Midoriya sat on a low branch of a tree that overlooked the lake, watching all the Pokemon playing with each other, when he noticed a small ripple by the side of the lake. A small white being with a gem on her forehead poked her head out of the lake, before she looked up at Midoriya.
The greenette nodded his head slightly in respect, "Good morning, Uxie."
"Hello, Izuku." The fairy-like Pokemon floated up to Midoriya, "Mew visited just now."
"Oh." Midoriya blinked, "What's going on?"
Mew liked to visit the lake often, and Midoriya really didn't know why. The small playful pink feline was hard to read, and Midoriya could never tell when Mew was trying to play a prank, or something serious was going on and she was just trying to help out.
With the ability to Teleport, Mew also liked to just pick up random items and deposit them in Uxie's cave, or in the homes of the other two members of the Lake Trio. The last time Mew had done that, she had given Uxie some rainbow-coloured glass rock that looked like a marble with a small double helix in the center of the rock, and Uxie had given it to him for absolutely no reason.
It was kind of pretty, though, and Reiko also seemed to like the weird looking rock, so Midoriya had kept it.
Still, if Uxie thought that Mew's visit was important enough to warrant telling him, then it was probably something serious; he trusted Uxie's judgement.
"Nothing too much at the moment." Uxie replied, "There was a small tsunami that other day, remember?"
Midoriya nodded, and Uxie continued, "A bunch of idiots tried to summon and control Kyogre by using the Red Orb of all things. Stole it from the Celestial Tower, and the Blue Orb was left untouched. Mew found it funny when Kyogre got pissed and drowned all them before going back to sleep, and went to return the Red Orb back to the tower, before coming to inform me of the humans' idiocy."
The green haired boy just rolled his eyes. Humans were just... so incredibly stupid at times.
Midoriya muttered, "Kyogre's blue; how on earth did they think that the Red Orb of all things was the key to controlling them?"
Uxie nodded, floating up to sit next to Midoriya, "Exactly. Even if they didn't know which orb to use, they could have just taken both orbs."
They sat there in silence for a while, before small, green vortex of light appeared, and Celebi appeared out of thin air, "Hi!"
"Hi, Celebi." Uxie looked at the time-travelling Pokemon, "What's going on?"
"Well, there's are Pokemon Catching contest in the forest by Shimane City." Celebi stated.
"And that's important... why?" Uxie asked, and Celebi replied, "Well, tonight, during the competition, some villains will use that opportunity to steal people's Pokemon, since they are only allowed to bring one of their Pokemon into the forest for the competition because of the rules. And that boy you like, he will be participating in that particular event, as well as his friends."
"Oh." Midoriya blinked. He was going to have to make a trip to Shimane City, then, though he had no idea how he was supposed to take care of the poachers when he wasn't sure where they were.
"You should go get used to the city." Uxie stated, almost as if they had read his mind, "Bring Lu with you. His aura abilities would be helpful in trying to figure out where they are. I'll go talk to Azelf to see if he has any other information."
Midoriya just nodded. Most legendary Pokemon were non-binary, though most people just like to call them genderless, but most of them do have gender identities that they prefer.
Tiamat raised her head from her warm sunbathing spot on the ground, and flew up to the tree, bowing to the two mythical and legendary Pokemon, before turning to Midoriya.
"I heard we're going to a city." Tiamat grinned, "Is there ice cream?"
"You're a dragon. Aren't you weak to ice?" Midoriya asked. He still didn't really get Tiamat's obsession with ice cream.
"Well, ice cream tastes good. And a bit of ice is just fine." Tiamat huffed, "And I'm eating it. I'm not getting hit by an ice type attack."
"Whatever you say." Midoriya sighed, shaking his head, before standing up and jumping to the side of the lake. He needed to get ready for the trip, and maybe he would ask Riri to search up a map of Shimane City and upload it to his Pokedex so he doesn't get lost.
Celebi glanced over at Midoriya, making sure he was out of earshot, before she pulled out a small yellow crystal, before passing it to Uxie, "Giratina told me to give this to Izuku."
Uxie rolled her eyes, or at least, tried to, given that she didn't like to open her eyes due to her ability to wipe out memories, "What's that stupid dragon doing anyways? I owed him a favour, and surprisingly, he uses that favour to ask me to watch over a human child, then he gets you to give Izuku a Griseous Orb? Why can't he just deliver the orb himself?"
"You sure you're not watching over Izuku because you like him and he's a nice kid? You usually chase any human out of this forest." Celebi laughed, and Uxie growled, "Hey! You know I don't like humans in general. Some stupid humans tried to capture me, as well as Mesprit and Azelf, to try and control Dialga and Palkia. Izuku is one of the first nice people I've met."
"I know, I know." Celebi's tone turned serious, "But... we all know Giratina's position. He's spent the last ten years in hiding due to people hunting him down in order to get their hands on a Griseous Orb, which allows them to access the Distortion World without his permission. He doesn't even leave the Distortion World to break up Dialga and Palkia's fights anymore, despite their fights always causing severe damage to his home, and Xerneas has to go do his job for him. And he feels guilty for Izuku being orphaned."
Uxie sighed, and shook her head, "Can't we just have a few smart humans who know what they're doing? Just because Izuku healed Giratina doesn't mean he's some kind of monster."
"Well... you know... humans. They're not humans if they're not stupid sometimes." Celebi just shrugged, "I've got to go make sure that some idiot didn't burn my forest down again, I'll see you again sometime."
With that, Celebi disappeared into another green vortex of light.
Uxie held up the small yellow crystal, before she flew back into the lake, using her psychic powers to swim through the currents and hoard of Goldeen, Seaking, Remoraid, and Tympole, before arriving at the underwater entrance to her cave.
Her cave had been originally above water, but the humans that tried to capture her had sunk her home, which was actually pretty good, since it was much harder to find her, and she didn't have too much trouble with keeping water out of the cave.
Uxie floated into her home, and placed the small crystal down next to the pile of other items that Mew had thrown into her home. She'd give the Griseous Orb to Midoriya when he needed it, but not now; given Midoriya's current job and his past, he didn't need more targets painted on his back.
Shinsou sat on a bench with Koda, watching as Iida demolished his opponents with Valkyrie, Aqua and Zero. While being the newest members of the team, Zero was actually pretty strong, and despite being at a type disadvantage against an opponent's Makuhita, the Zigzagoon had no problems taking them down with Mud Shot.
The lavender haired boy let out a small sigh, before he stared at the Pokeball in his hand. Koda wasn't interested in battling, and opted just to watch the battles, and due to Uraraka having no badges, Iida having one badge, and himself having two badges, they were all placed into different battling categories; they only merged the trainers with five and six badges, as well as those with seven or eight badges.
The good thing about that was that they weren't battling each other, but the bad news was that all of his battles had been boring. Despite only having two Pokemon, Vee and Teru had very good type coverage, and were able to deal super effective damage to pretty much anything that had a type advantage against them. Shinsou had been able to win relatively easily, and for getting first place in his category, he had received a TM for Return, as well as a Mystery Pokemon.
Apparently, the Mystery Pokemon was supposedly from another region, so that was something to look forward to.
"So, how was your fight?" Iida asked, walking towards the bench where Shisnou and Koda were sitting at. Apparently, while Shinsou was busy thinking, the prizes for Iida's category had been given out. Given that there was another Pokeball in Iida's hand, he had also won a Mystery Pokemon, but his category didn't give out TMs as prizes.
"Too easy." Shinsou sighed, and Iida let out a small laugh, "Well, you have been training with Vee way before you started out as a trainer."
He lifted up the new Pokeball in his hand, "I don't really like the idea of giving Pokemon away as prizes, but I just hope that whatever I won would like me."
"Same." Shinsou nodded, turning his head to see Uraraka walking towards them, "Looks like she's won as well, since she has an egg."
"I see you boys are done." Uraraka grinned, lifting up an incubator that was in her hands, with Kinu patting the incubator as she chattered incoherently.
"What kind of egg that?" Iida leaned down to inspect the egg, that was mostly white with red and blue triangles. Uraraka shrugged, smiling, "Don't know. But whatever it hatches into, I'm sure I'll love them!"
"Well, let's go find Shouto. I think he participated in yesterday's competition, so he's probably... somewhere..." Shinsou sighed.
Luckily, it didn't take them too long to find Todoroki, since the boy was outside the Pokemon center, with a familiar blonde boy yelling at him, and another red head holding him back.
"Are you stupid or something?!" Bakugou yelled, shaking his arms around as his Quilava mimicked his actions, swearing under his breath, "Look, if Dynamight here didn't want to evolve, I wouldn't force him to! But he wants to evolve and grow stronger! You're not the one undergoing the changes, he is! If your Eevee wants to be a Flareon, then let him be a damn Flareon, asshole! Don't push your daddy problems onto the Pokemon!"
"Bakugou, calm down." Kirishima sighed, holding the blonde boy back as Red bit down on Bakugou's pants leg.
"No I won't calm down, stupid Shitty Hair!" Bakugou growled, "Because IcyHot is being even more of a stupid dumb idiot than usual!"
"Hello, Bakugou, Kirishima." Shinsou stated, "Are you going to participate in the battling contests?"
"That stupid crap?" Bakugou snorted, taking his attention off Todoroki, "We did those battles yesterday. How many badges do you have?"
"Two. Why?" Shinsou asked, and Bakugou grumbled, "So we both have two badges. Then let's battle with the new Pokemon that you got from that competition."
"And how do you know that I won?" Shinsou raised an eyebrow questioningly, and Bakugou rolled his eyes, "If you're decent, then you would have won, since everyone else are dumb extras with their weak Pokemon."
"And the fights were broadcast on television." Kirishima added, pointing to the shop just across the street that had the current competition fights airing live.
Shinsou sighed, "Well, what did you win? I haven't checked the Pokemon that I won yet."
Bakugou simply pulled a Pokeball out and released the Pokemon inside. Shinsou blinked at the small black and white racoon with red eyes, "A Galarian Zigzagoon?"
Galarian Pokemon were rare in their region, since they originated from the United Kingdom instead of Japan, but some Galarian Pokemon, like Hatenna, Rookidee, Applin, Duraludon, and Dreepy, could be found in the wild due to poachers.
"Well, here goes nothing." Shinsou released the Pokemon in the Pokeball, which was a fluffy, greyish-brown cat-like creature with yellow eyes. The feline looked around curiously, before he wandered over to Shinsou's side.
Plasma flew down to inspect the Pokemon that had emerged from the Pokeball, and three similar yet different felines appeared on his screen,"Meowth, the Scratch Cat Pokemon. These daring Pokemon have coins on their foreheads. This Pokemon's body has been toughened by living with seafaring people, and some parts of its body have turned to iron. The golden coin on its forehead had also turned dark, with a darker shade garnering more respect among other Meowth. This Meowth has an Adamant nature, and his ability is Tough Claws."
Shinsou nodded, "A Galarian Meowth."
"I figured that you would get another Galarian Pokemon." Bakugou smirked, "Come on, let's battle."
"Look, Bakugou." Shinsou sighed, "We had other plans today, like exploring the city and participating in a catching contest tonight. And I would like to get to know Meowth first before I even think about batting with him."
"Wimp." Bakugou joking snorted, "Fine, we battle tomorrow. No excuses."
"Yeah, yeah. Fine." Shinsou scratched his neck, before turning to Iida, "So, what Pokemon did you get?"
Iida blinked, before he pulled out his new Pokeball, and releasing a Pokemon that looked like a sword in a sheath.
Plasma beeped, "Honedge, the Sword Pokemon. It is said that Honedge's soul once belonged to a person who was killed a long time ago by the very sword that makes up Honedge's body. With its old cloth tied around its hilt, it attaches itself to people and drains that person's life energy completely. This Honedge has an Adamant nature, and his ability is No Guard."
The Honedge looked up at Iida curiously, and blinked. Iida squatted down, "Hi! My name is Iida Tenya."
The sword pokemon just floated closer to Iida, before turning around to inspect his surroundings.
Suddenly, for a brief moment, a shadow was cast over them, causing the group to look up towards the sky.
Kirishima squinted, "Is that a dragon?"
Shinsou looked at the silhouette of the Pokemon, which seemed like a Flygon, but he couldn't be too sure. His thoughts were interrupted by a small rumble, and everyone turned to the Galarian Meowth, who just rubbed his stomach as he looked up sheepishly at the other people and Pokemon.
"I don't know. But it's time for lunch." The lavender haired boy just shrugged, bending down to pick the Meowth up, "Come on, let's find you something to eat."