I Don't Own Pokemon


I set out early the next morning after getting a couple of hours of sleep, not a lot but more than enough for me to work on. So with that I was currently walking down a mostly empty road with my Pokemon walking besides me. While we were walking I was also looking through the moves Eevee could learn, along with the ones she already knew.

At least her old trainer was good for something as the moves she had quite pretty good. Bite, Swift, Iron Tail, Sand Attack, and with Endure and Detect for the egg moves she got. It had a lot of bases covered for both long and short range, with even some defensive moves.

She didn't even have to worry about evolution either because of that convenient Waterstone I got for sending those two idiots to jail. But before I gave it two her, I was also doing some looking into the vaporeon move set. There wasn't much to learn before hand but when she will evolve her base attack will be lowered to increase the damage her long ranged or 'special attacks' will do.

So, what I'm planning on doing is for Eevee to get some strength training in while Luxio and Pidgey worked on speed and endurance. Those two were mostly for Pidgey, as Luxio already was quite strong on the physical side, but he needed to adjust to his new body, along with the fact that the luxray line was super speedy so it would be nice to cover a weakness.

With that planned out, Eevee was carrying my stachel on her back, while Luxio and Pidgey were chasing each other around, without any moves. Of course their were some extra rules for both activities. For Eevee she had to periodically charge up an Iron Tail and launch off a swift, so she could form the attacks faster.

While Pidgey couldn't go above fifth teen feet high so Luxio could at least have a shot at getting him. As for Luxio he had to keep a constant Charge up at all times, which might not sound to hard but when your're being attacked by constant swifts and a dive bombing bird, it added to the challenge.

As they were doing that I was still looking at the moves they could potential learn. Like how I could get Eevee to teach Luxio Iron Tail, something that would have helped out during my fight with Brock, and would come in handy next time I'm facing a rock type.

After a while I knew I wasn't going to be finding anything new on the pokedex. To be fair I was mostly guessing for Luxio, as the dex I was using wasn't a national one. Still I knew he could learn it because of past experience and that was good enough for me.

Looking away from the group I noted that it was about midday, a good enough time for a break. Calling my Pokemon over I retrieved my bag from Eevee and proceeded to take out some food for everyone. Laying the bowls down I filled them up with the pokefood before getting something to eat for myself.

Sadly our nice break was interrupted when a kid who was walking by noticed us sitting off a little ways away from the main road. He instantly walked over and challenged me to a battle. I was going to decline but before I could Pidgey had already gotten into a ready position for a battle. I sighed to myself before placing my food down and stood up.

"I guess I'm battling then. Alright no need to complicate this, lets just have a simple one on one battle ok?" He agreed before sending out his Pokemon. It was a Ponyta. After a moment we decided that he would go first, and he didn't wait much more after that calling to his Pokemon to attack instantly.

"Ok, Ponyta! Ember attack!" I called out for Pidgey to aviod it even if it was redundant. Well maybe not Pidgey never has been the best at paying attention. Still after he moved out of the way of a couple Embers I called out a command myself deciding to take control of the battle.

"Pidgey use gust to blow away the attack, then start stacking up on Agility. Once you've speed up enough dive bomb it a few times with Quick Attack" The battle quickly turned to my favor as his Ponyta's attacks couldn't hit me anymore because of how fast he was going. I figured it would be a fast win after that but I was mistaken.

"Ponyta, when it comes back around hit it back with Take Down!" I was well aware that while Pidgey was quite strong and even faster, he didn't have the best defense. It was why I had him use agility in the first place so I could negate his poor defense by not being hit. I was hoping that Pidgey was moving to fast to get hit even now.

But sadly I was mistaken as Ponyta managed to clip Pidgey on his way back up. He wasn't out but he couldn't risk anymore dives.

"Pidgey, time to go ranged. Fly up and start using Air Cutter" He quickly responded with having Ponyta shoot the attacks down with ember. So with that we for a few seconds were stuck in a deadlock, at least until I called out to Pidgey.

"Mix up your attacks with some Air Slashes, attack as many times as you can before using a quick attack" The first bit was to keep the horse pokemon distracted, and lucky for me it worked. As it was either being hit from above or below. Unfortunately once he got an attack on from below, the attacks from above also connected.

After that Pidgey only needed on more gust to take the ponyta down. And with that I had won my battle, I called Pidgey back over so he could get his rest and eat his already laid out food. It was then that a handful of bills were shoved into my hands as the kid returned his Pokemon and stalked off muttering to himself about getting to a Pokemon Center.

Looking down at my hand, I realized that I forgot that pokemon trainers gave each other a part of their funds when they lost. I thought maybe that was a game only thing as I didn't get anything for beating the Gym back in Pewter. Maybe Gym leader's didn't have to give out money.

Whatever, after a moment of counting had received about fifty of whatever the currency was here. That was nice, but not overly crazy. With that I turned back to my food to finally get to eat, this time with no distractions.


It was about two days and a surprising number of battles later, I had just enter the mouth of the cave and was pleased to note that there wasn't any stringed up lights. Still, on the downside, that meant that it was really dark, so what I did was have Luxio use Charge to give us a small light source.

So Luxio was to my right and a head a little bit while I was holding onto Eevee, with Pidgey sitting on my head. It worked out pretty well but we still had a decently long way to go before we would be able to leave the cave. After another two or so hours of only walking and way to many zubat knocked out for me to count we took another break.

At that point the four of us had been walking for about nine hours today alone, not to mention the training my team has been doing so I figured I would return them as they would need the break. And I would have if they didn't refuse to leave me alone in the cave, even Eevee was loudly adamant about me not being along in the dark, though the point she was trying to make was interrupted by her yawning, confirming to me that they needed to rest.

Eventually we all had to come to a compromise, Luxio would stay out with me while the others would get some sleep. The only reason I didn't return Luxio right after I returned the other two was because even if I was being stubborn, I knew I needed some kind of light, and it was my fault that I didn't prepare myself properly for a cave. Didn't mean I wasn't annoyed nonetheless.

Still we continued of our trek through the cave system for another hour or so before anything new or interesting happened. To bad it turned out to bit too interesting for my liking. I sighed as I looked at the two not moving bodies on the floor. Looking around the cave to see if I could spot anything. I couldn't so I bent down to see if they were still alive while asking Luxio.

"Would you mind looking around to see if you can find anything that could do this?" He didn't seem to like that I would be alone so I just let out Eevee. That seemed to help as he turned and started looking around for anything. While that was happening I picked up Eevee and placed her on my shoulder to be my personal watch while I slowly reached forward and pressed two fingers under one of the two's throat to see if I could find a pulse.

The second my fingers touched their skin, their entire body shook for a moment. I pressed a hand onto Eevee's head to help her calm down as she let out a yelp. Grimacing, I forced down my reaction to not touch the person again as I once again checked for a pulse. I didn't find one.

I raised my hand to press against my face as I groaned to myself. Of course I would find two dead bodies, after a moment I was about to stand up when.

"BBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I felt my back snap straight as I grit my teeth while I hugged onto Eevee, who had just jumped in fright. It wasn't long before I heard giggling from behind me. Slowly turning around, I saw a floating Misdreavus dying of laughter. I stared at the specter for a moment before saying in an annoyed voice.

"Eevee. Iron Tail" She was all to glad to slam the ghost into the ground. Standing up I looked down at the ghost now on the floor before looking behind me noting that the bodies were now instead two shocked looking Haunter's, I just gave them an eyebrow raised look, after that the two of them scrambled before fleeing into the ground. Looking back at the slowly floating upward ghost I crossed my arms and asked.

"So, any reason why you decided to prank me?" The ghost was still trying to find their balance in the air, that reminded me, misdreavus' didn't have the best defense or health. That one attack probably hurt a lot more than I thought it would. I sighed before reaching into my bag grabbing the half used potion I still had on me and without warning sprayed the Pokemon in front of me.

They gave an undefined squeak, but that was about it. In fact they seemed to be pouting, I just gave them an unimpressed look, after a couple seconds they finally answered.

"You're suppose to be running! Most people start running before I even get to scare them and you barely reacted! It's not fair!" I gave her a look that said to bad before replying.

"Sorry to say but you'd have to try harder to scare me" It's true, it had become a running gag with me friends that I was a sociopath when it came to stuff like horror and scary movies. It didn't help that I'm naturally not overly emotional to begin with. Still I noted she seemed surprised that I answered her.

"Wait! Did you just answer me?" Her pouting expression had changed into wonderment, she seemed to be a bit bi-polar, ignoring my observation for the time being. I just gave her a nod. While she seemed lost in her own mind I told Eevee to get some more rest before returning her. It was, of course, then that Luxio showed back up to see me with a ghost Pokemon in front of me without Eevee nearby. I should have known better, and to be fair, he should have as well, but that didn't stop him from attacking.

I don't think she even noticed him before a Night Slash had already knocked her out. Turning to Luxio I gave him a disapproving/disappointing look, I did feel a little bad when his ears lowered and he looked at me with a confused and slightly guilty look on his face. After a moment I told him with a patient voice.

"You shouldn't have just attacked Luxio. We were just talking, you can't attack everything I'm nearby, especially if they're not attacking me. You should know better" His eared dropped as he looked down with the saddest look on his face I've ever seen from the normally so happy Pokemon but I stood my ground even as he apologized in a defeated voice.

"Good, I'm glad you want to protect me Luxio, but that doesn't mean everyone else is trying to hurt me. She was just trying to scare us, nothing more. Now I expect better. But that being said you did what you thought you had to, so I forgive you but don't do it again, ok" I got a nod in return. With that I walked forward to grab the small heavy cat to give it a reassuring hug, before turning back to the fallen ghost.

Sighing I looked down at her, I didn't want to waste another potion. Reaching down into my bag I gripped a pokeball and primed it, I figured I was almost out of the cave so it wouldn't be to much of a hassle to bring her to a Pokemon Center. And if she wanted to leave, it wasn't like it would be difficult. I could just release her at the opening of the cave and let herself find her way back here.

So with that I bent down and tapped the button against her body-head thing and watched as she went in without any problem. A few moments later I now had a fourth potential member on my team. Turning back to Luxio I told him.

"Alright, we'll have her patched up at a Pokemon Center, and afterwards I'll bring her back here if she wants. Anyway enough of all this, lets get a move on" He seemed to agree as we began to make our way down the cave. Of course we then ran into a medium sized zubat colony, damn it me.


Hey the thing was said again. That's nice. Also two Pokemon in two chapters. If you all can't tell I'm getting a full set in motion pretty early on in the story. I do have a reason for that, so don't at like its werird that in the seven chapters that are currently out he's gotten a new Pokemon in four of them. Anyway besides that fun note I don't have anything to really add so, See Ya.