Chapter 3

I awoke to the sound of someone yelling. He was obviously not a nice person, judging by his words and tone of voice.
“YOU PIDGEOT! GET BACK IN YOUR CAGE!!” Cage? I looked at my surroundings. I was in a cage too, but I wasn’t alone. Across my cage was another pokemon I instantly recognized as a pikachu, but this one looked very different from an average pikachu. He had noticeably darker fur, and had a what looked like a lightning bolt birthmark on his stomach. This pikachu was looking at me with the most frightened look I have ever seen. I started to wonder why.
“Why are you so scared?” I asked him.
“Why aren’t you eating me?” the pikachu asked back. Then I realized that typhlosion is a carnivore, and could easily kill and eat a pikachu. Luckily for the pikachu, I had a human mind, and wouldn’t want to eat a pikachu.
“Relax, I won’t eat you. But tell me, where are we?”
“In a cage.” I gave him a very angry look, which can look extremely creepy coming from a Typhlosion. “Okay! This pokemon hunter captures and sells pokemon to Team Rocket for different experiments, like cloning.” Just then, the hunter came to our cage.
“Well, if it isn’t you again. You made my job easy by being unconscious when I found you. I’m sure Giovanni will give me a big reward for a strange typhlosion.” He walked out of the room laughing.
Strange? I thought I looked like a normal typhlosion. I looked at my stomach, which seemed the same. I looked at my back, and saw three streaks of red, showing where my fire would light up. The two extra ones ran up and down my back on both sides.
“Well I don’t want to stay here.” I tensed my back muscles, and instantly my back fire lit up. “I’m getting us outta here!” I opened my mouth and let loose a large flamethrower. The metal bars didn’t stand a chance. “Get out of here! I’ll free the other pokemon!” I continued using flamethrower on all of the cages until every last pokemon was free. I looked around, and saw the same dark pikachu as before.
“Why didn’t you leave yet? That hunter you were talking about could be here any minute!”
“Because you might need help fighting him right now!” I turned around, and sure enough, there was who I assumed was the hunter. He was wearing a camouflage suit, and was holding a gun filled with tranquilizers.
“HOW DID ALL OF THE POKEMON ESCAPE?!” He obviously wasn’t smart, because there was melted metal everywhere, along with a typhlosion. “I’ll make sure you two don’t escape though!” He took his tranquilizers and shot one into my side, and one into the pikachu’s stomach.
Crap! We were so close to freedom...


I woke up about 2 hours later, with a bad headache. My nose picked up the scent of the same pikachu as before. What? Since when can my nose recognize scents of animals. I came to the conclusion that a typhlosion nose had a much better sense of smell. I opened my eyes to find us in a room with no windows, and a single door. I tried flamethrower on the door. Nothing. Great.
“Where are we?” I turned to see the pikachu waking up.
“In a room with no way out and a fireproof door.” I replied. “I never got your name yet. Mine’s Ty.” (As a human I liked it better than Tyson)
“Mine’s Bramble. Nice to meet ya!”
“Yeah...” I looked around the room a little more, and I found a food bowl, a water bowl, an air duct... wait. An AIR DUCT? That could be our escape! Man that hunter wasn’t smart.
“Bramble come here! We can get out through here!” He came running over right away. I tried to go through the air duct, but it was too small! Just my luck. “Okay... can you go through and find someone who could help me get out?” Bramble perked up.
“Ya! I know just who to get! Wait here!” And with that, Bramble was gone.


During the time I waited for Bramble, I tried to think of a way I could become a human again. My first idea was get Professor Oak to build something that could change me back. My other idea was to find a Mew, because if it could turn a human into a pokemon, I’m sure it could do the reverse.
Suddenly, I heard a loud *THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP* and then *BANG!* The wall was completely destroyed, leaving a lot of dust and rubble. Through the dust came a tyranitar with a pikachu on his back.
“Come on!” He yelled. I didn’t hesitate. Before I knew it, we were about a mile away from the hunter’s headquarters.
“Thanks for that! I owe you one!”
“Just paying you back for saving Bramble.” The tyranitar replied. *How did Bramble become friends with a tyranitar? He could fit in the tyranitar’s mouth!* “I gotta go now. See ya!” The big beast stomped away, leaving me with Bramble.
“Thanks a bunch Bramble, but I need to be going.” I turned to leave, but he jumped in front of me, blocking my path.
“TAKE ME WITH YOU!” Bramble shouted. He was so loud, I stopped in my tracks.
“Umm..Why? Don’t you have a family or something?”
“No, I live alone, and I had nothing to do for awhile, and going with you might be fun!” I thought about this for a moment. It wouldn’t hurt to have company, but what would I tell him once we find Mew or Professor Oak? I’d have to tell him the truth sooner or later. I pick later.
“Okay. I guess so.” Bramble had the happiest face I had ever seen. It was almost creepy.
“Thank you thank you thank you thank y...”
“Stop it!”
“Sorry.” We started to walk where I thought was the nearest town. My first step at a chance to be human has been taken.