Bugsy.

When people say that name, what do most people envision? A small, petite, and feminine boy, with choppy, purple hair but into a bob in a green hiking outfit, complete with a net for catching pokemon? A smart researcher and strong gym leader? A good battler and better friend?

Probably.

What most people tend to overlook when it comes to the gym leader was his penchant for mysteries, secrets, and sometimes, trouble-making. The Ruins of Alph was probably the best example - he had already developed a machine that could translate the Unown language and explored the majority of the place already, along with making several observations of the strange, wild pokemon living there, but still allowed the scientists stationed at the Ruins run in circles and dead ends. Of course, it wasn't like anyone knew about that. If someone saw him examining the walls a little too closely, well, they'd chalk it up to Bugsy just being Bugsy.

After all, he was too sweet to do something so troubling.

If only they knew.


It was a normal summer day when I came up with the idea.

I guess I should probably introduce myself first, huh? The name's Bugsy, resident Azalea Gym Leader and one of the world's leading scientists when it comes to bug-types! It's really nice to meet you!

Anyway, I had just come back from one of the seasonal Johto-Kanto Gym Leader meetings. Much like every other meeting, it went (predictably) the same way - start out fine and dandy until someone makes a rude comment about someone else's chosen type or favorite pokemon. Then, all hell breaks loose.

This time, it was Lt. Surge and Falkner. Now, here's something to remember - despite Falkner's short stature and young experience, he could get really angry. I remember listening to Morty joke about it once or twice when Falkner got into an argument with someone. "The reason he's so angry is because he's short, so he's closer to the Distortion World," he'd laugh. I asked him about my being short. He just said that the Distortion World didn't want me, I was too sweet. I laughed at that (but not to his face; I laughed privately).

Anyway, about this argument. So Falkner could get extremely angry and argumentative at times, and especially when someone insulted his birds - or claimed they could take them down with an electric-type. Lt. Surge? He, while tough and sometimes clever, loved talking about electric-types. So when he sees Falkner's Pigeotto, the crowned jewel of the Violet City Gym, he had laughed at that and said that he could "easily take that puny bird down with Raichu." Falkner and his Pidgeotto, both indignant and angry, challenged him to a battle. All hell broke loose, with arguments about nothing and everything breaking loose between people you never would have thought would have argued before. Personally, I found it hilarious, capable of accepting that even while in a shouting match between Erika of Celadon City that it wasn't my fault that she was low on plants (Scyther ate a few last time we visited).

Who knew Blaine and Pryce could be at each other's throats for coughing too much? I sure as heck didn't.

Anyway, this is what I just got back from. I was tired and my throat was sore from yelling so much (after Erika, it was Misty and her distaste of my beautiful Scyther), so I do the thing I always do after things like this - I go hiking.

Hiking has always been a very calm and enlightening experience for me. I knew Ilex Forest like the back of my own hand, so I didn't have to worry about getting lost. Scyther was tough enough to destroy most of the pokemon and trainers that decided to interrupt my alone time, or I usually bonded with them already so they didn't disturb me. It was just a nice way to get away from anything irritating, and I always got great ideas while hiking.

This time was no different. Among the dappled ground and smooth green leaves on the elegant trees were hundreds of Metapod and Butterfree, it being the time of year where they evolved, and I had thought to myself, why don't people appreciate the bug-type more? I could count on my hand the amount of iconic bug-type specialists. And that was true, I could count on my one hand the amount of famous people who specialized in bugs - Aaron, of the Sinnoh Elite Four, and me.

It was at this time I had realized one, extremely important detail - I had never, ever actually met Aaron. Sure, I've heard of him before, but actually meet and talk to him? Never. And that just made me sad because the only two famous people who loved bug-types never actually met. That thought was the start of what I call, the Secret Butterfree Society.

The Secret Butterfree Society is still a work in progress, but the idea is to gather all the bug-type specialists and to form strong bonds between them. That way, the 'weakest' type can have the strongest bonds between trainers. That being said, it would be entirely secret because that would be both fun and allow us to collect stronger trainers while staying sparse and far between, allowing a more united face, since there would be less people as there would probably be a lot of trainers who would want to join if we went pubic. Plus, staying secret would mean that we could avoid any opposition if anyone would ever try.

In theory, it would be a good idea. In reality? Well, I don't know yet, but I might soon be able to test it out.

The latest Sinnoh Champion, Cynthia, decided to establish better relations with Kanto and Johto. Their idea meant having the leading Sinnohan figures, so their Elite Four and Champion, stay in one Gym Leader's home. Aaron, the bug-type Elite, and Lucian, the psychic-type Elite, were supposed to go to Johto with Bertha, the ground-type Elite and Flint, the fire-type Elite, going to Kanto. Rumors between leaders said that they would go to the Gym Leader's whose type matched or closely matched their own, so that meant I had a large chance of being stuck with Aaron.

I hope so. It meant starting Phase 1, and I loved Phase 1.