A year has passed since then… When we first arrived we were completely lost! We were lucky a trainer named Hugh gave us a ride to town. After that we each began our pokemon journey.
I have yet to leave Heather, though… She's all I've got left of home and she's too young to travel on her own.
"So… Brena," Heather trotted beside me as we walked down route 19, "Do you think we'll ever get back home?"
"Of course!" I lied, "We just have to beat the game and it'll send us back!"
What I didn't mention was that in the game this route didn't even exist, or the fact that seeing how more realistic this world was it would be near impossible to "beat the game."
"Great! My friends would be shocked if they met Chewy!"
"Literally!" I smirked. Chewy was my sister's emolga, a spunky rodent who acted like he owned the place.
"Do you think mom and dad would let us keep our pokemon?" She asked.
"Mom wouldn't mind… Dad, we'd have to convince him."
"Probably…" Heather sighed.
We walked down the path for a good ten minutes before the sun grew really bright for a second. When it faded a beam of light fell from the sky further down the path.
"Do you think that's…" I asked.
"A rare pokemon?" Heather finished my sentence.
A smile spread across my face as I yelled "Dibs!" and raced toward the crash site.
"Wait for me!" Heather followed.
When we reached the crash site not a thing was damaged. Not a single leaf was out of place. The only difference was the familiar face sitting in the middle.
"Oh my God…"
"Is that-" Heather looked at the boy sitting there.
"I think so. Nemo?" the boy looked at me, confused for a second, before he grinned madly.
"So that's where you went!" Nemo stood up and smiled, "You've been gone for a year!"
"Correction, we've been stuck here for a year." I crossed my arms, "How'd you get here anyways?"
"Some sort of light…"
"Do you even know where you are?" Heather asked.
"I doubt he does…" I snorted, "We didn't… Here, this should be fun!" I pulled a pokeball from my belt.
I smirked in satisfaction as Nino's mouth hung open. A poliwag jumped merrily in front of him, wagging her tail in excitement.
"This is a pokemon," I laughed, "Although I doubt you didn't know that!"
"Wait! So you've been training pokemon for an entire year?" Nemo looked amazed.
"Yeah!" Heather nodded in excitement, "Brena says if we beat the game we can go home!"
Nemo's face darkened at that bit before he replaced it with a grin, "Can I see your pokemon?"
"Why not?" I smirked. It was so much fun showing off, "Ready for a battle, Heather?"
"Ready!" my sister pulled Chewy's pokeball.
"How about a double battle? Four versus four?"
"Fine…" she huffed. Heather never did like double battles; they were always too complicated.
"Elver," my first pokemon was by far the strongest of my pokemon, and by far the coolest. He was one of the toughest glaceons out there.
Heather thought for a second before sending out "Bubbles" her hardy Azumarill.
It was my turn to choose my second pokemon. I frowned. I knew type wise this was a good choice but Gryph was the newest member of the team besides poliwag, who I just caught an hour prior to the battle. I shrugged and threw out Gryph's pokeball.
Nemo laughed, "Thought you hated pink! Really? You have a flaafy!"
"Nemo… I wouldn't mock him if I were you…" it was too late. Gryph had already head butted him.
"Ow!"
"Well you shouldn't have teased him!"
"Can we get on with the battle now? It's my turn," Heather whined.
"Then go!"
"Hops, use fire punch on Elver." Heather sent out her buneary. He crossed his arms and glared at Heather, "Please?"
Hops jumped into action paw ablaze before I shouted "Elver use detect! Gryph use electro ball on Bubbles!" I smiled, electro ball hit, lowering Bubbles to half health.
"Use rollout on Elver!" Heather ordered her azumarill.
"Elver, use dig to avoid that rollout!" My glaceon was immediately out of sight, the only sign he was there was the large hole he left.
Bubbles was still rolling, and heading right at me! I readied a desperate jump when she stopped. A laugh bubbled up inside at the sight. Bubbles was stuck head down in Elver's hole!
This was my moment to finish Bubbles. Gryph gave the azumarill a close range electro ball on the behind.
Heather sighed before returning Bubbles and sending out her maractus "Cha-Cha."
By this time Elver had dug behind Hops and attacked, but not before Hops managed to swing a quick fire punch.
I told Elver to fire an ice beam at Cha-Cha, but she dodged the attack with bounce. I ground my teeth. One more powerful hit on Elver and he would be down. Before I could give a command Hops had delivered a powerful jump kick to Elver, knocking him out.
Gryph prepared a brick break on Hops who fainted out of fright of the fighting move. I chuckled Hops was tough but was also a complete coward!
Heather and I both sent out our next pokemon. While I sent out Mystic my vibrava, Heather sent out her last pokemon Chewy.
Grr! Chewy was going to be a pain. Most emolgas had the ability static but Heather's just had to have the ability motor drive. Gryph couldn't hurt him!
As Gryph wouldn't be able to help much I returned him and sent out my last pokemon, Elly. A duosion like no other, Elly was ready for battle, floating from side to side.
Chewy threw a quick iron tail but was immediately crushed by my Elly's rock slide. Now all that was left was Cha-Cha. Grinning evilly I told Mystic to use fly, while Elly distracted the maractus with a shadow ball.
My plan worked perfectly. Heather's team was out for the count.
"So," I turned to a slack jawed Nemo, "How'd you like our battle?"
"When can I start?"
"How about now?" I tossed him the poliwag's pokeball and was about to turn away.
"Brena!" Heather grabbed my arm, "You can't just leave him! He probably will get eaten alive if we don't take him with us!"
"Well we don't have enough supplies to take him."
"We can head back to Floccesy Town."
"But I really don't want to…" I groaned before turning to Nemo, "The nearest town is straight that way. Find someone to help you. It's not that far. Earn enough money to travel and maybe we'll meet again."
"You can't do that!" Heather yelled at me, "Nobody is going to want to help him. Remember how you had to use me to learn anything in this world. People expect him to know these things already!"
"He can figure it out on his own. Now let's go Heather."
"Look if you don't wan-" Nemo began.
"Shut up!" Heather and I snapped.
"Okay," Heather sighed, "I'll go to town and you and Nemo go on ahead."
"No!"
"You can't change my mind," she crossed her arms, "I've already decided."
"No!" I growled; she wasn't going to leave now, "Where are you going?"
"Back to town!"
"But-"
"I have to! I haven't left your side since we got here. It's time I did," with that Heather turned on her heel and left.