Trial and more tutorial coming up.


Disclaimer/Plot: this takes place after the events of the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum Games where Dawn/Lucas become champions of Sinnoh, in this case Lucas.


New Faces, Old Places

"Lucas? Lucas wake up. It's almost time for your trial." Akari said knocking on the door to Lucas's temporary house.

Inside Lucas is still asleep, a bad habit he picked up while he was still on his gym challenge, a lack of schedule can do that sometimes.

But eventually after a few more aggressive knocks Lucas wakes up.

He instinctively picked up his phone to check the time, the time being 8:30 in the morning.

He groaned, sitting up in the bed, rubbing his eyes to remove the grime that solidified on them. He put on his Pokétch, making sure to put alerts on silent and made his way to the door.

Akari was, of course, waiting outside.

"What took you so long!? I. Have. Been. Calling for you for 10 minutes!"

"Sorry, okay. It's just a habit I picked up from having basically no schedule whatsoever."

"Let's just go. We can't keep the Captain waiting."

The two then walked over to the Galaxy building, the guard standing by the door greeting the two as they entered.

Once they were inside, Lucas noticed a lot of people walking up and down the staircases, bringing with them Poké Balls, documents, food, or general supplies.

Akari let them through the busy halls of the building, dodging a rather large haul of parts, mainly stone and metal going downstairs.


"Captain Cyllene. I've brought Lucas." Akari said once they were in the Survey Corp area of the Galaxy building.

"Alright then." Cyllene said standing up from her desk full of documents, probably full of data about the Pokémon they captured/tamed.

"Lucas, your trial will test the skills that Laventon claims you to have. You will catch three different species of Pokémon. Each one having a different reaction to your presence. Said Pokémon will be a Bidoof, Starly, and Shinx."

"Captain, I think that's too much. My trial only consisted of catching a Bidoof."

"We must test if Laventon's claims are true, if they are we have a powerful ally that will speed up our research ten fold, if not then they have no use to us."

"Uhm, I'm right here you know?" Laventon said form a side room that connected to Cyllene's office

"Yes I am aware of your presence."

"Lucas, could you come here for a second? I have something to give you." Laventon called Lucas over to his lab.

"I found this, in prelude beach last night after your arrival." Laventon placed a backpack on the table. It was completely filthy, covered in sand, the smell of saltwater lingered and hanged in the air.

"Is-is that my bag?"

"So this is yours Lucas?" Laventon asked razing an eyebrow.

Lucas nodded.

"Well it's yours, it just need a good wash and it will good as new. Should help carrying these more convenient." Laventon said, passing a tray of 20 Poké Balls over and onto the table.

"Oh and one more thing." Laventon grabbed 3 Poké Balls from his desk and presented them to Lucas. "This one is Rowlet's. This one is Cydaquill's. And this one is Oshawott's. Go on choose the one you want."

"Uhm, are you sure?"

"I'm sure, take it as... your compensation for helping me out yesterday."

"Thanks I guess." Lucas then looked through all the memories he could find about the Pokémon Laventon was letting him choose. After a moment he decided to pick.

"I pick Rowlet."

Laventon handed him Rowlet's Poké Ball and Lucas sent the small owl out.

"Hey Rowlet, you remember me?"

A nod came as a reply.

"I'm going to be your new trainer now. Is that okay?"

Another nod.

"Great to have you."

Rowlet then perched on Lucas's shoulder, the Professor was intrigued at Rowlet's behavior, surprised to know they would do that.

"Well, I'll be going now." Lucas said, as he started to walk out to the main entrance, Rowlet pointing at the door with determination in his eyes

"Do you even know where the trial takes place."

Lucas then proceeded to sheepishly walk back into the Professor's lab.

Once outside again the two teens run into a merchant, who's currently trying to sell bottles of liquid to a Security Corp member.

"This potion is very effective at removing any ailments your Pokémon might have, be it paralysis, frostbite, burn, or drowsiness and it can also recover you Pokémon strength really fast."

"That's amazing, but with the price you're selling them for it's just not in my interest to buy them."

The merchant left disheartened, but noticed the two teens about to leave and tried to get them to buy his wares.

"Hello there, I'm Volo of the Gingko guild. Nice to meet you." Volo said to Lucas and Akari. "By the looks of it you are a survey corp member." Volo looks at Akari and says. "And you... well I'm not to sure what you're wearing. Or what corp your in."

"Oh Lucas is not in any of the Corps, yet. He will be taking the trial today actually."

"Oh how interesting, say Lucas? How about we have a battle, your Pokémon versus mine. What do you say?"

"Okay sure, a battle will be fun." Lucas replied, then looked over Volo again. 'Why does he look like Cynthia? And why do I have a feeling I'm going to be seeing more of him.'

"Alright then, go Togepi!" Volo sent out Togepi.

"Go Rowlet!" Rowlet floated down from his perch on Lucas's shoulder.

"Uh wait, I don't know what moves you know." Rowlet blinked mouth open in some form of avian disappointment, before flapping to form a gust of wind.

"Ahh okay, you know gust and nothing else?" A nod came as a reply.

"Okay, we're ready."

"Then battle begin!" Akari initiated the start of the battle.

"Rowlet, up in the air! Then gust!" Rowlet flew up out of range for Togepi and used gust.

"Togepi dodge, then use tackle to ground Rowlet."

"Rowlet, kick it back."

Togepi was then launched into the dirt by the powerful kick. Volo blinked, surprised that he was defeated so effortlessly. 'This Lucas fellow was definitely someone to observe further.' He thought , as he recalled Togepi.

"Wow that was amazing, Lucas. Rowlet didn't even get scratched."

"Yes it was a definite show of skill and talent."

After a few more minutes of conversation, the two left for the Obsidian Fieldlands.


{Obsidian Fieldlands}

"Alright here we are the fieldlands camp, there's a workbench there for basic crafting a tent and a storage chest to store anything valuable you find." Akari said as they arrived at the small camp. "And just over that hill is where you can find the three Pokémon you need for your trial." She pointed at said hill.

Lucas looked over to Rowlet, its eyes showed trust, trust that he earned in the battle against Volo.

"Well then buddy let's do this." Rowlet gave a determined thrill.


The two soon find themselves against a Shinx after successfully capturing the other two required species for the trial.

"Alright Rowlet, Leafedge!" Rowlet's wings sharpened, glowing a bright green as energy buildt up. The feathers were then launched, hitting the Shinx head on, knocking the small cat over. Lucas saw the opportunity and threw a Poké Ball, capturing Shinx with ease.

There were claps heard once he picked up the occupied Poké Ball, it was Laventon.

"That was impressive, great work. Good to have you with us officially."

Laventon then proceeded to snap a photo of the event.


{Jubilife Village}

Once Lucas was back inside the village. He was led into the Galaxy building once again to report of the successful trial.

This time the halls of the building are quite, most likely passed it's busiest hours. Cyllene was, of course, at her desk checking through various documents on her table.

But before Laventon could report on Lucas's success Cyllene interrupt him.

"Well done in completing the trial. You will be a great asset in the Survey Corp. Grab a uniform over there." She congratulates and points over to a basket full of clothes. "They should have one close to your size."

"Now go get dressed and present yourself to our commander."


Once fully dressed Lucas makes his way to the third floor after asking some of the guards where the commander's office is.

And once there he sees a man, who bears a striking resemblance to Rowan, an ancestor maybe?

"So you are the newest recruit of the Survey Corp, I must say your recommendation from Laventon was hard to believe, but as you have passed the trial I cannot deny those claims." The voice was an exact match to Rowan down to the low grumble after each word.

"Now then come at me. Face me in combat."

Rowlet tenses waiting for the commander's Pokémon, only for it not to come. Instead the command wants Lucas to actually fight him.

So he puts down Rowlet on the floor and charged at the commander, using some of the things he learned when handling Team Galactic grunts. Like using his opponent's force against them. Kamari went for a punch, only for Lucas to dodge and pull the commander's arm, knocking him off balance.

The commander then falls to the floor, but jolts upward and flips Lucas around, knocking the teen to the floor.

"You have some skill. But you faltered at aftermath giving me an opening."

"I... will hope to do... better sir." Lucas said in between groans.


"So how did it go?" Akari asks, looking at Lucas's bruised up arms and legs with a wince.

"Tripped up the commander, made him fall on the hard floor, but I got caught of guard and was knocked completely down."

"So you managed to knock down the commander?"

"To some degree yes, I did."

"Well then let's go celebrate your successful trial and new job."


After some dinner and some questions from Laventon about Lucas's origins, the answers he gave being as vague as can be, without sounding like he's not answering anything.

Lucas went back to the small house he used last night and checked his phone for any messages.


"I would like to congratulate you on your entry into the Galaxy Team, I know you have probably heard this before and will likely give the same reply you did to them, but congratulations anyway."

"Thanks Arceus, wow can't believe god is actually congratulating me on catching a few of his creations."

"Do not worry, as long as the Pokémon are happy with their trainers I accept the captures."

"Oh yeah one more thing. How many unique species of Pokémon do I have to catch to complete the mission?"

"237, though in total there are 242, if you wish you can catch them."

"I just might, who are they?"

"There's me, Darkrai, Phione, Manaphy, and Shaymin."

"Wait so the creation trio, I have to catch them?"

"Yes."

"Welp, looks like I need to find some strong Pokémon. An ice type would be nice."

"You were more surprised about the fact you have to capture my children then the fact you can capture me?"

"It's only because you're optional."

"Ahh okay, that is understandable."

"Welp goodnight, I have a lot of catching to do tomorrow."

"Goodnight Lucas."


There's Chapter 3, hope you enjoyed.

Edit: Bruh, how did I not catch the typo 'Staryu'. It's fixed now.

Edit2: changed one thing in the texts with Arceus, that's a reveal for later that was a mistype on my part and kinda retconned the next chapter.