We headed through route one doing fairly little. John caught a Lillipup for Ella, since she was struggling to nail it, since it wouldn't stop moving, and caught a Patrat for himself, along with getting his Tepig knocked out by a Pidove, and Cilan had given John a revive. We carried on into Accumula as nightfall began. The Pokecenter always had rooms or trainers who were passing through town, we rented 3 rooms for the night. Ella, Elesa and Skyla and took one room, Chili, Cress and Cilan the other, and in the middle room, John and Myself.
We set our bags out, and I started a bath as John popped his head around the corner. "Not coming to dinner?"
"Sorry, I was on autopilot. Normally don't eat dinner, just a roll or piece of toast. Keeps me feeling light on my feet in the morning."
"I mean, you don't have to, but I think you'll want to come to dinner with us at least. Don't have to eat with us, but you should come with us." John prodded.
"Jesus man, you don't have to twist my arm like that." I sighed, and turned off the water and pulled the plug.
"We got like 30 minutes before Cilan will come get us, and then we're gonna go down to a place that does good Tauros Burgers. Mr. Triton told his boys about it."
"So, who's paying? You're not from a rich family, and barely made an allowance, and I've spent most of my money on clothes, potions, pokeballs and basic rations, the Triton's never made much of an allowance either, and I'm not letting the girls pay for us."
"Actually, Mr. Triton had sent Cilan the message about it, and told them to put it on his tab, and show the owners his brothers and his trainer IDs."
"So Quinn is paying for us. Remind me when we hit his gym."
"Why?" John was confused.
"Don't worry about it. I just need to remember." I threw myself into my bed and laid down, as I grabbed Trace's ball and recalled him, setting it on my chest, and glancing at my watch. "Tomorrow we train our asses off. We'll give Quinn a reason to pay for us tonight, Trace." Trace's heart rate increased from 82 to 87.
29 minutes passed as there was a sharp knock on the door, and I hopped up, slipping Trace's ball into the padded belt clip next to Hikari's, and opened the door, Cilan tapping his foot, looking at his watch. "Ready to go?"
"Yeah." John slammed into my back.
"Ight, lets go! The others are in the lobby."
I practically fell down the stairs when John slid down the banister, Cilan catching me at the bottom right before I fully lost my balance.
Joy hollered from the back of her counter "Be careful! The railing still needs to be sanded down, since that was recently replaced from a rogue Pawniard messed it up!"
"I will!" John called back.
I regained my footing and went over to Joy "A rogue Pawniard? Where'd it go after that?"
"Oh it ran off into the woods. There has been recent sightings of it coming back near here, but no-" She cut off, reaching under the counter and pulled out a repel. "It's back."
I spun around and saw the door slide open, and I bolted into action sending out Hikari..
"Ready, Hikari. We're taking initiative. Water gun!" The small otter opened its mouth and shot water at the Blade Pokemon, pushing it back, and leaving it dazed.
"Wait… It's injured?" shook my head. No way a wild pokemon would try to come to a Pokecenter to get healed…
It didn't attack back, so I hurled a Pokeball at it, and it clicked once, and sent out a small shower of sparks signaling its capture, I recalled Hikari, picked it up, and went back to Joy. "Mind if we get a quick heal?"
Joy smiled, Nodded, and took the two mon, putting it in the machine, turned around and put the repel away, before going back and grabbing the two balls out of the machine and bringing them back. "Thank you for waiting."
"You know I don't mind that. Thank you, and have a good one, Ms. Joy."
I regrouped with the rest as we took off to the Tauros Burger Shack, the walk being relatively quiet with the only thing I noticed was Elesa checking Mine and Trace's heart rate on her watch.
We got to the food shack and ordered fairly quickly, and the bill was put to Quinn's Tab, and the food came out in less than 4 minutes, which is weird especially for a place where the food was made fresh to order. Guess that's what you get when you have celebrities' kids and celebrities with you.
We walked across the way to a park, where I quickly dug out my bag to get a blanket to toss out for us to eat on, I called out my 'mon, and gave each of them 1/4th of my burger, Aries the Pawniard shied away initially, but warmed up quickly, and took his section.
And sat down, Trace plopping down next to me. I ruffled the feathers on his head and smiled.
The food was good, and that's all I could ask for. We were on our own with no real home to go back to beyond the lab. Trace was the only one keeping me from spiraling into pure depression.
Elesa piped up. "So Shawn, you think you're ready to match Mr. Triton tomorrow?"
"Well, He bought us dinner, so now I have to make sure I'm ready."
"That's what we all have to do." Cilan spoke.
"Yeah, especially us. Can't let our old man down!" Chili cracked.
Cilan smiled "You know our dad's Gym Gimmick, right?"
"What? So it's not until one team is defeated?" John panicked
"Actually, it's a 3v3, until all are knocked out, or whoever has more pokemon standing at 5 minutes."
"That would be interesting." I smiled.
There was a loud crash sound across the road. Everyone's head whipped around. The tables outside the shack were destroyed. A large black van sitting in the spot, as 5 guys poured out of the back and rushed across the road as I jumped to my feet and recalled Hikari and Aries.
"TRACE! DOUBLE KICK! EVERYONE GET OUT OF HERE, AND GET OFFICER JENNY, I'LL HOLD 'EM OFF!"