Episode 51:
A Pika Day Out

When we last left Icy and Sara, they were lying unconscious on the floor of the Viridian Forest. During the night, Nurse Joy had led a search team out to recover them. They woke the next morning inside her pokécenter at Viridian City.

Icy and Sara had a small breakfast before heading out into the streets of Viridian. “Let’s head north to the Viridian Forest. It’s a lot like the forest you’re from only bigger.” Sara liked the idea of seeing something similar to her home and happily held Icy’s paw as they walked towards the forest.

As they entered the forest, Sara’s eyes lit up. “It’s beautiful Icy!” She kissed Icy on the cheek making him jump high into the air. “Pihehehe...” she giggled. Icy landed in front of her. “You’re silly!” She giggled again then ran ahead to scope out the sights. The forest was in great condition lately with many flowers blooming, as well as Oddishes. It gave Icy an idea.

Icy searched his bag for a certain pokéball. “Ah, here it is.” He opened the ball revealing his Gloom, Leafy. “Sara, come here for a sec.” Icy tried to pick up his flower pokémon as Sara came back to him.

“What Icy? Why did you call me?” Icy was still struggling to pick up Leafy. Finally, he managed to get the Gloom into his paws and presented it Sara as a flower arrangement. “Awww... Cute! Huh?” Icy wobbled for a sec, then collapsed with Leafy on top of him.

“Uhh... for you...” he said as he gave up trying to get Leafy off of him. Sara pulled the large Gloom off of Icy and waited for him to get up. “Heh... thanks. Isn’t Leafy nice looking.”

“Uh huh. She’s cute. She looks like a big flower!” Sara sniffed Leafy and promptly covered her nose. “Eww... but she doesn’t smell like a pretty flower,” she said falling back. Leafy and Icy sweatdropped.

“Well, Glooms aren’t exactly known for having a nice scent. Oh well. Leafy, return.” Leafy was sucked back into the pokéball. Sara had recovered from the awful smell and was back on her feet.

“What pokémon live in this forest Icy?”

“Well, there are my favorites, Caterpies. There are also Weedles and even other Pikachus.”

“Other Pikachus live here?”

“Yep. But they are rare to spot. We might not run into their herd.”

“Oh. That’s ok. I’m happy with the Pikachu I’ve got already.” She smiled at Icy. Icy’s cheeks became very red as he let out a small giggle. “Come on, I wanna go exploring!” Sara ran off into another wooded area with Icy close behind.

“Wait for me Sara!”

They came upon a small clearing where they found a small group of Weedles and Caterpies. “Look Icy! Caterpies!”

“Caterpies?!? Where???” Sara pointed ahead and Icy’s face was filled with joy. “CATERPIES!!!” he shouted as he grabbed Sara’s paw and ran into the clearing. Since they were both pokémon, the Caterpies and Weedles didn’t mind their intrusion. They merely looked up to make sure it wasn’t a Pidgey or Spearow looking for a snack. Icy walked up to some of the Caterpies and introduced himself and Sara.

“Hello. I’m Icy and this is Sara. What’cha all up to?”

The Caterpie looked at Icy, then at Sara. “We’re just hanging out. It’s a really nice day today.”

“Neat, may we join you?”

“Sure I guess. We don’t see too many Pikachus around in this section of the forest. They tend to stay near the center.” Icy and Sara joined the other Caterpies and they played games with them for the afternoon. Icy didn’t mention to them that he was a trainer. As the sun was going down, Icy and Sara waved goodbye to the group of Caterpies and headed deeper into the forest.

“It’s getting late Icy. I’m hungry.” Icy was also hungry and searched the area for something to eat. He hadn’t gone far before finding a big tree full of bright red apples.

“Ymmm. Those look good.” He climbed up the tree and retrieved two of the apples and brought one back for Sara and one for himself.

“Mmm... good!” She yawned softly. “Ohh... it’s really late now. I can hardly see.”

“Yeah. Let’s sleep the night here and we can take another adventure through the forest in the morning.”

“Ok. Good night Icy.” She yawned again and fell asleep. Icy gave her a kiss on her forehead and said good night to her before falling asleep himself. The sky became dark with only the glow of the Moon keeping the earth from being covered in total darkness. The two Pikachus slept well that night.