I Don't Own Pokemon
Of course my good mood couldn't last forever, because that wouldn't be a good story now wouldn't it, still I didn't think the other me would have something like this happen in front of me. I felt rage begin to fill me as I watched as a teenage girl was about to stomp down on an Eevee that looked like it had already taken a few hits.
I wasn't aware as to how I managed to move close enough to punch the lady across the face before she could bring her foot down, but I chose to ignore it for the time being and instead looked down at her with a repetitively calm frown on my face.
"And what do you think you were about to do?" She looked up and flinched from my look before, was seemed to be her stupidity caught up with her, as her fear turned to anger.
"How dare you! I'll have to arrested, sent to jail you hear me you little brat!" I felt the rage cool down a tad instead being replaced with a feeling, of needing to crush a bug. My calm looked turned into a glare.
"Fun fact, Pokemon abuse can and will get someone sent to jail for at least a minimum of five years, while a public fight can at most lead to a small fine and maybe a night in jail. So please be my guess, I would love to here about what the police will say on the matter"
She appeared to shrink at my mostly bullshitted retort, as I didn't know near enough about the laws here it state that but then again, it seemed she didn't know the laws either. So I wasn't done yet, I mean, after all, she wasn't crying yet, so with that I let go of the glare with some effort and instead gave her a big smile before saying.
"Another fun fact, you if caught can also get your trainer license revoked, put on a list to ban you from Pokemon Centers and have to pay thousands in fines" It was interesting to watch her face as it seemed to be more and more beaten down as small tears seemed to gather in her eyes. I was surprised when she spoke, without to much hiccuping.
"Please, don't tell anyone, Please, Please, I do anything" I barely kept the look of disgust off my face before I replied.
"Give me Eevee's pokeball, and run. If I'm feeling nice I'll give you a head start" She was gone before I even finished but I made sure she heard the last bit as a parting shot. Nothing like a bit of paranoia to make someone suffer long term. Looking at the pokeball for a moment, I dropped it to the ground and crushed it under my foot. Knelling down to be closer to eye level with the Eevee I calmly told it.
"You're free to go now, if you want I can show you to where the forest near by is" I didn't get a response but I wasn't really expecting any, instead I gave the Pokemon a nod before standing up and began to make my way towards the Pokemon Center.
I didn't mind leaving it alone, not as much as I thought I would, but I think really it was because it reminded me way to much of animal abuse that I knew I would hate myself for awhile if I didn't do anything to help. It didn't mean I wan't aware of the fact that I put myself in that situation.
Was the other me having a bad enough day and was trying to vent, or was he detaching himself from this story to make it less personal on his end than it would be on mine. It was probably the latter, it took a good bit of effort to get me in a bad mood.
Still, that didn't bode to well for me. I was kinda hoping that because he and I are the same person I could avoid all the drama and eventually appears in my stories. But apparently I wasn't going to be spared either, which was sad but that didn't mean I wasn't expecting it.
To him I'm just words on a screen that is currently typing out these very thoughts probably but that didn't mind that everything wasn't real for me. I felt a sigh coming on as I forced myself to get out of that head space, it would just lead to self-loathing, even if it was a different kind than is normal.
Walking past the sliding doors I made my way up to the front desk and placed Luxio's pokeball onto the counter. Thankfully the nurse was currently present so I didn't have to wait. Once I was sure I had her attention I held out the pokeball for her and said.
"Just got back from our Gym battle, we won, but got kind of beat up" She just nodded and congratulated me on my win before saying back while looking a little past my shoulder at something.
"I'm glad you did so while, I'm guessing you used your Eevee then? it seems like it got hurt"
I turned around and saw that Eevee had followed me back to the Center. I gave the small fox a raised eyebrow but all I got in return were kicked puppy eyes, given its current situation I knew it wasn't trying to guilt me into anything, which just guilt tripped me even harder. Turning back to the nurse I said.
"Yeah, Eevee was my second Pokemon out. My Luxio is the one in the ball. He got hit to hard while trying to take out Brock's second Pokemon" I didn't like that I was lowering the effort Luxio put in to when against both of his opponents but I needed a reason as to why Eevee was so hurt.
"Oh, I'm glad you won then, if it was such a close call" I just nodded before turning and holding out my arms to invite the eevee to let me pick it up to bring up to the desk. They were clearly hesitant but still climbed into my arms nonetheless. Giving it a few pats on the head to help relax it I handed it over to the nurse.
I noticed that, the eevee seemed much more at peace in the nurses arms. Which meant that it's been to the Pokemon Center enough to trust the Joy's. I wasn't sure if that it painted their old trainer in a worse light or not. Shaking my head I decided I didn't want to think about it. After all if it was comfortable enough with me then I could just ask later.
Sitting down, in one of the seats used for waiting, I pulled Pidgey's ball of my belt and tossed it into the air. Watching as the small bird looked around for a moment I smiled as he noticed where I was after a second and flew over to land on my head.
"So did Shinx manage to win, Trainer?" it was a small difference on what the two called me but like with Luxio I didn't understand it.
"Yeah we won, Pidgey. And it's not Shinx anymore, he evolved into Luxio" I noted Pidgey seemed to not understand what I meant by evolve so I helped him out.
"It means he got a bit more powerful and looks a bit different now. Not much,just a little taller and heavier, and his fur is mostly dark now" He seemed to understand it now as he commented.
"Like how I can change into a Pidgeotto, right?" I gave him a nod and watched as the bird looked proud that he remembered that fact. Reaching my hand up I gave the bird a scratch on the head which he seemed to lean into. With that we waited for Luxio and Eevee to be healed.
After about an hour I was called to the front desk. Walking up to the nurse I had to shoot my arms out as Luxio jumped at me. Pulling him into a hug, while trying to ignore the fact he was a little over sixty pounds now. Still I managed to hold onto him for a good moment before dropping him down to the ground.
Thankfully the nurse left after she saw I was busy taking, noting that Luxio's pokeball was on the desk as well as the eevee, I grabbed it and put it on my belt, before turning and looking at the eevee.
"So, did you just want to get healed up before you headed on, or did you want something else?" The poor thing seemed to be either very shy, naturally quiet, or trying to think of what to say because it took a little over seven seconds before the eevee looked looked up at me and said.
"I...I was wondering why you helped me" I gave, the now identified, her a encouraging smile before saying.
"Barbecue it was the right then to do. I hate watching trainers mistreat their Pokemon. To me those kind of trainers are the worst type of person" She looked up surprised, it seemed that she she wasn't expecting a proper reply. Though to be fair most Pokemon don't expect a reply from humans.
"You can understand me?" I gave her a nod, and watched as her eyes began to sparkle with curiosity.
"I've always been very good with languages, took awhile but I figured it out" And by figure it out I of course meant a version of me that controlled this reality. Focusing back on the fox in front of me I waited as she seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment it seemed that she had come to a decision.
"Uh, mister...would you mind if I came with you? I'm strong so I can help if you want and and I can" It was then that I layed my hand on her head to get her attention, thankfully she didn't flinch, once she stopped I gave her a smile before saying.
"You don't have to worry about that. If you want to come along then I won't say no" She seemed relieved that I agreed, with that I pulled out a pokeball from the bag that was at this point always at my side, and held it out to her after priming it.
She seemed a little hesitate but after a moment she pressed her nose against the button. It was an instant capture, as she didn't bother to fight it. After I was sure it was done, I grabbed the ball and tossed it in the air. I wanted for Eevee to come out and be aware that we hadn't gone anywhere before motioning for my now three Pokemon to follow.
"If I can help it, I try to keep all of my Pokemon outside their ball unless they need to rest or don't feel like walking. It's your decision if you want to stay out or not, but fair warning we are going to be doing a lot of walking tomorrow"
"I think I'd like to stay out for awhile, Sir" Another title? Why do all my Pokemon refer to me as different things. I would prefer it if they stuck to one but it wasn't enough of a big deal to ask them so I all I did was nod to Eevee before making my way towards the room I had booked.
Tomorrow I'm going to see how much ground I can make to get towards Mt. Moon so I wanted to at least try to get some sleep tonight. Not to mention the amount of time it would take to go threw the mountain itself. So I wanted to get as much sleep as I could.
I'll be honest, this chapter was a lot darker than I originally planned for it to be, I mean much darker. But it's one of those things that made sense, so I reworked the scene and changed Eevee's starting personality to be more timid. Time will tell if I'll still think this is for the best later on in the story but for now I'm content. See ya
