Episode 1: The L on the forehead
Chapter 1
Three years have passed. After participating in some tough competitions, Black Jack and Alice decided to take break from it before they could decide on their next destination of adventure.
It was a hot summer day at Lilycove beach of the Hoenn region. Black Jack was resting on the side of his motorcycle as he looked at the beautiful waves of the sea. His image didn't change much; only he grew a few inches taller. He was wearing a black tight T-shirt, black jeans, black boots and a black bandanna wrapped around his head. His arms were showing scars and tattoos in different places.
He was about to drink some of his beer, but a beach ball came flying by and he caught it. He looked and spotted girl, familiar to him. She was wearing a cute green swimsuit, and had yellow ponytail hair, and a pretty cute face, despite a small scar underneath her left eye. "Sorry, uncle!" she cried happily. "Can you pass the ball back?"
"You're just lucky I didn't spill my drink, Alice!" Black Jack shouted back as he smiled while tossing back the beach ball. "Just be careful, will ya!"
Both of them were in a quiet spot of the beach, away from other people. Because of their fame, people couldn't hold back their excitement to run up to them and ask them for their autograph. Therefore, in order to avoid being surrounded by fans, they had to find somewhere quiet.
Alice, now at thirteen years old, was playing volleyball with her pokemon. Three of Black Jack's pokemon, Tyranitar, Feraligatr, and Nidoking were playing a game where they had to smash a watermelon into pieces using a wooden sword each, blindfolded while his other pokemon, Metagross, Salamence and Chan the Blaziken sunbathed.
Nidoking inadvertently hit Feraligatr on the head with his wooden weapon. "(Did I get it)?" Nidoking growled.
"It's over there, Nidoking," Black Jack replied. Since he was training his pokemon for so long, he now fully understood pokemon language.
Smasher took off his blindfold to see what was going on. He spotted the watermelon still not smashed… and now yards away from him. He looked at Comedian with nervous eyes and Feraligatr stared angrily at him with a large bump on his head.
"(S… sorry, Feraligatr)," he growled nervously.
Feraligatr hit him on the head with his wooden weapon in response, making Nidoking angry as well. Both of them got into a fight, distracting everyone.
Tyranitar stood next to his trainer and friend. "(Shouldn't we stop them?)", he asked.
"That's the way we train", Black Jack replied in response, noticing the dusty clouds surrounding the fight between Nidoking and Feraligatr. "Although theirs is a bit unorthodox."
"Hey! Alice!" shouted a teenager boy's voice, whose accent sounded american. Everyone turned their attention to him, even Smasher and Comedian stopped their childish fighting. He was wearing a white T-shirt with blue sleeves, blue jeans and red trainers. His hair was blond and was nearly reaching his eyes.
"Jerry!" Alice cried as she ran over to him and gave him a big hug. Jerry hugged back in return.
"Jerry, huh?" Black Jack said, noticing the boy's arrival. "How did he found us here?"
"(He probably thought about looking for a quiet spot himself)," Tyranitar replied.
"Hey!" Jerry said. "How are things goin'?"
"Everything's going great!" Alice said joyfully. "I'm so happy to see you!"
"Same here, it's been four years since we were together."
Jerry and Alice have been best of friends for so long that they don't even know when they started. But they had to separate, because Jerry was one year older than Alice and wanted to start his pokemon journey early to become a pokemon master.
-Flashback-
Four years ago, a grade school was having a leaving party for the students who were to leave the next day for their pokemon journey. Jerry was one of those people and Alice didn't like the idea.
Instead of being part of the party, Alice went on one of the swings in the school playground. It was warm afternoon that day but she didn't care, as she was feeling rather depressed.
Jerry came to talk to her. "What's wrong, Alice?" he asked in a concerned tone.
"I don't want you to go," Alice replied in a sad tone.
"Alice, I have to. If I want to become a pokemon master as quick as possible, I'd have to get an early start."
"You're one of my best friends! I don't want to see you go! I don't want to say goodbye!"
Small tears came out of Alice's eyes as she jumped off the swing and ran back into entrance of the school while Jerry gave chase.
While inside, Jerry kept on calling Alice's name but to no avail. At some point, Jerry some familiar sobbing noises from a nearby closet, which was a janitor's closet. He opened the door and saw Alice crouching down with her knees to her head. Jerry kneeled down to her put his hand on her shoulder.
"I don't wanna say goodbye either," he said. He then scratched his head, thinking of a solution. "Tell you what," he continued. "I promise that we'll see each other again."
"You mean it?" Alice asked as she wiped the tears off her eyes. "Promise?"
"Promise."
Jerry and Alice then shaped their small fingers as small hooks, they hooked their small fingers and shook though as though they shaking hands on an agreement.
-End flashback-
As Jerry and Alice started reminiscing on old times, Black Jack and his pokemon walked over to them. "Jerry," Black Jack said, catching their attention.
The two young trainers turned round, with Jerry's eyes being widened as he was looking at one of the world's top trainers. "Bl… Black Jack?" Jerry said in a shocked and nervous tone.
Jerry pointed at both people, knowing the fact that they were relatives. "You two… travelling together?" Jerry said in a shocked tone.
"I don't want to say it out loud, but yeah," Alice answered.
"You must be pretty lucky, travelling around with a pokemon master an' all," Jerry said.
Suddenly, Jerry had an idea as he pictured a light bulb appearing on top of his head. "I got an idea!" he said excitedly. "How about I join up with you two? I could use a little help!"
"Hey! That's a great idea, Jerry!" Alice said, as she liked the idea. "How about it uncle?"
"Well, I can't just take him along just because he's a friend of yours," Black Jack replied. "Tell you what, do well in a battle against me and I'll take you in, deal?"
Jerry became shocked and scared as he started to sweat a lot upon hearing Black Jack's challenge. "You don't have to beat me," Black Jack said. "Just do something challenging."
"C'mon, Jerry," Alice said, encouraging her friend. "You can do this."
Jerry gulped in a hard way. "Okay…" he said nervously.
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