So here is chapter 2! Touko goes to Sinnoh! And if you guys have played certain games for the Gamecube…well…I won't spoil it ahead of time. XD
Touko looked out of the window and watched the land below fly by. Professor Juniper had arranged for a plane to take her to Sinnoh. Well that was sort of a lie. She turned to look at her two friends who were sitting across from her. Bianca's face was pressed against the window as she watched the land fly by. Cheren had his arms crossed against his chest and he was leaning back in his chair but his eyes were staring out the window. He seemed to notice Touko looking at him and he turned his eyes to look at her with a questioning look in his eyes.
Touko shook her head and looked back out the window next to her again. She still couldn't believe that these two ended up coming along with her. When she had decided to go on this crazy trip she thought she would be the only one. She thought they would think she was crazy for going after N like this. However instead of turning away they ended up coming with her. She thought she was crazy but now she wondered about her friends.
She opened her bag and checked the five pokeballs she had in it. After a bit of thinking she decided the best way to go to Sinnoh was with her main team and no one else. She would leave her sixth slot open for now, just in case.
"Can you believe it!" cried Bianca as she glanced back at Cheren and Touko. "We're almost in Sinnoh. I can see the mountain range! It's so huge!"
"That's probably the Mt. Coronet range," said Cheren as he pushed his glasses further up his nose. "It separates Sinnoh into two parts. You can find different Pokemon in the area. For example, the Pokemon Shellos can appear in two different forms depending on where it is found."
"Like always, you seem to know everything," said Touko with a laugh.
A slight blush crept up Cheren's face and he pushed his glasses up his nose again. "Well, I was thinking about going to Sinnoh at some point in the near future so I was reading up on it."
Touko was about to answer when she heard a voice over the intercom of the plane. It was telling them to fasten their seatbelts and get ready for landing.
"We're here!" squealed Bianca as she settled down in her seat. "I wonder what kind of Pokemon we'll find out here." She clapped her hands excitedly. "Hopefully something cute and loveable!"
"You didn't bother looking up the Pokemon native to Sinnoh ahead of time, did you?" asled Cheren with a sigh.
"Nope!" replied Bianca. "Plus that would be no fun! I mean, don't you want to have the excitement of walking through the tall grass and meeting new Pokemon for the first time? That sounds awesome to me!"
"I didn't look them up either," said Touko in an attempt to divert Cheren's attention away from Bianca before he began a rant on how dangerous it was to not look up the Pokemon of the Sinnoh region or something like that. Cheren's heart was in the right place but sometimes he was a bit too…much.
Cheren sighed and shook his head. "What am I going to do with the two of you?"
The three fell silent and watched as the land got closer and closer. The plane jumped slightly as it touched down on the ground and slowly made its way to a stop. Once the pilot said it was alright for them to get up, the three Unova trainers quickly unbuckled themselves and exited the plane.
"So this is Sinnoh huh," commented Cheren as they stepped outside.
"We're right outside Sandgem town," called the pilot from the window. He pointed in the direction they would have to walk. "Just go that way and you'll get there in no time!"
"Thanks for the ride," said Touko before she looked around the route they were on. The first thing that hit her was how cold it was here. It was spring right?
"Sinnoh is much further north than Unova is," explained Cheren when he noticed that Touko and Bianca were shivering slightly. "So it is much colder up here."
"Why didn't you tell us this ahead of time?" cried Bianca. "I would have packed better clothes then!"
"Can we get going you two?" asked Touko as she gestured in the direction of Sandgem town. They weren't here to have fun; they were here in order to find out what that light was about and about where N was…
"Touko is right!" said Bianca, confidence clear on her face. "Let's go!"
After waving a quick goodbye to the pilot they began walking towards Sandgem town. After a bit of walking they realized that the pilot's definition of outside Sandgem town was different than their's.
"It looks like he dropped us off on the wrong end of Route 201," stated Cheren after checking the map. He sighed. "Well that's a bother."
"Oh well," said Bianca. "At least we get to see some cool Sinnoh Pokemon!" Bianca pointed to some brown Pokemon with big teeth running around nearby. "Like those! They look really cute."
"Bidoofs," stated Cheren. "They're quite common around here."
"Bianca," began Touko when she noticed her friend was slowly making her way towards the Bidoof. "I don't think you should try to catch one right now. Professor Rowan is waiting for us."
Bianca sighed and put away her pokeball. "Yeah, you're right. I'll get you later!" she called out to the Bidoof before joining her friends back on the path to Sandgem Town.
The three friends walked and chatted together. Cheren would spout out random knowledge he knew about Sinnoh and the Pokemon that lived around here while Bianca talked about the super contests they held here and how she wanted to try to enter one while Touko talked about the different Pokemon she was raising. It had been a long time since the three had chatted like this, heck, Touko thought the last time was before they even started their Pokemon journey!
"Oh, is that it!" exclaimed Bianca suddenly. She pointed to, what appeared to be a building peeking out over the trees.
"Finally," commented Cheren.
"Well then? What are we waiting for?" asked Touko with a laugh as she broke into a run. "Let's hurry up and get over there!"
"Hey!" exclaimed Bianca as she hurried to keep up with Touko, "Wait for me!"
"Honestly you two," commented Cheren, "You're just like children." However he also picked up the pace in order to keep up with his two friends.
Touko laughed as she glanced back at her friends. "I guess I'm getting to Sandgem Town first then!" She turned her head back to focus on where she was going. She could now see Sandgem Town clearly through the trees. Before she could make it though she saw something move towards her out of the corner of her eye and she ducked and skidded to a stop to avoid having, whatever it was, hit her in the face.
"It's a Starly," stated Cheren as he caught up to Touko.
"There's something off about it," said Bianca as the Pokemon turned to face them.
Touko had to agree with her. The way the Starly was glaring at them, it looked like it wanted to kill them.
"Starly!" screamed the bird Pokemon before diving at the three Pokemon trainers.
The three of them hit the ground and the Starly flew over their heads before looping back around to attack again. "If that's the way you want it then fine!" Touko ripped a pokeball out of her bag and threw it. "Go Zebstrika!"
The pokeball opened and in a flash of light, the horse-like Pokemon appeared in front of the three trainers. "Use Shock Wave!" ordered Touko.
Zebstrika's mane turned yellow before it released a bolt of electricity at the Starly. The small Pokemon dodged to the left before it charged towards the Zebstrika and hit it head on. The electric horse Pokemon cried out in pain as he fell to the ground.
"What was that attack?" asked Cheren. "I've never seen anything like that before."
"Plus it seems super-effective too," added Bianca.
"Are you okay Zebstrika?" asked Touko as the Pokemon got back to its feet.
"Zebstrika," he replied as he glanced over at Touko with a smile. It focused back on the Starly that was flying towards them again.
Touko knew she couldn't let Zebstrika get hit by…whatever that attack was. If Cheren didn't know about it, then this attack must not be good, whatever it was. "Dodge the attack and then use Thunder Wave!"
Zebstrika jumped into the air when the Starly was close before twisting around in mid-air while shooting a wave of electricity from the thunderbolt horns on its head. The Starly cried out as it was unable to move.
"Use Shock Wave now!"
"Zebstrika!" he cried before releasing an electric bolt against the Starly. This time the attack hit and the Starly cried out as it was electrocuted.
"Go pokeball!" A pokeball flew through the air and hit the Starly on the beak. It opened and in a flash of light the Starly was sucked inside. The pokeball fell to the ground and shook a couple of times before it stopped.
"Where did that come from?" wondered Bianca.
"I'm guess you're the three from Unova?" a young man walked out of the shadow of the trees and over to the pokeball and picked it up.
"Hey!" protested Touko. "I was going to catch that."
"That was unfair, taking the Pokemon that someone else was going to catch and did all the work," stated Cheren.
"Sorry about that," said the young man as he rubbed the back of his head with a hand with an apologetic look on his face. "Normally I wouldn't do that but this Starly is special and-oh, I forgot my manners. My name is Lucas. Professor Rowan sent me to get you."
"I'm Touko and this is Cheren and Bianca," Touko held up Zebstrika's pokeball and returned him.
"Now explain why you caught that Starly," said Cheren as he crossed his arms and glared at Lucas.
"It's really difficult to explain and I think Professor Rowan could do it better than I could," he gestured in the direction of Sandgem Town. "You mind following me there?"
"I don't know if we should trust him," said Bianca softly so Lucas wouldn't hear. "I mean, he stole the Pokemon you were going to catch Touko!"
"But maybe there is a reason," said Touko. She thought of that attack the Pokemon did. Cheren didn't know about it and the Starly seemed…odd in a way. Maybe Lucas was right and there was something else going on. "I say we trust him for now. If anything bad happens we do have our Pokemon right?"
"You've got a point there," stated Cheren.
Touko turned to Lucas. "Alright, we will follow you. Can you tell me one thing though? When I was fighting it, it used an attack that seemed to do a lot of damage to my Zebstrika. I mean, it's a flying type so the attacks shouldn't hurt Zebstrika that much."
Lucas looked down at the pokeball holding the Starly before looking over at the three trainers. "Well, you would have found out from Professor Rowan anyway. This Starly, I think, is a Shadow Pokemon."