Ch 7: The vigilante

It was early in the morning and Jason had just finished a guardian exercise with Charmander and Taillow.

Taillow and Charmander quickly dropped to the ground breathing deeply and covered in sweat.

"Ok now that our base training is done for today. After some breakfast we'll work on Steel wing and Metal claw."

Jason said as his pokemon nodded.

Jason got out a wet towel and tried to clean some of the sweat off his chest and face.

He thought about the memory he had the night before.

Normally he didn't like thinking about ancestor memories he had, as they just served as reminders of how great his ancestors were while he in comparison was nothing. But there was something different about Circe, and the message that was on the scroll. It was little surprise that she would have been around the time of the Byzantines since it was a Byzantine age scroll that triggered the memory.

But the thing was, he just happened to come across it when someone tried to get in, leading to an artifact that just happened to be significant to one of his ancestors. Even more strange was the fact that his dad and grandfather told him about his line of ancestors, but Hoenn had never come up. Was this an ancestor that they didn't know about, the Byzantine empire existed for thousands of years, it was entirely possible there was an ancestor in that time they didn't know about.

After putting the towel away, he took out the scroll from the box and read it again.

"The Red orb?" He said.

He tried to remember his studies about ancient artifacts. He knew well about the Tears of Reduka, scales of Reduka, and the legendary Heart of Reduka, but he was having trouble remembering about the orbs. Generally guardians studied the artifacts of their own regions more in depth than those of other regions, but he remembered reading about Hoenn and the 2 orbs of power.

Still the Hoenn guardians would know this better than him.

He put it back in the box and sealed it.


Several minutes later Autumn and Finn slowly got out of their tents.

They saw Jason and his pokemon return to the camp.

"You're already up?" Finn asked.

"He always get's up really early to do his 'secret training'" Autumn said with a slight smile.

"How early?"

"Early enough." Jason said.

The 3 made some breakfast for themselves and their pokemon.

"We can't be too far from Rustboro city now." Finn said.

"In any case, my pokemon and I still have a lot of training to do."

"I wouldn't mind some training time either. I want Wurmple to become a Beautifly."

"Well you're in luck pokemon like Wurmple generally evolve faster than most pokemon." Jason said.

"So do we try to cover more distance or have more training time?" Finn asked.

"I'd rather get the training done first." Jason said.

"Me too."

"Alright let's get to it then." Finn said.

For the next 2 hours they trained with their pokemon.

"Wurmple use String shot , Torchic use Ember."

Torchic opened his mouth and blasted a large rock with fire, heating it up before Wurmple unleashed a shot of silk around it, before pulling it back and around.

"Ple!" Wurmple shouted as he hurled it at Charmander.

"This is it! Charmander use Scratch!"

"Char!" Charmander shouted as he ran forward and leapt up before slashing the rock across the center with his claws.

The rock split in two pieces before Charmander smashed them at Wurmple and Torchic with his tail.

"Tackle and Peck!"

Torchic and Wurmple leapt forward before Wurmple tackled the rock and Torchic relentlessly pecked it.

The two rock pieces were hurled into the ground.

At the same time Taillow flew at Mudkip.

"Mud shot!" Finn shouted.

"Mudkip!" Mudkip shouted as he opened his mouth and let out several blasts of mud.

"Wing attack!"

Taillow flew down and used his wings to smash through each burst of mud.

"Alright I that's enough for now." Jason said.

"Me too." Autumn said.

"That was a few good hours. Covering some more distance would be a good idea." Finn said.

They returned their pokemon and stared to make their way through the woods.

"So what's Rustboro city like?" Jason asked.

"A lot of big businesses have set up show there including the Devon cooperation." Autumn said.

"Devon corp, aren't they the biggest company in Hoenn?"

"They are. I here they're going to be even bigger now that their starting a joint venture with the Silph company in Kanto." Finn said.

That was when Jason and the others noticed several pokemon near a bush.

There was a Wurmple, a Poochyena, and a Taillow all circled around a pile of fruit. It appeared that the 3 had worked together to gather the food.

"Wow 3 different pokemon working together like that. I've got to get a picture of this." Finn said as he quickly took out his camera.

Just before he could take a picture , the Poochyena was hurled onto his side.

"What the?" Autumn started before they saw a Breloom standing over the hurt Poocheyna with a nasty smile on his face.

"Is that a Breloom?" Jason asked.

Autumn took out her pokedex.

"Breloom, the Mushroom Pokémon. Breloom is the evolved form of Shroomish. Its excellent footwork gets it within striking distance of its opponent where it unleashes a barrage of punches."

"What's he doing?" Finn asked.

The Taillow and Wurmple gave frightened looks before they turned to see 4 Zigzagoon surrounding them.

Two of the Zigagoon used tackle one after the other on the Wurmple while the Taillow tried to fly off, only to be hit in the back by a pair of Zubat that flew from the trees.

"They look like some kind of pokemon gang." Finn said.

"Why are they doing that to them?" Autumn asked.

Jason saw the Breloom and his pokemon stare at the fruit.

"They're poachers, stealing food from other pokemon instead of finding it themselves." Jason said as he tightened his fist.

"We can't let them do this." Autumn said.

Jason was about to reach for Charmander's pokeball, when he saw something else.

Up in the branches, was another pokemon standing up on two feet and staring down at the scene. The pokemon seemed to be wearing some kind of black and cyan bandana wrapped around his neck before he leapt down from the tree.

The Breloom looked up just in time to see the Pokemon's large tail as it slammed into the top of his head.

The Breloom stumbled backwards as the pokemon backflipped in the middle of the pokemon gang and quickly unleashed a Bullet seed on all of them. This distracted the gang and allowed the Poocheyna, Wurmple, and Taillow to escape.

Jason and the others were amazed as they saw this.

Becuase of the pokemon's fast movements and concealment from the other pokemon it was hard to see what it was.

"I have to get a shot of this!" Finn shouted as he took out his camera.

The pokemon swept his tail around the fruit and then when the other pokemon looked back the pokemon and fruit were both gone.

"Loom!" Bream shouted with an angry expression.

He and his pokemon gang left.

"What just happened?" Autumn said.

"I couldn't get that picture. But that was amazing, that pokemon just came down and protected the others." Finn said.

"I can't believe something like that actually happened." Autumn said when she noticed an almost enticed expression on his face.

"Jason are you ok?"

He kept staring off at where the pokemon came from.

"I need to go." Jason said.

"What?" Autumn said confused.

"I'll find you guys later." he said before he ran off and quickly scaled up a tree before leaving their sight.

"Jason!" Autumn shouted before she gave a concerned look.

"Why does he have to do that?" She said.

"I haven't known Jason for a long time, but I've known him long enough to know he can handle himself." Finn said.


Elsewhere the Poochyena, Wurmple, and Taillow were giving sad expressions as their stomachs growled.

Moments later their fruit fell down in front of them from above.

Their expressions did a 180 as they cheered before eating.

On the branch above them was the pokemon that had stopped the Breloom.

He slowly turned away when he noticed someone else on the branch above him.

Surprisingly it was a human.

Jason looked down at the branch and saw the pokemon. He realized it was a Treecko.

The Treecko looked up at him for a moment before Jason leapt down to the branch.

He held his hand out and tried to reach out to the Treecko with his aura.

The Treecko slowly backed up before leaping off the branch and onto another tree's branch.

"Wait!" Jason said as the Treecko kept moving away.

Jason freeran and leapt onto the next branch trying to keep up with the Treecko.

The Treecko looked back at Jason following him and gave a quick look of amazement, never seeing a human moving like that before.

Despite this, he kept moving, leaping up and onto other branches as Jason tried to keep up with him.

"I just want to talk!" He said as he continued to try and reach out with his aura. Unfortunately, that had always been one of his weaknesses with his guardian skills.

Finally the Treecko leapt off the branch and did a front flip before landing on his feet.

Jason dove off the tree performing a leap of faith into a pile of leaves behind the Treecko.

He came out as the Treecko gave a surprised expression again.

"Please just wait." Jason said as he held his hand out and tried to reach out the Treecko one more time with his aura.

The Treecko readied himself to run.

"I saw you protect those pokemon. What the Breloom was doing was wrong, you know that and that's why you tried to stop them. You don't like it when the innocent are preyed on, that's something we have in common." Jason said.

The Treecko gave a a slightly intrigued expression before shaking his head.

They both then heard another pokemon cry out in fear in the distance.

Treecko turned his head when he heard it.

"Let me help you?" Jason said.

The Treecko stared at him for another moment before sprinting off.

"Wait! Oh dam it" Jason said as he sighed.

"Another case of my inability to connect with a pokemon." Jason said as he held his forehead with his hands.

"Why do I have to be the worst guardian on the planet?"

Meanwhile a small Poochyena pup was being beaten senselessly by the Breloom.

"Yena!" The Poochyena shouted in pain before he was slammed against a tree.

Moments later the Treecko leapt down from a tree and slammed his tail across the back of Breloom's head.

The Breloom stumbled forward and then turned to face Treecko as the Poochyena got up and limped away as fast as he could.

The Breloom gave an evil smile as he faced Treecko.

Bream rushed forward with Force palm and tried to slam his right claw into Treecko's face. Treecko dodged the incoming attacks or blocked them with his tail before leaping up and slamming his tail across Breloom's face.

The Breloom backed up again before charging forward with Headbutt and slammed into Treecko's chest, hurling him back.

When Treecko got up he was hit in the back with tackle. The Breloom smiled as he saw his 4 Zigzagoon and Zubat all swarming around him.

After a minute they backed up as Treecko slowly tried to get back to his feet.

That was when the Breloom came forward and slammed his stomach with Force palm , then across the face as some blood came out of the side of his mouth.

Treecko fell back to the ground before Breloom stood over him with an malice expression.

He raised his arm again before a small jet of fire crashed into his chest and hurled him back into a tree.

At the same time, Taillow flew in and smashed each of the Zigzagoon and Zubat with his wings , forcing them back.

Jason sprinted forward and quickly picked up the Treecko in his arms.

"Let's go!" Jason shouted as he , Charmander, and Taillow rushed off.

The Breloom got up with an angry expression.

"Bre." he growled.

Several minutes later Jason played Treecko in front of him as Charmander and Taillow looked down at the hurt Treecko.

Jason took a deep breath before his eyes and hands glowed blue and he used his aura to heal the worst of his injuries.

"Charmander, Taillow, I need you to find me some oran berries and Pecha berries." Jason said.

The two nodded before they went off.

A few minutes later, they came back as Charmander put 2 Oran berries in front of him and Taillow dropped 3 Pecha berries.

"Thanks guys, these should help."

Twenty minutes later, the Treecko woke up feeling sore all over his body.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw Jason kneeling over him.

"Treecko?" He said sounding confused.

"You're finally awake." He said.

The Treecko tried to get up and run off, but his body was too sore.

" You need to calm down. You nearly got yourself in serious trouble back there. We could have helped you." Jason said.

"Cko." Treecko said turning his head away.

"You know, it's like I said earlier. You went after Breloom because you knew he was threatening all the pokemon in these woods. You like protecting other pokemon."

Treecko turned back towards Jason but kept his head down.

"You didn't let me finish the last time we talked."

Treecko slowly looked up at Jason.

He took Treecko's hand and took a deep breath as he showed Treecko his aura directly.

The Treecko felt Jason's aura and saw him for who he really was, as if he knew him for a long time.

He felt Jason's guardian passions for justice, and defending the weak. He could relate to that and saw many similarities between them.

Despite this he eventually turned his head away.

"Treecko." He said still wanting to leave.

"You can't face them alone. But you don't have to be alone." Jason said.

"Char."

"Taillow." Jason's pokemon said.

"Cko." He said shaking his head.

He did not want to join their group, he just wanted to keep working alone.

Despite how much it hurt, Treecko got up and climbed up a tree.

"Treecko wait!" Jason shouted.

Taillow wanted to fly after him, but Jason stopped him.

"We can't make him come with us Taillow. Not if he doesn't want to." Taillow and Charmander gave disappointed expressions, they had grown to like the Treecko just by seeing what he did and hoped he would join their family.

Treecko kept moving across the tree, when he thought about what Jason said. How he couldn't take on the entire gang himself.

He looked back and realized that Jason was like him and only wanted to help. If working with someone just this once meant stopping Breloom and his gang, he could do it.

As Jason and his Pokemon got ready to leave Jason heard something.

He turned to see Treecko standing behind him.

"Treecko." He said.

Jason smiled as Charmander and Taillow gave excited expressions.

A few minutes later the 4 were sitting on a large tree branch as Breloom and his gang were forcing a few pokemon to give them their berries.

"Treecko." Treeko said with an angry expression.

"We'll take care of his gang members, you get Breloom."

"Treecko." Treecko said nodding.

Treecko ran across the tree branch before leaping off and slamming his tail across the back of Breloom's head.

Breloom stumbled as the pokemon he was extorting ran off.

The Breloom turned to him and grinned as his gang came forward.

That was when Charmander leapt down and blasted 2 of the Zigzagoon and one of the Zubat with Ember and Taillow flew down and used Wing attack on the other 3.

Bream was confused when he saw Charmander, Taillow and Jason.

"Treecko." Treecko said saying this was between the two of them.

Breloom gave an enraged expression as he charged forward with his head lowered. Treecko tried to jump but was hit in the legs and hurled over him.

Treecko tried to get up , but Breloom turned and slammed his claws into his face with Force Palm.

Treecko stumbled backwards as Jason struggled to just watch.

Breloom lowered his head and tried to use Headbutt again.

"Treecko get low and use Pound on his legs!" Jason shouted.

Almost as if by instinct, Treecko crouched down under Breloom's head and smashed his legs, making Breloom flip over him.

Breloom got up and hurled Force palm at him.

"Back up and use Bullet seed."

Treecko backed up and blasted Breloom as he tried to come forward.

This slowed Breloom down, but he got closer and raised his arms as he tried to come down on Treecko with a double force Palm.

"Jump up and use Pound!"

Treecko leapt up and over Breloom's arms before slamming his tail across the top of his head. Breloom was already coming down and the Pound hurled him even faster into the ground.

Breloom tried to get up, but fell back down with swirly eyes.

Upon seeing this, the other pokemon gang members scurried off in different directions.

Treecko started breathing deeply as he looked proudly over unconscious Breloom.

"You did it Treecko." Jason said.

Treecko was proud that he beat Breloom, but he realized he wouldn't have been able to beat him without Jason's guidance.

"Well it looks like their gang is disbanded. I'm glad we were able to help you." Jason said.

Treecko saw Charmander and Taillow as they stared at him.

"Treecko." He said thanking them before running up into a tree and leaping across the branches.

Jason kept smiling before Charmander and Taillow gave disappointed looks before Jason returned them.


A few minutes later Autumn and Finn were continuing down the trail.

"That Nurse Joy really did that to them?!" Finn said.

"According to Jason."

"Ok, I'm never going to Oldale town." Finn said.

That was when Autumn saw Jason come out to their side.

"Jason!" She said.

"I'm back."

"Geez we were getting worried about you." Autumn said.

"Sorry I just wan off like that. But it was something I had to do." Jason said.

"What about that Breloom?" Finn asked.

"He's not a problem any more."

"What about that pokemon?" Autumn asked.

Jason paused for a moment.

"I found him and he made up his mind on what he wanted to do."

"Well, we're almost out of the woods. We should get going." Finn said.

The 3 continued down the trail towards Rustboro city.

That was when Jason heard something above them.

A Treecko with a bandana around his neck leapt down from a tree and landed in front of them.

"Treecko!" He shouted as he stood in an aggressive stance.

"A Treecko?" Autumn said.

"Amazing!" Finn said as he took a picture.

He stared up at Jason with an aggressive smile.

Jason smiled back.

"Alright, if you want to." Jason said as he took out Charmander's pokeball.

"Charmander!" Charmander shouted as he came out and gave an excited expression as he saw Treecko.

"Jason what's going on?" Autumn asked.

"Meet the vigilante of the Petalburg woods." Jason said.

Treecko rushed forward and leapt up with his tail swinging forward.

"Scratch!" Charmander slashed at Treecko's tail , forcing it back.

Treecko rolled across the ground before slamming his tail into the back of Charmander's legs.

Treecko then leapt up and tried to slam the back of Charmander's head.

"Back up and grab his tail.

Charmander lurched back and grabbed Treecko's tail, hurling him forward.

Treecko summersaulted across the ground before leaping up and slamming his tail across Charmander's face.

As Charmander stumbled backwards, Treecko came forward and tried to slam his tail into him again.

"Scratch!" Charmander came forward and snatched Treecko by his tail and hurled him back.

When Treecko landed, he leapt up backwards as he unleashed Bullet seed.

"Flamethrower!"

Charmander's tail flame grew larger as he opened his mouth and roared as a large jet of fire shot out of his mouth and burned through all the seeds before crashing into Treecko's chest.

"Woah." Autumn said.

"That's no ember." Finn said.

"You did it Charmander! You learned Flamethrower!" Jason shouted.

Treecko landed on his back covered in burn marks before Jason took out an empty pokeball.

"Pokeball go!" Jason shouted as he hurled it forward.

The pokeball hit Treecko and sent him inside.

They all watched closely as the pokeball flashed and rattled.

Finally after a minute the pokeball stopped and sparkled.

"We did it, we caught him." Jason said.

"Char!" Charmander shouted sounding very excited.

"Congratulations." Finn said.

"You have 3 pokemon already, that's amazing." Autumn said.

Jason picked up Treecko's pokeball and then let him out.

Treecko looked around at the group.

"Treecko, this is Autumn and Finn."

"Hello." Finn said.

"I'm glad we finally get to meet you."

"Treecko!" Treecko shouted as he climbed up onto Jason's shoulder.


Later that night, a 13 year old boy was up against a tree with his arms tied to branches and his face covered in welts, bruises, as well as blood in his mouth and nose.

His cloths were torn up and he coughed up more blood.

In front of him were 5 men. 4 were wearing red armor and a young man with long combed back red hair in a black and red hooded jacket that had armor plates on it.

On the ground in front of him was a bloodied up Nincada that was under the paw of a large Houndoom.

"Now that we've gotten the pleasantries out of the way, we can begin talking." The young man said.

"Please, I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry." The 13 year old bug catcher said crying.

"Oh it's nothing you've done, that was all just to make sure you would think very carefully when I asked you some questions. Also something you should know about me, I will know when you're lying, so" The young man started as he brought his right hand to the top of his chest and let out a hidden blade.

The bug catcher nearly jumped when he saw this. The Nincada saw as the young man tore the top of the bug catcher's shirt with the tip of the blade and got perhaps a millimeter into his skin.

He began slowly moving down, cutting thought he shirt and slightly through his skin as the boy cried out in pain and the Nincada struggled to watch.

"I'm looking for a young man with tan skin, light blue eyes, and spiky raven black hair. He would be about my age and had a Charmander. Have you seen him?"

"No! I swear I didn't!"

The young man saw his aura through aura vision and saw he was telling the truth.

"Hmm." He said as he continued moving down with his hidden blade.

"There was also a young woman, around the same age. She had light skin, grayish blue eyes, long navy navy black hair slightly curled at the ends. She would have also had a Torchic with her.

"Yes! I saw her!"

The young man gave a slight grin but didn't stop moving down with his hidden blade.

"Good, very good. I need to know where she was going." He said.

"Rustboro city! That's the direction they were going in! That's all I know I swear!" He shouted as the young man cut through the waistline of his shorts and they fell down.

The young man pulled his hand back but kept his hidden blade out.

"Hmm, they met him around 2 days ago, they could have covered a lot of distance by then. For all we know they could already be in Rustboro city by now." The young man said.

"So we track them down there and get the box." One of the men in armor said.

"No, we'll be too exposed there. Our enemy would find us easily, that would complicate things. No, the path through the mountain is still blocked by construction. It's unlikely they plan on staying in Rustboro for long. They'll have to come back through here, so we simply wait and set a trap for them." He said before turning back to the bug catcher.

"You've been a big help to us, and a big help to civilization. For that I thank you. But you could tell someone about us, and well." he said as he slashed his right hidden blades from left to right.

The robes holding the bug trainers arms in place were sliced by the hidden blades and the bug trainer fell to his knees as he felt his underwear fill with urine.

"If you did that, we'd have to find you again." The young man said as he and his men turned and left with the Houndoom.

The hurt Nincada went back to his trainer who cradled him in his arms.

"We're getting out of these woods, and never coming back." He said as he ran off with Nincada in his arms.


Author's note

Now Jason has his 3rd pokemon, after this one he will start to catch more pokemon Ash didn't catch in the anime

The same goes for Autumn.

So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask(via PM)