“MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!~” After taking a brief pause to breathe, Magichamp charged himself up to charge off once more!

“Wooooooooo!~” Dashing away at top speed with a screaming Goldie in his arms, “LULULULULULULULUULULULU~” His own scream of confused horror overshadowing it.

He swore he saw a bunch of kids and their pokemon stare at him as he ran past them, but he wasn’t about to turn around to find out.

He ran, for as long as his body could take him he ran.

“LU!~…LU!~…Lu…uuu~” Collapsing forwards and into the forest ground, Magichamp exhaled.

“Oh good holy fuck you didn’t tell me you had history with that thing!” Goldie exclaimed, trying to pull herself out from under him.

“Huh?...What?” He asked in confusion, still catching his breath.

“The pink ass bitch that just tried to kill you!” Goldie screamed, finally popping out from underneath him.

“Right…yeah…I forgot to mention, I’m part of an underground militia working to destroy the planet.” Magichamp bullshitted.

“Wait, seriously!?” Goldie asked.

“No you dim-witted goldfish! I never met that thing!” He groaned.

“Oh, bitch why then!?” Goldie demanded to know.

“How the fuck should I kn-” He began to say when suddenly both of their stomachs rumbled, “Ugh, I don’t know.” Both of them settling then. “I just know we need to get the hell outta this route! We need to get stronger too…”

“Yeah yeah, we tried that!” Goldie added, “No we need…We need!...”

“Woah there, don’t blow a nerve on me.” Magichamp chuckled, grabbing Goldie by the tail and picking her off the floor.

“A team!” Goldie suddenly exclaimed.

“Team?” He repeated.

“Yeah! You can use pokeballs remember!? You just need to catch more than just me! Plus-” Goldie explained.

“And then I can also transform into them too!” He realised, before both of their stomachs rumbled once again.

“But first we eat.” They both said in unison.

Elsewhere…And some moments before...

“Ugh, I can’t believe you all left without me!” Ashley grumbled as Pichu peaked out from her backpack, “And it took an explosion to get you all rushing back!”

“I just can’t believe Team Rocket would be so bold to attack Oak’s.” Chris mused, “What were they looking for? Starter pokemon?” He asked glancing over at Ashley.

“Ah, err, I don’t know…” Quickly calming down she also avoided eye-contact.

“Girl come on, you know something.” Remy added, turning to face Ashley with a narrowed expression.

Ashley and Pichu both shook their heads, “No no…I don’t know anything I swear!”

Oak knows! But he made me swear not to say anything! Not that I remember anything! Ahh!

“lululululu~” A sound then abruptly caught their attention, coming from afar at first they all turned to stare down the forest on their left.

“aaaaa!~”

“What the fuck is that?” Jackal asked, squinting as they all stared.

“LuLuLuLuLuLu~”

“AAaaaahhh!~”

?...

“LULULULULULULULU!~”

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!~”

A yellow form came into sight then, rushing into their direction, it only grew bigger the closer it came.

While Ashley stepped close to take a better look, the other three’s expressions paled.

And as the form leapt past them, time seemed to slow for all of them, as they realised they were looking at a buff humanoid shiny magikarp with four arms holding another normal shiny magikarp…

It ran by them, ignoring their existence entirely as it continued on to the other side of the forest, both of them screaming all the way.

The four trainers remained stunned in bafflement all the way past the several minutes it took the sound to disappear.

“What the actual fuck was that?” Ashley asked, still staring emptily towards where the thing came from.

“Uh, I think w-” Chris was about to say when both Remy and Jackal slapped his mouth shut.

“We don’t know!” Remy shouted in response, “We don’t know!” She then hissed in whisper into Chris’s ear.

“Huh,” Ashley hummed, turning to where it went. “Maybe we should-”

“No!”

“No!”

“No!”

They all said in unison, “Maybe we should set camp!” Remy then added, pushing Ashley off down the road.

“But-” Ashley tried to disagree.

“Right! It’s getting dark!” Chris complied, also helping Remy push Ashley off.

Jackal stayed where he stood, staring down the path of run over forest bushes with a twitching expression.

“JACKAL!” Remy screeched and he jumped.

“R-Right coming!” Running off to follow them, he almost fell over twice on the way.

Giving up, Ashley followed Chris off the path and to a nearby opening in the forest they were all familiar with.

“Jack get the portable tents out, Ashley set the campfire and Rem pull out the portable table.” Chris began giving tasks as he himself started taking boxes and bags from his rucksack.

And each listened, nobody could argue with his commander attitude when it got to it.

Nobody could stop Chris when he was in that mood.

Even if the world was dying, nothing could stop him…

As he stood before the table, having already spread all he needs before himself.

Nothing could stop Chris from cooking.

Putting together a controlled environment for the fire, Ashley then moved on to gathering branches and drywood for it, groaning as she watched Jackal and Remy lazing about after having completed their arguably much shorter tasks.

Yeah, sure, portable tents and tables that fit in backpacks exist, but not campfires! Fucking-blasted-shit-god-damn

Carrying off all she could find into the firepit, Ashley sat down on her backpack and began trying to light it up.

Seeing her annoyed as she did so, Pichu who had come out of the backpack in fear of being fucking sat on ran up to the campfire and began rubbing its cheeks.

Suddenly a spark of energy zapped out of Pichu and into the drywood, lighting it fucking afire all of a sudden and smoking Ashley’s face as she leaped back and fell back.

Seeing this transpire, Jackal and Remy couldn’t help themselves from exploding in laughter.

Pichu on the other hand, who only wanted to help, was annoyed by this.

Puffing its cheeks and chest up, as Ashley scrambled to extinguish the flames on her hair, Pichu walked up to Jackal and Remy who were only laughing harder.

Buzzing with sparks of electricity, Pichu was stopped in its tracks as a Squirtle and Bulbasaur blocked its path to their trainers.

Eyes narrowed, the two pokemon glared fiercely at Pichu, “Piii!” as it charged up for battle.

When suddenly an Ember blasted into their midst, sending all three pokemon stumbling back in surprise, whilst Pichu fell back on its ass with wide eyes, Squirtle disappeared in its spinning shell and Bulbasaur flipped itself over some fucking how.

“Ready!” Chris then exclaimed, dishing out four red bowls onto the ground full of pokemon chow.

Charmander was the first to its food as Squirtle and Bulbasaur scrambled alongside Pichu to eat, both of them bumping into poor Pichu and pushing it aside to get to theirs.

Pulling itself up from the ground, Pichu grumpily made its way towards its bowl, watching as Bulbasaur’s vines knocked it over.

Going paper pale at the site, it turned to its trainer for comfort, but it was for naught as all four trainers moved to sit around the campfire while Chris hung a large pot over it.

Beginning to stir the pot, the trainers began to chat about their strange day that hadn’t yet ended.

Resigning itself to this fate, Pichu made its way to the floor food, grouchily beginning to eat.

From behind Pichu, a very large yellow hand appeared pushing Bulbasaur’s bowl to before Pichu.

“Come on really, what you all freaked out for? It’s just a pokemon we haven’t seen before!” Ashley exclaimed, “You’re trainers! We should be out there looking for it!”

“nom~”

“Ugh please don’t bring it up…” Remy groaned.

“nomnomnomnomnom~”

Jackal simply stared emptily at the stirring pot, “I really don’t wanna talk about it Ash…” Chris mumbled out.

“NomNomNomNomNomNom~”

“Oh you’re all wussies! What you afraid of!?” Ashley then grumbled.

“Of dying!” Jackal then stood up and shouted, very loudly, “Of being torn to fucking shreds by a brainwashed army of Magikarps! You haven’t seen my nightmares okay!?”

“NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM~”

The sound was then completely noticeable, as all four trainers slowly and shakily turned their heads to it.

Finding Charmander, Bulbasaur and Squirtle standing completely dead still and with wide shaky eyes.

As Pichu ate its food happily, and just as happily…

Crouching behind yet still towering over Pichu, Magichamp gobbled up the rest of the food.

Both of them were stuffing themselves for a long, dreadfully silent moment, all except for the chilling sound of…

“NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM~”

Until Magichamp noticed that the trainers had stopped talking, almost mechanically it stopped eating, and just as mechanically its head began to rise.

All trainers turned paperwhite, as the creature’s abyssal eyes set upon them.

They stared.

For long dreadful moments, each side stared.

Not a sound, not a breath, not a single movement was made…

Until…

…

“NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM~”