I woke to the sounds of sirens and the smell of smoke. Looking around, it was dark and I felt light headed.

It wasn’t till the lights turned on that I was in a completely white room. I looked down to see nothing, but I could still feel limbs moving. Human limbs.

Where am I? Okay, what do I remember, I was carried around like a toy by Jennifer for a while and since I don’t have a pokeball, I went to sleep in her tent.

Looking forward, I saw two screens showing the same image slightly different. Like when you cover one eye and see only what that eye sees. I tried walking, jogging, then running, but it never got closer. I suddenly felt extraordinary pain in my side and looking down, there was blood coming from nowhere and just falling, never hitting the ground.

Waking up, it was still dark but I could see the shift in lighting due to my ability to see in the dark, I was panting, and Jen was asleep beside me. A nightmare, just a nightmare.

Getting up, I un-zipped the tent door and stood outside I the cool early morning air. It was quite nice so I decided to run around doing the normal morning routine for most people. As the sun was just rising, I figured I do some more practise, but looking at using my moves in everyday situations. Using detect, I was able to easily jump from tree to tree in the dark while avoiding small twigs and other pokemon. But I could do that well already. Quick attack and extreme speed increased my speed during this agility training while I was laughing like a madman the whole time. Thinking back to my move set, I tried to think of other useful moves for everyday use. One I came up was using zap cannon to cook things but using the move on a piece of fruit, as much as I tried to limit the voltage, it just kind of either exploded, became ash, or usually a combination of both.

Every time I tried, I had to grab a fruit but because I don’t have hands anymore, I had to do multiple trips which led me to another thought. If I could make my double teams attack physical, could I make the clones? Which turns out was a yes but other than mimicking me, I wasn’t able to get the clones to do much, even just focusing on one. So another experiment for later, maybe.

“Shade! We’re heading out!” I heard Oliver call so running back to the campsite, I see they are already packed up and I didn’t see any of the equipment from last night and they were even in new clothes with Oliver in forest camo style hoodie and khaki cargo pants and Jennifer was wearing a red long sleeve shirt and the same cargo pants as her twin but they were a dark blue. But I honestly had enough then and tried to ask them a question that’s been bothering me. I remember the pokedex being in English which was convenient, so I wrote ‘Where does all the gear and such get stored?’

“What did you just draw? Are you trying to ask us something?” Asked Oliver which confused me to hell and back. Did I write it wrong? Looking down, it was fine, so I was quite confused. I had read in English from the pokedex so why couldn’t they understand it. I guess one question at a time, so I rub out the text and try something else. Drawing a large box and a smaller one beside it, I start drawing a bunch of things like pokeballs, tents, a cooking pan, and the bowls on the right of the big box. The two trainers just watch trying to work out what I’m asking. I next circle the items and draw two arrows, one from the items to the big box and another to the small box.

“I’m not getting it.” Jen said. “How about you Ollie?”

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“Nope.” He responds.

I continue trying to explain. Tapping the arrow for the big box, I nod before touching the next arrow with a no. Then holding up a paw as like trying to say but, pressing the small arrow again, I nod. Starring at them with hopeful smile waiting for their answer.

“Nope.” Oliver says stumped.

“I might have.” Jen says. “So, thinking aloud, that’s all our camping gear and such, and the boxes are size?” I shake my head. I draw an equal sign before putting a cross through it to go for different. “So they are different in something. Volume?” She asks. I give a sort of motion. At least symbols seem to be understood. “Space?” I nod to this before going back the arrows. “Are you asking where all of our stuff went?” She asks at last. I nod excitedly at finally being understood.

“Okay, so all of our stuff goes in these backpacks.” Oliver says taking his off and pulling out a tent bag and sleeping bag before putting them back. “These bags are from what I know, are like pokeballs. The condense things in a way to lose mass and size but for the technical stuff, I don’t know.”

That’s cool. I happily say finally having my answer before we started out journey.

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Walking along, the two had decided to split up for the time being in order to catch their second pokemon as to challenge the first gym, you needed two pokemon and seeing how I sorta didn’t count, they would need other pokemon so their challenge from yesterday was in full affect. They added whoever was back at that spot with a pokemon first wins.

I headed off with Jen into the forest to see what we could find. It didn’t take long to find a pokemon as a hoot hoot stood on a branch looking fairly aggressive.

“Fen, you’re up.” She says as she tosses her ball which after flying out, returns to her like it does in the show so something weird happens there.

The owl darts from the tree using tackle which Fen dodges as the bird crashes into the ground.

“Ember, then tackle.”

Fen shoots the small flames from her mouth hitting the bird before ramming it. It crashes into a tree before its beak lights up and it charges right back at Fen and manages a glancing hit. The little fire fox stumbles a bit before shooting back and clipping the hoot hoot’s wing.

“Torch it Fen.” With this, the little fox just fired embers into the poor pokemon till it fainted and using a pokeball, caught it.

“Yes! We got it Fen. Return.” The pokeball beams out the iconic red light and causes the little pokemon to disappear. “Quick shade, lets hurry and beat Oliver.” We started running back to the spot to see Oliver not there.

I took about ten minutes for Oliver to show up disappointed he lost but glad at his catch as proudly announced, “I caught an aron that was walking around.”

“That’s great bro, we got a hoot hoot which would be quite powerful as a noctowl. But you can get an aggron.” Jen congratulated. “Oh, and as for your punishment, I’ll think of something.” That made him visibly deflate and made me laugh a bit.

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We made it to the next campsite about mid-afternoon and as I trained alone, practising control over my moves, the twins bonded with their two new pokemon. Ollie boringly didn’t name his apparently male aron while the male hoot hoot was named hoot by Jennifer. The four pokemon and two people were playing and getting use to each other and I didn’t want to bother them, so I decided this was a good use of my time. I experimented with shadow ball for most of it as I wanted to see if I could shoot multiple shots at once because in the anime, I remember a scene where giratina shoots more than one and I can’t even remember where this is in the series. Through my experiments, I found it was plausible, but it took quite a bit longer for a second shot to appear that was only the size of a golf ball, but it was promising. I was suddenly lifted by Jennifer and treated as a teddy bear again. Jennifer, I swear to god, I will, arghhhhhhhh. I say in annoyance. I could just use a move but that would hurt her.

“It is not that bad, besides, your quite warm to hug.” She happily replies.

I struggled for a bit to find she had an iron grip, so I gave up and accepted my fate till we went to bed. This is going to get old really quick.