Clover and Faith walked over to Professor Juniper's lab where Cheren was impatiently waiting. Cheren looked at the two and frowned.
"Where's Bianca and Oshawott?" He asked.
"She said she had to go home first, I'll go get her if you want."
"Good." Clover was obviously just as annoyed with Cheren as she was so that halped a little.
She then set off to Bianca's house and watched Clover scare off flocks of Pidoves with loud cries.
"Come on, let's go in." Clover climbed up Faith's back and wrapped around her shoulder with his tail hanging down her left shoulder.
"No, no, a thousand times no!" Was the first thing Faith heard as she entered the house.
"B-but, I'm a good trainer. I have a Pokemon and everything! See, look I'll be fine if I have Mel with me," she motioned to the Oshawott who was previously hiding behind his trainer's legs and was now in front of Bianca with a determined expression, "I can totally go on an adventure!" She then walked through the door like I wasn't even there with Mel closely following. Clover hopped off my shoulder and threw a pillow at Bianca's father before we left.
We walked back to the lab where Cheren and Bianca were waiting.
"Hello my name is-"
"Professor Juniper? Yeah, we all had to watch the new trainer channel." Cheren cut the Professor off.
"Oh, well then you don't know what I'm researching. I'm researching how pokemon came into existence."
"Shouldn't you be in Kanto or Sinnoh then?" Cheren asked.
"Wha-"
"Never mind." He said.
"A-anyway, it seems you have already had a pokemon battle. Your pokemon seem to already be bonded to you guys already! So you guys are here because-"
"You're going to give us the Pokedex?" Cheren asked.
"Stop showing off, Cheren. What's a Pokedex anyway?" Bianca sighed.
"A high-tech device that automatically records any pokemon captured." Prof. Juniper explained. "Here, they are. Oh and remember, you aren't allowed to catch anymore than one pokemon per route and it has to be the first pokemon you encounter!"
"Why?" Bianca asked.
"There aren't enough pokemon if every trainer took every one they find." Cheren explained.
"Cheren's right, again. Now, go explore and do my work!"
So Faith, Clover, Bianca, Mel, Cheren, and Tepig left. They all headed to the first route and agreed that all six of them would take their first step together.
~One tutorial later~
"Ok, Clover time to find a new friend!" She said after Bianca and Cheren left. Clover simply snickered in response.
Faith walked into the tall grass and instantly- a cute little dog appeared.
"A lillipup!" She exclaimed. "Let's catch it, Clover." Clover nodded.
Clover tackled the lillipup doing less damage then expected. Lillipup tackled back. Clover leered at the dog only to be leered at back. Clover tackled lillipup who was now having trouble standing. It leered at Clover though it was obvious the pup was at Clover's mercy. Faith chucked a ball at the lillipup and after 3 shakes she was caught.
Petunia the Lillipup
Female
Caught at level 3
Rash Nature
Loves to Eat
"We should probably heal you and Petunia." She told Clover.
"So, I'm your pokemon now?" Petunia asked Faith. Clover nodded with a smirk.
"Welcome to the team."
"You're creepy, you know." Petunia asked Clover with an innocent look.
"C-creepy?" Clover looked heart broken.
"Come on, Clover. She didn't mean it." Faith told him.
~A tutorial and some grinding later~
"Now that Petunia's up to date let's go out and head to the next town." Faith said with Clover on her shoulder and Petunia trailing behind them.
"Something's going in the plaza! Let's check it out!" A random man said to another random man.
"We should check it out too, Faith!" Petunia exclaimed already running to the plaza. Faith followed after the eager dog, to see a huge crowd. Cheren called her over with Petunia next to him wagging her tail excitedly.
On the grass of the plaza were a group of people with matching clothing. One however wore a cloak unlike the others and walked forward.
"My name is Ghetsis. I am here representing Team Plasma. Today I would like to talk about pokemon liberation." The group that had gathered instantly started murmuring with confused looks. Petunia looked shocked. Clover stayed silent though now had a clear frown on his face.
"I'm sure most of you think of pokemon and humans as partners. That we stay together because we want and need each other. However, is that the truth?" He looked over at Clover. "Snivy, is it the truth?" Instead of a spoken response, Clover climbed on top of Faith's head and stuck his forked tongue out at Ghetsis for all to see. Many of the people in the group were laughing now. Ghetsis looked confused and embarrassed.
"Anyway, I'm sure you will all eventually see the truth in my words. For now, Team Plasma will move on from this town. We appreciate your attention."
Faith put a hand up for Clover to high-five and got a friendly vine whip to her hand. A boy with long hair and a hat came over.
"Your pokemon... Just now..."
"Who are you?" Cheren asked.
"My name is N."
"My name's Cheren and this is Faith. We're trainers who just left on our journey."
"I'm a trainer too... Though is trapping pokemon in tiny, confined balls the right thing to do? I can see you let your pokemon out at all times but you don't. Why not?" N asked Cheren.
"Th-that way they don't get lost."
"That's all?"
"Y-yes."
"They are living creatures y'know." He looked back over to Faith, "Your pokemon. They seem to like very much. I can tell there's a hint of doubt in one of them however."
"D-doubt?"
"Let us see if that doubt is right!" He then sent out a Purrloin.
Purrloin let out a growl at Petunia lowering her attack. Petunia leered at the cat though it seem unaffected. Petunia then got scratched on the face though it seemed to do no damage at all. Petunia tackled the cat with all her might though it was still standing. Petunia got scratched again though was completely unaffected. Petunia tackled the Purrloin into a nearby tree landing a critical hit. When the Purrloin limply fell down the tree she realized what happened. Petunia had killed it.
Cheren's eyes widened. Faith quickly picked Petunia up.
"I-i'm so sorry. I didn't think Petunia would-"
N simply walked away and didn't say anything.
