Our Young Trainer is settling in!
Coming to the Aldera district within Musutafu was something else. Places pulling at the edge of my mind as familiar, it made me think back to the stories the elders told in Alola. Of how they ran around and the games they played. How it was fun watching the children of the town doing the same. It felt so strange, like bones shifting from steel to something… fragile.
Walking down the sidewalks the stores had bright advertisements and the moving of the city was mostly quiet and void of life. Even with people on the streets it seemed so, dull. No birds chirping, no friendly calls. It made my heart ache for home. So I kept walking, walking, and walking. Missing the forests and plains of Kanto where I had run and danced between the trees. Watching brightly dressed people be flocked to in the streets. As I passed one of the heroes a little old lady was struggling with a box of things. Trying to get the box from her car to the store front and rather rush to the hero like the others I came to the woman.
"May I help you miss?" I ask her gently.
"Oh you don't have to deary I can handle it," The elder gently dismissed.
"But I want to," And with that I reached and gently took her load. Watching as she relaxed as the cumbersome load was no longer hers to bear. "Where would you like me to put this?" I question her politely.
"Thank you so much, right inside on the counter please." The lady quickly hobbled to the door opening it and I followed at her pace. Once in a small store setting the box on the counter as she asked.
"Is there anything else you need help with Miss."
"Oh no, you have already helped so much,"
"It really isn't a problem." Watching the elder as she hobbled back around the counter. Letting out a little magic and aura to get a feel for the room. It seemed so ordinary and void of life.
"I am fine now, thank you so much," I nod my head at the dismissal and turn to leave. Only at the door there was a man. Yellow hair and blue eyes, he was tall but hunched over almost seemingly in half. He looked like a skeleton, the bit of aura that I still was letting loose was contradictory in what it was telling me. Dying yet healthy. Wrong yet right, a heart pure and a spirit that of a champion unclaimed, yet in some ways defeated. There was power in his frame yet he felt tired and worn. The look in his eye strange as he looked me over. I took a step to the side.
"Sorry, please excuse me." I bowed a little and moved to step around him. Stepping outside to find a crowd, standing still as they watched someone made of slime run down the sidewalk across the street. Cash flying off of the villain as he ran away laughing.
"What a shame," Someone spoke softly.
"A quirk like that and they become a villain," someone else tutted. To them it was so normal already moving on with their day.
"Don't worry," a booming voice came from behind me, quickly I turned around and it was that man from before, but now he didn't look so skinny, no longer hunching forward. Standing tall with a wide smile, it would be almost comforting if I didn't feel the sickness hugging his form so tight. It was the same man as before. The people around us gushing over the man as he jumped over us and dashed on.
"Wow, that was All Might."
"I didn't even notice him!"
"He must have some great disguise!"
"All Might will handle it." all these people gushing over the hero who just before looked half dead.
'Izuku, are you alright?' Rotom asked quietly in my ear.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine," Shaking my head, I must be so weird just standing around unaffected by everything going on. "You send those files we made this morning?" I ask Rotom as I turned to start towards where the slime guy came from. Finding a shop with broken windows and the worker on the phone. He was anxious and rambling. People just walking around the guy.
"Hey," The worker froze in his tracks.
"Oh, I-I'm so-sorry but," He was stuttering over his words, a middle aged guy with balding hair.
"I get it, you got a broom? I'll help clean up a bit, get the glass up before someone gets hurt," Falling into the role that the Kahunas would do. The man stuttered and fumbled but soon I got a broom handed to me. He started to calm down a bit a team of officers coming and talking to the worker who after talking with the police had calmed down a good bit more. Soon the glass walls were replaced with plastic and the glass picked up.
"Thank you so much for the help," The worker's hands were still shaking, but he was far calmer and relaxed than before.
"Wasn't a problem, have a better day," I waved before stepping away.
"Wait, you don't want anything?" The worker asked shocked as I continued on.
"Nope, stay out of trouble now," Waving over my shoulder walking into the crowd to vanish from the man's sight and continue on.
'You could have asked for something,' Rotom chirped in my ear, filling the silence once more.
"I could have yes, but he was already having a bad day and no one else was helping the man." Shoving my hands into my pockets.
'You are a strange human,' Rotom hums his uncertainty.
"Am not," huffing in indignation. "I forget you weren't with me in Alola." I hum walking on.
"Kanto isn't so different, neither is Sinnoh," Rotom countered earning a small shake of the head. Looking to the streets filled with cars.
"Sure, just like home." I huff sarcastically. Walking on once more. Away from the city. Coming to a beach that was covered in mountains of trash.
"What a dump," The trash piles mostly over the seawall.
'Well, I think we found a Muk spawning ground.' Rotom offered dryly.
"That's putting it lightly," Looking the piles over though stopping short at seeing a car on the top of one of the piles. "Now that isn't right…. Sabrina isn't here right?"
"Guardian, might I remind you, quirks," Rotom sounded so amused with the situation.
"Hey, that is a perfectly logical fear," I shutter remembering my attempt on Sabrina's gym, getting my mind invaded to only be thrown halfway across Kanto while putting my mind back together had not been a fun experience.
A hum filled the air with power. The transformers blowing down a line, electricity arching down to the ground along the lines before traveling further down. Taking the power with it.
"Rotom," I snapped, reaching into my back pocket for my ballcap.
'Already on it, tracing emergency calls, there is something about a mile to the northeast.' Rotom answered my silent question and turning in the stated direction I raced away from the beach. Making sure to give the power lines a wide birth.
Coming to the point of origin I stopped at the edge of the forming crowd as more electric explosions hummed and powered through the air. The crowd was large and whispers abounded. Moving off to one of the sidewalks, I was able to half climb the flagpole to look and see what was going on. Down the block was an outlet mall that wrapped around like a U, and within a green muk of a mess, and within the slime was a boy. Every so often electric plasma arced off the slime and into the air, eventually making contact with some form of metal and with time dissipating but not before making a dangerous zone where no one could enter. At least, no human could enter.
"Rotom, get me Shinx and Beldum," Already thinking of a plan. Already it was clear that the muk was conductive. Watching it as I waited for Rotom to transfer the requested pokemon to my belt I waited just a little longer. It was as the boy thrashed again and upped the voltage I saw it. The Muk's mass spiked up, the electricity too much. "Bingo," I whisper, and just seconds later, my belt was slightly heavier with the two new pokeballs on my belt. Dropping down from the pole, I quickly retreated back from the crowd and around the corner. Reaching down I pressed the release button on the balls and the electric cat and the iron ball pokemon stood before me.
"Alright you two," The cat was already hissing, "Trust me, I get it, Lux," Bending down and gently running my fingers through his head tuff. "We'll get to training soon. Promise, but right now I need you two to ground that slime and help get the kid free. Can you do that?" The two looked between themselves before Beldum bobbed up and down. Lux huffed but sparked up. The two dashing off. I smiled softly as I watched my two monsters dash off to help.