I Don't Own Pokemon


Civilization, it was something I honesty at this point didn't think I would be seeing again at least for a little while longer. So it was a little weird walking down the street that from a few signs that I had found lead to a Pokemon Center. I still wasn't sure what town I was in though so there was still a few surprises to be had.

I noted that some people looking at me or more specifically Shinx in confusion. Well to be fair people were also staring at me as well but I figured that was because of the fact that I was obviously wasn't from Kanto. They didn't seem to care much about Pidgey though so it was properly that people were curious about what kind of Pokemon Shinx was.

Didn't mean I didn't like that people were looking at him at all. About half way towards the Center I decided to pick Shinx up to at least keep him close. No matter the fact that he was a little over twenty pounds for not even being a foot tall.

On a similar note it seems that Pidgey has taken to using my head as a resting spot. Ignoring that I noticed that a big building was coming up that, no ignore big it was massive. And it looked familiar, it was probably something I had seen in the show before but I haven't watched the show in probably close to a few years or so.

So I couldn't place where I had seen it before, at least that was until I felt a hand being placed on my shoulder, as I felt my body tense big time. No matter what universe I'm in I will never like a human touching me, though I had to force myself to not tense up to badly as I still had Shinx in my arms and I didn't want to startle or hurt him any.

Looking over my shoulder while trying not to rip my shoulder out of the persons hand I looked up at a woman in a police uniform looking down sternly at me. I noted that Shinx seemed to be picking up on the fact that I was uncomfortable so I just placed a hand on his head to pat him with to try and placate him while I turned to talk to the officer, who I was pretty sure named Jenny.

"Yes? Can I help you officer" She seemed confused for a moment before saying

"Uh, sorry do you happen to speak Kanton?" Apparently I could, also apparently this world has more than one language. That'll be fun. Moving past that I nodded to the officer and said.

"Sorry, native tongue slipped out, still not use to this regions language. What can I do for you?" She seemed glad that we could communicate for a second before her stern look came back over her face.

"Yes, we are currently in an investigation about some Pokemon thieves. And well sorry to say it's clear you're not from around here, and some people saw that you are carrying around a Pokemon that's not native to this region" Ah wasn't this the plot from I think episode three or four from the first Pokemon series. That meant I was in Viridian then.

"Yeah, I guess they saw Shinx and got confused, he just hatched from his egg about a week ago. I even have his pokeball right here if it helps. Sorry I'm not really sure what this regions law policies on Pokemon being out side their pokeballs. I'm from Unova" I was playing at this from a cultural ignorance side of things.

"No problem, I just need to check these things out while when they come up, you know we can't really take any chances" I just nodded along, and before long she was gone. Though I did get complimented on how good my Kanton was.

Once she was gone I shrugged my shoulder a bit, before turning to look at the Pokemon Center again before making my way over. I noticed that Shinx and Pidgey seemed to notice my lack of liking to being touched. They appeared to be having a conversation that they seemed to assume I couldn't follow because they weren't using words.

After a moment Shinx finally spoke up."Master? If you don't like being touched then why do you let us have you carry us around?" He seemed worried that he was making me do something that I didn't like. So I had to reassure both of them that I didn't mind.

"If I minded having to cart you two around then I would just ask you two to stay in your pokeballs. I don't mind my Pokemon touching me, I trust you guys after all" They both seemed to lighted up at that, which I was glad to see. Even if I didn't know the two of them for long I still enjoyed there company and didn't like it when they were uncomfortable.

With that I finally got to the doors of the Pokemon Center, walking up to the front desk I noted that Nurse Joy's hair didn't defy physics as much as I was expecting it to. Still nonetheless I gave her a smile and asked if she could give my Pokemon a look over.

"No problem, mister" Was the answer I got in return as I watched as a Chansey came out with a small stretcher that both of my Pokemon were placed upon. Before getting wheeled out. Watching as they went through the double doors that lead to the examination room, I became aware that I was frowning. It seems that I don't like being away from my Pokemon.

The nurse seemed to understand my plight if her sympathetic look was anything to go on. Still I shrugged it off and asked the nurse hoe long it would take until I could pick them up again. The answer I got wasn't overly helpfully, somewhere between thirty minutes to an hour.

I gave my thanks and was about to turn to leave to see if I could get some shopping done when I noted that on the wall by the door as a poster for the Pokemon League. Staring at the poster for a second was all the time I gave myself before turning back around while reaching into my pocket to grab my Pokedex out as I asked.

"I can sign up for the Pokemon League here right?"

"Yes, all you need to do is give me some kind of ID and I can register you into the Gym Circuit" I just held up my Pokedex as I didn't want to dig out my trainer card. And after a few moments I was registered. I did get a bit of knowledge from the nurse that I already knew. Telling me to avoid the gym in the city until I had a few badges.

I was already planning on avoiding Giovanni's Gym so it wasn't that much of a hassle. Still with that set up I made my way out of the Center aware that it was surprisingly late in the afternoon, I didn't think that it had taken so much time to get out of the forest or to find the Center.

Still moving past that it wasn't long before I found a medium sized building selling traveling items. It wasn't long before I had bought three bowls and a few more packs of pokefood costing me a little over seventy in cost. Lucky that was only a little under a fifth of the starting cash I had been given, so I wasn't exactly being bled dry.

Still getting back to the Center was a bit more of a chore because I forgot to pay attention as to what direction I was going. It wasn't that hard but it did take a little more time that I liked to admit. Walking through the front two sliding doors of the Center I was greeted to the site of a motorcycle parked next to the front desk.

I didn't know why I didn't already expect to run into Ash as I already knew that I was here around the same time he would show up. But it just didn't occur to me for some reason that he would actually be here. But there he was talking to the nurse as his pikachu was being carted off.

Nodding to Jenny as she walked past by me to remove her bike from the front desk I noted that the nurse had already left to the emergency room. So I couldn't ask her about my Pokemon. Frowning at that I noted I was feeling a little resentful towards Ash, even though I knew it wasn't his fault.

Still he was the main character, so with that I walked up towards him. He seemed lost in his own thoughts from the looks of it.

"You ok there kid? You seem to be thinking pretty hard about something" That seemed to snap him out of his trance, he seemed annoyed that I called him a kid though but to be fair he was. Still after a moment the annoyance went away as he slumped into the chair he was sitting in before saying.

"It's my Pikachu, it's been hurt, bad" I nodded along to that, pretending to only just now be receiving that information. But I didn't have to fake being sympathetic.

"Yeah, I can understand that, I'm not sure what I would do if Shinx or Pidgey got hurt that bad" He seemed to perk up a little at the mention of Shinx.

"I've heard of pidgey, but I've never heard of a shinx before" He then made a move to reach down and get what I assume to be his Pokedex but I beat him to it.

"You won't find Shinx in there, as they're not native to this region. They're from Sinnoh, and even there, they are most uncommon" He seemed surprised that his Pokedex wouldn't know about it but that gave way to excite meant when I mentioned Sinnoh.

"Oh its from Sinnoh. Is that were you got it from, is that where you're from?" So he noticed that I'm not from Kanto then. I appeared to not have given him enough credit, it would seem.

"I actually got Shinx as an egg, as a present from my parents before I came over to Kanto, he hatched about a week ago now. Also, no, I'm not from Sinnoh, I'm actually from Unova, from Nuvema Town specifically"

He appeared to be interested in why I was here and not at my home region but before he could ask a girl with orange hair and a weirdly destroyed bike walked in and started yelling at him. I'll be honest it took me a second to recognize Misty.

I chose then to back out of the conversation. Instead walking over to one of the seats to sit down after walking all day. It was nice to have a little break even if I had to deal with two kids shouting at each other. To be fair I could call them kids anymore without being hypocritical but that didn't change the fact that mentally I was years older than them.

Thankfully that's when nurse Joy walked out with Pikachu on a stretcher. After Ash talk to the nurse for a moment I asked her if there were anything wrong with my Pokemon.

"There wasn't anything wrong with your Shinx but your Pidgey did have some slight burns that we took care of" I nodded as that is what I expected. I had doubted that a single half used potion would be enough to heal Pidgey from the amount of damage was done to him from Shinx. I was glad when the nurse said that she was about to go and get them.

Sadly that's when an alarm went off in the distance, before the small glass part of the window was broken as two pokeballs came falling through. Before I knew it the room was covered in smoke, thankfully I was near Joy when it happened so I could ask her where my Pokemon were.

I completely ignored the idiots motto instead making my way towards my Pokemon. With that we were lead into a small room where the nurse began to type on a computer, ignoring her I made my way towards the wall with the pokeballs. I wasn't sure why but I instantly zoned in on two pokeballs that were next to each other.

Just reaching them as the lights went off. Grabbing both of them I still ignored the talking around me as the lights slowly came back on. It was only after a second of having my Pokemon back with me that I tuned back into the events around me.

I could help but not be overly scared by this situation. Maybe it was because I trusted my Pokemon to take care of me, or maybe it was because Team Rocket will never be even close enough to intimidating for me to worry. But then again even if they weren't scary they still posed a problem.

That was made clear when the door exploded inward as Jessie and James' ekans and koffing bursted into the room. But at that point both of my pokeballs where already in the air. And as soon as they were released I was calling out orders.

"Shinx! Start charging, and tell me when your done. Pidgey use Gust to blow away the smoke, and continue to use it to buy Shinx time to power up!" As soon as it was said Shinx's body began to give of sparks of electricity while Pidgey flew forward and started to keep the Rocket's Pokemon at bay.

But they didn't seem to want to give up without a fight as they order their Pokemon to attack Pidgey. So I called out a command of my own, to take control of the battle.

"Pidgey! Use Quick Attack to dodge their attacks, keep you distance and start using a bunch of Air Cutters to keep them on the defensive!" I couldn't help but feel a grin appear on my face as I watched them scramble trying to dodge. This was my first battle and it felt great. I could understand why people thought this was fun.

"Master, I'm ready!" I nodded towards Shinx showing I hear him before calling out.

"Pidgey back up and provide support, Shinx move forward, when they get close hit them with Spark then power-up your speed with Quick Attack, then try and grab one of them with Ice Fang! Pidgey you get the other one!"

My grin had turned into a full blown smile as I watched Pidgey take down Koffing while Shinx pinned down Ekans. Turning towards Jessie and James I told them.

"I recommend giving up" They seem to understand I was beating the two of them, and quickly returned their Pokemon. They seemed to think I was about to let them get away as they readied themselves to runaway with James reaching down to grab Meowth. Like hell was I going to allow that.

"Shinx, Pidgey! Block their exit don't let them leave" They scrambled back as my Pokemon cut off there exit. It took a bit of time but I managed to force them into a corner in the hallway so they couldn't just run, while also getting there pokeballs from them.

And only a couple minutes later Officer Jenny appeared and arrest the two, I also gave her their Pokemon as well mostly because I didn't want them. She seemed bent on getting me a reward for helping her catch the two Pokemon Thieves but she didn't tell me what I would be getting instead asking me to head over toward the Police station tomorrow.

After she had left and Nurse Joy had walked off to talk to her sister about having the Pokemon that she sent over sent back. I noted that Ash and Misty were giving me weird looks. So of course I asked them why they were looking at me. Their answers were surprising.

"It's nothing, just that while you were battling those two you had a really scary grin on your face, it was weird because you just seemed so calm when we were talking earlier" That was Ash, which was then followed up on by Misty.

"Yeah, it was creepy, especially since you battled so ruthlessly, shutting those two down hard, it was kind of unnerving" I didn't think I looked creepy while I was battling, and I didn't understand why I shouldn't have been anything but ruthless against people who stole Pokemon but I didn't comment on it.

Instead I just nodded before motioning for my Pokemon to come over towards me. Once they were close enough I scooped up Shinx and hugged him with one arm while giving Pidgey a scratch on the head with the other. While telling them that they did great.

After a few moments I stood back up with Shinx still in my arms and Pidgey resting on my head. It was then that Nurse Joy came back out and asked if we where going to spend the night. It didn't take long before I was in a room for the night with my two Pokemon.

Laying down on the bed I let them pile around me, even though I knew I wasn't going to be sleeping tonight on account of my insomnia, it still felt nice to have my friends by me as I laird there. Wondering what tomorrow was going to bring considering I had to go by the Police Station before setting off towards Viridian Forest again.


Ok I seriously didn't expect me to be so wrapped up in wanting to write about this story but I'm certainly enjoying it. And you people are getting a bunch of chapters at this point daily so you can't complain either so win-win for everybody. Anyway, See ya.