Chapter IX: Brendan Maple: Mailman of Hoenn
A/N: This chapter sux (being honest), because it doesn't have much humor in it. And it's shorter than my other ones. Just a warning.
Brendan woke up at 9:00 a.m. the next morning. The other men were still asleep, and Brendan knew that he had to go find May. He did the morning routine; shower, brush teeth, wash face, comb hair, all of that. Then he changed out of his PJ's (after making sure none of the men were looking; he didn't know if they went one or both ways), and headed out the door, and not one of them woke up. Brendan was about to head out, but he saw a tree that he was able to cut down. But then he remembered the HM he got yesterday. But he'd have to teach it to his Pokemon somehow.
"Okay gang, come on out," Brendan said while releasing his Pokemon. Out came his Mudkip, Slakoth, Seedot, and Heracross, all looking at Brendan. "Now guys," Brendan said while pulling out the silver CD. "I have this little move teaching device called an HM. And this particular HM teaches the move Cut. So, tell me who would like to learn cut," Brendan asked. Mudkip and Seedot backed up, but Slakoth and Heracross stayed where they were at.
"Okay then Monkeyman and Horny," Brendan said. "I'll flip a coin," Brendan said while pulling out .50P, and flipping the coin (heads is a Pokeball symbol, tails is the number on what it's worth). When it came down, Brendan realized that he didn't assign any of the Pokemon heads or tails.
"Well then," Brendan said. "Horny, your heads, Monkeyman is tails, and we'll do best 2 out of 3," Brendan said. They nodded in agreement, then Brendan re-flipped the coin. The first toss came down with heads. The second one came down with tails, and the third one came with heads again.
"So, Horny learns Cut," Brendan said. Then he put the HM in some little cube thing, Heracross looked at it, then immediately started nodding his head and stuff. Then a voice in the box asked for the Stone Badge. In confusion, Brendan pulled out his Stone Badge and put it in the little slot. It closed and a scanner scanned it real quick. Then the little slot opened, and handed Brendan the badge again. He put it back in his badge case, and looked at it again. Then Heracross smiled in delight, and the CD dissolved. "Okay then, Horny, use Cut," Brendan said while pointing to the tree. Heracross charged for the tree, and cut it diagonally in half.
"Good job Horny," Brendan said while retuning all of his Pokemon. Then he walked into this little patch of grass, and found four Chesto Berries (and took his Pokedex entry on them), and had six of this weird berry that he found out on.
"Pinap Berry, number 20 on the official Berrydex," it started. "Plant Pinap berries in the ground to grow for Pokeblocks," it said. Brendan just put all ten berries in his berry container, and picked up some weird thing he saw (it was an Ether). Then Brendan left this weird patch and headed back to Rustboro City…
May
May got up at the same time as Brendan that morning. She did the morning routine, put on her clothes, and went to eat some breakfast. By time she was finished it was 8:30 in the morning.
"I have to go find Brendan soon," she said. "But before I do that I guess I can train my Pokemon," May said while throwing her Pokeballs in the air. Out came her team of Pokemon; and they looked pretty happy to see May.
"Are you guys ready to train for contests more," May asked while everyone gave a cheer of delight. Taillow went to work on the tornado escape trick, Torchic was practicing her backflips, Wurmple was practicing its aim on the silk thread that it shoots, and Skitty was working on not following its tail. When you got her for two seconds, she'd turn and see her tail and start to chase it. May practiced with her Pokemon some, and worked on Skitty and her tail problem.
"I guess I'll worry about Brendan a little later," May thought to herself as her Taillow spun out of the tornado in dizziness for the 3rd time today. But then in the distance, May saw someone with white hair in the distance, it was Brendan! He was running straight for her and he even called her name, but then the guy with the green suit came, put his arm around Brendan, and took him to the biggest building that May knew was here in Rustboro City…
Brendan
Brendan saw the entrance to the city, and was headed straight for it. When he got into the city, Brendan walked passed this huge brown building that he didn't notice before. And in the distance, he saw a tornado going and a Taillow flew out of it. Brendan knew automatically that that was May practicing for contests, so he started to run for her.
"MAY," he yelled from the distance. He knew that if he could get to her, they could get the hell out of here, but then, a huge green arm came around his shoulder, and the arm turned Brendan in the direction of the big ass building here in Rustboro City.
"So," he asked with a grin. "Did you bring back those Devon Goods?" he asked while grinning widely.
"Yeah, they're in my bag," Brendan said. The man dug into his backpack without Brendan's permission, and pulled out a brown suitcase of Goods (whatever the hell they are).
"My…I mean, the Devon Goods," he said while smiling. Then Brendan took the suitcase from his hands.
"Wait a second here," Brendan said. "I recovered the Devon Goods; therefore, I should turn them in to the boss."
"You don't even know where the boss is," the man said sternly.
"The boss of any cooperation always is at the top of the building," Brendan said while running inside. The guy in the green suit followed Brendan into the building…
May
May saw that Brendan was dragged to the big building (well, she saw the man put his arm around Brendan and go to it), so May returned her Pokemon and decided that she was going to go to the big building. She ran down the road, and pushed a lot of people out of her way, including a man who a suitcase full of money. When he fell and his money fell out, a random kid yelled out "Scramble," and all of the kids started taking the money.
"Hey, lay off of the Mafia's dough," the man yelled. May kept going to the building, and saw that Brendan snatched a brown suitcase out of the researcher's hands, pointed up to the building while saying something about the top floor, then jetted inside, followed by the Devon Researcher. Remembering Brendan said something about the top floor, May decided to follow him up to wherever he was going.
Brendan
Brendan ran up different floors. On one of them, he heard an Italian sounding man yell out "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN THE MONEY WAS TAKEN BY A BUNCH OF KIDS!" the voice echoed in the halls. Brendan tried his best to get to the top, climbing stairs, pushing people, and just not giving a damn. By time he got to the top floor, he saw a big door that said MR. STONE'S OFFICE. So Brendan ran inside the office, and ran inside the office, where an elder looking man had a look onto his face saying that he was pissed. He had grayish-silver hair, blue eyes, a dark blue suit, and a black tie. Standing in front of his desk was the Devon Researcher from before, and he had on a "You're-gonna-get-in-trouble," look on his face.
"I'm hearing from my worker that a crazy guy with white hair is trying to steal my goods." The man said. "Are you," he asked in rage.
"No," Brendan said. "Yesterday this guy is asking my like a bitch if I can retrieve these goods from Team Magma and Team Aqua," Brendan said. "I got these Goods, and he takes the suitcase, and says that I could go. But I said that I should give you the case because I retrieved it, he just wanted all of the credit," Brendan said while handing the old man the suitcase. He looked inside it, then closed it and glared at his worker.
"Why the hell would you want to blame this little boy for trying to steal my Goods?" the man named Mr. Stone asked.
"I'm not a little boy, you old bag," Brendan said.
"Well, still, why did you try to blame him," Mr. Stone asked.
"Because he's a little brat…" the Devon Researcher started, but Brendan cut him off.
"And you're a big bitch," Brendan said in an annoyed tone.
"Am not," he said in retaliation.
"Yeah right Mr. Don't take my Goods! Brendan said in a mocking tone. Mr. Stone laughed, dug into his drawer, and lightly shoved two things to Brendan. One was a Great Ball (he could tell because one, he already has some, and two, it was blue on the top, along with little red little foamy things at the top), and the other was the suitcase with the Goods. The suitcase also had a letter on top of it that had the name Steven on it.
"May you please deliver the Devon Goods to the Shipyard in Slateport City?" he asked.
"Hmm…" Brendan said. "What's in it for me," he asked. Mr. Stone pulled out a yellow thing with a blue dot in the middle and a black thing on top, and slid it over Brendan's way.
"This is a Pokemon Navigator, or Pokenav for short," Mr. Stone said. "It has a more detailed map of Hoenn then the PokeGear, and it also shows the contest conditions pokémon are in which depends on the pokéblocks they've eaten. It also records information of almost all the trainers you meet, a short profile of them, and marks them to alert when they want to re-battle." He said. Brendan got a look of thinking onto his face, and then faced him again.
"So who's Steven," Brendan asked.
"Steven is my son," he said. "I was hoping that you could deliver that letter to him. He's in Dewford Town, probably in the Granite Cave looking for more rocks," he said.
"So, what else is in it for me," Brendan asked Mr. Stone. He though about it for a minute, then pulled out his wallet, some money, and handed it to Brendan.
"Here's 5,000 Poke for you (A/N: Poke is the name of their currency, just like dollar, yen, peso, etc.)," he said while Brendan took it and put it in his own wallet.
"Hey," the Devon Researcher said. "I get that much money in two months," he said in shock. All of a sudden, the door opened and May came into the room.
"Brendan," May said while coming up to him and hugging him.
"Hey May," he said while hugging her back. After a few seconds, they realized what they were doing, and shook off all of the other person's germs away. Then they decided to wipe them off on the Devon Researcher.
"So, we headed to Rusturf Tunnel and Verdanturf next?" May asked.
"Actually May," Brendan said. "We gotta go back to Route 104 South. I have some missions to do, and the man who lived in that cottage we saw, I need him to sail us to Dewford Town." Brendan said. "Is that okay," he asked just in case.
"No, I'm fine about it," she said. "I just don't want to have to worry about that flower shop again."
"Or the Cutter's House," Brendan said. The two were turning around to leave, when Mr. Stone had more to say.
"Oh, and you should also speak to the Captain Stern when you get to Slateport City," he said. "And in Dewford Town, they have another official gym for you trainers. So you can battle him there…" he said.
"Thank you," Brendan said. Brendan and May took a turn to leave. When they left, Steven laid back in his chair and grinned.
"Nice boy," he said. Brendan and May were going downstairs, and they just took another turn.
"Stupid old man," Brendan said while May giggled slightly.
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Another Chapter Ladies and Gents. I know it was short, and not funny, but they'll get funnier by the next chapter. Please review. I need to know what you guys think about it so I can change it, or answer any questions of yours. Thank you