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Pokémon Universe
e-chan's Journey – Episode 3
"Panic Already!? The Chaotic Teacher Hunt Begins Tomorrow!"
By eshonen
Back at the apartment building they were all assigned to, e-chan and Rize sit down to have snacks with their new friends and team mates, Rukia and Evie.
e-chan: Here they are, fresh Lumiose Galettes directly from Lumiose City! *places the box on the coffee table within the apartment building lobby* they're a little hot since I had to put them in the oven for a little bit to get them warm again after being in my fridge; dig in! :D
Rukia: *drools as she grabs a Galette* HOT-HOT-HOT-HOT! *comically juggles the pastry in her hands before blowing on it to cool it down and then takes a bite* MmmmMMMM! That's SO good~! ^w^
Evie: *uses Confusion to levitate one of the pastries over to her face where she blows on it to cool it down before taking a tiny bite* delicious~ I've always wanted to try these ^/w/^
Rize: What? You mean you never made the trek over to Lumiose to try them for yourself?
Evie: I did, several times, but the city is so big that I always end up getting lost and having to use Teleport in one direction to warp out of the city until I get back home. ^w^;
e-chan: There's no shame in that, Evie; I can't tell you how many times I've had to help lost tourists and out-of-towners find their way to a certain location and even back to their hotels. Lumiose City is just that big :D
Evie: Thanks, e-chan ^^
Rukia: I can't believe that all four of us got the same apartment building to live in AND we all became a team on the exact same day; this must be fate or something! :D
e-chan: Yeah, that is really cool. :nod: So, Rukia, were you also from Earth?
Rukia: Yup ^w^ Me and my sister, Riley, are actually from the Kalos region as well; we lived in Snowbelle City.
Rize: You have a sister?
Rukia: Yup; people say that we look alike, but that's far from true…I'm the cuter one of the two~ ;p
Rize: Is that so…? ^^;
Evie: So, does that mean that your sister is here too; in this building?
Rukia: Yup :nod: We both went off on our own when we arrived hours earlier. I went off in search of fun, she went off in search of a library of all things; I swear, that girl wouldn't know how to have a good time if it bit her square on that bubble butt of hers… -3-
e-chan, Rize and Evie: …
Rukia: …what? :?
e-chan and Evie: w; …
Rize: …is it anything like yours? :meow:
e-chan and Evie: *face palms* :facepalm:
Rukia: Of course not! Mine is pert and perky, like me ^w^ *stands up and shakes her butt, making it jiggle quite a bit*
e-chan: O/w/O;;
Rukia: Oh yeah, e-chan knows what I'm talking about ;)
e-chan: *quickly looks away* w;;
Rukia: It's okay, e-chan; you can look, all-you-want ;p *shakes her hips with each word*
Rize: 3 *pouts*
Rukia: Aww, don't be like that, Rize; you know I love you too *eyes glimmer with mischief* especially… *pulls Rize up to her feet from her chair* that big ole fluffy butt you- *reaches behind Rize and grabs her butt underneath her skirt* O3O … w why Rize, I didn't know that you loved going commando as well~
Rize: I-I don't; I just forgot to put them on today…
Rukia: Just like you forgot to get dressed on the day of the entrance exam and came to the Battle Institute looking like you were fresh out of the shower wearing that very tiny towel? ;p
Rize: O/x/O …I…I thought that was a dream…OMG, THAT REALLY HAPPENED!? *turns to e-chan and Evie*
e-chan: *timidly nods "yes"* you are quite spacey most of the time, Rize ^^;
Evie: And I thought that I embarrassed myself royally that day…
Rukia: I must say, that was a very cute underwear set you were wearing that day; you looked absolutely adorable~ ;p
Evie: O/w/O;;
*The front door to the apartment building opens and two girls walk inside. One of them was a human girl with very long brown hair and had a cowboy hat on her head and an eye-patch over her left eye; she was wearing a black and white striped shirt with a short red vest over top of it, baggy violet shorts tied tightly with a belt and black cowboy boots. The other was a Riolu girl that looked exactly like Rukia, from their outfits to their similar big butts. The only way you could tell the two apart was through their hairstyles; while both of their short hair spiked out in the back, Rukia's bangs covered the left side of her face while the other Riolu girls' bangs were curled upwards to keep them out and away from her face.*
Rukia: Hey sis! Took you long enough to get back here :aww:
Riley: Still getting fresh with other people I see… v.v
Brown haired girl: Is this the sister you were telling me about, Riley? ^^
Riley: That's her, Lucca :nod:
Lucca: Wow, you two really DO look alike ^w^
Riley and Rukia: WE DO NOT! o
e-chan, Rize and Evie: (Yes you do…) ^^;
Lucca: *giggles* howdy everybody *waves to the others* I'm Lucca Allison from Paniola Town in the Alola region of the planet Earth! It's nice to meet you all! :D
e-chan: Hi Lucca! I'm e-chan! ^o^
Rize: I'm Rize! ^w^
Evie: E-Evie *blushes a bit*
Rukia: And no doubt you know me as Rukia.
e-chan: The four of us are a team now; we're going to work hard together! :D
Lucca: Wow, you all just got here and already you've formed a team! I guess that I wasn't the only one who had that idea :D
e-chan: You mean you've got a team already too? :eager:
Lucca: Well, kinda sorta. It's a team of two for right now: just Riley and me ^^;
Rukia: Oh, so my sis actually went out and made a friend? You see, I told you that coming here would do you some good, Riley! :D How did you two meet?
Riley: We ran into each other on the street; we were both lost so Lucca just took my hand and said "then let's be lost together!"
Lucca: My folks always taught me that great friends are born in times of distress and that situation was definitely one of those by my description. ^w^ We wandered around for hours, talking about anything that came to mind and before we knew it, we were registering each other in our Poké Bands in front of this building.
Riley: I…never did find that library…
Lucca: Sorry about that, Riley; I know I must've forced myself on you back then. I've been told I have a bad habit of doing that. ^^; I promise you, tomorrow I'll help you find that library! ^o^
Riley: But classes start tomorrow…
Lucca: Oh yeah, that's right… OxO and I still haven't found what I set out to find!
Evie: What were you looking for? :?
Lucca: A detailed and updated guidebook on all of the teachers here at the Pokémon Academy.
e-chan: …why would you be looking for something like that? Aren't we all assigned to a teacher automatically?
Lucca: OoO You mean you haven't heard!? About five years ago the higher ups of the Pokémon Academy tried something new that met with great success. They learned over the years that the students learn more from teachers that they either respect or seek out on their own. Just as the teachers grade the students, the students can grade the teachers; the higher the grade, the higher quality the teacher is apparently.
e-chan: …and this is important because…?
Lucca: On the first day of classes, all aspiring trainers, battlers, athletes and performers take part in the most important battle for the year: getting the best teacher! Our task is to go out and find a teacher for the year. Each teacher can only take a certain amount of students so all of the best and most popular teachers' classes fill up almost immediately. And because their classroom locations change each and every year now, having the knowledge about the teachers and where to find them are at a premium. It's going to be a planet-wide war tomorrow…
Rize: Okay, so we more than likely won't get the best teacher around? I think I can live with that as long as I can get a kind teacher.
Lucca: There's more…
Rize: OxO;
Lucca: Haven't you noticed that there are LOADS of people and Pokémon students walking around out there?
Evie: Now that you mention it, I did…
Rukia: Wait, ALL of those out there were students? I thought for sure that some of them were tourists…
Lucca: Well, the thing is that we can only search for teachers within the areas that we're placed. Each area is clearly marked with borders but, as you can see, each area is absolutely massive. As I said before, teachers can only take a certain amount of students, and there are only but so many teachers within each area; to make things worse, even if we had the guide, the locations of some teachers aren't finalized by the time the guide is printed or goes up on the official academy website, meaning that you'll have to really search for them.
Riley: That's exactly why I was trying to find the library today: so I can access a PC and find that guide for the teachers.
Rukia: WHAT!? YOU KNEW THiS AND DiDN'T TELL ME!?
Riley: I was going to bring a printed copy back and share it with you! OxO
Lucca: …in the end, the bottom line is that if you don't find a teacher from the start of the day tomorrow at 8 AM till midnight that same day, the very next day you'll have to return your Poké Band and ship out to return to your home. All those failing to find a teacher on the first day will have to wait another full year before they can try again.
e-chan, Rize, Rukia and Evie: …WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!? *makes shocked, worried, comedic faces*
Rukia: Nononononono! If we fail to get teachers we'll have to wait for the new school year before we can try again!? O~O;;
Evie: B-B-But I worked so hard to get in… Q~Q
Rize: I embarrassed myself at the exam site AND the registration hub to get here; I can't go back home before I even get started!
Rukia: And I barely got in by the skin of my teeth during the entrance exam; next time I might fail and not even get a second chance to find a teacher!
e-chan: …that's NOT going to happen! ~
All 5 girls: Huh!? :O_o:
e-chan: We all worked so hard to get here and we all just became friends. I refuse to let our time together end so soon!
Lucca: But what are we going to do? The library is definitely closed by now and none of us have PCs in our rooms…
e-chan: Maybe not… *gets and idea* but I know somebody who can get us this information!
Rize: Who? OwO
e-chan: I'll explain on the way; we've got to get to the visitor's center, NOW!
*The group of six rushes out of the apartment building and over to the visitor's center at top speed, not even noticing that the tin can holding up the window connected to the apartment building's lobby. Attached to the back of the can was a very long strand of silk from a String Shot that led behind the bushes that decorated the outside of the building; it was connected to another can to act as some makeshift tin-can phones. Listening in on the conversation was none other than the Gothita girl, Sugar; she had gotten Silk to follow e-chan and the others back to their building to know where they were staying and to plant the tin-can phone so that she could meet up with Silk and listen in on them later in hopes of getting some info she could use to her advantage against them…and what she just heard was music to her ears.*
Sugar: Hehehe~ Silk!
Silk: Y-Yes, Boss?
Sugar: Go call up our Rotom friend, uh…what's her name?
Silk: Quirk.
Sugar: Yes; go call up Quirk. Tell her that I've got a job for her~ I'll teach that newbie and his crew for daring to challenge me; I'll make sure that they're all sent home crying pitiful tears! :devilish:
Silk: …is…is this really necessary, Sugar? The odds are already against them to find a teacher in time so…
Sugar: *glares bloody daggers at Silk* what was that? I could've sworn that you just questioned me; but I'm sure that you're not foolish enough to do that twice… *uses Psychic to apply tremendous pressure on Silk, squishing her into the ground* RiGHT!?
Silk: NONONO SUGAR, I MEAN, BOSS! OF COURSE NOT! QxQ
Sugar: Good~ *stops pushing Silk into the ground with Psychic then uses it to lift her up and put her on her feet* now run along and go inform Quirk now, okay~? :aww:
Silk: Y-Yes boss! Q~Q *runs off quickly*
Sugar: Hehehe~ in the end, victory is mine, e-chan~ *smirks evilly*
*Meanwhile, a few minutes later, e-chan and the others are at the visitor's center and e-chan has his Dad on the video phone, telling him about what was happening.*
e-chan: …and that's everything, Dad.
e-chan Sr.: Wow, things certainly have changed since your Mom and I attended the academy, that's for sure…
e-chan: So can you help us?
e-chan Sr.: Of course, son; can't have you and Rize both come so far after all of your hard work and have nothing to show for it! Now you all head back to your rooms for the night and I'll get to work. I'll e-mail the information to e-chan Poké Band and then he can send you each a copy; you all should have it by the time you get back to your apartment building. It was nice meeting you all; please be great friends to my son ^3^
Rize: Thank you, sir ^o^
Evie: We will, sir ^w^
Rukia: You can count on us, sir! :D
Lucca: It was very nice meeting you, sir; e-chan is a great friend! ^o^
e-chan Sr.: My, such polite, nice ladies; you're quite the lady's man, son ;p
e-chan: Dad! /~/;
e-chan Sr.: Okay, time to get to work; I'll talk to you later ^^
*The video call ends then e-chan and his new friends head back to their apartment building. By the time they enter the building e-chan gets an e-mail from his Dad containing a copy of the most up to date guide on the teachers at the Pokémon Academy. After quickly e-mailing the guide to the others they all sit down and begin examining it for the teachers that were within their area.*
Riley: Hey, there are quite a number of good teachers in here; one of the famous Oaks are here in this area as well ^w^
Rukia: The Oaks? What's so famous about them?
Riley: Unbelievable; this is why you should try harder to study more, Rukia. The Oaks have a history for over a thousand years of being at the forefront of Pokémon research. Before the universe changed a thousand years ago, Prof. Samuel Oak was THE authority on Pokémon research. Along with him were other professors who began to specialize in other various aspects of Pokémon. For instance, Prof. Elm studied our ancestors' breeding patterns; Prof. Birch studied their habitats; Prof. Rowan studied their evolution process; Prof. Juniper studied their origins; Prof. Sycamore studied how some Mega Evolved; Prof. Kukui studied our attacks. Even Pro-
Rukia: *head begins to steam from an overload of information*
Riley: Oops, sorry, sis ^^; Basically what I'm saying is that the Oaks are renowned for their knowledge on Pokémon history and culture. This particular one, Sally Oak, has gotten rave review scores from her students; over 500 confirmed successful trainers out there attended her classes and are doing very well in the Leagues.
Evie: But won't that mean that everybody is going to want to be in her class?
Riley: True; that's why we're going to find her classroom early. We're going to wake up super early in the morning while everybody else is still asleep, find her classroom and then camp out in front of it so that we're the first ones there! :D
Rize: But…I have a problem waking on time; how will I be able to wake up when everybody else is supposed to be asleep? O_o;;
Riley: Don't worry, we'll all get up super early enough to make sure that we have more than enough time to fully wake up and get there.
e-chan: *looking through the guide and spots one particular teacher* Hmm?
Rize: What are you looking at, e-chan? :?
e-chan: Huh? Oh, it's nothing, really. I'm down with this plan, Riley! So if we're going to get up super early then we'd best get to bed right now then, huh?
Riley: Right. :nod: Everybody, set your alarms for 1 AM; we set out as soon as we're all up and ready.
Everybody: Okay :D
*The six of them immediately retire to their rooms and go to bed for the night. Going to bed although it was only about 6:22 PM guaranteed them all at least six hours of rest and leave them able to wake up at the designated time. It didn't take long before they were all fast asleep; they all had had a big day in just getting to the Pokémon Academy after all. However, unknown to them, their best laid plans were about to be jeopardized. An electrical saboteur, a Rotom girl by the name of Quirk, was going through the electrical system of the apartment building to the rooms of our six friends and changing the wake up times for their alarm clocks for very late in the morning. She now finally reaches e-chan's clock and makes the time change there, finishing her mission.*
Quirk: And…done-zzzt. All of the alarm times have been changed-zzzt. I'm sorry, to all of you; it's nothing per-zzzonal but that Sugar girl scares me and I'm not zzztrong enough to fight her on my own. I'd better get out of here before zzzecurity makes their rounds *suddenly senses another Rotom coming through the electrical system* oh-no!
*Quirk quickly flies out of the alarm clock; she looked like a petite Rotom girl that had her electrical hair in pigtail bolts tied with green ribbons and she was wearing a very cute light blue summer dress. She began to panic as she flitted about e-chan's room looking for something to hide in but since the Rotom security would find her in anything that she hid in, Quirk opted to quickly hide in e-chan's bed. Fortunately for her, e-chan was a very sound sleeper and didn't feel the little electric ghost wriggling under his blanket. Soon enough, she senses that the Rotom security had passed through e-chan's room and she had a chance to make her escape back into the electrical system. What she didn't count on was that e-chan moves around in his sleep. In his unconscious state, as Quirk tried to get out of his bed, e-chan wrapped his arms around Quirk and held close to him. Quirk begins to panic but at this and especially when e-chan begins rubbing her head and back as if he was trying to comfort her; apparently e-chan was having one of his usual Rize dreams where he spent the entirety of the dream comforting her after a very rough time. With e-chan showing no signs of letting her go anytime soon, Quirk eventually accepted the position she was in and would just have to wait for her chance to escape. But, she had to admit, that it felt really nice to be fawned over like she was; so nice that she actually fell fast asleep in his arms. About three hours later e-chan releases Quirk from his embrace and wakes up to use the restroom. In his groggy state, he didn't notice Quirk at all, even when he got back into bed. It was going to be a very awkward morning for both of them when that alarm went off but for now, sleep tight you two. The mad dash to find a teacher begins in a few more hours.*
e-chan: *snores* Rize~ *snores*
Quirk: *snores cutely* rub my head again *snore cutely*
To Be Continued…