"Three Weeks after Elio and Lillie left for Orre!"
TOOT! TOOT! "We are arriving on Haehae in 1 hour. Get your sun hats ready!"
A man with a blue jacket, a strange device on his left arm and an orange haired woman at his side viewed the Island they were heading to. An Espeon was at the woman's side to help greet the morning.
"So Wes, I heard of one pokemon I want to catch is on this island, afterwards we can go try these island trials in an attempt to gather these Z crystals you keep hearing about."
Wes smirked. "I can always do that in my own time. From what I heard the champion is rather fickle with his time. Shame that he is not available, I heard he went to another region in an attempt to find a new challenge. I am going to have to settle for finding someone else to beat."
Rui looked at him. "Wes we are on vacation. Just be ready to enjoy yourself."
Wes calmed down a bit. "You are right."
The duo arrived at the port, the worse part of the arrival was security where Wes had to let them see some of his possessions. More specifically the device he had over his left arm. "Sir could you please explain what this is?"
Wes smiled arrogantly. "Oh this? Just an old trinket I had with me for quite a while."
The guard inspected it closer, backing away when they saw the strange shiny stone implemented into it before shouting to his partner. "Alright, this person is clean."
Wes had finally arrived at the city, as he took a deep breath of Alola it felt less dusty in comparison to Orre. He tossed out a pokeball. "Alright Dusk say hello to Alola."
Out came an Umbreon, rushing it's side was the Espeon.
Wes shouted. " Hey Rui I am going to look at the map of the place!"
As he went over to download the information on his PDA he bumped into what looked like a trio of thugs.
A tan gangster shouted. "Hey Yorks what did that old man give you?"
The dark skin gangster shrugged. "Eh not much, got this here Koffing, apparently it is a gas pokemon that explodes when near flames. Using it for the fire trial is a bad idea, other wise this one is a lot less jolly than I pictured it."
Bulmer shook his head. "They gave me another bat. It's suppose to be a type of fruit bat from Kalos. I heard this thing focus's mainly on noise and evolves into a type of dragon. Jeffrey what did they give you?"
The skull grunt felt slightly off. "Some type of Skunky. I heard these things smell foul, but for some reason this thing has a foul temper to boot."
Yorks, went to his next cigarette posing like he was still part of the gang. "No matter. We got passed the first island with no problems before we got these pokemon, all we got to do is train these guys over at the Battle Royal then tackle one of this island trials. Champ is not coming back for a couple months so we can still catch up and nail him by surprise. Think about it! We will be be joining the boss and big sis among what the champ keeps calling contenders."
Jeffery, posing as well said. "No idea what the champ means by contenders but he keeps saying it like it is a good thing."
Bulmer posed back. "Yeah all we have to do is take these new pokemon out for training, they should be able to listen."
Bulmer acted in surprise as he spoted a trainer approaching them. The other two turned to see a foreigner making out what he is seeing.
"Uh, guys?" Bulmer said as he tried to figure out whether the stranger was friendly or not.
"Uh? Alola!"
Wes finally responded to the three. "So you three are doing these island challenges I heard about?"
Bulmer answered nervously. "Y..Y..Y..eah?"
Wes smiled back. "Good to hear, might want to try this myself."
All four looked at each other awkwardly, as the Skull group decided to walk away.
Rui approached Wes, having finished getting her stuff off the boat. As the two checked the surrounding area, a pink haired woman whispered towards them. The duo looked to find her in a corner, having just listened in to what the three had been talking about.
"I know you two are new around here, but those three have let themselves get taken advantaged of five years back and its part of the reason they ended up with nothing and joined a gang."
Wes looked at her in response. "I seen that happen to people enough times myself, some times they don't know what they are getting into until it is too late."
The woman shook her head. "Yeah, I think those three numb skulls are doing just that again. If you find some shady people distributing things to more dummies; please do something about it."
As the tough lady walked away, Rui had no idea what she meant and whispered. "What was that about?"
Wes hands Rui over his PDA. "If you want a specific pokemon from this region let me know. I am going to go find someone to battle."
As Rui browsed through a nearby option, Wes searched the city in an attempt to size up potential opponents. It took him a ten minutes before he found a white haired man with sun glasses on his head, he looked bored out of his skull and was searching for someone to fight.
As Wes approached, the man sized him up as well. "Take your not from around these parts, huh?"
Wes spotted a key stone and nodded. "My wife and I came here on a vacation trip to explore the world a bit. She wants to go catch some pokemon and explore this places customs. I just want to find more people to battle."
That last sentence was enough to make the man grin. "Want to find people to battle eh? Well ain't that a surprise. Since a small job I was suppose to do was called out, I been looking for someone to take this boredom out on."
Wes signaled his Espeon and Umbreon to approach. "Double battle then?"
The man grinned even wider as he thought of something to say. "Want to see what destruction looks like? Here it is in human form, its your boy Guzma!"
Pokemon trainer Guzma would like to battle.
The first two pokemon he sent out was a Golisopod and what looked like a large spiky starfish, known as Toxapex.
Wes signaled the Espeon to stay back as he draw out a pokeball. "Go Dusk, Go Vivi!"
As the Mismagius came out of the ball and the Umbreon approached, the Goliosopod startled the Umbreon with its immense size before sucker punching it. The Toxapex set up a toxic barrier in anticipation of the Umbreons move.
Wes shouted. "Dusk use moon light!" As the Umbreon enveloped itself in moonlight, healing up the wounds from the first impression, Wes continued his order.
"Vivi use shadow ball on that giant bug!" The Mismagius sent out a dark blob at the Golisopod to cause an emergency exit.
The former gang leader laughed at the challenge. "Honchkrow! Mess em up!"
As a large crow emerged from the dusk ball, Wes shouted, "Dusk, taunt that Toxapex, Vivi use willo wisp!"
The Umbreon taunted the Toxapex into wanting to attack instead, its appendage enveloped in water as it slapped the Umbreon, reducing its defenses. As the Mismagius summoned dark flames to burn the Honchkrow, it dodged. Guzma gritted his teeth over that. "Oh that is it, Honchkrow use night slash!"
As the Honchkrow slashed its wing in dark energy, it knocked the Mismagius towards the ground, delivering a knockout.
"Vivi return, go Edgar!" Out came a yellow wool less sheep known as Ampharos, Wes shouted.
"Dusk, confuse ray on that Toxapex!" Glowing light dazed the Toxapex, becoming confused.
Guzma shouted. "Honchkrow, drill peck that Umbreon!"
The Honchkrow drilled into the feline dead center, gaining a critical hit.
Wes shouted back. " Edgar, thunderbolt that Honchkrow!"
The Ampharos charged electricity at the Honchkrow, taking it out in one hit.
Guzma called the Honchkrow back and shouted. "Ariados, get that fell stinger ready!" Guzma sent out a red stripped spider.
Wes prepared a pokeball and a great ball. "Dusk switch out, go Gilgey." A horned creature spun in.
Guzma grinned as he swapped the Toxapex for a Pinsir. Hyper cutter ignore intimidate from the Hitmontop, Ariados's attack was cut.
Wes shouted. "Gilgey use fake out to startle the Pinsir, Edgar power gem that Ariados," It dealt significant damage to the Ariados as it retaliated with a fell stinger.
Guzma shouted. "Pinsir, close combat that Ampharos!" As the Pinsir beat the Ampharos, he still stood.
Wes shouted back as he pointed to the weakened Ariados. "Gilgey Close combat that Ariados, do not let it attack!"
The Hitmontop kicked the Ariados back towards its trainer, as Guzma prepaired to switch.
"Come out Toxapex, wall them!" The Toxapex looked healthier than before, Ampharos used rock gem to knock out the Pinsir in one hit.
Goliosopod was sent back in and made a comeback as it made a first impression attack on Ampharos, knocking it out.
Hitmontop was swapped out as Wes signaled the Espeon to join. "Dawn, Dusk lets go."
The Espeon stared at the Toxapex as it emitted a strong psychic blast, knocking it out. The Umbreon, rammed into the Goliosopod's legs in foul play and caused it to fall under its own weight. The Golisopod bit into the Umbreon and knocked it out as it leeched its health. Hitmontop was sent back out.
Guzma thought to himself. "Lets see if that kid had a point in swapping teams."
As he sent out a large red insect with pincers. Wes saw the stone on its wrists and it reacted to the stone on the gangsters chain, turning into a much larger form.
Wes shouted. "Gilgey, fake out that Scizor. Give Dawn enough time to take out that Goliosopod!"
As the Scizor flinched, the Espeon used psychic to finish off the Golisopod. The man screamed as he had the Scizor use bullet punch on the Hitmontop, scoring a K.O critical hit. Wes took called Hitmontop back and sent out an ultra ball,
"Go Ultima!" Out came a large green stone lizard, who had scars all over its body. On its chest was a stone matching the one on Wes's device.
Guzma looked at the old Tyranitar and smiled. "Heh, what is the story on that one?"
Wes answered like he heard the question before. "Oh, Ultima? All the pokemon I had, barring Dusk and Dawn, were rescued from a group of evil people. Those two, were with me even longer before the others."
Guzma wanted to ask. "Huh? What did they do to them?"
Wes rolled his eyes as he thought of the proper words. "Hurt them, exploited them. But enough about the past, time to show you where they are now!"
The Tyranitar's tyranitarite reacted to the key stone on Wes's machine. Growing into a much larger form, with its belly markings resembling a face, Wes shouted.
"Dawn, fall back. Let Ultima have her turn."
Guzma looked over at the Espeon falling back to the orange haired woman and didn't care. "Scizor, iron head! Bash that Tyranitar till it does not get up!"
Wes shouted back. "Ultima, fire fang!"
The Scizor head butted the Tyranitar hard, the impact pushed it back into the road. The Tyranitar's fangs flared up as it bit down into the Scizor making it it struggle for a brief moment before being tossed aside. A mark was left on the road during the brief trade of blows. The Scizor reverted back as it could not take the damage. Guzma was defeated
As the man shouted to himself. "Guzma, what is wrong with you!?"
Wes smiled at what he considered to be a good first impression of Alola. "If the majority of Alola's trainers are this strong, then you have done a good job in the introduction. I hope we fight again in say two months?"
Guzma froze up after hearing a compliment from another grown up. He was not sure if the stranger really meant that. He remembered the last person who gave him praise played him for a fool. As Rui went to congratulate Wes, she has made a decision on what pokemon she wanted to catch from this region; a strange creature named Comfey that lived in the Jungle to the far north.
Rui read out the route they were about to take. "So, walk south and take the loop. Should take a day at most to make it to the jug...?"
The verbal plan was interrupted as Wes and Rui heard violence in a distance. "Wait what?"
Thwump!
As they rushed toward the noise, they saw a trainer that looked like it was slammed into a tree. With a gangster dropping his cigarette in an attempt to hold the purple gas ball in place.
"No Koffing, you are suppose to hit the Herdier, not the Trainer!"
The Koffing knocked him aside.
Rui gasp in shock. "Wes... that Koffing, I have not seen that aura in some time!"
The Koffing rammed towards Wes the instant it saw a new target.
Wes dodged before he asked. "Shadow pokemon Rui?"
Rui nodded as Wes tossed a great ball. "Alright, Edgar come out. Thunder wave that Koffing!"
Koffing was paralyzed!
Wes took out an Ultra ball and placed it into the old machine.
"GO SNAG BALL!"
A hand materialized from the ball to drag the Koffing in.
Shake... Shake... Shake... click!
The skull grunt got himself back up, he saw the same man as back at Haehae. Wes looked down at Yorks with one of the most unimpressed stares the gangster had not seen since his parents tossed him out.
"Look I did not order that Koffing to tackle that trainer, I ordered it to tackle his pokemon!"
The Skull Grunt continued to panic as the man still approached with a glare.
"Where did you get that thing?"
The Skull Grunt was able blurted. "Uh, some people at a port?"
Wes thought in anger before he responded. "Yeah, it is this crap again. Looks like you got played for a bum deal."
Yorks shouted. "WHAT?"
Wes stared in realizing just how little the gangster knew and explained.
"That Koffing; those people did things to it to make it act this aggressive. So aggressive, I might add, that they would attack anything and anyone, straight down to their own trainers. You had two companions with you! Where are they?"
The former skull grunt panicked even more. "Oh crap, Bulmer and Jeff! South of here is a place called the Royal Avenue. I have to tell them that those two pokemon are not any good!"
Wes tripped his attempt to escape. "No, what YOU have to do is go back to Haehae and wait for someone to pick you up! A pink haired woman told me you three might have gotten yourselves in this mess. I will see to your friends; just hope they have not used those shadow pokemon in public."
The Skull Grunt's expression of fear did not fade as he heard the description. "Big Sis was watching?"
The gangster slumped forward in defeat. "Just don't chew them out."
"Nah I will let her do that instead." Wes joked.
As the two entered what looked like the parking lot to a stadium, they saw the two arguing with a strange looking person in a wrestling mask. As Wes approached the masked man noticed.
"Oh another trainer, perfect. I have been needing one more person so I can show these two how a Battle Royal works. Since it was off season we would be able use pokemon that are not fully trained yet and we can still have a crowd."
Wes sized the three up, looked at the Stadium that reminded him of home, then toward the pokemon center. "I'll be right back."
He walked towards the pokemon center to pick something up. Rui looked at the masked man, trying to hide her sense of urgency of what the two numb skulls actually had. "So how does the Battle Royal work?"
The masked man answered, "Ah glad you asked, four trainers picked three pokemon or in this case just one, for one large, free for all pokemon battle. When a trainer runs out of pokemon, the battle is over and who ever has knocked out the most pokemon as well as have the most pokemon standing, wins!"
Wes returned as he heard the last part. "Yeah I am in, since most of you are starting out I thought I'd bring something to even the playing field. I don't use Moog Moog much; but he is useful in dealing with rookies! I take these two are Jeff and Bulmer; you?"
The Masked man answered "They call me... The Masked Royal!"
Wes shrugged. "Hmph! Just call me Wes. This is Rui."
Wes looked over to the Rui to whisper. "Hey could you go wait in the audience. Just be sure to shout when you see the pokemon sent out."
As he winked towards her.
Within the Stadium is a ring, each corner composed of the following colors. Yellow, red, blue and green. Wes approached from the green corner as he eyes set on the two skull grunts; he tossed a great ball.
"Moog Moog, time for a show."
Out came a Dunsparce, with its eyes constantly closed, its snake like body and its wings on its back.
The masked Royal sent out a tiny rock wolf pup, Bulmer sent out a small purple bat, while Jeffery sent out a tiny skunk.
Rui cheered in excitement from the audience. "Wooh! Wes get that Noibat and Stunky!"
Wes took the hint that the two were shadow pokemon and shouted. "Moog moog, glare at the Noibat."
As the Noibat stiffened up a bit, it struggled to fly.
The Masked Royal told the Rockruff to use rock throw on the Noibat.
Jeffrey looked at the Dunsparce. "Stunky use slash on that weird thing!"
The Stunky ignored orders and went after the Rockruff.
Jeffery shouted out. "No Stunky that one, get that one!"
Wes saw his chance and put a poke ball into the snag machine. "GO SNAG BALL!"
The hand materialized to capture the Noibat.
Shake... shake...shake...click!
Everyone but Rui gasped in shock. Wes saw this as an opportunity for a free swing put in a great ball. "GO SNAG BALL!"
A hand reached for the Stunky to yank into the ball.
Shake... shake... shake... click!
Wes turned towards the two grunts, who were dumbfounded at what they saw. "Sis wants to see you back at Haehae."
As the Skull Grunts flinched at hearing that, the audience started booing Wes for his actions.
Wes shouted back to the audience. "Yeah, yeah. I know you all hate me!"
He raised his arms and moved his hands towards himself, the audience booing at him reminded him of the Colosseum match's back in Orre.
The Masked Royal tried to hide his shock and anger he shouted. "Wes, what did you just do?"
Wes blew into the air in response. "Pfft, if you had any idea what those two numb skulls were using you all would be thanking me. If you think what I am doing is wrong, why don't you do something about it?"
Wes taunted the Masked Royal.
The Royal nodded as he ordered the Rockruff to howl, increasing its adrenaline for the next attack. Dunsparce glared at the Rockruff to stiffen it nerves.
"Nice try at getting a damage boost. You want to hear the one thing a Dunsparce is really good at?"
The Royal heard of Dunsparces and played along. "A move combination involving its ability to trigger secondary effects more often."
Wes barely held a laugh as he helped him finish his explanation. "Yes, as you know the main formula involves paralyzing the enemy so it has a chance of not moving; add it with a move with a secondary effect like say headbutt."
The Dunsparce rammed its head at the Rockruff on hearing the word. The Rockruff did not not flinch, but its nerves would not let it move.
"Then laugh as they couldn't do much against what is considered the most silly looking pokemon imaginable. Good that you figured it out."
The Dunsparce stuck out his tongue, not even aware of what his master was talking about. The rest of the match was the Dunsparce carrying out the infamous move combination known as para flinch. With the Rockruff barely being able to move as the Dunsparce kept head butting it for a knock out.
The audience continued to boo at Wes as he defeated the Royal with one of the cheapest strategies imaginable. Did not help that afterwards Wes had the thing leaping into his arms. He raised it up to the audience to boast more before he whispered to it.
"Some one is getting a treat for this." As the audience was joining the Royal in comprehending who was this person, police sirens blared up. Rui shook her head at the sound.
"Oh Wes, you got to stop taunting the audience like that." She was the few among the audience still there as the rest got up to leave.
Wes realized that he has been caught, raised his hands in preparation. Toward the Arena was a bored looking cop. "Alright what do I hear about..."
As he took out a piece of paper describing the scene. "A jackass who came in, stole some pokemon then proceeded to humiliate a bystander?"