'Uh, Dad, can we stop at the next services? I, uh, need a drink.'
3 miles later, and I tell Dad I'll catch him up as he goes to get coffee. I turn round and peer into the back. 'Glaceon! What?!'
'Glay! Glacey!'
'Yeah, I got nothing of that. Unless, was that danger?'
'Cee!'
'Huh. What?'
Glaceon stuck his head in my bag, and pulled out my DS, put it on the back seat, and pointed at the flashing red light with a paw.
'Oh! Thanks! Good thing one of us is paying attention..'
I flipped it open. On the top screen were two spheres, with edges touching. There were three small circles above the left one, blue, pink, and black. On the bottom screen, 'Dimensional Collision:' was flashing in large letters, and underneath it, a number kept flickering between 1 and 2%.
'Is this what it was flashing about? It's getting worse?'
'Cee!'
'We're probably going to have to look into this...'
'Ceeeee.......'
'Oh dear. Well, You look cramped and I really do need a drink, plus I promised Rattata he could come out. Lets all stretch our legs.'
I showed Rattata the screens, but he seemed more confused by it that Glaceon had been. I was worried they'd attract attention, but most people seemed to think nothing of them. I swear a couple of people couldn't see them at all. One lady asked if she could stroke my 'adorable dog' and Glaceon allowed a little scratch under his chin before getting bored and wandering off.
'Aw, he's lovely. What's he called?'
'uuuh...I'd better get after him before he wanders too far'
I turned back to her 'Um, what sort of dog would you guess he is?'
'Oh, I have no idea about names, he's just a lovely looking dog. He's got that gorgeous fur that has an almost blue tinge to it.'
'Right. I mean, yes, yes he does. Anyway, uh, bye!'
I caught up with Glaceon, and we went off to get drinks. It took a while to explain that he couldn't come in, and he looked like he was about to ice me, but eventually he went and sat by a bush. Rattata hid in my pocket. I got us all some drinks, and we headed back to the car. Seeing Dad returning, I looked desperately for a place for Glaceon to hide. 'Please, find somewhere a bit better to hide. If Dad finds out about all of you, I don't know what'll happen, but we need to keep you a secret for as long as possible. You have to trust me like I trust you. You've brought so much fun to our lives, we just want to keep you safe.'
We locked eyes for a few seconds, and then he looked over my shoulder, and started rooting around by my bag. I saw Dad going round to his side of the car, and hurriedly sat properly in my seat.
'Everything ok?'
'Yep, got my drink, ready to go.'
I heard a faint 'dmm' sort of noise, and chanced a look over my shoulder. Glaceon was gone. Wherever he was hiding, it was good.
So we got to the camp, set up, and everything was fine until night descended. My pocket started vibrating wildly, and a friend of mine ran from her tent going 'ewwewwewweww!'
'What's wrong?'
'That is the biggest caterpillar I have ever seen!'
The girl she was sharing with poked her head in. 'What caterpillar?'
'Let me see'
It looked like a normal caterpillar to me, until I squinted, and it flickered and became much larger, with a pink Y shaped antenna.
'Ah, hello Caterpie. I'll take care of this guy.'
'I can deal with it if like-'
'No! Seriously, I'll take him...'
I scooped him up and ran to a patch of woods where there were no tents. This spooked him.
Stringshot does not taste nice. Makes it hard to move too.
'Ratta..bleugh..tack!'
He leapt, tackling Caterpie to the ground, and dodging another stream of string.
'Great! Again!'
'Ra!'
Caterpie lay on it's side, wriggling weakly. 'Peeeeeee'
'Awesome job! Now, if you'd be so kind...'
A few fang slashes and I was free. I felt in my bag, and brought out a Pokéball.
'Allyoop!'
it struck Caterpie on the head, and opened, in he shot, a blur of red light, and it rocked, blinking.
Then it stopped.
'Oh yeah! Caterpie's mine! Nice job buddy!'
I gave him some lemonade to make sure he was in perfect health, then let Caterpie out, and gave it some too. Then I got out the DSDex. It had been shaking for a while now, but I'd been too busy. It was flashing 'Ripple detected', and showed a dot on the lower screen, which had what appeared to be a large map on it, with a large sort of smudge further off.
It calmed down once I'd opened it, and seemed happier. I scanned my pokémon.
'Oh cool, our training's done some good Rattata, you're level 8 now, and Caterpie here's a male level 6.
I have to leave it there for now. Sorry, all of this happened ages ago now, but I've been slow writing it. I was going to add some minor stuff that happened at camp afterwards, but it's not important, at least at the moment.
See you later!
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