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I woke up the next day with a headache. I spent a few minutes relaxing in the soft bed before I bolted upright. I remembered last night. I couldn't even stop the smile that bloomed on my face. I looked around the room for my new friend and felt that smile die down when I realized the room was empty.

It surprised me more than it should. I'd bailed on people in my first life all the time. Expecting it not to be done to me was unreasonable. I took a shower in the hotel room and dressed up. I headed down to the reception. A thousand fucking pokedollars. How the fuck did a single night cost that much? The receipt answered my questions and ignited my anger.

She didn't just bail. She'd apparently gone to the restaurant and had a large breakfast, along with ordering several bottles of wine to-go. I made a thousand five hundred yesterday. Drinks had cost about 200 and the hotel bill took my winnings down to 300 dollars. Fuck. I had to go back to the arena.

A teleport to celadon would cost about a thousand pokes. An amount I would have had if I just went back to my room yesterday. I didn't regret it though. Yesterday was fun. That wasn't in doubt.

I walked back to the pokemon centre to get my pokeballs. I'd dropped off Igneel after the battles yesterday. I picked up Igneel and Hashirama and went back to the arena. The entrance fee took the rest of my winnings from yesterday and I was sent into the halls to wait to hear my name.

It took me a bit over thirty minutes to hear my name. I went out to the stadium and was met with a guy that looked to be a year older. He also had four badges so the match would be an even one. I lost the coin flip and sent Kenpachi out. The crowd hmmed and awwed appreciatively. My opponent sent out a Krabby. The water type looked young and didn't seem very strong. Appearances could be deceiving but I had the feeling my opponent was going to be relying on type advantage and hoping for a miracle.

He started the fight out by screaming "water gun" at the top of his voice. The Krabby concentrated for a few seconds before sending out a blast of water from one of its pincers. The attack had virtually no chance of hitting. Kenpachi dodged the attack with contemptuous ease. He then used his terrakinesis to rip several boulders out of the ground and fired them at the Krabby.

I wasn't shocked when the boy's shouts for the Krabby to dodge went ignored and the Krabby was knocked out after the second boulder hit it. The boy returned his pokemon and sent out a Parasect. The grass/bug type looked to be more skilled than its predecessor.

I chose to take the initiative this time. "Hyper beam" I intoned calmly. I hadn't gotten around to teaching Kenpachi to recognise aura signals which was a huge oversight. He charged up the move and sent the bug into the sweet bliss of unconsciousness, all in a few seconds.

I watched him sag in exhaustion and returned him. That battle was boring. It's why I ended it so quickly. It was probably arrogant of me to think so but most of these trainers were below me. That was why I felt a breath of fresh air when I went into the trainer's halls in the arena and ran into Sabrina. She was standing there like she'd been waiting for me. The first person my age to deal me a loss.

Sabrina looked just like she did all those months ago. She was as breathtakingly beautiful, and her face was just as inexpressive. I moved forwards to say hi, but she beat me to the punch. "Hello, Donnell Oak. It is good to see you again" Her voice sounded as melodic as I remembered.

"Uh. Hi," I managed to stammer out. Fuck. Get your head in the game, man. I got lucky yesterday and I couldn't stop imagining myself getting lucky with Sabrina. Very unlikely but teenage hormones cared little for logic or propriety.

POV CHANGE- The Psychic

Donnell Oak once again. My powers were bad at predicting his actions, but I knew he'd show up here. I also knew what he did yesterday. The audacity of that scarlet woman. Did she not understand that he was mine?

The first boy my age with a silent mind, and he almost gets snatched right from my grasp. I had been content with watching from afar but it was clear to see that I couldn't just leave him to his own devices. Mother always said that teenage boys couldn't survive on their own. I decided to confess my feelings so our love could blossom in the open. I opened my mouth and said, "Would you like to have a battle?" What? How did that happen?

His enthusiastic response brought a smile to my face and the next thing he did turned my face an embarrassing shade of red. He grabbed my hand and dragged me over to the referee to register our match. I couldn't even hear what he said over the sound of my heartbeat. I looked down at our joined hands and my smile threatened to split my face in two.

I didn't know what happened till I found myself across from him ready to do battle. I manipulated the coin flip so I would win. It was a reflex for me to do so at this point. I had to win this battle to prove my love for him.

The battle at the forest had gone well but I'd been too scared to confess my feelings. This time would be different. He started things off by sending out a Trevenant. 'Grass/Ghost type. Poor mobility, high attack power, and average durability' my brain supplied instantly.

I sent out one of my more recent captures, Metang. Our psychic link formed the moment they were out of their ball. Sooner or later, I'd be strong enough to breach even pokeballs but that wasn't important for now.

The love of my life started things out with sunny day. Ha. Such a tactic. I asked Metang to disable the sunny day with rain dance. The Trevenant was powerful but it hadn't spent time mastering the move to the point of preventing it from being cancelled out.

My next order was for Metang to fire as many shadow balls as they could at the Ghost type. Its protect was powerful but was being worn down. I settled down to watch with eagerness before a tendril of wood burst out of the ground and smashed into my pokemon. Wood hammer? The Trevenant didn't stop there. It somehow managed to fire a solar beam even under the rain dance.

My mental screams at Metang to teleport away went ignored as the grass-type move crashed into him. The ghost moved forwards and plants started to rise out of the ground and bind themselves around my newest teammate.

This was harder than I expected. I wasn't out for the count yet. Metang still had some powerful moves they could employ. I stilled his panic and relayed my next orders. The flamethrower they used burned through the plants surrounding them.

From there, they started using ice beams on the soaked ground and forced the Trevenant to hide behind a protect for fear of getting hit. Metang focused for a few seconds and fired a flash cannon that shattered the protect.

The Trevenant was still unaffected and kept trying to stretch its branch arms towards my pokemon. I had Metang stop his onslaught to retreat from the grasping ghost. With the area around it frozen, it couldn't move forward. I started preparing another plan when the length of the grasping branches multiplied. It didn't take a second before one of the branches smashed into Metang with a shadow claw. After that, it started to wail on my pokemon with a barrage of wood hammers. I had no choice but to return him.

My next choice was clear. Alakazam was my strongest pokemon after all. The rain dance ended as I returned Metang and the first thing I had Alakazam do was use flamethrower on the Trevenant. Its Protect had taken a beating across its battle with Metang and it had to be exhausted.

Alakazam didn't let up and the protect eventually broke. My lover returned his pokemon before it could get hit. Such a caring and pragmatic man he was. He released a strange pokemon on the field next. It was obviously a rock type, and I was able to see some resemblance between it and his scyther.

Was this a new evolution? To think that he was intelligent enough to discover a whole new evolution. My choice was clearly a wise one. I had Alakazam attempt to reach into its mind and my theory was confirmed. It had the sort of alien presence that all bug types did.

This battle was going to be a tough one. The bug started by driving one of its axe hands into the ground. That single hit was enough to rip apart the arena. I ignored the gasps of shock from the audience.

I ordered Alakazam to teleport just in the nick of time. The area in the air he occupied was soon occupied by multiple boulders. Again. Alakazam was barely able to dodge the attack this time. This game of cat and mouse continued for minutes. Alakazam had never chained so many teleports together and he was already leaning on my psychic energy to preserve his.

I had to come up with a solution. Sooner or later, we'd run out of energy. The idea that came to me was a risky one, but it was worth it. Alakazam understood my plan as I came up with it. Our bond was just that strong.

He stopped dodging and hunkered down in a protect. The bug kept sending rocks at the protect and I closed my eyes. The goal here was to share my energy with Alakazam in an even deeper way. We charged up a hyper beam while within the protect and teleported out of it, behind the bug type, and let our move fly.

What happened next took my breath away. The bug somehow managed to use protect without even turning around to see the attack. My lover hadn't yelled anything out either. Did they have a psychic link? How? Bug types were impossible to psychically connect with.

I didn't even see what happened next. Mother always told me to stop getting stuck in my head so much. All I knew was that Alakazam's presence disappeared from my mind. I searched the field for my first friend and found him on the floor. I saw the move charging up in my lover's bugs' hands and I knew exactly what had happened.

Signal beam. Bug-type moves also ruined psychic connections. Alakazam was too unfocused to have any hope of protecting himself from the next attack, so I returned him. I only had one more pokemon and he wasn't a battler, so I forfeited.

To think that my lover would get so much stronger in a few months. What had I been doing? Roaming the region and using my abilities to try spying on the love of my life. I needed to train. I needed to become strong enough to stand by his side. My lover valued strength above all else. He'd only accept my love if I showed him I was strong. I teleported away from the arena with my mind full of training strategies.

POV Change- Back to MC

Huh. She just left. That was odd. I didn't think much of it till I realized she didn't pay before she left. Fuck. That didn't hurt as much as I thought it would though. I beat Sabrina. Well, not beat beat. She forfeited. That confirmed something for me though. Those months spent in the wilderness, putting my life and that of my pokemon at stake. It was all worth it. No. Not all of it, I thought soberly. Never all of it. Would I give up all this new strength to have Quicksilver back? In a heartbeat.

My answer shocked me to the core. I'd always viewed gaining strength as my number one priority. You really didn't know what you loved until it was all gone. That realization made me leave the arena without gathering all the money I needed.

What was the point of finishing the league, gathering all the badges, and even becoming champion if I didn't enjoy the journey with those I loved? There was no need to rush things, I thought as I packed up my room at the centre. I wasn't even going to wait till daybreak the next day. I walked right into the forest and opened my map.

A few days into my journey and I remembered why I hadn't wanted to travel by land in my original plans. It was just too fucking slow. It wasn't boring though. Praise be to Arceus for that. My team was just too entertaining for that. They all walked with me through the forest. More floated than walked in Kisame's case.

She was using her water prison to float around. Even now, she trained. I saw signs of the same thing in all my pokemon. Ino teleported forward and backward every few feet and I felt her presence spread out around us like a sonar. Kenpachi darted around trees. Still getting used to his new body. Every stone I walked across moved itself out of my way. Broly's terrakinesis at work, I suspected.

Igneel lit our path for us as the canopy got more intense. Small fireballs floated all around him. Kisame had to quell a few fires here and there but the training was good, so I allowed it. Hashirama… I had no idea what Hashi was doing. I'd barely formed the question before Ino fed the answer into my head. He'd stretched his roots into the ground and was taking control of all the trees around us. Impressive.

A few more hours of walking and the sun had gone down. I looked around and the team wasn't showing signs of exhaustion but reaching out with my aura showed me how worn they actually were. I still decided to push on for today though. It was good training.

We kept going as the last rays of light disappeared. Igneel's flames helped us maintain visibility. Even a few months ago, I wouldn't have been brave enough to try something like this. The things that went bump in the night were always more dangerous. My team was strong though. We were the apex predators of the forest.

As the hours flew by, I felt my teammates relax a little. They'd been tense as the sun disappeared and even tenser when the night proved to be a dark one. Igneel's flames cast our surroundings in an orange glow that did more to heighten their paranoia. Speaking of which, could pokemon experience colour? I couldn't think of any studies that proved it either way. So, I decided to ask a pokemon of my own.

Ino had started stretching her senses even further to make sure nothing snuck up on us. I wouldn't distract her from her essential duty. "Broly" I spoke suddenly. The entire team turned to me at that. I guess I startled them by breaking the relative silence of the forest. "Do pokemon see colour?" He looked confused at that one. I facepalmed. How silly of me.

He was a bug type. They had different senses even when compared to other pokemon. I shrugged my shoulders and let the questioning die out. My question seemed to have settled the moods of many of my teammates. Kisame started sending a few bubbles at Igneel to distract him and he was sending his mini fireballs at her watery shell every once in a while, to try boiling the water.

Kenpachi went back to bothering Broly. They'd gotten even closer over the weeks. I'd expected Kenpachi to assert his independence after evolution, but it seems like we'd missed that stage. Ino and Hashirama didn't involve themselves in the chaos though. Still too tense for that.

I'd love to try settling their worries, but I knew that if we had no early warning system then we might just find ourselves in an ambush. We kept moving for hours before Ino suddenly opened her eyes in surprise. Her mind connected with mine and I paled.

What the fuck was a Snorlax doing on this route of all places? Where were the rangers? I looked around me with a critical eye and remembered that we'd wandered off route a while ago. I was keeping an eye out for new teammates and the route was too heavily patrolled to find anything useful.

The good news was that the Snorlax wasn't heading in our direction. In fact, it was content to just stay still in its grove. A smile spread across my face. My fear was banished. My instinctual reaction to being told about one of the most dangerous pokemon in the world being in my vicinity was overcome by sheer greed. I wanted a Snorlax.

The pokemon that always triggered ace trainer responses. The pokemon even gym leaders hesitated to deal with. The true disaster pokemon. When a Snorlax got close to a town, the locals got on their knees and prayed. I'd be adding one to my team today. You probably thought I was crazy. You're probably right. I wasn't completely insane though.

From what Ino could sense, this Snorlax was calm. That meant it wasn't hungry. Hungry Snorlax were the true danger. When they weren't hungry, they were content to sleep and laze about in most cases at least.

Ino updated the team on what we would be doing and we moved as one towards the Snorlax' clearing. It was about ten minutes away and while I was calm as ever, the same couldn't be said for my team. We'd seen a Snorlax rampage on the TV back in Saffron. Come to think of it, this might even be the same Snorlax. They were rare enough that the possibility wasn't negligible.

When we arrived, I had the rest of the team wait in the forest while I approached with Ino. They weren't happy about that but they stayed. I had no doubts that they'd bolt into the clearing the moment things went pear-shaped.

The Snorlax was awake and looked up as we began our approach. It didn't do anything though. "Hello. My name is Donnell Oak. I am a pokemon trainer. I'd like to have you on my team. As a member of my team, you get as much food as you'd ever need" The mention of food got his interest and he groaned at me as if telling me to continue.

"You'll also be expected to train with the rest of the team, obey my orders and fight my battles." There wasn't really a better way to put it. It still seemed interested. I was even more certain that this was the very same Snorlax. That one fought Bruno's Machamp on equal footing for a while and seemed to be enjoying it.

"Snorrrr laxxxx" It groaned out. Ino translated and said it wanted to battle my team. I almost laughed maniacally at my luck. A battle-crazy Snorlax? I was truly blessed by Arceus.

I waved at the rest of the team to come over and I took more than a few steps back to step out of the danger zone. I was about to start the battle when the Snorlax sent a mega punch into Kenpachi's shell that sent him soaring into the forest. Fuck. It was strong. Very strong.

I wasn't worried about Kenpachi though. A pupitar's armour was one of the strongest shells out there. I wanted to start issuing orders to the rest of the team but Ino stopped me. The Snorlax wasn't interested in fighting the rest of my team. It wanted to go one-on-one with Kenpachi.

Fuck. This was salvageable at least. Kenpachi wasn't the strongest on the team, but he was plenty strong and rock types had good resistance to normal type moves and Kenpachi had good coverage.

I had the rest of the team retreat towards me and I felt for Kenpachi's aura and started issuing orders to him.

He came sailing out of the forest and fired a hyper beam straight at the Snorlax. The monster just stretched out a hand and fucking caught the move. That was metal. "Rock throw" I shouted and all the boulders strewn across the clearing went flying at the Snorlax.

It shattered the boulders heading at its head with powerful punches that made my bones rattle and allowed the rest to break against its body. I started to regret not expanding Kenpachi's move repertoire earlier. "Leer" I commanded.

Kenpachi's eyes turned red and expanded towards the Snorlax. My next command was for Kenpachi to use Hyper beam on its head while it was distracted. It was all for naught though. The leer barely stopped the Snorlax for a second and I marched through the hyper beam before punching Kenpachi into the ground.

It didn't let up and fired a hyper beam at Kenpachi's prone form that knocked it unconscious. The Snorlax let out an earth-shaking roar as I returned Kenpachi to his ball before pointing at Hashirama. Another difficult battle. Hashirama still stepped forwards though.

"Your ghost-type moves won't work. Stick to grass-type attacks for now. Be ready to use protect once you see it get close to you." I spoke out in a whisper. The Snorlax decided to start this battle by running straight at Hashirama with a charge-up mega punch. "Trip it up" I commanded.

Vines grew out from the ground at the Snorlax's feet and grabbed at its ankles. The vines barely slowed it down. It tore through them like they weren't even there. It got close enough and smashed a powerful fist into Hashirama's protect. It started wailing on the shield and Hashirama executed my next orders perfectly.

Vines rose out of the ground and snatched the Snorlax' hands. It broke through them but they were quickly replaced by double their number. In no time, the Snorlax was almost completely enveloped by the vines. Hashirama dropped his protect and sent a wood hammer smashing into the Snorlax's head.

The sound rang across the clearing. "Keep going," I said with a smile. Hashirama started wailing on the Snorlax with the move before one of his attacks dislodged the vines keeping the Snorlax's mouth shut. The Hyperbeam that came out made the clearing look like it was midday.

Hashirama had managed to use a protect to save himself but he was still knocked out. I knew that without the move, his injuries would be even worse. I returned him and sent Broly at the Snorlax. Losing two members of my team to the same pokemon was a huge blow to my pride.

Broly already had the plan. Our aura connection was deep. Deeper than any of the others. He rushed at the Snorlax and started a hand-to-hand exchange. The Snorlax's defence was too powerful for it to fall to any of the ranged moves Broly was capable of. Broly used his axe arms to great effect.

He'd lost a good amount of speed with his evolution but even his diminished speed was more than enough to run circles around the Snorlax. Its punches hit air and Broly's counters landed with devastating effect. The Snorlax kept trying to gain distance to use its long-range moves. It saw the futility of that and when it gave up, it fought back. It started accepting more strikes from Broly and countering them whenever he overstretched.

The longer this went on, the worse it got. The Snorlax was taking at least 12 hits for everyone it managed to land. Good news, right? No. It didn't matter that Broly got 12 hits in if those hits seemed to have little effect, and when the one hit that the Snorlax managed to land seemed to send Broly reeling.

My starter was a trooper though and managed to keep the entire thing going for another half an hour before I returned him. He'd just taken way too much damage. The Snorlax's next target was Igneel.

"Sunny day" I commanded with a sigh. Losing three pokemon to this monster was just embarrassing. I'd thought myself strong, but the world seemed intent on proving me wrong. I'd finally beaten the bogeyman. Sabrina herself. Only for me to get violated by a wild pokemon. A pokemon Broly beat with only a single pokemon. The gap between the Elites and I seemed to stretch even farther.

Igneel brought the sun to the nighttime and flew above the foliage. Well out of the reach of the Snorlax. The normal type pokemon was already exhausted from his earlier battles. "Solar beam barrage" I instructed my dragon.

I relaxed as I watched the plan come together. The Snorlax's thick skin and endurance could only stretch so far. Eventually, Igneel won the day by firing solar beams at an opponent too slow to dodge and flying around to avoid the occasional hyper beam sent in retaliation.

When the Snorlax went down, I captured it with a Pokeball and had Ino teleport us back to Fuchsia. The league had a very strict procedure for capturing Snorlax. Disobeying that was even a crime. I doubted I'd be sent to prison, but there was no need to tempt fate.

I went into the pokemon centre and walked up to the nurse's table. It was nighttime so the nurse there was watching tv and not really paying attention. "Hello" I spoke out. "Hello? Nurse Joy?" My impatience finally won out and I banged the table with my fist.

She looked up at me in surprise. "I just caught a Snorlax" The look on her face was well worth the trouble. Even if the Snorlax was going to be completely useless to my team, the look on her face was worth all the effort.

"Was it hungry?" the very first question she asked after her surprise wore off. Capturing a hungry Snorlax was also a huge no-no. Her next question was also predictable, "Are your pokemon alright?"

"Three of my pokemon were knocked out and one of em is pretty tired" She gave me an evaluating look at that.

"Drop their pokeballs in the tray over there. Put the Snorlax on this one" She said while releasing her Chansey.

After I gave her the pokemon, she booked me a room and told me to be back in a few hours.

With the adrenaline gone, I slept like a baby. It was a great nap and I was happy to note that I got a full six hours of sleep. Another weird difference between the pokemon world and the one I hailed from. Here, six hours of sleep was a good night's rest, with most humans capable of living on five. It made for strange working hours but it was what it was.

I went down to the nurse's station and met a different Nurse Joy. I figured she'd already been briefed by the one I met last night since she was to one to welcome me when I got down. "I hope you had a good night, Mr. Oak. I have taken the liberty of informing the league of your…. acquisition. They have promised to send a representative to observe. I've also been instructed to let you know not to release the pokemon till the representative arrives."

I nodded to show I understood and then took back my pokeballs. At this point, I was sure that the league would prefer to not even hand over the Pokeball to me. That would be a breach of my oh-so-sacred fundamental rights. In a society where people carried around the power to level mountains on their belts, the league avoided anything that could set off a revolution.

I had to wait an hour before the league representative showed up. I was more shocked than I should have been when Koga walked into the centre. Of course, it would be him. Who else would it be? He walked up to me and gestured for me to follow.

A man of little words, Eh? I could get behind that.

A/N; Thanks for reading. We just finished with chapter 30 on the pa-atreon page. Feel free to join me there if you can. Same username as up here. The link's on my profile.

Name; Donnell Oak

Age; 15

Hometown; Pallet

Next of Kin; Samuel Oak

Account balance; 1550 Pokedollars

Pokemon.

· Kleavor (Nickname; Broly)- Male. Bug/Rock type

Moves; Signal beam, agility, fury cutter, quick attack, slash, swords dance, protect, stone axe, ancient power, hyper beam, and rock throw.

· Milotic (Nickname; Kisame)- Female. Water type.

Moves; Brine, ice beam, hydro pump, dragon breath, dragon pulse, water gun, protect, recover, hyper beam, iron tail, and bubble beam.

· Charizard (Nickname; Igneel)- Male. Fire-type.

Moves; Ember, dragon breath, scratch, bite, growl, metal claw, flame thrower, protect, sunny day, solar beam, hyper beam, and dragon rush.

· Pupitar (Nickname; Kenpachi)- Male. Rock/Ground type.

Moves; Tackle, rock throw, bite, crunch, leer, hyper beam and protect.

· Gardevoir (Nickname; Ino)- Female. Psychic/Fairy type.

Moves; Teleport, psybeam, psychic, confusion, hypnosis, dazzling gleam, moon blast, and recover.

Trevenant (Nickname; Hashirama)- Male. Ghost/Grass type.

Moves; Sunny day, solar beam, protect, hyper beam, wood hammer, shadow claw, and destiny bond.