A/N: BONUS CHAPTER! Well, not really a chapter, more of an interlude. There will be more, but they all will be short. Less than 500 words.
Interlude 1: N
Father stood on the stage talking to the masses. Why he bothered doing this rote speech in each town we stopped in, I didn't know.
There was a girl standing next to me, wearing a green scarf around her neck. I watched it and it suddenly wriggled. A pokemon? It figured, using a living being to make her look prettier. She was just as bad as the rest of them. The girl reached up and idley scratched the side of the pokemon. She lifted it slightly and moved the weight of it from one shoulder to the other. It wriggled and settled down into the sunnier spot.
Father's speech finished and he signaled the plant in the crowd. The plant released his pokemon and said one of the stupider bits of the script. If only I could force people to release pokemon without having to sit through these every week.
There must be a way.
I was deep in my thoughts when I bowled over a blitzle wearing one of the torturous contraptions trainers forced them to carry. I smiled and helped the blitzle up. "You might want to be a little bit more careful, fella." I told him.
I don't wants to go! he practically screamed. Plum Man was doing the talkings and he said that pokemon needs to go away! I dont wants to go! I don't wants to leave my Poofy.
I glanced at the girl he indicated. Her bushy mane was shoved under a cap and the ponytailed remainder exploded from the back of the hat; very poofy. Next to her was Scarf Girl.
But she would be a trainer and so would her friend. I mentally renewed my vow not to befriend abusers.
...Doesn't want to leave… How could that be?
"You're pokemon…" I started. "It said-"
I got cut off by Scarf Girl and she and her friend started bickering. I left, thinking two things. Scarf Girl had a name: Bianca.
The other stayed with me long into the night. I don't want to leave. I have never heard pokemon say such things…