Revised.
High School Dilemma-Pokemon Style
Far out into the oceans south of the the Kanto Region was a small island that was known world wide as the Tsugi Island, the island that was home to the greatest Pokemon Academy on the planet. Throughout each of the regions, the Tsugi Academy was famous for producing top of the line trainers, coordinators and breeders that none of the other Academies could even compare to.
About two thirds of the island was devoted to the actual compound of the school while the rest of the island was a forested area until you reached the beach. But at the gate to the wall of the compound, a short male with brown hair stood with a large brown cloak covering his body. While he appeared to a mysterious person at first glance, when he pulled down his hood, it was revealed that he was wearing a pair of huge square glasses with an enormous plastic nose to cover his actual nose.
A soft gust of wind blew as he chucked his backpack over the gate, the bag landing safely on the other side. All he had to do now was the get over the gate before one of the security guards passed by. Next he grabbed the gate, preparing to climb it, but instead he found himself shaking violently as an electrical shock surged through his body. This action set off many of the alarms along the perimeter of the compound, alerting the guards that someone was trying to get in.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" The sirens screeched, getting the attention of many of the guards that were in the area, resulting a large group of men meeting up at the southern gate.
On the roof of the central building on the complex was a small group of students that were attending the Tsugi Academy, their gave focused on the scene that was taking place at the gate.
"Are you sure he's the one?"
"He's wearing what we sent. I'm sure that's him."
"Well if it is, I'm a bit disappointed with how he got into here."
"Please, all that matters is he got in without having to battle anyone."
"This is him?" A brown haired teen asked out loud, looking down at the drooling fifteen year old who looked like a complete fool with the his fake glasses and plastic nose.
"Gary, no need to be so cold. He just got here." Another voice said.
"Jimmy, you said he would be reliable. I was expecting someone a little more…professional." Gary continued.
"Well I'm sorry if my friend doesn't look like a professional, but I'm sure he can get the job done before things get any worse." The purple haired boy with a backwards cap on replied.
"I know Jimmy, but couldn't it be someone a little less…idiotic. Brock is bad enough." Gary went on.
"Hey, I heard that!" A tall tan skinned male shouted at Gary, obviously offended by Gary's comment.
"That was the goal." Gary shot back with a smirk.
"Well aren't you snappy today Gary." A new voice chimed in, snapping his fingers to go along with the horrible pun.
"Ash...shut up." A gruff voice cut in, wondering how his friend could have so much confidence when giving a bad joke.
"Yeah, be quiet Ashy-boy." Gary added.
"Gary, I think you've said enough as well." The gruff voice continued.
"Paul's got you there Gary." Brock said with a chuckled before a new person entered the room.
"Oh visitors, I need a moment to check and see if his vitals are okay?" A feminine voice began only to be cut off by Brock.
"Nurse Joy! You can check my vitals any time!" Brock shouted, hearts appearing in his eyes as he raced toward the woman. Before Brock could even get within five feet of her, Brock received a blow to his stomach followed closely by his entire body going numb.
"Cro…" A small blue creature said as Brock collapsed the ground, unable to move on his own now. Nurse Joy could only let out a chuckle, finding that Brock's usual antics hadn't faded away during summer vacation.
"See, we don't need any more idiots. Brock and Ash fill up that quota nicely." Gary commented, pointing at Croagunk who was currently dragging Brock toward one of the corners of the room by one of his legs.
"Hey, I'm not a total idiot." Ash said indignantly.
"Yeah, me neither!" Brock added from the corner he was currently resting in.
"They've got a point Gary. They're not total idiots, they just have more idiotic moments than the average person." Jimmy explained in a matter-of-fact tone with a chuckle as Brock and Ash gave him a mild glare.
"Anyway, you really believe he can do it Jimmy?" Ash asked, deciding that it wan an appropriate time to change the subject.
"Yup. He got himself expelled from the Kanto Academy and you have to be really bad to get kicked out of that Academy." Jimmy began, getting a rather flabbergasted expression from all the guys except for Paul who only raised his eyebrows.
Out of the five globally known Academies, Kanto was considered to be the bottom out of the five greats. As a result, all of the problem children from each of the other four Academies was sent to Kanto where the tolerance of bad students was incredibly high in order to make sure these children could actually make something of themselves.
"Expelled. What did he do?" Paul asked, showing interest in this new person that had appeared.
"After getting transferred to Kanto from Hoenn, he battled the best senior in school in an official match and won. Two days after that a group of seniors trashed his room." Jimmy explained. "Although compared to the messed up system in our school, their pecking order was correct until he screwed it over so they picked on him because that."
"So why was he expelled?" Gary asked.
"After about a week of having multiple seniors picking on him, he beat the crap out of a group of them. Fourteen to be exact. At the same time the principal had been looking for him to tell him that had been recommended to the Tsugi Academy, but when the principal found all of the students he had beaten, he was expelled immediately. When the principal told him that, he decked him and was thrown out of the school immediately." Jimmy continued.
"Damn." Gary exclaimed, raising his eyebrows. "I gotta give him props for that."
"We grew up together in Johto. But at the end of middle school I was recommended for the Tsugi Academy while he went to the Johto Academy. During his freshman year there he got expelled and was sent to the Hoenn Academy. Unfortunately that was at the end of the year so he missed his finals and was held back one year." Jimmy explained, remembering their times together at the Goldenrod port. "So he's a freshman this year again instead of being a sophomore like me."
"So this must be that 'Undaunted Trainer' guy those kids in Sinnoh were talking about last year, right?" Ash asked, recalling his trip to Sinnoh during his sophomore year. While he was at the Sinnoh Academy, many of the students were talking about a guy who managed to get himself expelled from three out of the five great Academies, causing a great ruckus as he moved from one school to the next.
"That would be him." Jimmy said, giving Ash as a nod of confirmation.
"I can't wait to battle him now." Ash exclaimed at the prospect of a powerful opponent.
"Well at least he doesn't sound like an idiot. Maybe he will be useful." Gary said with a nod a approval he took a look at the sleeping boy.
"Come guys, he isn't up yet so let's drop back in later." Ash said, his stomach adding in its own opinion. "Plus it's almost lunch time."
Everyone sweated dropped at one of Ash's trademarks before deciding that it was best that they go get lunch while they still had time. Once the group of teenage boys exited the room, Nurse Joy quickly finished her examination of the boy, finding everything perfectly fine with him.
"Alright mister…" She looked down at the clipboard that was on the side of the bed. "Blake. You should be perfectly fine by the end of day. Hopefully your not as bad as all of the guys think you are. Welcome to the Tsugi Academy."
Before she left, Nurse Joy removed the glasses and nose from Blake's face, leaving the boy who appeared to be sound asleep. After a minute passed, Blake rose up from the bed with a large grin plastered on his face.
"Wow, I might just stay here for a while with how interesting things are here. Nice characters and a ton of stuff to meddle with." He said with a chuckle, opening his backpack that was hanging from the side of his bed to take out a notebook. "Heh heh, let's begin with act one of my masterpiece."
October 4th
Tsuji Island
Tsuji Academy
The island itself had been discovered for quite some time, but it hadn't received a name until the fifth great Academy was built on the island. Being dubbed as the 'Next' island, the Pokemon circuit looked to the Tsugi Island as a home where the next generation of Pokemon researchers, trainers, coordinators and breeders would be coming from.
In truth, the island was also a testing ground to see how isolation would affect the growth of the students. Upon entrance to the Academy, most of the students lost contact with family and friends beyond the island unless an emergency had come up. In the Tsugi Academy, students would almost one hundred percent of their time to Pokemon. The isolation was great for the students, resulting in unbelievably fast growth...but it also caused great unrest among the students because they all now lacked a release for their stress valves.
The compound of the Academy blocked students from going out into the rest of the island for a majority of the time with the eleven foot wall with a few gates for entrance and exit. Inside the compound was enormous, spanning a large distance to hold everything that would be need in order to produce Pokemon experts. The Academy was probably the largest building on the campus, followed closely by the dorms. There were four dorm buildings in total, one each grade level, all of them being spread out across the campus with now real factor to determine why they were placed there.
Aside from the dorms and the Academy itself, their were numerous other buildings that were present on campus specifically for each type of Pokemon expert such as a Battle Arena and Pokemon Gym for trainers to sharpen their skills and condition their Pokemon. A Contest Hall for coordinators to make sure their skills never went rusty and many, many berry gardens that were constantly in use by the breeders.
Cafeteria
A tan skinned brunette carefully placed his lunch tray on the table which held a small can of brand name soda, and a decent sized hamburger.
"First as usual." Brock muttered to himself, taking a seat while glancing around the cafeteria that was slowly beginning to fill up with students from every grade since lunch hour had begun.
Brock was a tall senior of the Tsugi Academy, although most of his friends were actually students from lower grade levels. Personally he thought the seniors were all pretty divided in the first place because the traditional Ranking system in the school had been thrown out of whack since not a single senior as present on the Top 10 listing. Although that didn't really matter to him.
"Brocky, what's up?" A female voice called out to him that Brock quickly recognized as his blue haired friend that went by the name of Dawn.
"The usual Dawn." Brock replied, turning around to see a slim, sixteen year old sophomore with shoulder length, royal blue hair that she would normally where up in a pony tail but she decided to let down from the next few days. Resting on her shoulder was a small blue Pokemon that resembled a penguin which had been identified as a Piplup.
Depending on the size of a Pokemon , they were allowed the be outside of their Poke-ball inside of the Academy, but good behavior was expected of these Pokemon that had this privilege.
"How are things with Holly?" She asked, sitting down next to him.
"She still won't give me the time of day." He responded down heartedly, dropping his head down onto the table. The bluenette gave a small chuckle as she managed to pull Brock's tray out of the way to avoid having Brock cover his forehead in hamburger meat.
Dawn smiled and gave him a pat on the back since she knew this subject never went anywhere.
"What about you and Ash?" Brock asked, getting rid of the depressed attitude he had.
"What kind of progress can I make when he's with Misty?" Dawn asked in return, raising one eyebrow.
"Dawn, you can see it too. Their relationship is going nowhere. Ash told me that the last time they had a decent discussion that didn't end with an argument was three months ago. But I have caught him staring at you...although I can't tell if he was lost in thought or being a teenage guy-" Brock was cut off when she slapped her hand onto his mouth, covering it while waving to the approaching black haired junior.
"Hey Ash, what's up?" Dawn asked nervously as the boy sat down on the opposite side of Brock with a shrug. Ash was lacking both his trademarks today, the first being his official Pokemon League hat and the second was his partner Pokemon Pikachu who could always be found on his shoulder.
"Ah…just another fight with Misty." Ash replied, not paying any mind to how he was actually talking to.
"What was it about this time?" Brock asked, removing Dawn's hand from over his mouth.
"She accused me of spending time with other girls when she's not around, but she's never around and I was lonely, what's wrong with talking to Dawn or May?" Ash asked, looking up at Brock and Dawn.
"Well I don't see anything wrong with that. It was just some friendly conversation, right?" Brock asked, raising one eyebrow at Ash who looked at him as if he had grown a second head.
"Of course! I'd never cheat on Misty!" Ash shouted at Brock. Doing thing like that was out of the question to Ash Ketchum. He was loyal to a fault. "But it does hurt when I can't talk to her at all."
"Why don't you break up with her?" Brock said, giving the answer that only required a little common sense. Ash just shrugged at looked up at the ceiling.
"But I don't want to Brock. I always had a crush on Misty and now that I have her, I don't want to give up on her so easily." Ash said truthfully, with a look that Dawn found touching.
'Gosh, Ash is so faithful but Misty doesn't even notice how desperately he's hanging onto their relationship.' She said inwardly, finishing the slice of pizza she had taken for lunch.
"But that makes me wonder what she's doing all the time. She never answers my texts or phone calls, and it kind of feels like she's avoiding me sometimes. The only thing she answered so far was an e-mail I sent her like, two months ago." Ash said, lowering his head. "Dawn. What would you being doing if you weren't answering the texts or calls from your boyfriend?"
Dawn blushed now that Ash was focusing on her.
"If it was me, I'd probably have a lot on my mind that I'm trying to sort out. But that's just me. Going from what I've heard in public, Misty could be seeing other people." Dawn explained, getting a clueless look from Ash that she found cute.
"What? Of course she's seeing other people. I'm doing the same thing." Ash said, shocking Dawn and Brock.
"Wh-What?" Dawn exclaimed, struggling to comprehend what Ash had just said.
"To think, I can't even get one girl, but Ash can get two." Brock said, sliding under the table where he fell into a deep depression.
"Ash, how could you?" Dawn asked
"How could I do what?" Ash asked in return, wrinkling his forehead in confusion.
"See someone else while you're with Misty." Dawn replied.
"I'm always seeing other people Dawn. I'm seeing you and Brock right now aren't I?" Ash said, pointing toward his eyes which caused both Dawn and Brock to face fault.
"We didn't mean literally!" Dawn and Brock shouted together, leaving Ash confused. Dawn signed at her crush's denseness and rose from seat, saying that she would be right back.
As Dawn began to walk toward the garbage bin, Ash's eye, instead of focusing on the huge hamburger that was in front of him, followed Dawn's body, particularly her rear end.
"Ash?" Brock said, getting no reply from his friend. "Ash!"
"What?" He said, snapping back to reality since Dawn had thrown out her stuff and turned around to face them again.
"Quit staring." Brock said simply, getting an indignant look from Ash.
"I was not." He protested, getting a snort from Brock.
"Please Ash, I know you have a thing for Dawn too." Brock said to Ash, causing his cheeks to redden.
"No I don't Brock. I'm with Misty one hundred percent." Ash said, crossing his arms, looking away from Brock.
"Ash…" Brock said, waiting for the real answer.
"Alright, ninety nine percent." Ash said, glancing at Brock who just stared at him, waiting for the real answer. "Fine, it's more like 75 – 25!"
"And who has the 75?" Brock asked.
"What are you guys talking about?" Dawn asked as she approached them taking her seat again.
"Nothing!" Ash shouted with red cheeks, turning back to his food which he proceeded to shove into his mouth at a fast pace, trying to clear his head.
"Brock?" Dawn looked at Brock next, waiting for an answer. Brock gave her shrug and shook his head.
"This is one of the unknown sides of Ash Ketchum." He said, gazing at Ash who had already devoured his hamburger, staring at Brock's which had been untouched so far.
"Umm, Brock?" Ash began, getting a sigh from Brock.
"Go ahead."
"Yes!"
Brock's hamburger was gone in an instant which caused both Dawn and Brock to sweatdrop at Ash's usual behavior.
"But I guess the unknown side will remain unknown as long as food is involved."
West Wing
This normally busy hallway was now empty because 6th period had started, but a group of four juniors had decided that today would be the day to increase the tensions between the grade levels by ganging up on a lone sophomore. Marina had been taking a causal trip to the bathroom, but on her return trip to the class room she found herself surrounding a by a group of four male juniors.
Marina lay on her side against the wall. She had failed to escape the group numerous times, and had decided that maybe they would leave her if she had played dead. Fortunately for her, the group hadn't notice her sent a distress text to her boyfriend while she was huddled up.
"Where's your boyfriend now?" One of them asked, landing a hard kick to her stomach which got a pained shout from Marina. Unfortunately, her calls for help would go unheard because this wing of the school was empty during the afternoon classes.
Right a cue, foot steps could be heard. And they were approaching fast. All of the juniors looked to their left to see a purple haired boy racing toward them.
"Right here you bastard!" Jimmy shouted as he landed a clean punch to the jaw of the junior who had just kicked Marina which sent him tumbling across the floor. Jimmy cursed as he shook his right hand, trying to shake off the pain he felt on his knuckles. "Marina, are you alright?"
Kneeling down beside his girlfriend, Jimmy examined her busted lower lip and bruised right cheek. By the way she was holding her body, he could tell that had hit her torso a few times, and she would have to spend some time with Nurse Joy to make sure everything was okay.
"Hey, are you alright?" One of the three remaining juniors asked their friend who had been hit, receiving no response from him.
"Now you've done it. You gone and gotten me angry!" Jimmy growled at he group of three as he straightened up, cracking the knuckles of his left hand since he was positive that he was going to fight someone now. "Now you're going to pay!"
"Hah, what's one little sophomore going to do against three of us?" One of the juniors asked.
"This." Jimmy's approach had gone unnoticed by the juniors, allowing him to take down another one with one blow to the nose.
The third junior was quick to move around Jimmy while the fourth kept him busy for a moment before he hooked Jimmy's arms from behind to prevent him from attacking.
"Let go." Jimmy said threateningly, glancing back the junior who held him while his friend took this opportunity to sock Jimmy in the gut. Jimmy grit his teeth, bearing through the pain since he knew what was going to come next. The junior in front of him then raised his fist to punch Jimmy in the face, but as he threw the punch, Jimmy pulled himself forward to duck below the punch while bring the junior behind him into he path of the attack.
"Gah!" The junior behind him wailed as he released Jimmy, giving him the chance to spin around on his toes to land a full uppercut to the chin of the junior which finished him. Turning around, Jimmy was prepared to finish off the last junior before he heard the pop of a Poke-ball opening.
"Enough of this." The junior said, releasing his Vileplume. "Vileplume, let's knock him out with Stun Spore!"
"This is by far the dumbest thing you could have done." Jimmy commented venomously as he released his Pokemon. Standing in front of Jimmy fire type Pokemon that was only slightly taller than him. "Typhlosion, use Flame Wheel."
Even though Vileplume released his Stun Spore first, Typhlosion tore right through the yellow cloud with ease before crashing into Vileplume. The grass type Pokemon was instantly ko'd which sent it flying into its trainer's torso, knocking out both of them.
Jimmy and Typhlosion stared at the group, specifically the fool who had called out his Vileplume against Jimmy. The battle was ended in an instant, further proof of why Jimmy was recognized among the Top 10 students of the Tsugi Academy. But taking a look at the group as a whole, Jimmy was tempted to beat them further just to cause them the equivalent amount of pain they had caused to his precious Marina.
"Jimmy." Marina whispered, snapping him out of his thoughts. "Don't. They're not worth it."
"Right. Don't worry, I'll take you to see Nurse Joy right now." He said, running over to his girlfriend who was now sitting upright while leaning against the wall.
"Oww!" She said as Jimmy pick her up bridal style.
"Does that hurt too much?" Jimmy asked, adjusting how he was holding her so that she could wrap her arms around his neck and keep any weight from being placed on her torso.
"Thanks Jimmy." Marina whispered into his ears.
"I'd do anything for you Marina." Jimmy replied, slowly heading toward the Nurse's Office.
October 5th - Lunch
Cafeteria
"They did what?" Ash shouted, slapping his hands down onto the lunch table.
"You heard him Ashy-boy. A group of juniors attacked Marina again." Gary said to Ash, repeating the cause of Jimmy's frustration to the boy.
"Jimmy. You have to do something about the juniors that constantly attack Marina. Dealing with them as often as you do is going to get to go pretty soon." Paul said to him, never actually looking at Jimmy as he quietly ate the spaghetti that was on his plate.
"I know. I took some good ones the last few times, and I can feel the damage starting to build up." Jimmy began. "But what am I gonna do, raid the junior dorm rooms?"
"I like that idea Jimmy." Blake said, popping out from under the table the group was seated up. Everyone stared at Blake oddly, because of his sudden appearance, and his true appearance.
Instead of the hardened delinquent they were expecting, they found a fifteen year old boy giving them a cheerful smile. He was rather simple looking with tan skin, black hair and a bright eyes.
"Oh Blake, you're finally up." Jimmy said, giving his old friend a wave as a greeting.
"Yup, I needed that nap." He said, taking the seat next to Jimmy.
"So how'd your morning classes go?"
"Ah, I didn't feel like going so I skipped." Blake replied, getting raised eyebrows from Paul, Gary and Ash.
"Your first day and you skip half your classes. This guy has some guts." Gary exclaimed with an impressed look. Even Gary attended all his classes on the first day, but after that his attendance was poor.
"Let me see your schedule." Jimmy said, extending his hand to Blake.
"Here you go." Blake said, handing the Jimmy is schedule after searching his backpack for a short period of time.
Period 1 - Advanced Pokemon Biology-Mr. Blaine
Period 2 - Practice Battles - Mr. Wake and Ms. Maylene
Period 3 - Gym - Ms. Maylene
Period 4 - Lunch
Period 5 - Study Hall
Period 6 - Advanced Pokemon Biology-Ms. Jasmine & Professor Elm
Period 7 - Remedial Language Arts - Ms. Agatha
"Wait, how you get into junior level classes Blake?" Jimmy asked seeing that Blake was part of AP Biology even though he was only a freshman.
"Sometime last year I took a pre-test for Pokemon biology and aced it. The principal dude told me that he thinks I can do well in this class." Blake explained as he scribbled away on a large notebook he had pulled out of the backpack he had placed behind him. "Although he told me I have no shot of getting into a good college if I don't fix up my language arts grades."
"What are you writing?" Ash asked, trying to take a peek at the cluster of words all over the lined paper.
"The plans for how everything is going to happen. This one is going to be amazing." Blake said giddily before slamming the book shut. "Starting now."
Blake's face morphed from the cheerful, energetic person he was to the cold hearted delinquent that the group had been waiting to see.
"Oh boy." Jimmy said, getting a few confused glances from Ash, Gary and Paul.
"Jimmy, tell me who's the most dangerous person around here." Blake said as he scanned the cafeteria.
"That table on the far end." Jimmy said, pointing out the table that was in the corner of the cafeteria. "The schools Rank 1 trainer is sitting there."
"You guys better be ready to miss a class or two today." Blake said as he casually began to stroll across the cafeteria, heading to the table Jimmy had pointed out.
"What's he talking about?" Ash asked, turning to Jimmy.
"Whenever he gets like that, trouble is sure to follow." Jimmy mumbled out loud.
"Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing?" The junior Blake had just punched shouted, rising from the floor. The entire cafeteria had gone silent, everyone focusing on the Blake and the person he had just hit without an particular reason.
"You and me, a battle. Right now." Blake demanded, taking out the Poke-ball he kept in his pocket.
"Blake!" Jimmy hollered, trying to get Blake's attention before he started something unnecessary.
"What?" Blake hissed, trying to remain serious.
"Wrong one." Jimmy said rather casually, causing everyone in the cafeteria to deadpan. "That's Rank 1, Gina Grays."
Jimmy pointed to the short girl that was seated at the end of the table with long brown hair and a pointy nose. She wore a pair of denim jeans an black shirt with a Jynx on the front of it.
"Oh..." Blake trailed off for a moment, a bit disappointed that his mistake had caused the atmosphere he had created to vanish in an instant. "Gina, I challenge you!"
Gina looked toward him for a moment, studying his appearance.
"What grade are you in?" She asked.
"Freshman!" Blake declared confidently.
"No way. I'd never battle a loser like you." She replied, causing Blake to stagger at his instant rejection.
At first Blake seemed hurt by this, that was quickly replaced by sinister smile.
"Well miss Grays, I have a bit of information concerning you that I'd like to put out to the public, unless you'd like to hear it first?" Blake asked with a soft cackle.
"Sure. What could a freshman possibly know about me?" Gina said as Blake approached her. Once he was close enough, he leaned over to whisper it into her ear.
"So which boyfriend should I go to first about all the others you've been seeing? Brent or Daniel?" Blake whispered to her, placing a horrified expression on her face. How could a freshman know about that?
"I'm going to crush you freshmen!" Gina shouted, slapping her hand down on the table.
Alright. First Chapter.
Please review and tell me what you think of it. This is my first attempt at something involving serious romance, so give me any pointers if you have some. Everyone has room to improve their writing, and I hoping to continue improving mine as well.
Beware, this will not be your normal Pokemon highschool fic.
Disclaimer : Obviously I don't own Pokemon, I can't do anything about that.
A/N Update - I'll slowly be revising each chapter as we approach the end of this fic because to be honest, I feel like my writing has a improved a lot compared to how it originally was when I first started this story almost a year ago. So I hope you all enjoy the quality increase.
