how the Pok?mon world has lured her in far too deep for her to easily come out of then it seems Mona isn't going to go home for quite some time. With a sigh Cricket rubbed the back of his head. "It appears your mind is made up...then if your not going back so soon then I'll simply have to protect you!" Cricket couldn't go home to leave his friend in a strange land, who knows what would happen to her.

Soon enough, Joy came out with Giovanni's and Mona's Pok?mon. The nurse held out the trey for them to take the pokeballs inside. "There you are, thank you for coming sir and ma'am." She walked into the back leaving the trey on the table.

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

Mona quickly grabbed her pokéball and released Spinarak. It seemed much healthier and lively than before. Its pink pincers opened and shut frantically and tiny noises came from it. It's legs twitched and it turned itself side-to-side-to-side, looking around the Pokémon Center. It seemed to have the same perkiness as its trainer.

"That's fab-u-tastic!" Mona cheered, "Now I have 2 spiders to protect me,right, Daddy Long Legs?" Mona was referring to Cricket, but Smiley nodded. She (Smiley) hopped up a bit. She quickly crawled to Yuan and climbed up his right pant leg in over excitement. SHOT She had always seen Bug Catchers and how awesome their Bug Pokémon looked. Now she had a trainer too!



"You might wanna consider keeping that thing on a leash..." Giovanni told Mona indifferently. He watched Silver walk towards them, and stated, "Oh, well. Look what the Meowth dragged in!" The took his pokéball from the tray and released Persian. The cat stretched and rubbed against his trainers leg, purring.

Giovanni folded his arms and took another look at his son. He seemed a little freaked out by Yuan's outburst. "Maybe now you won't go off and talk to strangers, hm? I thought you knew better than that."

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"Wh-whatever, old man. At least I'm not completely coldblooded like you are and went out of my way to help someone." Silver retorted, although his voice was shaky as he still hadn't completely recovered from the Yuan incident.


Yuan was about to use some of the antidote when he felt something crawling up his leg with its tiny eight legs. He shrieked like a little girl and started to flail his arms about. "Get it out!" He shouted. "Oh for the love of Martel, someone help me! I hate spiders!" He was at the brink of crying and the spinarak had moved to a certain area in Yuan's pants.....

The beedrill, after recovering from the repel saw what that spinarak was doing and decided that he couldn't allow it near Yuan. It started to charge at Yuan's lower front, where the spinarak was, all three stingers pointed at it.


"Gengar, use lick!"
Gengar had been wandering around the Pok?mon center as well as Silver's other Pok?mon leisurely, but when she heard the command from him she immediately ran in front of Yuan and licked Beedrill.

Beedrill became paralyzed and very disturbed from the attack and fell to the floor of the center.

"Good job Gengar....Now, get that spinarak out of that guy's pants!"
Gengar looked at Silver with a 'are you serious?!' face but apparently he was so she went on over to Yuan, stuck her hand down his pants (which is very inappropriate if I might add, don't do this at home kids) and pulled out Smiley.


Yuan hadn't even noticed what had occurred. He was still preoccupied with his little girl screams.


Silver had taken one baby step towards Yuan and said, "Umm, Mister. The spinarak's gone now." He looked at Yuan like he had some serious mental issues, which he probably did.


The screams continued and Yuan had now put himself into a fetal position...

[Mage]

"Son?" He had no idea Giovanni would have a kid, he just assumed he hated women. But if that were the case he would have told Mona to take a hike. Speaking of Mona, Cricket turned to her curious. "So, your really going to stick with this guy? He seems like hes a businessman, perhaps he owns a company like the boss." Giovanni did seem to have a business, serious look to him, maybe he owns a string of Pok?mon shops.

[ButlerForLifeNumber2]

"Hmph." Giovanni scuffed off Silver's "cold hearted" comment. The only reason Mona and those other clowns were following him was because he went out of his way to help them he thought. But he didn't tell Silver that, he didn't feel like explaining himself.

He stood there as Silver helped Yuan in that difficult situation. He leaned on the corner with his arms folded; He seemed to be indifferent and cool about the whole thing, but inside he was greatly disturbed.

He stood up and fixed his jacket as he said, "Ooh kay, thats enough of that..." Giovanni began to walk to the exit and motioned his hand for Persian to follow, which it did loyally. "Grab your things and lets go...!" he demanded from Silver and Mona.



Mona ran up to Silver's Gengar laughing nervously. "Oh, Smiley! You're so naughty!" was all she could think of to say. She took her Pokémon from Gengar's hands and pet the green spider gingerly. She looked at the purple Pokémon thoughtfully as she absorbed Cricket's question.

"Ohmygosh, thats right Flea!" Mona gasped. "All these awesome Pokémon made me forget about me about Wario Ware Inc.!" She paused and swooned with some sorrow in it, "And Wario!" She called Smiley back to her pokéball and stuffed it into her bag. She was smacked in the face by reality when she suddenly remembered about her delivery. She had left it and her bike in the forest.

"Argh! You owe me a bike Ash Ketchum!" Mona yelled and pointed at Giovanni. She was gonna use the money from that delivery to get tickets for the St. Anne ship in Vermilion City, she explained. "Now I'm not gonna get any money! And I'm never gonna find Wario! And I'm never gonna get my bike back, cause it's probably been eaten by bugs by now!" She pouted her lips dramatically and folded her arms.



While he was confused about who tf she was talking about, Giovanni sighed and rolled his eyes. "Don't make a big deal of nothing," he told her, "Its very easy to ta-(paused) make some cash around here..."

He told her that he and Silver were training and heading to Mount. Moon. He explained that she was allowed to tag along so that she can train and battle other Pokémon trainers along the way. If she was good enough, she could win some prize money.

"Oh yes!" Mona cheered, hopping up a little. She turned to Cricket, "C'mon and be my cheerleader, Fly!"

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"Yeah Yeah Yeah." Silver said in reply to Giovanni and returned his Pok?mon to their pokeballs. "But don't try to rush me, because you were the one holding us off. I was waiting in this Pok?mon center for hours cause of you old man." He headed towards the exit as well.


It appears that Yuan had recovered as he got up and rushed over to Silver. He poked him on his shoulder to get his attention.


Silver was lost in his moment of trying to sound cooler than his father that he almost jumped and was thrown off balance. He turned around. "...what?"


"I give you thanks for erm..." He coughed. "helping me out back there. You've got spunk and a backbone! Just what I like in a guy! We could use someone like you in the Renegades...Anyways I am the fearless Lord Yuan! All may bow down in my awesome presence!"


Silver stared at Yuan. Was he hitting on him or just spewing nonsense out of his mouth? He honestly couldn't tell but he felt better if he assumed the latter. "What are the Renegades? .....whatever, I've never heard of you so you can't be cool. I'm Silver. Bye."

He started to walk a bit faster, and a bit closer towards Giovanni and he noticed Yuan trotting behind him. "Why are you following me?"


"Because....I have absolutely no idea where I am right now or what this popsiclemons are!" Yuan stated and then muttered "I also want a piece of that red head chick and that hot stud, mwrawr" scratched his had, embarrassed. "Also I totally trashed my only transportation means....and hopefully I could get that guy to pay it off for me, he looks like he's loaded...so am I but, yea...."


Silver blinked. "Popsiclemons? What are those? It's Pok?mon, you incompetent fool." He then burst out laughing at Yuan.


"Well that's not very nice......"

[Mage]

"Well I'm more then just a cheer leader, but I suppose it would be a good idea to accompany you." He said to her, Cricket did promise Mona he'd be her escort. Especially around Giovanni, he was pretty shady, despite his seemingly good intentions. So Cricket went with the group off to Mount Moon. "Pok?mon matches huh? I suppose I could meditate during the battles..." Cricket doesn't have any Pok?mon of his own, nor was he interested in getting them. A true warrior fights with his own body, not through others. At least thats what his master taught him.