[A long time ago]
"No! Don't throw out your elbow, turn with your body and use the momentum from that turn!" Gonzap yelled out as a young ten year old Wes threw another punch after another.
"This is annoying." The young boy muttered as two Eevees at the corner of the room played with each other.
"Good. If you're complaining about it then that means you're actually doing it." The towering muscleman with a just as titanic mustache smiled as he stood up from leaning on the gym wall and walked towards the padded area of the small workout gym room in their new Base in Echo Canyon.
"Now go out and do ten laps around the base." Gonzap folded his arms.
"What!? Out there!? But it's burning out there and I'm not wearing any shoes!" The tan boy cried out.
Gonzap leaned in with a smug grin. "Either go out there for an hour or two, or I kick you back out for good and just keep all your stuff."
"That's Tauros Crap!"
"You've got a tongue, but I wanna see you use your feet!" Gonzap stood back up and pointed. "Time's a wasting, kid! Either it's too hot out today, or the cold air will freeze you to death at night!"
"I hate you!" The boy cried as he was led out.
"Good! Something's gotta keep you alive!" Gonzap howled with laughter as he watched Wes run laps under the scorching sun.
Ten laps later, the boy collapsed in front of the HQ in utter exhaustion and sweat.
Gonzap towered over his fallen and gasping body. "Ha, so you didn't die of heat stroke then?" He smiled as he lifted the kid up and slung him over his burly shoulders before bringing him back to his room.
The large man couldn't help but feel a little pride in the stubborn oaf. "Dang kid, you're harder to kill than I thought. ... Good! You'll be better than any of us when I'm through with you."
[Present time]
"SHE'S YOUR MOTHER!?"
"YOU HAVE A SON!?"
Needless to say everyone was shocked at that revelation as both sides screamed out loud towards their respective teammate.
Wes rubbed his ears. "Ow."
"Your Mother is Hunter J!?" Ben screamed out. "H-How is that even possible!?"
Wes sighed and looked over back to the woman who was still pointing her gauntlet at him. Her eyes were still staring right at Wes.
It seemed as if now was not the right time to ask for questions.
…
"You're more rugged than I thought you'd look." Hunter J spoke out at last. She didn't say that like a conversation, more like she was stating a fact.
"And you look younger than someone supposedly in their late 40's." Wes responded back.
Another silent pause went by as both sides still were too shocked at the fact these two were related and were continually comparing the two side by side.
"Let me guess," Wes finally spoke out again. "You're here for Anto, right?" He pointed a thumb out to the boy which made everyone look at him.
Hunter J said nothing, but she did glance at the boy then glance back at Wes without moving her gauntlet.
It seemed like that was all Wes need to know as he placed a hand on his visor. "You know… he told me to never blame you."
Hunter J's face soured for one moment and quickly fired her gauntlet. Wes side stepped and charged his Snag Machine as he dodged.
Both of them placed on their visors and charged right for each other.
Hunter J fired two shots right at the teen, but the Orreain already threw two Ultra Balls up towards them to get hit by the beams and turn them solid gold. The combined new weight forced the two spheres to drop but not before Wes kicked one of them right towards Hunter J while grabbing the other one before running back towards her.
Hunter J jinked the kicked sphere as it zoomed past her and hit one of her grunts on the forehead and knocked him to his feet, but she didn't care at all as she threw two of her Poké Balls to bring out an Ariados and a Drapion to follow after her. Wes' Pokémon all came up running after him.
Hunter J fired again, but this time Espeon summoned a Reflect barrier that turned gold before Delta Wartortle came in and kicked it right for Hunter J. Quickly, Hunter J's Drapion imbued its claws with Night Slash and shattered the incoming solid barrier like glass, but then he was tackled by Umbreon away from the two closing in teams with Espeon following after his brother.
Ariados quickly shot out a Sticky Web to entrap all of them, but Wes' Elektross dove in with a Wild Charge to bust through the web and ram the bug poison type. However, the spider was far more nimble and side stepped out of the way before attacking the escaping electric Pokémon.
A shadow quickly passed overhead of Wes and his Zwelious and Delta Wartortle as Mega Slamance flew back in with wind variant version of Hyper Voice. Acting quickly, Delta Wartorlte jumped on the back of Zwelious and made him sink into the Shadows while Wes jumped out of the way of the attack. Quickly, Delta Wartortle and Zwelious popped back up and fired at the fast moving Mega Salamance, gaining his attention.
Hunter J finally came close and tried to punch the teen, but Wes titled his head and grabbed the arm before judo throwing the older woman into the air. The Hunter grunted but flipped mid air back to her feet before firing her gauntlet again at the Snagger. Wes acted quickly and threw the golden ball he had towards the shot, making it bounce off and hit one of her men on accident before the two charged in again.
The Hunter threw a variety of kicks and punches with graceful form that Wes seemed to be dodging with relative ease until the two both stepped back and attempted to punch each other—only for both their other hands to come up and catch the opposing fist.
Then the two looked over to their respective teams.
"What are you all gawking for!? Help me!" They both yelled at the same time before jumping away from each other.
"Dear Arceus! The strangeness never stops does it?" Anto spoke up as he motioned his Pokémon to follow him and attack some still stupefied mercenaries. "I'm heading towards the ship, guys, cover me!"
"Hey, the target is heading towards the ship, stop him!" One of the mercenaries cried out before Summer kicked him in the stomach.
"Wes, are you alright?!" The female ranger yelled as she ducked under a Mercenary and judo slammed him over her shoulder.
"This one is mine!" Wes called as he cart wheeled away from Hunter J. "Just protect the unluckiest person in the world!"
Hunter J quickly jumped as Mega Salamance picked her up and went towards her target.
However, suddenly the mega Pokémon abruptly stopped and Hunter J found herself frozen.
Down below, Espeon was using psychic to hold the two in place.
"Aww come on," Wes taunted from below. "I was starting to enjoy our mother-son bonding."
"Oh Arceus, you have his sarcasm." She gasped and at the back of her visor she was rolling her eyes.
Wes clenched his fist. "How could I not get it!?" Wes motioned down, prompting Espeon to throw down the two towards the floor, but Drapion came in and used Night Slash on the psychic. Thankfully, Umbreon jumped in and took the blow. However, it still knocked him and his brother out of the way and broke of the psychic hold, allowing Hunter J and her Mega Salamance to focus back on him.
"I have no time for this." The silver haired woman snarled.
"Too bad, we both know this was a long time coming." Wes stood back up slowly from avoiding the Drapion. Behind his lens, he was giving a solemn stare towards the woman wearing her visor.
Hunter J did not respond to that except with a silent sigh.
She pressed something on the side of her Visor and a screen appeared on her sign that asked, "Would you like to Activate Synergy Burst?"
She clicked yes.
At that moment, all three of her Pokémon got wrapped in rainbow aura.
Wes recognized that from when Sied activated his Battle AR.
The Snagger cursed, "Sunnuva—"
The Synergy Burst activated on all three of her Pokémon, making a huge power wave that blew the winds around Wes and his Pokémon like gales.
"Why does everyone but us have an Arceus-freaking power up!?" Wes complained as the winds died down.
"Alright, ship with forcefield. How do we bring it down?" Anto bet other trainers didn't have to deal with this. He also bet that they wouldn't say such a phrase as if it was common place in their everyday life.
The mute ducked as Ohko and Takezo jumped over him and attacked some Ice and Fairy Types moving in to capture him. The boy walked forward a bit before looking towards Kryx and asked her if there was a way to bring it down.
"Gimme a sec!" The excited Elgyem called out as she played with her DS.
Anto looked back up and noticed that at the bottom of the ship there were hatches opening up with objects coming out…
And they seemed to be pointing towards him.
"Oh cannons. OHCRACPCANNONS!" Anto cried out as he grabbed Kryx and jumped out of the way of the cannon blasting a small radius of where he and his Psychic type were standing. What was impressive was that the forcefield actually opened up and let the artillery pass through before closing right after it left.
More cannon fire shot out and Super Nut quickly grabbed the two of them and launched into the sky before landing on a Stealth Rock on the air.
"Are they trying to kill me—oh," Anto realized that they probably couldn't kill him… which meant that they were allowed lethal force to catch him… which then made him realize how bad this really was and made his eyes widen. "Oh no…"
"OK, I think I got it!" Kryx spoke out before putting the DS away in her hammer space. "We just gotta hit it really, really hard!"
"Phenomenal!" "Wait What?" Super Nut declared while Anto gawked in shock.
"I thought you scanned it!?" The boy spoke out before Kryx teleported them on the other side of ship as cannons missed them where they were previously.
"Well I was, but my scanner broke when you tackled me down and I can't teleport us through there, so I decided to take a page from Ohko and just hit it until your problems are solved!" Kryx gave an elated smile.
Anto's left eye twitched while Super Nut was all for the plan and quickly grabbed the two of them to dive as the cannons blasted the floating rock they were previously on.
Mid fall, Super Nut shouted out to Kryx. "Science Alien, execute Super Hero formation: Team Rocket!"
"Roger, Super Nut!" She said as she teleported away with Super Nut grabbing Anto and putting him down before catapulting away from him.
"Huh what? Guys?" Anto looked around before he noticed the ship pointing their cannons towards him. "Guys!?"
The cannons fired as Anto was grabbed by someone else and looked up to see a Staraptor.
Summer waved at him from above with her goggles on. "Hey Anto! I never introduced you, but this is Staraptor, my first partner!"
"Sup my earthly bbrrrooo." Why did a flying bird have a surfer's accent? "The filth of man's soul always tries to pluck those innocent flowers maaannnnn."
Anto looked back up to Summer with a raised brow. "Right, umm he said that he's sad that there are people doing this." The girl translated. She had to admit it took her a while to get through her partner's accent when Flow first translated him. She then looked over towards the ship. "Any ideas how to get that down? I figured you would have thought of something with how the field opens up every time it shoots, but I've got nothing."
"I think Super Nut has that covered…" Anto looked down as he and the others saw Super Nut stretching himself as far as he could with two floating boulders with Kryx psychically holding the boulders while Sentinel kept pulling Super Nut back.
"Are they doing a slingsh—" A boom caught Summer's attention as she quickly looked back and made Staraptor avoid the shell aimed at them that flew off and exploded on the forcefield.
Down below, Ohko, Sentinel, and Kryx jumped in front of the steel and grass type before Super Nut let loose.
"TRADE MARK CATCHPHRASE!" Super Nut let go and the four Pokémon sped through the gap before it closed and slammed into the right end of the ship.
"… Are they… alive?" Summer asked incredulously as she saw the ship starting to smoke.
The plane started exploding on that right side where attacks started shooting out and smoke was starting to fill their forcefield.
"I'm starting to wonder who really are the immortals in our group?" Anto asked as he saw the ship starting to smoke more.
One could imagine spending time with their mother to be a sweet thing.
Usually that person would be right, but if you are Wes from Orre, you find out that quality time with your mother is the same as preventing her from kidnapping your best friend by fighting her in a brutal one on one.
Wes will never stop saying that life in Orre was so much simpler.
Ariados, now surrounded by a rainbow aura, launched a web string that quickly tangled up Wes' Elecktross. What was surprising was that the silk thread was so much stronger than before and the electric type could not break free of his restraints.
Quickly seeing this, Espeon helped out his ally by blasting a psychic on the bug type that was about to use Poison Fang on him. Drapion came rushing toward the distracted psychic type, determined to get it good. Umbreon jumped in between them and summoned a protect barrier for the two of them.
To the dark type and the psychic type's surprise, Drapion's attack was clashing with the forcefield, and it was even starting to break.
The two Pokémon quickly backed off when Drapion finally smashed through the protecting field.
"Bro, use our combined forcefield!" Umbreon shouted as the two eeveelutions quickly summoned their version of Light Screen and Reflect, combining it with Protect as the Drapion came at them again with his new found strength.
This time, their increased forcefield was holding.
"Any ideas? I don't think we can hold this all day." The dark type sweat drop as Drapion increased the ferocity of his attack.
"Sadly that was Wes' department." His psychic brother answered grimly.
Elecktross saw the two brothers pinned down and quickly looked at Aradios quickly getting back up. A tricky idea formed in his head and quickly he floated a few steps to his right and shouted.
"Come and get me you poor excuse for a Galvantula!" The electric type taunted.
That ticked the poison and bug type off and quickly he fired another web shot—that was what Elecktross was waiting for! He admitted that he wasn't like any of the others, but he has been adventuring with Super Nut for quite some time and he's had his fair share of close calls.
All Elecktross did was swerve his entire body to drop into the ground, stopping his magnetic force propelling him up, and let the enhanced web fly… right into the back of Drapion and slamming him face first into the brother's force field.
The two eeveelutions did not waste a second as they saw Drapion sticking to their forcefield. "Now!"
The two ran, turning the bubble to turn into a wall that they both pushed with the still trapped Drapion almost able to move.
"I can't use my powers on you," Espeon's body glowed brightly with his eyes shining bright blue. "But the Web on you is a different story!" He used the psychic power to strengthen the tearing web and quickly brought it back together. Then he lifted it up, along with the Dark type into the air before slamming him down like a hammer on top of the Ariados.
Again.
And Again.
And Again.
Espeon gasped for breath as he lifted the Drapion as high as he could before slamming him down with amazing speed on the other poison type.
As he crashed into the ground, Espeon fell to his knees, tired from exerting that much energy.
"Did you get them?" Elektross asked as he went towards the two brothers.
Three shots came out of the dust cloud, revealing themselves to be webbing that entrapped all three of them.
Drapion and Ariados walked out of the crater Espeon created still enveloped in Rainbow Aura and looking ticked off even though they were damaged.
Umbreon looked towards his tired brother and the struggling electric type before looking at the two Poison types madly charging their way towards them. "Oh this is going to suck."
Suddenly, two Ultra Balls with a golden glow went flying towards the two poison types. They opened up and two bright hand shaped lights appeared—
Before it suddenly died down and two gold frozen Ultra Balls fell harmlessly to the ground. Wes acted quickly and recalled all three of his Pokémon, taking them away from the web and throwing them all back out, ready to face his mom and her poison types.
"Thanks for the save!" The electric eel cried out as he and the others prepared themselves in front of their opponents.
"Don't thank me yet, apparently my mother can kick my ass." Wes rubbed a sore spot on his cheek that wasn't originally there. He was careless and was kicked by his mother with a reverse round house. It stung like all heck.
"Stand out of my way." Hunter J commanded, throwing her hand out. "Nothing will stop me from completing my mission."
Wes sighed at that. "I meant what I said you know."
"Shut up."
That didn't deter the teen as he clenched his fist and felt his voice come out. "Pops doesn't hate you for—"
"Shut it! You don't understand! Neither of you ever understood!" Hunter J snarled and threw out her arm. "The world is a cruel and horrible place! The only thing you should ever rely on is yourself! I tried to accept you, but Kay…" She froze as the word escaped her mouth.
"Pops wanted to live a normal life."
"Normal lives are lies." Hunter J angrily spat. "Those people are nothing but ignorant fools who will have all they have ripped away from them without a second though. And people who defend those types of ideals are idiots. Your father was the biggest idiot of all." There was something in her words, something of an old scar a very, very long time ago. Pain was welling up in her chest as she recalled the fire…, the pain…
The betrayal.
"Oh I agree with you there, he was an idiot." Wes spoke out as he removed his visor and closed his eyes. He then opened them up with a solemn and calm face. "He always regretted not trying harder to take you with us."
"Shut up!" Hunter J yelled before pointing to the sky, revealing Mega Salamance flying his way towards them. "Mega Slamance, Hyper Beam!"
The boy from Orre widened his eyes at the Aerilate boosted Hyper Beam about to be fired in his direction. "Oh sh—"
A shadow appeared in front of Wes, and out jumped Delta Wartortle and Zewlious, both unleashing their most powerful Fusion moves at the insanely boosted Hyper Beam. Quickly, seeing the two, Espeon, Umbreon, and Elektross did the same with their Fusion Moves as well towards the attack.
The five attacks collided with the Hyper Beam, causing a massive explosion that spread through the entire estate.
[Back inside the Ship]
Super Nut, Ohko, and Sentinel were beating up bad guys and their Pokémon in the ship as Kryx was fiddling with her broken device.
Super Nut pinned down a Heatmor into the floor hard before looking to the floating Elgyem. "Science Alien! Where must we go to stop this vile contraption of evil?!"
Kryx finally booted up the 3DS shaped scanner. "Ah there we go!" She flicked a limb and slammed incoming Mercenaries into the wall with her Psychic powers while still holding up and looking at the scanner.
"Wow the main engine is… right behind this door!" She pointed to one of her limbs under a large door that was directly behind her that said, "Engine Room: warning! Be cautious and don't fire off Pokémon attacks in here!"
They were right in front of it this whole time?
"Ohhh! So that does explain why there are so many of these guys here…" Sentinel spoke out as he Specter Stepped, or did his Fusion move of Phantom Force and Shadow Sneak, and appeared right in front of the door with his claws set ablaze with dragonic energy. "Alright, stand back!"
He stabbed the claws at the opening of the doors before forcing them open and pushing the doors to the side with his monstrous strength. The Engine room was larger than they all expected, and in the middle was this huge looking furnace that seemed to be powering the whole ship.
As soon as he opened the door, a variety of attacks fired at the Delta Charmeleon. That was when Super Nut intercepted and used Protect to stop the attacks from hurting his super hero partners.
Out of the smoke, Ohko came jumping out and threw a large ice based Focus Blast into the ground, freezing the floor and the ice which also froze the legs off the Pokémon and people to the floor except him. Kryx teleported right above Ohko and swung her limbs quickly together with her eyes glowing. Suddenly, all of the remaining mercenaries and their Pokémon were slammed into each other after they were all pulled through the ice faster than they expected. Kryx threw them around the room like a pin ball machine before throwing them out another door.
The alien teleported next to a console and then stabbed her Probe into it, allowing her full access to all computers across the ship. "OK, now gimme a second as I power down everything—"
"TRADEMARK CATCHPHRASE!" Super Nut cried out as he threw a giant rock at the reactor with Sentinel firing a Shadow Ball and Ohko throwing a Focus Blast along with the Ferrothorn.
Those two were also screaming at the top of their lungs like lunatics. (Except Sentinel who didn't have any lungs—)
The engine room exploded violently from the three attacks and all meters nearby Kryx shot up to danger levels.
"Well ok that works." Kryx spoke out as she took out her probe and turned off the forcefield trapping the Dragon Clan Estate deactivated the Freezing mechanism from the ship, releasing all gold frozen Pokémon. "I wonder why all my experiments end with explosions though." She teleported herself and the three others out before the reactor went critical.
[At the same time.]
Lily blasted some ice types trying to get to her before she noticed something up in the air.
Anto was beside her and saw how the forcefield around the ship instantly vanished. Something told him that this next moment would be pretty rough.
"Lily, shield!" Anto spoke quickly.
Thankfully, the grass type was powered up with several Quiver Dances after the fighting started and did her best to cover up her allies who she could see within the dust cloud over them.
Then Hunter J's ship exploded.
The shockwave blew away the dome surrounding the estate, and the smoke that filled the battlefield.
Hunter J, who was covering her face, looked back up in surprise. Her ship was taken down after all of their new upgrades?!
She underestimated her enemies and she needed to retreat now!
"Salamance!" She cried out as the mega Pokémon desecended and picked her up as she recalled her two Pokémon and sent a message to all of her members to retreat.
Mega Salamance flew high above the clouds and Hunter J cursed under her breath. She didn't know the Target would actually take down her ship from the inside out. If only she was more focused on him rather than—
Warning signals popped up on her visor as her instincts took over and commanded Mega Salamance to swerve to the right, avoiding a powerful Dark Pulse attack.
That wasn't right, the boy all had ground bound dark types! How could his attack reach here all the way up here—
As she turned her head back towards the attack, her eyes widened behind her visor.
"Like Hell I'm letting you escape!" Wes yelled out as he was riding on top of his newly evolved Hydreigon with his two starters beside him.
'His Zwelious evolved!? How!?' The silver haired hunter cried out before she pointed her Mega Salamance back to fire a Dragon Pulse.
"Umbreon!" Wes spoke as his pure dark type glowed, shielding all four of them with a Protect move.
While the attack made contact with the forcefield, Wes pointed towards Hunter J, "Hydreigon, Triple Dragon's Wrath!"
All three dragon heads roared with dark energy gathering around their mouths. The instant the attack and the forcefield went down, the tri headed Pokémon unleashed three dark dragon heads all rushing towards the Mega Salamance.
"Hyper Beam, full power!" Hunter J quickly yelled as Mega Salamance quickly fired the highly boosted attack towards the three Dragon Heads.
The blast spread out again, but Espeon shout out a Light Barrier to absorb the shockwave.
Hunter J and her Mega Salamance—now turned back into a regular Salamance—fell from the sky.
Wes pointed at them. "Espeon, stop them from falling!"
The psychic type did as he was told and caught both of them. Both of them looked unconscious and Wes set them both down gently.
"Well it looks like Zwel—I mean Hydreigon's random Evolution spurts strikes again." Umbreon spoke out as they got off.
"A Pokémon can only evolve twice, three times if you count mega evolution. How is that random?" His psychic brother asked.
"Huh, point taken. But isn't mega evolution something that happens a lot during battles? You could say if you mega evolve, you can evolve an infinite amount of times."
Hydreigon's main head turned towards the smaller dark type. "I say Uncle Umbreon! Quite astute of you to make such a philosophical observation!"
"Yes! Quite good, quite good!" "I am quite impressed my good man!"
The two brothers stared at the three headed Pokémon that all spoke those lines just now.
"… Why do you have a northern accent? I don't recall evolution ever giving new accents." Espeon asked.
"By jove! Whatever do you mean Uncle Espeon? We could always articulate ourselves in this manner, didn't we boys?" The main head looked at the three others.
"Why of course we did!" "You might wanna pay better attention mate."
Umbreon looked towards Epseon. "Suddenly, I miss the identity crisis Zwelious."
Wes walked over towards his mother and her Salamance, making his three Pokémon pay close attention.
Wes removed his visor and kneeled down to her level before fixing her up to sit up straight on a tree.
He stared at her hard for a few seconds before sighing. "I heard the story from pops. On your tenth birthday, you were given a Growlithe that you loved and raised with all of your heart. But the truth was that your father was a gang boss and the Pokémon you received was given orders to pretend to be your friend and unlock the security of your mansion."
She didn't move, but her face almost seemed to scrunch. It was as if even mentioning that was giving her horrible nightmares.
"You ended up losing everything that day, and saw a Pokémon you thought was your closest friend betray you. Heck, I think I can understand why you are so cold heartless, and why you said all those things back there. It's better to not care when it hurts too much…"
After a few more moments of silence, Wes stood up. He took something out of his pocket and revealed it to be his dad's pocket watch that he made.
"Pops was actually quite good at 'fitting' in to society. He would always joke that normal people were just too boring. Honestly, I can't help but wonder what you would have been if you really were raising me like a real mother and son… maybe get back the life that was taken from you instead of clinging to hate for Pokémon."
Wes clutched the pocket watch tightly before slowly kneeling and placing his father's pocket watch in her hands.
"You might throw this away—even though it took me years to finally get it back—but I think you need it more than I do." Wes ended his one sided conversation and walked back to his Pokémon.
"Let's go guys."
"Aren't we going to bring her to Summer?" Espeon asked as Wes got on Hydreigon's back.
Wes looked back at his mother one more time. "That probably would be the smarter idea," He paused and thought about it. "But hey, if Anto didn't turn me in the first chance he got, maybe this could work out as well. We'll just say she escaped us at the last second."
"Wes, your mom is definitely not you." Umbreon spoke out.
"Yeah I figured. But arresting my mom? Even if this is the first time I met her, it would leave a nasty taste in my mouth." Wes sighed. Yeesh, since when was doing the smart thing so against his instincts?
"What about your dad's pocket watch? I thought you really really liked it?" Espeon asked as he and his brother finally got on top of Hydreigon.
The Dark dragon started flying up with their riders on their back. "I had it taken from me last time without a choice. This time? I choose to give away. Besides, it's just a sentimental trinket anyway. I mean, who needs a pocket watch this day and age when everything is digital?"
Memories of his father passed by Wes' head. He smiled as he recalled all the fun he had with him. In a sense, he didn't need the watch anymore. It already reminded him of his bond with his dad.
New memories came up then: they were all about Anto, Summer, and Tracey. Deep down, the Snagger was glad to have that many friends.
Perhaps he was just moving on? Saying good bye to something about his past and walking towards his future with his friends in the present?
Nah that sounded too cliché.
"Well come on then! Tea time is coming forthwith!" Hydreigon's main head declared as they flew into the sky.
"Wait, what's with your accent?" Wes looked down on his newly evolved dragon.
"By jove has every one gone mad? I've always sounded like this!"
While the four of them were flying away and discussing Hydreigon's 'new' accent, down back below Hunter J's visor was still in recording mode.
{Author notes}
So that's the battle between mother and son. Hopefully I did it some justice. In this world, even the bad guys such as team Rocket show some respect for their Pokémon and just want them to be powerful and are upset when they are not.
Hunter J takes it on a differently level entirely: selling off Pokémon for money? Hunting them down and forcefully tearing them away from trainers without so much of blink of an eye?
My headcannon for this was that a Pokémon must have done something horrible for her to justify see Pokémon not even as tools but as profit.
Wes briefly touched it, and I think it was a better idea to reveal rather than hide it.
In this story: Hunter J was a daughter of a Mob Boss and she found a Growlithe for her Pokémon. But the Pokémon she found was actually a spy for a rival gang. It fooled her into thinking it was her friend and let the enemy gang come in and ruin her home and family.
Now about evolution; I've seen a lot of it: anime, Manga, other fanfiction. Sadly it's starting to look predictable. The manga is a little more versatile, but still when they evolve, it's impressive, but you see it coming.
I love the idea of evolving for more power during battles, but it has been done to death a million times when a Pokémon evolves when it's about to lose.
My purpose, when handling evolution, is to put them in place when you guys least expect them, but it still seems to work for the story.
Thanks for reading and see ya soon.