I Don't Own Pokemon
It took a while and honesty I didn't have anything else to blame this time but myself for it taking so long. But in the end I did finally found the Pokemon Center once more, currently I was sitting in the main lobby while waiting for the healing for Mismagius to be done. I also had another reason but it wasn't late enough for that yet.
So instead of doing that, I was instead sitting down while scrolling down a list of items that were currently being sold at the nearby stores. Their wasn't as many as I would have liked but it did have a few that I wouldn't mind getting my hands on. Like something super potions, and it appeared that there is a specific food store here that sells type based food.
While I wouldn't get a ton of each type, as no one on my team really cared about the normal food we ate, so maybe it could work as something close to dessert or something. Looking over the list once more, I got bored and moved onto a different tab, this time looking at ships nearby that are selling tickets to Cinnabar.
Their wasn't as many as I was hoping, only three, two of them where cruise ships that honestly were way to over priced for only about at worst two days on the sea, to be worth it. And the other was a import/export ship that was just in the harbor to stock up on certain items that were running low at the island and wouldn't be taking passengers.
While I didn't particular care about money, though I will admit I am a normally greedy person, I think that the cost for a single ticket shouldn't cost near four thousand bloody dollars. So either I would burn almost a third of my total cash and then have to spend a similar amount to get back to land, or figure something else out. There was practically no planes going there either.
Though there were tons of planes leaving the island, bloody tourist spots. Some more research later, I learned that there was a ship up in Vermilion that would be heading to Cinnabar soon, at almost a third of the cost for some reason. The only problem was, that was about a month away, and the ship left in a week, so that was out.
This is why I hate making travel plans, I mean, I could use the bike path, that I heard was basically done at this point. I'll have to see if I can walk it instead of using a bike. It wouldn't be to much of a problem, at least it better not be. I really didn't want to have to wait until the next few ships came into port that would be heading to Cinnabar.
As while their was a ship only used as transport, it would only be arriving in about three weeks, which made it about as viable as everything else. Honestly way was this shore town, have so little ship transportation, it was headache inducing, so the only thing I could see still being an option is the bike path, which would be pretty quick to be fair.
The path itself cut a lot of corners that walking did, it would take about a day total, while riding a bike, usually without any breaks in-between, from what I've heard from nearby idle conversation, which I wasn't sure how actuate it was. But still, for me, if I walk it, it would take about maybe two or so days without sleep which I could do but it would be annoying.
If Luxray could help out, then that would be cut down to about a day with breaks. I wonder how Pokemon mounts are counted when it comes to a bike path. Actually, I wonder if I'm light enough for Pidgeotto, he's quite strong, and I'm only like twenty pounds. At max speed, he could make it in about half a day normally, so with me, it would be about the same.
Well unless my math went wrong in there somewhere, but I don't think so. Sitting back in my chair I looked at the screen I hadn't been using for the last few minutes, being to stuck in thought. I'll look into it tomorrow, it was way to late for me to do it today, and I still needed to do what I needed to do.
I glanced over at a nearby clock, and noted that while late, it wasn't late enough to place my call, damn time zones. Sighing to myself I looked up at the ceiling again for a moment before sitting up properly and started typing into the search bar something else I figured I might as well look into.
It wasn't as interesting or near as important as what I had been looking into just a couple minutes before, but I was curious so I looked into it anyway. What I was looking into was the current records for the Indigo League, I had been called a Pokemon genius/prodigy more times than I think is normal from random trainers, that I've met in the wild to not see a streak.
And I already knew that my perspective on age to skill ratio was all kinda of out of wack. Games that involved a ten year old being the Champion of a region would do that to a person. So I decided to see how much weight was really put in having to be older to be a good trainer.
I was mildly surprised to see that almost exclusively people from the age seventeen to twenty-three were the ones that won the most Pokemon leagues, most people at that point got good enough to win before going off and doing something else, usually becoming a Ranger or something similar.
And in recorded history the closes a first year trainer only got to top four before losing, and there was only three people in recent history who won in their second to third year as a trainer. Steven, Cynthia, and some person named Janice, who I didn't recognize which either meant it was a throw away name or some kind of important OC.
But all that's besides the point as I read, that even though they won their respective leagues so early in there careers the two Champions that I recognized, didn't actually become Regional Champions, and not just League Champions, until both were in their twenties. Yes their was a difference, Regional is well for a region and you have to be stronger than all elite four members, like in the game.
While League Champion was a much more common title, for someone who has won a Pokemon League, and it only lasted a year before the next League starts up to replace the winner with the next Champion of the League. Their was another Champion title that was gained, from beating the Elite Four and either winning against the regional Champion or at least defeating half their current team, one can gain a permanent Champion title.
Of course hardly anyone actually managed the last one, which lead it to be surprisingly the most popular title, gaining over time, the unofficial prefix 'traveling'. I got to say, out of all them I knew that was the one that sounded the best and the one I would certainly be going for. Traveling Champion, I got to say it didn't sound bad. But I wasn't close to there yet.
I just realized I had gotten off topic, anyway, the main point that I was trying to make, was that most beginner trainers spend the first two years just getting their badges before challenging the league and even then not getting very far. So considering I've gotten six badges in five months, was apparently a point of interest.
All in all, my ego while not exploding as I didn't know how I would fair against any of the Elite Four members, did increase some. But I pushed that down, ego while quite fun to make jokes about, wasn't something I liked to have to deal with, it's made me make stupid decisions in the past and now it wouldn't be any different so might as well avoid it all together.
Whatever, curiosity satisfied for the time being I stood up after switching the computer off, I looked at the time once more before deciding, if she wasn't up by now then it was her own fault. Walking over a different part of the Center where the videophones were, I sat down before punching in a few numbers, for the Jupiter Lab in Unova, that's right my mind finally remembered what her number is.
As the screen loaded up a black screen to wait for the call to either be accepted or declined, I looked down slightly at the last pokeball on my sash. It had been giving me a bloody headache since I gotten it, so now I'm going to see how I can finally store it somewhere safe. Looking back up at the screen, I waited for a few more seconds before the screen changed into a view of what appeared to be a desk, with a very tired woman at it.
"Hey Professor" She stared up at me for a moment before blinking and with that blink, she seemed to recognized me then. Sitting up a little she said.
"Oh Kyu! I almost didn't recognize you, I like the hair, it kind of suits you. Why are you call me at four in the morning?" I didn't think the first thing she would say would be about my hair. Also, four? I thought it was later, oh well she's still up.
"Sorry for calling so early for you, but the phones here get cut off at midnight. I'm calling because I was wondering about the six Pokemon limit, I kinda of filled my team up, and I did some reading and well, I didn't find anything about not having more than six. So I decided to consult my expert on the matter" She seemed to stare off into space for a moment before seemingly coming to an answer.
"Well, no league itself has any rule against having more than six on ones person, you just can't use them. It's us professors that implement that rule for new trainers so they don't go on a catching spree, it's to help trainers get use to both taking care of and learning about their Pokemon"
That's interesting, and it made sense as to why I couldn't find it in any of the rules and laws that I looked threw.
"Oh good to know, is there a way that I can get that limit removed?" It would be nice to not have to worry about having to trade out my family. While I don't think I would ever get so many other Pokemon that I wouldn't be able to take care of them all, I would like to at least have more than six, when I do finally catch another Pokemon.
"Sadly the answer is no. I don't mean to belittle you Kyu, and while you might handle having more than the normal number of six, it's a rule among us professors not to remove the limit until at least the trainer as a year or so of experience, and can prove that they can handle the responsibility"
Well that was annoying, but I could see the logic in it, while if I can't get my limit expanded then I might as well see if I can at least get rid of the current slot I wasn't using.
"Oh ok then, could you do me a favor then, I caught a Pokemon a while back so that he couldn't be caught by anyone else, the thing is he isn't on my team, I'm holding on to it w=so he can't be caught. Is their a way to send you his empty pokeball so I can at least free up the slot I've been using for him?" Their are so many half truths in that. She seemed to think on it for a second before nodding.
"Sure that wouldn't be a problem, I'll have to look into your account to manually switch your current party from six to five, something the system normally does, as long as the pokeball has the Pokemon in it. But I don't see any other reason to not hold on to it for you" I gave her a grateful nod before telling her.
"Thanks, that'll help out a lot. I'll let you get back to what I assume was you trying to get some sleep, after I send the ball over" She gave me a nod before yawning and cutting the call. Standing up I pulled my pokeball off my sash and placed it into a nearby transfer machine, before putting in the location and watched as it vanished.
It was like a weight had just been lifted off my shoulders. That pokeball has been a consistent source of stress for me since I gotten it. Moving away from the machine, I now only had to wait for Mismagius to be healed up before settling down for the night. Tomorrow would be busy but it wouldn't be to bad.
Fun fact, in terms of chapters, this chapter makes this story the longest chapter-wise story I currently have. Isn't that neat.
So Kyu finally got rid of his pokeball, which is good, besides that the stuff with the champion titles, well two of them were already basically a thing, while the other I thought would also be a thing as a way to solidify ones status as a champion level trainer without having to deal with constantly winning leagues or dealing with helping run a region.
Anyway, See ya.
