I Don't Own Pokemon


I stayed in Dark City for another three or so days after the gym battle, mostly because I enjoyed having a shower every night, before having to set out once more. But I also needed the time to decide where I was going next, I mean I've gotten all eight badges I need, and their is still a little more than two more months until the league starts up.

Other than looking into where I would be heading next as I would explain on that further, the other thing I did during the week was cheer up Rockruff some. He seemed to be down after being woken up in the Pokemon Center, he didn't seem to like the fact that he lost while their was only one more opponent to beat.

So I sat him down and talked with him for awhile, getting some support thankfully from Mismagius. It took about ten minutes before I convinced him that he did his best and that's all that I cared about. So he was thankfully out of his rut, and seemed a good bit more dedicated to training up to the other teams level of skill.

Though I did make sure he took the week as a break, like the rest of my team did. They really did need it, as they had been training an absolute insane amount recently, mostly getting them all ready for the league even if we still had some time before it starts up, and because I was preparing most of them for new moves, which I would start working on later.

Anyway back onto where I would be going, there wasn't really many places that I hadn't been to yet. I mean the most noticeable were some of the islands, Lavender Town, and technically Pallet Town, as I wasn't actually present during my visit there. I didn't really care about visiting the islands as most were just more tourist spots, and I've made my opinion on those clear.

For the other two options, I was at worst, a month and a half away from Pallet, and about a week at a rate of slow walking. So that was my plan, to go to Lavender then to Pallet. The only problem is the fact that nothing is real interest was happening at Lavender Town, at least with Pallet I could meet Professor Oak.

Well I could visit the Pokemon Tower, but that would just be depressing, not to mention there really wasn't any reason to. It'd be the same as me just walking around a graveyard just because I could. After all, I wasn't like I was visiting any of the dead. So that wasn't really a selling point.

Though speaking of selling point, the only upside I could find in going to Lavender was the fact that they had a decent supply of interesting items, like the slightly more advance versions of medicine the town seems to ship out. Nothing to exactly right home about but because the items were of higher quality, that meant items like simple potions were marked down slightly.

That's right, the only selling point I could find was a way to buy potions at about a five percent discount. It's sad that's what I looked into right after looking for interesting places of importance. So basically put after all my research I did over the last few days, with that, my destination was set for Pallet.

I was going to go threw a bunch of new paths on the way, so at least it all wouldn't be just re-treks over familiar ground. So with my route mostly planned out and the rest I could sort out on the way as it would be familiar enough to navigate without to much trouble even without looking into every path, I was off.


It had been about a week and currently I was resting, as well as most of the team, we all had been training pretty bloody hard recently, myself included. To be fair, myself-training wasn't near as hard as what I was pushing the others but I still was doing something so I think that counts.

The time was a little past noon, we all had just gotten done with lunch but no one was rushing back into training just yet, and I had to forced them to not to. Most of the stuff I had them work on was variation moves, like Mismagius was currently getting advice from Vaporeon to do something similar with her Shadow Balls as Vaporeon can do with her Water Pulse.

Their where some more moves that were being worked on but none of them had made enough progress to really talk about any of my ideas at the moment. Though I wished that all of them didn't seem to upset with themselves that they couldn't break past their problems and master the new moves I had thought up.

It really didn't do anything for them all to get overly stressed about it, but I haven't managed to get them all to rest longer than an hour per five training hours. I didn't like that they were over working themselves, well their bodies were actually weren't that tried, that was mostly me.

But the building stress and annoyance like I said was making them all tense and a bit prissy in all honesty. So I was making them all take a long break and wasn't moving an inch even as they complained as I made everyone have a conversation or to, even Vaporeon who seemed tense, even if the conversations did make her relax a bit more.

I would have returned them all but that would just be forcing their arms/paws/wings, into doing what I wanted, which wasn't what I wanted. So I just made it clear to them all that I wanted them all to take the next few hours off, and just have some fun. They didn't seem to agree but respected my wishes enough to just talk to each other and after a bit even have some fun, joking around.

I wonder if anyone else has a problem with their teams being to training happy, to be fair, it probably wouldn't be seen as a problem for most but I wasn't most. And I'll be damned if I over stress any of them. Really I blamed myself for not doing this yesterday if not the day before even that.

It was something I made sure everyone got, at least once every two weeks a full day of rest, if not every week. It just wasn't health for them all to be doing the same thing day in and day out. So I made sure to temper it as much as I could get away with, without being whined to by Luxray or any of the others.

Though it was mostly Luxray, mostly because I think the others think I have a weak spot for him, which is not true at all. I've made damn sure I don't play favorites on my team, but they all think because he's my son I would let him get off with something they couldn't which was completely false, he just asked for the most so he had a higher spree of affirmations compared to those that didn't ask for much, like Vaporeon.

Moving my thoughts out of my mind, I looked around from my position resting against the base of a tree, as I watched as some of my team ran around. Luxray and Rockruff were playing tag, while Vaporeon and Mismagius were having a chat, about something that wasn't training, I double checked.

As that was happening Pidgeotto and Charizard were flying over head, both having a great time. It was an interesting fact that Charizard loves flying around, while Pidgeotto enjoys drifting high in the air, something about the altitude being nice for thinking, I didn't really understand it but he enjoyed it so I didn't bother trying to figure it out.

I grinned as I watched it all though, they might not know it but they really did need this, maybe it was because I was able to look from both the outside-in and inside-out. But it was clear that the small things like their tense bodies and the slight annoyances that crossed their faces while they were eating was gone now.

Maybe I should get them something, Christmas was technically coming up soon. That's right Christmas is a thing here and it didn't have anything to do with religion, it's just a small cultural thing that was started in most regions around this time because it's when delibird normally migrate downwards towards most of the other regions.

Anyway, I really should get them all something soon, I don't keep track of the calendars to actually know when the exact date is but it's really the thought that counts, so who really cares if its a few days earlier or late. To be fair I might be thinking about it a little bit to far in advance, I'm pretty sure I still have about two more weeks until it's even December, so I got time.

At least what I call December, considering I know how to say this month in about twelve different languages, I'm defaulting to what I normally call the month, even if English doesn't really exist here. Though weirdly enough in Kanton, December is said the same way that it's said in Spanish, which was weird as literary nothing else can be said the same as in Spanish.

I've gotten way off track, sitting up some more, I looked around the clearing again. This time mostly just to take a look at the surroundings. I didn't know why but something seemed a little off, standing up I patted my legs off, I glanced around the clearing again in confusion, before hearing a loud voice, of that similar to a child yelling.

"aaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHHHHHH" As it got louder I looked over my shoulder, and was immediately barreled over, as a small blur of what looked to be pink slammed into my chest, sending my onto the floor. Looking up at what was pressing it'self into my chest, I felt myself raise an eyebrow in surprise as I looked at the mew who was looking back up at me in confusion.

"Um, hello Mew. What are you doing?" They just looked up at me for another second, while I noted that my team had rushed towards me when they saw me launched to the ground. I just held my hand up to them all, letting them know I was fine and to not start attacking, which they all seemed ready to do, even if it seemed that they all know who Mew is, which was interesting as to how, but I had more things to worry about.

"Oh, hello! Nice to meet ya! I'm being chased at the moment, it's like tag but not!" I raised my other eyebrow, before looking past the small legendary Pokemon on my chest, as I watched about three dozen Team Rocket grunts run into the clearing from almost all directions, and I could hear faint beats of a helicopter in the distance. I just sighed before dropping my head down onto the ground. Why me?


Mew's here, because reasons. Most of the reasons will be discussed later, and because I really need to start wrapping up the whole thing with Team Rocket, so this is the beginning of the end of this on and off sub-plot and all that stuff. Also, I haven't really payed attention to the dates in the stories world, but I want to annoy people, because I've already seen Christmas trees in stores and it's not even October yet, so the world thinks it's Christmas then my story is going to have Christmas happen soon, because I'm god here and no one can say otherwise. Anyway, See ya.