A.N: Before this starts, I want to say that this is my first fan fic. I'm writing this on my phone, so don't hunt me down for how short it is. I'm still new to this so any reviews would be nice. If this gets enough support, I might continue this, I would have nothing else to do. Pokemon is not owned by me. If it was, we would have a different main character in the anime. Without further adieu, let's get into this.

"Hi" Normal talking

'Alola' Thinking

"Yo" Telepathy

The almost never ending rain dripped down in Po town as the morning started. During this time, Salandits would wake up their trainers and the grunts would start their day. The grunts would do their morning routine which involved personal hygiene and renewing the dye in their hair for some.

They would then clean off yesterday's graffiti, only to put on a new coat that looked exactly the same as last time. Later, they would go to their stations and ward off any curious trainers by battling. In the off chance they did lose, the trainer was jumped by all of the other grunts, having their pokemon and belongings stolen from them. Sometimes they would accompany the Boss as he went to meet with the Aether foundation; some found it as a privilege, most found the task as a giant chore as the grunts in both areas would fight each other... a lot.

Later off in the day, they would meet up in their houses and, if their day was successful, throw giant parties that everyone in the entire town invited to. They would then pass out when it reached three in the morning and thus concludes an ordinary day of Team Skull's grunts. Although, this story is not about the ordinary grunt.

Early in the morning, in a bedroom of a shack like house, was a shaggy blue haired ten year old asleep on the floor. Not to far away from said child was a Ralts, which was unusual to see in Alola, open its eyes and yawn. Once it was fully awake, it nudged the child next to it with no result. It kept nudging the child with slowly increasing force until it went full out punching and kicking to no avail. Out of breath and with no more options, the Ralts used Psychic and threw the child out the window where the cold rain hit their face.

"Aaugh" the kid screamed as he shook from the rain, "Wally, don't do that." The kid then got up and ran into some shade to get away from the rain.

"Learn to wake yourself up and I won't have to do that, Joey" telepathically said the Ralts now known as Wally as it addressed the kid now known as Joey. Wally then went up to the window, blew a raspberry, and ran back inside before Joey could chase it. The two then ran around as Joey chased Wally until Wally was eventually caught and tickled into submission.

"Hey, what's all of that racket" loudly asked a voice from outside. As soon as the sound made it to their ears (1) the two ran outside and looked up to the roof to see a man that looked like an ordinary male Team Skull grunt, with a few differences. The biggest differences were that he was blonde and never wore the bandana over his mouth. The man then jumped from the roof to the ground and looked down at Joey with a fake scowl that was not very convincing. "I was trying to sleep the last few minutes I could before the other grunts throw rocks at me to wake me up."

"S-sorry uncle Luca," Joey said, scared for his life to a point of stuttering. Wally wasn't any better, mostly because he was younger. If it wasn't obvious, Joey wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Probably one of the dullest in the shed.

Looking at Joey's scared face, Luca laughed like a madman. "Ah, you should see the look on your face, it's priceless" Luca said while Joey and Wally crossed their arms in annoyance. "Anyways, thanks for waking me up, I'ma go on patrol now."

Before Luca could leave, Joey asked "Uncle Luca, when am I going to join Team Skull?" Those words hit him like fire to a blade of grass. "You and the others are so cool, beating people up and battling so much. I think that you and Salandit can beat admin Plumeria if you really tried. I wanna be just like you" he said as Wally nodded along. As Joey said this, one thing was in Luca's mind. Don't let Joey join. And when he thought this, he was hit with an idea.

"I wanted to keep this a secret but, you can join once you beat me in a pokemon battle" Luca said as Joey's eyes practically glowed and Wally jumped in joy. Then pulled out his Pokeball and threw it to reveal his level 50 Salandit. "You better be ready because I'm pulling all of the stops." Wally and Joey then backed away and the battle started.

"Ok, start things off with a Flamethrower" Luca yelled as Salandit rushed close to Wally the Ralts and spit a torrent of fire. Wally was about to get hit, until he teleported away at the last second. "Oh right! Now, use Psychic" Joey told Wally. Wally nodded and stuck out its hands, Salandit being pushed into a wall. Salandit shook off the hit and growled, not really feeling much pain.

'Ok, I'm starting to regret taking his Ralts to the... move reminder... I think that's her title' Luca thought to himself as he commanded Salandit to shake it off and use Shadow Claw. Salandit attacked and Wally tried to pull the same stunt a second time. Sadly, the Ralts failed and was knocked back on the verge of fainting. "No, Wally"Joey yelled as he ran to Wally and picked him up. When he made it, Wally was unconscious making it so that he had lost.

"I mean, I did say that I would pull all of the stops" Luca said as Joey held Wally close to his chest, "He just needs time to sleep and... since you lost, you're not able to join till later."

"Okay... you can do patrol now..." Joey said as he hugged Wally as if he were to die. Luca just shrugged and walked away. As this all went down, another grunt was watching the entire thing.

Later, into the night, Luca returned home, Joey and Wally presumably asleep. He walked into the house and sat down at a table and looking to his right he saw a picture with a younger version of himself and two others. "Why did you entrust Joey and Wally to me? You guys knew that I wasn't a good role model" Luca said as he picked up the picture, "Wherever you are, I hope y'all are safe. I wonder how Joey would react if he found out that his parents are missing..." Before Luca could finish his musings, a knock came from the door he just entered. "This better be important or I will send out Salandit" he said as he opened the door to reveal a grunt.

"Yo, I couldn't help but hear from earlier, are you sure squirt should be a part of the Team?" the grunt asked. Instead of answering, Luca got out his pokeball and said "You have ten seconds to run".

"Yo yo yo bro, I'm not here to diss but I'm just askin'. You're normally so against the squirt joining the squad, I just wanna know what made you change yo mind." the grunt said frantically. When Luca heard that, he put his pokeball back in his pocket and invited the grunt in.

Meanwhile, in Joey's room, Wally woke up and opened the door a crack to see Luca was back. Wally then nudged Joey a bit which somehow managed to wake him up. Tired, Joey walked to the door to see what was happening but, when he got to the door Wally stopped him. "I think it's better if we listen instead, then we'll know what they're talking about without the filter" Wally reasoned as Joey was too tired to object.

Back in the living space Luca pulled out a chair for himself and the grunt. "I'm gonna give this to you straight, he's weak and will probably get hurt" Luca said in a completely serious tone, "If he were to be a grunt, he would be pummeled without mercy and bullied by associating with us." These words struck Joey in his weak point. "Also, if he were to be a grunt, all he would be is a liability" Luca said.

That one line hurt Joey more than all of the beat downs that he got from Wally. His role model and closest thing to a father, didn't believe in his dreams in the slightest. Before he could hear Luca say more, he went to his backpack and packed it. "What are you doing" Wally asked, perplexed by Joey's actions.

"I'm pretty sure you heard uncle Luca call me a liability, weak, and easy to beat. I'm gonna change that" Joey replied.

"How are we gonna do that? All of the people here will cream us."

"We will leave here and go to places where we can get stronger. Like Melemele Island. We will get stronger and beat the entirety of Team Skull. That will get back at him for calling us weak."

"Hate to ruin your fun but, don't you think you're being a bit overdramatic. That and also, he probably has more to sa-" Wally tried to reason before Joey interrupted him by saying "Lalalalala going on an adventure where you're most likely gonna evolve." Then Wally shut his trap both interested by the evolution and realizing that Joey was already out the window. Even though it was reluctantly, Wally followed Joey.

Back with Luca and the grunt, they just finished on talking about how weak Joey was until Luca brought out the big reason. "Ok... it's not only that he's weak but... his heart is made of the purest of gold. He's too good to be a bad person. Yeah he's stubborn, jumps to conclusions, weak, and acts incredibly stupid but, he's a good person and I don't want him to end up like... me." Luca said. The grunt sighed, finally realizing why Luca was extremely protective of Joey.

"Well, thanks for telling me... you're a good person as well, even if you don't see it" the grunt said as they stood up and left. When they left, Luca decided to check on Joey before he would go to sleep on the roof.

Opening the door Luca checked only to see, Joey wasn't around. He then checked in the other room and only saw two grunts snuggling together, asleep. Slowly closing the door to leave the room, Luca went into full blown panic mode. Luca ran all around the house to see no sign of Joey or even Wally. He then fell onto his knees, feeling as if he failed his sister, Joey's mother.

Joey was a good distance away from Po town, due to how easy it was for him to leave because every grunt in Team Skull knew him. He went to the northwestern side near the sea and had a ride pager take him to Malie city from there, Wally riding on his shoulders. As he waited to make it to Malie, Joey watched all of the water pokemon swim around as Wally made some water bubbles from the sea water.

When they finally arrived at Malie city Joey combed back his blue hair, and ran through the city. As Joey and Wally passed by people, Wally would always have the chance to use Psychic on the money in their wallets, essentially pickpocketing them. When they made it to the harbor, they racked up a measly 3,000 yen (2), enough to feed them AND send them to Melemele. Once they realized this, they went straight to the malasada shop and ordered multiple big malasadas, spending half of the money they "earned".

After stuffing themselves, they finally made it to the harbor and bought two tickets to Hau'oli City, Melemele Island and got onto the boat. Once they found their seats on the boat, Wally and Joey went fast to sleep.

A.N: That's the end of this, I guess. I mostly wrote this out of boredom but, I will continue if I get enough support.(1): Do ralts have ears? If they do, how do they look like. If they don't, how do they hear. This question kept me up at night.(2): If it wasn't obvious, the currency in pokemon is yen. They just replaced the Y with a P. Also, since the actual money doesn't have a name, it shall be called yen here. The amount of money Joey had was 30 American dollars. Thanks for reading this, stay safe, and wash your hands.