They moved along at a slow, trudging pace. Birch now was carrying a cardboard box full of test tubes, a large black sports bag full of various bits of paperwork an on his head was a small umbrella hat, keeping the hot sun of his head.
Syr walked along with a bouncy, cheery walk, carrying only two plastic bags full of Spearow treats and bird food. She also had across her torso a hi-tech video camera which she marvelled at as she watched the various pokémon move across the screen.
Kyr was well behind the pack. Under his arms were two large boxes filled with 'bricks' as Kyr put it. In his hands were two larger heavy black sports bags filled with various books based on pokémon including 'Professor Oak's 50,000 worded Autobiography'.
Damn that Syr! He thought as his grip began to loosen on the boxes
"Pallet Town!" said Birch as they passed a sign saying 'You are now entering Pallet Town, please enjoy your stay'. "I'll take you to the lab now you two"
They walked through a small town, occupied by a few amount of houses with little picket fences and lush, fertile gardens. They also passed a shop of which a large amount of kids were all staring through the window at. Syr looked at them curiously as she walked along wondering what they were looking at. They also passed a large building with a giant pokéball (as Birch called it) on its roof.
Noticing the kid's queer expressions at the sight of the building he chuckled and said that it was a Pokémon centre where trainers take their pokémon if they are injured.
Finally after walking up a gravely road they reached a large secluded area with a HUGE building in it.
"Welcome to my lab!" smiled Birch as he opened the door with a free hand.
Kr and Syr walked in and dumped the things by the doorway as they stared in awe about the room.
From floor to ceiling the entire room was full of bookshelves and cases spluttering out book on every subject ranging from 'The Theory of Pokémon' to 'Pokémon, the journey of a Lifetime'. Scattered about were pieces of paper with scribbles covering them. At the end of the room was a large blackboard with complicated equations written on it. In one of the corners of the room there was a computer and an odd machine. A telephone-video link was set up nearby with the phone hanging off the wall. Next to one of the bookcases was a small tank area with a bright light shining into it.
"Er…sorry it's a bit of a mess" apologised the Professor, rubbing the back of his neck.
Syr, who loved books squealed with delight and ran up and down the aisles of bookshelves examining every book that was displayed there. Kyr on the other hand took a more relaxed approach. He placed his hands in his pockets and moved with a bored expression up to the end of the room where the phone was. His mum had taught him how to use a phone and he knew his phone number, he dialled and waited for the response to come through.
"I'm sorry, the phone line you have tried to call seems to be out of service, please try again later" came the robotic voice down the other end.
Kyr grunted with annoyance and place the phone back in its place. He turned about and saw Syr excitedly pulling books down off the bookshelves before spotting the plastic tank and walking over to it with interest.
"What's this?" she asked the professor as she pointed with a free hand that wasn't full of books at the thing inside the tank.
"That?" asked Birch as he began picking up the pieces of reckless paper that was scattered about, "oh, that's a pokémon egg. One of the Jotho professors gave it to me as a birthday gift. I have yet to see what it hatches as"
Syr looked at the egg in wonder and tapped the tank slightly as she stared at it.
Kyr tutted with annoyance at Syr, Stupid, he thought, It's a dumb egg. Suddenly his thoughts were distracted as he spotted a large poster peeling off the wall on the opposite side of the room. On the poster was a boy, perhaps the age of seventeen with jet black hair. He was wearing a red and white hat and a black tee-shirt with a white and blue jacket over the top. On his shoulder was another pokémon Kyr guessed as he looked at the odd yellow mouse-like thing. The logo on the bottom was printed as 'you can do it too!'.
"Ah!" said Birch, making his way over to Kyr and the poster, "Now that is Ash Ketchum. He used to live around here you know? He started his pokémon journey when he was ten. He defeated the trainers at the Indigo Plateau and became one of the world's few Pokémon Masters at the age of sixteen! Although the publicity finally got to him and in the end he and two of his mates went into hiding. I still receive the odd phone call from them every so often just to check up and things"
Kyr nodded and looked at the poster interestedly, "So…he and his pokémon became very strong?"
"Incredibly, in fact I doubt his pokémon's power has been matched by anyone else. And certainly no-one has been able to defeat the trainers at the Indigo Plateau since he did then…that's over thirty years ago I believe…"
Kyr looked in awe at the boy in the poster; he looked strong and determined but yet happy and proud at the same time. Kyr smirked at the poster and thought, yeah; I can be like that too…no one'll be able to stop me
His daydreams were suddenly broken by a loud rumble as a bundle of books cluttered to the floor on top of Syr. Syr looked at the Professor and Kyr apologetically "Sorry" she said, rubbing her head.
Kyr frowned and sighed slightly as he looked to the floor through embarrassment. What caught his eye was one of the books that Syr has dropped. It showed a picture of the same boy that was on the poster, this time giving a thumbs up. Behind him was a girl with a side pony-tail and another boy with brown spiky hair.
Kyr smirked at the picture on the book then looked up at the Professor, "Um…excuse me…?" he said rubbing the back of his neck as he flushed red, "Um…mind if I borrow this?"
"Not at all! Not at all!" laughed Birch as he began collecting some of the books on the floor.
Syr looked up at Kyr with a raised eyebrow, he never reads! I don't think I've ever seen him read anything other than his comics!
"What?" growled Kyr noticing Syr staring at him. She shook her head and blushed as she began collecting the books she had dropped.
Several days later and with still no signal from their home Kyr and Syr decided it best to leave the Professor to his studies. He had given each of them a backpack full of food and some money and he even gave them a pokéball each after several LONG explanations about how they work the two kids finally understood and after saying their goodbyes they made their way to the nearest town which was Viridian City according to the Professor.
As they walked along Kyr was in the lead with Syr following behind slightly. She was busy examining the pokéball with interest. Even though the Professor had explained several time to her she still didn't understand how creatures, some the size of a house could fit in a tiny little red and white ball.
Kyr on the other hand was busy musing, looking at nothing and thinking about nothing in particular. He had read the book and several others about Ash Ketchum. About how he started off in the minute town of Pallet and through years of vigorous training and the help of some very close friends became the world's best pokémon master.
"Go rattata go!" shouted a little voice from the clearing ahead.
Syr and Kyr looked at each other curiously and they ran ahead to see what all the commotion was about.
A little youngster, no older than ten wearing shorts, a long billowing tee-shirt and a cap was shouting at a giant purple rat.
Instantly when she spotted the rat Syr squealed and jumped into Kyr's arms shouting "Get it away! Get it away! Its filthy!"
Kyr looked at Syr in his arms as he blushed violently, checking the area about to see if anyone else could possibly see.
The youngster frowned, "Hey you! Don't call my Rattata filthy! Just for that I challenge you to a battle!"
"A battle?" questioned Kyr as he carefully lowered Syr to her feet "what's a battle?"
The youngster laughed, "Hahaha! Don't act dumb! Rattata! Go! We'll show you who's filthy!"
Suddenly the Rattata lunged towards Syr and Kyr with no sense of stopping. Syr screamed and Kyr frowned angrily as the rat opened its jaws as if to bite them.
Kyr, with no idea of what to do raised his foot and kicked the rat hard, causing it to fly through the air and land several meters away.
The youngster screamed, "How dare you hurt my Rattata?! Evil People! Are you from Team Wildfire?!"
"Team what?" asked Syr with a puzzled expression.
"Team Wildfire" retorted the youngster, "You know? The Team that came along a couple of years after Team Rocket disbanded? They like being evil to pokémon?"
Syr and Kyr shrugged, not understanding what the kid was talking about.
Suddenly the boy awoke as if from a daze and shouted "Don't worry Rattata! I'm coming!" as he headed in the general direction that the Rattata was in.
Kyr and Syr looked oddly at the boy before shrugging and continuing to head towards Viridian City, unknowing that two people and a pokémon were watching them nearby.
"I told you that the binoculars are the other way around!" shouted a woman from inside a bush
"Ah. So that's why they're so far away" said a man that was hiding with the woman inside the bush.
"Yes you nitwit!" shouted the woman, punching the man on the head with her fist.
"Hey you gwuys (talks with a lisp)" said a very familiar cat pokémon "You mithsed it…he kicked that Rattata away!"
"So?" said the man and the woman as they stopped fighting
"Grr! Everybody knowth that you shouldn't treat pokémon that way! They obviouthly don't know much about pokémon"
"So?" said the man and woman now kneeling down and facing that cat pokémon as if it was the teacher and they were the students in the class.
"GRRR! You morons! Let's jutht study them more ok?!" he said shouting angrily before stopping and taking deep breaths as his temple began thumping
"Meowth's got way more stressed since he got promoted hasn't he?" whispered the woman.
The man nodded and sighed, "Unfortunately" he muttered as Kyr and Syr disappeared through the trees.
Finally, after getting lost several times and walking about in circles Syr and Kyr had (finally) made their way to Viridian City.
"Why do men never ask for directions?" asked Syr as they began exploring the large city.
"I said shut it!" said Kyr who was in a mood since he lead them to dead ends every time he thought he knew where they were going.
Viridian was much larger than Pallet town. It was full of houses and flats and various amounts of shops for various people (especially pokémon trainers) these included markets, pokémon centres, club houses and factories. They even passed a large build with GYM written in big bold letters on it but outside there was a sign saying 'Visit Viridian's Gym Hotel! The only hotel where you and your pokémon will be treated like masters!' These Kyr and Syr all passed until they reached a phone booth.
"Still out of service" mutter Kyr placing the phone back on the receiver.
They both sighed and stood outside the phone booth staring up at the sky.
"I miss mum and dad" said Syr sadly
Kyr nodded before quickly shaking his head and saying gruffly, "Heh. I don't I'm glad I got away from mum. Now's my chance to have a real adventure!"
Syr looked at him sadly, "You don't miss your mum at all?"
"Er…I…no not at all!" he shouted angrily as he marched across the street over to a pokémart which he then entered, slamming the door behind him.
Syr sighed and quietly followed him, entering the pokémart, closing the door softly behind her.
The mart was full of various pokémon goodies such as treats and chew toys. Syr glanced over them with little enthusiasm whereas Kyr was more interested in a group of girls chatting away in the corner of the store.
"And so I was like, whatever, and he was like 'yeah right' and then I showed him my Jigglypuff and that made him change his mind!" stated one of the girls while the rest of the group laughed.
The girl then spotted Kyr and smirked at him giving him a wink. Kyr, with surprise glanced about himself to make sue that she was doing it to him. She was. He lent against the shelf with a cool look.
The girl smiled at her girlfriends and made her way over to Kyr and placed one hand on her hip flirtatiously. "So…" she said sexily, "do you have pokémon too…?"
Kyr swallowed and nodded. He knew other girls existed, although he had never seen anymore than Syr. These girls seemed so different, so interesting, so exciting, Syr on the other hand was common and boring. "I'm Kyr" he said coolly, "And I have a pokémon"
"What is it?" said the girl coming towards him, so close now that Kyr could actually feel her legs the came out from a tiny mini-skirt rubbing against his own legs.
Kyr swallowed hard and thought, Birch never told me what pokémon he gave me. "It's really cool." He said to her, trying to keep his cool.
The girl smiled and lent against Kyr erotically "I'd love to see it"
Kyr grinned and pulled out his pokéball when suddenly the shop keeper shouted "Oy you! No pokémon in the store! Take it outside!"
With a slight grumble Kyr took the girl (who was now on his arm) and was followed closely by her friends outside. Syr blinked as they left the shop, she walked over to the window and peered out, watching Kyr and the girl flirting with each other. Syr blinked. He forgot about me that easily? I am still alive you know? She sighed and shook he head before making her way outside and watching Kyr and the girls at a distance.
Right, remember, just how we practiced. I wonder what type of pokémon Birch gave me? Kyr held his pokéball out and pressed the little button in the centre of it as a red glowing light appeared out of it and shaped into a…Metapod!
The girls looked unimpressed, "Wow…great pokémon…"
"Wait!" said Kyr panickedly before looking over to Syr, "Syr this is your pokémon! Isn't it? Yeah…come back and give me mine!" he tried to give her a wink. Syr simply stood there with an annoyed expression before sighing and passing him her pokéball.
Again Kyr held his pokéball out and pressed the little button in the centre of it as a red glowing light appeared out of it and shaped into a Zubat.
"Er…" he said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck, "Um…let's see your pokémon"
The girl smirked and tossed a pokéball which released a Jigglypuff. Kyr stared at it wide eyed before his legs began shaking.
"Er…what –is- it? I mean…it…its all pink and…and cute!" he exclaimed
Syr looked at Kyr and smirked; Kyr hated and had an irrational fear of anything that was cute and cuddly. Serves him right she thought as Kyr backed away from the girls and the Jigglypuff.
Syr then sighed, she didn't like being cruel the Kyr, no matter how often he deserved it. Slowly she moved up behind Kyr and clutched him around his stomach from behind, saying in her most girlyish voice "Oh Kyr! Stop being so silly! You need to get ready to take us out on our date!"
Kyr looked at Syr in surprise then turned back to the girls who were already walking away in disgust. Once the girls were far enough away Syr quickly removed her arms from Kyr's torso and smiled pleasantly as she managed to get the Zubat back in the ball.
Kyr on the other hand was unamused he turned to Syr and shouted with anger "Why'd you do that?! I had a perfect come back! You ruin everything! Why don't you just leave me alone?!"
Syr looked at Kyr with a hurt expression as he got the Metapod back in its pokéball and then crossed his arms in annoyance. "I…I was just trying to help" she whispered.
"Well don't next time alright?! This is why I hate you! You ruin everything! Even back home you ruined everything! Just run back home you little-"
Before he had time to finish Syr had slapped him hard on the side of his face. He blinked; she had never slapped him before. They had their usual scuffles back home, but that was just fun and games and it never really hurt, this time she was seriously meaning to hurt him. The pain on his cheek grew worse as a large red mark began to appear upon it.
Kyr, due to his uncontrollable hot temper suddenly lunged forward, scratching Syr on the face, Syr in retaliation bite Kyr's arm back. Before long they were in a BIG fight surrounded by townspeople who were enjoying the entertainment, including a man, a woman and the cat pokémon.
"Yeah go girl go go go!" whispered the woman with excitement as Kyr and Syr continued to fight.
"What?" hissed the man, "That boy has a definite advantage…"
"Will you two paying attenthon?" shouted the Meowth that was on top of the man's head, "We're thupposed to be reporting unusual inthidents back to the boss. And they're fighting like pokémon, that's unusual"
"Meowth, do you mind getting off my head? Its really beginning to get on my nerves" grumbled the man.
The cat kicked him hard in the ear and the man grumbled in pain almost falling over and taking the woman down with hum. The woman growled angrily and held the walkie-talkie up to her mouth and began whispering in it as she and the man (still with the cat on his head) began walking down the road away from the kerfuffle that was continuing in the middle of the street.
Kyr and Syr were still fighting, biting each other's arms and pulling each other's hair. Now Officer Jenny had joined the fray, blowing her whistle and trying to get the two to stop fighting. "Halt! Cease! Desist!" she continued to shout, obviously the two kids and the crowd were paying no attention.
Finally, as she was pushed back (accidentally) by a member of the crowd she was unable to contain her anger and she jumped towards the two squabblers and picked them both up by the scruff of their necks, pulling them apart. "Now," she said taking a deep breath as she dangled Kyr and Syr a few centimetres off the floor.
"She started it!" grumbled Kyr trying to swing his arm over to Syr in a feeble attempt to attack her.
Syr turned her nose up and turned away from Kyr, obvious annoyance and frustration was upon her face.
"I don't care who started it!" shouted the officer as she lowered them to their feet but still effused to let go of their collars, "Now. I'm taking you two to the station to call your parents then we'll have a little talk about this right?"
Kyr and Syr side glanced each other with small frowns before they looked up at the officer with raised eyebrows and sighed, giving two small (especially from Kyr) annoyed nods.
"Right." Said the officer as she took hold of Syr's ear and began trying to grab at Kyr's. She did this authoritatively, before blinking as she tried to grab the area where Kyr's ear should've been. Oddly enough, there was nothing there! She turned about and blinked at him and then suddenly bgan searching through his thick messy hair for his ear.
"OW! Ow! Crazy woman stop it! Ow! What are you doing?!" he shouted trying to get away from the mad police officer.
Officer Jenny continued to search through his hair until she felt something that felt remotely like and ear, she grabbed it and pulled. Kyr screamed out loud with frustration and pain before the officer let go and stepped away cautiously.
"Wh…what are you?" whispered Jenny as she looked at Kyr in horror
Kyr ignored Jenny's look and rubbed the top of his head, "Crazy woman that really hurt! My ear feels all sore now you bitch."
Jenny screamed and ran down the street, followed closely by the crowd of spectators.
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