Wow. It's been so long I forgot how this thing works. It'll take a while to get used to stuff again, but it's gonna happen. I did say I'd continue if a new main series game was announced, so here I go. It's been literally a year since I last updated, so things are going to change a bit.

First of all, I'm pretty much done with the battle chapters. Sure, they were cool in theory and it was pretty awesome to see how each Legend fought, but it always felt a bit too choppy and it always took more time and effort than the other chapters. Keeping the battle system of the games and making it more exciting than the show is a bit harder than it seems. I'll do the Sun & Moon Tournament, but I won't do the Serena vs Leaf unless it's really requested.

On that note, the Sun and Moon Legends: It's just my luck that I stopped writing on August 18th 2015 because I'll continue writing on August 18th 2016, which gives me two months before the game's release. Those two months will hopefully give me enough time to fill the gap with all the miscellaneous adventures I wanted to do in the first place, and then I'll start the new Sun and Moon arc. However, I won't start writing with the Sun and Moon characters before I've actually finished the game myself, so It'll be just a little longer before the beginning of the Sun and Moon arc.

Now then, I won't actually continue where I left off. I'll act like that chapter was finished and start a new chapter because I don't remember where I was going with that chapter and it'll just be much smoother for me to start something new rather than messily finish something old.

Before I start, I once again want to thank all of you for giving me a chance and leaving all the comments. To this day, whenever I'm feeling down, I just read the reviews and instantly cheer up. Seriously, I can't stress this enough. If none of you had given me any feedback, this fic would be much worse and my writing would be worse as well.

Thank you.

Oh, and if you notice, I changed my writing style to present tense because I'm currently working on something else that's better written in that tense. Now it just comes naturally, so I decided to write the rest in present tense.

Last thing, I went back and corrected a ton of mistakes from the earlier chapters, so I'll update all of them at the same time I upload this chapter.

[Edit from the future: There's also a new fic called The Legend Files, but I put the description in the next chapter, so you'll have to wait until then!]

Chapter 28: Pokémon GO Back Home

I wake up and look over to Serena, who's snoring profoundly. I smile lightly and sit up. The warm light from the orange sun reaches my face and reminds me that I wake up a bit too early. I sigh and rub my eyes.

A year. It's been a year since I first got here. A year since I made my mark in Pokémon history. Granted, a year here is almost nothing in Kalos, but time has still passed inside these walls. Still, I can't keep from asking myself: has it really been a year? It feels although I got here barely a month ago. My room looks the same. I look the same. Serena looks the same. All my friends look the same. The only thing that has really changed is my battling experience (and fashion in Kalos, but that's less interesting). Apart from the initial tournament, I've had more Pokémon battles with the others than I can count. I've spent so much time with them that I can now class them:

-Nate is very fun to play against, but not too challenging.
-Diamond is interesting due to his love of Legendaries (I never know who he's going to Mega-Evolve) but constantly winning to the same team gets boring after a while.
-Ruby is the one I have the most fun with, since he's challenging but not impossible to beat. He still keeps his place above me in the rankings, but he's not Red.
-Gold has a bunch of fun fighting me, but I never win, so it's a bit hard to have fun losing.
-Red doesn't need an explanation. He's the one I get to play against the least, but it's not like I wanted to anyways. I got my butt handed to me against me the first time.

Anyways, it's time for me to go down and eat breakfast with the early birds. The early birds being Red, Leaf, Diamond, and May. My first morning was with Red, Gold, Ruby, Diamond and Nate, but that was only because they were excited to know more about Serena and me.

I go down the stairs and lo and behold, the Diamond and May are awake, along with the Kanto Legends.

"You better drink the coffee that's left, otherwise Nate will take it. You remember what happened last time he did, right?" Diamond warns me without taking his eyes off his laptop.

There was one time when Nate had coffee. He had never had any before, so he made the mistake of adding four full teaspoons of sugar to the coffee. We didn't notice until the whole cup was drained, so we had to send him to the new attractions in Nimbasa City to use up all his energy.

"Yeah. What are you doing?" I ask while filling my cup.

"Reading the news. Apparently there's a new application for the PokéNav that everyone's going crazy for."

"Really? What's is it?"

"PokéGO. It uses the DexNav and the AreaNav to simulate pokémon capturing."

I frown.

"Why would you use that when you can already capture them yourself? With an actual pokéball?"

He shrugs.

"Maybe you don't have any pokéballs left?"

Red finally speaks up.

"It's probably for Lasses and Junior Trainers who don't have the skill to do it themselves."

Typical.

"Don't be so rude. It's probably for children who aren't old enough to go in the wild yet."

Leaf comes to the rescue.

"Whatever it is, it has already become more popular than all other PokéNav functions."

My eyes widen.

"Even more than Pokémon Amie?"

Diamond nods and Gold finally comes into the room.

"What'chu guys talking about?"

"A new PokéNav application called PokéGO. Have you heard of it?"

He smiles.

"I had it yesterday."

Everyone frowns and looks to each other.

"Why? You're like, the second best trainer in the world!" I exclaim.

He shrugs and brings out his PokéGear.

"It's fun. You don't have to go through all the trouble to release the pokémon after catching it and I get to trade with others who wouldn't have had the opportunity to have the full pokémon experience otherwise. You can even have your own gyms without having to actually build it and stay there either! It's just the real world but more convenient."

"Well why didn't you tell us yesterday?"

He shrugs again.

"Do I have to? I thought you wouldn't care."

We look around. He's right.

Diamond speaks up.

"Well where did you get it from? I don't see you checking the news often."

"Lyra called. She's been going crazy for it since it launched."

We nod to each other. She would be crazy for it.

"It's right up her alley. A pokémon journey without all its challenges."

Red once again speaks up only to make things more bleak.

"Even if it is easier, that doesn't mean it's not as fulfilling. When she called, she said she had the biggest collection of pokémon anyone had ever had in PokéGO and that no one had beaten her gym yet."

Red frowns and finally looks up from his newspaper.

"She hasn't been beat? How? Does PokéGO eliminate all the difficulty in battling too?"

Gold rolls his eyes.

"Battling is different. instead of our normal turn-based strategy fighting, PokéGO opts for a faster-paced free-for-all. Instead of choosing one of four moves, you have to tap to use a normal attack or hold to use a special attack. You can even dodge by swiping."

This is where Red spits his coffee.

"You can DODGE!"

We smile at his disdain. A long time ago, due to Red becoming the greatest Pokémon Master there ever was, some people decided to cash in on his success and make a cartoon about him. He's not mad at them because he wasn't asked for permission, rather he's mad because they got him and his journey all wrong. Specifically, he hates how battles are portrayed: no turns, use whatever move you want in whatever fashion you wanted to, and you could win any battle as long as 'you have a strong bond with your pokémon'. One of the most infuriating to him is the fact that the pokémon could always dodge the opponents attack if they were told to do so. Actually, if I remember correctly, I think Leaf told me once that the show was practically the whole reason he decided to evolve his Pikachu.

"Yep."

Red sighs and stands up.

"I'm gonna go take a bath. After that I'm going out to see exactly what damage PokéGO has done to traditional battling. You can join me if you want."

"To the bath?" Gold smiles.

Red groans.

"To Kanto."

I'm definitely going. I've never gone to Kanto, and it's always fun to see Red complain about 'casuals' and the consequences they supposedly have on the Pokémon League.

There it is!

I forgot to say in the top that if I ever do the Serena vs Leaf battle, I'm going to do it as a flashback chapter just so I don't have to disrupt the timeline or have a deadline for it.

I forgot how much fun I had writing this when I actually liked writing Pokémon. When you're just not interested it's not the same.

As for the update schedule, I'm probably going to have a chapter done per week at least, but I may do more if I have the time. I don't want a repeat of the times I was writing a chapter per month.

Anyways, thanks again for reading, and I'd really appreciate it if you left a review!