I forgot to tell everyone about Lucas in the last chapter. I decided to make him an aspiring musician as a creative attempt like how I did with the Unova heroes. Anyway, we're on the 2nd last chapter of the story. Enjoy.
The Proposal
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. All rights belong to their owners.
Castelia City, Unova, 12:00 p.m.
A few days later, two people entered a building in Castelia City. The building is one of the buildings that have just been rebuilt among others as the other buildings are still being worked on.
The two people have just entered the elevator. One of them starts to talk.
"I wonder what Red and Leaf has in mind," the person said.
"No idea, Lucas. But it seems pretty big if they asked all of us to reunite. It's been a month since we last saw each other," the other person said.
"No kidding, Dawn," Lucas smiled. He wrapped his right arm around Dawn's waist and bought her closer so that he could kiss her cheek, which he does. This bought out a giggle from Dawn. Then, they arrived at a floor. The floor has three doors. One in the middle and one each on both sides. Lucas and Dawn approached the door in the middle. On the door reads 'Rosa's Detective Agency'.
"Wow… She's only about a year or two younger than us and she has her own detective agency," Dawn is very impressed.
"You can say that again," Lucas concurs.
They enter the room and they were amazed by the amount of activity that is going on inside the agency. There are people running around from left to right, passing each other documents. A group of people has just burst through between Dawn and Lucas to exit the door. Then, a familiar voice greets them.
"Yeah. It gets really busy at this time,"
Lucas and Dawn know that voice. They turned to their left and…
"ROSA!" Lucas and Dawn said unison.
"Long time no see, you two. I'll show you two the meeting room to wait for the others. I've got some more work to do in the meantime," Rosa leads the way as Lucas and Dawn follows.
"So, anyone else has arrived?" Lucas asked while they're walking.
"Nope. You two are the first, they'll be here shortly. Oh. Here we are," Rosa said.
They arrived at a door. Rosa opens it for them.
"I'll be back once everyone arrives. In the meantime, make yourselves at home,"
Once Lucas and Dawn enters, Rosa closes the door. Immediately after that, someone wearing a white ninja outfit came down from the ceiling, causing both Lucas and Dawn to scream in shock. In fact, Lucas actually fainted from the shock. Lucky, Dawn is there to catch him.
"LUCAS!"
"OH MY ARCEUS!" the person that just came down from the ceiling laughed. Dawn recognized that voice immediately.
"Hilda?"
The person took off her mask and revealed her face. She ruffled her hair a bit to make sure it flows freely. Then, someone else came out from hiding behind one of the file cabinets that is facing the door. He's holding a camera.
"Sorry. It was Hilda's idea. She decided to take a picture of everyone's reaction when they come in after she 'ambushes' them,"
"But, it's a good idea right, Hilbert?"
"Still not sold on it," Hilbert folded his arms.
"And, you got Rosa to help you out?" Dawn said while still holding Lucas. Hilda and Hilbert nodded.
"Anyway, can you help me get Lucas on that chair?" Dawn tries to prop Lucas up to a chair. Hilda and Hilbert helped out and they succeed in doing so.
"So, how have you been Dawn?" Hilda smiled.
"I've been doing great. Lucas and I are totally amped up for the tournament. And how are you two doing?"
"I'm fine. Not so sure about Hilbert, though. Every time we battle, I usually win," Hilda smirked.
"I defeated you sometimes. Give me some credit," Hilbert is annoyed. Hilda looked at Lucas and suddenly thought of an idea.
"Hey, Dawn. Want in on the scaring prank?"
As if they communicated each other by telepathy, Dawn knew exactly what Hilda is referring to. Leaving Hilbert having to play the 'straight-man' role.
"Please tell me you two are not thinking what I think you're going to do,"
Later, two other people came into the meeting room. One person came in and looked shocked at the scene before him.
"Thanks for showing us around, Rosie," the other person said. She came in and saw her friend looking shocked.
"What's wrong, Ethan?" the person said.
She looked in front and immediately knows why. They see Lucas, still unconscious, with his body slumped on the chair. He had some red liquid on the corners of his lips and his stomach. Then, someone came down from the ceiling, causing the two people to scream. Then, a flash came out of nowhere. After that, Dawn and Hilbert came out from their hiding spots, with the former laughing. Hilbert on the other hand just shook his head.
"Dear Arceus. Your reactions are priceless. Good job, Hilda," Dawn gives a thumbs up.
Hilda took her mask off. And, continues laughing.
"You should've seen the looks of your faces, you two. Especially, Lyra,"
Ethan & Lyra is confused at the laughing duo of Dawn and Hilda. Hilbert explains the prank. Ethan grimaced. But, Lyra seems to be laughing it off.
"All right. You all got me,"
"Still, you all nearly gave me a heart attack," Ethan held his chest with his right hand.
"They certainly gave Lucas one," Hilbert folded his arms.
"Do you think we should wake him up?" Lyra suggested.
"Yeah. I'm getting bored of the prank. Besides, staying on the ceiling too long will give cramps on my limbs," Hilda
"Let me wake him up," Dawn walk towards him very seductively, much to Ethan, Lyra, Hilbert and Hilda's surprise. She straddled herself onto Lucas' lap and starts kissing him passionately. This made Lyra go all fluffy, Hilbert and Hilda wide-eyed and Ethan having a nosebleed.
"Excuse me," Ethan excuses himself and made a Beedrill-line (A/N: Lame pun, I know) for the nearest tissue box.
Then, Lucas suddenly started to react by moving his arms around Dawn's neck. After a while, they broke from the kiss with Lucas finally wide awake and Dawn got off his lap.
"I could get used to that. Also, why does my stomach feel wet?" Lucas looks down and saw a red liquid on his jacket. He then looks beyond Dawn and saw the rest of the heroes who just arrived.
"Hey, Lucas. How are you?" Ethan waved with his left hand while rubbing his bloody nose with a tissue in the other.
Upon realizing that they had an intimate moment in front of everyone, Lucas suddenly flared up in a flustered way and starts to mumble incoherently. Dawn could only giggle which lead to Lucas' temperature to rise even more.
"Uh… How are old are you both?" Hilbert asked.
"Turning 16 this year. Why?"
For reasons that they don't know, Hilbert and Hilda are quite speechless.
"Now why can't you two be like that?" Lyra got in between both Hilda and Hilbert with both her arms around both of their shoulders. This caused the first Unova heroes to blush.
"LYRA!" Ethan grabbed Lyra from behind and covered her mouth. This caused her eyes to closed shut while her arms flailing. Then, someone came in.
"What's up, everyone? May's in the house," May raise both her arms while closing her eyes and smiled. When she opened them, she is confused about the scene before her.
"Oh. Hey, May. Whoa. You look different," Ethan said. Upon hearing that, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at May's new appearance.
"Wow. Ethan's right. You do look different," Hilda commented.
"A nice change of pace. And it looks well on you too," Hilbert added.
"Thanks. But, you should see Brendan,"
Then, another person comes in.
"I know she's a detective, but I didn't think she has an agency this big," the person talked to himself.
"TA-DA! Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you: The new Brendan," May introduces her friend.
"Huh?" Brendan stood while looking at May confused.
Everyone in the room is even more amazed at Brendan's new look.
"May, are you sure that's Brendan?" Lucas stood up in shock.
"Sure I may have changed my looks but I'm still the guy that can kick anyone's ass," Brendan folded his arms.
"That's Brendan all right," Hilda closes her eyes and smiles weakly.
"So, where's Red, Leaf and the idiot?" Brendan scans the room.
"Please don't talk about Nate like that, Brendan," Hilbert said.
"I'll talk whatever the way I want, drama king," Brendan ignored Hilbert's plea.
"Hey, I can take you on whenever and wherever, Mr. Angry,"
And that's how the verbal warfare between Hilbert and Brendan started. Everyone who is in the room tried to break the fight when suddenly…
"HONK!"
"OW!"
Everyone covered their ears in pain. They immediately know who was responsible.
"Arceus. It's as if that you all didn't separate," the voice said with her ears covered with headphones.
"Sorry, guys. Leaf's idea," another person said whose ears are also closed with headphones.
Everyone turned around and were happy to see the two people.
"Hey, Red. Hey, Leaf," Hilda greeted them first. Everyone followed suit, expressing their delight that Red and Leaf are here. Then, Leaf's Nidoqueen and Rosa's Excadrill came out and hugged each other in sheer joy.
"My Nidy missed your Excadrill a lot, Rosa,"
"Yeah. My Excadrill has been quite glum lately. I'm so glad to see it happy again,"
"Hey. Where's Nate?" Red asked after he scanned the room. Right on cue, Nate bursts in.
"HEY! Sorry, I'm late… Gym leader duties," Nate huffed as he ran out of breath.
"Better late than never, Nate," Red said. Nate replied with a small smile.
"Hey, Mr. Bush," May said with a smirk. Some of the heroes laughed silently.
"Stop… Calling me that," Nate still ran out of breath, point weakly at May as he dragged himself on a chair. Then, the door opens again.
"All right. Since everyone is here, might as well start the meeting," Rosa closes the door behind her. Everyone took their seats with Red standing at the far end of the table.
"Ok. First of all, it's good to see all of you again. Anyway, I have a proposition for everyone. So, just hear me out. We all have one thing in common. All of us saved our region from a crisis. Can I ask you all a question? Do you all love to help people and make them happy?" Red asked.
"Of course. I think all of us do. Right?" Hilbert said. Everyone nodded.
"The reason why I asked everyone this is because that there were three landslides that happened in both Kanto and the Johto region. The authorities are puzzled on why these landslides happen. I want to help. But, I realized that it's going to take more than Leaf and I to deal with it as there are a lot to cover on these incidents,"
"Oh. Those landslides," Ethan remembered.
"I've heard of that incident back in Sinnoh," Lucas added.
"Yes. And who knows, there might be other incidents that happened in your regions, right?" Leaf asked.
"Actually, yeah. There was a passenger boat that sank right off the shores of Slateport. There were a lot of people and Pokeballs went missing. But most of the passengers managed to got on the lifeboats," Brendan recalled.
"Thank goodness for that," Hilda commented.
"See? Anyway, what I'm saying is that I asked you all to gather here is because I want to form a team that is willing to help other people and Pokemon throughout the world. And I want you all to join Leaf and I," Red finished explaining.
The other heroes looked at each other. Red noticed that some of them were hesitant. He saw it coming. But, he chooses to listen before jumping to conclusions. He's unaware that Leaf is looking at his face to try and interpret what is he thinking. Dawn speaks up.
"First of all, it's a really good idea. But there are some concerns. Such as where exactly would our base be? Because I don't think everyone would be comfortable about leaving our home regions,"
Leaf suddenly smiled, much to everyone's (minus Red) confusion.
"I thought so. That's why I have a question for all who is not from Unova. Did you take notice on where Unova is and how long does it take to get here from your respective regions?"
"Wait. So, the base is gonna be here in Unova?" Nate stood up. Red and Leaf nodded.
"But, why?" Rosa said.
"We're getting to that. Anyway, here's the map of the whole world," Leaf took out the map and un-roll it. She then lays it out on the table so everyone could see it. Everyone stood up and gathered around the map. Leaf pointed at a pointy bit of land in the middle that goes up until the map ends.
"Red and I did our research and if you look here. This is Unova. And on the left here is Kanto and Johto. And, on the southeast is Hoenn. And on the southwest here is Sinnoh. Now, if I use a ruler here, I'm going to measure the distance between all regions and Unova,"
"Of course you use it. How are you going to measure it?" Brendan said with an insulting tone. Leaf glowered at him.
"I'll get you back for that," Leaf thought.
She starts to measure the distance of Kanto/Johto to Unova. The distance is taken at 30 cm. She does the same for all the other regions. Once she is done, everyone is surprised. All of the other regions distance to Unova is 30 cm.
"Wait, so you all didn't know about it?" Leaf said. Everyone (minus Red) shake their heads.
"Don't worry. Red and I didn't know about it until we did our research," Leaf smiled. Red starts to talk.
"So, there you have it. That's why Leaf and I decided to choose Unova as a base for our operations. It's because Unova is a central hub for all the regions here and getting here is not a problem,"
"But, what about our friends and families?" May brought up a question. Hilbert decides to answer for Red and Leaf.
"We all traveled around our regions before. So, I think they will be Ok with you all moving to Unova as long as it is for a great cause,"
"And besides, we would love everyone here to be in Unova," Nate said.
"So, I take it that the Unova heroes are Ok with this plan?"
"Yep," Hilda answered.
"Of course," Hilbert said.
"I like the idea," Nate gives a thumbs up.
"Well, only if EVERYONE agrees," Rosa looks at the Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh heroes. They looked at each before Ethan sighed and spoke.
"What about the people you know back at Kanto?"
Red and Leaf looked at each other before Red answered.
"We talked to our parents, Professor Oak and among others. They agree to it,"
"In that case, we would like to talk to our friends and families before we can make a decision," Lyra said.
"This might take a while, though," Lucas commented.
"Take your time," Leaf said.
Ethan, Lyra, Brendan, May, Lucas and Dawn left the room to make a call to their loved ones as the others stay. The formation of the team depends on what the Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh heroes' friends and families have got to say.
To Be Continued
About the distance between all the regions that was mentioned, another creative attempt. So, what do you think? Please rate & review. Stay tuned for the final chapter.