"Morning time!" A hyperactive spring-tailed pig sang from atop her new human launch pad.

"Oof, Haru would- oof you ple- oof please stop?"

"Fine." she agreed, leaving my surely bruised ribs alone.

"You know, as a psychic you should be able to just kick my brain awake." recalling what the nurse told me yesterday when asked about psychic types.

"Sure, I could, or I could jump on you until you wake up. Now, which sounds more fun?..."

"Point taken, just let me get up." Rising out of bed while clutching at my aching chest, I donned my favorite shirt.

"So, what's the game-plan, Mr. Trainer?"

"Well, we'll head south to Mauville, and hopefully get a new teammate, before taking the bike path down to Slateport. From there, we get on the boat to Dewford, then again to the Petalburg docks. After that, we just head south-west until we hit Littleroot and I can get my trainer registration."

"Wait, you can have a Pokemon without registering? That seems a little dangerous."

"It's more for record keeping and gym challengers." I explained, wondering why Haru was so interested. "It also comes with a few things to get new trainers started, like some manuals on wild Pokemon, feeding Pokemon, and what to avoid until you get to a certain badge level."

"You never answered my question about owning Pokemon with a license."

"You can have up to three without one, I think. It's mostly for non battlers, so you won't need a license for pets like Mighty to own." I finished.

"Makes sense." Thankfully, she was dropping it.

"Yeah, now can you please let me change pants without a female psychic staring at me?"


"We could get a trapinch." I suggested as Haru and I made our way south.

"Too much work, and they're pathetic until they evolve."

This was our routine now. After the torkoal fiasco, Haru and I traded ideas on what to catch. So far, we had eliminated cacnea (too clingy for a spiked plant,) baltoy (What, is one psychic not enough for you?) and the latest, trapinch.

"I don't see why you're being so critical about every suggestion," I whined "I'm supposed to be the one in charge."

"Yeah, well if you being in charge means I get turned into bacon, then I'm taking the lead." she shot back.

We continued arguing back and forth all the way down Route 211, over just about every topic there was.
"No, we should have a sandshrew." We couldn't decide on teammates.

"I hate tailow, can't we have some roast Marill instead?" We couldn't decide on dinner.

"No, I don't think you need to wear clothes Haru." I don't even know why she wanted to.

"No Trainer, I think you should wear the blue shirt instead." This was more one-sided, as I didn't care what I wore.

Bickering like an old married couple, we made our way into Mauville (new teammate free) and into the Pokecenter. Finally getting too annoyed to put up with her anymore, I recalled Haru before shoving her ball into the poor nurses face. "Heal, please." Glaring at the nurse, which I know she didn't deserve it, but I was too mad to care, I snatched a room key and marched into it.


"I can't believe you kept me in my ball all night!" Haru shrieked at me as soon as I let her out in the morning. I merely shrugged, too used to the mental assault to care. "You wouldn't care if I disappeared, would you? All you-" I cut her off by shoving a bowl full of food into her face, still too tired to listen to her rant. Thankfully, she was too busy eating to keep it up. "...I'm still mad."

"Don't care, moving on."

"Only if I get seconds."


Ten minutes and one snout scratch, everything was well again. Heading south out of Mauville, we were down near a quarter of Route 110 before the topic of teammates came up again. "You know, we still need a new member of the team. I've been thinking something electric."

"Hm, electric could be nice. What's around here?"

I smiled, glad we could agree on this. "According to the 'dex, there are electrike, magnemite, voltorb, joltik, plusle, and minun in the area."

Haru tilted her head at me, "What's a joltik?"

Surprised, it took me a moment to remember that native Pokemon wouldn't know many exotic species. "A bug and electric type. Some hitched a ride from Unova through trade and settled down here."

"Definitely not joltik then, or magnemite. I hate bugs, and magnemite freak me out." I stared at her confused. "What? A steel and electric type that flies? It just creeps me out, especially with that single eye."

I just shrugged and decided to go with it. "So we can get a voltorb or electrike. The Plusle and Minun are weak without each other, and I'm not a huge fan of double battles."

Haru nodded, before standing (hopping) still, eyes glowing. "There's voltorb across the lake, and an electrike pack forty-eight yards south."

My eyebrows shot up as I stared at her, something which she noticed. "What? Psycholocation. It's common amongst psychics."

"Well, alri-" an echoing bang cut me off.


Third chapter, and one review. Thanks to Farla, for picking my first chapter apart in a helpful way. Hopefully I can get better at writing (I openly acknowledge the next famous author I am not.)