I woke up to a roomful of eyes once again. "Stakataka! Who let you out of your Pokéball?" I said, tapping his sides gently. "Let me out! I have to pee." Stakataka shifted a part of his wall to release me. He appeared to be roughly 12 feet tall and just barely fit inside my room. Pikachu nudged Stakataka's Pokéball towards me. "Stakataka, you're far too big to fit inside my room! If you want to be out of your Pokéball, get back inside it so I can take you outside." I returned a grumpy wall back into his Pokéball, went outside, and let him out. My house was a bit far from town, facing the beach. Stakataka went and sat on the sand. "You wait here until I get properly dressed and then we can go for a walk, ok?" I told Pikachu and Togedemaru to wait with him while I went through my morning routine.
I was just about to pour myself some cereal when I heard Pikachu and Togedemaru yelling. I ran outside to see what the issue was. Stakataka appeared to be failing to hide himself under a small tree as a Yungoos appeared to hiss at him. The Yungoos appeared to be a baby, and Stakataka appeared to act like one. "Don't be scared, Stakataka!" I called to him. "It's just a baby Yungoos! It's too small to hurt you!" Stakataka went into full defensive wall mode and started to whimper. I sighed. "Togedemaru, can you use Spark on Yungoos? A small one, just to scare it off." Togedemaru looked at me quizzically, and crackled with electricity next to Yungoos. It got spooked and ran off into the distance.
"Stakataka, you big scaredy Skitty! Yungoos is gone, don't worry!" He flipped a panel on each side of him, looked around, and then sighed. "Sta... KA!" he said, pouncing on me, bunting my face again with a panel. "I'm going to need to carry some pain killers for myself if you keep tackling me like that!" I said, wiping a small amount of blood from a scratch. Stakataka noticed I was bleeding. His pupils dilated and he started to freak out. "Stak? STAKA! STAAAKAAAA!" His eyes turned red as he started to run in circles around the beach, crying. "Stakataka! Stop! It's just a small cut! Please! I'm ok! I've stopped bleeding already! Don't worry!" I said, running up to him. Stakataka's eyes returned to normal and he plopped down next to me, eyes still misty, staring at my cut. He very gently bunted my hand. "Staka..." he whimpered. "I'm ok. I'll take care of you. Don't you worry about me!" I said.
My stomach growled. "Oh! I didn't get to eat breakfast!" I said. I heard Pikachu and Togedemaru's stomachs growl too. "How about we go into town and get some malasadas? I can get you some really, really nice and tasty ones from Hau'oli City! Although I still don't know if you even have a mouth to eat..." I said. Stakataka flipped a panel with a much smaller eye to reveal that he did, indeed, have a very tiny mouth. I took out his Pokéball and was about to return him, but Stakataka appeared to not want to go back into the Pokéball. "I mean it's a bit of a walk, but I suppose we can walk. I'm not sure about Pikachu and Toged..." I said, looking around for them. I noticed that they were perched atop of Stakataka. "Pi-Pikachu!" said Pikachu, pointing towards town.
"I suppose we should go get food, then!" I grabbed my stuff and proceeded to walk to town. Stakataka appeared to walk over me. I was thankful, as the sun was fairly strong today. Every time a wild Pokémon came out of the bushes, Stakataka would crouch and cower, and I had to reassure him everything was OK. As time went on as we walked, he would stop cowering, but still flinch any time any Pokémon flew past him. Stakataka appeared to slightly limp on his bad leg, but didn't appear to be in much pain.
Hau'oli City came closer into sight and Stakataka appeared to take in the view. People stopped in their tracks to see a giant walking wall pass through town that would get startled if another Pokémon got too close to him. "You're too big for the malasada shop, Stakataka. Wait outside." I went inside and purchased four sweet honey malasadas. I gave one to Pikachu, one to Togedemaru, kept one for myself, and held one out for Stakataka. He flipped the panel where his mouth is, and started nibbling on the malasada. His pupils dilated. "Staka! STAKA! STAAAKA!" he exclaimed, and proceeded to gobble down the rest of it. "I knew you'd like it!" I said, giving him a pat. He plopped down next to a table and I sat next to him, stroking his sides while I ate mine. It sounded like he was purring, but his purrs were nothing like a Meowth purr. His sounded like two rocks gently rubbing against each other.
"Hey! You!" came a voice. "Lady! What the heck is that Pokémon?" I looked around to find out who was yelling at me. A young boy, roughly 11 years old, showed up from the inside the malasada shop. "This Pokémon is called Stakataka!" I told him. "It looks like a wall! Is that really a Pokémon? If I didn't just see it move I would've thought it's just a wall!" he said. I confirmed once more that Stakataka is a Pokémon. The boy had a grin on his face. "Well, if he's a Pokémon, then surely he can battle, right? I'm Joel. Let's battle!" he said, holding out a Pokéball. I gasped. "I just caught him yesterday. I don't even know what moves he has and he's sort of timid..." I said, putting my hands on Stakataka, who appeared to be getting tense.
"Lady, you have three Pokémon from what I can see! So do I, and I only received my very first Pokémon from Professor Kukui yesterday! Go Litten!" said Joel, releasing the incendiary feline onto the pavement. Stakataka cowered and hid all but one of his eyes. "I suppose I have no choice. Togedemaru, you're up. Use Spark!" Togedemaru rolled towards Litten and proceeded to zap it. Litten used Ember, but Togedemaru dodged it. Stakataka slowly backed off, terrified of the flying elements. "Togedemaru, use Rollout! And don't stop until Litten is down!" Litten was knocked to the ground within two strikes of Rollout.
"Litten is unable to battle!" came a voice. It seems that a pedestrian noticed that we had no referee and decided to act as one. "Thanks!" I told them. Joel nodded to them as well. "Go Pikipek!" he said. Stakataka cowered even further back. "Togedemaru, use Thunder Shock." I said. Pikipek was out in one hit. "Pikipek is unable to battle!" said the pedestrian. Joel looked surprised. "You should tend to Litten and Pikipek." I told him. "No! The battle isn't over yet! They can wait until then! Go Lycanroc!" he said, releasing the midnight form of Lycanroc. It scowled. "Use Rock Tomb!" yelled Joel. "Dodge it, Togedemaru!" I yelled. Togedemaru wasn't fast enough. Togedemaru struggled to get up before collapsing. "Togedemaru is unable to battle!" said the pedestrian. I picked up Togedemaru and sat her next to Stakataka. Stakataka looked at Togedemaru worryingly.
"Pikachu! Go!" I said. "Use Volt Tackle!" Pikachu charged towards Lycanroc surrounded by electricity, tackling Lycanroc. Lycanroc grabbed Pikachu and tossed him aside, seemigly unaffected by the Volt Tackle. "I may have only got Lycanroc yesterday, but he was my grandpappy's Lycanroc! He has lots of experience!" Pikachu got up and stared at Lycanroc in disbelief. "Use Iron Tail!" I told Pikachu. Lycanroc grabbed Pikachu and launched him to the side. "Use Rock Throw!" said Joel. Lycanroc haphazardly launched stones everywhere. "Lycanroc! I meant use it on Pikachu, not on your entire surroundings!" screamed Joel. Lycanroc mumbled an apology. Pikachu was knocked out. "Pikachu is unable to battle!" said the pedestrian. "Do you want to use your uh... wall, or are you..." said Joel, trailing off as he noticed I got struck with a piece of the Rock Throw. "Give me a moment." I said, picking out the stone. I started to bleed a little.
Stakataka took notice of a small drop of blood trailing from my palm. "Sta? Staka... STAKA... STAAAAKAAA!" his eyes turned red as he jumped to face Lycanroc. "Stakataka! Calm down! I'm ok! Please!" Stakataka seemed to ignore me and proceeded to use what I think was Rock Slide. "Stakataka! Listen to me!" I yelled. Rock Slide appeared to do damage to Lycanroc. "Wait, do you happen to know Earthquake? Wait no the malas..." I said. Apparently he did know Earthquake. He slammed his forelegs down in front of Lycanroc. Everything around us shook and rattled, and the malasada shop windows cracked. Lycanroc lay defeated, and Stakataka looked over it angrily, before plopping back down next to me, eyes back to normal, looking at my cut worriedly. "Stakataka! You were great! I didn't know you had that sort of power in you!" He bunted himself gently against my hand.
"Lycanroc is unable to battle! This lady and her Pokémon are the winners!" said the pedestrian. "There's a Pokémon Center a few blocks down if you need to use it!" they said, before walking off. "Wow, lady! Your wall is so powerful! And here I thought he was just a scaredy Skitty! I'm off to the Pokémon center, if you want to come with me." said Joel. "His name is Stakataka, not wall. And my name is Pierre Mauer, not lady." I told him. "What kind of name is Pierre for a girl?" he said. "I'm not as ladylike as you'd think." I told him. "Meet you at the Pokémon center in 10 minutes!" I said, waving to him.
I walked back into the malasada shop to apologize about the windows. "Don't worry, we're insured! In fact, thanks to you, we now qualify for extra strength Tauros-proof glass! So strong that not even a raging Tauros using Quick Attack could damage it!" said the shop owner. "That was quite an intense battle! In fact, have another malasada for your wall boy. On the house!" I thanked them. "His name is Stakataka and thanks!" I walked up to Stakataka and fed him the malasada. "Let's go to the Pokémon Center, ok?" he bunted my hand again and carried Pikachu and Togedemaru towards the Pokémon Center.