An Altered Pokemon Journey Chapter 3
Don't know why I'm so motivated to right another chapter. Sorry for making the first chapter so short, and thank you for whoever stuck around afterwards. This story will involve Team Galactic more, so stick around if you want that. I'll try to post at least once a week. I don't have any other story ideas, so I can focus on this one. Please private message me some ideas( for this story and some others I could write) and train (as well as read) on! Some clarification, the asterisks are used (by me) to show thought.
Colin woke to the sound of gulping. Extremely loud gulping at that. *The hell is that?* Colin thought, to lazy to get up and check. Colin walked to the door of his room, opened it and yelled "Barry, can you keep it quieter, I'm still waking!".
"So am I!" an angry voice responded. It came from Barry's room.
"Then who's making the racket?" Colin whispered to himself, walking out to the eating are in his dressing gown. Riolu was still sleeping, so he called out Larvitar in case the intruder had Pokemon of their own. Colin and Larvitar walked around the corner to see a Slurpuff, eating cereal straight out of it's packaging. Lucas at that moment was walking up to Colin, curious about what the shouting was about, unaware of the Slurpuff around the corner that Colin and Larvitar were looking at. Colin looked at Lucas and asked for a hand. I
"A hand with what?" Lucas asked, looking confused, milliseconds before spotting the Slurpuff. "Ah, got it".
Lucas then blocked the exit door, before then throwing Grotle's pokeball on the floor, send it out. "Tie it up with vine whip!" Lucas called to his (main) partner Pokemon. The unsuspecting fairy-type was tied up and pelted by a controlled sandstorm coming from Larvitar. The Slurpuff had nearly fallen unconscious before Colin asked Lucas "Do you want to catch it?"
"She's all yours, Colin!" Lucas replied, just happy to have caught the food thief. Colin threw the pokeball at the Slurpuff, catching it. He then called it out, feeding it several berries to restore its energy.
I'm "Slurpuff, the Meringue Pokemon" Lucas' Pokedex narrated. "This Pokemon currently know the following moves: Drain Punch, Energy Ball, Cotton Guard and Thunderbolt.
"What's going on?" Dawn asked, Barry tailing behind her. They were curious to know what happened.
"We caught a Slurpuff that was eating the food from the Lodge's kitchen" Lucas answered.
"How'd it get in?" said Barry, sharing his thoughts with everyone.
"D'unno" responded Colin. *Maybe one of us forgot to lock the door, and she smelled food?* He thought, analysing the scenario. This was probably the case, but was he still unsure.
"Want to hit the road, guys? Route 206 is just ahead!" Dawn suggested to everyone.
"Sure!" The boys answered, eager to get going.
"Can I do one thing first?" Colin requested.
"Sure thing Colin!" they responded.
The others waited outside for five minutes. Colin then came outside, only having three pokeballs on his belt. "Who's gone?" Barry asked, as they started to walk to Route 206.
"Archen" Colin answered, unsure if he had done the right thing. "He wanted to be with Dad, seeing as he was the one who revived him. Archen sort of thought of him as a father".
"Hopefully we can find more Pokemon today then!" Lucas, said, trying to enlighten the moods of the others.
"Here's the gate for the bridge" Barry moaned.
"How are we supposed to get across without bikes?"
"I'll show you" Colin said confident they could get across. The others followed Colin, beside the gate, Grotle cut down the bushes blocking the way. Colin went ahead, and then went up to a tree. He ran behind it, out of the other's view. They walked around the tree, only to not to see Colin at all.
"Where the hell did he go?" Lucas muttered, sounding extremely irritated. Suddenly, a part of the tree swung forward, revealing it to be hollow.
"Down here!" An echoed voice called. As Lucas observed the inside of the presumably false tree, he spotted a series of grips creating rungs for a ladder going downward. They climbed down the ladder, one by one, with Barry shutting the camouflaged door. Colin greeted Dawn at the bottom, with Lucas seconds behind. Suddenly, Barry lost his footing on the ladder.
"Ahhhhh!" Barry yelled as fell; Lucas quickly side-stepped and Barry landed where Lucas was standing milliseconds before.
"Owww…." Barry moaned.
"What is this place?" He asked, as he dusted himself off and got up.
"The Sinnoh underground. The tunnels run throughout the region. Everyone closely related to the league has access to them via fingerprint scan id" Colin explained.
"How come I'm not registered then?" Barry demanded to know.
"The Battle Frontier is endorsed by the League, it's not an official part of it". Colin answered.
"However, since Professor Rowan is a partner of the league, you're registered Lucas. You were ever since you became his assistant".
"Awesome. Now let's get moving and quit the chitchat. I want to get to Eterna" Lucas responded.
"Got it" Dawn responded, which shocked them as she had remained quiet for most of the conversation.
Ten minutes away from the Eterna exit, the teens encountered three people covered by the shadows.
"Who's there!" Colin called out.
"Colin?" Two of the voices called out.
"Aaron, Maylene?!" Colin yelled out in delight.
The owners of the two names stepped forward, along with Lucian of the elite four.
Barry, Dawn and Lucas gave the group a few minutes to socialise.
"How's my favourite godson doing? I haven't sent you since the Iron conference!" Lucian asked.
"I've been alright. Let me introduce you to Barry, the son of the Battle Frontier's Palmer, Dawn, a co-ordinator competing in this seasons Pokemon contests and Lucas, Professor Rowan's current assistant."It's a pleasure" Lucian said as he shook Lucas' hand.
"Likewise" Lucas replied. He had no idea how to address the others.
"Colin how did you meet Aaron and Maylene?" Dawn asked. If she was going to be Colin's friend, she wanted to know more about him.
"Oh, we met about 5 months ago, in Snowpoint city. After I'd just received Riolu, Dad took me on vacation. I was exiting the Pokemon centre when..." Colin was saying before Aaron and Maylene finished his sentence.
"He was hit by the Snowballs we aimed at each other!" They exclaimed in perfect synchronisation.
"Anyway, I introduced myself and we had an amazing afternoon. Colin said, finishing his story.
"We best be going, see you round!" Barry boomed. Colin checked his watch. 6:43pm.
"Barry's right! We need to find a place to stay in Eterna city" Colin remembered.
"I'll let Gardenia know that" Aaron said, smiling as he pulled out his Communav and sent a text.
"Thanks. Great to see you, as always"Colin said, giving Aaron and Maylene a sort of secret handshake, before hugging his Godfather.
"Say hi to Agatha and Flint for me!" Colin remarked.
"Got it!" Yelled Aaron.
The two groups went their own ways. Gardenia greeted the group headed to Eterna outside the Underground entrance and showed them to some currently unused apartments, one of which belonged to his father. They got some Kalosian food from a restaurant nearby and discussed things amongst themselves. Colin and Lucas agreed to go in a double battle against Gardenia, but train prior to that. Barry agreed to help Dawn practice her routine for her upcoming contest.
Colin and Lucas got up at 3am to train. They had heard about co-ordinators combining moves in contests and wondered how they would work in battle. They went outside and started practicing with their Pokemon.
"Riolu, use Risen Upper Punch! Then follow it with Blazing Frost Combat!" Colin instructed. Riolu then proceeded to trap the Substitute doll inside a bubble of energy. He then Jumped above the sphere, before sending a fully charged focus punch through the sphere, hitting the substitute. Riolu then canceled the bubbles effect, grounding it. He then threw several Ice punches and Blaze kicks, Utterly ripping the dummy apart.
"Wow" commented Lucas.
"Now it's our turn! Grotle use Vine grip, and then Withering Spore!" Grotle then proceeded to tie up the substitute doll with extremely tight vines, causing fluff to come come out of the ripping seams. The grass type then used spore, (which would have put it to sleep if it was living) and then a giga drain combined with Razor Leaf.
"Nice work" both Pokemon trainers said to their Pokemon. Then, they both began to glow, white and then evolved. (Quick note {sentence} now means telepathy)
{Hello, master, Lucario said telepathically.}
"Gah!" Colin yelled.
"What! Are you unhappy that Riolu evolved?" Lucas asked.
"No he just talked to me telepathically!" Colin explained. Lucas went wide eyed.
"Really?" He questioned, unsure if Colin was telling the truth.
"Show him!" Colin said, unsure if Lucario would co-operate.
{Very well} Lucario responded, letting Lucas here the words.
"Gah!" Lucas yelled, having the same reaction.
{See! I told you so!} Colin said, unaware he did it telepathically.
"Now you too! How come he can do it! Please answer me Lucario!" Lucas begged, honestly just wanting to know how he was doing it.
{Simple. He has aura abilities Lucario said, as if it was nothing.}
"Lucas! I'll try to talk normally, but some of it might come out via telepathy, as I'm still getting used to it. Will that help you become less concerned?" Colin said, trying to be low key as other people started to come to train there too.
"Okay. It probably will." Lucas responded.
{Now let's go challenge the gym leader! Colin said, using telepathy on purpose.}
"Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" Lucas yelled.
There you go, next chapter complete. I'll go over Colin's and Lucas' teams quickly:
Colin- Lucario, Larvitar and Slurpuff
Lucas- Torterra, Houndour and Caravanah
Also here's a list of the moves used in the combos
Risen Upper Punch – Magnet rise (on opponent) + Sky Uppercut + Focus Punch
Blazing Frost Combat- Blaze kick + Ice punch used in a Close combat
Vine Grip- Vine whip + Crush grip
Withering Spore- Spore + Giga drain + Razor leaf
Keep on training. For now, the Weavilist is out.
