I Don't Own Pokemon
"Kyu? What are you doing here?" I opened my eyes and looked over towards the desk of the Pokemon Center and noted that Ash was standing there with his friends. It was still the same day, just a little after the contest and I was currently waiting on Servine to get back from his check up, it was mostly just to be on the safe side as he didn't really taken much of any damage during the battle rounds, but damage and energy exhaustion don't have to go hand and hand. Anyway back to the people talking to me.
"You know this is like the seventh time you've asked me that and I don't think I've ever given a different answer" Maybe that time when I was heading to Pallet Town but I don't really remember what I said, I blame sleep deprivation and the fact that my memory of that event was mostly revolved around the fact that it was when I finally managed to convince these three that I'm not exactly human.
"So your here for a gym badge or did you already get it?" I looked over towards Brock who was the one to speak before shaking me head, as I was planning on doing this city's gym battle sometime either late today or about noon tomorrow.
"No not yet, I was busy when I arrived and I spent today doing a contest" I saw a look of confusion spread across Ash's face on that last word. Oh yeah, he didn't learn about those kinds of training until he went to Honenn and after he met May. Still, I turned back so I was facing Ash as I was yet to reach the limit of annoyance that I can usually take from these three before needing some breathing room, it helps that I'm still in a good mood from the contest.
"It's this thing were trainers and Pokemon make a performance and do a little show, the best go onto one on one battles until one wins. If you want an idea I think some of the local channels replay some of the clips of the best parts of the most recent contests every now and again" I only knew about that because it was on the form that I had to sign to give consent to use clips of my performances and battles, I had to do that on the last one as well and during that half month that I was competing in the Indigo league.
"That's cool, I actually just got back from my battle with Whitney, I kind of got crushed, her milktank was crazy powerful" I'm getting flashbacks to a time when I was a kid that involved a Rollouting milktank that destroyed everything I held dear. Note to self, when that Pokemon comes out don't bother holding out on commands, it might be a bit well very petty for a game I played years ago but still, when I have ever been anything but.
"I'm assuming you weren't using your old team then" I don't actually remember but that's the only thing I could think of for the reason as to why he would have lost when he has some pretty strong Pokemon with him compared to a gym that's averagely ranked on a third to fourth level gym. I, when bored, usually do this worlds equivalent of google-ing random stuff, I did it in the last world to, it's the bases of most of the very random pieces of information that float around in my head.
"Huh, yeah I did, I caught a few new Pokemon in Johto. For the battle I used Cyndaquil, Totodile, and Pikachu. Have you caught anymore Pokemon besides that riolu there" That explains why said Electric type wasn't on his shoulder at the moment, he was currently being healed up by Joy. Oh, on a side note, Riolu was glaring murder at Ash at the moment, who was looking quite amusingly intimidated by the small brat.
"I never caught her actually, she's just along for the ride, like that togepi you have Misty, she doesn't battle, or anything. But I did get another team member though about a month or so back" Ash barely seemed to understand that what the first part of what I was saying was possible. The other two seemed to understand it a bit better though so that's something. Though Riolu yanked my hair hard from my implication that she was the same as the childish baby Pokemon in front of her.
Also am I the only one that finds it very weird that some Pokemon have very different levels of mental clarity after being born. I mean Luxray had the mental development of at least a seven year old human in the first week, but the before mentioned togepi is only a few months younger and she acts at that seven give or take while Luxray nowadays is closer to a proper adult. I wonder why that is, well it's just another thing to look into at some point.
"What kind of Pokemon did you catch?" Oh course Ash bypasses the part he didn't really get and went straight for the part about new Pokemon. Well it does describe him quite accurately to be honest, well whatever, i don't really have anything else to do at the moment though I'm not sure how long this is going to last as I was trying to get some shut eye in while I was waiting, literally shut eye, keeping my eyes closed when they're unneeded helps keep them from feeling heavy when I'm up for more than a few days.
"Absol is the newest addition, she's a Pokemon usually found in Honenn before you start with your dex search" I interrupted him right before he could pull out said device, I haven't used mine in ages, I have all my team's moves memorized at this point, and I just had to ask Absol what all the moves she knew that she could use were. And because it's still just Kanto's regional pokedex it's practically pointless to use as the Pokemon my main focus of training are from different regions.
"Oh I recognize the name, it's a Dark type. Known as the Disaster Pokemon right?" Oh out of all of them I would think Brock had heard of it, not Misty though that's more likely than Ash knowing about absols at the very least, though I thought her knowledge of Pokemon went only about as far as to reach Water typed Pokemon and that's about it.
"Correct"
It was the evening at the moment and I was currently walking out of the game corner with a sense of mild satisfaction. Turns out illusions are very and I mean very helpful when it comes to games like roulette, oh also on a side note this world has roulette. I only cheated a few times but it was enough to make some extra cash, I don't really need it to be fair, I mean I have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands in my bank accounts, not to mention the stones I got from that canyon about a month and a half back.
I never got them appraised but considering the size and the amount of the rocks I collected I'm sure I could make at least another thousand or so. Basically, making a couple hundred from some cheap tricks was just for fun to be honest, I don't need it and my cheapness when it comes to buying stuff is honestly just an ingrained habit not something out of any sense of needing to preserve money.
Though now that I'm thinking about it, I should deposit some cash at some point, as while I prefer to have cash on hand instead of using my card, carrying around a couple grand is a little much, though I'm not sure if Johto has the bank I use here. Unova did, but it's like an economic wonderland over there so most banks can be accessed in that region, even some region banks, like Kanto's. I should look into that at some point, actually I could probably do that now depending on when the lobby of the Pokemon center closing to the public.
I can get in some last minute research in via computer about this topic at hand, I hope that the bank I use is here otherwise it's going to be very interesting to get an account merger done with Johto's regional bank. Wonder if I could cash in one of my favors with Lance and get him to deal with this for the second time around. I don't really know if I have enough good will with bankers to get over the fact that me opening an account here is illegal, because Pokemon and all that.
Oh hey, thinking about it, I just realized that I forgot about that one when I was thinking about all my past crimes earlier this week. Anyway, things to look into later, this is a big city, I'm sure that a bank is here that I can talk to, it'll probably be boring as hell but it'd be good to do before I get a, no wait I don't have a phone so no one can contact me about purchase I've made in a mildly far away region. That would make sense that I've never been contacted about it before now and this is the second region I've visited since Kanto.
Wait, why in the hell does my card still work then, if no one is able to be contacted about unusual card activity then the card should automatically be discontinued. I know because I read that bloody brick of papers when my account was first set up. Did someone change that without my permission? It that case it would have to be Lance as he is the only one that knows about the inter-workings of my account information.
Now why would he do something like that, oh wait, no I understand, my last conversation with him was during a particular low point of mine, the latter part of that day was pretty bad for me after all. So more than probably he decided to make my life easier and let my bank know I would be doing some regional traveling. I should probably remember to thank him next time I see him, I think he's still in Johto actually, so there's a chance that I'll run into him at some point.
Note to self, whenever I get to Blackthorn see if he's around, I'm pretty sure that's his home city and it would be nice to catch up, not to mention the fact that I'm sure I could bribe a favor or two out of him with the opportunity to have a conversation with Zekrom. Because I'm sure he would absolutely love the chance to talk to a Legendary Dragon type and I would love to have some more favors from him.
Not to use, I just like having favors readily available, it's just one of those comfort things, I like knowing that I have people to that I can use if I ever need to. Though I prefer to do things myself, personally I don't really understand that part of me as it doesn't all that well from a logical stand point, but I've long since decided to just sum it up to my self admitted greedy and self-centered nature. Plus they do come in real handy when I do need them, like the few I've cashed in with the police.
Thinking about that, I should really make sure that I get my gym battle done tomorrow because I got a visit last night from Jenny letting me know that some reporter tried to break into the station to see if they could snoop out some evidence, and since the investigation was over they can't hold back the press and news any longer by saying they can't comment on an ongoing investigation.
On a side note, apparently I have a lot favors built up with the police that I didn't know about. I was told during my conversation with this most recent Jenny that her family across most of Kanto and surprisingly a chunk of Unova, which as it turns out comes from a massive decrease in criminal activity from Team Plasma which was the main source of crime in the region.
In fact N has decided to turn Team Plasma into an organization that helps abused Pokemon from their trainers and even helps the Pokemon Rangers in the relocation of recovered poached Pokemon. Apparently I'm getting credited for it as N bloody straight up said I was the reason why Team Plasma was disbanded in the first place, which after looking it up, I have to say paints me in such a horribly nice light, I almost gagged reading it.
It sounds like some stupid end to a romanticized sob story of a man led by deceit all his life only to come to that realization by his worse enemy and sets out to correct his past mistakes. I don't think my public image could get any better, and considering how insanely incorrect that is to the actual me, I have no idea how it happened, it makes no bloody sense to me but sense when has logic ever come into practice when it comes to people wanting to look up to someone.
Hell I doubt the fact that I stomped down on someone's face and sucker punched, literally, another is going to do anything to change that because at the end of it I still saved a bunch of people a took care of criminals, and so the public will probably just ignore the highly unneeded levels of violence i used most because I wanted to vent some stress. I really don't understand people.
Just a break chapter in between everything that's I've stuffed into the last couple chapters plot wise, so I added a fill in chapter to add in some of the background noise of some of Kyu's recent thoughts about what he wanted to do and to have some of his more recent exploits to have a growth in them in a realistic way that he would find out. One of the problems in writing in the first person is that if that character doesn't care about the after effects of something the only way to have it come up in a proper way is to have someone else mention it to them, which is difficult when said person is basically on another continent from where the event took place. Basically there is so much background stuff that I mess around with that Kyu has no idea about which is also one of the fun parts of first person story telling. Anyway, See ya.
