As Sean and his partner made their way down Route 4 in the darkness, the more nocturnal Pokémon were really becoming active. The forest was full of odd sounds, turning the silence of the night into a sort of strange wild Pokémon symphony.
As Seanapillar inched forward along the ground, he noticed something else moving at his level. Nudging Sean, the little worm gestured in the direction of the slithering creature. A pair of yellow eyes peered out from the dark bushes... and an Ekans's head emerged from the darkness!
A level 6 Ekans appeared!
Sean grimaced slightly, he was hoping for something he could poison. Still, his recent victory at the battle club helped fuel his smirk, “We can do this Seanapillar...” He said softly. Sean took his Pokedex out of his pants to quickly check the stats of the ekans. However, his opponent was getting impatient, and leered at them both. Its eyes cut through them and a slight fear in them cut their defense. “Okay,” He whispered to his wurmple, “It's main asset is its attack, so if we can slow it down and dodge it, we'll be fine.” Seanapillar nodded and jumped down into the grass.
“Use string shot!” Sean called, and the worm complied by shooting the goop toward the ekans.
The snake Pokémon was covered in a mess of stingy goop from the Wurmple's mouth, slowing its attempt to strike the worm. After a bit of struggling, it gave up trying to reach the bug and shot a poison barb at Wurmple with poison sting. It was mostly just to keep the little bug away as it tried to free itself from String Shot - which was difficult without any arms.
“Good job!” Sean began to praise his pokemon, but stopped as the stinger stuck itself into the wurmple's pink body. Sean was worried, knowing how useful poison could be. Hopefully the low level would keep the wurmple from getting affected by the venom.
“Alright Seanapillar,” Sean said, shaking off the worry for now, “Use Tackle while it's still caught up!”
Seanapillar hit Ekans with a full body Tackle, sending it reeling back... but also freeing it from the String Shot on the ground. Though it was still sticky and slow, Ekans had regained mobility, and used the chance to Wrap the Wurmple before it could recover from its previous attack.
"Damnit..." Sean grumbled, trying to think of a way out of this. Tackle was useless right now if he couldn't get any momentum. and what use was string shot if the two were already stuck together... '"Wait..." An idea was formulating in his head, and a confident smirk appeared on his lips.
"Seanapillar! Use string shot again!" For a fraction of a second, confusion entered the wurmple's eyes, but he did as he was told and shot to goop at the ekans. While being squeezed, Seanapillar too was caught up in the mess and didn't seem to be able to escape too easily from his opponent. "Great! Now use poison sting, but keep it in your tail!" Seanapillar complied and stuck the stinger into the ekans's body. Because it was still connected to the wurmple's body, there was a larger dose of poison administered to the victim. Even if it wasn't very effective, the chances of poisoning the enemy were increased.
All caught up in the String Shot, the Ekans loosened its grip on Wurmple, struggling wildly against the threads that had nearly completely enveloped it at such close range and for the extended period of time. Relatively unhurt by Poison Sting, but still annoyed by Seanapillar's tail, the Ekans thrashed even more wildly, releasing the Wurmple entirely and focusing all of its energy into escaping the String Shot.
The plan worked well enough, although the attack didn't seem to do much at all, at least he got his wurmple unwrapped, "Go ahead and chew yourself out now Seanapillar!" The wurmple's jaws had special saliva that dissolved the spring shot so it wouldn't get stuck to itself. Slowly, but surely, Seanapillar wriggled itself free of its self-induced brace with the enemy and crawled a few feet away. "Alright!' Sean said, "Use tackle again!" it's pretty much all we can do at this point,then an idea struck him, "Wait! Aim yourself so that your stinger hits it instead of your horn!" This should do some critical damage while the ekans was busy with the string.
With Ekans all tied up (literally) with the sticky, silky threads, Wurmple had ample time to position itself just so and hit Ekans's weak spot for maximum damage. A critical hit, the Tackle sent the wrapped up Ekans flying. The snake stopped its writhing, completely fatigued.
The wild Ekans fainted!
Sean defeated the wild Ekans!
Seanapillar gained EXP!
Seanapillar grew to level 7!
Sean jumped into the air and raced to retrieve his friend, “You were awesome Seanapillar!” He said, holding his slightly furry friend. He didn't even look too injured, he figured the two would be able to continue on for a little longer before deciding on whether or not to camp or return to the pokecenter. He set the Wurmple on the ground for him to follow and started to head off into the woods, but stopped, when he noticed that his friend was following him, “Are you okay?” Sean asked as he stooped down to look at the creature, who was shaking slightly and beginning to glow.
Seanapillar became cloaked in harsh white light, energy swirling around him, and his body began to change!
Seanapillar is evolving!
When the light faded, a light cocoon sat in Wurmple's place, staring up at Sean with one eye.
Congratulations! Seanapillar evolved into Silcoon!
Seanapillar learned Harden!
Sean stared blankly for a second or so back at the Silcoon, jaw slightly slack. He picked up the creature, who was quite smooth and hard, but still warm.
“Oh my god...” Sean said softly, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!” His face lit up and his voice crescendoed as he starting jumping up and down with his pokemon in his arms. “Oh my god!” He repeated, his voice climbing octaves as easily as stairs. He stopped and looked at his new Silcoon for a second, but all he could muster was another, “Oh my god!”
Seanapillar almost got worried that his trainer would be upset with him for evolving until Sean began his freak out. The one red eye lit up in the same way that it had as a wurmple, making Sean's heart melt. “Come on, Seanapillar,” I'm keeping the name, he'll always be my Seanapillar, “lets go off and find some more pokemon.” He set the cocoon on his shoulder, which emitted some string shot from its body to hold itself still while his trainer walked.
Their three eyes were almost glowing in the night with happiness as they set off into the tall grass.