I Don't Own Pokemon


Out of the forest that has consumed almost four weeks of my life, not that it was all that unpleasant but I'd rather be able to see the sky at all times rather than every couple of hours when I find a clearing that doesn't have leafs covering the skyline to the point that it was mostly just a muted green light that streamed down on us. Though I did make note to come back to the forest some time in the Fall, leafs of different colors would be quite the nice sight.

And it'll be better than just one solid color cause that gets over used quite fast and sadly green isn't one of my favorites when it comes to colors. Anyway, back to the whole thing about not being in the forest anymore. Currently I was looking down at the city from the edge of the forest, now all I need to do is get down there, to bad that the area of the forest I came out from was on a cliff edge.

Looking downwards, I figured it was maybe a two hundred or so foot drop which is a little disconcerting to look down at the sheer drop, but I've been higher up before without any ground underneath me so it's not like this was all that bad in comparison. Now all we have to do is get down there, looking over towards the Pokemon behind me, I noted that they all were talking about something that always comes up when we visit a city or crowded town, time to return some of them.

"Before we get to all of that everyone will have to be returned for a couple moments, after all, I don't think rock climbing would be the safest option to get down from here. Would one of the three of you mind giving me a lift down?" I directed the question to Pidgeot, Charizard, and Zekrom, the latter most only recently has taken in interest in the art of me being able to be with them while they fly, I think Mismagius told them about it or they over heard when I was talking to her about my more hands on training with Absol. Either way they're pretty good at it, I think they've done it before for a past hero of their's.

"I can do that Trainer" Pidgeot's was the first voice that I heard as the other two were a little late on the response, I don't get why the three of them like it when I fly with them all that much but I don't mind. Still, I gave a smile to my Bird and nodded, while pulling off a couple pokeballs from my sash and belt, looking over towards the rest, they all seemed to huff a little bit, so I just laughed and told them all while priming the first pokeball in my hand, which was Lycanroc's.

"Don't worry, it'll only be for a few hours at most, and I'll send some of you out when we land, I know how little you all trust me with my own health" I got a bunch of cries from them trying to convince me otherwise, but I think it's mostly to convince themselves to be honest. Still with that I returned my Wolf before making my way through the rest with the only Pokemon still out being Pidgeot, Mismagius, and Riolu. Which the last of those three was giving me a look that would probably make hell freeze over, so I just smiled and said cheerfully.

"Well I know how much you love any form of travel so get ready, we're about to dive bomb" If it wasn't for the fact that her fur is black and blue, I'm sure she would have a noticeable green hue to her face. But fur color doesn't change the look she was giving me, so I just smiled back without remorse as I walked forwards and picked her up, before getting up on to Pidgeot's back.

"Why can't Mismagius shadow travel us down there? At least that way I don't have to deal with trusting your competence to not have me falling to my death" I just rolled my eyes at her clear lack of confidence in my ability to stand, which is close to insulting to be honest but whatever, if she isn't insulting me then I'm not sure what she would do instead.

"She totally could do that true, but I suddenly feel the need to prove my ability to balance, and since you don't have a pokeball, well, it would seem that you don't have a choice in the matter" I could actually feel the hate coming off of her small form, and it was absolutely bloody hilarious. Holding in a laugh, I instead looked down to my bird and gave him a pat on the head and let him know to start going downwards to the city below.


It was about twenty minutes later, and I'm pretty sure if I couldn't make my illusions self repairing then my jacket would be torn to pieces from Riolu digging her nails into my shoulders and more painfully into my scalp. I think that second one was out of pure spite on her part, in fact my head is still hurting a little bit, at least my nerves aren't connected to my illusions, I don't think I wanted to know what I'd feel from my jacket being destroyed.

Though it did remind me to change it up, it's mostly out of habit but I like to change my clothing up every couple days, usually just the shirts and I'll switch out jeans or sweats or some other thing like that. But this jacket of mine, I think it's the same one design wise from the one I used since Kanto, at least it's very similar, with a lot more pockets than the old model.

Doesn't mean I changed it, I like it how it is now, and at this point I think it just has some sort of sentimental value to it, which is something I usually don't have much of. But I did change up my shirt and to be honest I have no idea why I'm thinking about this so much, I just changed it from a grey to a dark blue and that's it. Really there was no reason to think about a change that took under ten seconds to finish up and I've spent the last half a minute thinking about it, that makes no sense.

Anyway back to another point, at the moment I was staring up at the closed sign on the Gym doors, great, totally didn't just spend a month in a forest only to be delayed when I finally get here, just to add a bit of proverbial salt to the wound because why not. Well it's not I have nothing else to do at the moment, from some research from over a multitude of weeks ago a contest is is coming up in this city.

I don't exactly know what day it is but I've kept a rough estimate of how long I was in the forest, so if my counting skills aren't suddenly horrible, I should have about another two maybe three days before it starts. With no idea how long the gym's going to be out of commission it wouldn't hurt to make sure the next routine me and Servine thought up works well enough, it'll be good to get enough practice to not fall on my face, even though I don't move much in my acts.

Well to be fair I've only done this once before and my only other act is still in the phase were I'm not certain of anything yet, even though it's completely set up and done already and I already know exactly what I'll be doing for this up coming contest, I revise things all the time when it comes to acting out on stage. I could've been an actor but the attention makes me over think things, enough that it's far from enjoyable for me even if it never effects me outwardly.

It's a nervous habit, one that I'd much rather shake but is quite persistent, it's just one of those habits, I have a lot of them to be fair. I pick at my nails, I tap my toes and fingers against stuff when sitting, I adjust my glasses even when I don't need to, hell I don't even need glasses and I still do it. I blame the fact that I have mild ADHD, even if it doesn't come up often and mostly only expresses itself with me working out excess energy by doing pointless repetitive activities.

Isn't that a silly thought, me with excess energy, it's always the opposite in the energy I have in terms of being awake, though that would make sense. My body is to active even when my mind is normally tired beyond reasonable belief, I think I'd prefer it to be backwards in all honestly, I can deal with my mind not shutting up, I'm use to that, but well I'm so tired that everything's muffled and covered in a veil of bare consciousness, well, simply put I would prefer having excess mental energy to psychical.

But life doesn't follow my whelms, well it technically does on a metaphysical level which doesn't include this version of me. That's neat, life literally revolves around a version of me, well if that isn't the most egotistical thought I've had for quite some time. I shouldn't make a habit of that one, yeah I feel like that probably would be a smart idea. Anyway, I've gone quite off topic, I should get to that.

Wait, I was rambling, I don't have a topic to go back to, damn, I have no idea what to do now. Time to find something to do, it's to late in the day to do anything to important, I should get my shopping done then maybe if I'm still awake tonight, which I totally will be, I can see if the Game Corner here is open twenty-four seven or not then I can set some limit on the amount of cash I'm willing to depart with in case I lose.

Wait, I'm not willing to depart with any amount of money, simple answer then, I just don't lose. Now to figure out a way to pull that off, because even I'm not infallible as sad as that is to admit and it doesn't help that I have no doubt I'm a little rusty, not to mention the fact that for all I know there's like five new card games I'll have to learn to play before I can even get into making proper bets.

I wonder how much creativity it would take to learn an illusion to cheat in a card based gambling game. Couldn't be that hard, I've figured out how to make non-tangible or see-able illusions, it wouldn't be hard to make a mirror effect in the air that I could use to check in on the other players cards. I'm more than certain that it would take maybe another week before I could figure that out, not to mention how to make it so no one else can see the mirroring air.

Cloaking an item to make it invisible to others is something I can do without to much problem, well as long as it isn't to big, the size of a primed pokeball is about the make radius limit I can do without needing to focus on it. Doing so with Zekrom's artifact gave me quite the experience in multitasking with illusions at all times, but combining an illusion like that with an illusioned mirror reflecting off of air space, and in a way that I can still see through it?

Well, to sum it up simply, there is no way in hell I'm figuring it out during my time in this city unless I want to burn a full month and a half here focusing on something I'd be happy to make just a side project to have something to do during the night. Oh well, still, I'll just have to play without being a horrible cheat with remorse, wonder how I'm going to manage that.

I blinked to myself as I looked around for a moment before noting that I some how ended up in front of a massively tall department store. Ok, I'll admit, I have literally zero idea how I managed to make my way here when I was mostly just walking to walk and think about stuff before I would go to get my shopping done. I was planning on circling back to the Pokemon Center I had checked into when I first got into the city to drop Riolu off before hand, because she isn't much of a fan of waiting on me while I compare the prices of items.

Well, if she complains then that wouldn't be anything new in anyway at all, so with that I walked forwards into the building as the sliding doors opened up to let me in. Now this building is a bit more than twenty floors tall, going off of the layout that was conveniently posted on a wall nearby, which is a bit more than the seven floors I was use to via video games, but looking over the floor types, I figured out why with an easy answer, this isn't just a store for Pokemon training, it's a bit of everything it seems.

Levels six through nine are fully dedicated to Pokemon, Pokemon training, and other related items to such things of that nature. Now what level to go to first, from the wall poster in front of me, it seems that food related items are on level six along with mixing machines for berries and other more specialized things like a seal creator for pokeballs, which is actually a large, toaster sized box thing that you have to program designs into.

Not information that I've ever really used before but I have it so I might as well mention it whenever I can. Anyway, besides that art supplies are on the fifth floor so I could get those on the way up, a simple packet of pencils, sketch paper, eraser, and maybe a blending brush is all I really need, or want to be honest from there, maybe I could get a set of pastels.

Weirdly enough that's the only medium I can use, relatively speaking, when it comes to colored pieces of art, I'm good a drawing in blacks and whites but adding coloring to it is the bit I can for some reason never really get right, at least when I try with paints, oils, colored pencils, hell even markers, which is why it's really weird why I'm decent at using a form of chalk.

I'm even more rusty at that though to be fair, pencil drawing is a lot more common for me to do and I don't have to deal with cleaning up all the dust afterwards. But now that I travel a lot and don't have to live where I work then I don't technically have to deal with the clean up, I think that's how it works. Well, it all depends on the costs at an rate, besides I have zero idea if those types of art items even exists in this world.

"Are you going to get a move on sometime today? Because I already will have to deal with you spending an ungodly amount of time crunching numbers, I'd rather get that started instead of waiting for you to stop zoning out over a board" Right, almost forgot Riolu is here, also almost forgot that she hates this kind of stuff with a burning passion that is totally unnecessary. Sure I don't really like shopping either, but my cheapness is higher on the totem pole than my wanting to not waste time.

"Oh stop complaining, I'm paying for what you eat, if you don't like my shopping then feel free to stra- Oh you have to be kidding me" I interrupted my amazing response as I had turned and was now looking at one of the tv screens that was on a monitor that usually played the local news, expect for fact that an idiotic man with blue hair in a white suit with a big red R on his chest was on the screen instead of some overpaid weatherman.

'Hello, I am Proton. I was once an Admin under a man named Giovanni, the old leader of Team Rocket, but no longer! For in his disgraceful defeat at the hands of a mere child, he no long has the right to claim such a title, from this day on, Team Rocket will have a new leader, one that will lead not from the shadow like a sniveling coward. From thi-'

The idiot was still talking but I couldn't hear his voice any longer as I was currently walking down the road after exiting the store department, and just as a side note, I am pissed, because what in the actual hell. What kind of hydra bull is this, cut off one head and it should bloody die, and if that doesn't work then get it cremated,and I thought I did that, personally demolished most of the organization and took down it's boss, but apparently that wasn't enough, because screw me apparently. I listened to a distance sound before quickly changing the direction I was walking. This is such a pain.


Yeah, I ended the loose ends of the Team Rocket arc off a few chapters ago, mostly to get it out of the way in time to do this. I only have a few plans in motion for this, mostly for right now, just to let everyone know, this isn't going to be near as long as the fifty some build up of chapters that made up the original Team Rocket arc. This is more than likely going to be a quick slightly spread out arc, I would have not done this as I feel like I've already done a lot of stuff with Team Rocket in the past but as it happens Johto's criminal organization is also this group so I figured I might as well do something with the revived version of this idiotic group for a bit. Anyway, See ya.