An Altered Pokemon Journey Chapter 2

Thanks for giving me some insight InfinityN. It really encouraged me to write this chapter as early as possible. I will make the chapters a lot longer and hopefully it will improve them. Thanks again.

The group looked around route 207, looking for some Pokemon. It took them a while to find one, but they eventually settled on a shy Larvitar. "I've an idea" whispered Dawn to the group. "What is it?" asked Colin, him being eager to catch it. His long-ish, black hair (as long as … James') was blowing in the wind, as he listened to Dawn's idea about luring it over with a berry. They liked it and set it into motion. Lucas placed the Oran Berry about five metres away from it and backed up. The Larvitar creeped forward, unsure of what was going on. Colin then threw a pokeball at it. A quick ball, to be precise. Unsuspecting of what was going on, it hardly retaliated against the quick ball at all. "Yes!" Barry and Colin both exclaimed at the same time.

"Come on out Larvitar!" Colin yelled throwing the pokemon's pokeball on the ground. The Pokemon then emerged in a flash of red light. It seemed happy to be with people. It's behaviour had drastically changed after emerging from the pokeball. " Cool!" commented Barry, intrigued by the fact that they were supposed to be an uncommon find in the area. "Let's scan it with our pokedexes" Dawn said. "You wanted to register all Pokemon in Sinnoh that you could find, didn't you Lucas?" "Huh. I did. Yeah I do wanna scan Larvitar. That's alright with you, Colin?" Lucas remarked and then asked. "Go ahead, guys. You don't need my permission for stuff like that" Colin responded. It turned out that Larvitar knew the moves Bite, Dig, Dragon Dance and Sandstorm (Yes these Pokedexes can scan for that) "Interesting" noted Lucas. " Sure is Kid. Now had it and your other Pokemon over" said a stern voice from behind. The teens turned around to see some team galactic grunts, holding pokeballs, prepared to fight.

"You gotta be kidding me" laughed Barry. "You think a Pokemon research assistant, a co-ordinator and the sons of a frontier brain and gym leader are just gonna had their Pokemon over?" The grunt winced, realising who Barry and Colin were, before telling his comrades to engage their targets. There were four of them, two men and two women. The man talking to Barry engaged battle with him, Barry sending out his Buizel (I'll make lists of everyone's teams at the end of the chapter) and the grunt sending out a Carnivine. "Larvitar (who was still already out of his pokeball), use Sandstorm to hide from the other Grunt's Litleo!"(Yes, generations 5 and 6 exist, which you should have been able to tell from me mentioning Professor Sycamore and mega evolution before, but whatever) Colin instructed. By the time Colin had beaten the grunt's only Pokemon, Barry's Buizel was victorious, Dawns's Leafeon cleaned house, and Lucas' Houndour had beaten an Oddish to a pulp. "We'll be watching you, you filthy trainers!" the grunts yelled, before running; one however, was not quick enough to avoid a nip in the butt from Lucas' Houndour. " I'm surprised that Cyrus didn't equip them with better Pokemon" Colin said, smirking at the piece of the grunt's uniform Houndour brought back. "Cyrus?" The other three said, confused about who the heck Colin was talking about.

Colin then made the others swear to not let anyone else know what he was about to tell them, and explained everything about Team Galactic he knew, and how he heard it from the video conferences his father had with the league. "Wow." Barry said, taking in the information. "So there's a huge criminal organisation, right under most people's noses, stealing Pokemon and money to fund Cyrus' wants?" "Yup" Colin replied, giving a more simple answer than you'd think one could give in the context. " Well, why don't we spend the day training, in case they come back?" Lucas suggested. The others all agreed almost instantaneously, not wanting to lose their Pokemon. Over the process of the afternoon, Dawn's Piplup evolved, Lucas traded a Hopip for a Caravanah, Colin found a plume fossil under a boulder, that Riolu moved (Barry tried, but failed to move the boulder and impress Dawn) and Barry caught a Vibrava hiding in a cave.

The group then split up, Barry and Lucas went to find the lodge Colin built with his father, and Colin and Dawn went to revive the Plume fossil he had found. Roark was overly proud of his son finding a fossil, and Colin, needless to say, was extremely embarrassed. The Duo of Barry and Lucas found the lodge, but not before being spooked by the Pumpkaboo in the forest part of route, left, right and centre. Colin and Dawn made it there quiet easily, being guided there by Colin's memory and the friendly Noctowl letting Dawn catch it and guiding them there. They all regrouped in the dining area, enjoying fried rice with fried Rufflett egg, and spent most of the night browsing the internav (pokemons's equivalent of the Internet).

"Night" called Lucas to everyone. He got the same response from everyone. "See you in the morning. Lucas checked his pokedex for all the Pokemon he scanned. *52 so far* He thought to himself. Meanwhile, Colin was thinking about how much fun he had with everyone. He was so glad that he met these three. His life would be a total bore without them today, *and it probably would have stayed that way if I hadn't met them*, he thought.

After that, he turned his room's lights off and fell asleep faster that a Snorlax would've.

[For future reference, these square brackets will be author notes.]

[Now for the teams]

Colin – Riolu, Larvitar and Archen

Lucas- Grotle, Houndour and Caravanah

Barry- Monferno, Buizel and Vibrava

Dawn- Prinplup, Leafeon and Noctowl

Thanks for reading, tell me where to improve upon for the next chapter, the next upload probably won't be as early as this (2 days, Woo. I wrote this in two hours.) and the Weavilist is out.