Yellow strutted along toward his next destination. If he had to get his badges back the hard way, so be it. After all, with this Caterpie, how could he possibly lose?
Or so he thought, until he remembered what his next gym battle would be.
Arriving in town, he let out a rather loud "fuck", when he saw Cerulean City before him. Remembering that his Caterpie seemed proficient with water attacks, he could tell right away it would be useless to even bother using him... unless it had some other trick up its sleeve.
As he took his first step into town, a man slammed into him in a rush. Both of them collapsed. Yellow was the first to get back to his feet. Infuriated, Yellow demanded that the man apologize.
"I don't need to apologize to a runt like you! And I'm busy!" The man yelled, turning his back and trying to climb over the small ledge that prevented most trainers from returning the way they came.
"Hey! I'm not done with you yet!" Yellow yelled, and with the full force of his body, he lunged at the man, just as he got a leg over the ledge. Grabbing onto his arm, Yellow pulled as hard as he could, but sadly the strange metallic gauntlet-like apparatus he was wearing simply came un-velcroed and fell off.
"Aww, shit! My snag gauntlet!" The man exclaimed, "The boss is going to kill me if he finds out I lost it! But whatever, I'm out of here! I'll figure something else out!"
No sooner than the man had left than Officer Jenny arrived upon her Vespa. Seeing Yellow standing next to the ledge as if he was about to climb it, Jenny made an assumption.
"You! Stop! You're under arrest!" Officer Jenny yelled.
"For what?" Yellow demanded.
"For attempted theft of a bicycle, and theft of two custom-ordered masterballs!" Jenny resounded, brandishing her handcuffs.
"Now wait just a second! I haven't tried to steal any masterballs! Or bikes!" Yellow countered, angry at being accused of petty theft. (Although, he admitted to himself, masterballs are somewhat rare and incredibly expensive.)
"Wait, you look familiar." Jenny said, thinking about the situation a bit more carefully. "Are you... Yellow? The pokémon trainer who..."
"Became the champion of the Elite Four? Yeah." Yellow interrupted.
"No, I was about to say, who recently lost his title of champion to another pokemon trainer, and has been accused of murder of an innocent Dewgong, leading to the life-threatening self-inflicted injuries of an attempted suicide by the Elite Four member, Lorelai. But obviously, you are he."
"Now, wait a second! If she had just opened the door..." Yellow said defensively.
"Well, you are fortunate. Since Lorelai has not yet regained consciousness and cannot press charges at this time, and the murder or even the passive and willful endangerment of the lives of pokémon is not a crime, there's nothing I can do." Jenny said with a tone of voice that implied that she wanted to cuff someone.
"Well, sorry, but I'm not the guy you were looking for and I need to get to Cerulean city to see Misty." Yellow said flippantly.
"Did you happen to see the suspect? I was trailing him, but he headed this way and disappeared in the tall grass."
"Yeah, I saw him. He climbed the ledge after assaulting me, and not apologizing." Yellow claimed, while hiding the gauntlet behind his back.
"Well, damn. This is bad. I have to go." Jenny said, doing a doughnut, and fleeing toward the City as fast as her Vespa could drive.
Yellow thought about the words of the suspect. So, he was a thief... and he called the metal sleeve a snag gauntlet... which sounded vaguely familiar. Not wanting to waste an opportunity, Yellow put the device on his arm. It fit perfectly, as designed, having Velcro straps to ensure that it would be well suited to fit any individual.
Yellow headed to the Cerulean gym. There, swimmers were training for an upcoming race. Yellow ignored them all, heading to Misty, who was just drying off.
"Oh! Hey, Yellow. So, heard you lost the champ title, hmm? That's too bad. But that's what you get for being such a cheater." Misty said with a smug look. She seemed to be recalling how his first battle against her involved one incredibly mischievous, modest Pikachu who was (overall) outstanding in ability and couldn't be better in regard to its electric moves.
"Ow, Misty. I see you're still as ugly on the inside as ever. You may have that stupid tween Ash fooled, but I know better." Yellow laughed.
"Ugh, you're so infuriating, Yellow! Why are you even here!?" Misty yelled.
"Simple. I want another badge." Yellow said.
"What? Another Cascade badge? You must be kidding! This is your THIRD ONE! What did you do this time? Went skydiving off a Drifloon and forgot to secure your trainer case?" Misty inquired incredulously. She obviously didn't believe him the previous time, either, when he claimed that a rampaging stampede of Jumpluff had stolen his trainer case. Of course, she had been right. He'd simply lost it, but he'd never admit it to her.
"No. If you must know, it was stolen from me..." Yellow was about to say Blue did it, but he thought of an even better scapegoat, "by a man running from town with some masterballs in his possession after he knocked me down." Yellow retorted.
"Well, you know the rules. You want a badge, you have to earn it." Misty said, sticking out her tongue.
"Fine, let's battle." Yellow replied.
"I'm short on time. Our team has to train. How about an abbreviated battle. One Pokémon versus one Pokémon. First to be unable to use their Pokémon in battle loses." Misty suggested.
"Fine. I choose Caterpie." Yellow mumbled.
"WHAT?" Misty said as she burst into laughter so hard it brought tears to her eyes.
"Oh, this is rich! A Caterpie! Oh man, I can't wait for this." Misty said.
The battle began. Each trainer sent out their Pokémon, but Yellow still had an ace up his sleeve. Just after the battle started, Yellow threw a masterball. It, however, glowed with a strange light, and suddenly captured Misty's Starmie.
"Game set and match. I win." Yellow said, as Misty looked on in amazement. She had never seen anyone manage to capture another trainer's Pokémon before. Every time someone had done that in the past, the Pokémon had been able to resist. Misty, though peeved, gave him a Cascade badge.
"I never want to see your cheating face around here again. And don't you DARE think I'm going to let you just steal my Starmie! I'm filing a police report about this!" Misty cried as she ran off.
"Piece of cake. You know what? I could get used to this!" Yellow said, as he giggled and left the gym.
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