!Everybody Battle! Sandgem Starters
The sun shone brightly as Professor Rowan walked through his lab. He was a large man with white hair and and wore a blue sweater vest and a pair of brown pants. He looked out the window and smiled at all the pokémon outside. Then he remembered that all of the Professors from the regions were coming and that a lot of trainers would be coming through to pick them up. He ran down the steps to find the Professors all filling into the room and releasing the starters they brought with them. Rowan greeted all of them with earnest.
"Welcome Pokémon Professors!" The children should be arriving any minute now." Just as he said it Prof. Oak looked out the window.
"Here they come now. Nobody stand next to the door. They're running as fast as they can to get here!" Everybody jumped from the doorway and grabbed the starters trying to make them look presentable. Rowan quickly remembered that he had to do the same and told his aid to get a Chimchar, Turtwig and Piplup immediately. The aid had just returned with the pokémon when the first of the children barged through the door. The rest soon followed as teachers tried to control them. It was Rowan who finally did.
"QUIET!" he said in a very deep voice. Not a sound could be heard and several starters had hidden back in their Pokéballs. "Now make a nice and orderly line to pick your starters." The line was made fast. Rowan saw Krestner in the crowd and called him out. When Krestner got close enough, he spoke to him."It's been a long time my friend."
"You're telling me."
"How long has it been?"
"Two years. Can I go get my starter now? I'm eager to get going."
"Oh by all means! Go ahead. You've already taken two of my starters on your previous comings. Why not take the third?"
"Sorry, I can't. I'm trying to spread my collection across the regions." Krestner walked off back into line. He saw his friends walking out of line each with a Pokéball. He couldn't wait to see which starter they picked. Finally it was his turn.
"Now, which starter would you like?" Rowan's aide pointed to a group of Kanto starters, Johto starters, Hoenn starters, and Sinnoh starters. Krestner looked over them wondering which to choose. He looked over and saw a Charmander being bullied by the other Fire starters.
"I want that Charmander." The other Fire starters stopped picking on him and looked on in disbelief. The aide handed him the Pokéball and Krestner returned the Charmander as it started laughing at them. Krestner smiled as he got out of line and looked for his friends. He found them all in front of a tree waiting for him. When he got close enough he sat down next to them.
"So which one did you get?" Kaitlyn asked.
"Uh uh , Everybody else first." They released their starters. Kyle had a Chimchar, Tyler had a Bulbasaur, Kaitlyn got a Torchic, Selena had a Squirtle, and Madison had a Piplup. He released his Charmander and the starters went off to play around.
"So who'd you all bring with you?" A bunch of Pokéballs were thrown into the air and out came Ghost, Artik, Kyle's Absol known as Fortune, Tyler's Primeape known as Alpha, Kaitlyn's Hitmonlee known as Kicker, and Madison's Pidgeot, known as Whirlwind.
"Nice pokémon. Now take a look at mine." A boy walked over to them. He had black hair and was kinda thin. He wore mostly black, but had white gloves on his hands. A Mightyena and Totodile walked by his side. All three had a sneaky look on their face.
"Well if it isn't Ricard Rolo. The kid who puts the 'fear' in battling." Krestner mocked him. Ricard, who was easily angered, yelled at him.
"You think you're so much better than me!?"
"Dude let's not do this here. You might end up scaring yourself." Everybody started laughing. All except Ricard(obviously). Instead he got angrier.
"Mightyena, Shadow Ball!" The large black sphere shot from Mightyena's mouth and flew towards Krestner only to have it blocked by Ghost's own Shadow Ball. Krestner looked up at Ricard, a look of absolute anger on his face.
"That's it! Time to battle. Ghost, Let's go!" The Moonlight Pokémon began to glow. Ricard's Mightyena growled.
"Mightyena, Double Edge!" Mightyena charged towards Ghost, white light trailing it.
"Ghost, dodge with Dig!" Ghost dug underground , causing Mightyena to slam through a tree and knocking it over in the process. This caught everyone else's attention. They all ran over to watch the battle. MIghtyena got up shakily as Ghost tackled it from underground. It flew up into the air.
"Mightyena, Shadow Ball!"
"Ghost, Hyper Beam!" Ghost blew the Shadow Ball back into the Bite Pokémon with Hyper Beam also hitting Mightyena and causing an explosion. Mightyena fell out of the sky and hit the ground, fainted.
"Return, Mightyena." Ricard walked off into the lab to go heal his pokémon, while everybody started cheering for Krestner.
20 minutes later...
A teacher poked his head out of the lab door and yelled out:
"You have your starters, let the challenge begin!" The trainers ran out along the route and separated into their groups. All bid good-bye and good luck to friends. Krestner, Madison, Kaitlyn and Selena slowed their pace and walked down the route slowly.
"I think we should pick a leader, not in the general sense, but more along the lines of telling when to stop and stuff like that." Madison said. " All hands in for me!"
"Whoa whoa whoa. Who said you could just immediately be the leader like that Madison?" I don't care who's leader, but we sure aren't gonna pick one that way." Selena said. Madison may have been her friend and all but that was going to far.
"So how do you propose we pick a leader then?" They walked into an open field that seemed to stretch for miles.
"We battle for leadership." Krestner said as he pulled a Pokéball of his belt and threw it into a tree. The ball came down and stabilized in his hands.
"Did you just catch a pokémon blind?" Kaitlyn asked. All eyes were on Krestner.
"Go ahead guys catch some pokémon. There is a whole pack of Burmy over our heads trying to hide. Too bad some of their cloaks don't match the tree they're hiding in."The others caught several other Burmy each with a different cloak. "Now we can battle!"
On the other side of the route Kyle too had stumbled upon the leadership idea. Only thing is Tyler and Ricard immediately voted him leader. Good for him. He was gonna need it.
Back on the other side of the route, Kaitlyn's Torchic was having a tough time beating Krestner's Burmy who was fast and an artful dodger. Next to them Selena's Squirtle was making short work of Madison's Burmy. The battles ended and Krestner and Selena stood victorious. They hugged their pokémon, telling them what a good job they did. Now it was time to choose a leader. Selena and Krestner stood opposite each other.
"You ready?"
"Do you have to ask?"
"Go Flare!" Krestner's Charmander emerged and began to hop around. "Charmander!"
"Flora, let's do this" Tackle" Flora, Selena's Burmy, came charging at Flare.
"Wait for it. On my signal unleash your Ember attack" Flora got close enough and was just about to hit Flare when Krestner yelled:
"Now!" The fire hit the Burmy severely injuring it. "Slash, now let's finish this." Flare's claws began to glow and he slammed them into Flora, fainting her. "Guess that makes me leader." Charmander!!" Flare was pointing towards Krestner's backpack as it was glowing. He reached inside and pulled out the glowing egg. "Here it comes. Finally!" The egg changed shape into a monkey-figure with a long tail and a hand on the end of it. The figure stopped glowing and in Krestner's hands stood a baby Aipom.
"Pom?" It looked around confused, then upon seeing Krestner's face smiled and climbed up on his head. Krestner smiled. He'd gotten three new pokémon in one day. Suddenly his phone began to ring. He answered.
"Hello?"
"You have a job to do. So stop loligagging and get on with it."
"Where are you right now?"
"Look up." Krestner looked up into the sky and saw a Dragonite flying overhead.
"I swear if you don't leave me alone and let me do what I gotta do then I'll blast you out of the sky! I don't need you checking up on me!" He hung up the phone and realized that everybody was staring at him.
"Prank call. Everybody it was just a prank call. Let's go." I think we can make Lake Verity by nightfall. Right Pom?" "Aipom, Pom!" Krestner ran off into the distance with everybody else trying to keep up.
"Phase 1 is complete, Sir. What are my orders?"
"Keep them from Spear Pillar and Veilstone City for the time being. Oh and if you want you can create a little tension in the air."
"Thank you, Sir"
"Get back to work Grunt!"