2 days later...
"Lets see if your arm is completely healed or not," nurse joy said as she removed Jason's arm sling.
"Move your arm a bit," nurse joy told Jason. Jason did as he was told.
"Does it hurt when you move your arm?" nurse joy asked.
"Not really," Jason replied. "It tingles a little bit though."
"No doubt because your arm just recently recovered from your injury two days ago. Let me make just one more check to see if your arm is completely healed or not. We wouldn't want you going on your pokemon journey with an injured arm now would we?" nurse joy said as she looked at the monitor, taking down notes.
"I guess not."
After a while Jason asked, " Nurse joy, did you ever want to be a pokemon trainer?"
"Of course!" Nurse joy replied. "However my mother was a pokemon nurse before and her mother as well. It seemed only fitting if me and my sisters continued the family tradition."
"How many sisters do you have?" Jason asked.
"Only one. She works at the pokemon center in Sunyshore city."
Jason then scratched his head, confused. "Wait, if you only have one sister, why is there a nurse joy in almost every city?"
"Oh. Those nurse joy's are my cousins."
"So how many cousins do you have?"
"Well there's my 11 cousins who work in Kanto. 13 of my other cousins work in Johto. I think 18 of my other-other-cousins work in Hoenn and my 16 other-other-other-cousins work here in Sinn-"
"Stop," Jason interrupted nurse joy as he clutched his head. "Thinking about your family makes my head hurt."
"Yeah," nurse joy sighed. "That's what most people say. Anyway, it seems that your arm has completely recovered. I would recommend that you not put to much pressure on your wounded arm of yours."
"Thanks nurse joy," Jason said.
"No problem. I wish you the best of luck in your pokemon journey," nurse joy replied cheerfully.
Jason walked into the waiting room and saw Joseph reading the newest edition of Battle on. Nate was sitting on a couch next to Champ.
Joseph noticed Jason as he walked in and out down his magazine. "Feeling better now?" Joseph asked.
"My arms all fixed up now," Jason replied.
"That's good. So will we be heading off to floaroma town today or tomorrow?"
"I guess we could go now but-"
"Then let's go now," Joseph said as he quickly got his things. "We're burning daylight."
"But why?" Jason complained.
"As a trainer one must keep on moving. If you wait for tomorrow then you miss the opportunities of today," Joseph replied.
"But I'm not ready to go now."
"We already packed your things for you."
"We?"
"Yeah, I talked with Joseph about joining you guys last night," Nate smiled. "Just think about all the fun we'll have! Camp fire songs, helping each other out, and sleeping underneath the stars with no protection from wild pokemon what so ever. All kinds of fun!"
"Doesn't seem fun at all," Jason grumbled.
"Just give it a try! You never know if you love it or hate it until you give it a chance!"
"I guess it won't hurt."
"That's the spirit! Now onwards, our destiny awaits!"
Jason got his things and followed Nate outside the pokecenter. Jason then found Joseph reading a newspaper.
"What are you reading?" Jason asked.
"Apparently someone stole the plaques from the statue of Palkia and Diagla from Eterna city," Joseph replied as he put the newspaper away. "So we aren't missing anything right?"
"Nope," Jason replied as he checked his bag.
"I'm pretty sure I got everything, right Champ?" Nate said. Champ nodded his head and crossed his arm.
Jason was surprised that he forgot the Nate had Champ out. 'For a big pokemon he sure is hard to notice,' Jason thought to himself.
"Alright then let's move out," Joseph said as he lead Nate and Jason to Jubilife's northern exit.
"So how many badges do you have?" Nate asked Jason.
"I don't have any badges yet," Jason said glumly.
"Don't worry about it," Nate said cheerfully as he put his arm around Jason. "If you need some help I can give you some tips on how to beat some of the gym leaders."
"But isn't it cheating?" Jason asked.
"Of course not," Nate chuckled. "I'm just giving you some tips on how to battle them. Theirs no rules against that."
"Trouble up ahead," Joseph warned.
Nate and Jason stopped and saw what Joseph warned about. In front of them was two blue haired people wearing strange costumes yelling at an old man.
"That's professor Rowan!" Nate shouted as he ran towards the old man.
"Wait up Nate," Jason called as he chased after Nate.
"This should be interesting," Joseph said as calmly followed Jason.
As they neared the professor they could hear the grunts talking to him. "Just hand over the your notes about pokemon we'll be on our way," the first grunt said.
"Yeah," the second grunt agreed. "Before anyone get's hurt."
"Professor Rowan are you all right?" Nate asked.
Professor Rowan turned around surprised by Nate's voice. "Thank goodness you are here!" Rowan gratefully said. "These two goon's are trying to steal my notes from me!"
"Cram it gramps," the first grunt snarled. He then faced Nate and the group. "You kids should run along. This is for adults only."
"Kid?" Joseph asked, as he stepped forward. "Are you calling me a kid?!"
"We're not scared of you," the first grunt said. "We're part of the all powerful group Team Galactic!"
"We're not leaving without them notes!" the second grunt added as he bared his fist towards Joseph. "Team Galactic cannot be defeated!"
"Then let's settle this with a battle," Joseph said calmly. "If we win, you both leave Professor Rowan alone. If you win you get the Rowan's notes."
"We accept that offer!" the first grunt said confidently, pulling out a pokeball. "We can't lose to the likes of you three."
"We'll beat you three easily! Team Galactic will have what it needs to build a new world!" the second grunt shouted.
"That remains to be seen," Joseph said pulling out Aura's pokeball. "You two ready to beat these clowns?"
"I'm more then ready," Nate smiled as he looked at Champ. Champ grunted as he walked towards the grunts.
"Jason?" Joseph asked as he looked over his shoulder.
"Terra's got this," Jason replied as he took out Terra's luxury ball.
"Go zubat!" the first grunt shouted.
"Take them down glameow!" the second grunt yelled.
"This should be easy," Joseph smiled as he sent out Aura. As the red light faded, it revealed a lucario sitting in a meditating position, her eyes closed.
"Champ," Nate said as his machoke stepped forward, pounding his fists together in anticipation.
"Go Terra!" Jason shouted as he threw his luxury ball. Terra appeared ins a flash of red light, ready for battle.
"Ha! That lucario's sleeping! Zubat use leach life!" the first grunt ordered. The zubat swooped down towards Aura before launching a small barb towards Aura.
"Glameow use scratch!" the second grunt commanded. The grunts glameow swiftly ran towards Terra with a sly look on its face, its claws gleaming.
"Champ use karate chop!" Nate said.
Champ run towards the grunts glameow and attacked it with a powerful karate chop. The glameow saw the attack coming from the corner of its eye and jumped out of the way from champ's attack. It then leaped forwards and clawed at Champs exposed side and kept back. The attack did little than annoy him though as he attempted to hit the glameow with another karate chop.
"Aura use aura sphere," Joseph said.
Immediately Aura's eyes opened and she did a backflip to avoid the zubat's attack. While in mid-air she launched an aura sphere that hit the zubat dead on.
"What happened!?" the first grunt shouted in surprise. His zubat landed at his feet, knocked out from a single blow.
"It doesn't matter," the second grunt growled. "Glameow use hypnosis on that lucario!"
The glameow dodged another one of Champs attacks before starring at Aura as it prepared it's attack.
"Terra use tackle then bubble!" Jason ordered.
Before the glameow could use hypnosis on Aura, Terra tackled it, disrupting its attack. Terra then followed that up by launching a horde of bubbles at the glameow, pushing it back and blinding it temporarily. The glameow hissed in annoyance as it clawed the air in from of it as to fell over.
"Champ use rock smash!"
Before the grunts glameow could get up from Terra's attack, Champ knocked it out with a rock shattering punch.
"What should we do now?" the second grunt asked the first in alarm as he returned his knocked out glameow.
The first grunted gritted his teeth as he returned his fainted zubat. "We fall back," the first grunt said.
"But what about the notes?" the second grunt asked. "Master Cyrus will be displeased with us."
"We'll deal with that later," the first grunt muttered.
"A deal's a deal. You two have to leave Professor Rowan," Nate said.
"Fine," the first grunt snarled. "But you haven't seen that last of Team galactic! We will create our new world!"
Both grunts then dashed of towards Route 204. "Should we go after them?" Jason asked.
"No. I'm pretty sure the local authorities can manage them," Joseph said.
"All you all right professor?" Nate asked.
"I'm fine," Rowan replied wiping his fore head with a napkin. "Thanks to you and your friends."
"Happy to help," Nate smiled.
"Do you know why those two may have wanted your notes?" Joseph asked.
"I'm not sure," Rowan said. "Before your arrival they talked about reshaping the universe and how they need my research to do that."
"Strange," Joseph muttered.
"Yes indeed," Rowan said. "Any ways I thank you all for chasing away those two goons."
"No problem," Jason said.
"So professor, why are you here anyway?" Nate asked. "Aren't you supposed to be at Sandgem town in your laboratory?"
"I came here to Jubilife city to drop of some notes to Professor Oak," Rowan replied.
"You know Professor Oak?" Joseph asked.
"Yes I do. Professor Oak's an old friend of mine," Rowan said. "Anyway I should get back to Sandgem town. There are mysteries of pokemon waiting to be discovered. I wish you all good luck."
Professor Rowan then walked back towards Sandgem town to continue his studies.
"Well that was unexpected," Jason said.
"Hopefully we won't have any more surprises down the road," Joseph said as he returned Aura back into her pokeball. Joseph then looked up at the sky and noticed that it is already noon.
"At this rate we can't make it to Floaroma town before sundown," Joseph muttered to himself.
"What did you say?" Jason asked.
"Nothing," Joseph replied.
"Well let's keep on going, adventure awaits!" Nate said.