September 5th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(May's POV)
"How can you tell someone's been here?" Gary asked.
"I just know someone has been here, I know it," a girl stated.
I walked into the common room, "Well your hunch was right, I've been here since yesterday," I answered.
Everyone stared at me, "Who are you?" a bluenette girl asked.
Skitty jumped into my arms and I started to pet her while smiling at everyone, "I'm your new roommate. My name's Linnea Mason, call me Lin."
The bluenette girl smiled back, "Hi, my name is Dawn. The brown haired girl is Leaf. The orange haired girl is Misty. The guy with the Pikachu is Ash. The plumhead emo is Paul. The spiky haired playboy is Gary, and the arrogant grasshead is Drew."
Drew, Gary, and Paul gave Dawn glares which she ignored with a wave of her hand. The guys then stared at me as if I looked familiar.
"Have we met or seen you before?" Ash asked curiously.
You saw me flip Drew on the plane two days ago. Of course I can't tell him of that as it would blow my whole cover.
I shook my head, "No I don't think so."
"Why were you here yesterday?" Misty asked.
"I'm a new student here and I wanted to explore the school and settle in before everyone else came today," I explained.
"Nya," Skitty complained and I looked her.
"So you want some Pokeblock?" I asked.
"Nya," she said as shook her head with a grin.
"We'll let you make Pokeblock while we unpack," Leaf said with a smile.
I knew I made Pokeblock yesterday, but I felt the urge to make some more. So while I did that, everyone unpacked and made their way back to the common room.
I just finished making Skitty her Pokeblock, "Okay Skitty," I said knowingly with a smile. "You know what to do."
"Nya," she said nodding while everyone looked confused.
I tossed her a cube of Pokeblock that she started to juggle with her tail using Double Slap. I then tossed her the remaining four for her to juggle. I snapped my fingers with a smile giving her the cue that she could eat them. She then tossed them up and caught them all in her mouth.
I went over and picked her up, "Nicely done," I said with smile.
Everyone else stared at me, "What?" I asked them curiously.
Everyone broke out of their stare and Dawn smiled at me, "So I take it you're a coordinator then," Dawn guessed.
"Yea, I'm not the greatest though," I fibbed. "But I try multiple techniques to help my pokemon with their moves."
"That's a great idea, I use my poffins as motivation to help my pokemon practice as well."
"I make Poffins as well, but they're probably not as good as yours," I said honestly. "Yours are pretty well famous having been made by a two timing Top Coordinator."
"So I take it you know who we are," Leaf said.
"For the most part, let's see:
Dawn: Top Coordinator in Sinnoh and Johto, daughter of famous coordinator Johanna. Your dream is to continue coordinating and possibly become a poke stylist, maybe even fashion design.
Misty: One of the gym leaders in Cerulean City, youngest sister of the Sensational Sisters. I'm guessing you don't want to follow their footsteps so you are striving to be a water type pokemon master.
Leaf: Winner of at least one pokemon league and also known to help do research with the pokemon professors. You're adopted along with your brother Red by a nice lady named Marie and you either want to be a top battler or a pokemon researcher.
Ash: Placed high in all leagues, won the Orange League and against the Kanto Battle Frontier. Your mother is Delia and your dream is to be a pokemon master.
Gary: Did battling but decided to go into research. Your grandfather is Professor Oak and your sister is Daisy who is a Top Coordinator in Kanto. Your parents died in a car accident when you were young and you're on your way in following your grandfather's footsteps.
Paul: Placed high in all leagues, your brother is Reggie and your dad is Brandon the Pyramid King. You want to become the next Sinnoh Champion.
Last but not least Drew: You are a three timing Top Coordinator in Sinnoh, Johto, and Kanto and tried twice in Hoenn but still have yet to succeed. Your parents are Christopher-head of Hayden Enterprise which is part of the Roseworth Faction in furthering tech, Jennifer-Top Coordinator in Hoenn, and your younger sister Lizzy who is also wanting to be a Top Coordinator. You want to pursue coordinating as much as possible before possibly inheriting the family business when you're older.
I think that covers most of it," I said with an exhausted smile.
Everyone just stared at me in shock, "How in the world do you know all that?" Leaf finally spluttered.
"I read it in multiple pokemon magazines and I know it doesn't say Paul's dad is the Pyramid King, but you both have a lot of similar traits," I fibbed.
Obviously I did my research before coming and of course I made some of the mentioned people in the past, but again I couldn't tell them that.
Paul gave me a scowl, "And I won't be telling the press or anyone that information," I stated firmly. He still gave me a suspicious look. Note to self, be careful around Paul.
"Well you seem to know everything about us, but we know nothing about you," Misty said.
"As I said, I'm a coordinator and have competed in all four regions. I also have a younger brother named Matt."
I then heard a small beeping noise meaning that Lance must be calling in.
"I'm gonna check on my Pokemon Egg," I said cheerfully while leaving the room.
I quickly went to my door, opened it, and shut it quickly before quietly leaning against the hall to listen in.
"You're timing is impeccable as always Lance," Leaf said sarcastically.
"Zip it Green, I don't need lip from you," Lance said sternly.
"You almost blew our cover with the new roommate," Dawn whined.
"Okay, I'll try to do better next time," he said gruffly. "Right now I need you to stop a robbery that's in progress at the Lilycove Museum. Team Galactic is trying to steal the Adamant Orb that's being borrowed from the Sinnoh region."
"Can't you get some other agents to help," Dawn complained.
"No," he said sternly. "You're already in the city, just go."
The call ended and everyone stood up to go head downtown to the museum.
"We have to run an errand Lin, we'll see ya later," the girls shouted while going out the door.
After the door shut, I quickly changed into my mission outfit and took off the disguise. I grabbed my laser lipstick, grappling gun, special ear plugs that were used to block out any pokemon's screech attacks, and Blaziken's pokeball.
I looked at my poketch and smirked; I'll give them a ten-minute head start. I then went on my poketch to download the blueprints of the museum with the placement of Team Galactic.
(Drew's POV)
We ran downtown, which was a bit painful for me since I was still sore from when that airhead flipped me two days ago.
"Ugh, why do we have to go deal with this, can't Officer Jenny deal with it," Dawn complained.
"Dawn, we might as well help since we're here," Leaf panted.
"I guess, but I'm still tired from the last mission we were on and I want some down time before school tomorrow," Dawn said tiredly as we reached the museum.
"Well, relaxing is gonna have to wait," I said shortly. "You girls take the left, we'll take the right."
The girls nodded in understanding and did as they were told. We entered the building but went down separate hallways to surround the main room. We were about to call out our pokemon when I saw grunts surround us with Golbat flying around. We were hit with Supersonic and the grunts overtook us and tied us up.
We were then pushed into the main room to see that girls tied up like us sitting against the back wall, "So much as for the element of surprise," Misty muttered as we were shoved to sit down.
"Let us go creep!" Dawn yelled struggling to get out of the ropes.
Saturn just laughed, "No thanks, I think it's better for me if you stay tied up. Now if you don't mind, I'll just take the orb and go, but it does look you could use a hand," he chuckled.
(May's POV)
Ten minutes were up and I used my rocket skates to quickly get to the museum. I went to the right side of the building and used my grappling gun to get me up toward the windows. I got on the ledge and silently opened the window to find that my roommates were tied up surrounded by Golbat. I quickly put in the earplugs and shot my grappling gun at the ceiling.
I then heard Saturn say, "No thanks, I'll just take the orb and go, but it does look like you could use a hand," he chuckled.
I then started to swing down toward him, "I think you could use a foot!" I yelled kicking him to the ground. I quickly put away the grappling gun and got in my battle stance with a smirk.
"Ugh, if it isn't May Maple," Saturn groaned.
"Wait, is that the girl who flipped you a few days ago?" Misty asked Drew slyly.
Drew just blushed and put his head down.
"Blaziken, go for it!" I shouted while tossing his pokeball.
"Toxicroak, take care of it," Saturn said while waving his hand.
As Blaziken and Toxicroak started battling, I made my way over Drew and the rest of the gang while getting out my laser lipstick and cut their ropes.
"Put these in your ears," I quickly said while handing out the ear plugs.
The grunts then shouted commanded Golbat to use screech.
The Golbat started screeching but it didn't faze me or the others causing Drew and them to be surprised.
I groaned, "I'll explain later, just get your pokemon and start battling," I said as I did a back hand spring to avoid air cutter.
They found their pokemon and started to battle. Dawn had Mamoswine, Leaf had Tropius, Misty had Gyarados, Paul had Torterra, Ash had Pikachu, Gary had Blastoise, and Drew had Roselia.
After a bit, Toxicroak and all the Golbat were knocked out and the grunts along with Saturn were rounded up by Officer Jenny and her officers. Dawn and the others went outside and I followed with Blaziken. When we reached the front green, Blaziken started to collapse.
"Blaziken!" I cried making everyone turn to face us.
I quickly pulled some Pokeblock specially made to fight poison attacks and quickly gave it to him. The poison left him, but he was still really weak. I started to treat his other wounds as everyone watched. I soon was finished and returned him to his pokeball.
"Am I doing something weird because I swear that everything I do makes you stare at me," I said annoyed.
The others blinked, "Sorry," Dawn said. "It's just that you were able to handle the whole situation calmly."
I smiled, "I've just done this for a living and I've learned a lot about pokemon care from Nurse Joy and some other friends of mine," I explained. "Are your pokemon faring okay?"
"Our pokemon are fine," Misty said. "Can I ask you two things?"
"Uh….sure," I agreed hesitantly.
"First, what's with the earplugs?" she asked as she took them out of her ears and started to hand them to me.
"First, you guys can keep them," I said. "Second, they block out all pokemon screech attacks, but you can still hear human speech fine."
"How did you find these?" Leaf asked.
"My brother invented them," I said proudly.
"Now for my second question. How did you know we were here and that there was a robbery?" she questioned slyly.
"Someone called my hotline and told me about it," I lied.
"You have a hotline?" Leaf asked.
"Yea, my brother created it, people call it when they need my help," I explained.
Speaking of help and doing missions, the thought occurred to me as to when Mars will strike. She's the last of the Cyrus' stooges in his command to cause some trouble.
"May, you in there?" Ash asked snapping me out of my train of thought.
"Yea, I'm just wondering when Mars will strike. She's the last of Cyrus' three stooges and if Jupiter along with Saturn are trying to cause trouble, she will to," I said thinking out loud.
"We'll get her just like the other two, it shouldn't be too hard," Gary said.
Dawn then looked at that time on her poketch and squealed, "Yes!" she screamed. "It's 1:12 PM, giving us plenty of time to shop."
Everyone else turned ghostly white while I was confused.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
Leaf shook her head with a scared look in her eye, "When it comes to Dawn and shopping, it's a horrible nightmare. We get stuck at the mall for hours," she whimpered.
Dawn looked happy, "You want to come along?" she asked.
I shook my head, "Sorry, but I have to be heading out, see you later," I said as my shoes converted to rocket skates and I skated away.
I made it back to the dorm, changed out of my mission clothes into my earlier outfit along with the disguise, and put away my mission stuff in the vault. I then saw that my egg was glowing constantly signaling that it would hatch soon. I quickly grabbed the egg along with Blaziken's pokeball and rushed to go see Nurse Joy. I made it down to her office to find Brock at the front desk.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Can you check my egg, I think it's about to hatch and can you check my Blaziken?" I asked while catching my breath.
"Sure," he said. "Just follow me."
We went to the back room where he started to check out my egg, "Your egg sounds and looks healthy, why don't you stay here while I check your Blaziken?" he said.
"Okay," I agreed and handed him Blaziken's pokeball.
He left the room while I sat and stared at my egg, it finally started to glow more strongly and finally take the shape of a pokemon.
"Ruh," the little Riolu said.
I beamed, "Hi Riolu, it's nice to meet you."
Riolu smiled back as I picked him up and cradled him.
Brock then came back in, "It looks like your pokemon hatched," he said happily. "And he looks healthy too."
"Thanks Brock," I said. "How is my Blaziken?"
"Your Blaziken is fine, he just needs rest. You're getting better at treating pokemon May," he said with a smile.
I froze for a second, "How did you know it was me?" I finally asked.
"Steven told me and Solidad this morning since we both know you and we don't want to blow your cover," he explained.
"Solidad is teaching here?" I asked.
He nodded, "It was a last minute switch. Don't tell anyone, it's a surprise," he said with a smile.
I smiled back, "Secret's safe with me, I better go and pick up my schedule."
"Hang on," he said. "You might want to use this for the next few weeks before giving him solid pokemon food," he said as he handed me a sippy cup.
"Thanks Brock," I said as I took the cup from him.
"Okay Lin, see you around," he nodded with a smile.
I left with Riolu in my arms to pick up my school schedule and other things. I decided to pick up everyone else's since the time to pick up the schedules up was about over and they weren't back yet. I then made my way back to the dorm, gave Riolu some milk for him to drink, and started to make cookies. Around 5:30, I had just finished cleaning up the kitchen from baking with the last batch of cookies in the oven and Riolu was taking a nap on my bed. The door burst open and everyone came back from their shopping spree.
"That was fun!" Dawn said gleefully while shutting the door.
Everyone else just collapsed on the floor from exhaustion. Dawn sweat-dropped as she started to take most of the bags and put them in our room.
"Dawn can you please be quiet when you go in, my pokemon is taking a nap," I said.
"Okay," she said and quickly put all her bags in the room and came back. Everyone went to the living room and collapsed on the floor, couch, or chairs.
"Never again!" Leaf cried. "Never again!"
"You say that every time we get pulled into shopping with Dawn," Misty said tiredly.
"I don't understand how she can just shop for hours, I feel ready to pass out," Gary complained.
I decided to bring a plate of cookies to the living room and quickly made some milk with a hint of Oran Berry in it although for Drew's I stuck a few more herbs to help numb the pain from a few days ago.
"Fanks Lin, thes cookies are awesum," Ash said with a full mouth.
Misty then hit Ash with her mallet, "Don't talk with your mouth full," she scolded.
"You feel any better?" I asked the lot.
"Surprising, yea," Leaf said. "Why do you ask?"
"I put a bit of Oran Berry in the milk so you could recover from your near death experience," I said teasingly.
Dawn pouted, "It wasn't a near death experience," she whined.
"Troublesome, it was," Paul said shortly.
Dawn continued to pout and then her face lit up in shock from realization, "Crap, we forgot to pick up our school schedules!" she yelled in horror.
Everyone else groaned, "I knew we shouldn't have let you gone shopping," Leaf complained.
I smiled and walked to the kitchen to grab their schedules, "Don't worry you guys, I picked them up for you when I went to get mine," I said as I handed them out. As everyone looked at their schedules in curiosity, I saw Riolu peak out of the hall.
"You can come out," I said gently.
He slowly walked out and sat next to me on the floor.
"Aww," Dawn squealed. "He's so cute."
"So is he from the egg that that you had?" Leaf asked.
"Yup, he hatched this afternoon," I said happily.
Everyone then stared at their schedules and started swapping to see who got what.
(Okay, instead of explaining the conversion of seeing who had what, I made a comparison chart to make it easier to understand)
1. Chem.-Leaf
English-Dawn, Misty, Ash
History-Gary
Math-May, Drew, Paul
2. Chem.-Dawn, Paul
English- May, Leaf, Drew, Gary
History-Misty, Ash
Math-
3. Chem.-Gary
English-
History-May, Dawn, Drew, Paul
Math-Leaf, Misty, Ash
4. Lunch-May, Misty, Dawn, Leaf, Gary, Paul, Ash, Drew
5. Chem.-May, Misty, Drew, Ash
English-Paul
History-Leaf
Math-Dawn, Gary
6. Gym- May, Misty, Dawn, Leaf, Gary, Paul, Ash, Drew
7. Battling- Misty Leaf, Gary, Paul, Ash
Coordinating- May, Dawn, Drew
After comparing classes, everyone started to talk amongst each other and I noticed that Riolu fell asleep. I returned him to his pokeball and quietly crept from the living room to my room. I then picked up my guitar and made my way to the balcony, sat down, and started to play softly. Music always helps soothe me whenever I was uptight, upset, or nervous. I sat outside looking at the coastline while playing the melody to a song that I was messing around with. I then listened to discover that everyone inside stopped talking and opened the balcony door silently to listen. What gave them away was that they were trying to be quiet but kept whispering. I rolled my eyes at their silliness and continued to play the song. After I strummed the last cord they came out onto the balcony.
"You play extremely well," Leaf complimented as everyone came out.
I smiled, "Thanks Leaf."
"What song were you playing?" Dawn asked.
I put my guitar aside, "Just a song that I was messing around with."
Everyone looked at me curiously, "Do you write songs?" Ash asked.
I shrugged, "A few but they aren't that good."
"Do you play any other instruments?" Misty asked.
"I also play the piano."
"Drew plays guitar as well," Gary quipped.
Drew flicked his fringe, "I probably can play better than you," he said arrogantly.
Ugh, stupid grasshead, I so can play better than you.
"I'm sure you could," I said as nicely as I could.
I checked my poketch to see that it was 6:23 PM signaling that I should feed my pokemon. I started standing up taking my guitar with me to the door when Dawn stopped me.
"Lin, where are you going?" she asked puzzled.
"I'm going to get supper and feed my pokemon," I said before leaving them for my room.
After I put my guitar away, I brought out my pokeballs to bring to the kitchen. I then got out some pokemon food and milk.
"Alright everyone, come on out," I said cheerfully.
Everyone came out and started to eat. By then, everyone else came in from the balcony and went to their rooms except for Drew who came into the kitchen.
"Do you mind if I give my pokemon some your pokemon food?" Drew asked.
I smiled, "Go right ahead, there's plenty."
As he prepared his pokemon their food, I decided to make some Ramen for myself. Drew then let out his pokemon and they began to eat. I noticed subtly that Glaceon was staring at Leafeon. Leafeon then flicked his head with a smirk causing Glaceon to turn red in anger. She then ignored him and went back to eating her food.
I laughed silently in my head, guess pokemon do copy their trainers habits and personality.
After finishing my ramen, I returned all my pokemon and cleaned up their dishes. I then decided to go to an open area on campus and practice some contest moves before it got dark. After reaching the park, I called out Glaceon so we could work on contest appeals.
"Alright Glaceon, use Ice Beam to make a circle of small pillars at different heights in order," I called.
"Glace," she said and did as I asked causing a circle of different sized ice pillars to circle around her.
"Now use Double Team and Iron Tail," I commanded.
She nodded and did as I asked creating a gentle melody as Iron Tail hit the different sized pillars.
"That was wonderful Glaceon, let's try another combination. Shoot multiple Shadow Balls in the air, then shoot Ice Shard at them, and finish up with Secret Power," I said.
Glaceon did exactly like I said and multiple purple sparks fell while contrasting to Glaceon covered in pink from Secret Power.
"Nicely done Glaceon," I praised.
"Glace," she said.
I then heard a small clapping noise behind me causing me to turn around and see Drew, "Well done, Tulip," he said with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" I asked confused in response. "What's with being called Tulip?"
He smirked while flipping his hair fringe, "Well your name is a flower and there are so many girl flower names, I can't remember which one you are Violet."
Okay he is really starting to tick me off, what is with his arrogant attitude.
"What do you want?" I said annoyed. "I'm not in the mood to be called random names."
"How about a battle?" he asked with a haughty tone.
I smirked back at him, "Fine by me," I said. "Glaceon let's go."
"Glace," she called as she poised herself for battle.
"Leafeon go," Drew shouted as he tossed his pokeball.
"Leaf," he called as he took his stance.
Glaceon frowned as she saw Leafeon gave her a smirk.
"Lady's first," Drew said slyly as he flicked his hair.
"Glaceon use Shadow Ball!"
"Leafeon use Energy Ball," Drew commanded.
Both balls collided in the middle causing an explosion of smoke.
"Leafeon use Leaf Blade."
"Glaceon dodge it then use Ice Shard reinforced with Blizzard!" I yelled.
Glaceon dodged the attack and quickly used Ice Shard and reinforced it with Blizzard to speed it up to hit Leafeon before he could move.
"Leafeon use Magical Leaf," Drew shouted.
I smirked, "Dodge and then sneak attack."
Drew frowned in confusion along with Leafeon. Glaceon stopped the magical leaf with Blizzard and then sneakily used Icy Beam to freeze Leafeon in a block of ice.
When Blizzard cleared, Drew looked in shock to see that Leafeon was frozen.
He then smirked, "Leafeon use Solar Beam to get out of there!" he shouted.
I smirked, that's exactly what I had expected and it's time to finish this up.
Leafeon got out of his icy prison with Solar Beam heading toward Glaceon, "Glaceon, you know what to do," I said with a smile.
Glaceon nodded and performed Mirror Coat sending the solar beam back to Leafeon causing him to faint. Knowing he would already be weak when he used Solar Beam while being frozen, sending it back would cause a knockout.
"Well done Glaceon," I said as I knelt down to pet her head.
"Leafeon are you okay?" Drew asked concerned as he knelt next to his pokemon.
"Leafeon," he said and sent a frown to Glaceon who reciprocated a smirk.
"Thanks for the battle," I said as we returned our pokemon.
"You just won by pure luck," he huffed. "You won't be so lucky next time," he said with a smirk as he tossed a red object at me.
I caught it and saw that it was a rose. Does he know I love roses?
"What's with the rose?" I asked confused.
"The rose is for Glaceon, her appeals were well done and she battled well. See you later Petunia," he said and walked back to the dorm.
Stupid grasshead, I then looked at the rose and smiled. I knew what a red rose symbolized, but the question was did he.
I checked my poketch to see that it was almost 9:00 and then headed back to my room. When I got there, Dawn was brushing her hair.
"Where did you go?" she asked curiously.
"After I fed my pokemon, I went to an open area on campus to practice some contest moves with Glaceon and then Drew challenged me to a battle," I said while trying to hide the rose, but unfortunately she saw it.
"Did Drew give that to you?" she teased.
I gave a very small almost non-existent blush, "Nope, he gave it to me to give to Glaceon for winning a battle against him."
She looked like she didn't believe me, "Uh huh, you know what red roses symbolize don't you?"
"I know what they mean and they are my favorite flower, but I think grasshead used it as a joke."
Dawn shook her head sadly, "Whatever you say Lin, night," she yawned as she crawled into bed and fell asleep.
I quickly changed into my pajamas and crept into bed quietly. I lay in bed while twirling the rose Drew gave me in my hand thinking about our battle that happened a little while ago. He's gonna be an interesting person to deal with. I put the rose down and turned over on my side before falling asleep.