Beyond the walls of the academy, lies a great forest that is filled with numerous Pokemon that hail from many different regions across the world.
Gary had them construct the academy around his these woods as he wanted to give the students a sense of wonder and amazement if they ever wanted to catch a new Pokemon that they had never seen before.
But right now. that isn't what the woods are being used for.
Soon numerous fresh-faced students alongside their partner Pokemon were racing through the woods as if they were looking for something or someone.
These were in fact the new students that were enrolled in the academy's Ranger Course. The Professor had wanted to test their ability to survive in the forest so she gave them a challenge.
Go to the woods and find a Pokemon that needed your help and try to get them to trust you. Proof of this happening would be recorded on your capture styler.
And so, that is exactly what the diligent students of the Ranger Course were trying to do as they explored the forest in search of any Pokemon that needed their help.
And this included one Hikaru Itatsu who was currently trying to find a Pokemon to help with his trusty Staryu by his side. But so far there luck had been few and far between with most of the Pokemon they saw being able to help themselves whenever they got in a pinch.
"Great at this rate, I might never pass this opening assignment." Hikaru muttered as his Staryu looked questioningly up at their trainer.
Hikaru soon petted his Staryu as he told them not to worry.
Suddenly as if they moved like lighting, Hikaru sensed a Pokemon that moved past him with amazing speed.
Moving to check it out, both Hikaru and Staryu ran to check out the Pokemon that had moved so amazingly near them.
They soon came to a clearing in the forest where Hikaru saw a abundance of Pokemon soon living together in harmony and peace.
It was quite peaceful, Hikaru could clearly see the habitat that the Pokemon had made while living here next to the academy. No human interaction, no pollution, no toxic debris nearby.
It was simply perfect.
That was until he heard a slight growling to the right of him. Looking to the right he saw the Pokemon that had sped past him: Pyroar growling at a Mightyena that had invaded her space.
He saw a pile of berries that had spilled over next to a litany of Litleo cubs and he could deduce what had happened. Still he decided not to intervene because it seems like it was a normal interaction between Pokemon in the forest.
Pyroar soon pushed Mightyena away wanting to keep him away from her cubs. Mightyena didn't like this and tried responded with a Bite attack causing him to get into a tussle with Pyroar. The two large canine Pokemon tussled for a bit until Pyroar accidentally let out a Flamethrower attack.
Hikaru looked worried as he saw the wild Fire-type move hit the three the was in the center of the clearing and began scaring off the other Pokemon.
Hikaru knew he needed to act fast or else the entire clearing might be burnt down as he turned to Staryu. "Alright Staryu, use Water Gun to put out the flames!" Hikaru said.
The Star Shape Pokemon understood as it let out a jet of water that soon doused the flames on the tree but it was far from over. One of the Litleo cubs had been burnt unexpectedly by the wild Fire-type move and Pyroar didn't know what to do.
Hikaru and Staryu went over to Pyroar and said. "Hey I can heal Litleo, but you are going to have to trust me." Hikaru said to the large Pokemon. Pyroar looked incredible skeptical to him but realized she had no other choice and soon let him near Litleo.
Hikaru bent down and saw the burn on Litleo's fur and soon brought out a burn heal that he had on him and soon sprayed it on his fur. The potion soon made it sting causing Litleo to close his eyes in pain but soon he relaxed as his burn wound was completely healed.
Hikaru soon turned around to see Pyroar's amazed expression as she went over to Hikaru and licked him. As for thanks for healing one of her cubs. Soon Hikaru soon saw that Staryu had managed to down the remaining flames as all the footage was recorded by his capture styler.
Soon after they helped out remaining Pokemon. Hikaru soon returned to in front of the academy's gates as that is where his class was supposed to meet up when there little assignment was about over.
Hikaru soon saw several other students of the class talking about which Pokemon they helped as the soon excitedly talked about it.
However soon a loud gong sound reverberated throughout the entire class as a blue-haired women soon took her position in front of the entire class. This was Professor Solana, the freshman professor of the class as she began addressing the class.
"Congratulations on a job well done class! I hope this simple assignment is a indication of what we are going to do while we are in class together as learning to interact and bond with Pokemon in the wild is a crucial part of being a Pokemon Ranger."
Solana soon said that starting tomorrow they would be paired up with another student as they would began to learn how to work with each other as rangers. However as she was giving out this information, Hikaru soon saw Solana and blushed a bit not expecting her to be the professor of this course.
Soon he took his paper and walked out of the classroom a bit frazzled by what happened in the course but at the same time excited as well.
He wanted to go somewhere he could clear his head for a few minutes and then he remembered the common area where students went unwind after class.
So with a heavy heart that is where he went as his class ended for the day.
