I Don't Own Pokemon


The next day over and I was back at the lab, and this time I actually got to talk with the Doctor. I'm not sure if that was a good thing or not really, as if I didn't get to met her today I could have just moved onward to the next city without having to go against my word which would lead to a headache later. But there wasn't really a point thinking about it as I did met her so here I am instead of on the road.

Anyway, moving onto the events themselves rather than just me talking about stuff that could have happened but didn't. It wasn't really all that interesting, I translated some conversations between Fennel and the musharna for a bit. It might have been more interesting if it wasn't for the fact that the Psychic type seemed to not trust me at all. I would blame type stereotypes, but I think it's more of the fact that the Pokemon couldn't actually feel me any via psychic because I was a Dark type rather the Dark typing itself.

Though besides that slightly disappointing use of my time, as nothing really happened from the communication that was now available, through me, between the human and Pokemon, just a bunch of slightly sappy between the two. Anyway, moving on past that, the only other thing that I did besides that wasn't anything at all. That's right I did nothing, I wasted half a day on pointless stuff that I truly didn't care about.

It was pretty boring to be honest, but I didn't let it show as I just continued on translating, though it was pretty different because, you know, different species and all that, it did remind me of the times I've had to translate between people. To be fair, back in my old world, I hardly let the fact I'm multilingual out to others, because it gets really annoying when people ask what words mean in Spanish for the seventh time.

Though to be fair, calling myself multilingual might be pushing it. While I'm decent at picking up most things without to much trouble, languages have always been one of those really difficult ones that I really try at but don't have much success, mostly because I just think it's neat. I mean, I've practice some languages for nearly a decade now and I'm not fluent in any of them besides English, though that doesn't really count, in fact I'd barely call myself conversational in only maybe two of them at best.

Of course, that went out of the window when I arrived here, now I'm completely fluent in nine languages that I didn't even know existed. Wait nine? Pokespeech, and one for each of the regions, which is eight. Eight? Oh, that's new. When the hell did Galarian become a language? Better question when did the Galar region become a thing. Did a new game come out?

How do I not remember hearing about that, I mean I remember an announce about a new game before I left, but I kind of just forgot about it. Not to mention I wasn't expecting the other me to add it in, it kind of breaks the flow of stuff, well I would think so at least. Not to mention it doesn't even make that much sense, from what I remember wasn't it suppose to come out on the switch, I don't even own one of those things, at least I didn't.

I might have gotten one recently, probably not, I'm way to cheap for that. At best the other me would be using a friends system to play, if he is playing at all. Dear god this went sideways, I was just complaining about being bored and a bloody massive land massive just suddenly got created. Or was it already created and I just didn't notice until now because of how out of touch with the world I am.

This is going to give me a headache, so I'm just going to stop thinking about this and move on. Sure it's weird and really doesn't make any sense, but that in itself could be an amazing summary to my life, so really it isn't anything to crazy. Either that, or my mental scale on what is defined as weird is so out of wack that this doesn't really register like it should.

"Are you ok? You feel suddenly very surprised and confused" Blinking out of my train of thought, I looked down to the right, and noted that Riolu looked like she was beginning to get a headache. I wonder if she can get second hand feelings of annoyance, confusion and the like to actually give her a headache, whatever thoughts for later.

"I'm fine, just a suddenly had a small existential crisis with my realization about the changeability of our world" Her completely lost and mildly weirded out expression was assuming to watch. Though maybe I should have said that in a different way, oh well.

"Anyway, I've spent way to much time here, nothing really interesting is happening around here" She just continued looking at me for another second before nodding. I might have underestimated how much stock she puts into telling if someone is lying or not. No, I'm pretty sure I'm overestimating people's natural instinct to assume I'm lying when I say something that doesn't make sense.

"Alright I guess" With that we made our way out of the lab. On the way out I noted a bunch of businessmen walked briskly past me. I noted Riolu seemed to tense up from her position on my shoulders, I wonder how emotions feel for her, because it seems greed, something I could practically see radiate off the men that passed me by, and I didn't even have any special skill to do so, does not mix well with her, though I wouldn't think it would.

"You ok?" I asked after a couple seconds after the people had gone far enough away that I didn't have to worry about having them hear me and wonder if I was asking one of them instead. I didn't get an answer for a couple seconds, as it seemed that either she was trying to figure out what to say or she just didn't like that I was assuming she was anything other than completely fine at any one time, but when she did say something she said.

"I'm fine, just a little overwhelmed I guess. I think I'm getting way too use to your emotionally stunted self, either that or those humans are over flowing with self-interest to the extreme. Really it could be either or" She is never going to let my emotional availability, or rather lack there of go will she? I don't really care, but it would be nice if she could come up with something else to insult me with. I mean, I don't care if you insult me, but could you at least be original, I try as much to not repeat used insults.

"First off, ok, just making sure. Second off, rude" At this point we had just left the building, looking up at the sky while I continued on the path to get back to the main city, I noted there was a couple clouds beginning to darken in the air. Not enough to rain but I should expect a downfall in a few days. Hopefully I'll cover enough distance to get out of the main assault of water.

I'll have to look into the weather charts soon, the walk to the next city is a good bit longer than the one that got me here, it wouldn't be to big of a increase but an extra week on top of the time it took from the last walking spree. I should also check up on supplies as well now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I'm running low on water, something I can't risk running out of. Wait, is their a conversion rate here? I haven't had to get anything since I arrived, so I have no clue if different regions use different currency.

Sure I had that lunch at the gym but I used my card for that, I'm not even sure I saw a receipt, wait that's a better question, why the hell didn't I get a receipt? How much did I spend? Why am I just thinking about this now? Whatever, I'll just look into this later, for right now I can't really do anything besides getting back into the city. With that in mind I focused back onto what was going on around me. Just in time for the ground to shake as a massive explosion rang out behind me, throwing me forwards from the force.

Slamming onto the ground, I just gritted my teeth out of habit, instead of shouting out in surprise, though that didn't mean Riolu followed suit, as I listened to her yell out in pain. Rolling on my back, I sat up and looked over towards the only Pokemon out besides myself, Mismagius had gotten bored after hour two, and noted that Riolu was on the ground curled in a ball, whimpering, as she gripped her bad leg with an expression of anguish on her face.

I ignored the building feeling of concern for her and the small pit of panic that I was feeling from the sudden explosion, and instead turned to look to see where the hell that blast had come from. I felt my eyes widen as I watched as the building I had just walked out of was missing most of its, well, everything. Besides the outer rim of the laboratory was still standing at all.

Making my way up to my feet, I noted by body was shaking, my body had kicked up my adrenaline production. Taking a breath, I turned away from the building that no longer existed and moved over towards Riolu. Reaching down to my side, I was glad to see my bag didn't get flung off of me, as I opened it up and grabbed out a potion. I wasn't sure what good it would do, as the force of the explosion wasn't all that strong, the pain was mostly from her old injury and probably shadow pain but it's all I have.

I had to make her let go of her leg to spray it on, something she fought for a bit before realizing she was just making it worse, by gripping her leg as hard as she was, something I had to explain to her to make her get that I was trying to help. The potion seemed to help but I'm not sure what the effects really were as she just kind of slumped a little in relief once the medicine was applied.

"You ok now?" I got a faint nod, so I just picked her up, careful of her leg, before looking back over towards the building. Reaching up to my chest, making sure I didn't rustle Riolu to much, I grabbed three pokeballs into my left hand, something that was a little difficult to do and tossed them out into the air. Watching as Luxray, Mismagius, and Vaporeon appeared in front of me. They seemed confused before they saw my expression, it was one I only wore when I was annoyed.

"A building just blew up and we're going to find out why. Luxray carry and protect Riolu, Mismagius you're going to search the rubble for people, if you find any, Shadow travel them to me, Vaporeon you're going to stay with me and Luxray. Lets go" I got some nods as my Ghost quickly floated off towards the collapsed building while I placed Riolu on my Son's back as I began to walk towards the building as well, with my Pokemon following me.

As I made my way closer to the building, I wondered why I was so annoyed, I mean, it's kind of messed up but I didn't really care if someone died in the explosion, no that's not true, I did care some. Just not as much as my annoyance or even my anger at the whole thing, over time I've gotten much of my emotional control back that I lost when I first arrived in this world, so it says something that this was pushing and grating at me.

But I didn't know why, and it was bugging me, at least that's what I thought until I heard a whimper from behind me, as another small spike of anger shot threw my system. I'm angry because my friend is in pain, and I want something to blame for that. I'm pretty sure that's new, I don't believe I've ever cared about the source of turmoil before, usually I just fix the problem if I can. I blame the author for this, why did he have to make me a Pokemon and change how my mind works, whatever.

Just because I wasn't use to this mind set didn't mean I stopped my walk as I approached the laboratory remains. As I reached the entrance, a shadow opened up in front of me as four familiar looking men flopped out from the dark patch. I had a really strong feeling like they were to blame, as I glanced down at the men, I noted they were unconscious, well at least they weren't dead I guess.

"Kyu!" Looking up from the fainted humans, I moved my eyes towards three also familiar looking people. Watching as Fennel and two helpers ran up to me, I noted none of them looked hurt at all, while the men on the ground looked like they had been thrown through a wall with all the dust and scratch marks on their person's. Interesting, did they know the place was about to blow up, or did they just get incredibly lucky.

"What happened?" The three slowed down as my words left my lips, in fact one of the two behind the doctor almost seemed to flinch, it seems that my voice isn't as calm and level as I want it to be. In fact, from how cold and snappish I sounded, I'm pretty sure I've slipped into my 'battle mode' another thing my Ghost dubbed, when I'm more calculated and serious than my normal uncaring self. Still, that was all besides the point as Fennel said after a moment.

"I..I'm not really sure...I think the investors emotions overclocked the Dream Mist's creation it must have overloaded the system, I think Musharna was-Wait! Musharna! Oh god where is she!" She stopped talking as she turned and ran back into the ruins in a panic. I would have gone to help with her but my Ghost was already on it, and she would have much better success looking than both me and the Doctor combined, so their wasn't much of a point.

Still, I did think about it for a moment, and when I decided against it I just frowned to myself as I let my Ghost do her thing. While that was going on as well, I looked over towards the helpers who had sat down and seemed to be taking a moment to calm themselves from the recent event. Which was understandable really, I doubt they thought that the possibility of being blown up was something they had to worry about when they accepted the job.

I then looked down at the men on the ground, now that I was mostly sure it was their fault, I really wanted to do something to them, nothing much just maybe break a bone or two, I mean no one would know really, they totally could have gotten those injuries from the blast. But I refrained, my self-control is much better than what it started out as when I first arrived. Didn't mean I didn't contemplate it for a longer than is probably healthy period of time just that I didn't go through with it.

That's when I heard sirens out in the distance which were quickly getting closer and closer, so I dropped my head back and sighed, great, now I couldn't leave when my Ghost got back to me, which I had been planning on doing. I really just want to be back on the road right now, and not have to deal with the more than probably headache that's going to come from this. Well, I don't have a choice now so, I guess I'm just going to have to suffer.

That last word sparked a bit of thought as I turned and looked over towards Riolu, who seemed to be doing better, which was good. I'm still a little surprised I care so much, I've seen my team, my family, become incredibility injured during the course of a battle and while it certainly hurts like hell to watch, this is different. Probably because my team chooses to battle, and I just have to deal with the injuries that come with that.

But Riolu isn't a fighter, she's more like an annoying little sister, I don't always get along with her but I still don't like it when she is hurt, even to go as far as to get at those that hurt her. At least I think that's what this is like, I've never had an younger sister, well that's a lie, I've never had a younger sister that I've grown up with. Though that doesn't really work here either, as I didn't...you know what, I give up on justifying and correcting it.

So instead I'll just say, the reason I'm so angry about this whole event can be compared to what I assume having a younger sibling whose is hurt. Dear god I'm going to give myself a headache before I even have to deal with the police aren't I? Thinking of police, I looked over my shoulder and watched as a familiar looking face, but not actually familiar Jenny exited out of her car and ran up to the building.


First off, I would say sorry that I missed Friday's chapter post, but I had a really bad week and just didn't have enough time to finish this chapter up in time so you'll just have to deal with it. Anyway in the story, Kyu suddenly had the entirety of gen eight jammed into his skull, because why not, I'm god in this world, so I can make it so a completely new culture and region appearing as if its always been their. Plus it was funny to write Kyu's existential reaction to having all that stuff packed into his head.

Anyway, moving past that, I'm sure most of you haven't watched the anime series recently of Black and White because it was pretty horrible, but this event is something that actually happened in the show well it was mentioned that it happened a few years past before Ash arrived in Unova, which just happens to fall in line with when Kyu is in Unova.

Moving past that, Riolu and Kyu. Their relationship is one of siblings, which I always meant for it to be, I thought that is was a little obvious, but everyone thought that they were going to be a couple for some reason, so I thought I would clarify that here. Also, encase anyone is confused about Kyu trying to clarify his status of having a younger sibling in the past. I'm adopted, I've only ever grown up with my older sister, and only met my biological family later in my life. Though I'm not really close with any of them, like at all. I personally think biological relation is more of a fun bonus than something that means everything when it comes to family. Though that's just personal opinion, you can disagree, I don't care either way. Anyway, See ya.