"Here you go guy, eat up" I say placing two bowl filled to the brim with Pokemon food
Quaxly jump to the counter along with Pawmi, Quaxly eyes light up and it begins to devour the pile of food. Pawmi is a little more timid sniffing at the bowl tentatively
"Its all yours don't worry" I says scratching the back of it head with one finger
It takes one bite before calling happily and beginning to eat the rest
"Don't get used to this you two, the feast won't always be this big" I say happily before opening my laptop up
I type into it bring up the call feature and hit the call button, it rings a few times before being answered
"Hello Dustin" calls the familiar face of Professor Elm
"Hi Professor"
"To what do I owe the pleasure"
"Uh I wanted to ask you a question, have you ever seen a Pokemon like this before?" I say holding up my phone with a picture of the Spiky Eared Pichu
"Oh a rarity, the Spiky Eared Pichu"
"You know it?"
"I do, they are real rare ones these days. There was supposedly a pack of them near Ilex Forest living, however they are female only species so the gene has been lost over the years, why do you ask?"
"There one living here in the dorm of the academy, apparently its been here for a few years"
"Oh I see, is it one of the staff members?"
"No its wild apparently, I asked a few of the students when I was picking up supplies yesterday, it seems to battle lots in the courtyard but never showed any interest in going with a trainer"
"Peculiar, well I remember reading that the breed are very headstrong so perhaps it just needs to find the right trainer, it shiny coloured so that may be why its alone rather than with a pack"
"I hadn't thought of that, thank you Professor"
"Anytime young man, I hope you enjoy your studies"
We make our goodbyes and I flip the lid of my laptop down, I had tried to call Oscar last night to speak to him but he was busy with things after his match, over text he seemed pretty upbeat despite the loss. We said we would speak this evening. I quickly gather up my supplies and return my two Pokemon to their balls before heading down to home room. I manage to find my way their quickly pushing the door open, it fairly vacant except for the front row
"Hey little buddy, we saved you a spot" Arven shouts waving me over
I smile seeing Arven and Poppy who still looks annoyed at the fact her Aunt is her homeroom teacher, there is another girl sat with them, she wears a dark hoodie which she has the hood up on, she has glasses from which her bloodshotten eyes peak out through
"Morning Dustin" Poppy grumbles
"Hi all, uh nice to meet you" I say holding out my hand to the other girl
She stares at me blankly looking between my hand and my face
"Yo" She says weakly before putting her head on the desk shutting her eyes
"Okay" I mumble
"Don't mind Penny, she stayed up late watching a show"
"I only meant to watch 3 episodes and ended up finishing the season" She says muffled by her hood
I laugh before taking the seat next to Arven
"Sleep well?" He questions
"Yeah, the mattress was so soft. It beats sleeping on the tent floor when out in the open"
"I hate camping, I was always looking for centres when I was travelling through Sinnoh, the nights used to be freezing" Poppy says shivering for effect
"Yeah but looking up at the sky seeing the stars as you cook up some good food, there no better flavour" Arven adds with a wide smile
"Theres no Wifi outside" Penny grumbles
"Well, I'm pleased to see we have a full class today"
Daisy walks in with some notebooks and her laptop setting it all down on her desk
"I'm pleased to welcome you all to my class, I'll be Ms Collins. I will serve as the Pokemon Ecology teacher this year, I hope you all enjoy learning with me"
Penny perks up from her hoodie with one eye
"Your Aunt is hot Poppy"
Poppy rears up angrily and pull her hand up to smack the back of her hand before resisting
"Ah Miss Penny, I'm pleased to see you joining us today. Now I would ask could you sit up and take your hood down please" Daisy says calmly but sternly
Penny pops up immediately and pulls her hood down
"Thank you, now class could I understand most of your are second years however we do have a new student joining the school, Dustin would you please introduce yourself"
I feel a hot sense of verves run over myself before a hand goes on my arm
"You got this little buddy" Arven whispers
I gulp and stand up
"Uh hi everyone, I'm Dustin. I'm from Ayapen Village in the Kanto region"
"Does anyone have any questions?" Daisy continues
The class stay silent just looking back at me blankly as the hot nervous feeling returns
"I got one"
Poppy sticks her hand up
"Go ahead"
"Which badge journey did you prefer Kanto or Johto?"
"Uh I didn't really prefer one over the other I guess, Johto cultures were really cool and the people are really friendly and Kanto is my home region but getting to explore places I had never seen before was exciting"
"You've been in both the Kanto and Johto league?" One of the smaller boys in the class asks excitedly
"Uh yeah, I managed to get 16 badges" I say pulling out my badge case and opening and showing them
The class audibly coos in awe
"Who was your first Pokemon?" another girl asks
"A Bulbasaur I got it in Pallet Town"
"Does that mane you have met Professor Oak?!" Another boy asks
"Uh yeah he super nice so is Professor Elm too"
"You know Professor Elm too?!"
"Uh yeah, I did some research for him"
"Wow so cool!"
"Well that's a good introduction, if anyone has any more questions or want some advice from Dustin I'm sure he would be happy to oblige" Daisy says putting her hand on my shoulder
I nod and take up my seat again
"So lets the class begin now, so can anyone tell me what the basis of Pokemon ecology?"
The lesson passes, it very interesting as Daisy explains about the set up of her Pokemon Research centre, it really interesting to hear about how each centre is set up and custom made. IT ends quite quickly, the rest of the class empty out as they have different classes leaving us four at the front
"So you four, what's you're next lesson?" Daisy ask sitting back at her desk
"Battle Studies" Poppy responds bluntly
"Oh lovely, Dustin make sure you get to try out Terastallization" She answers
"Oh I read up on that, it only in a certain few regions, Oscar told me about it they have it in Kitakami"
"Well little buddy, it take a lot to master, even Poppy struggles with it sometime"
"No I don't" Poppy exclaims
"You dropped your tera orb multiple time" Penny says with a yawn
"Hey your supposed to be on my team!" Poppy says pouting
"Well have a good day, once your lesson are over I need all four of you to join me in the director office, around 4pm please" Daisy says calmly
"Uh why?" Poppy asks
"I think you know why" Daisy says raising her eyebrows
Arven and Poppy both go stiff while Penny picks up her backpack
"You too Dustin, don't worry your not in trouble at all"
"Uh okay" I say
"Come on lets head to the battlecourt" Arven says as he begins to exit the room
We venture down through the stairs, Poppy leads the way striding, she says hi to a couple of the other students along the way, Arven is in the back hitching his huge backpack up on his back a few times as we walk while Penny is in front of me, she scrolls on her phone not taking her eyes off it but diligently following Poppy almost as a guide, it feels like they have done this quite a few times, I spy over her shoulder and it seems she is just watching cute Eevee clips on her phone.
"So how long have you three been friends?" I ask
"Since Poppy joined, we met out on the routes, I was looking for Herba getting chased by a gang of Tauros when Poppy and her Skeledirge roasted them. She introduced me to Penny and we're all buddies now along with the Prez" Arven says happily
"The Prez, do you mean Nemona?" I ask
"Yeah, you'll meet her when she's back from the World Championships"
Poppy says as she pushes past a group of boys
"She'll love you, I hope you ready to be constantly pestered for battles" Penny chuckles
"Oh is she battle mad" I question
"If you were to do a pie chart of what Nemona thinks about, 95% would be battling" Penny continues
"Oh cool, I can't wait to meet her, wonder if she has heard of Ryan"
Penny ears perks up"
Ryan?"
"Oh yeah, he's my mentor, I got assigned him when I started out"
"Oh you shouldn't have said anything" Poppy coos as she plops down on the bench beside the battle court
"Whats he like? I only met him once and I was too stunned to ask him anything" Penny ask becoming a little more intense
"Uh he's nice, likes to joke around quite a bit, are you a fan?"
She grabs her phone and scrolls, it shows her decked out with Merchandise with Ryan and Espeons images on it, it seems like she is at one of Ryan championship battles.
"It more of an obsession" Arven mumbles
"What's his Espeon like?" She continues
I spend the next ten minutes before our battle studies class telling Penny about Ryan who listens intently to every word, she shows me more pictures of her at other battles, there even one where Ryan is up against her father Peony and she is draped all in Ryan merchandise while her father looks on fore longed. After a while the other four students finish there lesson and we are greeted by the battle studies teacher
"Osu! Poppy nice too see you and Penny its nice for you too finally partake in my class" The teacher says bouncing from foot to foot punching the air while her Medicham does the same
"Morning Ms Dendra" Poppy responds
"This is Dustin, hes the new kid"
"Osu! Nice too meet you new kid" She says continuing to bounce
"Uh nice too meet you" I say a little unnerved
"So I suppose we should demonstrate the tera orb, Penny Arven, get into to battle positions"
"What?! Why us?!" Arven protests
"Poppy is too strong, even for me. You're a fair battle"
Arven slumps accepting his fate as he trudges out to the battlefield followed by Penny who taps at her phone
"You can't use Sylveon!" Arven shouts at her
"I can use what I want thanks" She spits back
They take up their position opposite each other, Arven sends out a Greedunt while Penny goes with her Sylveon
"Oh man I'm getting trounced" Arven cries
"Come on Arven a bit of confidence!" Poppy shouts as myself and her take up a position at the side while Ms Dendra acts as referee
"Scared are we Arven?" Penny quips with a devilish smile
"Lets get this over with" He sighs
"Sylveon, Moonblast"
Sylveon summons a huge pink moon within its ribbons before sending it flying towards Greedunt
"Greedunt, block it"
Gredunt turns and blocks the move with its tail
"Now use Curse"
Greedunt is enveloped is a red mist and then becomes slightly more groggy
"That not gonna work Arven, Sylveon use Magical Leaf"
Sylveon summons a flurry of leaves and send them flying toward Greedunt as they cut away at it
"Curse again"
Greedunt follows the same process enveloped in red"
You're going to want to watch this" Poppy whispers to me
"Fine, lets tera, go!" Penny throws out a small black stone like orb that burst above Sylveon and envelopes it, the orb summons a huge crystal that burst from the ground in place of Sylveon before bursting away revealing Sylveon but with a large crystal heart above its head
"Wow!" I shout in awe
"Now Greedunt your turn"
Arven throw out his orb which bursts it reveals Greedunt now in a silver light with a same coloured axe on it head
"Hey! Your Greedunt was Normal type!" Penny shouts"
We took a trip to Medali didn't we Penny!" Poppy shouts with a smile
"Gyro Ball!" Arven shouts with a gleeful tone
Greedunt roars and the axe on its head light up before it spins on the spot before smashing into Sylveon sending it flying backwards to the floor and unable to battle
"Arven! You should have said you changed its type!" Penny shouts as she returns Sylveon after having the tera orb absorb back some of the energy emitted
"You'd won 5 times in a row, I don't need to tell you may battle plans" Arven chuckles before doing the same with Greedunt
"So new kid, that's Terastal, what do you think?" Dendra questions
"Well, is it just that they get a cool hat?"
Poppy laughs
"No, basically, when you use the orb, the Pokemon becomes that type"
"Oh, so it defensive kind of, you could change to a ghost type to stop normal attacks?" I ask
"Exactly new kid! He catches on quick"
"You can also use it to power up moves, like say for example Penny Sylveon, its Moonblast would be stronger when used it Terastal state then without it"
"Right, so like for example I have a Togekiss, if I was to use that orb and it changed to Flying does that mean it can be hit by Drgaon moves?"
"Correct new kid, the Pokemon embodies the type wholly, however it does retain any bonus to the moves it use, so if your Togekiss use Dazzling Gleam it would still gain the bonus power it normally has"
"Right okay, so any Pokemon can be any type?"
"Yeah, but you can only change it at Medali, they use this special spice blend with tera Shard which you get from Tera raids, they ask you to bring 50 as they have to create another mix for the next customer" Arven says looking happily at Penny who giving his a deathstare
"I can issue you with one but we do have a slight issue" Dendra says handing me one of the orbs"
What the issue?" I ask taking it rolling it through my fingers
"Well, we don't really have anyone on your strength level to battle, Quaxly would probably lose to anyone at the moment" Dendra says
"Its okay, I can try it out in the field" I say with a laugh
"Pi Pich"We all turn to see the Pichu from before out on the battle court, it waves it hands forward towards us
"Hey you! Where are the Oran berries I picked!" Arven shouts at the Pichu
It slaps its tummy happily before pointing at me and waving me forward
"You'll be our opponent?" It nods before racing away on the field
"Fine, this should be interesting" I say moving forward pulling out Quaxly ball
"Go Quaxly!"
Quaxly touches down fixing its hair as it does before facing down Pichu
Pichu lights it cheeks up before sending off a Thundershock
"Dodge and use Water Gun!"
Quaxly deflty spins to the side and fires off the stream of water hitting Pichu square in the face
"Now Pound!"
Quaxly jumps forward as Pichu tries to recover, it manages to slip out of the way causing Quaxly to hit the ground, it spins and hits Quaxly with a Iron Tail sending it skidding backwards
"Quaxly use Aqua Jet!"
Quaxly becomes enveloped in water before slamming Pichu back
"Right lets try this out, go!" I say throwing the tera orb out
The orb envelopes Quaxly as before leaving it shining bright blue with a water splash jewel upon its head
"Now Water Gun!"
Quaxly shines and fires off the more powerful stream that hits Pichu sending it backwards
It smiles devilishly before winding it arms are cheeks crackling with electricity, it starts to shine a yellow colour
"Hit it with Aqua Jet first"
Quaxly envelopes and water before charging off, the shine around Pichu dissipates as it goes dizzy and begins to teeter, Quaxly slams it full force sending it backwards. It skids along the floor unable to battle
"Nice, your mine now!" I say pulling a Fast Ball Professor Elm had gifted me from my pocket and throw it flying at Pichu
"No Dustin!" Poppy shout
Its too late and the ball connects with Pichu, it zipped into the ball. The ball rolls three times before the capture is confirmed
"Nice!" I shout before running out and picking the ball up
"No way!" Arven shouts as the group rushes over there
"You caught it!" Penny exclaims
"Yeah, whats the issue?" I say slightly confused
"That Pichu been here for years" Dendra says with a befuddled look
"Tens maybe hundred trainer have tried to catch that Pichu, people kind of just gave up after a while as it always got away but, you caught it" Poppy explains
I look down at the ball
"Oh right, guess I got lucky" I say as the ball burst open on its own
"Pich" Pichu says landing down on the ground
"Hey little buddy welcome to the team" I say happily
It stares at me with disdain, it then turns and runs away up a vent
"Hey wait!" I shout running to the vent to see where it had gone
"Give it some space I would suggest"
I look up to see Daisy standing next to me she is accompanied by another man I recognise
"It probably just a little shocked, you can recall it but give it some time"
"Uh yeah okay" I say standing back up
"That was an ultra-mega capture kid" The man laughs
"Dad?!" Penny shouts
"My Penny, it nice to see you!" He shouts rushing over to her
"So embarrassing" She says pulling her hood up in an attempt to hide
"Right you four sorry to cut you battle lesson short but you are required in the director office promptly please"
"Ah but I was going to battle Ms Dendra"
Daisy give Poppy a look similar to one I have seen her give Ryan before
"Fine" she huffs before following Daisy and Penny's dad out of the courtyard
"Come on little buddy" Arven says pulling me along
We make our way up the stairs to the director office, Daisy pushes the door open and there are 7 seats laid out in front of us, with the director position standing behind his desk. There a TV set in the corner of the room which looks to be on a standby screen
"Ah lovely too see you all, please take a seat" Clavell says
We all takes seat, Poppy is pulled next to Daisy while Penny tries to hide away on the furthest seat while her dad sits next to her smiling away
"Lovely to see you again Peony" the director says to Penny's dad
"It nice to be back, I haven't been to the academy in years" He says with a huge laugh
"Dad" Penny mumbles pulling her hood tighter
"Now we have one more guest in the flesh but perhaps I should introduce the two who wanted this meeting organised" Clavell says clicking the screen
Upon the screen are a man and a woman, they both wear white scientist coats
"Mon?! Dad?!" Arven exclaims
