Authors note: I'm so sorry this came out so late I seem to be making a habit of posting a twelve in the morning. Don't worry i'll post the next three tomorrow promise?

A gentle wind passed through the clearing as four figures stood still frozen as statues all eyes on the little red and white ball sitting innocently on the ground.

"Did I just catch my first pokemon?"

The silence was shattered as I voiced my disbelief. Unfortunately it didn't last for very long as the mightyena alpha snapped back to reality and sprinted full tilt towards the prone pokeball.

Closer and closer its jaws descended toward the pokeball just a few inches away. It was so close it was going to catch it! 

That is if I hadn't started running first. I snatched the pokeball up mere centimeters away from the mightyenas jaws. Without stopping I shove the now marble sized pokeball in my pocket and ran for dear life crashing the bushes.

Seconds later the sound of the three mightyena giving chase reached my ears. "You guys just don't know when to give up!" I yelled and without warning leapt upward using my momentum to grasp a low hanging tree branch. 

I'm glad I did as I heard the sound of powerful jaws snapping shut where my feet were just a second ago.  Climbing higher I collapse against the top of the tree panting heavily. "Finally a break maybe I can rest my eyes for just a second..."

The sound of the mightyena's barking slowly faded as blackness encroached from the edges of my vision. Finally darkness took me into a deep sleep. 

BZZ

"Mmh five more minutes Enzo." A young boys smiling face filled my minds eye for just a moment before fading away, a forgotten memory.

BZZ

What was that?

BZZ BZZ BZZ

"What the fu-"

I was cut off as dozens upon dozens of man sized humanoid bees descended from out of nowhere completely surrounding me. 

[Beep Beep]

My phone was vibrating in my pocket, without taking my eyes off the swarm of pokemon I reach into my pocket and pull out the phone. Glancing down for only a second what I glanced was enough to make my blood run cold.

[Beedrill a highly territorial pokemon, beedrill will live in swarms and attack anything intruding on their territory as a swarm.]

Slowly I reached for the still unnamed skarmory's pokeball in my pocket. The beedrill swarm subtly moved closer, I moved my hand into my pocket, the swarm was almost in arms reach I grabbed the pokeball one impatient beedrill got little ahead of the rest and raised its giant stinger to pierce me.

I jumped off the tree.

Terror beedrill's stinger punctured the tree trunk I had been standing on barely a second later. While falling I push the button on the pokeball. The ball opens and a red ark of energy shoots out taking the form of a scarred skarmory.

The skarmory doesn't hesitate to dive under me as the beedrill swarm closes in. Ten feet, five feet, two feet above the ground skarmory finally closes in and grabs both my shoulders with its bird like feet. My feet brush the grass underfoot as skarmory carries us higher and higher.

The beedrill swarm follows us like one giant, annoying, yellow cloud. Swerving left and right to avoid the occasional pin missile fired from one of the stronger beedrill. 

We keep flying until I notice that we are getting noticeably closer to the ground. "Hey big guy I hate to be 'that guy' but I'm pretty sure we don't want to get closer to the ground."

The skarmory's grip on my shoulders tighten as we steadily fall closer and closer to the ground. Something wet lands on my cheek, I raise my hand to wipe it off and see a red substance on the back of my hand.

My eyes widen and I look up. Sure enough the skarmory's wounds had reopened. "Dammit I'm sorry big guy I didnt even think about your injuries." 

The skarmory releases a strained cry as if to say it's just fine. I can't help but smile bitterly, "I know you are big guy, I know." The ground was now close enough I could touch it with my toes. A second later and skarmory releases me gently while still flying forward a ways before gracefully circling back and landing beside me. 

The beedrill swarm had already caught up to us and slowly blocked out the sun from our eyes with their numbers. "Well I'm not go in down without a fight what about you?" 

The skarmory holds my gaze as it gives a single solemn nod. I grin 

"glad to hear it."

The swarm was getting close now, almost there, just a little more...

"Now, skarmory use sand attack!" Skarmory spread its wings wide before bringing them back down again and throwing up a huge cloud of dirt from the ground. 

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"Now push the cloud forward with gust!"

Again skarmory lifted its wings before swinging them back down again only this time powerful burst of wind shot forward blowing the dust cloud forward and severely damaging some of the more impatient beedrill.

Several of the weaker beedrill fell out of the sky unconscious from the super effective move. The dust cloud had spread to cover up the entire swarm. 

Exchanging glances we both nod our heads before I jump on skarmory's back and take off into the air. At the exact moment we left the ground dozens of pin missiles landed where we were just standing.

"Good thing we played it safe there huh?" I said as we circled above the beedrill swarm. 

"Now then let's start some mayhem, skarmory use wind cutter"

Skarmory stretched its wings and swung them down causing crescent shaped blades of air to shoot forward and into the top of the blinded and unsuspecting swarm. Several immediately fell out of the sky unconscious landing on top of their brethren flying below them.

"Nice job lets hit em with another gust!" Skarmory stretched its wings outwards to obey when a lance shaped light suddenly shot out of the cloud followed by several others. 

"Oh Shi-!" 

I was cut off as the pin missiles slammed into us knocking me of skarmory's back. A pain filled screech filled the air as skarmory took the brunt of the attack for me.

A memory flashed through my mind of a smiling boy his features blurry and indistinct. Another memory of that same boy crying out in agony while shielding me from something I could not see.

A single name emerged from the dark abyss that was my memories.

"Enzo!"

Suddenly I was back in the present and my body was quickly falling to meet the earth. Instinctively I lash out trying to grab onto anything that will slow my fall.

My hand suddenly latches onto the leg of a much to eager beedrill. It raises its left hand stinger to pierce me but I pull it off balance by yanking on its leg while swinging back and forth. 

Is stinger misses my back by an inch and rips through my shirt. Without hesitating I grab the stick thin arm connected to its body and pull myself towards its wings. 

I flies around erratically trying hard to throw me off but I won't have it. I grab antenna on its head and yank it to the right where skarmory landed.

The beedrill's body forcefully turns smashing into its comrades surrounding skarmory. With a fierce yell I leap off the beedrills back and tackle the beedrill hanging closest to skarmory midair. We both go crashing to the ground with me on top.

Quickly I roll to the side just in time to miss the stinger of one of the beedrill and watch it slam into the one I downed knocking it unconscious. 

I jump to my feet and see three beedrill approaching me in a semi circle as two others approach the unconscious skarmory.

"No!" I pull out the pokeball and point the button on the center at skarmor. Immediately a red beam shoots out and engulfs the downed skarmory pulling it into the safety of the pokeball. Unfortunately this act cost me as one of the beedrill took the or I let my guard down to rush me. 

Time seemed to slow down as I watched its stinger slowly but surely get closer and closer to me. Reflexively I twist to the side but I'm not fast enough to completely dodge it as the beedrill's stinger slams into my shoulder.

A burning hot sensation spreads from my shoulder to my head to my feet as the beedrill's poison kicks in. I collapse all strength gone from my legs. My vision darkens as the beedrill begin to close in.

"So this is how it ends huh?"

Dying at the hands of a pokemon isn't so bad I mean come on how may people can actually claim they died by beedrill?  

"Heh, I'm gonna be the life of the party, Enzo just wait for me..."

A smile creeps onto my face as my vision starts to go completely dark.

"Typhlosion use flame wheel!"

Light fills my dimming vision but it's like looking through a long tunnel, distant, it's light unable to reach me. I can almost hear a voice now. However it's even further than the light.

"Don't worry kid we're gonna get you all fixed up I promise, no way am I letting you die until you show me how you rode that beedrill."

The voice was deep and powerful but even from the tunnel could hear the warmth and kindness in that voice. The last thing I remember is the feeling of being carried.

Authors note: sorry there wasn't much conventional pokemon battling but I mean come on he rode a freaking beedrill next he'll be rodeoing tauros...probably not...maybe...?