In this episode or hero Hibiki meets his old friend Kotone who forces him to get a starter pokemon. Also they meet the mysterious redhead Kamon who keeps talking about some "Team Rocket" stealing pokemon. May not be the longest episode but worth a go.
"Aipom, Aipom" he jumped up furiously looked around in his room.
"What the? Did someone just punch me?" muttering to himself while holding his aching head, he caught a glimps of lavender fur trying to hide behind a bookshelf.
"Ataro" he shouted angryly towards the furball. The small Pokemon looked around the corner of the shelf widely smirking at him before he jumped in front of the shelf and headed through the door. He shortly wondered why his mom had opened the door to let this obnoxious brat of an Aipom into his room. Then he let himself fall back, about to drift into sleep.
"Aipom, Aipom" the pokemon screamed in front of his door.
"Shut it" he shouted, picked his shoe up from the floor, throwing it at the Aipom which jumped out of the way, giving him a big smirk before heading down the stairs. He sighed, knowing that Ataro wouldnt let him sleep. What was up with this little brat today he wondered. However he sat up stretching himself, tiredly scratching his back.
Getting out of bed he put on his one remaining shoe to go get breakfast. After he stepped down the squeaky stairs he went along the hallway into the kitchen where he found his mom sitting by the table reading the newspaper.
"Morning Hibiki-kun, you're finally awake now" she shortly looked up from her news report.
"Why was Ataro in my room?" giving the pokemon who seemed to innocently take a nap on the fridge an annoyed look, he also took a seat at the table.
"I tried to wake you up but you're such a heavy sleeper I just wasn't able to do it" she said in a sweet voice.
"And then you found it okey to let this little brat do the job for you?" he asked a bit shocked.
"It was the only way honey" she but the newspaper on the table and smiled.
"Whatever, why were you trying to wake me in the first place" he wondered.
"Professor Elm is giving out pokemon to new pokemon trainers. Didn't you want one one of those?" she asked.
"Yeah, that was when I was like eight" he sighed.
"Oh okey..." bitter silence filled te room.
"Another thing. Kotone is going to visite New Barktown today" his Mom said it as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"What?" he almost choked on his the breakfast his mom had prepared for him.
"Why? When?" he shouted.
"Calm down honey, her Mom said she would arrive at about ten a.m. She's going to get her starter pokemon from professor Elm" she ment a bit surprised about her sons reaction. Kotone was his childhood friend but he was extremely mad at her when she and her Mom moved to Kanto. He didn't want to talk to her ever again but she guessed he was just upset. He was after all just eight.
"Ghasp, its already 9:50" he found out after a quik look at the clock on the wall.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" he asked but didn't have the time to wait for an answer. He jumped up and ran outside. He barley noticed the smell of flowers or the fresh breeze. He knew it would take him a while to get to professor Elms laboratory, due to that he ran as fast as he could. Seeing the grey building appear in the distance he felt more excited than ever before in many years.
Feeling that excited he didn't notice the green thing laying in the grass. Only as the thing screamed out in panic he realised that it was there. By then he had already tripped over it and landed with his nose first on the floor.
"Rita" he heard a girls voice screaming followed by footstepps which seemed to come closer.
"Excuse me, she escaped out of her ball. Did you hurt yourself?" the girl asked stretching her hand out to help him up. He, still laying on his belly, managed to move his head up to look at the girl. She had brown hair tied in two pigtails and a round face. What especially stood out was her adorable smile he would have recognised among thousands.
"Kotone-chan?" he muttered a bit shocked.
"Hm? How do you know my name?" she seemed pretty surprised.
"Don't you remember me?" he hurried to get back onto his feet. She gave him a confused look having obviously no idea what he was talking about.
"Oh, I know I used to wear my hair differently" he tried to separate a strain from his slicked back hair. He managed to get his bangs to fall in his face almost covering half of it. After she looked at him for a while her expression lit up. She seemed to remember him.
"Hibiki-kun. Nice to see you again" she smiled.
"Haha I knew you would remember me" he smiled back at her so long until he began to feel awkward.
"Um...can I ask you a question?" she seemed a bit uncomfortable.
"Yeah, whatever you want to" he ment.
"Okey, um... I have no idea how to say this but why are you wearing your pyjamas?" Kotone blushed. Hibiki looked down at himself. He was really just wearing his orange pink striped pyjamashorts. What now. He wouldn't tell her that he was in such a hurry to see her that he missed to put clothes on.
"Oh, I um... professor Elm said he would give me a starter pokemon and I wanted to be here in time" he stuttered.
"Then you succeeded at your task, its exactly ten a.m." she said.
"Oh guess what, I got a starter too" she bent down to pick up the small green thing he tripped over just a minute ago.
"Meet Rita-chan" she showed him the pokemon. It was a pretty young Chikorita. Oh no did he just tell her he would get a starter. He didn't even like pokemon and he was not going keep one.
"Are you going to go on a journey? It would be nice if we could travle a bit together" she smiled. On the other hand he could spend some time with Kotone though. Man, he hasn't seen her for some time now. She looked really different. She used to run around in dirty t shirts and ripped shorts just like all guys in the town did but now she wore a short white dress. At least she still had her short hazle hair tied up in two pigtails like she used to.
"Hibiki-kun? Are you okey?" she ment all of a sudden.
"Hu?"
"You've been looking at me without saying anything for almost a minute now" she explained. That was pretty emberassing.
"I um... just... you look very mature" he stated awkwardly looking at her dress. Just then he noticed that she also grew a lot and became... um... less big than she was when they were kids. She still wasn't the most skinny girl but she wasn't as round as she used to be. To be honest it really suited her.
"Really? Thank you" she smiled.
"Um yeah its gettin really cold out here I guess I'll go home and... you know, put some clothes on" he ment a bit uncomfortably and was about to turn around as she stopped him.
"Wait, you need to get your starter first" she demanded. Damn, he thought he could get around that. Nah, he'll probably just get some Pokemon and then give it to some kid in his neighborhood or whatever.
"Oh yeah thanks for reminding me, lets go" he headed towards the grey building just a couple of meters in front of them, with Kotone following him. As he stood there he pounded on the white plastic door. Noone answered. He tried again, this time louder. Same result.
"Noone there I guess we can go now" Hibiki ment turning around, about to go as Kotone just casually opened the door.
"Come in" she ment and walked through the doorframe. Sighing, he followed her into the laboratory.
"Hello? Elm-san?" her shouts halled trough the dark room. The professor was obviously not here neither were his assistants.
"Hm... he doesn't seem to be home so..." Hibiki began but was interrupted by Kotone making a 'shhhhh' sound.
"Do you hear that?" she whispered.
"No"
"Listen" they both got silent so they could hear whatever Kotone was hearing. Eventually Hibiki noticed the sound of foodsteps coming from the backside of the laboratorry.
"That's gotta be the professor" Kotone ment heading towards the noise. Hibiki hesitated for a second. Wouldn't the professor have answered their calls.
"Come on" he heard her shouting towards him. He followed her finding this really suspicious. Bookshelfs were splitting the room into two parts. As Kotone reached the second part she caught a glimpse of a shadow. It was way to dark to see any ditails but there was definitely someone standing trying to operate a machine.
"Hello professor?" she greeted him assuming that it was indeed professor Elm. By the time she said those words Hibiki caught up to her also seeing the strange figure who suddenly stopped dead in tracks. All of a sudden, the lights went on.
The figure standing there was definetely not the professor. It was a young man, about their age with bright red hair and a dark coat. His sharp metalic eyes seemed to stair through Kotone.
"W-what is going on here?" just than they noticed that the redhead was looking at professor Elm who stood directly behind them at the door just as confused looking as them.
"Gadammit" the redhead muttered and suddenly sprinting towards the door. Hibiki reacted quickly, putting himsef into the strangers way and grabbing his arm. The stranger fought back trying to hit him with his fist but by then Kotone also got to react getting a hold of his other arm.
"Let go you idiots" he screamed. Snapping out of his shock the professor ran towards them, first looking at the man, then at Hibiki then at Kotone and then back at the man.
"Wh-who on earth are you?" he asked.
"First you tell these morons to let go of me" he ordered glaring at the two of them. Elm hesitated for a few seconds.
"Please, do what he said" he finally asked them to do. Waiting a bit, looking at each other they let go.
"Sigh. Kamon is the name" he said while brushing dust from his coat.
"What were you doing here?" it was now Hibikis turn to ask.
"Non of your buissiness, idiot" he hissed.
"No, not his but mine. Answer or I'll call authorities" Elm stuttered seemingly intimidated by Kamons deathstare.
"Fine fine old man" he reached into his pocket to grab a round object showing it to them. It was a pokeball. Just then Elm realised that the machine that contained the starter pokemon was open and two of them went missing. One he had handed to Kotone but the other one...
"That's mine isn't it? You stole it from me?" he asked.
"Yes moron" he growled.
"Then give it back" Elm ordered. Just as he was about to do this a loud noise distracted them.
"What's that?" Kotone shouted trying to drown out the noise. The group walked towards the door and took a peak outside. Whatever was casting shadows above them caught their attention. As they looked to the sky they saw a massive helicopter flying strangely low, past the laboratory into the woods. Kamon seemed to immediately catch the huge red R painted onto the machine.
"Team Rocket" he whispered. As the others, surprised by his reaction truned around to face him he pushed them aside and started running. Dumbfounded the others stood there staring at him.
"Hey come back you thief" Hibiki finally reacted and dashed after him. The two of them ran behind the laboratory and into the woods, then Hibiki noticed that Kamon was chasing after the helicopter. What was that all about. Just a few minutes later he stopped.
"Now I've got you" Hibiki was heavily breathing slowly catching up to him.
"Shut it you idiot" Kamon hushed and crouched down hiding behind a bush. Once again dumbfunded Hibiki just stared at him til he, very annoyed grabbed his arm and pushed him down, forcing him to also hide. Both of them peered trough the bush to see what was going on. The massive machine had landed in the middle of the woods and some men and women were getting out of the helicopter.
They all wore the same uniform except for one who had a green band around his neck and he didn't wear a hat. They opened the backdoor of the helicopter and exposed a trunk full of cages. In those cages were Eevees. Load and loads of Eevees. They cried from the top of their lungs seemingly for help. Hibiki gasped. That was kinda shocking even to him.
"What is going on?" he asked the redhead.
"Those weaklings stole the Pokemon and are bringing them to their headquarter" he ment.
"What? Who are they and why would they steal..." he stopped. Some vehicle suddenly appeared between the trees. Its trunk got opened by the driver and the men and women started loading the pokemon from the helicopter into the truck. As they were almost done with this Kamon seemed to get an idea. He looked around and as he was certain that noone would see him he snuck towards another bush closer to the vehicle.
"What are you doing?" Hibiki whispered. Kamon just gestured to follow him. He did as he was told and crept after him.
"Distract them" he ordered and then snuck closer towards the truck. What was he up to now. However, Hibiki looked around him to find a way to get their attention without exposing himself to them. After all if they stole pokemon they were probably dangerous. His gaze got stuck on a large stone laying next to him. He grabbed it and threw it into the bushes on the other side of the truck.
The uniformed listened up facing the direction in which he threw the stone. They went to look if someone was there. In the meantime Kamon opened the door to the drivers cabinet. Hibiki ran toward him and having no idea what else to do, opened the other door sitting down on the passenger seat. As they closed the doores quietly, Kamon noticed that the key was conveniently still in the lock. He started the truck which caught the uniformeds attention. Confused they turned around to discover the two of them. They dashed towards the truck trying to open the doors but Kamon was quick enough to lock them.
"Time to get outa here" he ment.
"Do you even know how to drive?" Hibiki asked out of concern. Before he got an answer Kamon pressed the gas pedal, the truck started and with incredible speed they drove through the woods leaving the uniformed angrily cursing behind.
"No, not at all" he shouted. Hibiki held tighter than ever before to the door handle. After a few minutes of driving through the woods with what seemed to be 200 kmh they finally reached the road next to Elms labortorry.
"Stop, stop" Hibiki screamed but Kamon had apparently no idea how to. He abruptly turned the truck causing it to slide. It did become slower but it only got to a stand when it crashed into the nearest house. Hibiki had curled himself up into a ball pressing his face against his knees and hoping not to die.
"We already stopped you moron" Kamon said. Hibiki looked up and noticed that the truck was standing. Now that was an experience. Kamon played tough but even his voice was trembling and he was shaking. Just a few minutes after that a huge crowd formed around the truck.
"What was that professor?" Hibiki heard out of the mumbling the confused crowd was making. It was Kotones voice. He opened the trucks door.
"Kotone-chan, professor" he shouted towards them, who had just left the laboratory. As they saw him the headed towards the truck. Elm gently pushed aside some shocked citizens to get to them.
"Hibiki-kun are you alright boy?" Elm asked and both of them were looking at him with a worried expression.
"Yeah, guess" he stated. After all he wasn't injured as far as could tell.
"I see you trapped that thief" he then ment looking at Kamon. The wall blocked the door on his side and made him unable to open it. He just glared at them like a wild pokemon in a cage.
"To be honest he stole the truck and drove us here" now wondering because of what he did this the stolen pokemoncame to his mind.
"Look into the trunk" he asked Elm to do. Elm was a bit confused but did how he was told and opened, with Kotones help the door to the trunk. They were just as shocked as him as they saw the Eevees sitting in their cages.
"Someone stole them I saw it" Hibiki explained.
"Kamon kidnapped the truck to... save them I guess" he continued.
"If this is true than our little thief is really heroic" Elm ment still a little doubtful.
"What? No, I was just trying to harm Team Rocket" he was quite in a hurry to explain things correctly but Elm shrugged it off.
"Whatever intentions you had you still did a very heroic thing"
"Uh but..." he stopped dead in tracks as he heard sirens approaching. Some police car arrived at the scene.
"Now ya nasty kids get what ya deserve for crashin into me house" an old man was shouting furiously as he walked out of the house they drove into. One policeman got out of the car, starting to walk towards them.
"Oh you were not kidding when you said someone crashed a truck into your house, Seguru-san" he turned towards the old man.
"What just happened here?" he then asked the crowed surprised but still calm. Everyone, except for Kotone, Elm, Kamon and Hibiki scratched their heads mumbling to each other asking the same question.
"Um I guess I will be able to explain this to you" Elm ment. Kamon swallowed, he was definitely nervous that Elm would tell the cop about the stolen starter.
"Hibiki-kun and Kamon-san here just stopped a crime. They drove off with a truck full of stolen pokemon" he pointed towards the trunk. The policeman took a look at it and found the Eevees in their cages. He immediately got his camera and started to take photos of the scene.
"Hm I see... Those pokemon are in a miserable condition. I will try to get them to a pokecenter as fast as possible. Then I need to talk to those young men about that" he said before he started to make a phone call. He went back to his car and knocked on the window pane.
"Now, I guess you're not in all to big trouble" Elm sighed.
"You were really stupid for just running off like that" Kotone then finally said.
"Urgh what?" Hibiki was a bit surprised.
"Hey after all he still got our thief doesn't he" the professor ment looking at Kamon. He knew that it was very nice of him to not sue him for that stolen starter but Kamon just seemed to ignore it.
"Um hey" suddenly someone behind them shouted. They turned around to see a girl with turquoise hair tied into two pigtails getting out of the policecar. She wore shorts and a sleeveless shirt and she ran directly towards them.
"That was an amazing stunt" she claimed seemingly impressed.
"Really who did this?" she smiled. First she didn't seem to see Kamon but as, as answer to this question everyone looked at him she noticed him sitting there and her smile got even wider. Her turquoise eyes began to sparkle as she stared at him so long it got really awkward after a while. As he finally returned her gaze she tumbled a few stepps backwards.
"H-hey" was the only thing she was able to say before the professor cut her of.
"Excuse me but... um who are you exactly?" he asked.
"Oh pardon, the name is Kurisutaru but Kuriko is enough. My dad's the police officer" she explained.
"You can call me professor Elm, that is Hibiki, the ladys name is Kotone and that redhead is called Kamon" he replied.
"Prof Elm? I was looking for you anyway, I'd like to get a starter if you don't mind" she cheered.
"Oh yeah weren't you going to get a starter too Hibiki-kun?" Kotone kept reminding him.
"Oh... yes um but first I'd like to change my clothes" he realised that he was still wearing his pyjamas. Kotone was giggeling while Kuriko just flat out laughed about him.
Some man in a uniform sat behind a monitore and watched them. He smiled out of satisfaction. He wore the same uniform as the ones who were in the helicopter but his was white instead of grey. It was really convenient of the boss to build a camera into Kamons choker necklace.
This is another small text. I know I announced the Mega project and I didn't do much on my FRLG ff either and this little um... how to call it... pice of literature? Is supposed to make up for that. Now this is a little different than most of the stuff i do. I've been watchin a lot of Mr. Enters reviews recently and that encouraged me to do a ff a bit like a cartoon. There will be several epidodes and almost all of them will have their own plot instead of chapters with one pig plot, this is way easier to do and less time consuming. I don't have any equipment or experience to animate that but someday I may turn it into a manga. However, have a nice day.