I Don't Own Pokemon
The lack of sleep I got wasn't near enough to make me grumpy but it didn't mean I wasn't tired. Still at about ten in the morning I found myself outside the Viridain City Police Department. I had already told them I was here and was then promptly told to wait outside.
It was only after a couple minutes when Officer Jenny walked out of the building with an item in hand, I didn't get a good look at it before it was suddenly tossed at me. I was able to manage to grab it before it fell thankfully. Looking down at the item in my hand I was surprised to see I was holding onto a Waterstone. Looking at Jenny for an answer she said.
"The department recently bought a couple of Firestone for our growlithes to evolve into Arcanine. The only problem with that was the company we ordered from didn't have enough so they sent this instead, and because we can't use it we've just have had this laying around without a use for it. You might not ever need it but it's still a good item to have, even if its only a memento"
I told her thank you only to get a thank you in return for helping out. After that I went off to let her get back to work. I wasn't sure where I was headed, I had already gotten the extra supplies yesterday but I wasn't sure if I should just go straight back through the forest again.
After a moment of debate I began to make my way towards the entrance of the forest. It wasn't like I had much else to do in the city so I might as well get to Pewter sooner rather than later. It didn't take long for me to be a couple of minutes past the gate of the forest.
That's when I sent out my Pokemon, I grinned as I watched them run/fly around a bit to stretch their legs/wings. I waited a few minutes before calling them back.
"Alright guys, it's time to properly get some training in, by the time we leave the forest I want the two of you to learn at least one move each. Shinx you're going to be learning Thunder Fang, and you Pidgey are going to be learning Agility. Both which can be learned by changing up two moves you guys already know.
For you Shinx it shouldn't be to hard to learn, all that your doing is changing the ice in your Ice Fang to lightning. Pidgey you'll have to try and figure out the starting boost of Quick Attack and try to maintain it without only be able to move in one straight direction"
They both nodded as they set out to learn their assigned move. I made sure to keep an eye on the two of them while making sure to give any pointers that I could figure out for the moves. Luckily the path of well worn enough that I didn't have to keep an eye on where I was going to not get lost.
By the two hour mark Shinx began to be able to consistently only use lightning instead of ice when he tried to form his new attack. Pidgey on the other hand wasn't having as much luck but that was mostly because from what I figured a need of practice rather than skill, so he should have it done to a decent degree by the end of the day.
Though I did notice that both of them seemed to be tiring out which I didn't want them to become exhausted so even though they both wanted to keep practicing I made them stop to take a break. I was glad for there enthusiasm but I didn't like that they were rushing threw their lunch to get back to training.
While I did want to get the eight gym badges, that was mostly because I thought it would be fun. I didn't want it to be something that consumed my Pokemon's lives. So even though they finished before I was even a third of the way threw my food I didn't let them go out to practice some more instead forcing them to relax and have some small talk.
It was a day later and I was glad that I had made them take breaks because otherwise they would have been way to stressed when the two of them hit a wall when it came to the moves they were trying to learn that I didn't expect. Shinx couldn't gather the needed power to make the attack a viable option in battle.
While Pidgey had managed to figure out the basics, he couldn't get the move to make any faster than the first boost he got from the move. Needless to say if I didn't force their attention away from their training, they would be close to dead on their feet.
I knew they didn't appreciate it but like parents a trainer's job it to do what's best for their Pokemon even if the Pokemon thinks it knows better. Currently the three of us were taking a break when I heard a rustling from the bushes behind me. I figured it would be another pidgey going after a caterpie.
What I was not expecting was three kids, two of which I recognized, running from a swarm of beedrill. In under ten second I had returned my Pokemon, grabbed my bag, started cursing, and running for my life in that order. Before I knew it I was pushed into a bush with the others and watched as the beedrill swarm flew by us.
Needless to say even when I thought I was safe it turns out that we were by a kakuna nest. Which of course, lead to about twenty newly evolved beedrill trying to kill use. After some more running we had made it to a cabin that the kid that I didn't remember from the show apparently owned.
I tuned out all the arguing mostly because either I had already remember the episode enough that I din't need to listen or because I honesty didn't care. I honesty was not sure which one was more true. Either way I already knew I would be stuck here for a few hours no matter what I did.
Well I could try and battle my way out, it would be to hard, and my Pokemon might even enjoy it. The beedrill honesty weren't all that strong on their own. It was mostly because of the numbers on their side more than anything take made them threatening.
I decided to put more thought into it in a little bit, after all it wouldn't be good to underestimate an opponent even if they shouldn't be to much of a problem, though I was aware that I was being a hypocrite. Looking back over to the others I noted that the argument had quieted down. So now was the best time to get a word in.
"So now that you all are done, bickering like children, could someone explain to me why I am currently having to be held up in a cabin after being chased by a beedrill swarm?" They at least looked guilty that I was dragged into this but none of them particularly seemed inclined to answer though so I just rolled by eyes and released my Pokemon.
Shinx happily jumped into my arms, glad to see that I wasn't still running for my life, as that was the last thing he saw before he got returned. So I made sure give him a couple pats and a scratch behind the ear. Pidgey on the other hand looked confused as to why he was suddenly in a new location, but still happily flew up and nested in my hair.
"Sorry I had to return you two, but I didn't want to take the chance of either of you being to tired to fight them off" They seemed insulted that the small amount of training they were doing would even be close to enough to tiring them out, but I held my ground.
Even when they tried to argue their points I shut them down telling them that even if the two of them could take most of them down they would eventually be over run. Neither seemed to like to admit it, but I knew that they saw my point, though the two of them seemed to become that much more determined to become stronger. So win-win, I think?
"Eh, excuse me but I don't believe we ever got your name" Looking over at Misty I realized that I hadn't given me name, so be fair she never gave me her's either, Ash if I'm remembering right introduced himself after the Team Rocket event. Still I was giving this to much thought than it really deserves.
"I don't believe I ever got your name either miss, still my name is Kyu" I felt my lips tighten as my username slipped out instead of the name I was actually going to give. Damn it me. So you're posting this then, it's the only reason that you wouldn't let me say my real name. Still, Misty didn't seemed to notice anything wrong but she did blush when she realized that I was right.
"Sorry! My name is Misty" I just gave her a nod, before noting that Ash was looking at me for some reason. Well I didn't have to wait long before he stood up and asked what was on his mind.
"You're a strong trainer right? Can you please go help me get back Metapod?" Oh yeah, that happened. I couldn't say that I particularity wanted to help, and if I remembered right then Metapod would evolve after Ash convinced him that he would be better. I would be robbing him of that if I just went and fought my way to get his Pokemon.
"No" It was simple and it seemed to be a little cruel if Ash's outrage seemed to be anything to go by. It wasn't long before he was shouting my ear off about not helping him. It only took a few moments after he started before it got to be more than my patience could handle. I hated screaming kids.
"I, wasn't the one who left it, and I'm the one showing up to rescue it, do you want to know what your Pokemon is going to think. It'll think that you didn't care enough to come to it even though your the reason it got taken in the first place. If you want that Pokemon of yours to ever trust you again then take responsibility"
Take seemed to hit him hard. This is why I should never be in the same room as a child, nine times out of ten they'll end up crying, and I have no idea what I did to cause it, it usually left me with a headache. But thankfully it seemed that in this universe kids weren't so easy to accident make cry. Instead he just went silent. But I did note that Pikachu didn't seem to happy with me.
"He needed to hear that" I didn't know why I was explaining myself to a Pokemon that I didn't even own but for some reason I felt I owned Pikachu a reason. Maybe it was out of respect for his role in one of my favorite shows growing up, or maybe it was some other not really relevant reason.
"You could have been gentler" Oh yeah, I understand all Pokemon not just my own. I don't know how I forgo that.
"Being gentle isn't my strong suit. Not to mention I'm not sure he would get it if I was subtle" I'll be honest I enjoyed Pikachu's look of shock much more than I should. None of the other's seemed to think I actually understood Pikachu though, instead they probably thought I just made a good educated guess. Which I didn't mind them thinking.
Though I did realize that now that Pikachu knew I could understand him he was much more amendment on talking to me. Which I can say didn't help Ash's mood but I'll be the first to say I didn't really care as much as I should. I was well aware that I wasn't nearly emotional as most and that wasn't even mentioning empathy for things I didn't care about.
Like some kid not liking the way things have been going for him. Even if that kid was a icon to millions of people.
It took a few hours before the swarm of beedrill lowered down enough that I was able to leave the cabin mostly un-harassed, and those that did notice me I made sure Shinx and Pidgey knocked out, bad enough that it would be a few hours at least before they would be getting back up.
But that was mostly to not trap the others in the house that decided to sleep overnight rather than leave right before it turned to dusk. Sadly I was aware of the fact I wouldn't be getting any sleep, so I figured that I might as well get the rest of the way to Pewter.
Thankfully my Pokemon weren't to tired so they could keep me company. They were actually quite antsy, considering that they wanted to train but if they did then it would only lead more bee's to the cabin from the racket that it would cause. So the two of them were trying to make up for lost time.
Lucky for them, during our unwanted stay at the cabin, I came up with a few new ideas to move past the blocks that they were having. For Shinx it was simple, he was just using the base amount of power needed to activate the attack, not near enough to do damage, so what I had him do was use a version of charge to build up the electricity in his mouth.
Well I say it was easy, in practice the two of us had to figure out how to condense charge to one area while also maintaining an attack. But he managed to get it down after not to much time. Still it as tame compared to what I figured out about what Pidgey needed to do.
Agility is a move that basic removes air-resistance to make flight, or moving in general much easier, it was something that Pidgey already had down as it was the basic way of using the move. The only problem with that is to use said move the Pokemon's body had to compact to help shed resistance. Similar to how Quick Attack worked.
But to move faster the Pokemon had to relax their body to glide across the the air. Basically Pidgey had to rework how he flew while using the move to get any extra speed out of the move, besides just the small boost it initially gave. It took awhile and most of the night while Shinx was training on creating his Thunder Fang faster, for Pidgey to finally get it down to a reasonable level.
He still had some work to go but considering he had to reverse engineer how he flew, something completely based on muscle memory, to get it down to the degree he had in a night was quite impressive. And I made sure he knew it to, as he seemed to be aware oh the fact that the Shinx got his move down much faster than him.
He didn't really seem to mind but I didn't want to take the chance that he might be feeling down because of it. Though I did have to return the two of them once it reached about three in the morning. I was use to working on much less sleep but I didn't want my Pokemon to get exhausted just to keep me company.
Thankfully, I didn't have to walk to much longer before I had exited the forest and saw that down the road a little was what seemed to be a city. I felt a tired grin spread on my face as I began to make my way towards the town, bent on finding a Pokemon Center.
I knew I had been walking for almost six hours straight after being awake, coming on two days now but I honestly didn't expect how tired I was. Then again I'll be honest when I say I've done more walking in the past week then I've done probably in the past two months in the real world.
So with my plan in motion I stepped foot into the city, before trying to located the Pokemon Center, and after I got some needed rest I would challenge the Brock, who was still currently the Gym Leader.
I've just been on a spree of writing for some reason but I can't say that I mind. This so far has been quite fun. Anyway I don't have anything extra to really add at the end here so. See ya
