I Don't Own Pokemon
It only took, about another four hours, before I manged to find the exit. But it did take another five before I finally saw the outskirts of the city. I mean it still took a good hour or two before I was past the front gate but at that point I didn't really care, I just wanted to lay down on something that wasn't made of rock, so I kept going.
It was already a little past midnight, so all I wanted was to lay down, even if I wasn't going to get any sleep. Currently it was Pidgey was was out with me, as the second I gotten out of the cave I returned my overtaxed Luxio, at least he got some good training from it. Still I now had my bird out with me now, and I enjoyed it really.
I haven't had much one on one time with the flying type of the group, not that he noticed but I did, and it bugged me. Just because he didn't notice didn't mean I should chose to act ignorant to it also. So all in all I enjoy my Pidgey's company, as we made our way through the streets of Cerulean City. It was nice and it was peaceful, at least until someone charge attacked me from behind.
"Stop right there, thief!" I made sure I was cursing in a language that wasn't close to native as I gritted my teeth as I tried really hard and I mean really hard to not start punching and kicking. Pidgey didn't seem to have any reservations as the attacker was launched off of me with a bit more powerful gust than was needed. Looking over to my attacker I frowned as I saw it was a Jenny. Great.
"Any reason why you seemed incline to charge tackle me Officer?" I was compressing my rage hard as I gave her a nonchalant smile as I stood up. It was then that Jenny seemed to realize that I was no longer pinned to the ground. She instantly jumped jump and said.
"You can not hide from me, you criminal" I just gave my currently panting eyebrow raised look of disapproval, before saying.
"I wasn't trying to hide, considering I haven't broken any laws, I didn't see the need to" She was quick on the retort, to bad she flopped so bad.
"A machine shop was broken into not to long ago, the owner said it was done by an adult man with long hair a small Pokemon and an adult women with even longer hair" Great so those two got out of jail, I wonder if they know I'm in town. Probably not, it seems they've decided to stay away with trainers considering what I did to them. I'm just glad their not following me around. Focusing my attention back onto the officer.
"Oh ok, lets see whats wrong with that, first off not an adult, second off my hair isn't that long. Third a small Pokemon describes at least thirty percent of all total Pokemon if not more. It could practically be anything. Fourth off I'm not hanging around a woman, fifth off I just got into town as could probably be backed up by some security camera's. If you want I can keep going"
She just seemed to blush, but still seemed certain I did it. Though I think at that point it was more of a thing of pride. So I should hit the bloody problem with a hammer so I could finally get some god forsaken sleep.
"If you still want more proof I could tell you who did it. It sounds like those two Team Rocket idiots I captured in Viridian about a week and a half ago. They even had a meow with them that fills out your small Pokemon requirements and they actually match the described age" That seemed to spark something in her memory as she snapped her fingers at me and said.
"That's right! My aunt talked about you, something about an Unovan saving a Pokemon Center. I didn't think they would be so young though" I chose to let the age comment go, but I will say, I could literary give her a list of Champions that became the Champion before they were even eighteen, hell in another life I could become the Champion in about a days worth of effort.
"Well I'm glad to be appreciated" I didn't really like the attention that normally went along with it though. Still I steered the conversation back on track so I could leave quicker.
"Back to the subject on hand, I think it would be a good idea to call up your aunt and ask about if those two are still in jail" I got a nod in return and with that I was turning away to go find the Pokemon Center when a hand clamped down on my shoulder. Forcing a neutral expression on my face I looked over towards the Officer and noted she was giving me a thumbs up.
"Thank you, for your help" And with that she turned an ran off somewhere. I wonder if she thought that I would be happy thinking i was helping out. I mean that's normally how kids work, at least I think so. Whatever, and just like that I was off once again to find the Pokemon Center in town.
It still took me about thirty minutes to find the Center when with Pidgey giving me air support still. After finding the building and was luck enough that a chansey was still awake to get a room I crashed hard the second I closed the door and returned Pidgey. The next morning I had given Misdreavus over to the nurse.
Of course that was after I had talked to the ghost Pokemon so she wouldn't freak out on being sent out. It actually turned out pretty well all things considered. She actually said she was considering asking for a permanent spot on the team, apparently the ghosts up at Mt. Moon were boring.
So that was how I ended up with my fourth team member. She wasn't overly strong but she did already have some nice moves consisting of: Shadow Sneak, Me first, Hex, Growl, Mean Look, Payback, Shadow Ball, Pain Split, and Hyper Voice. Turns out the ghosts in that cave liked to spread their moves around like they were candy.
But while she did have a nice selection, they couldn't really be called attacks. The time to form them versus the damage output simply said was way to unbalanced for most moves to be worth it in battle. Which meant she had potential, a lot of it but that also just meant currently she was very much behind the rest of the team in skill and power.
So that lead me to being at the outskirts of Cerulean with my team as I gave them the training plan I had thought up while Misdreavus was getting healed. The basics of it were as fallows, have Eevee teach Luxio Iron Tail, get Pidgey to learn Whirlwind and start on Twister, and for Misdreavus I was going to have her rapid fire shots off as fast as she could, it was for her stamina and to help her charge time.
Most of it was just the repetitive task of each of them either using the same move over and over again or them trying to figure out how to use the move consistently to use over and over again. Of course I sprinkled in some physical training as well for the corporal Pokemon on my team while having Misdreavus dodge their attacks while they worked out.
And while my Pokemon were working hard on their moves I was finally getting around to reading some proper history on the world that I now resided in. I also after some decent videos finally was able to distinguish between all the languages I now spoke. And their were a lot of them, each region seemed to have there own with an extra one that most people could speak.
Which meant I could speak fluently in nine languages I had never even heard of before if you couldn't Pokemon, even if I couldn't actually speak it. All in all it only took about five days before I was happy enough with my teams skill. For a quick recap that probably wouldn't be all that quick.
Luxio manged to master Iron Tail to a good degree and could currently charge up to full capacity in little under ten seconds while in combat and from what he's been saying his electric storage was much bigger than even when he first evolved. Which I think was a happy accident from him being a glorified flashlight during our trip through Mt. Moon.
Pidgey manged to learn Whirlwind and could get the first stage of Twister before he could mange anymore, which I figured was a power problem which would fix itself by the time he had evolved, so I wasn't worried. Other than that he also manged to reach another stage when using agility so he was also a good bit faster than before.
Eevee's progress wasn't as obvious as a new attack or anything like that but she was much tougher, stronger and could form her attacks much faster while not trading off to much power for that speed. Speaking of speed she wasn't going to be as fast as Pidgey or Luxio anytime soon but she was quite hard to hit which was good enough for the time being.
Misdreavus's was were the most my training effort went and I have to say it payed off. While she still wasn't as strong as the others, she could be really really hard to hit by ducking in and out of shadows which made up for her low defense. Of course, besides that, we also increased her attacking speed by, what seemed to be, at least three times faster.
Sadly that was still a little slow comparatively but for only a few days work it was quite good progress, especially on top of all the other training I had her doing which involved working on her stealth. We couldn't get as much training in, in that subject as I would have liked but thankfully she had quite the natural talent in that regard.
So far, for battles I could see her becoming a great hit and run attacker. Of course, I still wanted her to learn how to take a hit, even if it was unlikely she would get hit. After all that would only make the hits that got in that much worse, later I would work on her defense much more than I was now but for the time being she should be good.
I was quite proud of them all, and made sure that each one of them knew it. Not caring if they pointed out I was repeating myself quite often. It was nice to just spend time with my Pokemon not having to be walking, or battling, even if it was training I just enjoyed it.
That didn't mean I forgot about getting the Cascade Badge, after all it was the reason I was here in the first place. Which lead me to be looking at the Gym, at little early in the morning but that was most because I couldn't sleep, still it seemed weirdly busy.
It was then that I saw that a water show was going to be played in about an hour or so, which meant people were waiting out here for tickets or something. I didn't really care get any details though. So I just made my way past the growing crowd that was harassing the ticket salesman.
Walking into the building I looked around the stadium the hallway the doors lead me to. Looking around for a moment I noticed that there was a small door with an even smaller sign above it saying 'Gym Here' Making my way over I noted that I was walking past a quite big aquarium that seemed to be built into the hallway.
After a minute or so of walking I came out into a big sized room with a fair sized pool in the middle of it. Scanning around the room for a minute, though I didn't have to find anyone, as a voice broke through the silence.
"Um, Excuse you? You can't, like, be in here! You have to wait like everyone else for the show!" I already hated everything about who ever just spoke. I didn't even care that I haven't even made eye-connect yet. I already hated everything about them from the voice alone. Plastering a very fake and forced smile on, I turned to the source of the voice and said.
"Sorry, but I'm not here for the show. I'm a challenger, their was a sign, down the hall on a door, saying the Gym was here" She just huffed and crossed her arms before speaking again.
"Sorry but, like, we aren't taking any challenges today. You can come back tomorrow or something" I forced myself not to glare at the pink haired lady before saying.
"Oh, any reason why I can't battle you now?"
I wouldn't be disappointed to not be able to battle but my Pokemon on the other hand definitely would be. Pidgey basically demanded that I use him, and even the normally quiet Eevee asked if she could battle as well, the two of them seemed really tense when I returned them and I didn't want to have to get them back out, while the two of them were so ready to battle, only to tell them the match was postponed.
"Like, a few days ago a few trainers, from this nowhere placed called Pallet, or something, beat all three of us. So really we just aren't feeling like it" I raised an eyebrow at that. A few days was more than enough time to heal their Pokemon, and as gym leader's they should know that battling was literary in their job description.
"You must have healed your Pokemon already, and your Gym is one of the most visited in the region. How could you suddenly just figure that you shouldn't battle anymore" I didn't know if the Gym popularity thing was right or not but a little un-honest flattery never really hurt, when making people do stuff.
"Uh, why can't you just, like, come back tomorrow or something. One of us might battle you then, ok?" That was the most obvious stall I've seen in my life. I've seen children that could lie better than that.
"Yeah I could come back tomorrow or you could save both of us the time and effort and just accept my challenge" They just groaned before nodding after a lot of pouting. After a couple minute she had gathered the other two and started talking again.
"Fine, if you're so bent on battling the Gym you'll have to beat all of its leaders. Like, this will be a three on three battle" And with that the one with the blue hair called out a Golduck. I just nodded to their rules before sending out Pidgey, ignoring their smirks at what they assumed to be a weak little bird I just waited for them to start the match. The second one of the two other sisters brought their arm down I called out my first commands.
Hey a cliff hanger battle, haven't done that before. Anyway as seems to be the theme for most of these chapters I don't have anything to really add here so, See Ya
