Turn 02: Nunnally
Location: Striaton City, Route 3
Time 10:34 AM August 5th
Condition Overcast
Walking home with the pupitar trailing behind him is Lelouch. The Rockets destroyed his bike back in the fight. He wasn't used to so much walking so he was exhausted. "Tell me why are we going all the way out here to the middle of nowhere?" The pupitar asked.
"Because, it's the reason I was out in Nimbasa in the first place." Lelouch panted. "I was there to pick you up and bring you here to the Day-Care."
"Why here though?" Pupitar asked.
"Because the old couple who work here like to take in strays, like you, who've been abandoned by their trainers. It gives you someplace to rehabilitate before going out into the wild again." Lelouch continued.
"That's nice of them." Pupitar said.
"Say Pupitar, I never asked your name." Lelouch pointed out.
"Well my trainer always called me a sack of crap but I not really too fond of that name." Pupitar explained. "So why don't you just call me… Ohgi."
"Ohgi, why that?" Lelouch asked.
"It's a nice round name I think. I like it." The Pupitar explained.
"Ohgi it is then." Lelouch said as they walked up to a couple of buildings out in the middle of the woods.
"What is this place?" Ohgi asked.
"Well the building on the right is the Striaton City Pre-School where little children go to learn and grow. The building on the left is the Pokémon Day-Care Center. People sometimes drop off pokémon to be taken care of for a little while. But mostly they take in released pokémon for rehabilitation." Lelouch explained. "If you want this'll be your home until you're ready for the wild again."
"That sounds taxing for an old couple," Ohgi hummed in thought.
"Well, I'm usually here to help them out." Lelouch explained.
They walked pasted a few children running off to the nearby play-ground. Their teacher stopped to wave at Lelouch as they passed by into the Day-Care Center. She has long orange hair and yellowish eyes. "Hi Lulu. Bringing another new friend I see." She isn't really the pre-school teacher as she much as an aid to their teacher.
"Yeah, he's a rough guy but he's pretty good company so far." Lelouch explained.
"So what's the little guy's name?" She asked.
"He said it was…" Lelouch caught himself midsentence realizing that most people couldn't speak to pokémon the way he could. He knew he couldn't salvage the situation so he just let it continue. "Ohgi."
"Oh really?" It was obvious that Lelouch took too much time thinking about it and she noticed his mistake. Instead of lingering on it, she gave him a smile, politely ignoring it. "You made sure to keep out of trouble, right?"
"Of course." Lelouch smiled. "And what about you, Shirley?"
"Oh, I've been fine." Shirley waved off any concern he may have had. "But you've better get in there and say hi to Nunnally. She's been worrying up a storm in there waiting for you."
"Oh really. I better not keep her waiting then." Lelouch smiled heading into the Day-Care Center. "See you Shirley."
"Bye, Lulu."
"She seems nice." Ohgi prodded at him.
"Leave it alone Ohgi." Lelouch glared down at him.
Their conversation was interrupted by a girlish gasp from nearby. Standing in a corner of the room with a carpet was a tiny little ralts. The little creature started towards him in a hurried shuffled.
"Nunnally." Lelouch picked up the tiny little pokémon and gave it a hug. It squeaked hugging him back. He put it down kneeling next to her. "Did you miss me?"
The ralts nodded intently. Lelouch rubbed her head and smiled at her. "Good because I missed you too."
"Oh my." An old lady walked up from the back to the front counter. "If it isn't Lelouch, looks like your trip was successful."
"Of course, this is Ohgi." Lelouch introduced the pupitar. "I don't think he'll be staying long."
"Really, just needs a place to crash for a little while huh?" The old lady asked. "Well that's fine with me; just make sure to make lots of friends, okay Ohgi?"
"Hay Nunnally, why don't you show our new friend around." Lelouch suggested. Nunnally nodded and began to shuffle towards the entrance to the pokémon playground in the back. Ohgi hopped closely behind.
The old lady laughed. "I love that little shuffle a ratls does when it runs. I haven't seen much of it since you left to get the Pupitar from Nimbasa."
"Oh really why." Lelouch asked.
"She's been standing there right next to the window since the moment you left." She told him. "It's always dreadful watching the way she worries over you. I dread the day you leave us for good."
"Leave here?" Lelouch asked. "Striaton is my home; I'm not going to leave."
"Yes but most people your age have started some unholy long journey across the region in search of adventure or what have you." The old lady started. "Honest I'm surprised you and Shirley have stayed as long as you have. It's great to have you two work here but I can't help but feel like we're holding you back from experiencing the world."
"I wouldn't be too worried about something like that." Lelouch reassured her. "I don't think I'll ever leaver here for good."
"Well if that's the case then fill up the food canisters." The old lady threw a bag of pokémon food at him. "Some of those critters are starving to be sure."
"Alright."
Time: 2:42 PM
After working a few hours Lelouch took a break and sat up on the roof of the Day-Care Center. He looked out across the field of pokémon released and captured having fun together. "Now's the perfect time."
Lelouch closed his eyes allowing his powers to activate. He opened them and one of them was pitch black. He began to sense the pokémon around him. The nice thing about testing things here was that the surrounding field was clearly marked. The main habitats were each about forty or so square meters. He distinctively could make out that pokémon at upwards of eighty-five or so meters were completely undetectable by him, "A fair range." He thought.
He could detect things like type and nature to about sixty some meters. Most pokémon were typed in such a way that he could discern what kind of pokémon common types like rock/ground normal/flying or most pure types would be more difficult to determine. But it wouldn't be too much of a hinderence because in a battle all he really needed to know was what their weak against and what they're capable of performing. He could discern a pokémon's exact move-set from a maximum distance of forty-two meters away, so about half the range of his maximum detection radius.
Next thing he needed to do was yell something in his head as loud as he could to judge the maximum distance of his mind's voice. He needed to know how far he could contact a pokémon from. "I AM LELOUCH VI BRITANNIA!" Twenty three meters seemed to the furthest that pokémon seemed to react to his shouting.
"I still need one final test." Lelouch said hopping down from the roof. He remembered, when he was first given the power from that girl, he controlled that kadabra with his mind, but after getting hit on the head he couldn't remember how exactly he did it. He also noticed that when he used his powers the first time his eyes were completely black, but every time since then it's only been his right iris that turns black. Perhaps if he wants to gain full control he'll need to find that girl. Yesterday when he'd woken up after getting clomped in the head she was gone. Perhaps Team Rocket took her somewhere, that didn't make sense, but of course what kind of person could get up after taking the full force of a psychic blast from a kadabra?
But before he got the chance to test anything he heard the door below close. He checked his watch, "No one's been scheduled to pick up their pokémon."
He jumped down off the roof and headed to the door of the main building. "Where did you find this pokémon again?" He heard the old lady probing whoever it was at the desk.
"He was about to karate chop his way through a restaurant in Castelia City." The voice sounded familiar.
"And who did you say told you we accepted released pokémon?" she continued to probe him. Lelouch opened the door to see who it was.
"I told you already. His name was Lelouch Lamperouge. He's really tall, skinny and…" The familiar voice belonged to Kyouhei, that random trainer from Nimbasa. Kyouhei spotted him in mid-sentence. "Look there he is."
"Lelouch this young man claims to know you, can you vouch for him." The old lady asked as he walked up.
"Yes, he was there when I grabbed Ohgi." Lelouch told her.
"Ohgi?" Kyouhei asked. "Who's that?"
"The pupitar." Lelouch clarified.
"Hmm, didn't realize he had a name." Kyouhei said. "Anyways, I actually came by to drop of this little guy."
Lying flat on the ground snoring was a machop. "I'm not really as good with pokémon as you are so I kinda had one of my pokémon use sleep powder on the guy. He's a lot heavier then he looks."
"If you don't mind my asking, how do you know that he's a released pokémon?" Leouch asked.
"He knows rock smash, saw him use it to go right through a wall." Kyouhei pointed out. "Wild pokémon can't learn HMs on their own."
"Yes, they were invented by travelers and trainers to make their journeys more convenient." Lelouch agreed. "But suddenly waking up in a strange location wouldn't really be the best of first impression. Set him up in some brush outside, I'll deal with him later."
"Okay." Kyouhei agreed picking him up and carrying him outside almost falling over in the process.
Lelouch watched Kyouhei struggle to carry him to a nearby grass patch from the open doorpost. "It's nice to see you're making friends Lelouch. For a second there I thought you were like some sort of social recluse."
Lelouch started to ignore her. As much as he enjoyed her company and appreciated everything that she and her husband had done for him she had the tendency to go on for quite some time. There was, unfortunately, a down side to this method of maintaining his sanity. "I'm glad you agree Lelouch, now go ask him for me please, I don't feel like walking all the way out there." The old lady told him walking into the building.
"Huh?" Lelouch was suddenly interested in what she was saying. "Ask him what?"
"Go ask him if he'd like to spend the night." She told him. "Heavens Lelouch you're the one who suggested it. You might want to get that checked, I think you're becoming more senile then I am. Dinner's at six."
"But wait," Lelouch cried in disapproval, but she was already long gone. He looked out the door to see Kyouhei dropping the machop rather harshly onto the ground. He dusted off his hand and turned to give Lelouch a thumb's up. Lelouch sighed before heading out.
Location: A house in Striaton City
Time: 6:22 PM
It was a surprisingly quiet night at the dinner table despite the new company. Lelouch was messing around with the peas on his plate obviously lost somewhere in his mind. Kyouhei was constantly checking his watch as if worried he'd be late for something. The old couple hosting the meal didn't really bother to say much. Shirley seemed a little nervous, she obviously wasn't used to company, and Nunnally was happily eating the food in her bowl.
"So how do you know Lulu?" Shirley asked Kyouhei rather nervously.
"We met when he was Vulcan Mind Melding with the pupitar back in Nimbasa City." Kyouhei said almost jokingly. He then moved closer to Shirley. "But of course, I'm much more interested in how we met."
"Huh?" Shirley didn't seem to catch on to what he was getting at.
"Lelouch, Nunnally seems to be nodding off, would you mind helping her to the bed?" the old man asked.
"Of course." Lelouch was happy to take any excuse to leave this wall of silence. He walked over and picked up the ralts before carrying her away to a nearby room.
"What's the story with that ralts anyways?" Kyouhei said. "Is it Lelouch's?"
"Lelouch doesn't have pokémon." The old lady almost seemed hesitant to tell him. "You see he found her wondering the streets when he was about eight or so. It was badly injured and his first instinct was to bring it here. At that time we hadn't really thought about taking in strays like we do now."
"Well except for Lelouch himself that is." The old man pitched in.
"But we took her in all the same." The old lady finished. "He's pretty much been like an older brother to her ever since."
"He found her when he was eight?" Kyouhei seemed shocked. "That was at almost ten years ago. You're telling me that in all that time she hasn't once evolved?"
"Well…" The old lady obviously didn't want to continue and Kyouhei was going to let it alone.
"No." Lelouch walked back into the room taking his seat at the table. "You see she was born in a time when IVs and EVs were hardly more than trainer lore; the few people who did believe in them didn't exactly know how to train or breed for them. So they just put them through the most grueling training they could conjure up. In that insane training they put her through, they permanently stunted her growth. She will never be able to fully recover from her training injuries; she'll never be able to evolve and she'll never be able to live in the wild. I'd like to think that pokémon trainers have gotten better, more intelligent since then, but with the recent discovery of Mega-Evolutions and super-training, it's as if it just started all over again."
Kyouhei didn't know any appropriate response for a situation like this. It was kind of a heavy thing to be given at the dinner table.
"Thank you for the meal." Lelouch thanked the old lady and man before standing up. "But I've lost my appetite."