A/N: Another crazy little idea. For some reason I have eggs on the brain. And drabble sequences – as if I don't have enough of those already.
Eggxactly as Planned
1. Egg
Pokémon eggs had an unfortunately round body, which let them roll away from their mother without much preamble at all. If said egg is not around hatching time, it is even more unfortunate – because who can expect an egg to know when to not crash into a sharp rock or not stop in a ditch and get run over by a Ponyta pulling a cart? Naturally, when the mother saw, they ran after the egg straight away, sometimes catching said egg and bringing it safely back to the nest or hole or wherever they had made their little home. But some had the misfortune of being away at the time, and those eggs were often lost to them forever.
Sometimes the eggs were damaged, and not even a Nurse Joy could heal them. Other times they rolled safely into something soft and hatched away from home, being caught by a beginning trainer happy for the easy catch. Sometimes those catches are lucky for both parties, because the trainer turns out to be loving and caring and one couldn't ask for much better. At other times the Pokémon were less fortunate, because their trainer was more focused on power than wellbeing. Sometimes the Pokémon was even adopted by others in the wild and they made a new family. Sometimes they were picked up by someone for good or ill before even hatching.
But sometimes, just sometimes, fate sent the egg in another direction. For Ryouga Yamamura would never have picked up a Pokémon otherwise, if an egg hadn't chosen the moment it was rolling right past him to hatch into a black-smoke emitting Magby.