Hardwin stared at himself in the mirror as he wore the specialized light gray long suit jacket with a crest of a shield and one sword being raised vertically on its right side. Underneath it, he was wearing a long sleeve white collar shirt, and underneath his collar shirt was just a plain white T-shirt. He wore black formal pants, but the dress code allowed any shoes to be worn, so he just kept his green rubber sneakers.
As he finished putting in the red tie, he took a step back from the mirror and showed off to Zig, Zu, and Magi. "So? What do you guys think? I feel like a proper student!"
"Meh." Zu played out a sound while Zig seemingly put his head back down to sleep on Hardwin's bed. Magi just continued to stare emptily.
"You guys, suck, you know that?" Hardwin spoke up before he looked over to his roommate, Vincent. "And what's with you? You've been kind of down this morning."
Vincent sighed. He was also wearing the same uniform as Hardwin, only a different pair of shoes, but he was looking at a mask he was holding.
"Yesterday, I was asked to remove this mask before battling since it wasn't part of the dress code."
"You wear a mask when battling?"
"Well yeah, it's stylish!"
Hmm, Hardwin couldn't really argue with that. "… Continue."
"Well, so I met with the Headmaster—crazy dude. And he told me that I could wear my mask." It seemed like he was drained just thinking about the ordeal…wait a sec.
"… That… sounds like a good thing. What happened?" He probably shouldn't have asked, but curiosity got the best of him this time.
Vincent looked hurt to say this next part. "He said that, and I quote: Man! Masks really are cool! You know what? I'll make all my students wear them too! … Then the Vice Principal came in, grabbed the man by the collar and pushed him out of the door."
"I don't know if I should be afraid that happened or afraid that I have absolutely no trouble believing that happened."
"Well, it did. And the Vice Principal gave me an ultimatum. If I do wear the mask while I'm in school that means everyone will have to wear a mask like mine. If I don't that will be the end of it."
"I don't really see how bad that is…"
"It was my style okay!? I always wore it!" Vincent snapped before calming himself down. "So who do you have for first period?"
"A professor named, Ferald Jurita. Room 405 in building A-1. He's a professor in trainer habits."
"Sounds interesting. I got assigned to battle history class in building C-4. Hope it doesn't explode! Haha… see what I did there?"
"… O-Oh! I get it!"
"Never mind. You're slow. See ya soon, ya clown." Vincent waved goodbye as he left the room with his greninja.
"I'm not slow, am I—oh you guys suck." Hardwin noticed his Pokémon laughing at him. "Come on, I don't wanna be late to my first class."
"Hello, I am Mr. Ferald Jurita." The tanned man with a bald head wearing a suit and tie explained as he welcomed in the first class of the morning. "This is Trainer Habits 102. It's a straight forward course that will teach you about raising Pokémon in general no matter what profession you are in. Since it's the first day, we're actually going to be ending super early, but you all do have homework. You have to catch one new Pokémon and bring it into class."
He was pretty straight forward. Apparently, he had to go leave early today for personal reasons, so pretty much everyone left the early morning classes.
"Hey," Hardwin turned over to see a familiar looking girl with an hour glass figure and long green-bluish hair tied into a pony tail in the female version of the academy uniform. The top part was the same, but for females they usually wore skirts with either long black socks or full pantyhose. "Are you alright? That's one nasty bruise in your eye."
"Oh it's alright. I got it to start conversations with people." At this point, he'd probably get used to it. "The name's Hardwin Wilburg, but many just call me… Will for short." That was going to get some getting used to. "By the way, are you…?"
"A Jenny?" The girl deflated as Hardwin nodded. "Yep, Jenny Hulia, or what I like to joke, Jenny # 4223. But I mostly go by Lia by everyone else."
The two walked out of the classroom and made their way out of the building. "Sooooo the whole cloning thing rumor where everyone believes all officer Jenny's and Nurse Joys are all just clones of each other isn't actually real, is it?" Granted, Hardwin did meet Vincent, but…
"It totally isn't but I'm convinced Arceus or Mew must have had it out for our ancestors or something because how else would almost all daughters look exactly the same each time?" Lia joked. "So, now I'm curious, how did you get the black eye? Did you get in a fight or something?"
"Sorta, it was a stray attack that hit me in a battle before I got here."
When they left the building, Hardwin quickly threw out two Poké Balls to bring out his pair of partners. "Lia, meet Zig, the laziest zigagoon in the planet and Zu, the student of a chatot and movie buff addict who thinks he's funny."
"Well Eeeexxxccuuussseeee me, princess!" Zu retorted quickly.
"Huh, I've heard of Pokémon with telepathy and even some translating devices, but I've never seen a pokémon speak through pop culture references," Lia took out her several of her spheres of her own and threw out four Poké balls into the air. "I didn't really think of nicknames, so that there's Sigilyph, that's Delphox, she's Meowstic, and that's Altaria."
The officer Jenny descendant clapped her hands together. "Alright guys, we're going to catch some Pokémon! Get in gear cause we're moving out!"
That caught Hardwin's attention. "You're leaving already?"
"Yeah, most of my classes are tomorrow. Plus it's still early, so I can get to the good Pokémon spots while no one is still there."
The young entertainer had classes still, but he still didn't know much about Helio City. "Where specifically were you going to look for pokémon?"
"Bluewood Forrest. Yep this is it." As the carnival folks stood in front of what could be called… no wait, a forest didn't quite capture what this place really was. Despite being like a bus ride away, the trees were as tall as buildings and they looked older than any forest the circus folk had seen before.
According to Lia, there were wild Pokémon here. "Alright, Zu, where's the nearest pokémon?"
It was such a nice thing that he had a scanner Pokémon. His zubat looked over towards one direction and started flying over.
As they moved forward, they passed by a cabin with the local ranger. However, they all paused as they noticed the area looked like it had just gone through a battle.
There was a somewhat portly and out-of-shape looking man trying to put up a bill board with ducktape before the billboard collapsed again.
"Aaww man!" The man yelled in defeat as he fell to his knees.
Hardwin and his pokémon went over to the man. "Hey, what happened here?"
The park ranger sighed. "The past month there's been this Pokémon terrorizing Bluewood Forrest. Wild Pokémon, trainers, civilians, you name it! It's been causing trouble wherever it goes!"
"Really? There's a super strong pokémon out there?" Hardwin examined the field. It was rather interesting now that he looked at it closer. While there were signs of a battle here, he noticed that there were a lot more clean cuts, if the damaged cabin and sliced up bill board were any indication.
"It gets worse!" the Ranger cried out in grief. "Even some trainers from that high level school can't beat it! I tried to warn some of them, but they wouldn't listen!"
That caught the boy's attention. "Students from Battlecraft Academy? They went in there?" The young clown looked deeper towards the forest after learning that fact.
"Yeah, several of them at different times. They all promised to help stop that pokémon's rampage before going in there…" the ranger sighed as he looked at the state the cabin and the opening area was in. "I've only been here for a week!"
Hardwin looked back at the man and then looked towards the forest. On one hand, he could go and look for the pokémon for his homework, and maybe find out if he could capture this strong pokémon for his team.
But on the other hand…
"I'm going to be fired for sure!"
There was no contest.
"Hey don't feel bad. I've actually seen a lot worse." Hardwin walked up to the sad park ranger as he took off his jacket and started tying it to his waist.
"You have?"
Ahh, if Hardwin could tell you all the stories of broken items and bleachers while traveling with the circus. "Definitely. So much in fact that my granddad has thought me a few carpentry skills. Me and my Pokémon can patch this place up as good as new."
"Y-You'll do that? For me!?" the ranger looked surprised. "B-But what about the wild pokémon terrorizing the forest?"
"I'm more than confident the trainers can handle that problem. But you right now need a handyman. Now, direct me towards your actual tool box, because you don't use a rubber hammer to hit in nails." Hardwin pointed towards the black hammer with a bunch of unused nails before motioning towards Zig and Zu. "Come on guys, we've got work to do."
There was a thud as the person jumped off a large tree root. Their eyes looked around as they searched for any trace of the Pokémon in question.
"Where the heck is it? You'd think such a tough looking pokémon would be easy to spot around here."
A little creature popped up from their shoulder and shouted in agreement. "Sent!"
"I mean there are all these other pokémon too that are around here, but they all seem friendly enough. If only I could just ask them."
It was then that a large explosion in the distance caught their attention.
"That's gotta be it!" The trainer cried as they quickly ran before hiding behind a tree. They both looked behind the tree and noticed a vespiquen firing slash after slash on a ninjask. The larger flying and bug type looked ticked off as it continued firing the blasts of air at the smaller pokémon.
However, the ninjask was zipping around as fast as possible in any direction.
"Oh my gosh! That poor ninjask is getting attacked! That vespiquen must be the pokémon terrorizing everyone!" The trainer and their Pokémon jumped out. "Pip, use Quick Attack!"
The sentret jumped out of the shoulder of their trainer and ran up the closest tree before leaping off with increased speed to body check the vespiquen in the side and into another tree.
With that, the Ninjask quickly retreated away while the trainer and sentret faced down the vespiquen.
"What the heck are you doing!?" The trainer of the sentret looked over to see a young teenager with short blond hair, bluish-gray eyes wearing a navy blue vest over a gray shirt with white pants, sneakers and gloves. He was wearing what looked to be a Battle AR on his ear and he looked really ticked off. "Why are you attacking my friend!?"
"Wait that isn't the pokémon that's been harassing everyone in the forest?!" The owner of the sentret cried out in shock.
"Heck no, it was that stupid ninjask!" Another voice came from behind the trainer of the Vespiquen, he was somewhat taller than the two young teens and he had a long sleeved black shirt, a caramel colored jacket that reaches down to his feet, dark blue jeans, a pair of grey sneakers, and he sports a black fedora atop his light brown spiky hair that reached down to the end of his neck. And he had dark blue eyes that looked rather exhausted. "That stupid bug pokémon stole our meals!"
A little after he said this, a kirlia and an aipom followed after the brunette. Both Pokémon looked especially upset and ticked off.
"W-What?!"
"Who the heck are you anyway?" The trainer of the vespiquen asked while his bug type looked very, very ticked off.
"My name is Lydia Mollen, I'm from Battlecraft University. And you could lose the tone, blondie." The girl in question looked a little younger than most applicants, in which she was, but she also looked to be around the same age as the boy with the vespiquen. Lydia had as brown hair in a low ponytail with a few messy bangs in front and two bangs on the sides draping just above her modest bust, rosey-pale skin, sky blue eyes, and a somewhat curvy body. Her attire consisted of a short black vest with a white blouse underneath, a blue skirt, black knee high stockings, and white flat dress shoes.
"Hey, I wasn't the one who let the Pokémon terrorizing the forest get away!"
"Okay, okay! You two obviously got off on the wrong foot," the trainer with the two pokémon out stepped in and tried to calm the two. "Okay, my name is Jace Collins, and this here is David Ishihara. We're also from Battlecraft University and we found out that we're both pretty young when compared to most of the students… which I'm guessing you are too."
"So?"
"Are you also trying to stop this ninjask from terrorizing the forest?" Jace asked Lydia.
Lydia's sentret climbed up her shoulder. "Yeah. I saw a little girl crying because some scary pokémon stole her toys. I had to help out."
"I also saw some people get terrorized by this ninjask, but here's the problem: it's been here this past month," David folded his arms. "Even older students from the University haven't been able to stop this pokémon. And believe it or not, before you came, it was beating Vespiquen completely." He motioned to his bug type, who seemed very peeved at the thought of being bested by a thug of all things. "Deny it all you want, Vespiquen, he out maneuvered you at every move… which shouldn't be possible now that I think of it…"
"What do you mean by that? No offense or anything, but aren't ninjasks supposedly faster than even legendary pokémon? I remember a Pokédex entry describing them as moving so fast, they can be invisible." Lydia pointed out.
"But it wasn't going that fast. Most of all, it seemed like it was just toying with us."
"I would think it's cocky from not being stopped in over a month, but then you're right. It must have something that makes it confident enough to mess with and get away from so many trainers." Jace thought as well.
"We still have to stop it! I bet it can't take on more than one trainer at a time!" Lydia spoke out. "We just have to find it again."
"Actually," Jace began. "I have an idea…"
The ninjask in question had just finished stealing and devouring a cake he stole from unsuspecting family.
It was then that he heard sounds coming from deeper in the woods. It wasn't the cries of humans and their Pokémon, but it sounded… melodious?
As he kept flying towards the sound, he noticed a young man playing a wind instrument. He looked familiar; didn't he already steal food from him? Ahh well he was just asking for trouble coming to his woods…
Wait a second.
The ninjask suddenly moved from his spot as another Air Slash was launched where he was. Then he quickly turned as a sentret just tried to hit him in the sky. His claws started glowing with dark energy as he turned and unleashed a flurry of Night Slashes right at a Swift and Magical Leaf attack sent his way.
"What the heck!? He avoided all of those attacks!" The human stopped playing music as his monkey and jailbait Pokémon came out.
The 'annoying' vespiquen fired an Attack Order at ninjask, who quickly out raced the attack by circling behind a tree and slashing the evolved Pokémon with the momentum, slamming it into another tree.
Ninjask then flew into the air to avoid the sentret from using quick attack and hopping into a different tree. The normal type bounced again with another Quick Attack, but the ninjask was much faster as he caught the sentret's tail and spun around quickly before tossing right into the kirlia and aimbipom.
The bug type laughed before he avoided an Air Slash from the vespiquen that was strangely aimed right at his blind spot, but still managed to avoid quickly. The Ninjask sped off again, hitting the vespiquen with a light attack.
The larger bug and flying type simply forced a Healing Order to take care of the scratch. However, as she was trying to heal it, she was hit by another strike—this time it was stronger than the last. Before she could regain herself, the ninjask was right above her with a fully powered-up Fury Cutter and jousted her at full speed right into the ground like a meteor.
"Vespiquen!?" David cried out as he ran towards his friend. However, out of the smoke, the wild ninjask flew by with a smug smile before escaping away.
The three trainers looked up their pokémon before Jace was the first to talk. "That was atrocious."
"I don't understand; I've never seen a Pokémon so coordinated against an ambush!" David cried out as he recalled his fainted friend.
"You're telling me." Lydia picked up her partner, Pip. "That wild pokémon made us all look like chumps."
"Did we give away any position or something? Something that would have given the ambush away?" Lace recalled both his pokémon.
"We shouldn't have." David placed a hand on his chin and thought deeply. "But it was like he knew what we were planning…"
The sound of fingers snapping made the two boys look to Lydia. "Wait! We know nijasks have two simple abilities, but what if he's using a move that made him beat all of us?"
"A move? What like Detect?" Lace started to hypothesize as the three came together. "But wouldn't it fail if used too many times?"
"Here, let me check something." David pulled out his smart phone and started looking up information about ninjask. "Ah here we go, ninjask move pool list."
The two other Battlecraft Academy students surrounded David as he started searching the list for any move that might explain the ninjask's wild battling ability.
"Wait! Over there!" The male musician pointed to a move listed on the phone. "Mind Reader! Some ninjasks can learn Mind Reader!"
All of their minds clicked into place after hearing that. "Of course! It knew about the ambush because it must have read someone's mind!" The blonde boy slapped his forehead with his palm. Why did he not think of that!?
"Hey, Lace, don't you have a Kirlia?" Lydia pointed to the other brunette in their small group. "Since she is a psychic type, can't she make some kind of shielding for so he won't read our minds?"
The spiky haired boy rubbed the back of his head. "She would if she wasn't knocked over like a bowling pin."
Before he could speak further, a loud, guttural sound echoed through the area. This quickly caused David and Lydia to look around in a startled manner.
"Another Pokémon?! Shoot! The rest of my Pokémon are horrible in a forrest!"
"Mine too!" Lydia agreed with David.
"G-Guys?" Lace sheepishly raised his hand while his left one covered his stomach. "I-I just remembered… I haven't eaten since breakfast since that ninjask stole my lunch…"
"Oh." The other two students admitted.
"C-Can we try again later? I… I think I'm starting to hallucinate you guys into sandwiches. And I don't even like sandwiches!"
The trio, mostly Lydia and David since poor Lace was having trouble concentrating on an empty stomach, decided to head back and get their Pokémon healed before defeating that menace once and for all. However, on their way back, Lace was distracted as he smelled something in the air. It smelled like… a meal?
Welp, he knew where he was going.
The hungry boy followed the trail of food, making Lydia and David follow after him as well.
"Oh hey, it's the park ranger's cabin. Was it fixed?" Lydia noticed that the beat up cabin was starting to get patched up. Some damages were still seen, but it looked like it was being in the process of being cleaned up.
"Uh, Lace?" David tried to call out to the guy as he went towards a park table where a young man a little older than all of them was sitting down with a plate in front of him.
"You didn't have to cook a meal for us, Cain." Hardwin wiped some sweat off his brow as his pokémon, Zig and Zu were panting and almost drooling uncontrollably when they saw the meal placed in front of them.
Cain, the Park ranger smiled heartily. "Are you crazy? I wouldn't have gotten this place half as decent without you guys! This is just a small appreciation of my thanks!" The park ranger looked over to Hardwin's left. "I clearly don't remember you from a while ago."
Hardwin and his Pokémon glanced over to see a spiky haired teen wearing a fedora who looked especially hungry.
"Would you… like to eat?" Hardwin asked before the boy nodded furiously.
"Lace! Really, dude, you couldn't wait?!" The young clown noticed two other people heading their direction.
It was then that Zu suddenly flew up and fired an Uproar sound blast towards a random direction in the trees above them. The blast passed through as a ninjask appeared away from the table and the trainers.
"Oh gosh, not again! I forgot it came here in the first place because of my cooking!" The park ranger screamed in horror before diving under the table for safety.
"Aahh! It's the Ninjask!" The three newcomers quickly tensed as they saw the troublesome pokémon.
"Wait. This is the pokémon causing all that trouble!?" Hardwin stood up as he, Zu, and Zig got out of the table and pointed towards the bug and flying type.
"Don't underestimate it! It uses Mind Reader to figure out all your moves! You have to use a psychic or dark pokémon to fight it!" Lydia told Hardwin.
"I don't have a psychic or dark type…" Hardwin muttered as he stared at the ninjask. The bug type gave a smug look as he taunted the clown and his Pokémon and gave them a motion to come at him.
The clown looked back at the three. "Hey, did you guys battle this pokémon?"
"Yeah, we didn't figure out how he did what he did until after he beat us. Our only pokémon left are too destructive for the forest," the blonde boy explained. "You shouldn't battle him! He'll read all of your movements!"
Hardwin glanced back at the cocky looking bug type; he too looked like he was dismissing his opponent.
But then an idea occurred to the young boy. The Pokémon could react accordingly due to the fact he could read minds…
In that case…
"Zig, get in there! Zu, stay back!" Hardwin quickly commanded as his two Pokémon went in.
"Hey! Didn't you listen to what we said!?" Lace cried out.
"I did! Thanks for the warning, but you guys just gave me an idea!"
"You do know that he'll just figure out your plans too if you don't have a specialized Pokémon to protect you from his mind reading!?"
Hardwin knew that. But this was his thought process: what if he had no idea what he was doing?
He threw out his arm with the Z-Ring on it. "I know we haven't tested this yet at all, but here we go! Z-Ring!"
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…
"W-Was something supposed to happen?" Cain pointed out from under the table he was hiding.
"Huh. How does this work?" Hardwin looked back to his Z-Ring, making all the bystanders look on with shock.
"YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT!?" All of them screamed in surprise.
"Well yeah. I just got it in the span of two days. Yeesh. I didn't have time to figure out what it does, and it didn't come with instructions either." Hardwin pointed back to Ninjask. "Go Z-Move! … Fly! … Up, up and away!"
At this point, the ninjask just stopped and started to laugh uncontrollably while still in the air.
"You're making yourself look like a total fool!"
"I am quite aware of that, thank you very much!" Hardwin shouted back at the blonde boy before looking at the Z-Ring. "How does this thing even work? Do I have to like, think one with my Pokémon? Because that should be easy since all Zig wants to do is sleep."
"ZIG!?" The normal type obviously did not appreciate the jab.
"Don't try to lie to me! You've tried to sneak off several times while trying to patch up the darn cabin!"
However, whatever the two did seemed to work as the Normalium in Hardwin's blue Z-Ring started to have a rainbow aura.
"Alright! Z-Move! Whatever you are, go!" The rainbow aura gathered from the crystal and quickly wrapped around Zig. The energy surrounded the small normal type as everyone looked in shock.
"… Zig? Aren't you going to do something?" Hardwin asked his currently glowing Pokémon. It was cool, but it was also awkward that he wasn't seemingly doing anything.
"Zig zig?" From Hardwin's understanding, it seemed like Zig had no idea what to do next. At this point the Ninjask was just howling in laughter at the walking nightlight as his opponent.
"Well, do something! At least take a step forward!"
Zig did so—"ZIIIGGGGGGGGG!?" And he suddenly found himself going at insane speeds when he meant to just take a step forward.
The ninjask stopped laughing long enough to notice the inhuman zigzagoon going faster than he ever thought possible and smash right into him and right into a tree—correction, several trees before an explosion.
"Oh cripes! Zig!" Hardwin ran with Zu and the others right behind him.
They all ran up to where there was an explosion and as the dust settled, something was coming out of the smoke.
"L-Lin… Linoone…" A dizzy looking linoone walked out of the smoke and seemingly wobbled his way towards Zu and Hardwin.
"Oh hey, you evolved. Neat!" Hardwin nonchalantly spoke up to his dizzy Pokémon. "Maybe now you'll finally be less lazy!"
"Don't bet on it!"
"You're right, Zu, I probably shouldn't get my hopes up." The blue haired clown looked in the crater that Zig had made and right in the center was the ninjask that had caused so much trouble for everyone else.
Seeing that it was knocked out, Hardwin took out a Poké Ball and chucked it at the bug type. He instantly caught it without much trouble.
"That… that was a Z-move! I've heard about those!" Lydia pointed out. "W-What you did… that was called Breakneck Blitz! It turns normal type moves into a powerful attack that makes your Pokémon charge at insane speeds!"
"Thank you for telling me that. I'll keep that in mind next time, right Zig?"
"Liiiinnnn." The newly evolved Pokémon shook his head and noticed he was a lot taller than he remembered.
"Who are you?" David asked in utter bafflement at the young man in front of them that got past a flipping mind reader, by completely winging it!? "Are you from Battlecraft Academy?"
"Oh yeah! My name is Hardwin Wilburg, and you guys are?"
"Hold up? Did you say Hardwin Wilburg?" David stopped him for a second as he fished for his phone. "As in Hardwin Wilburg, the number 10 ranked among the freshmen!?" He took out his phone and showed the online scores of freshmen with Hardwin's first photo—the one with a black eye and his Pokémon looking like demons or crazed fools—and right beside it said that Hardwin, a trainer that had never gotten his first badge, had somehow scored higher than a large percent of students who at least had eight badges.
"HE'S RANKED TEN!?" "I'M RANKED TEN!?" They all screamed at David before they all suddenly realized that Hardwin also screamed with them and looked at him in a confused manner.
"What!? I never had time to check the ranks!" The young clown tried to explain but he was still shocked at the idea he was ranked ten!? Which idiot in charge thought that was a good ide—
…
"Cruse you, Headmaster Spencer!" Hardwin howled to the heavens above.
Meanwhile…
"So you're telling me, that the reason why your office exploded was because of a Secret Agent Magikarp?" Mr. Spencer asked Mr. Professor Doctor.
"It's true! He even had this cute little secret agent hat that had gadgets and stuff."
Mr. Spencer solemnly shook his head. "That is without a doubt… THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD! Tell me more!" Even though he was older than his employee, Drake Spencer's eyes were shinning like that of a child.
"Well he has a theme song—hey, do you think I could have my own theme song?"
Headmaster Spencer stood up dramatically with a serious face. He started wistfully in the distance and stated, "I have found a purpose for all the power I now wield."
"… What are you looking at? Is-Is there something I'm something I'm supposed to be holding orrrr? Are you just going to stand there and look dramatic—oohhh! Now I get it! You have a plan! Yes… it's probably a cool one with how dramatic you're making it look."
"Why did you curse out the headmaster?" The brunette female asked in confusion.
"Let's just say… meeting him personally is taxing," Hardwin sighed. "By the way, who are you guys? Are you also from the academ—"
"LIINNNN!?" Zig tried to step forward during this conversation, but as he did so, he suddenly went into supersonic speeds in another direction.
"Wait, but I stopped the Z-move!?" Hardwin cried out.
"I-I think that was Extreme Speed. Somehow, not only did your Pokémon evolve during the Z-Move, but it must have learned how to do something like it?" There was a loud crash that interrupted Lace as everyone looked back to where Zig had bolted off to.
"Oh no! The cabin!" Cain cried out, looking at how Zig crashed into the cabin.
"Oh no! The food!" Lace shrieked as he saw the messed up table and tossed up food.
"Dang it, Zig! We just fixed that!" Hardwin yelled in exasperation.
And so, Hardwin and the other—in exchange for a free dinner, helped out patch up to cabin again. He did remember to add figuring out Zig's new evolution along with working on Z-Moves and introducing his new Pokémon.
All in all. Hardwin was getting used to the strange days come his way.
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But then again, the best of us can't fully predict the future.
A/N: Yo! A shorter chapter introducing three more characters.
Jace Collins: Raikou927
Lydia Mollen: Nyx-Vyx
David Ishihara: davidthemightypaladin
I know I said that I would give people their own chapters later, but I thought actually now seemed like a good idea to start at least one.
We get a little more world building in finding the outskirt areas of Helio City where towards the Northeast, we find Bluewood Forest. A lovely sight for wild Pokémon and people to live in peace. (Earth Parallel of Redwood Park with giant trees as far as the eye could see).
Also, hey! Zig evolved into a Linoone after a disastrous first attempt at Z-Moves. I thought that was a great time for Zig to evolve since no one would actually expect him to evolve like that.
But, guys! Guess what?! I'm excited for the upcoming chapters! Why you ask? Well… I promised that this wouldn't be a normal story. And I fully intend to keep that promise… (it might either take full effect in the next or the one after it.) But it's coming soon.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter where I tried to show off more of the other characters. I believe I could have done more, but instead I probably limited them more than their owners would have wanted. (Don't worry, I'll try to work around that later on.)
Thank you all for the support!