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"Good morning Unova! You're listening to Spike's Sports in the Morning. We've got a great show lined up for you today, we've got the notorious Coach Barkley, head coach of the Humilau High Hurricanes, on the phone, and later we've got Extreme Racing legend Simon "Digger" Bell, and after that a pre-season outlook for Battling and Extreme Race teams of local schools...
Coach Marshall Barkley, you're on the air. How are you doing today coach?"
"I'm good Spike, and thanks for having me on."
"So here you are, ranked #9 pre-season in the world after a very disappointing loss in the World Semi-finals last year. Despite the ranking, some are saying that you're washed up, your time coaching might be near its end-"
"First off, the ranking doesn't give us enough credit. Second, any of the pricks writing me off can go choke," Barkley interrupted.
"Well Marshall, some are saying that the ranking is too high. Last season, your team got swept in its last round AND you lost 5 seniors, people think you don't have it in you anymore. I personally think that there's a chance you might not win any titles this year."
"It shows that we have some rebuilding to do, but what the hell's your problem today Spike? Is it because I made out with your sister at the PWT?" Barkley retorted.
Sounding flustered, "That wasn't my sister, that was my wife. And you better believe it."
Humilau High, a beautiful campus located right next to the beaches of the city, was beginning to show activity again since the end of the previous school year one month earlier. Student-athletes were starting to show up to move back in on campus in the dorms, as well as freshmen showing up for the first orientation of the summer. The new students would enter campus at the Campus Center, behind that are the academic buildings in a row, on the far right the five tall dorm buildings could be seen, on the far left the Library and Recreational Center are visible, and behind the academic buildings is the three practice fields, and beyond those, right by the beach is the towering Arena. And on the other side of the Arena is the beautiful golden beaches of Humilau City, littered with beach chairs, umbrellas, volleyball nets, fire pits, and dunes, that stretch throughout the whole city until they hit the docks. A fourth practice field is also located here.
Over at the athletics dorm, a freshman recruit of the Battling team just finished unpacking all his stuff in his room. He looked at his athletic 6-foot frame in the mirror, wearing his usual plain t-shirt and jeans, making sure his short blonde hair was spiked back just right. He thought to himself, 'lookin' good' as he put his runners back on, stepping outside his room to meet the other freshmen athletes. He knocked on the door across from his. Several seconds later the door opened and a much shorter, scrawny guy opened it. He had a blank stare on his face, his coal-black hair covering one of his half-closed sea green eyes and going just past his neck. He had on a red t-shirt, dark blue jeans, and black tennis shoes.
"Hey, how's it going, I'm Tommy Stone," the first said, stretching his arm out to shake the other's hand, with his natural grin on.
The other didn't move an inch, "Karim Nuri," he said, staring at Tommy's pale blue eyes blankly.
Tommy was unaffected by the denied handshake, putting his arm down. "It's nice to meet you Karim, I'm a recruit for the Battling team, how about you?"
"Same," was all he got in response. Tommy started to talk about the upcoming tryouts but Karim closed the door saying, "See you at practice."
"Alright, see ya man, nice to meet you," Tommy 'I guess he's a Pokémon person, not a people person,' Tommy thought to himself, deciding to go up a floor, hoping for it to be a girls' floor.
Meanwhile, over in the Campus Center, a senior, junior, and sophomore of the Battling team were huddled in a hallway. The junior and sophomore looked as if they had just came from hunting, one wearing bright orange camouflage pants and t-shirt with a black nylon vest and the other wearing bright orange rain pants and a fisher's hat. "Tyler, what are you two wearing?" the senior asked, donning a black suit and holding a clipboard.
"It's so the other hunters don't shoot us, Eric, duhh," the tallest of the three spoke, Tyler. He was around 5'10 with a muscular, tanned frame and very short dark blonde hair spiked all over. "Listen up Barry, it's our missionto try to get good trainers to join the team. Coach's orders."
"Yes Tyler, yes!" the shortest yelled. Barry had dark brown skin and a shaved head.
"When did he say that? The team is full, but if anything Coach might pick up a walk-on or two for back-up," Eric replied.
"Well aren't you Mr. Know-it-all," Tyler retorted.
"I am the team manager for a reason," Eric laughed. "I'll be in the Arena," he said, walking away.
"Let's go Barry," the two of them walked to the lobby, where the Dean, Dirk Fisher, was greeting students and several upperclassmen were ready to give tours. They stood next to the Dean, with their arms behind their back looking like bodyguards. The incoming freshmen would shake the Dean's hand and show him their Pokémon. One of the freshmen had a Chandelure and Tyler pushed Barry in the back, "Go Barry!" Barry jumped forward, stepping in front of the upperclassman and taking the freshman on his and Tyler's "tour". A few freshmen later and a Gible showed up. Tyler rushed forward, easily shouldering the other junior out of his way.
He took the startled freshmen straight to the three practice fields in front of the Arena. Each of them marked with white paint outlining the classic look of a Pokemon competition: two boxes for the trainers to stand in, and two large boxes for the Pokemon to fight in, with a circle in the middle. There were two plain grass fields and one field was a giant pool surrounded by cement with several large platforms randomly placed on top of the water. Off to the side of one of the grass fields were small, medium, and large sized push sleds and three sized agility ladders. He then led the freshman into the arena, bringing him up into the stands.
On the way up, Barry was walking down, shaking his head with a disappointed look on his face. Tyler put his hand on his shoulder saying, "I know Barry, it's tough. Let her go, she's not good enough for you." Barry said thanks to Tyler before heading back to the Campus Center.
"Um, is that the tour? How do I get back?" Barry's freshman said. Tyler just hung his head and pointed in the direction of the CC. He walked up some more steps, sitting in the row behind Eric.
"Gible," was all he said, leaving the freshman, looking confused, as he walked out. 'Rick will get him, no one can resist the suit' he thought to himself, walking out confidently, a smirk on his face.
AN: Karim Nuri is the OC of Nightfall00 and Thomas "Tommy" Stone is the OC of Munamana.
Well here's the first chapter! Got it out a little sooner than I expected, not that there's anything wrong with that haha. Let me know what you think! Next chapter featuring more OC's and the Battling team tryouts and more. If any of you caught the anime reference I put in here, then yay xD
One last thing, my buddy is writing his first fic titled "A Shot in the Dark", it's a SYOC as well about human/pokemon "mutants/superheroes" (if you will) so go check it out if you'd like! His pen name is Jarl Josef Windcaller
