Indigo League Challenge, Mt. Moon Task – 6 drabble collection (excluding extras), third drabble 300-350 words.
Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #434 – challenge
A Trail of Dust Particles – Alain's Journey
Drabble 03: Pokemon Trainer
Professor Sycamore was great, but he had a few weaknesses. One was his passion. He tended to get swept up in something or other and forget the world around him. Forget to eat. Forget to sleep. Forget that he was on the field and it wasn't all that safe to wander off on his own – though he did have a few pokemon to get him out of those sorts of jams.
And often, his spontaneity meant he didn't plan ahead. Sure, for things like the Kalos League, he would clear his schedule for, but he'd randomly try to contact Champion Diantha one day and generally missed her due to her busy schedule, and then never bothered to book an appointment in. It was a wonder he hardly ever missed trainers coming in to collect their first pokemon but maybe it was the look of joy on their faces when they found their first life partner that made it so rock-stable.
But Professor Sycamore did get his fair share of trouble. People breaking into the lab, or trying to steal his research, or trying to slander his name –
He hated having to put up with it, but he and Charmander just weren't capable of much.
So he decided he was going to get stronger. And there might've been a bit of a white lie involved. He did want to find out more about Mega Evolution. Moreso though, he wanted Professor Sycamore to stay in the lab more often, where he was at home and the best protected. And he wanted to get stronger so he could protect. Pick up the mega stones as they appeared and bring them back to be studied – and deal with any enemy that got in between.
But becoming a trainer had been much harder than he'd thought. He was too used to there being a manual. There wasn't one in research and he was learning that, but there wasn't one on the road and in battle and that was an entirely different matter, but knowledge formed the basis of instinct and he had that. He managed.