#3) random Pokemon plot bunny attack~!
"HAYTHAN R. SAPH! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANCE!" A brown haired woman loudly calls out for her son's presence. She begins tapping her foot on the hardwood floor and glared at the stairs as she hears shuffling sounds from upper floor.
"What is it ma?" A similarly brown haired boy peeked downwards from the top of the stairs and asks.
"We've just moved here yesterday and you're already stuffed up inside your room playing that game system of yours! At least go out and greet your neighbors first!" The woman scolded her wayward son for his horrible attitude towards human communication.
"Playing? I haven't even unpacked the boxes with my clothes yet to be playing." The boy gives his over exaggerating mother a raised eyebrow as he walks down the stairs. He does admit that he spends more of his time inside than out but he still feels that his mother is too hyperbolic about it sometimes.
"Yes and you can go "unpacked" after you at least go greet our neighbors." She huffs as she pushes her son out the door. At this point, she feels that any excuse is a good enough excuse to give her wayward son a breath of fresh air and some sunlight.
"Wait wha-" Was all Haythan could've utter as his "beloved" mother slams the door shut in behind his back. He even hears the audible click of the locks being put in place without even turning his back around.
"...Seriously?" Staring at the shut door for a few moments, Haythan sighs aloud and began trudging to one of his neighbors. It wasn't like there was much people living in Littleroot town anyways. The "town" is more or less a small cluster of houses that happens to be close to each other. It, along with Oldale town, is considered one of the more rural area outside of Petalburg city's city limit. There were only five houses and a Pokemon lab in this town. It's a quaint little place really.
"Hmmm, do I knock? I don't see a doorbell..." Haythan mutters to himself as he reaches the front entrance of one of his neighbor's house. Not exactly sure what to do, he knocked the door and waited. After a while and hearing no answer, he knocked again to be sure. Still not having heard any response, the brunette decides that the house owner is elsewhere and decides to leave it at that. The boy turned and started walking while he considers his options. One is that he go home and wait for his mother to open up the door (the most likely option). Two is to visit his neighbor (the least likely option seeing as he's having second thoughts). Three is to take a look around town (not very likely seeing as Littleroot town literally is just buildings and forest).
"Ah, excuse me!" Before he could make his decision, someone called out to him to catch his attention. Turning towards the voice, he sees a lanky man in a lab coat making his way towards him. He gives the man a polite bow and a look that implies if there was anything he can help the man with.
"Ah yes, sorry to bother you young man but have you um, seen Professor Birch anywhere?" The lab coat bearing man fixes his glasses as he asks Haythan, he seems to be lightly sweating and he looks like he was slightly panicking.
"No, I haven't. Is he missing?" The boy gave a negative shake of his head and asked the man a followup question.
"Yes, the Professor has been gone for a while and some... volatile experiments are being conducted. We need him to come quickly or it could be bad." The panicky man starts looking around, as if hoping to catch a glimpse of the missing professor.
"...Would you like me to help find him?" Seeing the man panic so much, Haythan couldn't help but feel like he should extend some help. He might as well aid the man, he got nothing better to do anyways.
"Will you? Thank you very much! If you find him, please tell him to go back to the lab ASAP." The assistant gives Haythan a brief smile before running off to another part of town to find the wayward professor. Figuring that the assistant has the town covered, Haythan trudged into the forest to attempt to find the professor.
...
Navigating his way through the forage, he occasionally sees a zigzagoon and a wurmple. After around ten minutes of aimless wandering he hears a yelp and heavy footsteps. He walks over to a cliff-like area and stares down to the sight of a man being chased around by a small poochyena.
"...Hey! Are you Professor Birch?" Seeing as he has a lab coat on, Haythan yelled out his question. The man rolled under one of the small pup's flying tackle and looked around. Meeting eyes with Haythan, the man let loose a relieved smile and yelled back
"Oh thank the lord someone has come. Boy, can you help me out? This poochyena has been chasing me down all morning!" The man immediately flings himself to the right as said poochyena makes another lunge for him. "There should be a bag nearby! A pokeball should be inside, can you release the pokemon within to help me?" Professor birch attempted another roll but the poochyena refused to fall for it again and quickly lowered it's head to bite into the professor's billowing coat. Effectively stopping its momentum, the pup releases its jaws and fell onto the professor. It proceeded to giving the man some very strong bites.
"AhH! Hurry, help!"
"...Professor, just pick it up. The poochyena is not even an eighth of your size." Haythan deadpans at the rolling professor.
"I can't! It's too strong! Arg! It's biting even harder!"
"Really? I thought it only knew tackle at level five."
"This isn't the time for contemplation. HELP!"
"..." Still keeping his deadpan towards the downed professor, Haythan grabbed the bag and slid down the cliff. He walked to the struggling man and reaches out to the poochyena. Grabbing the canine pokemon by its scruff, he lifted it up as it lets go of its jaw. It struggled for a few seconds against Haythan's firm grip before slumping and giving up its endeavor in favor of giving him some teary puppy dog eyes. Haythan gave it a deadpan stare before putting his attention back at the recovering professor.
"Ah, thank you for the help lad. The poochyena has been chasing me very aggressively since this morning. Anyways, is there anything I can help you with? You seem to be looking for me right?" The professor dusted himself and gave Haythan a wide friendly grin.
"...An lab assistant asked me to tell you to immediately get back to the lab, something about volatile experiment." Haythan informed the professor. The man looked at him in confusion for a moment before something seemed to click and his eyes grew in panic.
"AH! The experiment!" The man quickly runs towards the direction of the lab. Pausing for an instance, he turned around to tell Haythan "Oh, can you please meet me at the lab later? I would like to discuss something with you." With that said, the man once again rushes off.
"..." Haythan looks at the man's back until he disappears before looking down at the pup and the forgotten pack that was still in his hands. "...What am I supposed to do with you?" He asks the poochyena. The gray pup gave what looks like a shrug of its shoulder and licked his hand. He stared at it some more before sighing. He shouldered the pack and shifted the pup into a more comfortable position in his arms. The poochyena didn't seem to mind as it snuggled into Haythan's hold.
Haythan took his time walking back into town and by the time it took him to reached the outer edge of the town, half an hour has passed. The poochyena in his arms gave a small yawn as it moved into a more comfortable position. He looked at the lab's direction and was alarmed to find a faint hint of smoke rising from it. He hastened his steps and hoped that nothing bad happened to the professor or his lab.
The lab looked like it took a fire blast to the knee. Part of it was lightly burnt and smoking while another part was missing the wall altogether. There was lab assistants carrying fire extinguishers around and spraying stray embers that were missed. Haythan caught sight of the panicky lab assistant from earlier and made his way to the man. The man noticed the boy walking towards him and waved.
"Hello boy, thanks for helping find the professor earlier."
"...Guess I was too late." Hayton gestures at the missing part of the lab.
"Hahaha, surprisingly no. You made it just in time. If the professor was any latter... well, that wouldn't have been the only problem." The man looks at the hole as well. "So what can I do for you boy?"
"The professor told me to come by earlier, do you know where he is?"
"He wants to talk to you hmm?" The assistant gives the poochyena in Haythan's arm a brief glance before pointing towards the lab entrance. "The professor should be sorting through some files in the lab. Look around, you're bound to find him. Don't go blowing up anything else alright?" The lab assistant walked off after giving Haythan the instructions.
Haythan followed the man's advice and walked into the lab. It was a mess. Papers and documents were strewn everywhere: on the floor, on the wall, on the table, on the chair and even on the cactus in the corner. The boy did his best to not walk on the any (important looking) documents as he navigates the surprisingly snug lab. He found Professor Birch in the far end of the lab, spraying a patch of fire with his extinguisher. The professor heard Haythan's footsteps and turned around.
"Ah, there you are lad. Sorry for the mess, the experiment ended... with a bang. Come, make yourself at home." The man led Haythan towards the lounge area that had two three person couches, a wide coffee table and a few spare folding chairs. Sitting himself down and chucking the empty fire extinguisher to the sides, the professor turns his friendly demeanor towards the poochyena in Haythan's arms.
"Ah, so you plan on taking in the pup huh? Are you a trainer, boy?" The professor reached out to pat the pup but it growled at him, causing him to pull back lest he gets bitten. Haythan half halfheartedly pets the poochyena his arms to calm it down while he thought of an answer. He is eleven so he's qualified to become a trainer but he never really applied for his trainer card. Travelling around and collecting badges didn't appeal to him. Also, considering the extra work that is needed to keep up with the minimum requirement for having a trainer card really irked him. His mother was a trainer when she was in her teens but her passion for pokemon training never rubbed off him. He was neutral about being a trainer.
"...No, I'm not a trainer." In the end he told the professor that he wasn't a trainer. He knew why the professor asked. While a non-trainer are allowed to keep pokemons as pets, it is not allowed for underage non-trainers to keep uncaptured wild pokemon in their household. If he wanted to keep the poochyena, he was going to have to do one of two things, get a trainer card or asks his mother (who's still considered an active trainer) to capture the gray pup for him.
"Hmm, is that so... would you like me to make you a supervised trainer card?" The professor rubbed his stubble and asked the boy who had bonded with the particularly vicious looking poochyena from earlier.
"A supervised trainer card?" Haythan gives the professor a blank and confused look.
"Yes, it is the card that most underaged trainers get when they go on their journey, whether they know it or not. Along with the pokedex, their trainer card keeps track of where they are at all times and well... supervises them. Usually it is either the professor that gives them their first pokemon or their parents that are doing the supervision. I can make one for you so that you can keep the poochyena if you'd like. You don't have to journey around, collecting badges either." The professor explains as he pulls a laptop out of nowhere and opens up a program for Haythan to see. It showed a boy around Haythan's age with a mudkip and a seedot under his name, Brendan.
"So what do you say? It can be done immediately and there's no repercussion for owning pokemons afterwards." The professor looks into the boy's eyes. The boy seemed to have thought about the matter and nodded his consent. The professor widened his grin and pulled up the registration page for the boy to fill out. Five minutes later and the boy, Haythan, held his trainer ID in his hand.
"Alrighty then, here's a pokeball for your poochyena." The professor rummages a box under the coffee table and pulled out a basic red and white pokeball which he handed to Haythan. Haythan took the pokeball before looking down at the pup that was laying sedately on his lap. The pup gave a mouth gaping yawn before looking at Haythan and tilting its head. It then noticed the pokeball in his hand and shifted so that its forehead is directly pointing at Haythan. Haythan answered its initiative by tapping the ball onto its forehead. The poochyena glowed an ethereal red before getting sucked into the ball. The ball only shook once in the boy's hand before stopping all motion, to show that the being inside is captured. He clicked the little mound on the middle of the ball to release the poochyena and it appeared laying on his lap, like it was never gone.
"Congratulations! You now have your first pokemon." The professor patted Haythan's shoulder to show his applause. He then looked at the clock and whistled aloud. "Well will you look at that, it's already lunchtime. Lad, shouldn't you be going home?"
"I think I should." Haythan stood up and walked towards the lab entrance with the professor following him to see him off. "Thank you for helping me, have a nice day." Haythan bowed his head to the professor.
"No, I should be the one to thank you." The professor ruffled Haythan's hair while still keeping his goofy grin. "If you ever feel like becoming a trainer, just show up to the lab and I'll get you all sorted up okay?"
"Yes professor, thank you." With that finished, Haythan leaves the lab to go in the direction of his house. The poochyena that was surprisingly subdued in his arms gave him a lick to get his attention. He looked at it and it gently pushed its paws against his arms. Figuring that it wanted to walk on its own, Haythan lowered the pup to the ground and it gave a happy sounding yip. Haythan slowly walked back to the house with his poochyena running around like it was hyped on sugar.
...
When got closed enough to the house, he saw that there was a note tacked on the door. Getting closer to pluck the letter, he realized that it was addressed to him.
Letter:
Dear Haythan, my beloved son.
I heard from earlier that you've decided to get your trainer ID. You have no idea how happy I was to hear the news. When you turned ten a year ago and never mentioned it, I thought you had no interest in the art of pokemon training. Then when you started to shut yourself inside your room, I thought that you might've took a turn for the worse. Now hearing that you've shown an interest, I cannot be more happy. I called father right away and he suggested that we should finally take our well waited honeymoon. We will be in Kanto and its beautiful beach for a few weeks, maybe a moth or two. Don't worry, I've prepared the house to block up all intruders, the locks are all changed and the windows are bullet-proofed. Nothing will be going in if I'm not there. I've sent the pack with your essentials to Professor Birch so that he can start your journey. Remember to change to clean underwears~!
Love, mom.
Haythan stares incredulously at the letter before reading it again to make sure that he was reading it right. After three go overs, he confirmed that his mother essentially kicked him out of the house so that he could get some exercise while she and father are off to do whatever they planned on doing. Groaning at his mother's antic, he face-palmed his face. Poochyena, who climbed on to his shoulder at some point of the letter reading, licked his face and yipped cutely to cheer him up. Folding up the letter and pushing it into the deepest crevices of his pocket, Haythan began his trudge back to the lab once more.
He walked into the lab just as Professor Birch pulled out a large pan of vegetarian lasagna from a microwave. Smelling something extremely delicious, Haythan's stomach made itself be known and the professor turns around to a stoic Haythan. They stared at each other for a moment before the professor lifted up the pan and said "Want some? Your mom left it at the front door." The lasagna was delicious, even poochyena like it.
Once they finished their plates and packed away the leftovers, the professor listens to Haythan's story. It ended with the professor sweat-dropping and giving the boy an awkward shoulder pat.
"Well then, I guess you are going on a journey no matter what huh? C'mon, follow me." The man chuckles at the boy's fate. He then stood up from his couch and led the boy to his main work area. He walked up to an old and worn computer and typed in something. The capsule next to the computer opens up and it gave access to a red device and a pokeball.
"Ahem, congratulations on starting your journey young trainer. I am professor Birch yada yada yada blah blah blah, some motivational speech. You get the gist." The professor gave a lopsided grin as he slacks off on one of his main duties. "Here take this, it's supposed to be your first pokemon." He threw the pokeball inside the capsule at Haythan.
"Huh? First pokemon? But I already have poochyena" Haythan questions the professor while poochyena yips in agreement with its trainer.
"Hehehe I know, but if it was done regularly, you'd get your first pokemon from me. If it was done regularly, I would also have had two others for you to choose from but they were already picked a few days ago. Because the beginner pokemons are hatched from eggs, I was planning on releasing this one to it's natural habitats but then you came along." Professor Birch explains to Haythan.
"So this is one of the three beginner pokemons you give out?" Haythan looks at the pokeball before giving the professor a look that asks if it's okay to release the creature inside. The professor grins and gives him the thumbs up. Pressing the button on the ball, Haythan releases a green pokemon, treecko. The little treecko looks around before meeting eyes with Haythan and nodding. It walked on its bipedal to the boy and climbed up to his shoulder where it comfortably sat.
"Good, it seems she likes you too. First poochyena, now treecko, maybe you are meant to be a trainer after all. Here's a pokedex, some pokeballs and the backpack that your mother left for you." Professor Birch hands Haythan each of the necessary items for his journey before standing back and grins at the boy. "Now before you go, is there anything else you need to know?"
"...Besides the basic functions of being a trainer ID and keeping track of pokemons, does the pokedex do anything else?"
"The pokedex has many functions besides the two you mentioned. It can estimate the level of Pokemon, list downs moves that your team knows, give information on other opponents and their battle style if you synch up with their pokedexs and simulates battles as well. Their are also other side functions but you can find that out later."
"The pokedex records level? What is that?"
"Yes. It uses a store of information to calculate the level of the pokemon it's pointed at. A well grown and experienced pokemon would be a higher level than a newly hatched immature one after all. Most experienced trainers have their teams in the forty to sixties range while champions and elite fours are rumored to have eighties to beyond one hundreds."
"Beyond one hundred?"
"The store of data can only calculate so far. After a certain level, there becomes rare to no pokemons specimens to examine in order to gather the necessary data. Most call this point the one hundredth level. While there are specimens whom have exceeded the hundred limits, there are a handful that can be studied. Those that are above level one hundreds are shown to be level one hundred on the pokedex. Needless to say, this is a small problem that won't be fixed anytime soon."
"...Still, this is incredibly useful..." Haythan looks at the small device in his hand in awe. He looks back at the professor and asks "So what do I do now?"
"You can try traveling around and collect a team or you can choose to fight a gym." The professor gives two of the most obvious choice. "I would suggest you go to Petalburg City, though it holds the fifth gym in the normal circuit, it is also a beginner zone. The gym leader there, Norman, is a man who will gladly help any beginner trainer in need. Visit around and get a feel of being a trainer before you go and challenge Roxanne, the first gym leader in the circuit." Professor Birch grins and gives well hone advice to the beginner before him.
"I see, Petalburg City is a day's walk away if I remember correctly." Haythan attempts to pull up a map in his mind and failed spectacularly.
"Hahaha, just follow the road and it'll work out." Professor Birch gives the boy a uproarious laugh and pats him on the back, slightly towards the lab's entrance. "Now stop gally gagging here boy, might as well start while the light of day is still here. Oldale town shouldn't take more than a four hours walk, better go now before it gets too late."
"Ah right, thank you professor." Haythan follows the professor's advice and runs out the lab with poochyena hot on his heels. The professor drops his grin as he became the only person in the lab and looked at where the boy last was. The man smiles warmly and whispered "Good luck lad." before going back to his work.
(2nd hour of the journey)
"Where the heck am I?!" Haythan ruffles his hair in frustration as he looks at the map on the ground for the hundredth times in the past two hours. He would've used the pokedex to figure his location but he quickly found out that Leaf (the newly christened treecko) had more luck at understanding the complex piece of machinery. It was only thanks to the work of her and Allen (the obedient poochyena) that kept him on track so that he didn't get lost.
Currently, Haythan and Allen are sitting under the shades of a tree pouring over a super sized paper map that his mother packed for him. The map literally showed every main routes from Littleroot to Lilycove, it was that huge. Leaf was sitting on top of Haythan's shoulder and typing in whatever she was doing onto the pokedex. For some reason or another, Haythan has been hitting dead ends left and right after leaving Littleroot town. He has already ran into multiple wurmple nests and got enough string shots on him to make his own clothing company. He also ran into a poochyena den and got chased out by a colony of the little critters, Allen showed them how how alpha he really was and managed to rescue Haythan with only a few scratches. Their bites really was painful. Haythan made note to give Professor Birch an apology the next time they meet.
"Treecko treec treec ko treecko." Leaf starts pulling on Haythan's sleeve to get his attention and Haythan turned to see what his little green friend found (hopefully a complete map to Oldale town). The treecko jumped down his shoulder to show him something she found on his pokedex. He leaned in to see better and he found that it was a message. Gently, he plucked it away from Leaf and reads the text.
"Trainer Haythan, I have found the pokemon speech translating function. Would you be so kind as to use those opposable thumbs of yours to click the automatic oral translation function?" Haythan gave Leaf a shocked look to which she returns by wiggling her...paws? He answered the treecko's request and clicked the small ok button on the top left corner of the pokedex (Leaf's hand was too small to hold and click at the same time). Seeing her trainer fulfill her request, Leaf climbs back onto his shoulder and pulls the device close to her once more. She lets out a series of sounds in pokespeech and held it to Haythan's left ear.
"Testing testing one two three. Trainer Haythan is a directionally clueless moron~!" The treecko nods in approval at the effeminate voice that came out and Haythan glared at her for what she said. Allen perked his ears in surprise and took his attention off of the map. He walked closer to Haythan and Leaf and barked a series of sounds that the pokedex couldn't register due to distance. Leaf handed Haythan the device so hold to Allen and the gray pup barked his sentence a second time before looking at Haythan with starry eyes.
"Can master understand me now?" Haythan's eyes widens for the xth times that day at the sentence that came out. While he was sort of expecting that the pup to speak politely, he is less than expecting the voice that came out. The voice of a female. Turning to Leaf, he asked "Leaf, did you default the voice translator to a permanent female setting?"
"No, it translates with the voice that should naturally go with gender. Me and Allen should both sound like a female type of your race, trainer Haythan." Leaf looks at Haythan in confusion.
"Is something wrong master?" Allen jumps in as he... she sees Haythan's stare.
"Hey... Allen." Haythan begins.
"Yes master?"
"You're a female?"
"Of course, sir."
"...Then why'd you agree to the nickname Allen?"
"Any nickname master gives me is an appropriate nickname."
"...Your nickname is Alex from now on."
"As you wish, thank you master."
"...So Leaf, did you find a map to Oldale town?" Haythan decides to not bother with his pup's subservient attitude towards him as he felt it'll bring up another round of staring. Instead, he went back to the thing they should be focused on, getting the heck out of this accursed path and back into civilization.
"The pokedex has a electronic map but no gps function. It is about as useful as that piece of paper over there." Leaf points one of her digits towards the forgotten map on the ground. Haythan sighed deeply at the bad news and Alex licked his hand to comfort him.
Figuring that he might as well move instead of staying in one spot and do nothing, Haythan packed up the map and walked in a random direction. It didn't take more than four more minutes before Alex asserted his manliness by saving her master from a pack of mad zigzagoons.
(5th hour of the journey)
"Crap, there goes that last of the sunlight. Looks like we'll have to camp out today guys." Haythan slouches against a tree and wipes off his sweat. What was supposed to be a quick walk to a nearby town turned into a long five hour marathon involving him and just about every pokemon between here and Littleroot. Saying that he's exhausted would be an understatement. On the bright side, he has virtually no injuries on him as Alex, the greatest and most powerful pup in the world, protected him from anything and everything that could harm him (except for himself).
Pulling out a small stove burner, two bowls, a few cans of soup and a pot from his backpack, he quickly prepared dinner. With the soup heating up, he unrolled his sleeping bag and settled it near the foot of a nearby tree. When the soup steamed and finished, he poured it into the two bowls for Leaf and Alex and ate the rest straight from the pot himself.
They ate their meals in relative silence. Leaf offered to wash the dishes at a nearby stream afterwards and Alex charged herself with finding dry wood to use as fuel. Haythan decided to try his hands on making a fire the old fashion way. It didn't even take two minutes for him to give up and throw in a burnt match.
By the time he and Alex had a steady fire going, Leaf came back to the makeshift camp with fresh berries for desserts. They ate it with different expressions. Leaf quickly chomped up most of the bitter Rawst berries with enthusiasm and glared at the Aspear berries with great disdain. Alex cherished the Pecha berries and ate it as if it was the most amazing thing in the world while gladly finishing off Leaf's Aspears. Haythan ate a few juicy Oran berries and mentally made notes of his team's likes and dislikes.
When they finished eating, Haythan packed everything up save for the sleeping bag. He feed the fire with some more fuel and crawled into the bag and zipped it up. Alex crawled onto his stomach area and curled up there after finding the part with the littlest lumps. Leaf jumped onto the tree the sleeping bag resides under and lay on one of the branch. Simultaneously, all three yawned as one and drifted off to sleep with a "goodnight".
(2nd day of the journey, 6th hour)
"Yip! Yip! Grrrr yip!" "Master! Master! Wake up!"
"Treec treeko tree!" "Trainer Haythan, it's best if you awaken."
"...Ughhh, whata ya doing being so noisy this morni-" Haythan woke up to the sound of his pokemon's (Alex's) loud yelling being translated by his pokedex. Since he isn't much of a morning person, he prefers to stay in bed til the sun is well up in the sky. It's not that he wakes up late, it's just that it takes time for his mind and body to start functioning properly. This time he would make an exception. Before him was a crowd of pissed off pokemons he's sure he's never seen... Correction, before him was a crowd of pissed off pokemons that he managed to somehow or another pissed off yesterday. He had hoped that Alex's amazing alphaness had warded them off but it looks like it only made them plan better (if crowding up and attacking in superior numbers were a good strategy).
"...Run!" Effectively jumping onto his feet, Haythan reaches out his arm to grab the backpack by his side and waddled off as quickly as possible from the crowd of angry pokemon (while still in his sleeping bag no less). Leaf used her tail to pound away a few wurmples that chased after him before jumping onto his shoulder as he (surprisingly efficiently) waddles off. Alex took guard and blocked the rest off, giving a resolute bark in Haythan's direction. Haythan briefly looked back as his heroic pup gave a mad grin, baring all its fang, and charged at the mob of angry pokemons. Giving the pup a silent prayer for luck, he went back to his waddling with Leaf jumping on and off his shoulder to pound away the occasional speedy zigzagoons that manages to bypass Alex's counter-rush.
When they got far enough for any pursuers to be lost, Haythan sheds his uncomfortably warmed sleeping bag and leans his back against a random tree to calm his breathing. Leaf stayed on his shoulder the whole time to keep a vigilant lookout. Nothing happened as he finally calms down the erratic heartbeat that came from the sudden exertion. He hears a rustle in a bush and turned to see if it was Alex coming back from her epic battle against the hundred enemies.
Leaf stiffened on his shoulder but before he could say or do anything, she shot off from her support to the spot of the rustling. A silvery gray streak shot out from the rustling thickets and headed straight for Leaf as well. Leaf, in a show of great flexibility, fluidly bends her body to add momentum to her tail before pounding the silver streak head on. The force of their strikes make a loud "Bam!" before rebounding on the other. Leaf flew straight back into Haythan's chest while the mysterious silver streak disappeared past a few trees.
"Leaf, what was that?" Haythan confusedly asks while looking back and forth between his pokemon, who's caressing her tail, and the mysterious streak in the thickets.
"Treeck treecko tree ko ko..." "A hard enemy, it felt like hitting a rock..." The treecko narrowed her eyes and warily looked at the location where she last seen her foe. The bush from the far left side of the last location rustled and the silvery gray streak appeared, heading straight for the pair. Treecko was bending her knees to build up pressure for another collision when a darker gray streak passed them and striked the silver streak on the side. Like the last collision, the two forces rebounded from each other following a loud "Bam!" sound effect.
"Alex." Haythan calls out to his gray pup as she did four backflips in the air to land right in front of him. She yips at him as a greeting response and glared at their foe. The silvery gray streak, after losing its momentum to the crash with Alex, shot a string from its body to stick to a branch. When it stopped swinging to stay on the branch, Haythan finally recognizes the identity of his attacker. It was a silcoon.
"Silcoooooon." It whispers ominously at the trio's direction but made no more attempts to tackle down the group.
"Leaf, what did it say?" Haythan whispers as he felt Leaf relaxing her stance on his shoulder. The grass pokemon typed something onto the pokedex to expedite the conversation along, the automatic translator function had too much of a time gap. Pressing the talk button, the pokedex beeped and said
"Greetings, strong trainer of poochyena. I am silcoon. I have come when I heard that my rival has willingly submit herself to another. For one so hard headed, I did not think that poochyena would ever willingly pick a trainer. I was more than curious at the one who has captured her so I made up a few traps. Color me surprised when you not only stepped into every single one but actually pissed off even more of my trap's allies everywhere you go. Truly you are a strange master that my rival has submit herself to."
Alex yipped in indignation at the silcoon who now has smiling eyes (those upside down "v" thing).
"...I honestly have no idea how pokespeech works..." Haythan stares at the pokedex which translated an entire greeting and explanation for (most of) yesterday's run in with the wild pokemons.
"Silllllcoooon." The silcoon spoke up again and Leaf proceeded to do her (group-appointed) job of being the official pokemon translator.
"Since my rival is leaving, I feel that it'll become dull again in this area. I had planned on returning to Petalburg Woods to visit my family but I have a feeling that I'll just start wandering around again like I did before I met poochyena. Therefore I came up with one answer, will you be my trainer?"
"Eh? Just like that?"
"Sillllcoooon." "I have deemed you agreeable enough after your escape all my traps without too many injuries."
"Huh, okay." With a tilt of his head he walks over to the tree that silcoon was on and reached out to grab it out of the air as it jumped off of it's branch. Gently setting the cocooned pokemon down, Haythan searches his pack for one of the four pokeballs that Professor Birch gave him the day before. He finds one under his stove burner. Tapping it to full size, he nudges it at silcoon and watches as it turned red and disappeared into the orb. Like with Alex, the ball only shook once before going still. He quickly released the silcoon and watched as Alex made some sort of pouting face when he picked the silcoon up. While he had witness the bug pokemon's tremendous speed, it still would've felt awkward to be walking around with a bouncing silcoon on his side.
"Silcoooon" "Pleasure to with you trainer. The path to town is that way."Apparently silcoon knew the way to Oldale Town as it grew out a needle from its main body to point at a certain direction. Seeing as he, Leaf and Alex had no idea where else to go, they followed silcoon's advice.
Challenge to put in the story!
*Haythan shall forever be hopelessly lost and even his most capable pokemon shall be lost with him. He is fated to forever catch the ire of most wild pokemons while others shall just choose to ignore him... until he accidentally pisses them off as well.
*All of his pokemon shall be overpowered as heck from their daily training (Aka helping their trainer escape from angry pokemon) but will never voluntarily evolve beyond their base stat for random reasons like Treecko liking sitting on Haythan's shoulder and won't evolve since she'll get too big.
*For comedy purpose, Haythan will be caught in random situations where he'll be just barely out of the loop with his fellow Little Root trainers, Brandon and May. For example, he could choose to go by raft to the sea of route 105 instead of through the forest to Rusboro City or him going straight to route 103 and swimming across to near the trick master's house where he can go to Slateport or Mauville.
*No flying pokemon or teleporting pokemon, everywhere he goes, he goes by foot.
*Have fun writing the story.