Postwick and Wedgehurst are attacked by a group called Team Comet, Sonia heads to LaRousse, the kids settle down at Fennel Valley, and Aspen remembers his friend Bulu.
Italic will be used for whenever the Rotom's speak, and whenever there's a flashback or someone's telling a story.
While Bold is when the pokemon speak (Whenever this happens it's just the pokemon talking to each other, and trainer's just hear them say their names, Rotom's can understand and translate them though)
Sonia watched as the people in helmets raided the first floor and backyard. They were surprisingly pretty tidy, they didn't throw the papers onto the ground, they didn't rummage through the drawers, they more or just examined the area looking for the pokemon no doubt.
They didn't bother looking upstairs and kind of just left Sonia on the sideline. Right next to the door may she add, the main reason she had not bolted out of there was because one that Decidueye would likely shoot her dead, and two outside was swarming with the helmets people too, so there was basically no escape.
Only more people in helmets were outside now having forced the people and pokemon of Wedgehurst inside their homes and center. She knew that they were looking for something but what was it? She didn't know. Sonia prayed that gran and the people in Postwick were safe, because for all she knew the thing they wanted could be Slumbering Weald related.
Looking back to the scene being displayed in front of her Sonia could see from the corner of her eyes Yamper on top of the stairs with a pokeball clutched in his mouth, hopefully the pokemon in there had a type advantage against the Decidueye.
Yamper waited for the people to get distracted on some papers before bolting down the stairs and at Sonia. Decidueye jumped up in the air and with a glowing right wing dived straight down at poor Yampers body. Causing Yamper to let go of the ball which counted as throwing since a pokemon with a pale, gray body, a bright red crown and collar made of wide feathers and a single, thinner feather on each ear. Two tail feathers and three claws on each paw and a yellow, oval marking in the center of its forehead. Came out of it "Weavile!" It cried in anger at the Decidueye. Creating a purple energy sword in the palm of his hand and charging at Decidueye. Quickly slashing the wing that holded Yamper down. "Use Leaf Blade." The trainer yelled, causing the edges of Decidueye's wings to glow light green.
Weavile blew a beam of wind with sparkling blue snow in it at Decidueye's way and while Decidueye became slower it was still fast enough to hit Weavile right on the neck, hurting the pokemon greatly. He let out a strangled cry as the other wing came crashing down on his neck.
Sonia watched on in horror. The poor Weavile, sure pokemon could withstand more than humans but even they had a weak spot most of them being the neck since hitting the neck too hard would result in it breaking and substantially killing the pokemon.
Weavile went into a protective stance as he waited for his neck to stop hurting. Decidueye jumped in the air once again and put its claws on Weaviles body in a similar manner as it did to Yamper.
"Weavile!" Sonia yelled, Weavile only responded with a gasp for air. Decidueye now stood on Weavile and put its left claws onto his neck causing the poor Sharp Claw to weeze. "Stop it you'll kill him!" Sonia frantically yelled, she felt useless, she was just cornered on the side watching as someone was dying just like all those years ago. Tears threatened to spill but she holded them in since she knew damn well that the people were enjoying this sight, and would probably enjoy watching her cry tears. The three watched dropping whatever paper they were holding to watch the fight.
One of them being the Arrow Quills trainer scoffed. "It's his fault for messing with my Decidueye, this Decidueye has gone through rigorous training to be at the state it is now, you're lucky I just don't have it kill him." She claimed. "Clearly what we're looking for isn't here, so.." A loud screech was heard in the building everyone except for Decidueye covered their ears, Weavile just wished that this torment would end already since he couldn't cover his ears either due to the pokemon standing on his back.
Sonia knew that it was Exploud, who was currently on the top of the stairs. He stopped his screams after the preparators looked up at him clearly pissed off.
Just then more of the pokemon that resided in the lab revealed themselves.
Staraptor, Bibarel, Boldore, Litleo, Lairon, Reuniclus, Swoobat, Pachirisu, Aromatisse, Dusclops, Golett, the elemental monkeys, Ditto's, and multiple Rotom's glared down at the intruders.
"Decidueye return." The owner ordered as the pokemon obeyed retreating back into its ball that was somewhere near her hip.
Pachirisu was the first to go glowing yellow and charging right at one of them, the person slapped her and sent her flying out the still open door, hitting another helmet person's back. Pissing that person off and possibly giving Pachirisu a concussion.
The other pokemon charged down the stairs.
The three ran out of the lab as Sonia moved to avoid the frenzy.
Outside was now chaos.
Staraptor doing Aerial Strikes, Bibarel Water Guning while Pachirisu (who was thankfully okay) used Thunderbolts on the wet pokemon catching them by surprise, Boldore and Lairon using Rock Blast on the humans, Swoobat and Aromatisse seduced some of the pokemon with Attract and let them fight over who gets to be their lover, Dusclops and Golett firing Shadow Balls, the elemental monkeys firing water, fire, and leaves, while the Rotoms buzzed around the town probably trying to distract the people but it more just looked like they were just playing around.
Sonia, her grandma who was the one that released all of the pokemon, and Exploud were busy taking care of Weavile who was unconscious at that point. Yamper had brought out a Hyper Potion that healed Weavile of his marks and from Decidueye, the neck damage couldn't heal as easily.
"No one around here will be able to treat him, we need a hospital." Magnolia stated. Sonia carried the pokemon the best she could in her arms; it had sharp claws after all. "There's no way we can do it now, gran." Sonia said looking back at the now closed door, still hearing pokemon cries. "The pokemon we have aren't as strong, I'm surprised they haven't tried killing them yet!" Sonia said with panic in her eye's, Magnolia's eye's rose with concern she just thought the Weavile had been hit at the wrong angle or something, she didn't know that Decidueye was trying to murder him. The two noticed that the pokemon cries had died down and then heard yelling.
"Sonia! Magnolia!" The two heard a male voice shout. It was Brayden.
Running (or in grans's case speed walking) Sonia saw that the area was now filled with multiple pokemon the people who lived in Wedgehurst out examining their surrounding as well as the pokemon and Brayden who was riding a Gogoat.
"Brayden, what, how'd you?" Sonia stammered looking around at the pokemon most being Jumpluff, Aipom, and Aron's but there were Garchomp's, Metagross, and a Pikachu running around with a Ukulele that she could see.
"Don't worry too much about the pokemon they should disappear after a while." Brayden casually explained meaning that he summoned them from a Styler which had to be the thing on his left arm since she hadn't seen it before.
"What happened to that Weavile?" Brayden asked, noticing the poor pokemon. "It was those helmet people one of them had their Decidueye aim for his neck."
"What! We need to get it to a doctor right now." Brayden told Sonia.
"Of course." Sonia returned Weavile back into his pokeball, "Brayden can one of your pokemon teleport me to LaRousse City?" She asked. "Of course Metagross." The pokemon drifted towards them. "Teleport Sonia and Yamper to LaRousse." Brayden commanded. The pokemon glew purple for a couple of seconds as well as Sonia and Yamper, and then in a blink of an eye they were gone.
Metagross itself disappeared in a blue light shortly after due to it's time being up. Along with a couple of others which included the Gogoat Brayden rode.
"Good thing they chased those Comet people away before they disappeared." Brayden said looking on as more of the pokemon disappeared, he waved goodbye at the Ukulele Pikachu who returned the gesture smiling as he disappeared in a yellow light.
"Comet?" Magnolia questioned as the lab pokemon retreated back into the lab. "Yeah when they came into Postwick they told us they were a part of some Team called Comet." Brayden explained sighing after. "Looks like Galar has its own evil organization now."
"Yes, but what did they want from this place?" Magnolia questioned.
"Beats me." "I gave them a good ten minutes to explain themselves before I started summoning pokemon."
"The only thing's here that we have with actual value, is the center and lab but they said that what they were looking for wasn't here, so it couldn't be a pokemon." Magnolia stated. "And I haven't publicly shared that I have a rare pokeball or item." She mentioned. "Right and the rusted weapons haven't been in the Weald for years." "Heck the Comet people didn't even try attacking us they just ran off and seeing what one of their pokemon did to Weavile I highly doubt the pokemon intimidated them that much."
"Hey Brayden!" A man named Noah yelled, who was in charge of the Wedgehurst station.
"They stole the station's camera tapes." He revealed. "Wait, what?" Brayden asked. "They stole camera tapes?" Brayden asked baffled, they had a pokemon lab filled with tons of pokemon and important documents but all they took were lousy tapes?
"Yeah, they took tape's that recorded about a year of what happened at the station." Noah explained.
"But why, it can't be for the kid's since the Ceremonies going on right now and no one that important has come to Wedgehurst this or last year." Brayden said, thinking out loud. "I'll have to get the ranger's in Galar involved in handling this team." Brayden told Magnolia who looked like she was lost in her own thoughts. "Yes of course Brayden, the King also mentioned how he managed to get almost all of the Champion and Elite Four members and there's a good chance that means Professor Kukui as well, so I'll let him know about this incident."
"Okay, but I think it's best we don't tell the kid's about this, they already have enough to deal with after all."
"Of course the Ceremony should have just concluded right now so they should be heading to possible Turffield right now." "They're probably catching a pokemon or winning their first battle's right now."
"Bzzt Fennel Valley is the land between LaRousse City and the town Bloomingvale."
"Fennel Valley is home to many Kanto pokemon like Nidoran's, Diglett, Gloom, and more."
The Rotom's informed as the kid's set up their camping gear.
After the Ceremony had ended, the kid's and many of the other challengers had immediately started making their way to a waiting Milo in Turffield.
Though unlike those trainer's they decided to stay in the Valley for a little longer. It felt like the perfect place to catch pokemon and try making curry.
"Okay so how about Seasoned Curry?" Ezra asked the three starters taking out a tiny bottle with Spice Mix.
"Scor/Grok/Sob." The pokemon agreed.
Okay from what the Rotom's have mentioned before. Cinder, Aspen, and Aqua all have a Brave nature so the curry needed to be spicy.
Wooloo had a Naive nature (which honestly didn't surprise) while Zayden had a Jolly one so the curry needed to be sweet too.
So he'd need figy and mago berries plus the Spice Mix.
"Hey Skylor, Lydia!" Ezra shouted at his friends who just finished setting up the tents.
"Can you two go shake some trees for a couple of Mago berries!?" He yelled again. Ezra had distanced himself away from the girls and tent since, you need to fan and stir which wasn't a good idea since it could spill over or who knows maybe fanning it too hard near the tent's could start a fire. It was better to be safe than cause a fire after all.
"Sure!" The two responded running off to find trees to shake. Aspen, Aqua, Zayden (who was in one of the tent's), and the Rotoms followed after them.
Wooloo 'baaed' a goodbye to them as he dropped a chesto berry near Ezra's feet.
"Hm, a chesto berry where'd you get that?" Ezra asked the sheep who just looked southeast.
"Oh it's a tree." Since the others had gone northeast they must have not noticed the tree. Squinting his eyes he could see what looked like Cinder aggroing a bunch of pissed off Rookidee. Cinder than out of nowhere started running back to the campsite with about ten Rookidee's chasing behind.
"CINDER NO!"
...
"Hey Skylor did you just hear the cries of a bunch of Rookidee's?" Lydia asked as she shaked a tree and picked up the many berries which included a couple of mago's.
"Yeah I hope Wooloo and Cinder can protect Ezra, I wouldn't want to explain to the Professor how we let her nephew get Pecked to death by a couple of Rookidee's." Skylor said. "That didn't help Sky." Lydia stated. Skylor just replied with a weak laugh.
Aqua and Aspen were busy double teaming a couple of Diglett's while Zayden listened to what the Rotom's knew about Diglett's near their fight.
"One popular theory is that Diglett is a trans-dimensional pokemon, and that the bottom half is just another Diglett that's living it's own life in an alternate world." One of the Rotom's stated while the other talked about what Diglett's abilities, gender, and hatch time was. Wow Zayden never thought he'd miss that dark cold forest but hearing the Rotom's babble on about Diglett's made him wish to travel all the way back or at least hide in Wooloo's "fleece" like how the Rotom's called it.
"Hey look Aqua and Aspen won the battle." The Rotom's buzzed as the two starter's stood victoriously as soon as they heard the Rotom's mention them winning. "But the Diglett's are gone, meaning that Skylor and her friend can't catch them." Zayden noted since the Diglett's were gone but the tilted soil was still there. "What, those cowards!" Aqua yelled Water Gunning the soil. "Don't worry Aqua they were ground type's they would have been useless to our trainer's." Aspen told Aqua.
"Hey!" Another pokemon voice shouted. It was a pinkish purple pokemon with darker patches. Had large, spiny ears with teal insides, oversized front teeth, and red eyes. Its back was covered with three lines of large spines and the centerline of spines is taller than the other two. It had a pretty big pointed horn on its forehead.
"Nidoran the Poison Pin pokemon, this one if male developed muscles for moving its ears. Thanks to them, the ears can be freely moved in any direction. Even the slightest sound does not escape this pokemon's notice." Skylor's Rotom informed.
"Hey look Lydia I think that Nidoran's looking for a fight." Skylor said, looking up at the pokemon that was eyeing their starter's. "Yeah, come one Aspen show that Nidoran whose boss!" Lydia yelled, Aspen nodded and prepared to fight. While Aqua just got out of the way.
"Wanna fight rodent?" Aspen asked, readying his stick.
"Bring it on monkey." The Nidoran replied.
Nidoran ran at Grookey with his horn. "Jump and use Branch Poke." Lydia commanded. Aspen jumped into the air and hit the Nidoran on the head with his stick.
Nidoran didn't seem to be affected that much and opened his mouth to fire multiple purple darts at Aspen.
A couple hit him but Aspen fought through the pain and Scratched the Nidoran.
"Looks like you avoided getting poisoned." The Nidoran said impressed.
"Yeah I was raised to handle types like poison and bug." Aspen revealed.
Battling, training, and obeying was what he and the other starters were raised to do.
Aspen then remembered talking to a pokemon with a bulky, black body with thick arms and no legs. It had blue eyes with an orange line across each iris. In the middle of its face was what appears to be a golden nose that had a white ring through the nostrils of the nose. There were red rings around its shoulders and golden, cloven hooves at the end of its arms. Its tail was mostly covered in a golden bell with two thin black rings around the top and a wavy black line around the bottom. Each horn had a thick yellow marking near the tip and half of a wooden red shell attached to it.
...
It's name was Tapu Bulu and while Aqua, Cinder, and every other pokemon that would roam freely around the daycare (which the people called it) avoided the pokemon like it was a plague, Aspen greeted it and talked to it calling him Bulu. Bulu enjoyed his company greatly which did make sense, since Bulu lived in a narrow room with glass separating Aspen and other's from Bulu.
Everyone told him Bulu had dangerous power's that could seriously hurt the other pokemon, and so he needed to be contained. Aspen believed them but that didn't stop him from talking to Bulu.
Though one day it all changed.
It was August and in four or five months Aspen would finally be given to a trainer who he'd spend the rest of his life with. Due to that Aspen opted to spend more time with Bulu the only time's he'd leave Bulu's side was for food, sleep, or when the caretakers forced him to.
But today Bulu looked at him in a kinda sad way not saying much and just hearing Aspen babble on about how his training for the day went.
"Grookey." Bulu said in a sad tone. "Yeah?"
"Why do you wish to have a trainer?" Bulu asked. "Because… that's my purpose, my purpose is to be a starter pokemon to a rookie trainer. To protect them, to explore with them, and to battle for them!" Aspen proudly replied, he remembered the last few word's being told to him by a Lucario that belonged to one of the caretaker's. Lucario often said things like that when one of them slacked off and didn't do the required training.
And that was his purpose to protect, travel, and battle for his trainer.
"Hm, I guess it is." Bulu said looking up at the ceiling. "Listen Grookey tonight I want you to get out of your pokeball and meet me here okay I have something to tell you that the other's can't know about." Bulu told Aspen in a now serious tone.
"What? Oh is it some kind of secret move only grass types can learn!?" Aspen asked with gleaming eyes. Bulu was a grass/fairy type and even knew moves like Wood Hammer, a move that he only thought the caretaker's Abomasnow and Torterra could learn.
"Yes. I want to teach you a very special move."
"Now go on and play with your other friends Grookey and remember at night okay." Bulu told him.
Aspen shook his head in agreement. "Okay Bulu see you at night okay."
"Yeah night."
...
"Aspen use Growl!" Lydia commanded. Aspen let out a shrill scream.
"Ow! Curse my large ears!" The Nidoran yelled.
"Now use Scratch!"
Aspen Scratch him once again.
Nidoran was now laying on the ground and fainted.
"Yes. Go pokeball." Lydia said, throwing the ball at the Nidoran. Three shakes later and a click secured the capture.
"Lydia has caught a male Nidoran with the ability rivalry (which explained why he's attacks hurt Aspen so much) and this Nidoran currently know's the moves Poison Sting and Peck." Lydia's Rotom explained.
"Great, I just found my hedge trimmer, thank's Aspen." Lydia said clutching the pokeball in one hand and an oran berry in the other.
"Come out Neo." Lydia declared as the still weak pokemon popped out.
"Here you go." The Nidoran now named Neo ate the berry from Lydia's hands and was now a-okay.
"Welcome to the team Neo." Aspen said patting Neo on the back.
"Dammit! I shouldn't have challenged you."
"Well it's a good thing you did cause now youre main job is to get Lydia your trainer her grass gym badge!" Aspen said in enthusiasm much to Neo's dismay. "Great." Neo was then picked up by Lydia.
"Hi there." She happily said as Neo gave a small smile.
"Ni." He happily said.
"Welcome to the team Neo." Lydia said as well. "Aspen make sure to play nice with him okay."
"Gro!" Aspen replied. Lydia accepted it as a "Sure." But in reality Aspen just said "Meh."
"Okay then maybe we should head back now. I'm pretty sure we have enough mago berries" Skylor said, examining the berries in her hand and ones on the ground being protected by Aqua and Zayden.
"Yeah guess so come on team." Lydia said putting Neo down and picking up the berries.
...
"Hey Ezra we brought the oh.." Skylor stopped mid sentence while the others stared on.
Their were burned Rookidee feathers on the ground, Cinder was looking at a tree, and Wooloo was eating grass.
"Oh hey guy's, you want Rookidee curry?" Ezra asked lifting the stirring spoon that had a dark red color to it.
"Uh what happened here?" Lydia asked.
"Hm oh Cinder angered a bunch of Rookidee, came running back to the campsite, a fight broke out, and I sent Cinder to a quiet corner well tree." Ezra explained dropping in some of the mago berries Zayden gave him.
Well that explained the Rookidee cries they heard. "And the Rookidee's?" Right on cue one flew from the tree Cinder was pouting near and landed on the ground next to the group. "Roo." It greeted.
"Rookidee the tiny bird pokemon it will bravely challenge any opponent, no matter how powerful. This Pokémon benefits from every battle even a defeat increases its strength a bit." Rotom explained.
"This Rookidee is female with the ability keen eye, with the moves Peck, Leer, and Power Trip." The other said.
"Yeah that's Dusk caught her and the other Rookidee's since they wouldn't fly off after the battle. I decided to keep her around since she was friendlier than the rest." Ezra said as Dusk gave an approving chirp.
"Where are the rest?" Skylor asked since Ezra definitely wouldn't have cooked the Rookidees. "Oh just the other twelve to the lab."
"You sent twelve to them, wait no you caught twelve?" Skylor asked. Their journey had just started and Ezra managed to waste thirteen pokeballs already. That had to be a record or something.
"Oh relax I still have a bunch of pokeballs left over and those Rookidee will like the lab." "Now can you guys set a table or something the curry should be done in a few minutes."
...
The spicy and sweet curry and Skylor and Lydia ranked it a Milcery Class which Ezra was neutral about but threatened to make a Koffing Class one if they ever ranked his cooking again.
The starters didn't understand what the classes meant but it must have not been a good thing judging by the girls' scared reaction to the Koffing Class.
Honestly the food that a ten year old managed to make was better than the food their caretaker's had given to them all their lives. It was kinda embarrassing to know that a ten year old can cook better than adult's but hey the starters are technically a year old and have to fight greater foes for their trainer's so maybe younger kids and pokemon are just more capable of doing things or adults are just lazy it was probably the other one.
By now it was the evening the kids decided to settle in the Valley and would travel to Bloomingvale and later Turffield tomorrow. Cinder was out of his time out spot and sulking about the Rookidee's situation.
"Those stupid Rookidee's, Im surprished they didnt give me brain damage." Cinder rubbed his head which had an outline of bruises; they didn't look that serious thanks to the Potion.
"Oh please Cinder you've been through worse remember when a wild Kingdra tried having you for lunch." Aqua recalled from the lake she was swimming in.
Cinder shivered at the thought of the incident. "Yeah Arceus I'm surprised to even be alive after that."
"Hey Aspen, when we fought I noticed that the grass around you looked like it was sparkling! How'd you do that?" Neo asked, approaching the starter's. "Oh that well that's my ability grassy surge, the Rotom's didn't comment on that oddly enough." Aspen said, expecting the Rotom's to jump scare him and then start questioning him about the ability that Grookey's aren't supposed to have. Thankfully they were busy being used right now since the kids were texting the adults.
"You see whenever I fight a pokemon then a grassy surge starts, it creates a grassy terrain which helps me get back hp now and then." Aspen explained.
"Well that explains how you managed to beat me so easily."
"I heard from the Rotom's that you three were raised in a daycare of some sort, did they give you that ability?" Neo asked. "Cinder was given the ability libero by them, while Aspen got his from other means, and I got stuck with water bubble." Aqua told Neo. "Wow that's pretty cool!" Neo exclaimed.
"Yeah we're supposed to use these abilities to protect, explore, and battle for our trainers!" Cinder exclaimed back. "Yeah like how you protected Ezra by running up to him with a bunch of Rookidees behind you." Aqua scoffed. "Hey I beat them…..with Wooloos help." Cinder said the Wooloo bit quietly with his hands behind his back.
Aqua, Cinder, and Neo started discussing the whole protect, explore, and battle motto while Aspen started to remember the day he got the ability and the day Bulu left.
...
The storage room where Aspen and the other starters slept in had dozens of pokeballs each containing another Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble in them. When inside of a pokeball from the top you could see what was going on inside while the bottom had a soft texture to it that made it comfy enough to sleep inside of the ball.
Aspen knew how to open the pokeball, their caretakers taught them how to open one. All you have to do is Tackle the front middle of the ball. And that's what Aspen did with a blue glow accompanying him as he came out. Aspen jumped down to the floor with his pokeball in tow.
The others must have been in a deep sleep or didn't care since none of them stopped him from leaving the surprisingly opened door. Aspen did see a pokeball missing that wasn't his so one of the caretakers must have been taking care of the pokemon.
Aspen ran around the daycare sneaking past the caretaker's and past people who wore teal tailored jackets with matching pants and white shirts. Which was pretty weird, the caretaker's often wore simply clothes like sweatshirts or aprons and had a warm welcoming aura coming off from them while the other people looked cold not really smiling but instead aggressively typing something.
But Aspen didn't really care about them he needed to get to Bulu first.
Suddenly alarms started blaring with a red glow that filled up the room.
The rest was a big blur to Aspen. People in even weirder costumes appeared out of nowhere heading over to Bulu's room.
Aspen chased after them, but made sure that they couldn't see him still. Aspen noticed that the rooms, and halls he passed by had a pink, purple, and yellow color to them.
"What was happening where was Bulu?!" Aspen thought panicking but still running on all fours. He wasn't tired but he could feel the adrenaline course through him. "Moonblast!" Aspen heard a female voice shout as a beam of pink came straight towards him and the people. Aspen due to his small size managed to avoid the blast but the people fell to the ground possibly unconscious. "Woah." Aspen quietly said. Fear took over him once again but he had to get the Bulu. So he continued running.
Finally getting to Bulus room Aspen was surprised at what he saw. The glass and back wall were both broken, Bulu was there and with three other pokemon that looked kinda like him. One being yellow, the other purple, and the last one pink.
"Bulu what's happening?" Aspen asked in a scared tone. The other three Bulu look likes decided not to talk and floated to the hole that got them outside. Aspen noted that they looked just as sad as Bulu was right now.
"Grookey." Bulu said in his calm tone. "I..I have to go." Bulu revealed, Aspen could feel his heart break after hearing those words. "Go but why? Where?" Aspen begged more than asked as drops of tears came running down his face. "Grookey I don't belong here you see I'm a guardian deity, I have to go back to the Alola region and protect the people who live there. My friends over there came to tell me that." Bulu said gesturing to the other three who gave small waves. "Then I'll come with you." Aspen offered Bulu shook his head no. "No Grookey in five months you'll get yourself a trainer, you've been waiting for that moment and I can't just take you away from it." "I want you to protect, explore, and battle for your trainer okay can you do that for me?" Bulu asked Aspen as the monkey wiped away his tears. "YES Bulu, I'll be the very best Grookey I can be for you and the trainer!" Aspen yelled determination now mixed with the sadness in his eyes. "Good but I want you to have something." Bulu said, putting his tail on Aspen's head as the two gleaw green.
Aspen didn't feel different as Bulu let go. "What did you do?" Aspen asked. "I gave you the ability grassy surge whenever you fight a pokemon then a grassy terrain surrounds you and helps restore your hp." Bulu said, hearing the footsteps of people and pokemon. "Grookey I have to go now goodbye!" Bulu quickly said as he left through the hole the other guardians were waiting from. "Bye Bulu I promise I'll become the strongest grass type in the world!" Aspen yelled as he was picked up by a woman. "How'd you get out of your ball?" She asked as Aspen was sent back into his ball.
Now he was back in the ball looking on as his pokeball was passed around and returned back to the storage. Aspen took a minute to take in what had just happened and started crying.
Aspen would cry himself to sleep for five weeks and by then he accepted it Bulu was gone and there was nothing he could do about it.
...
"Hey Aspen!" Lydia shouted, snapping him out of his thoughts. Aqua and Cinder were talking to their respective trainers while Neo was now at Lydia's side. "Come on Aspen lets do some training!"
"Gro!" Aspen shouted, jumping into Lydia's hand's. "Woah you sure are happy." Lydia told the monkey.
Of course he was happy he'd finally gotten a trainer he yearned for, a trainer that he'd be the very best for.
"Gro!" Aspen cried happily again knowing well that somewhere right now Bulu was smiling at him.
Sonia was now brushing her hair in the hotel room while Yamper slept on the floor. Weavile was in his pokeball right now with a white neck cast. The doctor's had told her that Weavile would need to wear it for about a week or two.
"They stole videotapes? And Ezra sent twelve Rookidee's to the lab?" Sonia asked her grandma.
"Yes, their names are Team Comet and for whatever reason they stole the video tapes." Magnolia camley explained while the Rookidee's played with Staraptor in the back.
"And as for the Rookidee's Ezra told me that he couldn't just separate Dusk from his family and so caught them all."
"Of course he'd do that." Sonia said with a chuckle. "Maybe I shouldn't have given him fifty pokeballs."
"You gave him how many?" Magnolia asked remembering that half of the empty pokeballs in the storage were gone.
"So gran is everyone else okay?" Sonia asked, avoiding the question she was given.
"Yes, they are nobody but Weavile was hurt seriously."
"Thank goodness." Sonia sighed. "Hey wait gran! Maybe they were after my research of the Darkest Days!" Sonia yelled in realization and annoying the sleeping Yamper. "That's why they didn't find the research they weren't on paper they were on my laptop, and why they took a year's worth of footage was to see if I left at some point during that time with it." Sonia told her grandma. "That could be possible, and there is a popular theory that Eternatus was born from a comet, so hence their name Team Comet." Magnolia replied.
"I knew I should have never told people outside of our town about this, since some idiots spread the rumor and now here we are!" Sonia spat out in anger, now terrifying Yamper. "That does it gran I'm not going back home, I'm getting to the bottom of the Darkest Days before those creep's can." Sonia stated with a determined look. Magnolia though let out a deep sigh. "First Ezra and now you, I swear my blood pressure's going to skyrocket." Magnolia jokes.
"But tomorrow you should send Weavile back and I'll give you another pokemon." Magnolia offered and some of the pokemon in the lab perked up at hearing the news.
"Thank's gran but I should head to bed, bye gran." "Bye dear."
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Sonia splayed herself on the bed, Yamper jumped up to sleep next to her. "Is sleeping all you can think about Yamper?" Sonia asked the dog who just barked at her. "Yamper, come on get serious here our home was invaded by people who may or not want to take my research on the Darkest Days for who knows what." "Can't you show a little more concern." Yamper let out a whine. "Well that's progress." Sonia said petting the pup.
Yamper had never been much of a fighter even when she was ten the dog never liked battling. This forced Sonia to catch other pokemon to make up for his laziness. Though once Sonia gave up on the gym she released a few of her pokemon, gave some of the water typed ones to Nessa, and the rest resided in the lab. After that Sonia never left her hometown, not even for the second Darkest Day which just brought back bad memories. Nessa though would come over from time to time but that was as well ages ago and now the two just talk over the phone. Sonia wished that was the same with Leon but he hasn't tried calling or texting for five years now he was just to good of a person to do that.
Sonia would definitely avoid him as much as possible while traveling Galar, spend some time with Nessa, and of course surprise the kids.
"Okay Yamper, tomorrow we go on a little journey across Galar."
If you're wondering why I gave Aspen that little story it was because Grookey's hidden ability was Grassy Surge. So that's why but only Aspen can really use that no other Grookey can use it. Might incorporate the Tapu's into more of the story or just do a side story with them later on.
See you guys whenever I decide to post again.