DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN POKEMON ADVENTURES
CHAPTER 4: Field Research Project
It's a bright Saturday morning and Lyra just got home from her jogging at Route 29. Her mother was washing the dishes and her brother eating pancakes for breakfast.
"Lyra hurry up and eat your breakfast until Gold finish them all." Their mom said in a teasing tone as Gold raised his brows at Lyra telling her he will definitely eat the pancakes. Lyra quickly took a seat and eat as many pancakes she can eat.
*Ding dong*
Gold and Lyra's mother, Mrs. Kurama opened the door and Silver was standing outside. "Oh Silver, are you here to watch something with us? Or is this something about Gold or Lyra?"
"I'm here for Gold," Silver replied blankly and Gold stepped in and put his arm around Silver. "What do you want Silvy?"
"Don't ask me, you're one of the people who volunteered today's activity 2 weeks ago right?" Silver asked. "It's very special for someone like you."
"I don't remember asking Crys a date with you around..." Gold tried to recall all the things he's done in the past weeks or days and unfortunately, he failed to remember. "I forgot, just tell me." He said being legit.
"Well, You're one of the people who volunteered to Professor Oak's Nature Investigation of Pokemons Project which is every Saturday starting now." Silver replied.
"So it's a field research?" Gold clarified and took the moment to think. "Hmm…I don't remember volunteering to that."
"Can I come along, that sounds fun!" Lyra said in an energetic tone.
"That's a wonderful idea, now you can discover different pokemons in a day with Silver." Mrs. Kurama said and Lyra flinched for a second, blushing and went to her room to get ready. "You don't mind waiting do you Silver, Gold?"
"No, I don't mind." Silver replied and Gold just shrugged gritting his teeth after noticing Lyra's sudden behavior. "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, just being lazy." Gold replied carelessly. "Where are we going anyway?"
"Routes near Violet City." Silver said.
Gold, Silver and Lyra had now started their travel, led by Silver who Lyra began a conversation with him leaving Gold alone listening to their conversation, getting annoyed in the process.
"How do you survive with Onii-san's attitude at your travels with him?" Lyra asked happily.
"So you noticed the jerk's attitude after all." Silver said smirking. "Well, he's a jerk who likes so much attention especially from girls but I just ignore like a normal person and simply enjoying watching his tortures from them."
Lyra just laughed in an unlady way. "You need to get used to it that's all. I was embarrassed being his sister when I was studying in Viridian City." She said then quickly covered her mouth as Gold gave her a glare in the back. "But that changes when he battled Team Rocket and the masked man though." She said nervously.
"Oh yeah the masked man." Silver said, remembering his experience with the masked man or Pryce during his childhood. How he and Blue were treated by the other masked children until that day Gold reasoned with the man. Lyra noticed how Silver turned gloomy all of a sudden and slowly tried to reach his hand for comfort .
"Hey, it's Super serious gal!" Gold suddenly yelled and dragged the two by the hand towards Crystal, Yellow and Red who hides in the tall grass, observing the pokemons.
"Gold be quiet, we're watching how two mareeps interact as they fight for the Oran berry." Crystal scolded quietly. Gold glanced at the two mareeps, one is a bigger than the other.
"That's boring." Gold said simply and he received a slap by Crystal in the shoulder.
"The bigger one said he saw it first and he's the older brother so he'll do whatever he likes." Yellow continue to commentate the discussion of the mareeps, Crystal then continue to write while Red just watched the pokemons with the three. "but the little one can't allow that, 'it's not fair' he says. Oh no! he's gonna tell it to his mother." Gold began to control his laughter at Yellow's expression every time she interpret the pokemon's words.
"What is Yellow-senpai talking about? Is she making a story?" Lyra asked whispering to Silver.
"No, she has a gift to read pokemons' hearts and minds, so basically she's just interpreting." Silver replied. "You do know the rumor in the Viridian forest right?"
"Yeah, wait-onii-san told me you're hometown's there too, but why are yo-."Lyra said but Silver knew what she's gonna ask.
"Maybe I'm not born in the forest, I don't know." Silver shrugged as he watched the mareeps began to have a little fight, having him, Red, Crystal and Lyra watched curiously. Gold roots for the bigger mareep as he punched the air and cheers silently and Yellow cheered for the little one but continue to commentate but now, she commentate like there's a wrestling match which totally is. This made the others looked at her.
"Who will win the match, the older brother or the little brother?" Yellow said excitedly. "For the prize of the delicious Oran berry."
"Is it just me or is she influenced by Nee-san's habit?" Silver asked and everyone nodded.
"The mareeps ended up biting each other's ear and started tackling, they're trying their best to win, saying: 'It's mine!' Says the big brother. 'No, it's mine!' the youngster said." Yellow continued. The others just ignored the blonde teen's attitude. "This is an interesting match! But wait, a Marill suddenly took and eat the ber—"
"Mari-chan!" Lyra yelled in shocked making the two mareeps look and began attacking the little marill but they are suddenly use bubble beam and made the two ran away. "What are you doing outside your pokeball?" she glared and watched Mari-chan eating happily.
"Mari-chan! Go and apologize to those mareeps!" Lyra then gave 2 oran berries. "Give these to them. And don't ever think of eating them or running away!" she scolded her pokemon who start finding the two wild pokemons.
"Yellow-senpai, mind commentating Mari-chan's apology?" Gold asked amused and Yellow agreed.
"Okay, now here we are watching how the Marill known as Mari-chan is going to ask forgiveness because she stole the one Oran berry they're fighting for." Yellow said amusingly.
"Lyra? Mari-chan's your first pokemon right?" Red began.
"Yeah?" Lyra replied.
"Do you train her well to make her evolve into a Azumarill?" Red asked.
"Well, I got her when she's still a baby azurill and I don't use her in my battles except for Brock's battle which made her evolve to a marill." Lyra replied nervously.
"and it looks like Mari-chan has no luck to be forgiven easily." Yellow continued. "Mari-chan uses Oran berry to give as a present."
"And it's very effective right?" Gold cheered.
"Yes! And they happily eat the berry." Yellow finished her interpretation.
"What does the two mareep said?" Crystal asked finishing her notes.
"Well, the big brother scolded Marill for the douse and the younger brother just happily eat the berry." Yellow replied. "I'm just glad they got along."
Mari-chan hurriedly went to her trainer and jumped in her arms. "I'm so proud of you Mari-chan!" Lyra said snuggling her pokemon.
"WHERE WERE YOU?!" A female voice irritably revealing Blue marching towards them followed by Green, Ruby, Wally, Dia and Pearl. "I thought we're meeting NEAR Violet City and you're half way going to Azalea town!" Blue noticed Lyra in the group and made her smile mischievously.
"We're sorry Blue-san." Yellow said. "We're just following the two mareeps and forgot the meet-up."
"Lyra, you're here to volunteer as well?" Green asked began writing and Lyra nodded.
"This is Wally by the way, a friend of mine and an ex-Dex Holder which now belongs to Emerald." Ruby introduced his green-haired friend who bowed with respect.
"Now that we're all here, how about let's begin the groupings and finish today's research." Blue said as she assigned the volunteers.
"Green, Silver, Lyra, Dia and Ruby will be in my team which is Team A and the rest of you will be Red's." Blue said and Green just punched Blue's head lightly and Silver began to glare at Green.
"Pesky woman, that's not what grandfather said, the grouping's all wrong." He said blankly.
"C'mon Greenie, a simple mix-up wouldn't hurt anybody. I wanted to be with you in the group." Blue said sweetly and made the brunette trainer flustered.
"Alright, just behave." Green said embarrassed, ignoring the woman's presence for now and read the note from the professor. "Anyway, both teams will begin research at Route 32, team A will search near Violet City only and team B will search near the pier below the Goldenrod train tracks only. Do not search Union or fishing at the pier. You may rest for a while but no visiting towns until 12 pm, the time the day's project will end. No catching of wild pokemons. Your pokemons may interact to wild pokemons but avoid hurting them. Do not step at the line, the line is the known boundary of your area, anyone who crosses the line will deduct points." Please be reminded all rule breaking will cause deductions.
"Green-senpai, there's another note." Pearl said pointing at the paper Green is holding.
"Ah!—Take note, A Fearow and Pidgeotto will be watching you in case someone will break the rules of the project. We will have Lance from Viridian City have the pokemons mind read so that Yellow will not lie at her interpretation in case she covers the alibi of a certain volunteer. Not following the given rules and tasks will mark as deduction of points and the team with the most deductions will not have the reward which are unknown and will received a punishment for disobedience. Have fun at the project!" Green finished reading and was not amused at how his grandfather made things complicated was and looked up seeing the bird pokemons observing at them.
"So we'll be off then!" Red said and team B went to their assigned location.
"I remember now, that reward is the reason I volunteered." Gold said happily leaving everyone laugh except Green and Silver.
Both teams began their project in their areas. Team A has too much luck starting from how obedient every member is except for Blue who bosses Green in the sweetest way she can think of. Team A decided to pair by two suggested by Blue. Green got paired up with Blue and her Wigglytuff, Ruby with Dia, Dia's munchlax and his Kirlia, Ruru and Silver with Lyra, Weavile and Lyra's Marill, Mari-chan.
For team B has a slight chance of luck due to Gold's behavior of lazing around that causing Crystal to attack him making the wild pokemons afraid of approaching them. Team B observes as a team. Gold suggested that he will took a photo of every pokemon to show proof he will not idle and to avoid Crystal hurting him. After encounters of random pokemons, they ended up observing a herd of Ratatas mingling to each other happily.
"Alright, Ratty go and talk to your kind." Yellow said releasing her Raticate.
"Another picture successfully taken." Gold said admiring the photo of the ratatas and Ratty together.
"Hey Gold-senpai, I found a family of Mareeps." Wally and Pearl whispered getting the trainer's attention.
"Hey, it's the mareep from before!" Yellow said clapping her hands silently.
"I see a good-looking research, we'll use serious gal's notes about their fight for Oran berry." Gold said and he took a picture of the family of Mareeps.
"Good idea Gold, I can't believe you think an idea like that. It's unbelieva-Gold?" Crystal said and she noticed Gold staring at something and made him lose hold of the camera. The others noticed this as well and looked at what he's staring at and saw Lyra and Silver walking and talking together, looking at the Sentrets and Hoppips.
"That's my sister! My sister!" Gold said furiously, standing up about to take leave and approaching the border line.
"Woah woah! You almost cross the line buddy." Red said. Locking his arms at Gold's to stop from walking any further. Good thing Silver and Lyra can't hear the ruckus Gold made.
"What do you mean I crossed the line, Silver does!" Gold yelled to his senior pointing at the two who's doing the search together.
"I know but what I meant is literally you're about to cross the line." Red said pointing at where the border line is. Gold was a few inches to the line, seeing this, he slowly went to a safer spot.
"Oh very sorry!" Gold said and he noticed Team A is approaching to them but they are still in their area.
"Blue, this is where you want us to rest?" Green asked a little tired.
"Yup! Oh hello there team B!" Blue said waving. Yellow and Wally waved back and Red nodded in response.
"Yo!" Gold greeted.
"Dia, Ruby prepare the things I ask you to bring!" Blue said winking at her juniors.
Ruby and Dia nodded and start unloading their bags and set up a picnic. They started to have a picnic. Green just was shocked as Team B and looked at Blue. "So that's why you messed up with the groupings. You pesky woman…"
"So that's how Dia was busy at the kitchen last night…" Pearl said unimpressed. "Nice going Dia." giving Dia a thumbs-up.
"That's kind of annoying." Gold said blankly.
"Silver, Lyra! Let's have a quick break!" Blue called the two who quickly obey and began to eat with them. Gold just glared at the two while they're eating.
"So are you going to give us any Blue?" Red asked and Blue just shook her head. "Why not?"
"You didn't plan ahead, now you have to wait till shift's over." Blue said then let out a laugh. "Gold dear, are you that hungry that you start gritting your teeth?"
Everyone stared at Gold who's gritting his teeth and being furious. It's not about being hungry, it's about how perfect seeing Silver and Lyra interact, always together everywhere and the amber-eyed teen more frustrated than he is thinking about it.
"Hunger or not Blue, we'll continue our research and rest a bit somewhere else." Red said and went down the pier with Yellow, followed by Pearl and Wally.
"C'mon Gold, let's go now." Crystal said calming the boy down, taking his hand and followed their senior.
"That's very rude Nee-san." Silver said as they left. "You should've picked a better place."
"It's just mere coincidence...I just think ahead, that's all and besides this is the shadiest part of our area." Blue said innocently.
"Knowing you, it's probably not." Green said taking a bite of the ham and cheese sandwich.
Team B is just chilling at the pier and watching Gold calming down by the stroke of Crystal's hand while resting at her lap.
"I can't believe Blue showed off like that." Yellow said surprisingly then pouted.
"Forget about Blue-senpai…didn't you see how that Silver walk and talk with Lyra! I'll punch his face for that!" Gold said irritably, punching the air.
"We saw and we're also surprised at how you reacted Gold-senpai." Wally said.
"Yeah, who knows you're that kind of person." Pearl said smiling.
"Ha?" Gold gave Pearl a glare which Crystal slapped Gold lightly in the cheek and stared into his eyes.
"What he meant is, like I said before, you're starting to be an overprotective brother." Crystal said smiling mischievously. Gold blushed a little and got up scratching his head.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I told you I'm not-." Gold said still blushing avoiding everyone's eye contact.
"YOU ARE!" Everyone said in unison.
"Alright! just. Let's just keep this a secret. Okay?" Gold said. "Don't tell everybody especially Blue-senpai!"
"Sure! You're starting to act mature for once." Red said laughing as he starts ruffling the boy's hair.
"I think he's getting more childish." Crystal said.
"But in the good way Crys." Yellow said.
"That's just the same anyway!" Red said cheerfully and everyone started cheering at their new discovery towards Gold except Crystal. "For the sake of this kind of celebration I'm gonna treat Team B to Lunch!"
EDIT: sorry that I kept editing. I just forgot scenes or fix grammar because it doesn't any sense without fixing the grammar.
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