Introduction:

Hey everyone so chapter 6 might take a little longer to come out because I will be busy but it should not be too long. View count update we are up to 189 and counting. Thank you guys for the continued support. I really appreciate it. And without further ado here is Chapter 5 of A Trainer Named Lucas!

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Guide:

Bolded Italics: Speaking to Audience or Out of Time

Regular Italics: Thoughts

COF: Character(s) of Focus

Chapter 5: A Less Than Cheerful Reunion

COF: Lucas Diamond

10 am (Wednesday Morning)

Lucas got his things and made his way out of Oreburgh City. After his gym battle, he checked out the Oreburgh City Mining Museum. Since he was going to every place in Sinnoh he figured he might as well take everything in and enjoy his time away from home. But he knew he couldn't stay forever and the next morning he was back on the road.

He figured the best course of action was to go to Eterna City for his next gym badge. According to the map, the best way to get there is to go back to Jubilife City and go north and eventually through Floaroma Town. With this route, he should reach Eterna City by the next day. However, that means he had to go through the infamous Eterna Forest. While the forest was beautiful and full of pokemon it was very easy for trainers to get lost. It was comparable to Kanto's Viridian Forest. While on his way back to Jubilife he explored the rest of Oreburgh Gate that he couldn't before. Down there he found the move Flash that he knew he could use to light up caves. Finally, he arrived in Jubilife City and was shocked to see Professor Rowan, Dawn, and three mysterious guys. Intrigued he went on over to them.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Lucas asked, approaching them.

"Lucas, thank Arceus you're here these Team Galactic grunts are harassing me and Dawn," Rowan told him.

As soon as Lucas heard the words Team and Galactic he was ready to battle all three of these degenerates.

"You guys better back off we have nothing for you," Dawn told the grunts.

"Don't be so tense kid, we just want all of your father's research, this has nothing to do with you, so I suggest you step aside," One of the grunts told Dawn, stepping closer to Rowan.

"Hey, she said back off didn't she," Lucas said as he stepped in front of the professor with a glare on his face.

"Oh lookie here we got ourselves some brave kids well do the math kids there are three of us and two of you," Another grunt said while laughing.

"NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT," Barry said as he ran on over.

"You always have an entrance don't ya," Lucas said with a smirk.

"Isn't that always how he is," Dawn said as she pulled out a Pokeball.

"It looks like these kids wanna battle, let's beat them and steal their pokemon," One of the grunts told the others.

"It's gonna look pretty bad when these "kids" destroy you," Barry said with a glare.

Tri-Battle: Lucas Diamond, Dawn Rowan, Barry Platinum vs Team Galactic Grunts

The grunts threw out a Zubat, Geodude, and Shinx.

"Yeesh you guys are already done, Prinplup, come on out," Barry said as he released Prinplup out.

"Save some for the rest of us, Barry, Monferno back him up," Lucas said with a grin as Monferno ran up next to Prinplup.

"About time we had one of these, Grotle go have some fun," Dawn said as she released Grotle from its ball.

"Such valuable pokemon Geodude, Rock Throw on Monferno," One of the grunts said.

"Shinx back em up and Thundershock that Prinplup," The second grunt said.

"Zubat, Wing Attack on that Grotle," The third grunt said.

The grunts laughed as their pokemon closed in on their respective targets.

"Monferno, Mach Punch that Geodude," Lucas ordered.

"Prinplup, use Metal Claw on Zubat," Barry commanded.

"Grotle, use Razor Leaf on Shinx," Dawn yelled.

Just like that all three of the grunt's pokemon were stopped short but the evolved starter pokemon and with one attack each the battle was over.

"HA you guys suck," Barry laughed.

"Holy shit," One of the grunts said.

"What the..," Another grunt said.

"How did they…," The last grunt said.

"Hopefully you have learned your lesson," Rowan told the grunts.

"You'll pay for this just wait," One of the grunts said while running off with a second one.

"Oh what you want some more," Dawn told the last remaining grunt.

"How the hell did you beat us," The third grunt said with an angry look.

"Because they treat their pokemon with love and respect and don't steal maybe you can learn from them," Rowan told the grunt.

'SHUT UP OLD MAN," The grunt said pushing Rowan to the ground.

"DAD!" Dawn said, running over to him.

"YOU'LL NEVER BE BETTER THAN US," The grunt said, pushing Dawn as well.

"When we have our way you're pokemon will be our tools and you'll be working for us," The grunt said while laughing.

Dawn had a look of disgust and then a grin.

"What's so funny," The grunt looked confused and turned around to see Lucas and Barry behind him with looks of rage on their faces.

Lucas and Barry beat the living crap out of the grunt with a mix of punches and kicks and didn't stop until Dawn and the professor called the boys off which alone wasn't until ten minutes. While all three of them looked out for each other, no one put their hands on Dawn let alone the professor.

"Man this fucker is heavier than he looks," Barry said as he tossed the grunt on the grass.

"Yeah, lay off the rage candy bars man...if he can hear us," Lucas said, pushing him to the corner with his foot.

"Is he dead," Dawn asked the two.

"Nah…..see he's breathing," Barry said pointing to the grass blades moving because of the grunt's breath.

As Lucas looked at the unconscious grunt he heard someone yelling and turned to see Looker running over holding what seemed to be a gun in his hand.

'YOU GUYS OKAY!" Looker shouted as he ran over.

"Who are you?" Barry asked.

"Agent Looker of the International Police, I heard yelling and ran over, Lucas is everything alright?" Looker asked.

"You two know each other?" Rowan asked.

"Yeah we met a couple of days ago he's investigating Team Galactic, don't worry everything is fine just had a few...problems with some grunts," Lucas said.

"Good, sorry I was talking to people in the city. I need to find out where their base of operations is at," Looker said.

"We saw them running that way if that helps," Lucas said pointing in the direction.

"Greatly, thanks, Lucas, sorry but I have to run, you have my number if you need me," Looker said running in the direction.

"So we're not going to be arrested for beating him up," Barry shouted.

"I'll let this one slide, plus you guys "defended" yourselves," Looker yelled with a chuckle.

Dawn walked up to Lucas and Barry and hugged them. Lucas and Barry arrived just in time, if they were any later Dawn feared Professor Rowan and herself would have been seriously hurt.

"Not exactly a happy reunion but it's good to see you guys," Dawn said smiling.

"Same to you, are you okay?" Lucas asked.

"Yeah, thanks boys I appreciate it," Dawn said, hugging Lucas and Barry again.

"Yeah, I was just in the area so for you it's a lucky sighting of the future best trainer ever," Barry said laughing.

Lucas, Barry, and Dawn talked for a while, making up for the lost time. Lucas showed Dawn his first badge and Barry went on about his amazing team. The three laughed and talked like they still saw each other every day. After an hour Dawn and Rowan walked them to the end of the city where they had to part ways for now.

"Lucas and Barry thank you," Rowan said with a smile.

"Don't mention it, professor," Lucas said.

"Yeah those guys had it coming," Barry said with a grin.

"They were after our research, they're planning something big," Dawn added.

"Well whatever it is, that Looker man seemed to be investigating, hopefully, the whole Sinnoh International Police will get involved and these hooligans will pay for their actions," Rowan told the three.

"About time they did," Lucas said quietly.

Yeah, they need to pay for something else too...

And from there Dawn and Professor Rowan said their goodbyes and left Jubilife City. Not even seconds after they left Barry forced Lucas to pull out his first badge. Lucas showed Barry with a confident smirk on his face.

"So it feels awesome to have a badge right," Barry said with a grin.

"Yeah feels good now I am going to Eterna City," Lucas said.

"Really?! Same here, race ya," Barry said with a grin.

"Fine but don't be sad when I win," Lucas said.

"YEAH YEAH IF YOU'RE LATE AGAIN I'LL FINE YA," Barry said, shouting already running.

Lucas was not going to race; he just said that to have some alone time to think. Beating those grunts gave him this great feeling. For years he had to just sit and watch as Team Galactic did what they wanted but now he had the power to change things.

And with that Lucas was on his way to the Eterna Forest. While on the route he did some more training with Bidoof and Shinx. Eventually, Shinx evolved into Luxio and Bidoof evolved into Bibarel. Lucas was impressed with the change in the size of Bibarel but with this training, he was looking forward to using Bibarel more often. Luxio learned some more electric moves and Bibarel learned a water move and Rollout.

Eventually, Lucas made it to Floaroma Town. He noted just how showered in flowers it was. He noticed more Team Galactic grunts blocking a pathway. When confronted the grunts stubbornly did not let Lucas through. Lucas eventually left but he was coming back. He obtained a watering can courtesy of the locals and stopped by the Pokemart and Health center and made his way onto route 205. While walking he noticed more grunts blocking the pathway he needed to go through. Something was off and to confirm this he saw a little girl crying in the middle of the pathway.

"Hey sweetie, what's wrong," Lucas asked, kneeling to her.

"My...my d-daddy," The girl said crying.

"What about him?" Lucas asked.

"S-some bad people are being mean to him, they are keeping him trapped in the Windworks," The girl said, still crying.

"Where?" Lucas asked.

The little girl pointed to the Wind Works just up ahead. Lucas calmed the girl down and gave her his scarf to comfort her.

"Don't worry I'll get your daddy back," Lucas said smiling at the girl.

"Thank you so much," The girl said while hugging Lucas no longer crying.

Lucas got up and walked towards the Wind Works with a smile on his face for the girl but deep down filled with determination. He wasn't leaving the Valley Windworks without that poor innocent man.

Outro:

And there we go Chapter 5 is down. I liked this one despite it being a little shorter. Like always feel free to leave a review telling me what you liked or disliked about the story. Feel free to pm with any questions or something private or if you wanna tell me that my writing skills are the equivalent of that of a wet oreo cookie then hey hmu. Again thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next chapter.

-Shocker

Question of the Chapter: Did you ever complete a Pokedex in any pokemon game? This includes the National Dex, no cheating obviously, and including event pokemon.

For me, I have never completed one the closest I got was in Soulsilver I captured 397 pokemon.