C1AMA: G1: A Beautiful World, For Beautiful Heroes

by lumpeistbark3

Just when they thought they were finally able to go home, something unexpected knocked 1A of course from returning to where they needed to be, now in an even stranger place than before but not as unrecognizable. Despite their hasty arrival in the strange realm they have been tasked with guarding three key individuals that hold the future of region or world itself in there hands.

6. Month 1: Week 1: Unveiling Secretes

Beginning note: Alright, pseudo disheartening news for people, for about a week I couldn't work on this story as I needed to buy a new charge for my PC and in general making chapters is somewhat harder than my last one, so we probably not going to be seeing any three chapter months for a while, there a chance that it could happen in December but I'm currently working on chapter 18 which with the pace would mean I would be only four chapter ahead if I do it(three chapter months for those that are new come in pairs as I don't like leaving off on odd numbers in a month) which is not enough breathing room for me.

Especially as I have a vacation coming up in January so the two chapters in January will be released back to back on the 1st as I will be away at the time to post it on the 15th

Tales from the Forest: 1A Remnant, Y, Viola, Alexa

3rd day: Now that the roles had been selected and the designations were given, this left a large hole for the remaining 12 students of 1A to fill. Their phones were mostly useless besides the games they had installed on them, which could only occupy their time for so long. They knew from the others that X had belonged somewhere in Vaniville town, and after having a couple of recon missions towards the place and even asking around some of the kids that had been asking around, they hadn't been able to find out what the boy looked like. They had a brief breakthrough when someone mentioned that there had been a boy called Xerxes who had won the Junior League championship, Five years ago but seemingly disappeared, leading some to think that he may have left the region entirely, although they very much doubt those claims given that the other two individuals, Ash and Elliot, have been found in the region and they had just arrived, so the third individual the legendary asked them to guard most likely would be as well.

The group spent most of this day mainly just lying around keeping themselves busy. Kaminari and Mineta had been trying to convince Yaomomo to create a machine to hijack an internet signal for them or have that line fail to attempt to ask if she could make a machine that generated an internet signal, although both roots failed as Yaomomo considers both things as stealing. Others busied themselves with fully building up their home in the forest to be a bit more comfortable; Koda had befriended all the Pokémon within their area by that point, and Ojiro had set his sights down away from the forest near the river as inspiration to continue to practice in his water stream rock smashing fist along with others accompanying him to help with his training, such as Shoji and Toru, at least for some time.

Iida had handed over the currency of the world to Yaomomo as he believed the group would need it more than he did as he continued his journey, so both Yaomomo and Todoroki had gone over to Aquacorde town to check out some of the local drinks and food. They quickly found that 2k poké wasn't much in the grand scheme of things. They couldn't afford to buy everything they required, so they elected just to save the money and wait for another day. Seeing that the two groups were separating from each other, Yaomomo created another drone to follow along with Bakugo's group to ensure they were safe as well. However, the explosive teen believed it wouldn't be necessary for him.

4th day: The group continued to attempt to busy themselves within the Santalune forest, Momo had crafted Uraraka four of her spirals so that the girl would have something to defend herself out there if the situation called for it, she knew that Tatsumaki had her carrying around six additional spirals of that weight by the time they had left but for her quirk and its capabilities that were the limit for her to produce at the moment once Tokoyami delivered them she received thanks from the girl and remarked that she probably didn't need the other 6 given that she had no place to put them and having them constantly hanging over her head would draw a lot of attention and cause some problems with that many around which the girl understood. They had been greeted by a person surprisingly that morning as well who went by the nickname or they assumed anyways of Y. She told them that she knew of their final and elusive target of X, which meant they didn't need to search anymore for the person as now they had a special person to relay any information that they needed to the individual.

The girl asked for more information, and they gave it to her before she had to leave in a hurry, leaving them all alone once more. Both Kaminari and Mineta's boredom overloading their hyperactive minds finally made their way into town where the two of them had gone and stirred a little incident with them putting on a "show" to gain some money. However, these were mostly scams like challenging people that if they had been able to shock Kaminari then he would give them their 2k poké, which he had no authority to give anyone. That was the least of their worries as the two had stirred up quite the commotion when people accused him of somehow cheating when he was hit by a thunderbolt by an Ampharos and still felt nothing or made a single sound. The arrival of Jiro quickly put the games away as she dragged Kaminari and Mineta away while giving back the money that they had scammed from people.

The others in the forest mainly did what they had from the previous day. Ojiro noted how things sounded different to him as he meditated by the river, although the others nearby remarked that they didn't hear much of a difference at all, which made him think that it may have just been in his head. Koda had helped some Pokémon avoid or, in some cases, help when it came to their interactions with trainers passing through the forest; thankfully, it never got to the point of aggression or outright fighting when it came to Pokémon running over to him from protection, as the kids just assumed that the Pokémon was his and apologized before continuing on their way. The tall boy hid his horn under a large nest of sorts of twigs and branches, which had been a prank by some pan-chimp trios that he made to his advantage. Other Pokémon that had wanted to go with a trainer had often asked many of the teens to take them seeing how nice they were; however, none of them were Pokémon trainers, but many of them had wanted to be, but the Pokémon in the forest weren't the ones that they would have chosen if they had been so they respectfully decline the advances.

Koda would help the Pokémon around, sometimes leading Pokémon directly to trainers or, in other cases, leading the trainer to them, which sometimes offered him a tip of like 800 poké. He was just glad to help and would have just given the money back, but given that they needed it, he simply accepted gracefully. As noon began, they were visited by Y once more, and there they had offered her a radio to communicate with them if something had happened. She wanted a picture of the mystical third legendary so that she could show X that she was telling the truth, along with pictures of a couple of them as well, at least the ones assigned to him, so that he could have an idea who they were, as she remarked that he wasn't good with strangers or many people at all. The radio also doubled as a tracker, so they knew where their target was located, although they still allowed them to keep their privacy and not approach the home unless it was needed.

5th day: The fifth day, which was halfway through the week, was when people's patience had begun to wear thin; they couldn't do much with their home in the forest anymore, and they had exhausted anything else they could do in the forest. Hence, some people wanted to explore more and more of their surroundings. The group even started to think up which Pokémon they wanted to capture for themselves and even made a game of it with a few stipulations, such as no one having three of the same type on a team and everyone choosing unique Pokémon from the others. The girls thought it would be cool if each of them had an eveelutions. However, this brought up the question of what Pokémon did exist, which got them all even more curious to start to explore even more.

Thankfully before they got too wild on where they could go and looking at the map that Yaomomo got the group had another unexpected visitor this was none other than Viola sister of Alexa who had been going to help them out, the women had used her Vivillon to find where they had been held up in the forest and offered greetings to all of them, she was there on behalf of her sister who had been working with the professor to get them some identification so that they could enter into Lumiose City, the women had brought them a couple of books that would help out on their test when they take it for the initiation and even invited them all to Santalune city which getting bored of the forest the others agreed to travel towards on their way, the women allowed them to go through her national Pokedex and see all the Pokémon that had been discovered so far mentioning some that haven't been on the pokedex which intrigued the women but the year was close to over so the next years model will probably have the few that they mentioned.

On their journey towards the city, Viola got a couple of pictures of the teens each of them using their powers which she was surprised at and capable of doing, the ones that most interested her, however, were the girl's powers could create essentially anything that she wanted, the girl was even able to make a Pokeball from just seeing the thing although it was only a temporary construct it was completely identical to her own which even allowed her to recall her Pokémon inside of the creation she called the ability conjure which was an "awakening" of her standard ability creation which allowed her to create anything that she knew the atomic structure of which made the women whistle at such a nifty ability although she internally wondered with such an ability why would they be living in the forest they could create their currency as much as they liked if they wanted to although that tipped her off to their good nature in refusing to abuse such a thing.

She was showing the large group around the town and her gym before two others had to break off and go and help out with Ash and her posse. She thought something had been wrong, but they explained to her that it wasn't anything serious, so they continued to travel and learn about the city and Kalos in general until noon came when Tokoyami returned with a good deal of money from the others. Tsu had stopped a few scam artists that had been stealing other people's Pokémon, while Bakugo had taken care of a beedrill hive nest that had been bothering a small city, earning them a good 50,000 poké, which they separated amongst themselves, with the new money they had Toru, Kaminari, Mineta, and Aoyama all wanted to go out and eat something that hadn't been berries, so Viola showed them to the nearest restaurant to eat something as the night came to a close.

Current Day: On this day the class still didn't have much to do, and given their vacancy, Viola was happy to put them to work for herself, offering some money for them to go out and take a couple of pictures for her while she was held up by her gym leader responsibilities, which the teens were eager to accept as it would break up their boring time doing practically nothing. The teens had also helped around Santalune City as much as they could, doing community service that Viola told them that they could do, such as searching for stray Pokémon or helping out in Pokémon and human shelters. The only exception to this outreach of working in either the neighboring cities or the forest was the squad that had been assigned to watch over X. They also had the task of taking care of the area they set up in the forest. This was mostly easy with Shoji awakening power Buddha, which allowed him to spawn multiple body appendages in the forest. It was no stretch to say that he had eyes and ears all around the forest or within 200 meters of where the tall teen was currently along with Koda's friendly nature with the Pokémon, no one could be able to get close to their camp without them knowing.

Ojiro and Tokoyami in response didn't have much to do their abilities weren't as good for scouting as their two compatriots were and the camp other than clearing off falling leaves or branches was mainly spotless leaving them to just do what Ojiro's been doing for most of his downtime practicing it was rare for him to train against Tokoyami the two fighting styles not being very compatible with one another, especially with shining light out which was more for range than the brawler dark shadow was but that wasn't to say that it wasn't helpful to practice against such things and as the two continued to practice with each other Ojiro still was bothered by that mysterious sound he kept hearing but he started to wonder if it was a bad thing as for a moment he allowed the sound to guide him and he was even able to dodge shining light while she was invisible.

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The Family Secret: Clemont, Bonnie, Ash, Midoriya, Uraraka, Tsu, Iida, Blaziken mask

As the morning dawned on the group, they had already been on the move, the teens having still decided to sleep outside to conserve the little money that they had already, but that didn't stop some of the kids that they were traveling with from attempting to support them in their struggles by bringing them additional food from the daycare center for each of them, although they didn't have an idea of what they would like, so they brought them each some of their favorite foods, most of which had been familiar to the teens in one way or another. After having finished eating, the group continued to set out in the direction of Lumiose City; there were no other stop gaps between them and the place, so it was a straight shot to arriving. The group of teens, while they couldn't accompany them directly through the checkpoint, could always just go over it if they needed them; however, there seemed to be no need as Alexa had managed to get them through without any need for the problem, posing them as some assistants that she was currently taking under her wing.

The group thanked Alexa for her assistance, and the women remarked that there was no problem; she was still working with Professor Sycamore on how to help them and had already sent her sister over the previous day to inform their other friends about what they had come to so far, and she was there to offer them the same information, giving them a handful of books to learn more about Kalos and its history in preparation for a citizenship test.

She also left with a message from the professor that they were allowed to go and stay with him in his labratory given that they had been strapped on cash for the moment which they also greatly appreciated as the collective group began to explore the large wide city, Serena remarked that since she was in a rush she didn't have much time to sit back and experience what the City truly had to offer but she had heard so many stories about the beauty of the city and how it was essentially the crown jewel of the region and center of all prime fashion, which was mirrored in how people were dressed as the group passed by several bystanders, Serena asked about what fashion was like where the teens had been from and for the most part she was barking up the wrong tree with that one, each of them mainly had their own tyle that they had stuck to when going out casually and weren't very concerned with what had been trending in the fashion space and remarked that she would probably get a better answer from their other friends Mina, Aoyama, or Yaoyorozu.

Bonnie was super interested in hearing about their friends and wondered if each of them had such cool powers as they had. Tsu had diligently gone out of her way to explain each of their powers to the little girl as the group continued to walk before spotting something in the far distance. This was Prism Tower, the long tower sticking out amongst the many smaller buildings that surrounded it. This brought up the similarity to the teens on a famous tower back home, which had been the Eiffel Tower. Uraraka even had a picture of it on her phone, which she showed them, remarking that she had always wanted to go there one day as she heard so many good things about it. Clemont noted plenty of similarities; however, the great difference he saw was that the tower didn't seem to be a building or have someplace to go inside more resembling art instead of an actual place, and that is exactly what the teens described it as: something more to experience; you can go inside and view the surroundings from so high up, but other than that, it was mainly to look impressive.

Ash remarked that in comparison, the Lumiose tower was where the gym leader of Lumiose City could be found, prompting Serena to ask if he had already challenged the gym leader. Ash told her that he had tried to when he first arrived, but since he didn't have four badges, the leader had just thrown him out. Serena remarked about the peculiar nature of such a thing, as she'd never heard of a gym leader needing some sort of prerequisite number of badges before being able to challenge, nor did the teens, for that matter, thinking out loud that it could be so that newcomers are experienced before taking on the gym.

Clemont remarked that since that was the way it was they should keep moving on and that there was a restaurant nearby that he could go and treat them to, which Bonnie also agreed with attempting to hurry them along down the road and away from the Tower. Uraraka noted the weird nervousness that they had all of a sudden, although she didn't want to pry and look into it if they didn't want to discuss it, as she also encouraged the group to start moving along. The brunette claimed that the city may have been this world France, so she would like to explore it more along with the rest of them.

There had almost seemed to be a sigh of relief on the brother and sister's faces when they had agreed on moving on and away from the gym. Although the two had completely jolted at a voice that had wrung off behind them shouting both of their names in greeting and familiarity, the group turned around and saw a large, burly man on a moped on his back was a Denryu or something that people had called Ampharos. The man had work overalls on and smudges of grease on top of it as he had seemed to just come off of work. Bonnie and Clemont both recognized the man as their father, which was a surprise to the others. The man got off the bike along with his Ampharos and walked over, greeting his two kids with a big hug and remarking that it had been some time since he had seen them around.

Clemont told him that he had been out adventuring before he gestured to the group of six in front of him. They officially introduced their father to the six Bonnie with her usual enthusiastic flair, while Clemont remained nervous and almost squeamish in his introduction. The man seemed to be brimming with confidence as he announced to the group that his name was Meyer and that he ran an electronic shop for the city. Along with Ampharos, the Pokémon gave a confirming chirp as well, waving its arms up and down. Bonnie then introduced the group as all being friends, which seemed to strike a chord with the man as he dramatically threw his body back and tears started to stream from his eyes with pure joy as he grabbed both of his kids in a bear hug once more before thanking the group for accompanying his children on their adventure so far.

The man quickly began to go down the list looking over the group. As he first went to Ash and his Pikachu on his shoulder, he rubbed along the small Pokémon's chin and complimented its two red electric cheek pouches, which the Pikachu nuzzled into the man's touch with a pleased shrill. He moved down the list and asked the name of the girl next to Ash whom she kindly offered her name was Serena, he moved on to the next person who was nearly as tall as him, and greatly shook his hand with a firm grip as he introduced himself as Tenya Iida, the next person he went to was another girl this was about as tall as his son the girl introduce herself with another firm shake and her name was Tsuysu Asui which she punctuated with an admittedly cute but somewhat weird sound which he couldn't place but he continued to the next person which was another girl this one gave a curt handshake and told him that her name was Ochacko Uraraka and the last person was another boy this one with mossy green hair which his name was Izuku Midoriya.

The boy had seemed a bit hesitant to shake his hands, but it wasn't like it was something out of fear but almost like he was suspicious of him for something, which was strange. He shook his hand, and he continued as he jabbed a teasing hand at Clemont and remarked on how there were a couple of girls in his party, which meant that he could have a girlfriend soon, although Clemont disproved this, and Serena remarked that both Tsu and Uraraka had been spoken for, and Serena even gesturing to the boy that Uraraka was going out with being right there as she pointed to Izuku, the man flushed with embarrassment, and apologized, although the teens didn't mind it much.

Continuing off with the teen it was Bonnie who let slip that the teens all had unique powers and abilities which garnered the man's attention she also informed the man that they were the ones who had come to help out during the garchomp incident a few days ago, this prompted Midoriya to remark that he was there as well on that day garnering some curious looks from all involved although all he could notice that the man had noticeably started to get a bit anxious himself as he rubbed the back of his head and remarked that once he saw what was happening next to prism tower he had gone investigate to make sure that his son was doing alright as the boy spent more time there than at home ever since he had become a gym leader which he wished he would visit more.

Midoriya would have liked to comment that it likely wasn't just from being in the crowd he wasn't that good with his danger sense yet to do such a thing as to remember every single person he passed by but this man was closer to him than that and he wasn't near Prism tower in the first place he could have been one of the people he helped but that messes up his alibi which told him that he was lying in the first place but why, he tried to deeply remember where he could have felt his aura from to the point where he could recognize it and thought back to the rooftop the Bursyamo from before and the hometown hero blaziken mask and that was where it clicked for him not only on the rooftop but also when he had gone to drop off Team Rocket members something had been attempting to follow him back to where he was going although he sped up to ensure that whatever it was it couldn't follow him and he was sure that during that same incident it was the same Bursyamo from the rooftop.

The man seemed to have been steadily watching him as he felt his danger sense slightly rise from his more nervous emotions like he was being cautious around him. As their eyes met once more, it instantly vanished, as Bonnie had also wanted to introduce her dedenne to him as she held it up within her arms, and it gave a happy chirp. Meyer remarked that he was glad that she was able to make a friend and that it seemed that she also favored electric types like the rest of the family. However, this brought a sudden seriousness to the man's face once more as he turned to look at Clemont.

"Listen clemont I thought I told you this before, but it seemed you ignored my advice and did the opposite, so I'll say it again... You indeed need to be tough on challengers, but that alone won't help them become better trainers. What you are doing at the Lumiose Gym is not right, Officer Jenny visited me just a couple of hours ago at my job and said that you need to reel it in. Trainers are reporting being injured and thrown out haphazardly from the tower after a loss; if it wasn't for a Snorlax nearby, someone could have been hurt out there. She told me if this doesn't get fixed soon, they may even consider revoking your gym leader status." Meyer remarked, earning a shocked gasp from all involved.

"What? It's gotten that bad?" Clemont asked for clarification.

"Yes, I'm afraid, so... I thought that whatever you had been going through you would have told me about eventually, but you never contacted me, so I assumed you wanted to handle what you were going through on your own. Just know that I'm here for you if you need anything. I know you are smarter than me, but that doesn't mean I can't shed some wisdom now and then. You need to be a gym leader that Lumiose Gym can be proud of; it's a heavy responsibility to bear but I'm sure you can do it if you need anything just ask I'll see you all again after you fix whatever's happening at the tower." Meyers remarked as he began to walk and get on his moped once more, followed quickly by his Ampharos. As the man put on his helm, he told the others that he hoped they would watch over his kids for him and that they should come visit his shop sometime in the future before driving off.

As the man Drove off both Clemont and Bonnie notably relaxed in their posture however it straightened right back up as Both Ash and Serena got into the boy's face and asked what that situation was about, Clemont fumbled for a moment hesitating to see if he could come up with a lie or not to explain the situation however Bonnie told him that they should just come clean so the boy obliged his sister with a heavy sigh, the group continued forwards not before Clemont offered to buy them some ice cream for lying to them all this way, although Tsu and Iida were quick to point out that he technically never lied to anyone the topic of what he did or his past never really came up in discussion so their was no reason to feel bad about it which cheered the scientist up somewhat although he still thinks its a lie by omission instead, the group made it to a wide park that was centered around a fountain others people sat around and played in the grass while Clemont went up to the fountain and sat down on it as he began to tell them who he really was.

He was planning on telling them of his status eventually and that he was once again sorry before he began to tell them about how busy he was as a gym leader, which stopped him from pursuing his passion for creating inventions. to solve this issue figured that he would create a robot that he nicknamed Clembot. It would fulfill his gym leader responsibilities while he could do other things and focus on inventing. Although he had made some mistakes when it came to its programming, it seemed he had designed the machine to be kind to challengers but also strict when needed as well, but his biggest blunder was stating that he wanted challengers to have "around four gym badges," which the machine had taken literally to mean they needed four gym badges to participate, although the teens thought that those statements were the same thing, and in that case it was more a user error than the machines. Still, they didn't want to interrupt the boy as he continued.

He told them of the machine's first test run with Bonnie. How poorly it was when he revealed that he didn't have the required badges to participate in the gym, and to make matters even worse, the safety phrase of his master recognition battle mode had failed to work properly. He had been chased out by the robot, which seemed about to attack them and was locked out of the gym. As they moved eventually the whole building as well. He wanted to go back and stop it many times, but Clembot had stopped him from getting in multiple times. The only people he would let in were people with four gym badges. Clemont seemed bummed about it, but that was when Serena suggested that maybe all of them could do something about it with his new friends; he could surely reclaim the gym if he was up for giving it another shot, and all of the rest of the group supported the idea, which gave him the energy to head over to the Tower once more to give it another shot.

With his renewed confidence he started to at a brisk pace toward his Gym and once the group arrived he saw a rather disheartening sight, there was a warning label in front of the doorway that told trainers that if they did not have four badges to go to a different gym and another warning sign in front of that one which stated that you would be signing a disclosure before participating in the gym as in the event of a lost there would be a chance of injury and these warning seemed to work their magic as there had been no one around to challenge the gym which only make Clemont think of his father's words once more, being just tough on trainer didn't seem like it would be a solution after all, the whole thing just seemed to diminish all the confidence he had out of him so when Ash asked if he was ready to retake the Gym the teen hesitated.

Even if he could somehow figure out the voice code, he would still have to defeat it in battle, although Ash pushed back and remarked that trying was the first part of succeeding at something; if he never tried, then he would never have the chance to succeed in the first place. Clemont knew that but tried to think of it more logically: Clembot had all of his Pokémon; he couldn't beat them all just with his inexperienced bunnelby, although Midoriya was the one that had rebuffed him this time, remarking that even if he did lose, then he would take care of the robot in his stead; they couldn't just let it continue as it was; he would then be out of the job in a short time, and he wouldn't want that. Or would he Tsu questioned, given his reason for creating Clembot in the first place, that it could be time to turn a new leaf in his life and leave the gym to someone else if he didn't want it?

This prompted Serena to ask why Clemont became a gym leader in the first place. Clemont had to take a moment and collect his thoughts, so Bonnie thought she started for him as she told the group that in Lumiose her brother was known as that boy genius of electric types. This guy got his brain back on track as he remarked that he wanted to become an electric type trainer that the world had never seen before, so he became the Lumiose gym leader in the first place. Clemont had to take a moment and collect his thoughts, so Bonnie thought she started for him as she told the group that in Lumiose her brother was known as that boy genius of electric types.

This got his brain back on track as he remarked that he wanted to become an electric type trainer that the world had never seen before, so he became the Lumiose Gym Leader by running an electric type gym. He knew others would plan when they went against him, and he figured that if he could win even against their planning, then it would prove how strong of an electric-type trainer he had become. Hearing that Serena thought it was even more reason why he should try to reclaim the gym, Ash also remarked in support, remarking that if taking back the gym would make him stronger, it was something that he must do.

The teens also agreed and would give their full support in the adventure into the tower as they had unclasped their briefcases and left elsewhere to go get changed into their hero costumes just in case, Bonnie was very interested in seeing them all suited up and remarked that Iida's costume was so cool with being a knight and how Tsu was cool in her green suit and how she wondered what Midoriya and Uraraka's suits were like which got the others also interested in how the two would look, the group didn't have to wait long for the teens return first arriving being Iida in his knight-like armor which Clemont would love to get a rundown on some time and then followed by the others unlike Iida which had metal armor the others seemed to go for more reinforced and isolated fabric despite the assured durability of the stuff it was still fairly form fitting to each of them.

Serena asked Uraraka why the gauntlets around her hands were so big, and she explained that inside of them housed metallic grappling hooks that she used to swing around her spirals, speaking of which she lowered them further down to the ground by increasing the gravity on herself as they were about to enter the building, causing them to hover just behind her head. Bonnie asked what the red arm attachments were for, and Midoriya explained that they were his full gauntlets; they initially helped to mitigate the recoil of his powers, but now it was mainly just for protection. The group discussed a bit more before deciding to finally head inside. Clemont unlocked a door and lifted a cape that had been blocking an unused entrance, which they used to make their way in.

There had been the option of taking the ventilation system to avoid suspicion, but with the teens present, they didn't exactly fit inside, especially with their bulkier gear on, so instead they elected to just use the doors. Midoriya showed off his power once more as he used his black whip to slide between the creases of the door and force it open, allowing the group to walk through normally before he let go, allowing the door to slam closed once more. they formed this for a couple of more doors before they got to a dimly lit hallway, upon getting into the hallway, they had been immediately set upon by one of Clemont's Pokémon, one being a magnetite. The floating orb with tongs sticking out of both ends along with a center eye seemed to have recognized Clemont for a moment before coming closer to accept the embrace that his trainer was going to offer him; however, it had seemed to change its mind quickly as instead, a burst of thunder erupted from its body being fast. Midoriya was able to shield Clemont from the attack before wrapping the Pokémon up in his black whip.

Ash had asked what had happened and why his Pokémon tried to attack him. Clemont didn't know but he guessed that since Clembot was the one in control it had given his magnemite orders to attack any intruders that it found sneaking around they should be careful and on the lookout for any other of his Pokémon which the group agreed to do, Tenya suit should be able to pick up any approaching Pokémon with his motion sensor combine that with Deku danger sense they shouldn't be surprised by anything that had been coming at them which was proved again when they had continued to walk through the halls of the building and came into contact with another of Clemonts Pokémon.

It was a magneton this Pokémon had come from behind him and had let out a large soundwave with metal sound this had mainly debilitated the others although Iida's suit had automatically adjusted for the sound as he charged forward snaping out with a kick that had struck the Pokémon on the side which sent it spiraling to the side of the wall denting it in the process while knocking the Pokémon unconscious, Iida apologized for the damaged architecture and hurting his Pokémon although the boy remarked that it was fine and that it couldn't be helped. With those two down, there had been a main lull in the action as they navigated the empty halls of the building. With this silence, the group had once more started to discuss how the gym was run.

Uraraka asked about some of the strategies that some trainers used specifically about what if trainers bring Pokémon that have been super effective against electric types or Pokémon that were completely immune to electric types like ground type Pokémon and Clemont explained that in such situations where trainers attempt to gimp the system like that Gym leader offers a handicap system, in the case where a trainer has half or more of either super effective Pokémon or Pokémon that are completely immune to the Gym leaders typing then before they are allowed to challenge the gym leader they are forced through a gauntlet of similarly minded trainers the number of trainers that they would have to go through varies from Gym leader to Gym leader. Bonnie went on to join the conversation and explained that the way he challenged the trainer was with a "boring" quiz, although she did admit that she did enjoy that he would allow her to sometimes come up with her quiz to give people.

Clemont, however, commented that of those times people would usually pass most of the time leading to some fairly lopsided battles on his part, although that was the idea, as sometimes he would make the test too hard and everyone would fail, causing some lopsided battles on his end as well. He didn't know what the other gym leader did, but he knew that the rock gym leader would often like to rock climb and would push that on some of the trainers, although he had never seen his handicap in action. The group talked some more about running the gym and how he came to possess it or was passed down to him in his family. Ash had met many gym leaders like that on his adventures, but Clemont did not; he had used his status as a genius inventor to get his position, mainly the former electric-type gym leader, who was readying to step down, and given his status and goal, he was given the title almost immediately.

However, as he remembered the announcement, a couple of people didn't think he was qualified for such a role and were extremely disgruntled by the decision, although he kept that mainly to himself as the conversation grew silent as the group approached the last door that led into the gym. The lights had been dark, but upon entering, the lights turned on, revealing the stage, which was on a bed or solid rock. On either side of the field lay two brown bleachers for spectators, and decorated around the arena were also electric tubes that flowed electricity constantly giving the entire area a pseudo-yellow glow when combined with the overhead lights.

Out in the center of the field on the other side of the gym lay a robot that had seemed to be deactivated before steam came out of both of its ears and its eyes began to light up blue. The machine was lanky in appearance and held a baseball cap-type design for a head with a lightning bolt at the top of it and a yellow strip decorating the top of the head, which resembled hair. Its hips were more oval-shaped with wires circling them, which seemed to power its legs motion forward and backward. Its hands possessed individual fingers that extended out of its arm, more than a traditional hand on a person.

The machine was colored a dark navy blue and grey with a mouth that opened and closed almost like a mailbox as it spoke; it welcomed them to the Lumiose Gym, and that was when Clemont once more activated his master voice recognition mode, which prompted the machine to ask for the voice code. Clemont took a moment to calm his nerves down; he wasn't alone like before, and he could take a moment to think about what his answer would be. He looked over the machine once more, and upon further inspection, he spotted a dent on the upper right side of its head.

Thinking back to when he had created the machine once more when his sister had come in to tell him of a challenger, he had accidentally tripped over the cords link to his machine just after he had entered in the master recognition code, causing it to bump its head. If this minor fall had caused a problem within his programming or caused it to maybe halt the master recognition sequence, then it was possible that the next thing he said to the machine could have counted towards what the new code would be and what he said shortly after the fall was.

"The voice code is: You can start today; I'm Clemont the Gym Leader." Clemont remarked seriously.

"Code recognized master recognition battle mode activated," Clembot replied in approval, which Ash congratulated Clemont on remembering although this still left the battle that he had to win. As he asked for the others to wait in the spectator's seats, the group agreed and all wished Clemont luck and told him to do his best as the battle was about to commence.

The teens took their place while the kids had opted to stand at the front to watch the battle. Clemont was the one to unveil his Pokémon first, which was Bunnelby, and the machine went after transforming its hand into a cannon of sorts, which it used to reveal its heliolisk. Interested in the Pokémon, Ash took out his pokedex and scanned over the strange Pokémon as it reminded him of helioptile.

Heliolisk the generator Pokémon: They flare their frills and generate energy. A single heliolisk can generate sufficient electricity to power a skyscraper.

Ash looked over the data some more and found that it was indeed the evolved form of helioptile, which made the resemblance make sense. Clemont wanted to prove his title of gym leader with the battle, so he asked his heliolisk to not hold back for the battle, and the Pokémon responded, flexing out its frills for a moment in a positive shrill in its native tongue. With the battle officially underway, Clemonbot was the one that made the first move, ordering its Pokémon to use Thunderbolt. This was something Clemont had explicitly programmed for the robot to do, so he was well aware of his ability to defend against such an attack, he ordered his Pokémon to use its ears to crunch up the ground, sending a large rock into the air, which completely canceled out the attack, causing stray dust to fly everywhere, the instance bringing back memories for Ash as he performed the same defensive maneuver against him in their battle.

Clemont went on the offensive as the smoke cleared ordering bunnelby to use double slap while Clembot would counter with dragon tail, the small digging Pokémon charged forwards as the generator Pokémon leaped into the air its frills widely extended as green glowing energy coalesced around its tail and bunnelby ears had started to light up a whiteish red, the generator Pokémon flipped while int he air hoping to slam it's tails own on top of the small Pokémon however this attack was deflected by the small Pokémon's ears making it glide by and strike the ground, it continued along with that motion to deliver a double strike to the Pokémon back sending it siding down into the ground before the Heliolisk could recover Clemont wanted to hide Bunnelby for its next attack, so he commanded it to use dig, but Clembot was one step ahead of him as he ordered Heliolisk to use bulldoze.

Just as the digging Pokémon shoveled completely into the ground, the heliolisk did a large stomp that completely reverberated into the ground and forced the bunnelby straight into the air with a panicked shout, even surprising Clément himself as he never had taught heliolisk such a skill. The robot didn't relent in his assault either, as the small Pokémon was thrown into the air. He capitalized by using Dragon Tail once more as the heliolisk charged over as it collected energy, jumping into the air and smacking the smaller Pokémon into the ground. It bounced once hard on its back but was able to recover using its ears to flip itself back over and prepare itself for battle once more.

As the heliolisk touched the ground, the red glow that highlighted the decreased speed affected Bunnelby, and to ensure that wouldn't be a problem and to surprise his creation with a new move he achieved on his adventure, he ordered Bunnelby to use double team. The digging Pokémon jumped into the air and instantly started to create afterimages of itself; dozens of them had completely begun to surround the opposing Pokémon, causing it to lock up in confusion. Clemont wanted to capitalize on the confused state, so he ordered his next move to be a mud shot as the mud shot charged along Bunnelby's ears. Clement thought he would have a distinct advantage, but he was surprised once more when Clembot had the perfect counter parabolic charge.

The heliolisk charged an electric ball behind its back, which it through into the air as its frills fanned out once more electricity surged from that electric ball striking everything in the area, completely dispelling the mock clones of the bunnelby and striking the real one directly, but then the secondary effect also took place as the shot that had struck the digging Pokémon had come back and struck the heliolisk, which started to glow a light green as it began to be healed by the move.

Bunnelby fell to the ground once more, but it quickly recovered at the sound of Clemont's worried voice and was still ready to continue fighting. Both Dedenne and Bonnie cheered for her brother on the sidelines, hoping for him to pull through, which was soon joined by Serena and Uraraka.

Clembot took charge of the tempo and ordered another thunderbolt; however, Clemont thought quickly and told his bunnelby to use dig to avoid the strike. As expected, Clembot used the same tactic as last time using bulldoze to get the rabbit Pokémon out, and both Serena and Bonnie started to despair. However, Iida and Tsu remarked that Clemont likely had a plan; he didn't seem like the type to do the same move for no reason, especially for a scientist, and this sentiment was echoed by Ash, who yelled out for Clemont not to give up until it's over.

Clemont, feeling empowered by his friends in the stands, ordered Bunnelbly to use double team while underground, so by the time the bulldoze hit and launched the small Pokémon out of the ground instead of one of them several had suddenly emerged from the whole into the air, similar to before Clembot followed through with his counter being parabolic charge, and at that same moment Clemont commanded Bunnelby to use dig once again, jumping, as the lighting strikes went out towards the clones and struck each one that had still been present, but there had been no return bolt that charged the heliolisk, signaling to Clembot that he had missed.

The robot had seemed to recognize this mistake too late and couldn't give the order to use bulldoze again before Bunnelby had risen from the ground, striking the heliolisk up into the air. Clemont quickly followed through with the assault, using a double slap as the digging Pokémon's ears glowed and struck all over the generating Pokémon's body before ending in an overhead slam down towards the ground, which was quickly followed by a mud shot, causing an explosion that once the smoke cleared showed that the heliolisk was unable to continue marking the win as Clemonts to the standing appraise to all of the bystanders in the stands. Clement rushed forward onto the field to check and make sure his heliolisk was ok. The Pokémon slightly opened its eyes and gave a slow and tired chirp, signaling that it would be fine, before closing its eyes once more. Clembot approached Clemont and offered his greetings to the teen and told him how happy he was that his creator had returned, which Clemont returned himself.

Clemont apologized to the robot for his poor programming perimeters which likely gave the robot a hard time with running the gym although the robot had titled its head to the side in confusion at such an odd statement, Clemont remarked that he would reprogram him instead so that futures incidents wouldn't happen. The robot simply agreed, arguing that if the creators think something is wrong with his programming, then it must be so he, clembot, and the others went towards the back where his lab was. It was a rather large room although how much stuff and material around made it seem small, everyone watched as Clemont entered his new parameters clembot would have for running the gym which were

Be modest, no matter the amount of badges a trainer has

Be kind, even while being tough, and don't forget to give constructive criticism after the battle has finished

Be thoughtful, try to help, and encourage challengers to grow their skills.

These were rules that every gym leader needed to follow, and the oath they had taken upon becoming a gym leader was a bit of a facepalm moment. He didn't just implement these in the first place, but as long as these were the new rules, then there shouldn't be any more problems if Clembot continued to run the gym in his absence. They went back to the Pokémon Stadium and patiently waited for Clembot to arrive. The machine seemed much more well-mannered than before, asking for each of the newcomers's names and greeting them individually. Clemont thanked everyone for their help in getting his gym back and remarked that he's learned a lot from all of them and he would like to keep learning from them as they continued with their adventure, which Clembot intervened by complementing the way his creator had said it, causing Clemont to flush with embarrassment, which doubled as Ash hooked an arm around him, commenting about how he would also like to continue to learn as well together.

This was followed by Bonnie and Serena remarking that they wanted to continue adventureing together. All through all the positivity and congratulations, there was still one thing he needed to do before they could start to adventure again, as he needed to tell his father about the new development and that he would be leaving on an adventure for a while, and the group, seeing his sudden nervousness, all agreed to be there to support him in his endeavor.

So with more quick haste, they all decided to leave the gym together. Now that Clembot was under control, they could take the elevator to the main entrance, although given the size of their group, they would have to take two trips from the elevator to get down. Uraraka recommends a more fun way for them to get down by just going out an open window, but Iida halted such a reckless choice and made the teens patient instead wait for the elevator to come back up and receive them. He was still of the mindset that while technically there were no laws that prohibited them from using their quirks, they still should limit themselves in their use unless threatened or the situation called for it.

So the group took the elevator and went down the normal way while the others waited for them to come down. While on their way down, Tsu asked Midoriya about what he meant when he remembered Meyer from the Garchomp incident, and Midroiya responded that he was someone there on that day, and he believes that the man may be "blaziken mask," the vigilante hero of the Lumisoe city, which got his friends attention. Although it was just a hunch, his danger sense could have just been mistaken or that people triggered a very similar response to each other here, as the people from the hair salon also reminded him of the same three individuals that he met two days prior. The conversation, however, was put on hold as the elevator opened up to the others waiting for them. The group all took a journey down to Clemont's father's shop as the sun started to set.

The man's shop seemed to be empty for the moment, which was the perfect opportunity for Clemont to tell the man what he needed to say as the others waited behind him. The boy first talked about what had been happening with the gym and why things had turned out the way that they did as he introduced Clembot. His father was rightfully upset that he did not inform him of his gym essentially being taken over by such a thing, which he could have used to tell the police about not to smear his name, although in this Clemont's confidence returned once more and he remarked that Clembot's actions were a result of his faults as a creator, so the punishment should still rely on him and not Clembot. Bonnie encouraged her father to continue to listen to the rest of the story as Clemont continued; he told his father about the faulty programming that was causing the issues, but he has since corrected them, so there should be no more problems from the gym from now on if Clembot continues to hold down the reigns.

His father was a bit skeptical of this but after a moment got around to accepting that as being true he would talk with Officer Jenny about it later and they would likely test it out themselves as well but he also used it as another way of wanting to get to see the boy once more as he asked if that meant since he was free he would be coming around the home more often but at that Clemont got a bit flustered and frightened once more as he stuttered into the next topic of conversation after a little kick by Bonnie he had finally managed to speak what he wanted to say as he told his father that he would be going on an adventure with Ash and his friends, he told the man how he had been gaining more courage on his adventure with Ash. He wanted to see how much he could learn by continuing his travels, even if it was only till the Kalos League tournament.

Midoriya, Uraraka, Tsu, and Iida chimed in that if he was worried about protection, then he shouldn't be, as they would be traveling with them, so everything should be fine. The four of them will make sure that nothing bad happens along their adventure. The man looked over at the larger teens. Serena had backed them up on that, remarking that they had wandered into the middle of a rhyhorn race once and how all four of them had protected them, and that Midoriya was able to pick up six rhyhorn all by himself. Ash also mentioned how each of the orbs that Uraraka has behind her head weighs as much as 1,000 snorlaxes, which Clemont couldn't help but correct. Well, it would be more accurate to say 20x even what he said. His daughter also chimed in and remarked that she wanted to go with them too. Clembot even remarked that he would take care of the gym and even help around their home in his spare time.

His father seemed to be shivering, but Midoriya could tell it wasn't from rage or anything like that, which was confirmed when he looked up once more with a large smile on his face as he gripped Clemont with both of his arms and remarked that he was so proud of him for the booth of them and that he believed that having good friends was one of the most important things in this world and that with friends like the ones he had gathered and that they could go on their adventure, as he gripped Clemont with both of his arms and remarked that he was so proud of him the booth of them and that he believed that having good friends was one of the most important things in this world and that with friends like the ones he had gathered and that they could go on their adventure earning a happy elated from everyone.

Now that that was out of the way, Meyer had wanted to celebrate every one of his children's new adventures with Ash and his friends. So the man marched forward and closed his store down. It was only about an hour out from closing time anyway, but he didn't want them to wait, and it was empty anyway, so he closed and offered to pay for everyone to go out and eat. His son thought it wasn't necessary, especially with such a large group, and remarked that he could pay instead, but his father was stalwart in his duty to let him do so as it would be rude to have him pay for his celebration.

The group continued onwards to a rather large restaurant, stopping by Clemont's home so that he and the teens could change back into more civilian clothing for an evening out. The teens didn't have much of an opinion on where they ate out, nor did Serena or Ash, as they had never really been to places inside Lumiose before, so Meyer took them to Clemont and Bonnie's favorite spot to go out and eat. Given they weren't at all used to anything on the menu, the teens asked the others to choose something for them to eat. One of them had any particular things they needed to avoid, so it was easy enough to find things that they would like or were similar enough to what they knew.

The group chatted some more about what they had experienced so far in terms of their adventure although it came to a bit of an awkward pause when the teens were involved as they described some of their journey in hero school which deeply interested all involved although this prompted Bonnie to begin to tell her father about each of their powers and how they work although her father had to calm the girl down from yelling it out for the world to hear and that she shouldn't share secretes which wasn't hers to share he remarked while giving midoriya a cheeky wink which confirmed the boy's thoughts, although the teens had no problems revealing what their abilities did for the large man as for some like Iida it was fairly apparent with his engines and Uraraka with her fingertips and knuckles, while Tsu and Midoriya was a bit more subdued although they could show them in a more discrete way such as Tsu extending her tongue and midoriya shooting out a small amount of smoke with smokescreen and a small black whip which extended from either of his hands.

His next couple of abilities were harder to show off, Fajin allowed him to store up excess energy which glowed around him in a reddish glow as he used his finger to demonstrate first storing up a bit of it by doing a small finger exercise and unleashing it with a flick upwards causing a small updraft of air, his danger sense allowed him to initially just track threats on his person but through training he expanded the parameters to negative emotion entirely within a given range of him and eventually precise enough to identify certain people entirely if eh been around them enough, he could also float in the air which he demonstrated by slightly raising himself and his chair off the ground and last he could increase or decrease someone speed while ignoring inertia with gear shift, as he demonstrated by throwing a fork and instead of going anywhere it just stayed suspended in mid-air until he touched it again where it continued to make a slow crawl forward.

The kids and Meyer had been deeply impressed by the phenomenon and Bonnie wanted him to show even more of his skills in action however given the environment her father opted not to do so although the man did find it peculiar in that Midoriya had such a more wide range of abilities in comparison to his friends other than Tsu which could mimic other "animals" and Midoriya told them that his power was more unique to his classmates it was passed down to him by his mentor and his mentor's mentors and every time it was their powers had connected and bonded with the quirk allowing him to wield each of them which offered another round of amused interested around Midoriya, although there had been a slight damper on things when Meyer remarked that his Mentor would be surely proud that he's able to do that, which got midoriya to think about what was happening to all might or at least what will happen to all might if his memory served him correctly he first gave him that message some time during the beginning of the second month it would be the ultimate factor on if the they in terms of time they were forwards or behind what they all knew of what had been happening back home.

The sudden awkward silence was thankfully carried off by Uraraka, who remarked that they don't know how their teacher is doing without them, which caused Meyer to apologize for bringing the topic up. Still, Midoriya came back to say that it was okay. He didn't know none of them did really; after that, the conversation moved away from the teens and towards the general direction of the group as Meyer asked where they were headed next. Ash informed him that they were going towards Cyllage City to challenge the rock-type gym leader, which his father hmmed at as he looked to Clemont, remarking that it made sense. Grant was the gym leader Clemont was closest to in Kalos, so he would likely suggest him first. Meyer wished Ash luck in his challenge. He hoped for the best as the rest of the conversation spiraled into small talk about random, smaller things.

As the night began to fall, it was time where the teen would split off and head over toward Professor Sycamore's lab while the others returned to their home. Despite birthing a boy genius who had created many successful things that the entire city relied upon, his father had still opted to live a more humble lifestyle, living in a decently sized house although unable to accommodate six additional people to live inside which a mansion could probably have done. He was a hard worker through and through, and just because his son had claimed so much fame and fortune, he didn't want to seem like he was leaching off him, so he stayed in his small electronic shop and house that he always had and personally enjoyed.

As nightfall came, everyone took to their places. Bonnie and Serena climbed into bed together and cuddled up for the night in their pajamas. Clemont had offered Ash his bed while he slept on the floor, although Ash was reluctant, seeing the earnestness in the teen's eyes, he couldn't help but accept the boy's offer as the two of them had been reading themselves to go to sleep. Clemont couldn't help but address one more of the issues that he had on his mind as he asked Ash if he was disappointed that he couldn't have challenged the prism tower as soon as he arrived in Kalos, but the boy was anything, but as he remarked that he would have respected the decision either way if it was him or Clembot, if he wanted trainers to prove their strength to him by earning four gym badges beforehand, then he would have gladly taken on that challenge, which is exactly what he was going to do as he looked over to Clemont once more.

There was one thing the teen could do for him, which was when it was his time to challenge the gym, he wanted it to be against Clemont, not Clembot, and the boy at first was astonished before regaining his composure and earning that edge once more as he wholeheartedly agreed to that condition and swore that he would get stronger so that He could give Ash a battle that he would never forget as he raised out of bed with his enthusiasm, which seemed infectious as Ash did the same as well as he raised to meet the boys eyes, properly knocking the Pikachu off his chest in the meanwhile causing the Pokémon to let out an annoyed huff as the two boys began to laugh. Unbeknownst to the both of them, someone had been hanging just above their windshield, overhearing their conversation as a large smile made its way to his face at what he heard.

The man asked if his blaziken were ready and the Pokémon gave a positive affirmation before the man stood up and jumped off and away from the building, normally this hero would patrol the streets and search for any problem however tonight he had a different target on his hands as he made his way over towards the local professor's laboratory, he took a moment and considered what he should do for a moment to get his targets attention so he ordered his blaziken to charge a flamethrower and aim it directly at the building, the blaziken was somewhat worried as it did a double take at its trainer but he remarked to not fire just hold it there were only trying to get their targets attention not cause any damage and after the explanation, the Pokémon nodded its head in understanding and followed through with as ordered now it was just waiting to see if his plan worked out in the end.

Midoriya sat straight up with a start as his danger sense flared for a moment as he looked in the direction of the threat. He had sat up in his bed, Iida was sleeping in the bed next to him, and across from Iida was Tsu, who was also sleeping; however, the bed in front of him, Uraraka, had seemed to be wide awakened, although she seemed just as bit as tense as he was for some reason.

"What's wrong?" Midoriya asked

"hmm…. I don't know how to describe it, and this may sound weird, but... I think Mr. Meyer is outside right now... I don't know why I think that, but I guess it seemed like I heard it from somewhere." Uraraka remarked, earning a curious look from Midoriya.

"That's a coincidence; my danger sense had just gone off as well." Midoriya remarked as he stood up now that he was up; he could feel that familiar signal from before lending credence to Uraraka that it could be the man.

"Do you think he's out doing hero work?" Uraraka asked

"He could be." Midoriya replied as he went to a window on the further side of the room and looked out it, and sure enough he could spot the man waiting outside on top of the rooftops.

"Does she have danger sense too?" Midoriya heard the fifth remark.

"Don't be ridiculous; her quirk and mine are nothing alike; it wouldn't make sense," the fourth replied immediately.

"Deku? Are you… ok?" Uraraka asked hesitantly as she moved closer to the boy.

"Huh? What? Yeah, I'm fine. It turns out you were right. I think he wants to talk, so I'll go out there and meet him. I'll be right back." Deku remarked as he moved past the girl, giving her a small peck on the lips. As he did so, he went to get his hero gear on once more. He might as well meet a hero as a hero, he thought as he started out of the room and waved bye to his girlfriend as he left. Uraraka was still left a little confused, as she could have sworn she heard someone talking two people in fact, and it wasn't Midoirya's voice at all. She may just have been a bit tired. Although she didn't do anything for the day, carrying around the weights all day could have been a slight workout for her, so maybe it was that. Either way, she would wait until Midoriya was back until she finally decided to call it quits for the night, although she didn't know what she could do to occupy her time until then. Maybe some gravity training, she thought.

As Midoriya quickly made his way outside, the Pokémon waiting outside his door on the other end of the hall had woken up from the noise and immediately woke up and decided to make its way back to its owner to inform her of the ongoing event. Midoriya had made his way outside with his mask fully on and went up to the roof to greet the man along with his bursyamo. The large Pokémon had almost seemed surprised by the way he had lept overhead of them, ending up behind him as it and his master turned to look at him.

"So this is you in your full uniform. I have to say you have style, kid, although it looks a bit soft at the same time. The ears are a strange addition though." Blaziken mask remarked

"Well, I'm not trying to scare people with my costume; I want people to feel safe when I appear more than make villains afraid, and the ears are a tribute to my mentor's hair; they stood straight up high," Deku remarked as he ran a hand along the green ears.

"Interesting. I don't mean to take up your night, but I wanted to ensure what my kids talked about you was true." Blaziken Mask remarked.

"Alright, that's fine with me; feel free to go all out if you want to." Midoriya remarked as he started to stretch.

"Hehe, I like your spirit; you hear that Blaziken, let's go mega evolution!" the man remarked as he swished his cape open to reveal a glowing stone along his belt. The glowing coalesced and brightened once more as a purple shell started to surround Blaziken before the Pokémon began to break out once more into its new form, growing more, shifting its fur around, and gaining black highlights instead of yellow while two bands of flames wrapped around and drifted around its wrists.

Midoriya continued and took a moment on what percentage of one-for-all he should use; he likely could end the match instantly; however, he wanted to test out for himself how far he should go on Pokémon so nothing goes wrong on any encounters in the wild, but he acknowledges that this was also another type of power on top of its own, so he would use 30% for this matchup as a baseline as the green lighting started to course through his body and he signaled that he was ready. Blaziken's mask struck first, ordering his Blaziken to use flame charge as a red aura surrounded the Pokémon as it charged at him. Midoriya met the Pokémon charge heads striking against each other, creating a minor shockwave. The Blaziken was surprised, but it continued with the fight, lashing out with a kick, which Midoriya dodged while reuniting with one of his own, which struck the mon in the gut, sending it skidding backward. It regained its footing just as his trainer told it to use flamethrower, and Midoriya countered the attack by using his air bullets, kicking the Pokémon flames backward with each flick of his fingers.

The flames were pushed back to the point that the next couple of flicks would hit the blaziken once more. Still, his trainer told it to use detect into a blaze kick and fire punch. Just as the last flick landed, the shockwave completely blew out the flame. The mega blaziken shifted its head, avoiding the strike, as both its hands and feet burst into flames. It charged forward, attempting to strike Midoriya.

The blaziken struck forth with a straight punch, which Midoriya sidestepped, and it quickly followed his movements with a knee strike that was going to turn into a push kick, although thanks to the blaziken's detection, it had instead opted to jump straight into the air to avoid Midoriya's black whip, which was about to wrap around its legs. The Pokémon continued back down with a dive kick, jetting out flames from its hands to increase its speed. Midoriya countered with more air bullets. However, the nimble Pokémon was able to avoid each one as it continued to come down towards him.

Midoriya jumped out of the way of the strike, causing the Pokémon to fire its heat upwards to not go crashing through the roof of the building they had been standing on. His trainer told him that now that he was in the air, he could hit him with a flare blitz. The blaze Pokémon lived up to its name as it through both of its arms across its body, and fire charged around it as it released its arms outwards. A large x-shaped wave of fire came shooting out towards Midoriya. He countered with St. Louis Smash Air Force and canceled each other out, creating a dust cloud that was dispersed as Midoriya's black whip soon came out of dust cloud forcing Blaziken once more on the defensive and to dodge out of the way of the many tendrils launched at him.

The blaziken moved swiftly as it dodged out of the way, even having to perform many flips and spins as the black whip expanded from just one long string into a large spider cage that came at him only barely avoiding getting grabbed by using a slash to cut one of the smaller tendrils that had caught a hold of its shoulder. It set back a couple of feet in front of his trainer although as the smoke cleared Midoriya had already been rushing down at Blaziken once more he wanted to prepare his Pokémon so he ordered the use of agility which he then ordered the use of Ariel Ace although the reddish aura that indicated agility suddenly surrounded his Pokémon the other next move had failed to activate or it seemed that Blaziken made no moves to initiate at as midoriya sped forwards, he asked what was wrong blaziken although as it went to reply he could immediately tell already as its jaw had very slowly began to open ever so slowly, it must have been the boy's other ability gear shift he guessed he could activate with his other skill as well.

The boy landed down right inside of his Pokémon's range and he noticed the red highlights that had hung over the boy's fist as he launched a punch upwards with a yell Detroit smash, however, the boy didn't land his attack on purpose, and only used the move as a display of strength as the punch had knocked up a huge pressure wave that skidded along the Blazikens face the pressure had nearly or likely would have blown Blaziken mask off the roof entirely if it wasn't for Midoriya's black whip catching stalling his body although from that alone the battle was over as Blaziken mask looked into the night sky it had been partly cloudy but it had seemed that next attack had blown them away at least over the past couple of meters they had been fighting over.

Blaziken had depowered from his mega form, which highlighted the boy's win. As that happened, it seemed that Midoriya's power had either been lifted or worn off, as Blazkien's mouth had suddenly extended quickly in response to his previous question before it started to move its body around and stretch its jaw, testing its movement. He asked once more if Blazkien was alright. The burning Pokémon responded immediately positively, the bird had turned back to the boy and held out a hand for him to shake which he did, Meyer could tell by how large the fire extended from its wrist how excited the Pokémon was from the fight and it likely wanted to continue even with the shown power to see if it could pull off a win but he tempted its patients for now as got the answer he had been looking for as he addressed midoriya once more complimenting the boy's strength and wondered aloud if he had been holding back some of it, he did not expect the boy to answer that he was only going about 30% of his full capability however earning gawked expression from the blaziken and Boisterus laughter from himself.

He believed him and remarked that since that was true, he had no reason to not believe that Clemont and Bonnie wouldn't be taken care of, especially if all his friends were this strong. However, he did temper his expectations there and remarked that not all of his friends were as strong as he was; only three others were comparable to him in one way or another. Still, he was sure to point out that the other 16 were not pushed over and were strong in their own right and would still defend his kids to the best of their ability, and he believed the boy completely. However, this did bring up a question in his mind, which was why were they following Ash in the first place? Midoriya explained the situation to him, and while a bit confused, he surely got the message that something was coming in Kalos and that the three individuals were going to be a major part of it.

If that were the case then they can count on him as well to lend a hand in helping out in that situation as someone who lives in Kalos who invested in its safety had said as a joke, which he laughed out at the same moment Midoriya had gotten a message from Uraraka that remarked that they would have company soon, which she thinks will be Alexa coming to scope things out, and that didn't come as much of a surprise from Midoriya as he did feel something proc his danger sense as he left the room.

Speaking of his danger sense once it seemed to activate although this time much further away as he turned around sharply in a certain direction of the city and another moment it seemed that Blaziken mask had picked up a radio call of a distressing emergency in the same direction that the boy had just turned to, he chuckled once more as he placed a hand along the boy's shoulder and remarked would he like to go patrol with him, given his ability could spare him some time and Midoriya agreed as the two were about to begin to leave, they had both been surprised when Uraraka had appeared on the rooftop also dressed in her hero costume and suited up and remarked that they weren't going without her as well she had a burst of energy so far and watching them from the window had gotten her blood pumping to do some hero work.

Midoriya and Blaziken Mask allowed it, and Blaziken Mask, along with the girl, started to head over to the disaster area. Midoriya was about to leave when he looked down once more at the ground near the front of Professor Sycamore's lab. Alexa had been there hastily dressed but she had her camera rolling along the side of her face, she waved to him and he waved back sending out a black whip that touched her hand she thought that he was going pick her up but instead he just told her to keep up as the black whip disappeared and he waved goodbye and he followed after the other two, the women was thoroughly unamused by the stunt as she quickly made haste to follow after the three she had been partially surprised at the speed that she had been going at as soon as her feet touched the ground, it took her a minute to get used to that new speed before she was taking off down the street nearly as fast as electric moped as she attempted to keep the camera on the three heroes hopping around the rooftops.

The three-man group of heroes had whisked through the town the first problem they encountered was a standard robbery from a jewelry store, there were four criminals and three of them had Pokémon while another seemed to have a firearm which it had pointed to one of the store employees ordering him to open up the register, the three Pokémon around had been a Mightyena, Sableye, and Staraptor which had been working on overwatch circling over the store, making them slow their approach and hide out to not bee seen by the keen predator Pokémon's eyes, Midoriya remarked that he would be able to probably get to it before it got a warning off as he began to rapidly do crouches to build up his fajin as the red glow highlights his legs Midoriya attempted to aim from a distance of a couple of kilometers away, which was a bit more difficult than one might expect, although he was sure that he had the right angle as he was about to launch forward. Uraraka tapped him along with Blaziken Mask and Blaziken and used gravitic attraction so when he eliminated the overwatch, they could drop down and eliminate the other two Pokémon. Midoriya would handle the hostage, and they could take out the other two guards just waiting for his signal.

Blaziken mask understood, and Mega evolved his blaziken once more, Midoriya launched off with incredible speed by the time the sound had reached the predator Pokémon; it had already been wrapped up in black whip, its squawk being muffled in its throat from having its mouth closed.

Midoriya nodded as the other two dropped from the air as Uraraka released her power, the other two Pokémon had been keeping a lookout on the ground for the inevitable cop's arrival not thinking of the air likely due to the confidence in their feathered friend which was the currently completely incapacitated, so as both Blaziken and Uraraka was coming down they were completely inconspicuous, Uraraka touched her and Blaziken mask to slow them down and allow Blaziken to go, forwards, full speed as his trainer ordered him to use Blaze kick coming down in a blazing aura of flame trailing from its leg while uraraka used her grappling hooks to grab one of her 100-ton spirals launches down directly at second Pokémon. The attacks landed at the same time Blaziken struck the Sabley while Uraraka struck the Mightyena on the back. Both Pokémon let out a cry of pain before they were knocked unconscious, causing all three criminals to quickly turn and look at the source of the sound as they found both Blaziken's mask and Uraraka dropped from the air.

They had threatened the hero to stay back or the clerk would get it, as he pointed the weapon and squished it into his face both Uraraka and Blaziken mask along with his Pokémon took several steps back at the threat not wanting to provoke the criminal although they had been completely calm the entire time as they waited for their opportunity which came in the form as Midoriya's black whip seeped through the ceiling from above which completely wrapped around the man's weapon and soon after quickly forcing him up as shock completely consumed him, his two friends turned around to the sight of their comrade getting assaulted by some strange string although they had quickly realized their mistake as they turned back around to their opponents now that they distinctly held no hostage keeping them at bay.

It had already been too late, as when one turned around, a foot had already been in his face, striking him directly on the chin and lifting him into the air. He was knocked unconscious, and the second criminal had been lifted end over end by his arm and flipped over and slammed on the ground unconscious as well. Midoriya had come down a few moments later with the bird Pokémon as the group and checked up on the store clerk. It was an older gentleman who thanked the heroes greatly for their deeds. They waited until they could see the lights of the police steadily approaching to start to move away as they continued, the top of the rooftops. They had been out for about two hours searching around the town dealing with either large or small crimes and even a house fire. Alexa had chased them around for a good portion of it, but being faster didn't mean much if you lacked the stamina to use it like they apparently could, so she got a shot of the four of them sharing a group fist bump before decking to retire in for the night as the group took on one last incident, a car chase, which was easily stopped by Midoriay and Uraraka, allowing the Blaziken mask to have a rest himself.

The man remarked how he never thought how things could be if he had partners that journeyed with him and remarked that the night had been pretty fun for him.

The crew decided to chill on the roof of Prism Tower overlooking the vast city as the group talked a bit more about some things, such as why the ma had decided to become a hero in the first place. Both Midoriya and Uraraa had first explained how they wanted to become heroes ever since they had been children. Midoriya had always been inspired by his mentor to become one, but doing so without power wasn't something that was recognized from when they were from, and it didn't make matters any better that he didn't prepare for it when he was growing up, but a fateful encounter changed all that, and he made into one of the top heroes from there. Uraraka's initial motive for becoming a hero had been a bit charitable; she initially wanted to become a hero to support her family, which had been going through a bit of a rough patch, but over time through her school, she realized that what she really wanted was just to see people happy, and maybe subconsciously she had always known that heroes made people feel safe and happy by showing up, so she wanted to become one.

Blaziken Mask had slightly chuckled from the two stories, feeling a little embarrassed when he started to talk about his motivations for becoming a hero. Initially, it purely started as just an alias to stalk his son and make sure he was ok; he was a year off from becoming an adult now, there had been a brief interruption as they talked about the legality of things, and he informed the two that when you reach the age of 16, you are considered an adult, which they asked the next obvious question as if they had been allowed to drink, which the man confirmed they were allowed to but more in regular settings with friends and family but establishments needed tobe 18 before they got back to his story.

He had saved a couple of people around the city as he was stalking his son; his myth sort of started to grow, and he had started to feed into that myth of a protector of the city; it also allowed him to get his blaziken out more and stretch its legs. He had always had him since his beginning days as a trainer, but ever since he decided to settle and start a family, he never really had the opportunity to take him out anymore, and as a fighting type, it was probably the greatest sin he could ever commit to it.

So yeah, he simply wanted to grow into the myth that people had created around for him and allow his Blaziken to continue to fight and he did admit that he did find it fairly cool which the teens agreed to as they looked out over the glowing city once more, there was a moment of silence before the group decided to pack it in for the night, Blaziken mask had also told the two to no make things too easy for the kids on their adventure he could see just from their performance that night, that they were something special but he thinks that Clemont and Ash may come to rely on them too much for every problem so they should keep it in moderation so that they can grow, the two teen agreed with his assessment and remarked they would keep it in mind, he had also brought up the escape team rocket members from the prison the night before they had arrived in the city, he had talked to Sycamore about what had happened and knows that Ash apparently got history with them, Midoriya thought about it for a moment and explained that they could have been the same three that they had apprehended the other day so they should be taken care of but they would still keep a lookout just in case and with that out of the way the three heroes jumped off the towers going their separate ways.

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A Deal For A Deal: Team Rocket

Team Rocket ever since their capture had been in a large chicken contest with the police while they had been captured by..something they didn't even know or see what had struck them and were nearly blind and deafened by the pain that had struck from whatever that had came from it, the only thing that could have potentially poisoned them could have been that tan skinned girls Bulbasaur maybe a poison powder or something like that although Jesse could have swore she felt a prick in the back of her neck before the pain started making it seem like an injection and Meowth remarked that they would have seemed the purple smoke that emerged from the sack if it was such a move which they didn't although their head was still foggy and they had still been more concerned about once more escaping Police custody.

The plan was simple; however, whatever had struck them did so prematurely that they had already captured and stashed away a dozen or so other Pokémon from trainers that they fooled with the same stunt that the twerp fell for. In retrospect, it was likely that whoever did apprehend them could have been one of them who had seen them before. Thanks to the previous capture, they didn't have enough time or enough budget in their arsenal to buy multiple costumes for themselves and their wobbuffet. Their hastiness, however, proved to be their ticket out as the police questioned them for the rest of the day and a half on where they had hidden the Pokémon.

Naturally, after a given length of time, Pokémon would be ejected from their pokeballs if they had been forced to stay in them for a couple of days, the Pokeball couldn't provide the basic needs of the Pokémon that was inside it merely delay the need of them, this was done out of pure greed although many trainers don't know that, forcing money continually circulate through the use of pokefood and other snacks of that nature instead of the more logical approach of just having the Pokeball do it all because "data" doesn't require food which the Pokémon turns into when being trapped inside the ball so how could it ever know hunger or famine unless that was a willing flaw of the design one which they were fully ready to exploit as they made their proposition clear.

They would only be given up the location of the Pokeball once they have been freed from captivity, making up a story of how they had tampered with the pokeballs safety mechanism which would force the Pokémon inside to stay there unless acted upon by an outside source, the police had no reason to believe them of course but that was their story and they would stick to it and after a day and a half from searching they had started to change their tune fairly quickly instead of dismissing the outright they now asked how they could believe that they would be telling the truth int he first place and giving them the right location, they knew they were on a short clock a Pokémon without food or water depending on the type may be able to survive an up to three to five days but if they had been on the younger side which a couple were then that would easily ensure their death, in there minds they only had around 15 more hours to find them before they could potential expire and the trainer would loose that Pokémon for ever.

Team Rocket, while being on an evil organization, explained that they weren't monsters; they gained nothing from killing random people's Pokémon; there was no money on it, and it would please their boss none, although as for proof, well, they would just have to take them up on their word with that one, and after another six hours of no searching, the police eventually relented, allowing them to go free along with their Pokémon. They had used one of their multi-tool cubes to present the police force with a message that would only activate once they had been set a distance away from the device. This was obviously so they could have enough of a head start to evade them if they came looking for them once more but also so they would be allowed to get back into their primary vehicle for transportation.

They had all gathered in their blimp and waved down at the police as a gust of smoke emerged from the balloon and they activated its primary thrusters to make a speedy getaway get hundreds of meters within mere moments of the explosion of smoke which allowed the device to play, they were telling the truth of course although it wouldn't have mattered as the safety measures were still in place in the first place they likely wouldn't be able to do such tactics again anytime soon if they do get caught once more, the first things they did a free was to check over themselves the police were going to just let them go free that easily and as expected upon each of their clothes they had micro trackers on them which they promptly destroyed before going over their Pokémon which also had the same thing although their had been injected into their skin which would need some more medical knowledge in removing at least for meowth, wobbuffet and inkay unique biology made it easy for them to remove by themselves or ripping it out, Meowth would take some time without having to scar it which would required them to set down so they traveled far away to make sure when the police arrived they would have no clue on what their doing.

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True intentions: Elliot, Shauna, Bakugo, Ashido, Kirishima, Sero

Elliot woke up in his hotel room, ready to start to get back on his trail. He had been excited by the previous day's events and couldn't wait to see what happened next. Seeing the power of the others in action was a sight, and he wished both Tierno and Trevos could have witnessed it as well. Speaking of the other two, they had seemingly gone ahead without him once more. He would have thought that with the super-powered individuals around that, they would have stuck around. Still, Tierno wanted to get an even quicker start in finding out his rhythm and applying it to his Pokémon battling. At the same time, Trevor was always eager to research, wanting to complete the Pokemon minigame that professors gave out; certain Pokémon were easier to find in some parts of the day, and he would undoubtedly take many pictures along the way to achieving that.

He continued onwards out and met up with the usual four in the lobby; they had all gotten a big room together well, besides Bakugo, who got his own to conserve the money they made from yesterday's quest. He greeted each of them as the group all were getting some food. Given that they were aliens, technically he would have thought they would have a hard time choosing what was good or not, but a lot of the food present was similar to what they had back home, although under a different name.

After having eaten a full meal, the group of five decided to go and take their leave. They passed by the old large berry farm where they met the farmer once more. This time the man had asked if he could keep in touch just in case he ran into any more trouble with his berry from invading Pokémon. He didn't mind the occasional Pokémon coming in and swiping some food for itself, but those that were a threat to the towns people or, in some cases, hordes of them like the beedrill could pose problems that he would need taken care of. The group accepted, although since their phones still didn't work with the lack of signal, they had opted to give the man his phone number instead, which he accepted was the least he could do for them.

They continued out of the town and had walked for a couple of minutes and got back into the forest the group talked some more about this place as they described how underdeveloped it seemed they asked to look at the map of the place and described how to back where they came from their would-be things called "highways" and streets that almost decorated the entire map and allowed people to drive places almost anywhere and get there quickly and in comparison here, it seemed to be much denser with forest and jungles with dirt roads instead of traditional streets, Sero was the one that had gone to back for this place and remarked that in a way he could see it as being better given so much vegetation and that in their world much of it was lost in the sight of the roads and buildings which Elliot could see but he also wanted to include that all vehicles were fully capable of driving down dirt roads and paths which they described them as being "all-rounder" vehicles then which they explained meant vehicles that work good on and off-road.

The five of them continued to walk and talk about the difference between the places they knew back home and here when the conversation was slightly put on hold as they ran into a familiar face once more this time it was Shauana the tan-skinned girl who was currently practicing with both of her Pokémon although it didn't seem like it was for battle or training as she tried to coordinate her two Pokémon the first thing she ordered was for her Bulbasaur to use vine whip the small Pokémon growing two long vines out of the flower pot on its back she than ordered her froakie to use water pulse which it followed shooting the attack towards the vines which it used to catch the attacks and then juggle them into the air as the froakie hopped along the bottom of it shooting out three more of the same attack which the Bulbasaur attempted to catch by sprouting even more vines to catch and juggled them now being four at once the froakie had worked it way back to the center of where the juggle was happening as Shauana ordered for him to use water gun and her bulbasaur to use razor leaf the razor leaf was targeted towards each of the four water pulses which popped each one at once creating a drizzle of rain to come down from above which contracted to the concentrated water that had shot up from the froakie's mouth.

The girl celebrated her two Pokémon being finally able to get the first part of their routine down. Still, the claps from behind her startled her, making her jump. She turned around and instantly relaxed once she realized who it was, as Elliot greeted the girl with a wave and remarked that he saw that her performance was going well. However, the girl remarked that, of course, while she wasn't a battler, she still had to work hard for the Pokémon showcases, being the first time they had heard of such a thing.

Ashido had been interested in learning about what was such an event. Shauana was always eager to talk about it as she explained how it worked to the pink girl as Shauana allowed her Pokémon to take a break as the group continued walking to camphier town. The trip didn't take too long to arrive at their destination, just over a couple of hours, which passed by fairly quickly with not many trainers having made the journey a bit longer than it would have been otherwise.

They had finally reached the town, which was a small, quaint place in comparison to the mock city-sized town that they had just left. There was an old segregated wall of granite that outlined the town parameters from the sight of it, and they could tell that it was a fairly old relic that people were more likely to build around instead of destroy outright, which highlighted the largest building in the town, which was the large castle near the back half of the town with a massive drawbridge to get them. Deciding that the place would be just as good as any to get details on mega evolution from the professor, the group decided to continue forward in that direction.

As the group entered the town, they passed by another interesting sight for the teens, which had been one of the regional server rooms. Lucky for them, it had been allowing travelers to come inside, which they did. Once inside, they were immediately greeted by a large stack of servers that maintained the Pokémon storage system. Bakugo commented how they were fairly vulnerable for something so pivotal, although his loud voice drew the attention of a resident expert.

Despite what one may think upon looking at the man and his rocker/goth aesthetic, he was highly capable of handling the task he and the others had been given as he gestured to three employees behind him: two win sisters with pink hair and another one who had on more traditional clothing and carried around an espurr in her arms. The man introduced himself as Cassius and explained to Bakugo that the severed that they had been seeing before them were mainly backup and local servers for the main thing scattered all throughout Kalos were many of such kinds, although the main server was hidden to all except a select few people such as himself.

He explained a rundown of the system and mechanics that can be performed from the PC such as the basic storing and trading of Pokémon but also things such as the "battle box" which allowed a trainer to quickly swap between a team of Pokémon if designated in the area it good for a pinch although its random if they attempt to just switch between one Pokémon, he also explained how there was a limit given to each trainer on the amount of Pokémon they were able to possess at a given time which changed with the laws but was currently at a generous 960 although this was only done for the sake of farmers and green grass workers the traditional trainer not in those fields which require such an extensive amount of Pokémon usually get flagged for being problematic if they exceed having 100. As he finished explaining, he asked if any of them had questions, and the first question that came to the teen's mind was what would happen if the main servers were destroyed. Of course, this was what the mini-severs were for, as they would all work independently from each other to not ensure a massive outbreak of Pokémon that had been stuck in the PCs at the time.

Another question was has there had ever been Pokémon that have been corrupted from transforming into data, and back the man remarked that he doesn't think there was a possibility of that, at least so far as he has read on the server history, they ensured that digitization was extremely safe before testing it on living organisms, although this prompted questions on pokeball being able to digitize other things besides Pokémon, although the man wasn't in a high enough place to tell people about it.

The group seemed to be satisfied with what they found out and quickly bid the man farewell as they got back to head towards the castle, it had been another Hour's walk just to cross the city towards the place, it is so big giving the illusion that it was closer than it appeared, although once they finally got there and crossed the bridge and indeed inside a rather surprised fellow immediately greeted them as he did a double take and remarked about how surprised so many people had come to visit the Origional Shabboneau Castle, the castle or chateau was a manor for a noble family during their time running the place they had given away a lot of their wealth to the people which is why the place seemed so empty, Elliot asked if the nobles had given away any mega stones during their time and the man paused as he tried to think of something like such an item although after several moments he had come up blank but he remarked that it could have been a possibility, the records of the Castle an what the owners gave was scarce.

Elliot looked towards Shauna, who looked back at him as Bakugo said that they both were thinking that they came to this place for nothing, but before the man could say much more, someone else had entered the castle in quite a hurry, another man who had asked for their attendance help as there had been a problem that seemed to come up every year that was occurring on route 7.

The statement seemed to understand the situation and was going to quickly make his way over, even offering that the six of them could stay and look around as he hurried with the blonde gentlemen out of the door. The group found it strange, and his saying that they could look around clearly indicated to at least Sero that there was something very valuable about the place. Kirishia suggested that maybe they should go and see if they needed help on route 7 since they weren't doing anything, and the others all unanimously agreed to do just that as they began to leave the castle and over the bridge once more in a hurry.

Elliot, however, got a message from his father asking if he was near a holophonne and that they needed to talk. Of course, worry instantly flashed through his mind on what, and he was sure that if he made the man wait, things would only get worse, so he told them that he would catch up with them later and he had to go to the Pokémon center to get in touch with his pops on the holophone. Although Bakugo assigned Sero to watch over him as they went to investigate what was happening over on Route 7.

Elliot went in the other direction, walking around as he looked for a Pokémon center he could go to; eventually finding it, he asked another person where it was. He quickly sat down in front of the stool and got his Pokémon checked out while he was doing it as well, just to save time on having to do it before so that he could continue with their adventure.

He answered the phone and was a bit concerned with the way his mother and father were looking at him with concern. His father remarked about how busy he's been lately, but the likely more important thing he remarked about was the interesting individuals he was traveling with, and then it clicked as his father had put two and two together; he didn't think new would spread that quickly, although there had been countless pictures of the group "rookie trainers" that captured a hive of 60 beedrills, half the number of the one that the elite four and the champion had to take care of.

He wasn't going to lie, so he came out and told them that yes, he was indeed traveling with those teens from the news the day we arrived, which earned a sigh from his father as he asked why he didn't tell him before when they were on the phone, and he told him he didn't want him to worry about it, kind of like he was doing now. He murmured under his breath a bit. His father also saw the clip of Bakugo beating the Crawdaunt and the dangerous power or technology he passed and remarked that he shouldn't get involved with them, although he explained that it was the opposite; they involve themselves with him.

He was quick to add that they were not forcing him to do anything or forcing themselves to be around him like some gang or something like that before his dad's imaginative mind went to the worst outcome but he explained that something had called to them and told them of three individuals that would be in charge of the fate of the Kalos region and he was one of them so they have been sticking to him ever since, they were protecting him if anything so his father doesn't have to worry about it however he begged to differ as he asked if they provided any proof that this was the case and he wanted to say that they did but ultimately he couldn't as he knew his father wouldn't react well to it, someone was able to share their memory of the even with him and that how he knew? Yeah, he probably wouldn't buy that for one second, at least not if it only came from him.

So he tried a different approach he told him that, Professor Sycamore could vouch for them and that he should call him to double make sure what he was about to say, as he told him about what happened at the professor's labs a few days ago, his father and mother to say was a bit skeptical was to be an understatement they likely thought he was full on lying which was hammered in by the fact that his mother went on next and tried to empathize with him, speaking on how she knows how much going on his adventure means to him and that it may have been clouding his judgment on things but he despite that he didn't get angry and simply rephrased what he said before on contacting the professor he will tell the same thing that he was at that moment and if he was lying he was fully willing to go back home right now and wait another year to go on his Pokémon journey. His father and mother looked at him for a moment as he looked back, eyes full of determination, and they thankfully relented. They said they would call Professor Sycamore and talk to him about the matter and that he better not be lying to him, which he promised them he wasn't.

His father also wanted some additional information and asked about who the other supposed individuals were and at that he squirmed a bit as he knew this would probably bring back some of the heat he explained that one of them was Ash the boy he told him about before, which he did not find too surprising the boy linked with Team Rocket would be up to something but he once more reiterated that it wasn't like that before continuing and the next one was related to their neighbors someone that went by X the immediate question his momo asked did Grace know about all this as well and he truthfully didn't know, Serena is traveling with another group of them but He doesn't know if they told them yet, his father remarked that they will deal with that then but they ensured to instruct him that if they try anything to let the authorities know immediately and while he never would think they would he assured their parents he would so and call them if anything else happens.

He hung up the call with a big sigh. Things were getting more and more complicated, but he couldn't lie that it wasn't somewhat fun due to those complications. As the jingle wrung for his Pokémon to be ready to be checked out, along with Sero, the two rushed off towards Route 7. Sero even flew them there, making quicker time than they would have just running. They had touched down in the intersection between Routes 7 and 6 as they spotted the other coming back down that way and heard down path Route 6. Mina filled them in on the situation. A mod, which was three in this place, of snorlaxes were clogging up the large wooden bridge ahead. Bakugo simply wanted to attack them and remove them that way given that the man they ran into at the castle had pawned off the poke flute and needed to wake them up gently. However, everyone else said that they could just go get the poke flute, so that was what they were about to do in the large mansion at the end of route 6.

With that information in tow, the group continued on their adventure, skipping the walking portions entirely and the numerous trainers around as the group used Sero's tape to just fly over everything, spotting large brush fields and a long roadway that led to Perfum Palace. The place was fairly large and open. They had gotten plenty of looks as they landed in front of the palace gate. You had needed to pay 1k poké to enter the place, as the older buttle remarked, and it was here that Bakugo elected to sit this one out instead of wasting money on something that they truthfully didn't need. Of course, the other went inside wanting to investigate the large mansion. As soon as the group had set foot inside, they could tell the owner had a passion for royalty. There had been gold, red, and white decorating the landscape almost entirely with paintings, sculptures, and several other servants walking the halls of the palace.

They asked the servants for help locating the owner and when they had found him they attempted to ask about the flute however the man was deadset on finding his furfrou first before anything else could be established this was somewhat troublesome as the group had to go on a wild goose chase looking for the animal as well, it didn't take long to narrow down the paces it could be other than the back garden, so after crossing over a great swimming pool over a bridge which definitely seemed like a just a show-off gesture from the owner they had eventually managed to track the dog down where the hedge maze lies and with that it became a simple task of hunting it down and capturing it before taking it back to its owner Kirishima was the one to hold the dog as they went it seemed to thrash around a bit in his grasp although it did not attack him with any moves so it wasn't trying its utmost to escape.

As they met its owner once more, the man had completely heaped upon praise to the Pokémon, although it kept incentivizing that it was "his," like it was another object that he owned and made. Shauana scowled as the man wasn't looking at her. She disliked people like that furfrou owner who wanted one just because it was popular; nothing else; they wanted the status and never cared for the Pokémon or its needs.

The owner would grant them a "gift" for finding his Pokémon with a firework show, this was simply more reason to show off his wealth to others but nobody minded as they followed along to the specified viewing angle on the second-floor balcony, the group gathered together and watched multiple fireworks began to go off and explode in mid-air, this was the first time Shauna had seen so many and it had reminded her of those in the Pokémon showcases she could imagine that this would be how it would be like but instead of the open sky there would be hundreds of people chewing for her as she performed which Elliot commented that he would be cheering her on as well, causing the girl to flush for a moment and remarked that she doesn't need his cheers but eventually thanked him anyways. The girl also remarked that originally she didn't know if he was a bad guy or not referring to the guardian once more, but with what she's seen so far, she doesn't think he is, and even if he did, she would be there to smack some sense into him, causing Elliot to let out a small chuckle and nod of approval remarking that he hopes she does.

The owner had finally returned with the prized poké flute in hand, or more like the servant's hand, and gave it to them that they could leave back to route 7. Upon exiting the mansion, they found that Bakugo himself had gained a sort of crowd of around 8 people; they had all been watching him battle another trainer; this time he was fighting a gogoat; however, upon seeing them, he seemed to end the fight quickly with a single explosion to the Pokémon's face, blowing it away as he snatched another 3k poké from the women that challenged him, as the others were in awe at the spectacle.

Sero took the opportunity to fly them out of there and back to route 7 with Bakugo hot on their heels himself. Once they arrived, the group touched down, surprising the other two men who had been waiting there with their speed in retrieving the device, although the man had flushed with embarrassment when he said he was out of practice so they would have to likely fight the Pokémon anyways to stave off their anger, which Bakugo blew up at the man for wasting their time, which was followed also by Shauna telling the man off for shrinking on his responsibilities.

Well if that was going to be the case Sero offered to just pick it up and move them himself if they get uppity then they can fight them that way as he used his tape to wrap around each of the snorlaxes individually and lifted them into the air and dropped them off on the other side of the bridge near the forest it almost worked perfectly, however, one of the snorlaxes had incidentally tossed and turned in its sleep causing it to fall off the small piece of tape holding it aloof and fall on its face, this caused the Snorlax to wake up a bit and the man immediately started to play the flute hopping to soothe it' temper but even the teens could tell that he was playing it badly as the Snorlax shook it head in anger twice and fired a hyper beam directly at the poor sound, Kirishima jumped int he way of the attack blocking it from reaching its intended target as Elliot took the stage for this fight unleashing evergreen for this battle.

He commanded the small chespin to use vine whip the small mon sprouted to whips that struck against the larger Pokémon flank causing it to take a step back although it charged at the smaller mon attempting to tackle it he ordered his Pokémon to dodge before ordering the use of rollout the spikes on the back of the mon slowed before it charged forwards striking the Pokémon in the gut although the Snorlax seemed prepared as it used defensive curl it body curlig and bracing for the blow absorbing the rolled up Pokémon with its' fat before it used bite to snap at chespin skull although it hurt itself on chespins spins it still succeeded in grabbing it and flailing the smaller Pokémon and slamming it on the ground Elliot thought quickly and told his chespin to use leech seed as it grabbed a piece of it's spine off its head and stabbed it into the ground which grew into a plant that caught the Snorlax arm which held him and drained the energy from the Pokémon before expelling it towards his chespin which healed the damage, the snorlax quickly esapced the bind as it used a charge beam to destroy the vine although Elliot would use rollout one more time while it was distracted striking the snorlax three time before something interesting happened during the fourth charge as chespin was covered in a raging blue light revealing a Quilladin it was able to strike the fourth time and lead into fith most powerfu hit tat knocked the Snorlax off its feet and caused it run away into the forest.

Elliot was super stoke that his chespin was able to evolve and the group celebrated his victory over the larger Pokémon, the celebration was somewhat disturbed by the owner of the mansions coming down he had overhead the battle that had been raging own as he decided to walk his furfrou, the dog loves the sound of the poke flute although he was sure to point out that the dog liked the sound of his fireworks better he was incredibly disappointed when the man he gave it played it so badly, while he had no use for it other than putting it up on display if the man wanted to take care of it he should definetly learn to play it better and maybe once he could offer his time to play for his dog as well, the castle worker just begrudging agreed to what the owner said although he definitely wouldn't be taking him on his offer anytime soon even if he did learn to play.

The man bid himself farewell quickly after going back to walking his furfrou while the castle worker and the other man thanked them for their help and left on their way as well. Given that the town was a bust, the only thing left for Elliot to do was continue forward. The rock-type gym was in this direction anyway, so the trip wasn't a complete loss as the crew continued on their way. Elliot informed the teens about his and his parent's conversations; although they would leave that to the others to figure out, they didn't blame them for being concerned about them; anyone would be especially bakugo. Mina remarked with a teasing grin, although the boy only sucked his teeth in reply. Eventually, people will think what they will about them; however, they were more about letting their actions speak for them as heroes.

End notes:

Soo much happens, I guess a couple of things for this chapter is Clembot fiasco is incredibly dangerous on clemonts part looking back given that he had to save Ash from a harsh fall in the beginning episode which if this happened again(which it logically should have) then that means someone would have been hospitalized by crack their head on the back of the pavement due to Clemonts idiocy, why does he have so many trap doors in the place to begin with, now that I think about it? Lol

Aura guardian stuff is mainly just tacked on and played by ear, as Ash presumably doesn't train with it at all but can do so much with it casually that one might think requires training which can only mean it is inherent in some way or another or just really easy to use and pick up which I'm probably going to lean into with the two teens that are them in one way or another.

And finally adulthood/drinking age justification: I live in the great US of A so you can't drink until you turn 21 but you can own a weapon at the age of 18(makes sense somehow) adapting that to the Pokemon universe, at the age of 10 you are allowed to own weapons(pokemon are weapons don't me) so I applying that same rule they should be allowed to drink at technically 13 but I simply moved it up to 16, combine this with the whole 24M and 40D thing technically in turns of living experience they would have about as much as a 42-year-old in our time so it balances it out.