I Don't Own Pokemon


Turns out that the gym was 'shut down', which means I have to climb a mountain now. Great. Well I wasn't going to scale it now, currently, I was waiting in the nearby, super overcrowded Pokemon Center. Like I've said, I hate tourist spots. Still I wasn't going anywhere.

Charizard was being treated at the moment, in something called a heat bath. Basically, the nurse super heated a room to re-harden his skin to repair the damage the water did, while also speeding up the recovery of his fire reserves. As it turns out, being dunked into the ocean right after fighting a champion level Pokemon, isn't good for a Fire type.

So, I've been sitting here for about the last seven hours. Mostly just being on a nearby computer just looking up random stuff, to fill in the time, or talking to some members of my team. I actually had Rockruff out, for the entire duration, as he was small enough to ether be on my shoulder or laying on the table.

Also fun fact, with Rockruff with the group now, I was no longer the shortest one of the team. Which is really weird, because I've always been the tall one out. Hell at this age, thirteen, I was suppose to be about five four. It still seemed that I was because of illusions and stuff, but it was weird to know that I was actually short.

Moving on, I sighed as I tried to ignore the fact that a bunch of people were yelling at the nurse abut how there wasn't any available rooms. Half the bloody people in here, were trainers, just go outside ya bloody idiots. I might have a headache, but to be fair, I've had to listen to these people just shout at each other since I got here.

But I only had to wait for about another, maybe at most, another thirty minutes, so I was just going to endure it, after all, I've already spent this long sitting here, a few more minutes isn't going to kill me. Didn't mean it was exactly pleasant. And that's when the volume seemed to spike.


It was the day afterwards, and currently, after straight up manipulating the path information to the gym from the, overtaxed and probably sleep deprived nurse at the Pokemon center. As they have to know where the gyms in there cities, towns, etc. Are located for legal reasons, such as medical emergencies.

Though she only gave me the general direction, so it wasn't like it would be easy for me sadly. So here I was on the side of a cliff, with Rockruff, being kind enough to tell me where the unstable rocks were. It's something I've noted about Pokemon and their types, they have a certain understanding with it.

Even I, myself, have noticed that I feel more comfortable in the dark than overly bright areas, though that wasn't something new to me, as I've had some medical problems with my eyes in the past, which needed me to not be exposed to bright lights, but it has gotten more obvious that I enjoy the lights being noticeable dim as it makes me almost see better that way.

Anyway that's besides the point, basically, Rockruff can some how tell the rock density in the ground. How? I have no bloody clue, it's the same if I asked Luxray to explain how he used eclectic-magnetic waves to see threw walls. He has no clue, but he could do it and that's all their was to it, at least until I got particularly bored during an insomnia trip and just try and come up with a theory.

The walk wasn't really that bad but it was tedious as to get up to, the point where the mouth of the cave, I had to repeatedly walk up a path then walk down it to choose another. I remember Blaine having something to do with logic puzzles, like riddles, and while I wasn't the best at riddles I was great at recognizing patterns, and to say the less, well, their wasn't one.

I just had to go a path and hope that it was the correct one, only to curse to myself when it turns out it was the incorrect choice. Before walking down the cliff side once more to only repeat the same mistake for the fifth time. Like I said, it was just tedious, not overly tiring or even really that annoying, at least for the first four attempts.

Finally I got to the entrance of the cave, walking into the 'motel' in the side of the mountain, I looked around for a moment before noting that no one seemed to be around. At least I thought so until I heard a surprised sound behind me. Looming over my shoulder, well the one that Rockruff wasn't hanging off of, I saw some familiar faces.

"Oh? You three are here? I think this is the first time you all have gotten somewhere before I did" It seemed that this information didn't seem to cheer up Ash any, as he just walked pass and slumped against a couch looking depressed for some reason. Oh yeah, lost here, but wasn't that because his, at the time, Charizard, wouldn't listen. Giving Brock a questioning look he said.

"Ash just lost against the Cinnabar Island Gym Leader. He isn't taking it to well. His Blastoise isn't listening to him" I raised an eyebrow at that, interesting, well canon finds a way it seems, to give Ash a rough time. Though I wonder what went different to make his squirtle evolve. Still I said.

"Oh? That's to bad. If they listened then this would probably be an easy win for him" As I said that I heard another voice from behind me, as it seemed to articulate as a annoyed sound as an old man's voice said.

"Oh? Easy to beat am I! Why you youngin, I'll incinerate you to ashes!" I just turned an raised an eyebrow at the man, ignoring the scared looks that the others were giving the old man, honestly he wasn't that intimidating. So I just responded.

"Well I am here for your badge so you can try. But I don't see me being incinerated being the most likely course of action" He just seemed to get more pissed as he just glared before turning and marching off towards the door he had just exited out of telling me.

"Find then, I'll just show you how bad you'll be burned! Follow me you cocky little brat" And with that he marched off. That was the most pissed off I've made someone in so few words, I think I actually just set a record. Still record or not, I have a battle to win, so with that I began to make my way threw the door he walked threw, noting that the trio was following me.

After about a minute of walking, I finally walked into a big central room with the floor being a massive platform, that seemed to be hoisted above lava. Glancing down at the long drop, I was glad that I've been over my fear of heights or a while now, otherwise this would be quite scary. Well it still had a scary factor to it, as I was literary only being held up over an active volcano, but I should be fine.

"Ok then! Rules, this is a four on four battle! Are you ready to respect your elders?!" I just gave him a look, before ignoring him and instead placed Rockruff off my shoulder onto the floor, so he wasn't shaken around while I gestured during the fight, while also telling him.

"Even if you don't want to be apart of the team, I think it'd be good if you saw what the others are capable of" He just looked up at me before nodding, and laying down on the floor, with his head pointed at the battle field so he could watch while being in the best position to be lazy. Looking back at the gym Leader that seemed to be quickly losing patience I said.

"Alright, I'm ready" He gave a nod before reaching down and grabbing a pokeball before throwing it out at the same time as I reached down to my third slot and pulled off the ball. Giving it a underhand toss into the air, I grabbed it on the rebound as Vaporeon was sent out, at the same time a ninetails appeared. Before either of us could start the battle though Rockruff bounced up and quickly asked.

"Hey Boss? Why does that ninetails looks weird" I looked down at him for a second ignoring the outrage that Blaine seemed to be going threw as I came to the realization that Rockruff was from Alola which meant he was use to the Alola forms.

"Your regions climate is weird. Basically there are a couple of different versions of Pokemon that can only be found in Alola, ninetails is one of them, so instead of being an Ice and Fairy type, this more common version is just a Fire type" He just looked confused for a moment before nodding and sitting back down. With that it seemed that Blaine lost all his remaining patience as he called out.

"Ninetails, incinerate that punk with Incinerate!" My focus snapped back as I called out to Vaporeon before I had even finished turning my head back to the battle.

"Detect, then Water Gun" My water fox seemed to focus before seemingly just flipped out of the way of the jet of flames at the last possible second before the heat would get to intense. She then, while still in mid flip out of the way of the Flamethrower, let out a jet of water at the ninetails. It hit as the ninetails was pushed back as Vaporeon landed back onto the ground dropping the attack.

"Fine, Fire Spin then!" This time the fire was sent out in a spiral, as I called out right after.

"Two Water Pulses, One for the attack and one down the middle" She drew her head back, a clear sign she had to really bring the water up, before a large ring of water shot out and ripped threw the fire, before a smaller condensed one shot down the middle of the rings of fire hitting the ninetails hard. Still I frowned. She was having trouble gathering water with how hot it was, I'll have to fix that.

"Mist Vaporeon, and then start dodging" She gave a slight nod as a small barely noticeable wave of icily air condensed around her body, before getting evaporated almost instantly. but that wasn't the point, as I listened to Blaine mock me for trying an Ice type move in a volcano, before calling out.

"Fine lets crank up the heat! Flamethrower Ninetails" Vaporeon just moved out of the way of the flames with speed, rather than using Detect as she still continued to cool the air, until I decided it was enough. Calling out after about a minute.

"Now, Water Gun" This time the attack was much bigger, as now Vaporeon didn't have to rely so heavily on her water reserved and instead could use the now very humid air as a secondary power source to draw from. As the attack slammed home, I watched as the ninetails fell over after only about five seconds under the spray of water.

Blaine grumbled before returning the Pokemon and the quickly after threw out my next opponent. This time it was an Arcanine, Looking over the Pokemon for a second, while I waited for Blaine to call the match to resume, I was caught a little off guard as he didn't say anything about starting, only giving an order of attack.

"Flare Blitz, now Arcanine!" Frowning, I looked onward as the Pokemon quickly sped up before fire light up all around it's body before charging Vaporeon.

"Aqua Ring, then Double Kick their head to get into the air. Then Hydro Pump" If he wasn't going to go easy then I wasn't going to hold back the more powerful attacks then. As The dog Pokemon rushed fowards, a ring of water surrounded Vaporeon giving her a bit of a shield against the heat.

Before jumping upwards as her back two legs glowed, and quickly after she slammed one paw down onto the arcanine's head, pushing their head towards the ground. Before the second one came down, this time slamming the Pokemon's body into the ground as Vaporeon used it as a launch board to get into the air.

From the air, she seemed to take some of the water from the ring around her, before a massive amount of water shot down from her form, slamming into the downed Pokemon. I was quite surprised as the arcanine was still conscious after the fact, but that didn't last long as on her way down, I called out one more command.

"Iron Tail" The momentum from falling downwards at such a high height, easily was more than enough to knock the Pokemon out. The Gym Leader just grumbled to himself as he returned his Pokemon before calling out his second to last Pokemon. This time it was an rapidash, interesting. He still didn't give me anytime as he called out a simple string of moves.

"Rapidash! Sunny Day! The Solar Beam!" That wasn't good, frowning for a second as the heat in the clearing seemed to magnify, I ignored the sweat that was beginning to form on my skin as I called out as a ball of solar energy was quickly growing the the rapidash's mouth.

"Drop the Aqua Ring then Double Team and Quick Attack, make it impossible to tell which is which" The water just splashed around her as multiple copies formed around her as she and the fakes began to bolt around in every direction. Sadly it seemed that Blaine was quite observant as he pointed out the real one after only a few seconds somehow and said.

"There it is! Attack Rapidash!" I watched as the attack shot off before calling out as fast as I could, in a slight panic.

"Detect and Endure!" It was the first time since the fight started that I had said anything not in a calm tone of voice, but I didn't care as I watched as my Water Fox's body tensed up before jumping to the right, just barely staking by from a direct hit, but the AoE of the massive attack still hit her. As she was tossed across the field before just barely landing on her feet, I instantly called out.

"Aqua Ring" Their wasn't much water still left in the air but it severed it's purpose as the ring of water formed around her. Right now, I needed her to regain some health, thankfully she had Water Adsorb, so the healing was sped up, but Blaine didn't seem to want to give Vaporeon a moment to catch her breath as he called out.

"Solar Beam again!" As the charge began to form again in the rapidash's mouth I called out.

"Swift, aim for the mouth" The star attack was sent off faster than the charge time move, even with the Sunny Day, as the attack connected, making the solar powered attack explode launching the Pokemon backwards, quickly following that up I called out.

"Now rapid fire. Water Pulse" Something I noted after Vaporeon had gotten use to her evolved body, was she had an amazing affinity to modifying attacks, especially Water Pulse. This was one of them, as about a few dozen rings of water, each about a seventh of the size of an normal Water Pulse, slammed into the rapidash, sending it backwards with each attack until it finally couldn't take it and fainted.

Blaine very quickly returned his Pokemon and called out down towards the Pokemon, which if I'm remembering right, to be a magmar. He was rushing because the longer it took, the more time Vaporeon had to heal with her weak but still present Aqua Ring. After a second, the lava seemed to shift a bit before the Pokemon I predicted, a magmar, jumped onto the battle floor.

"Water Gun" I've let him get the first attack far to many times to let him get another one. Blaine though seemed to take that as a personal insult, for some reason, this guy just got angry at everything. As he shouted out.

"Fire Blast!" The Sunny Day was still up, was the attack was massive as it rushed towards my Pokemon, quickly changing moves I called out.

"Hydro Pump, blast straight threw it" The power of the high powered Water type move wasn't as great as it could have been, as now the air was very dry, along with the Sunny Day. But it still had enough power to overpower the Fire Blast, though the power remaining, while still making some contact, wasn't enough to really damage the magmar to a noticeable extent.

"Over Heat!" Damn, I quickly called out right after, as the heat in the air seemed to multiple even more.

"Protect and make as much Mist as you can, before using Endure" The Mist was for the Aqua Ring, Over Heat would evaporate all the water in the air completely, I couldn't have that, as I still wanted the Aqua Ring up, so Vaporeon would had to maintain it on a more manual level. And that's when the attack released.

The sweat on my body seemed to disappear as a wave of fire seemed to be sent out in all directions from the magmar, as it washed over the battle field. It was so hot that I actively felt my Illusion begin to unravel, I reached up and grabbed Rockruff's pokeball, and aimed it on the pup, to save him from the heat.

Only to notice that he was actively watching the fight, even with him panting hard with the heat in the air. He had stood up at some point and was watching intently. I hesitated for a moment before placing the ball back onto my chest, as I watched the fire dwindle down. Before it could I heard Blaine start laughing before saying.

"See that you novice! That's the power of a fully realized Fire type" I rolled my eyes, this magmar had a Sunny Day to boost it's power not to mention the boost it got from being in a bloody volcano, hell I bet Charizard could reach this output without any of that, so I couldn't help but smirk as the flames dispersed enough to see a still intact Protect.

"Please, like that would have me impressed. Vaporeon Hydro Pump" Protect is a fun move for a lot of reasons, for one, inside of a Protect no outside effects can get inside, like heat, which meant there was a lot of Mist that was being released into the air as the Protect lowered, making a lot of humidity as a massive torrent of water rushed forwards and slammed into the magmar.

Sending it flying backwards, it was unconscious before it even hit the ground. I just gave Blaine an Raised eyebrow as he looked on in shock. Honestly some peoples ego's where just plain stupid. I don't care if you think being older and having more experience makes you a better trainer, just don't rely on that, as it clearly isn't true.

Still I only held the look of mockery for a few seconds before walking onto the field ignoring the warmth of the ground under my feet as I reached Vaporeon, who was actively maintain a Mist to cool herself off. She seemed to notice my presence after a moment before looking up to me and seeing my smile.

"You did great Vaporeon" She just look off into space for a moment before giving me a happy nod. I bent down and gave her a pat on the head before returning her, after all. Even if it wasn't obvious, Aqua Ring can only do so much, so while she didn't have any real damage, didn't mean she wasn't tired and was also probably overheated.

Looking down at the ball in my hand for a second, I placed it back into it's place, but before I could stand up a badge landed on the ground in front of me. Reaching forwards I picked it up, and looked upwards before standing up myself. Looking Blaine in the eye, well as best as I could as he was about four inches taller than me. After a moment he pouted before saying.

"Maybe you aren't that much of a novice after all" I just gave him a nod while placing my newest badge into my case, before turning and walking across the field as Rockruff, who seemed to finally snap out of his shock run up to me before jumping into my arms, and used that to get up onto my shoulder. Before saying.

"That was awesome Boss! I didn't think you were that strong!" I just chuckled before give the pup a pat on the head. Sadly that was as long as my peace lasted before the trio run up to me with mixed looks of admiration, and mild jealousy. The first one was from Brock the second was from Ash and Misty surprisingly enough had a bit of both, which I didn't understand until she said.

"I wish I had a Vaporeon as great as yours! I've always wanted one" I just gave her a nod before beginning to make my way past, ignoring there comments on my win. At least until Ash grabbed my shoulder and asked me.

"Hey! Where are you going?" At least that's what he was going to say, as half way threw I had grabbed his hand and twisted it making him tense up in pain. Ignoring Pikachu's warning shocks and the surprised gasps from the other two I said.

"First off don't touch me, ever. Second, where do you think? I'm going to go to the Pokemon Center, Vaporeon's tired, it'd be near cruel to make her wait long before getting her to a nurse to properly get her rested" With that I let go of Ash's hand and didn't wait to watch his reaction as I made my way out of the gym part of the motel and then made my way out of the cave as a whole.

As we were walking down the path, it was a few minutes later when Rockruff spoke up.

"Hey Boss?" I turned my head some to look at him, letting him know he had my attention, he continued.

"I think I'll take up your offer to be apart of your team" I gave him a smile before saying.

"Glad to have you on board then Rockruff, though it's not my team anymore, it's your's as well" He looked at me for a second before nodding, as we made our way down the path.


This chapter was an interesting one, as this is the first time I think I've ever really had the emotional state of the opponent being actually stated during the fight. I'm not sure what I think of it, it adds a bit more to the battles, but it also kind of interrupts the flow of the actual combat some. And Rockruff is now going to get some training, though it'll take him awhile to catch up with the rest of the team. Anyway, See ya.