Chapter 37: Evolution! Metapod!
(Second update!! New book seeking collections, flowers!!)
Thwack!!!
The Poké Ball hit Pidgeotto's head, a bang as it opened, Pidgeotto directly turned into a red light sucked into the Poké Ball.
With a click, the Poké Ball landed on the ground and began to shake, the red dot on the Poké Ball kept flashing, Pikachu, Caterpie, and Misty nervously watched the shaking Poké Ball, as if their hearts were shaking along with it.
Clang!!!
After shaking for a while, it finally made a sound, the red light dissipated, the Poké Ball stopped shaking and successfully caught Pidgeotto.
"Yes! Caterpie, you did great!" Ash excitedly said.
He was truly happy, secretly thinking to himself. In the anime, Ash did not understand the type matchup at the beginning, often making blunders of fighting against unfavorable types, but in the later seasons, he gradually understood the type restraints.
But he still didn't take the type restraint issue seriously, as long as he was happy, and indeed, most trainers in this world care about attributes.
Fighting against unfavorable types is indeed difficult, but winning is truly satisfying.
Meow~~~
Caterpie also squinted its eyes, if its mouth wasn't shaped like a gas mask, it could probably see its smile, Pikachu was also very excited, came to Caterpie's side and happily patted it.
As for Caterpie itself, it probably never felt this happy in its life. You know, it's very weak, they only have the option of running away when they encounter flying types, they never thought they could defeat them.
"See! I told you, even if you don't have the type advantage, you can still win. You can't judge any Pokémon by its appearance, no matter what kind it is."
"Yes, yes, Ash-sensei!" Misty said in a tone of being taught.
But she really agreed with Ash's words in her heart, and not only did she use Caterpie to defeat her opponent, but it was a Pidgeotto that was many levels higher than her and restrained her.
Misty knew that she couldn't always look at it with colored glasses just because she didn't like it.
"Do you want to try? Caterpie really wants you to encourage it!" Ash took the opportunity to say.
"Ah!! I... " Misty was still a little hesitant, after all, she had been afraid of bugs since she was a child and still is, it's impossible to not be afraid just because she says she's not afraid.
"Give it a try! If you can't, don't force it." Ash said, holding Caterpie and putting it in front of Misty, smiling.
Misty listened to Ash's words, looked at the expectant eyes of Caterpie in front of her, its dark round eyeballs seemed like amber, slowly, it didn't seem so scary anymore.
She carefully stretched out her hand and gradually approached, Caterpie saw the approaching hand and also slightly leaned its head forward, Misty instinctively wanted to withdraw, but she had already touched it.
She felt the skin of Caterpie, it was a slightly soft shell, the surface of the shell had some green fluff, it felt like a blanket and not as unacceptable as she thought.
"See, isn't it good?" Ash said, smiling at this scene.
"Yes! Ah!!!"
Just as Misty was about to speak, suddenly, Caterpie closed its eyes, a blue-white light suddenly flashed from its body, Misty was startled and quickly withdrew her hand, Ash was also surprised to see this.
"This is... evolving?"
Ash put Caterpie on the ground, watching the light in front of him, he didn't expect that his first Pokémon to evolve would come so quickly.
This was the first time he had seen a Pokémon evolve with his own eyes, and it was his own Pokémon, it was a completely different feeling from seeing evolution in games, this was the real evolution of life.
Caterpie is a very weak Pokémon, so to adapt to the cruel nature as quickly as possible, their evolution cycle is very short, they will evolve rapidly in a short period of time.
Ordinary wild Caterpie evolve very quickly, those captured by trainers will evolve even faster after training and battles.
You know, in the game, Pidgey needs to reach level 18 to evolve into Pidgeotto, and to evolve further, it needs to reach level 36.
The same three-stage evolution, Caterpie only needs to reach level 10 to reach the third stage of evolution, because it is really too weak.
That's why its evolution cycle is so short, because they must quickly gain the strength to protect themselves so that their group can survive in nature.
The stronger the Pokémon, the longer and more difficult the evolution cycle naturally, this is the law of nature, the evolved evolution system.
Obviously, there is a huge gap between Caterpie and Pidgeotto, currently Caterpie is below level 7 according to the game calculation, while Pidgeotto is above level 18.
Across such a high level, even if Caterpie is only level 2-3, the experience gained is enough to reach the evolution conditions.
Looking at the radiance in front of him, the outline of Caterpie began to change, gradually emerging like the shape of the moon, the light gradually dissipated, and a green figure emerged.
Its body is crescent-shaped, its eyes are protruding on both sides, its eyes look very lazy, its whole body is covered with green crystal-like armor, this is the evolved form of Caterpie, Metapod.
"It evolved into Metapod!" Misty exclaimed.
"It must be because it defeated Pidgeotto! You're so hard-working, Caterpie, no, Metapod, you'll be able to truly shine soon!" Ash gently stroked Metapod in front of him, Metapod seems unable to make a sound now.
But it also squinted its eyes as if smiling, wild Metapod only needs a week to evolve, if trained properly, it can be faster.
"Right!" After praising Metapod, Ash also quickly got up and walked to the tree next to it, where Pidgeotto's Poké Ball was.
Because of Caterpie's evolution, he had forgotten about it, and now he remembered, Ash quickly picked up the Poké Ball and directly opened it.
Bang!!!
Blue light flashed, Pidgeotto's figure flashed out of the Poké Ball and landed on the ground, still with some thread wrapped around it, making it very uncomfortable, it had no arms and couldn't break free at all.
"I'll help you! Please give me your guidance in the future, Pidgeotto." Ash knelt down, helping Pidgeotto remove the thread from its body while greeting it, Pidgeotto also felt good about Ash's actions.
Pi-bi!