Pokemon Yang

Chapter 3

First Contact

Author: Epidemic Bear

OC: Sergio-077

EDIT: October 17, 2014: Grammar and errors revised.

Good Morning/Evening/Night Ladies and Gents as stated, I am Epidemic Bear and I shall be your writer for the day/night now lets get this show on the road.

'Man, I love this weather,' Sergio thought to himself while walking down a dirt road that led to his destination. The towering 6' 4" teenager looked around scanning the crossroad with his dark brown eyes. Looking around, he searched for the correct path that would lead to the Anvil Town Lab. He quickly found the correct path and was off.

His clothing consisted of almost an all woodland camo pattern which he liked since he considered the forest his home more so than his 'actual' home. He immediately sighed at thinking of his 'home.' 'Stupid foster parents,' he thought bitterly. 'Always thinking throwing money at a problem will fix it.' Out of frustration, he kicked a tree that was in the way, leaving it with a noticeable mark on the trunk. 'Heh. Only thing their damn money was useful for.' He kept on walking down the road until he reached a sign that read, 'Road construction ahead.'

Inwardly, he smiled. 'Guess I'll take a detour,' he thought. He proceeded to jog towards the forest. Once inside the forest, he began to go to a full on sprint, with his long black hair sticking out from the back of his beanie, flowing in the wind behind him. At first, he had a clear path in the direction he needed to go, but, little by little, more and more obstacles interrupted his path. 'Just how I like it.' Sergio first saw a log in his way and simply hurdled it. 'Too easy.' Next came a low lying branch. He slid underneath it and jumped back up. 'Really need to train some more on that one. I could've gotten up faster.'

After a while, he finally reached his destination. 'Well, hopefully I'm on time.' Sergio quickly fixed himself up, rubbing off the bit of the sweat he worked up, and rearranged his clothes a bit. Afterwards, he went up to the lab, and looked at himself in the window. A tan teenager with a serious expression and hair slicked back under a woodland camo beanie looked back at him.

He quickly adjusted his vest, also camo, and walked right in.

"Ahh, an early one huh?" Sergio quickly turned and saw a man and a woman, both in lab coats. The woman, who caught his attention the most, had pale skin, piercing, mint green eyes, with her hair dyed lilac, and looked a bit gothic. The man, on the other hand, had curly silver hair, was around the same height as him and had fake smile on.

'I wonder why?' he quickly dispensed the thought and went straight to business "...Here for a starter…" Quick and blunt, just how he liked it.

"I am Professor Willow, the Pokemon Professor of this region" The now named Professor said, while holding out his arms like he should be praised.

'Cocky much?' He thought sarcastically though he didn't voice it out or made a motion of his thoughts.

"Now, we have every starter from every region… Except Treecko, which you can thank that lovely lass for." He said while motioning to the only female in the lab. "Moving on, you'll find a wide selection of starters on this table." In his mind Sergio was going through all the possible starters he could chose from. His thoughts were broken up when he heard the rumble then a 'Clunk' sound with a flash of red light. Turning his attention to the commotion, he saw 16 pokeballs on the table but one of them was wide open and had a small blue and red baby crocodile standing next to it.

Sergio's full attention was now invested into the small reptile that looked around until it stopped and stared at the professor with an irritated look, snarling at him while holding his little fist up towards the man. Sergio, still looking at the crocodile, was in deep thought.

'Hmm isn't that a totodile? Gotta say, I love the little guys guts, but that also brings up the question; Why is he mad at Professor Willow?' He thought about it for a bit but dismissed it as simply hating being inside the ball. 'Well then, I think I found my starter.' "Him," He stated quickly.

Apparently both people present forgot there was another person in the room since they both stared at him in surprise. Getting the feeling that they didn't know what he was talking about he quickly added in, "I want him," He pointed at Totodile, "as my starter."

The Professor simply nodded, apparently just wanting to get rid of the Water type. "Yes, yes, Good," he said. "All I need is your name." He took out a pen and looking at his clipboard.

"...Sergio-077." Already he could feel the questioning stares that were directed towards him for the name. Ever since his parents death he couldn't go through the memories and flashbacks of their death everytime he heard his last name, so he dropped it. The problem was that the region required him to provide a last name. But he disliked the idea because considered using another last name as an insult to his late parents. So he went instead with his and his fathers lucky number '077', thinking that a simple number would be better, and soon after, saying his real last name became a taboo of some sort and it helped that no one knew it since it was forgot over time.

"Alright, gotcha." Sergio looked up to see the professor making his way towards him with Totodile's Pokeball in hand. He proceeded to hand Sergio the ball. "Great," he said. "Now both of you, shoo. Wait outside. I can't stand crowding."

Sergio raised an eyebrow at the professor's attitude. 'Always thought a Regional Professor was supposed to be a people person.' Moving on, he followed the woman outside, when she turned around she gave him a bright smile 'Please tell me shes not going to pull the 'Meet and greet' or 'small talk' on me,' he thought to himself.

"Your Totodile seems happy," She said to him.

'Damn it!' He hated it when people tried to make him talk or open up. Back in the first few days after his parents death, he was very open about it, but little by little, he noticed that people didn't care about him, and he was finally convinced when someone very close to him betrayed his trust, which made him alienate everybody and set up defences around himself. Right now he was figuring out how to deflect the attempt.

"Sure." He saw that she seemed frustrated which usually meant that she would either give up or attempted to talk again from another angle. He hoped for the latter.

It was silent for a couple of seconds until a scream was heard. 'That sounded like a woman's scream. And one in trouble!' He immediately bolted in the direction the scream originated from, forgetting about everything else, with one goal in mind; Preventing the woman from getting hurt. He made way towards an alley, immediately running up a pair of stacked up crates to get over a fence, jumping down he rolled up onto his feet and continued, not losing his momentum. He continued hurdling over obstacles until he reached the front lawn of a home. There was a man dressed in all black holding a gun threateningly to a woman, who was holding up her purse, on the verge of tears.

'Never again' He thought to himself walking up to the man. He stopped and tapped the muggers shoulder, who turned around, throwing up his right fist, aiming at Sergio's face. Sergio ducked under the poorly thrown punch while lifting up his right hand, wrapping it around the man's neck, and proceeded to stand at full height to the man's side, lifting up his right leg and slamming his foot full force to the back of the man's knee earning him a crack from the man's leg bone and a muffled scream for his mouth. He then slammed the man down to the ground, likely giving him a concussion, and lifted the man up with his hand, which was still wrapped around the mugger's neck, and hit him with an open palm strike to the face, effectively rendering him unconscious.

Sergio stood up after the devastating takedown and looked at the lady, she was still looked afraid but was also in a bit of shock after seeing her attacker be brought down. 'Hopefully she will be okay.' At that moment he saw the woman from the lab, who looked at the man, the petrified woman, then himself.

"T-Thank you..." Sergio looked at the woman who he saved, nodded, and grunted to acknowledge her appreciation. After, he tuned out everything around him and went in deep thought about everything that has just happened. 'Who was that guy? From what I've heard this is a really peaceful town and what is up with the whole all black costume? He looked around seeing multiple people looking around and the woman from the lab asking questions to the still shaken up woman. 'We better get out of here before the cops stop us for a misunderstanding. Well, that and the other trainers that are going to be there, need to see the competition'

"We need to meet the others," he said to the girl from the lab. "It'll be confusing otherwise." She responded with a nod.

They proceeded to walking back to the lab, which seemed longer than he thought. 'It seemed so much closer when I was running.' After many twists and turns they made it back to the lab. 'Finally,' he thought.

"I hope we didn't miss anyone," She said. He hoped they didn't either although he also hoped they wouldn't try and talked to him. "Hey did you put your Totodile back into his pokeball" Sergio immediately froze up. 'Shit, I forgot about him when going to help that woman' He shook his head. "We need to find him! You go left, I'll go right!" She screamed at him while already running towards her assigned area. 'Well, better get searching,' He thought to himself. He started to look around for a high vantage point. 'Only bad thing about this town. No high vantage points.' He looking around for anything that would be high enough to use as a viewpoint. 'Hmm that apartment building over there could probably do the trick.' The building in question was a four story building that stood next to a few two story houses. Sergio, already with a set destination, ran towards the first house in front of him. He quickly scaled the house and started sprinting towards the next one. He jumped over the gaps in between the houses until he reached the apartment building, when he reached the building he quickly adjusted himself to aim for the fire escape ladder he quickly scaled the ladder until he reached the rooftop. 'Good,' he thought. 'Now I can find him faster.' He reached into his bag, taking out a pair of binoculars, and started looking around. 'Hmm... He couldn't have gone far.' He kept searching and came up with nothing. 'Damn it! You would think in a town this small it would be easier to find a blue and red crocodile. Aaahhh. Going to have to do this the hard way.' He quickly put away his binoculars in his bag and slid down the ladder of the fire escape. 'Hope that woman from the lab is having better luck.'

A little over half an hour later, Sergio was standing outside of the lab, waiting for the woman to return with news of his missing Todoile.

"We found him!" He heard a familiar voice announce. Relived to see the woman with his Totodile by her feet but also had a new comer with her. The new comer was almost half a foot shorter than Sergio had brown eyes like him but lighter and dark brown hair. "Sergio, this is Nate. Nate, this is Sergio," She added in the quick introduction.

'Arceus,' he thought, 'I beg of you, no small talk.' He saw the woman motion to Nate to go into the lab which he followed. 'Yes, you don't hate me after all.'

He then saw Totodile waddle up towards him and looking at him. Sergio kneeled down at his level. "Hey there little guy," he said. "Look I'm sorry for leaving you behind. I'll try not to do it again, ok?" Totodile stared at him for a while before he jumped up towards him and hugged him. At first not knowing what to do he simply rubbed his head. 'Well then, this is new. Haven't done this since...' Sergio pause for a second and had an expression of pain. 'Never mind.' He thought bitterly. Totodile released him from the hug and looked at him confused. "Hm? Oh, don't worry about it little guy. Now, do you want to be inside or outside your pokeball?" He asked Totodile while showing him his Pokeball. Totodile stared at his ball for a second before jumping on to his arm and scaling it up till he reached the top of his head, Sergio chuckled a bit at his action. "I'll take that as staying outside." He stood up and leaned up against the wall waiting for the others to come out to scout them out.

As he waited he saw the one called Nate come out with his starter a Chichar apparently and the woman, Nate acknowledge Sergio with a nod. While Sergio gave him a two finger salute. The woman walked up to Sergio and handed him a red device.

'Right I forgot my Pokedex in the commotion, really got to pay more attention' Sergio thought

Nate walked up to a spot opposite to where he stood, also waiting for the rest of the trainers, while the woman walked towards the entrance and stood by the door.

They stood there for a while, until a slam was heard from the door and a teenager with a Snivy came out looking frustrated. Observing the frustrated teen he was the shorter of the males (Sergio stood a head above him), had dark blond hair, pale-ish skin a bit on the tan side, and, oddly enough, gold eyes.

'Huh,' he thought. 'You don't see that everyday. First green, now gold, what next? Red?' Shaking off the thought, he paid attention to what the boy said.

"That guy was completely infuriating, not to mention to mention completely incompetent. How much did he bribe to become a Regional Professor?" The unknown teen said aimlessly

' I Have to agree, how much did he pay?' Sergio thought.

"I know he is, it's better to not think about him too much." This time it was the woman from the lab.

'I just realized I don't know her name,' Sergio thought.

"You're one of the new trainers, right? I'm Laurel. I started six months before you did. I'm here to explain and teach you all about the fundamentals. One more person needs to get here before we can start." The finally named Laurel said.

'Better late than never then,' Sergio thought.

"I hope we get along" Laurel told the new comer. The teen turn around to face her and noded.

"I'm Mathias," the boy introduced himself. "Professor Juniper's apprentice in Unova. And this," he gestured to the Grass type on his shoulder, "is Snivy, my starter. She's a little shy, so she probably won't socialize much at first. I mostly know what I'm doing from what Professor Juniper taught me, but a few extra pointers would be nice."

'Good thing he introduced himself,' Sergio thought. 'Now I don't have to 'Meet and greet'.'

"I'll gladly help you along." Laurel said "We're just waiting on one more person." Mathias nodded in agreement while letting Snivy down to ground level.

"So who are these two?" Mathias asked Laurel while gesturing towards Sergio and Nate.

'Please Arceus, let her do the talking,' Sergio begged mentally.

"I think they can introduce themselves." Laurel responded while looking at the two.

'Son of a fucking Bellsprout,' Sergio cursed inwardly.

"The names Nate…" Nathan obviously said "Plesure to meet you." Mathias went up to him, extending his hand for a handshake, which Nate returned. Sergio also saw the Pokemon's interaction, which consisted of a simple wave at each other but notice Chimchar huffing when Snivy wasn't looking. Now he saw Mathias looking at him as if silently asking for his name.

'Might as well get it over with.' "Names Sergio-077" He then pointed at the small Crocodile perched up on his head. "Totodile," He said. He could already feel the questioning eyes of Mathias and Nate were giving him, likely because of his name. However it was broken when he felt Totodile jump down from the top of his head and saw him waddle up to Snivy, who was hiding behind Mathias' leg. When he was in front of Snivy's hiding place, he raised his paw and said something in his native tongue. 'That has to be the most boldest move I have ever seen….for a starter pokemon.' Snivy surprisingly accepted the hand/pawshake. 'Huh, looks like Totodile made a new friend.' He looked around to see everyone smiling at the interaction, especially Mathias. 'This group seems like a good bunch, so far.' He looked back at Totodile and Snivy Shaking paws/hands. 'Maybe, just maybe, we can somewhat be friends.' He thought back to the last time he made a friend but received a pang of pain in the chest in return. 'Or maybe not. But who knows what the future holds?'

AN: Annndddd done, hopefully I did a good job, anyways please review this chapter since I consider myself the least experienced out of the bunch, so your suggestions are appreciated and taken to mind. Oh and don't forget to Review, Follow, Favorite, and recommend to your readers/friends/followers.

Epidemic Bear here signing out.