[Cues the Opening Theme: Asheru – Judo Flip]

The Outsider's Insurrection

Indigo Iliad

Chapter 22: Preparations

Translated Pokémon Speech

Pokédex Entries/Computerized Voices/Flashbacks

Reference to an Accessory in the Games

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(Beige Town | April 6th | 9:00a.m.)

The morning light barely shone from the dark curtains as the bedroom was quiet. Crimson felt warm and pleased as he slowly awoke. He found himself in Alisa's bed snuggling her and Alisa was just waking up with a small hangover.

"Oh jeez, I didn't even set you up on the couch." Alisa said warmly. "You're lucky you're cute…wait something's poking me and oohhh…."

Crimson realized his leg was rubbing between her legs and pulled away blushing a storm. Alisa giggled noticing the obvious raging sign in the sheets.

"Not bad. If you're already working with that, you're going into be walking with a real monster between your legs in a few years." Alisa teased.

Crimson was red in the face mumbling he needed a cold shower.

"Or…I could help with that." Alisa said with a grin.

Outside of the room, Morticia awoke with a yawn floating around to wake up everyone before she phased through the wall to check on Crimson. She did not need to see her trainer going through a paizuri or needed to witness him blowing his stack. She phased through the wall before it could splatter on her.

"Uh…Tia, you all right? Your face is all red." Jett asked concerned. "Is Crimson all right?"

"Yeah! He's fine…" She muttered as Yon sniffed the air.

"Oh, he's probably on cloud nine." Yon snarked.

"SHUT UP!" Morticia scolded.

Out from the room came Crimson feeling like a million dollars after a shower before getting his things and getting dressed for the day. He settled for his Black Logo Cap, a green Ultra Ball themed tank top under an Aqua Hoodie, aqua blue sweatpants, and the same sneakers over green socks. He had bought the sweatpants from a local shop in town thinking it made good running clothes. Packing his things in his bag and returning most of his Pokémon except Rhint, he was ready to leave. Alisa was coming out in uniform ready for the day as well.

"Before you go on your day, you got a phone to keep numbers?" Alisa asked only to be handed it. "The hell kind of phone is that?"

"Oh right, it's 2003. Four years before we get decent phones." Crimson thought before making an excuse that it's custom built.

She bought it and he got Alisa's number before breakfast. Thankfully, Crimson did not have much of a hangover glad he cut himself at five drinks and bid Alisa goodbye.

"One last thing. Be careful on your journey. This route's massive and it'll take you a bit more than a week to traverse it. Make sure you have enough supplies." Alisa said as Crimson turned around with Rhint.

After ensuring they had supplies, Crimson and Rhint officially left that town. A good distance away, he let out the rest of his Pokémon to have a team meeting.

"All right, guys. I want to officially welcome Rhint to the team." Crimson said as Pokémon all introduced themselves to Rhint. "So today, we'll be training. Kimiko, try to take a test flight with your new wings because I'll have to replace Iron Tail with Aerial Ace or another flying type move. Jett will assist you. Morticia, Marquesha, you're going to be assisting in my training."

He turned to Chuka while rubbing her giant mushroom.

"As for you, I want you to practice your movement for you to evade much easier. I think Rhint can help with it. Try dodging repeated Water Guns for say five minutes." Crimson said thoughtfully. "You guys ready?"

Crys of yes came and training commenced.

[Cues: Dragon Ball Kai OST – Training Time]

Crimson was working to dodge and parry punch after punch from Marquesha and Morticia. Of course, he knew Morticia was holding back for him, and he appreciated the gesture. Marquesha sprang at him from behind, and he spun around to block with a kick.

Kimiko was trying to fly with her new wings as Jett was clinging to her for dear life. Jett was screaming as Kimiko was trying to properly adjust to now being a flying Pokémon. Rhint was trying to spray Chuka, and he only got her once thus far.

"I'm not going to let you do that again." Chuka said determined as she started jumping from side to side along with scuttling about.

"That's cool. Imma just have to fight dirty!" Rhint said using Bubble to spray traps for her.

"You ass." Chuka hissed jumping back. "But two can play that game."

Chuka dug underground before coming out tackling the smug bastard. A little while later, Crimson focused on Rhint asking about his Aura Sphere.

"I know it's says I know it, but I have trouble using it. Part of why that douchebag abandoned me." Rhint said coldly. "It just ain't happening."

"Now with that attitude. You got a guy who can explain to you. Aura is essence of every living creature, but there are a few who can harness it. It's basically ki from Dragon Ball Z expect a few more bonuses. You just need follow my lead." Crimson said taking a stance before breathing in and out. "Just breathe and focus your energy."

[Cues: Force of Nature – Same Ol' Thing]

Rhint copied him unsure of it would work, but grateful that he was at least trying to help. Both Rhint and Crimson began to emit a glow. For Crimson, it was a virbrant red, and for Rhint, it was ocean blue.

"Uhh….is he supposed to be glowing?" Chuka asked.

"No, but I am way too curious to interrupt!" Jett said excitedly.

They put their hands together and honed their energy into a ball of energy in between them with Squirtle's being blue and Crimson's being red.

"Now launch it forward!" Crimson said before they fired their attacks.

WHOOSH! Their spheres rushed forward nailing some kid.

"Oh shit…" Crimson said panicking.

[Music Ends]

Crimson ran up to the kid who already looked pretty battered. The kid was a pale one who had brown hair wearing a blue shirt with a Primier Ball logo on it, a light opened yellow hoodie, yellow shorts, blue sneakers with black streaks, a typical black backpack, and a Premier Ball themed cap. He had to be a year or two younger than him. At least he was still breathing and was just shook up as he began to get up.

"Yo, you all right?" Crimson asked as the kid groaned.

"Yeah, what hit me?" He asked.

"Me and my Squirtle were training." Crimson said awkwardly. "Sorry. What's your name?"

"Katsuyuki Chad." Chad said as Crimson helped him up.

"Crimson." Crimson said dusting him off.

"Wait? That Crimson. Oh man, you're kind of a hero who plenty of peeps who flunked out of that school. You, Joe, and Rusty were an inspiration." Chad said with a warm smile. "Maybe you can be of great help."

"With what exactly?" Crimson asked.

"You see, Route 24 and 25 have a bit of a split. One road leads up into the ocky mountains and some sanctuary for Pokémon, but that's more on Route 24. The low road leads to the massive road of Route 25. It's a wide place teeming with campgrounds and wild Pokémon. But there's a bit of a recent issues." Chad said bitterly. "Three bitches a little older than you moved into the area and just bully those weakers than them. They've also pretty much steal and cocere people out of their things."

"And calling Officer Jenny?" Crimson asked.

"That woman gets humiliated by Squirtle on a daily…wait is that one of them?" Chad asked.

"Sup." Rhint said.

Crimson could understand his kid's reasoning not to bother with Jenny and decided he wanted to help Chad. Chad wanted to get skilled enough to leave Beige Town behind, and Crimson could not blame the kid.

"All right, me and my team will help you down. But I need to know what you're working with and how long it'll take us to get to Route 25." Crimson asked.

"I got a trusty Ekans and a Sandshrew." Chad said sheepish as he looked over Crimson's Pokémon. "As for how long, we'll need a whole day to get there, but maybeless if we got faster modes of transportation."

He was gesturing to Kimiko and Crimson realized that he did not have to exactly go on game logic for that mostly.

"I guess we can give Kimiko a shot at flying us there." Crimson said with a smile. "I'm confident. She'll be just fine."

"Oh shit, I can't screw this up!" Kimiko thought fearfully.

"But I need to go into town to get some supplies. Namely, I need snacks to supply myself and my team." Chad said before groaning. "And I hate going into town because I'll run into my mother."

"How bad?" Crimson inquired.

"An entitled holier-than-thou twit. She's the reason I ran away…and the moment I get old enough, I'll do anywhere else to sign for an official trainer's license and get as away from here as I can. I'd go to another region if I could afford it." Chad said with a sigh.

Crimson had returned all his Pokémon as he and Chad went back into that town. Crimson was hoping that Chad was exaggerating.

-o-tOI-o-

(Curelean City | April 6th | 12:00p.m.)

"So why exactly are planning for us to go to you parents?" Jessie asked as James was readying himself.

"I'm going there for an old friend who can help us on our journey to bolster our ranks. By the way, the boss called earlier this morning. I had to lie that we knew where Crimson was." James said sheepishly.

The pair were staying incognito within a Pokémon Center planning out their next move was. Jessie had asked what boss said and James revealed that the boss was sending them both something.

"When I said I got a Nidorino, he said to wait for a package." James said nervously.

The two had still tried to keep up with their training and making some progress. Ekans had finally evolved and it felt good to win a few battles. Meowth was in a bit of thought over a few things as James went up front to wait for the package.

"I need to get my hands on some TMs." Meowth thought. "Iron Tail, definitely. I've always wanted to learn elemental attacks."

What James would get was a few leftover things that the boss thought could be useful, but stuff he did not put thought into it aside from the Moon Stone. He returned to the room to Jessie and Meowth asking what they got.

"Moon Stones…and some old TMs. Not even the reuseable ones…and these things look like they've been gathering dust." James said dryly. "Let's see…there's one for Swift, Dig, Tri-Attack, and Pay Day."

"Dibs!" Meowth said snatching the Pay Day TM. "If I learn this, our money problem will be a thing of the past!"

"You've got to be kidding. None of our Pokémon can even learn either Swift or Tri-Attack, so there's only Dig." James said annoyed. "So, who gets it?"

"Me, obviously." Jessie said vainly.

"Yeah….I don't think so." James said rolling his eyes.

As the two got into a bit of argument, their Nidorino and Nidorina noticed the Moon Stones.

"So, one of us can finally evolve?" Nidorino said excitedly.

"You can go ahead if you want. It's too late for me to have any kids of my own." Nidorina said bitterly.

"I never got why that's the case." Nidorino said oddly.

"Go ahead if you wish, I will hold out until later." Nidorina said as Nidorino sprang for the stone.

As Nidorino evolved, Jessie and James were still arguing over the TM at least at until Nidoking lumbered behind Jessie.

"Oh, come on, I was going to use that in Nidorina!" James spat as Jessie turned around to find that she had a hulking Nidoking.

"Then, you should have been paying attention." Meowth said. "We need to hurry up get a move on before the boss gets wise to your lie."

-o-tOI-o-

(Beige Town | April 6th | 1:30p.m.)

"Come on, Kimiko! Fly us out of here!" Crimson said as Kimiko flapped her wings.

Chad was in her arms as they were frantically trying to escape town. BLAM! Bullets whizzed past Crimson's face as he could hear the hiss of a shotgun. He did not expect Chad's mother to be this entitled or to be packing a shotgun. Kimiko was in a panic, but they barely escaped town. Alisa managed to tackle the woman to the ground before she could get another shot out.

"I take it back. Your mother is mental!" Crimson said panicking. "How did you put up with her?"

"Honestly, no idea." Chad said winded. "Let's just hope Alisa can keep her in jail this time. My mother kept using her ties to mayor to get out of legal trouble."

"Considering she ran around town with a loaded weapon, shot the shopkeep while trying to kill us, and wrecking the place, I'm sure she'll have to go to prison." Crimson said with faint hope. "I just hope that shopkeep doesn't die."

(A/N: Yes, seeing that they were training. I've decided not to put up the stats. Plus, I've started keeping better track of Jessie and James. No, I won't be posting them up, but I have been tracked down now. Either way, next up is a gaiden chapter. And to clarify things, the split path is to explain where the Hidden Garden, Damian, and Charmander would be. No, Crimson won't be going to the garden or meeting Damian.)