Field Trip
Jet knocked on the door to his father's room, "Brought home some McDonalds, Dad. Got you a Big Mac!"
"Good, come on in!"
Jet opened the door. His parent's room had become littered with dirty dishes and trash ever since their father came home with his cast. His leg was broken in seven different places and there was nerve damage as well. According to the doctors, he'd be lucky to ever walk again.
Jet, along with the rest of the family, had spent the past week since the patriarch got home taking care of him. They would bring him food, newspapers, his laptop, the remote, whatever he may ask for. And every day, Jet would ask his father about news on the culprit they captured.
"So do they have a trial date yet?" Jet asked earnestly, "he was denied bail, right?"
Jet's dad pulled his food from his bag and replied, "For the hundredth time, yes Jethro! He was denied bail."
"Good," Jet said, ignoring the impatience in his father's voice, "the Rockets can buy him a fancy lawyer if they want to, but they're not getting him off that easily!"
Jet's dad sighed, "We're not even a hundred percent positive that it was the Rocket Gang that was behind the robbery."
"Well who else could it be?" Jet retorted, hotly, "Who else could keep him quiet and afford some big-shot lawyer from Celadon to represent him?"
"You're letting your prejudice get in the way," Jet's father said, patiently, "Never make assumptions! They could lead you blindly down the wrong path. It might be them, it may be someone else. Either way, he's certainly not talking."
Jet frowned. His dad did have a point, but Jet knew better. It was the Rockets; he could feel it. Jet remembered how Jesse and James walked out of handcuffs scot-free; he could not allow such a thing to happen again. These people shouldn't be allowed to live above the law.
"How did training with your brother and sister go?" Jet's dad asked, interrupting his thoughts.
"Oh, it was fine. Anna's Eevee beat Kenny's Eevee. They're both still pretty weak, but at least they're improving. Since tomorrow's Saturday, I was planning on taking them to Chestnut Fields to catch some Pokémon."
Jet's dad took a bite out of his burger and chewed it thoughtfully, "The Pokémon out there aren't strong, right? They won't get hurt or anything?"
Jet gave his dad a small smile, "Not while I have my Charmeleon, they won't!"
XXX
And so, keeping true to his word, Jet took the twins to a park right next to Chestnut Fields, (a local area east of Pallet Town that held a lot of low level grass and bug type Pokémon). They all hoped out of the car and Jet told them, "We'll have to walk from here."
"I don't mind!" Anna chirped, cheerfully, "What kind of Pokémon live around here, anyway?"
Jet started listing some of the Pokémon that he knew were in the area. It was mostly Oddish and Bellsprout, but there were also Tangela, Weedle, Caterpie, and Ledyba as well. And of course there were the Spearow and Pidgey that fed on them, the Ekans that fed on the birds, and the occasional Nidoran that ate whatever it could.
"I'd love to catch an Ekans!" Kenny said.
"Good luck," Jet told his little brother, "If they aren't hunting for food, they're usually underground."
Kenny didn't seem saddened by this news, "It doesn't matter what we catch anyway."
Jet raised his eyebrows, "That so?"
"Well yeah," Kenny replied, nonchalantly, "There's a GTS terminal at the Research Center, I could just trade off anything I don't want."
Jet smirked, "Well good luck trying to peddle off Oddish and Caterpie for Talonflame and Gengar!"
Anna laughed, "Of course no one is going to request a Caterpie, but that's what Wonder Trade is for!"
Jet stopped smiling, "Wonder Trade?"
"Yeah," Anna replied, "It's when you trade a Pokémon off and get another one from anywhere around the world at random."
Jet stopped walking all together, "Wait what? That's a thing now? When did this come out?"
"Umm, last month? Where have you been?" Kenny snickered.
Jet frowned, "I don't use the internet much anymore. So you're telling me that you just go to a GTS terminal, send your Pokémon away, and get some random Pokémon just out of nowhere?"
"Yep!" Anna replied, "That's the gist of it!"
Jet started walking again and said, "That's diabolical! So what's to stop someone from, I don't know, sending a bunch of Bidoof or Magikarp in to the world?"
"You mean trolling?" Kenny asked.
"What's trolling mean?" Jet asked back.
"Never mind, dude. Just, never mind."
Anna cut in, "I heard a guy evolved a Gible into a Gabite and it stopped listening, right? So he Wonder-Traded it off to this old guy for a Silcoon. But when the old guy got the Gabite and tried to use it, it went on a rampage and killed him!"
"Yeah," Kenny added, "It was all over the news last week! But that won't happen with us," he added to Jet, "Because you need a Class B license to train a Gabite. The most we'll get is a Joltik or something."
It took few minutes before they arrived at their destination. There was an entry control point where a ranger checked everyone's license's to make sure they were allowed past the gates. Once they were in Chestnut Fields, Jet gave each of his siblings two Great Balls.
"Now, I don't need to tell you how to use these, right?" Jet asked, "Just remember what I taught you. Weaken them until they're too tired to fight back, and then toss your great ball. If your Eevee gets hurt, don't be a hero and keep going! Recall your Pokémon and get out of there. I won't help unless you or your Pokémon are in real danger. Catching a Pokémon for the first time is something you must experience on your own."
And so they were off. Within five minutes, they found a Bellsprout that nobody wanted. When Jet asked what about Wonder Trade, Kenny replied, "I only have two Great Balls! I'm not going to waste them on a Bellsprout!"
And so they moved on. Before long, they came across a Ledyba. "Oh, can I have this one, Jet?" Anna asked. Stepped aside and let his little sister do battle with her first wild encounter.
"Ok, let's do this, Jaime!" Her Eevee was sent out to the Battle Field. Ledyba hovered above the ground, watching the proceedings curiously. Anna told her Eevee, "Put it to sleep with Yawn!"
Jet and the others turned away as Eevee let out a cute Yawn, which caused his opponent to do the same. Ledyba became uninterested in the proceedings and decided to fly away. Anna yelled after it, "Wait! Come back!" It paid her no mind, but instead fell to the ground mid-flight, asleep.
"Well," said Jet, "Are you going to go catch it or what?"
Anna excitedly ran after her Pokémon and caught it with a Great Ball. She christened the Pokémon "Spot," and they continued on their way.
The next Pokémon they found was an unexpected one; a Bulbasaur. Jet stopped the group, "He's mine!" Jet had informed them. Jet then sent out his Spinarak, "Go Aragog! Use Spider Web!"
Spinarak came out and followed his Trainer's instructions, but Bulbasaur ran away. Jet told Spinarak, "Use String Shot to bring him back here!" Spinarak caught Bulbasaur with String shot, and used the attack to slam Bulbasaur against a nearby boulder that was sticking out of the ground. He then used Spider web to trap the Pokémon against said boulder. Jet got excited, "Good, now use Bug Bite, Aragog!"
Spinarak was about to use Bug Bite, but Bulbasaur began to whistle an eerie tune that began to make them all drowsy. In a panic Jet covered his ears, but to no avail. He fell to his knees and found himself unconscious.
XXX
Jet felt something poking him in the ribs. Someone was trying to wake him up, but he didn't want to get up. After all, his nap had only just started! Something poked him again, hard this time. Jet woke up to find his Spinarak poking at his side. Realizing what had happened, Jet quickly sat up, "What the fuck?"
He looked over at the spot where Bulbasaur had been. It was gone now, escaped. Jet looked up at the sun. It was about noon, so they had not been sleep very long. He groaned and sat up. "What happened?" Jet asked Spinarak. He closed his eyes and tried to connect his mine with his Pokémon's.
Apparently, Spinarak fought hard to resist Bulbasaur's Grass Whistle after Jet and the others fell asleep. Spinarak soon fell asleep as well, however, but woke up once he felt the wild Bulbasaur attacking him. He managed to fight the Bulbasaur off, and the Pokémon escaped just before he woke Jet up.
Jet opened his eyes and checked Spinarak's backside which Bulbasaur gnawed at while he was sleep. Jet pulled a potion from his bag and sprayed his injured Pokémon, "You did great, buddy! That Bulbasaur would've probably killed us in our sleep if you hadn't intervened! I didn't think he'd know Grass Whistle, honestly."
After healing his Pokémon, he recalled it and went to wake up his brother and sister. "What happened?" Anna asked sleepily.
"That Bulbasaur put us all to sleep with Grass Whistle, but Aragog fought him off."
Kenny sat up in shock, "What? We could've been attacked in our sleep!"
"We almost were," agreed Jet, "but no one said catching Pokémon would be easy. You guys ready to keep going?"
Both twins looked as if they were ready to call it a day. Jet shook his head, "You're not going to let a little thing like that stop you, are ya?"
Anna laughed nervously, "Does that happen often?"
"What getting knocked out?" Jet asked, "Used to happen to me all the time! Shall we?"
And so the continued. Jet had to admit, that was a close call. All in all though, he was mostly just mad that the Bulbasaur got away. All three siblings agreed at the first sign of a whistle, they'd cover their ears and run. This led to a couple of false alarms courtesy of Kenny, but that stopped when Anna angrily punched him in the stomach.
After a walking a while, Anna had caught herself a male Nidoran and Kenny had caught his first Pokémon as well; a Paras. Kenny had informed the group that he planned on Wonder-Trading the newest member of his team off to try and get something better. It was starting to get late so they decided to start heading back. And that's when Kenny found his last catch of the day; a shiny Weedle.
The sunlight had reflected off of the Weedle's gold colored body and caught the young trainer's eye. Shiny Pokémon were so rare and sought after, he knew he just had to have it.
"Go Eevee!" He yelled, tossing a pokeball into the air. His Eevee came out and barked excitedly. He tried using the same strategy that he and his sister used all day, "Eevee, use Yawn!"
Eevee opened his mouth to Yawn at his opponent, but the Weedle sent a well-aimed String Shot his way. The silk covered Eevee's mouth, preventing him from using Yawn. Weedle then used String Shot and instantly poisoned Eevee.
Jet warned his brother, "Don't keep your Pokémon out long! If he vomits then he'll choke on it with that gook covering his face!"
"Right!" Kenny said nervously, "Eevee, return!"
After recalling his Eevee, Kenny said, "Fuck it," and just threw his empty Great Ball at the Weedle. Surprisingly, the little guy was captured. Kenny jumped for joy when he heard the final metallic click, and Anna stared in disbelief.
"How the hell did you catch it without battling it?" She asked.
"I battled it!" Kenny said happily, "I just didn't actually attack it!"
XXX
After Chestnut Fields, Jet took his little brother and sister to register their new Pokémon under their names. Because they didn't have a pokedex, they couldn't do this in the field like Jet could, so they had to go to the Research Center. After healing their Pokémon and registering them, they went to the GTS terminal to trade their unwanted Pokémon off.
Kenny wanted to keep his Shiny Weedle, so he instead traded his Paras and instead got a Pansear at level fifteen. He was ecstatic about his newly traded Pokémon. Next came Anna, who traded off her Nidoran. As she favored water Pokémon, she must have traded and re-traded five times before she found something she wanted, (a level seventeen Shellder).
"You know Jet," Kenny said after they left the research center, "You might be able to get something good for that Spinarak of yours!"
Jet stared, "Aragog probably saved our lives today, and you want me to just trade him off?"
Kenny looked kind of embarrassed, "Well when you put it that way, I guess not. But I'm sure you got some Pokémon that you don't use that you can trade off for something good though!"
Jet shook his head, "You just don't get it, do you? I have no useless Pokémon. I don't want to use any Pokémon I didn't raise myself. And I certainly will not trade off my Pokémon like their fucking trading cards or something!"
"Alright! I get it! Sheesh!" Kenny said, impatiently.
"No you don't." Jet said as they got in the car, "But for your sake, and that of your Pokémon, I sincerely hope that one day you will."
Author's Notes:
Ok, So I wanted to answer a few questions. First was if Jet had a Dragon Type or if he'd get one soon. He doesn't have one currently, but he will have one before the league.
Also I was asked to give an update on the level's of Jet's Pokémon. This I won't do, because their level's haven't changed since I listed them at the Beauty Pageant. The next significant change in levels you will see for Jet's Pokémon will be shortly after he arrives in Lavender town. I will show a full update then.
As for why Jet hasn't focused on his main team in a while, it's because he was training a lot of his weaker Pokémon at the time. Plus, the stronger Pokémon get, the harder it is for them to level up.
As for the whole will Jet have Aura abilities and will he further develop his telepathy, I can only tell you to have patients. This story will touch on that stuff but it won't be for a while. And I do mean a while.
As for whether Jet ever catches any legendries or fossil Pokémon, you'll just have to wait and see.
And finally, I was asked if Ash would play a bigger role, or if it was just a cameo. You will see Ash again later, but he's not going to be a major character. He might make one more cameo in the Kanto part of the story, but that's it.
I'd like to thank everyone for all of the reviews! I do read them and I will try to answer all questions without spoiling the story. I'm glad you all seem to be enjoying the new updates and hope you like the future chapters. One more chapter in Pallet Town, and then it's straight to Lavender Town!
Until next time, See ya!
P.S.
If you haven't played X or Y yet, I highly recommend you play it. IMO it's by far the best Pokémon game I've ever played.
