This and the following chapters were originally posted on my deviant art as one deviation "Trainer Kanade's Journey to Johto" However it was written as multiple chapeters

Disclaimer:I still don't own pokemon or its locations or characters.

Trainer Kanade decided to visit the bike shop before leaving Cerulean City. She had just participated in the practice beauty contest and figured she could always get the results by Pidgey mail. Upon arrival, her Tropius, Mucai, squeezed through the door after her. He looked around in distaste. Mucai'd seen bikes before, trainers zooming past them from one town to the next. He also had noticed their pokemon did not get to follow their trainers.

They kept their pokemon shut away in their pokeballs, trapped away from the fresh air.

He thought a bit and looked around. There wasn't anyone in the front of the shop at all. He tapped on the pokeball containing his best friend and hatch mate, Kanade's Munna name Baku. She hadn't enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the beauty contest and chose to sit it out. But here should be fine. A red beam of flashing light and she sat on his head, clinging to him happily. He looked to the other pokeball on his trainer's belt. It contained a Tyrogue named Ares she had recently adopted. He shook his head, drawing Kanade's attention. He didn't care too much for Ares, having only known him a few days. The Ares tended to sit by himself. He could hide in there if he wanted to.

Kanade approached the counter and rang the bell. A moment later, a shop keeper appeared from the back room. "How may I help ye, Miss?"

"I'd like to buy a bike, it'd make traveling faster." Mucai snorted in disgust. Baku patted him above the eye comfortingly. She eyed the various bikes on display in multiple colors, in awe at the variety of bicycles one could own and flinching at some of the price tags.

"Well it's you're lucky day, miss. I can see you are a pokemon trainer. I haven't had very good sales lately so you can have that bike over there." He pointed to a metallic bluish green one that collapsed with a lot of levers on the handles. "Ride it around as you journey and if people ask where it came from, send them my way." If Mucai could do that thing the humans do with their hands to their faces, he would have. He growled at Kanade who ignored his protest.

"Why thank you, sir that is very kind of you." She intended to travel far to promote the bike shop in thanks. Mucai stamped his feet to which Kanade sighed. "I know you don't like being in buildings, let's go and thanks again sir." She promptly wheeled the bike out of the shop and stood before Route five.

"Now guys you'll have to go in your pokeballs a little bit." Munna chirped and returned to her pokeball, seeming to understand what Kanade wanted. Mucai on the other hand wanted none of this. He snorted and growled. She sighed, "we need to get to Saffron City soon." He stomped his feet and flapped up dust at her using his Gust attack. She clipped a helmet on her head, and covered her face with her elbow. His eyes glinted as he attempted to Leer at her. For some reason it didn't work as well as it did at other pokemon.

She shook her head, "no, Mucai. We need to keep going on our journey and this is the best way for now. Don't you want to go to far away places, see the world? Get Stronger?" He liked those ideas but no, he liked to walk. He began to glow, taking in the warm rays of the sun. As his body turned gold and he opened his mouth to produce a radiating orb of pure energy, she flinched. "Learn to fly and you can stay out." He dissipated the Solar Beam, not wanting to hurt his trainer. She continued, "but for now I'm going to ride the bike."

He groaned one last protest and disappeared into the pokeball with a flash, giving up on arguing for now. Kanade hopped on her bike and began pedaling as hard as she could down route five, glad she'd learned to ride as a young kid. In his pokeball, Mucai rolled over, miserable.

Not quite halfway down Route Five, Kanade fell off the bike as Mucai exploded outwards from his pokeball and kicked off the side of the bike. She tumbled on the rough dirt of the path, skinning her knees and elbows. "Hey!" She attempt to protest but he licked her and lowered his head in apology. He didn't mean to hurt his trainer, it was an accident. He just couldn't stand being in there anymore. She sighed and looked at him.

Before she could say anything he began to flap his leafy pinions and levitate skyward.

Mucai strained as he tried to stay aloft. However, it wasn't long before he came crashing to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirt and dust. "It's okay, Mucai, we can walk if you want." Kanade sounded a bit disappointed. Had he made her so sad? Mucai remembered what she told him, 'learn how to fly.' He wouldn't give up so easily. The Tropius wanted to make his trainer proud of his efforts.

Jumping airborne again, he fluttered his wings with all his might. He managed to stay in the air above her head longer. Content with his capability to stay up in the air, he tried lowering one wing and raising the other. Mucai crashed spectacularly to the ground again.

"Please don't hurt yourself Mucai, we can walk. It's no problem, honest!" She collapsed the dreaded bike and placed it in her pack. Kanade looked worried and began to panic, had she made such a mistake that her beloved Tropius would hurt itself just because she liked the idea of riding a dumb bike?

Tropius cried out and puffed his chest forward proudly. He was determined to learn to fly.

He wasn't injured in the slightest. Before she could say another word he tried again. Running forward a good length, he bounded skyward. Wings outstretched, he soared off the ground and only flapped as he need to in order to gain a good altitude. This time he flew even above the tops of the trees. He struggled less once he realized at this height all he had to do was keep his wings outstretched to glide smoothly across the sky.

A slight breeze buffeted him and he tumbled a little. "Please be careful, Mucai! Don't fall!" Kanade worried, he was so very high after all. How much damage could that do to him if he fell out of the air again?

The Tropius corrected the angle of his wings instinctively, and he glided across the sky. He was soaring! Mucai cried out in joy as he realized he was doing well so far. He tilted his wing very slightly and carefully noted how it arched the curve of his flight. So that's how you turn! Slowly but surely and gaining confidence, he performed a series of turns, loops and spins in the air becoming more complex each time. He looked down to see his trainer looking nervously onward. Was she really so worried? He was a Flying-type, at least partially. He was meant to be up here!

The Tropius suddenly got an idea how to convince her of his growing mastery of the Flying skill. He dove down fast, tucking all four of the frond-like wings to his back and plummeted towards the ground. Once he got to the height of the smallest trees, the ones some pokemon knew how to cut down, he spread his wings and glided in a gentle curve smoothly to rest in front of her.

He gently placed his mouth on the loop of her backpack from behind and before she could yelp or protest he set her on his sturdy back. With a mighty leap he took to the skies once again and flew down the way she had been facing, making sure to keep his flight level.

At first she clung to his neck trembling and looking at the ground so very far below them, then relaxed and even stretched her arms out to the sides, it felt like flying herself. She trusted her Tropius wouldn't ever drop her. A strong wind made her regain her grip,just in case. They flew as fast as he could above route five towards Saffron City.