Ok so you know how I said I was going to be working on these things a lot more? Haha yeah well that didn't happen. I've just been busy and everytime I sat down to write this chapter I would lose interest really fast. However It is finished now and I do plan to TRY to work on these more. Anyway please enjoy.
Disclaimer: Pokemon does not belong to me.
Brendan and May stared each other down. Each of them ready to kick the others ass. May sent out her Torchic while Treecko was already to go. Treecko ran up and attacked without Brendan's word.
"What the hell man. I thought we agreed to work together?" he yelled.
Treecko's attack hit then he stopped to look at Brendan. It was an intense blank stare and after a second Treecko made a gagging sound and a disgusted face. A metaphorical arrow stabbed right through Brendan's heart.
"Ouch...I thought we were buddies now…" said a depressed and defeated Brendan.
"Umm do you want to do this another time? You two seem to be going through a rough patch." May said laughing her ass off.
Treecko was standing proud now with his audience until Torchic came and scratched him. He wiped where he was scratched and found his blood. He then looked up with a small smile. Thus the pound scratch battle waged. After a few minutes both Pokemon were at their limit. By the way it was going Brendan was sure Treecko was going to lose. Then he thought of something he could abuse. Treecko's pride.
"Ha you're gonna get beat by a girl." Brendan teased.
Suddenly Treecko stopped panting and stood up like he wasn't tired at all. It worked just as Brendan hoped it would. Treecko smacked Torchic with its tail knocking it out and giving Brendan the victory.
" Well it seems you two are a pretty good team when it counts." May complemented.
"Yeah. He may be a fucking bottle of vinegar but deep down there's some sugar in his heart." explained Brendan.
Treecko just rolled his eyes at Brendan. He then started panting out of exhaustion. Brendan was feeling a bit dizzy too with Treecko having gone past his limit again. Brendan began walking but stumbled. Luckily May caught him.
"here let me walk you back to Littleroot." May said holding him up.
They walked back and Brendan took a quick nap to get his energy back. After he went to the lab to find Prof Birch and May.
"Ah welcome Brendan. Now to get right down to business. As you know each Pokemon Professor has their own area of study. Oak looks into how Pokemon act, Rowen studies evolution, Elm focuses on breeding and so on." Prof Birch explained.
"Ok so what's that gotta do with me?" asked Brendan.
"Well you see my field of study is habitats. With both you and May now being certified Pokemon Trainers I would like to ask both of you to help me with gathering information on what Pokemon live where in Hoenn." answered Birch.
"I already agreed. That's what I was doing at Route 103 when you found me." May added.
"Sure I'll help you. The more the merrier right?" said Brendan.
"Thank you Brendan. Here take a pokedex. It'll help you with information. Also had you pokenav over. I'll download a program to help you keep track of what Pokemon are found where." said Prof Birch with gratitude.
"Awesome. I'm going on ahead. Get what you need and meet me on Route 101. I'll show you how that program works." said May as she went on.
Brendan decided to drop by home first.
"Mom I'm home! I've had quite the day." Brendan announced.
"But the day is barely even started. Don't tell me you and May…" said his mom until he stepped in.
"I'm gonna stop you right there. Anyway turns out dad signed off on my trainer licence and Prof Birch now wants me to help him with his research." he said.
"oh I wanna know all the details. Don't skip the juicy parts." his mother said with a wink.
"I'll never tell you those parts." he shot back.
"But there were those kinds of parts?" she said still being creepy.
"Sh...shut up!" Brendan said embarrassed.
Brendan explained the day making sure not to say anything about the shirtless May part. He let Treecko out to show her.
"Oh wow. Looks like you got quite the journey ahead of you. You should go pay your dad a visit first. You know the way to Petalburg right?" advised his mom.
"I'm not that stupid mom. I know how to use a map. I Don't know when I'll be back so I guess this is goodbye for now." he said as he got up to leave.
His mother said goodbye and he met up with May on Route 101.
"Now the dexnav will record where the Pokemon you encounter can be found by scanning the area for them. The best feature though is that it can scan for special Pokemon." May explained.
"Special Pokemon?" Brendan said not knowing what she meant by that.
"Pokemon that are born stronger than others or have unusual moves or abilities." May cleared up.
She took Brendan's pokenav and pressed the button on Poochyena. It scanned then beeped and showed some details. May was quite surprised.
"You really should catch this one." she said.
"Why? Does it have a good move or something?" he asked.
Brendan took his pokenav back and looked at the screen. It had ice fang, the ability rattled and 3 stars.
"What do the stars mean?" asked Brendan.
"It means that it has top performance in at least 3 stats." she explained.
The Poochyena in question came out and was ready to fight. Treecko was already out and ready to go too.
"Ok Treecko my only order is don't go overboard. We're gonna recruit this one." Brendan said fired up.
Treecko rolled his eyes and did his own thing as usual. He smashed the Poochyena in the face with his tail. It got up and it's breath became visible as the air around it's mouth got colder. It lunged at Treecko who just barely dodged. It ended up biting a rock and the whole thing almost instantly was encased in ice.
"Better look out for that Treecko." Brendan advised.
Treecko ignored Brendan's voice and smacked the Poochyena again. It however managed to bite Treecko's tail in the process and the frostbite from it was slowly making its way up. Brendan didn't think Treecko could hold on much longer.
"Alright time to wrap this up." he said as he threw a pokeball.
Time seemed to stop as he waited for it to click. After the third shake it finally clicked and Brendan caught his first Pokemon. He had almost little time to celebrate thought as Treecko's tail was badly frostbitten.
"Let's hurry up and get him to a poke center. Ordale is just up ahead." May said.
They made it there and the nurse quickly healed up Treecko.
"You know if you stopped being a piece of shit and take my advice sometimes you wouldn't end up like this." scolded Brendan.
Treecko just looked away annoyed because he knew Brendan was right. May had gone on ahead so Brendan decided to go too. He saw the guy who yelled at him earlier and he looked depressed.
"Hey did you find out the Pokemon that made those footprints?" Brendan asked.
"Yeah...turns out it was my own footprints...I was so excited…" the man said in utter defeat.
"Oh umm...sorry to hear that. You shouldn't give up though. Maybe one day you'll find something groundbreaking so hang in there." said Brendan taking a page out of his dad's book.
"You know what? You're right. No need to give up my work for one fuck up. Thanks kid you got a knack for picking people up. See you around." said the man more motivated than when he began.
"All I did was what my dad would have done. Maybe I do have some natural charisma. What do you think Treecko?" Brendan asked wondering.
Treecko looked at him with a face that said "do you really want me to answer that?".
"You are such a loving Pokemon." Brendan said sarcastically.
Brendan went through Route 102 fighting the trainers and finding that Poochyena can hold its own in a fight. He met up with May at the end.
"So how are you enjoying the adventuring life?" May asked.
"Not too sure yet. It only just started. I do enjoy Pokemon battles though." Brendan answered.
"Well sorry to break it to you but my team is pretty worn out. Let's head to Petalburg together and rest our Pokemon. We can pay your dad a visit to." May suggested.
"Yeah I haven't seen my old man since we got to Hoenn." Brendan said.
"To be fair you haven't been in Hoenn very long." May shot at him as they both walked to Petalburg.
Meanwhile in a little house on the outskirts of Petalburg another trainer was getting ready to set out on a journey too.
"Hey are you still planning to go see the Gym Leader today?" his dad asked him.
"Of course *cough* dad. I...I need to *cough* get ready to go too uncle's." said the boy coughing in between.
"Ok just don't push yourself too hard." his dad told him in concern.
"I *cough* won't dad." said the green haired boy as he walked out his door.
So I plan to write back and forth with this and Kanto region. So one chapter uploaded her then a chapter uploaded on Kanto. I know Kanto is much more popular but I also haven't really given this much time to shine. Anyway next chapter Wally will get introduced. Also if anyone has a better way to write the coughs into his dialogue please feel free to inform me or tell me if you like the way I put it here.