Another day, another chance at being the best. Why are there messages from Professor Oak?
Seems like there'll be a big event for all the people who helped with the rocket raid on the city. Ok.
Another stealthy journey to the bathroom, this time taking Chardon for a shower, and I let Leaf and Ralts use the bathroom after I'm finished.
A quick scrubbing of Kakuna and Tabs before making breakfast and getting water and now I can head over to the middle of the center to meet up with the others.
A quick message to the others and they all confirm except for Mirielle but Amy said that 'she in batroom rn' suffice to say that she meant to add a h before room.
I headed into the waiting room and waited on the least damaged couch. Looking around most of the damage was cleaned alongside some new glass doors being installed, though the roof is still being worked on.
A couple people pass by and look at me before deciding to sit on a different couch. weird.
Soon after all my friends converge to the waiting room, even James came on time which is mildly frightening. An odd thing is nagging at me though.
"How did everyones sleep go?" why did that make Amy flinch, and why are the others even more worried? "Seriously guys is something wrong?"
James answers first "I had a nightmare about that Frillish."
"Really? I got freaked out by that Arbok." Cherry spoke
"... Mine was about the explosion" Amy murmured
"W-what Amy said" Mirielle added
Then all four looked at me as if it was my turn. What did I dream about again?
Oh, yeah "I had a dream about a flower field with Leaf as an Eevee, and then Leaf evolved into a Leafeon." I sent out Leaf to make a point.
It seems like everyone was too tired or busy to either remember or find out that Leaf evolved. Yesterday must've been really frightening.
Gotta take their minds off yesterday but how... Oh I know.
"Hey guys lets all have a bowling round before the conference, or maybe a contest on cutest Pokemon or something." that seems to take their mind off this whole rocket thing.
We head off to a bowling alley where I drank a really large amount of water and at the very end it was neck and neck between Cherry and myself. She needs the win to take her mind off this whole thing so I throw a gutter ball twice, of course not at the same place because even if I'm dumb I'm not stupid.
After I paid for everything since it was my treat we went to a battle ring and sent out our Pokemon one by one before grading them by cuteness points.
Of course Leaf won mainly due to her lavender scent and those amber brown eyes using her only fairy type move. Second place was Pikachu and third was Bulbasaur who fell asleep in the middle of the contest.
James is still worried judging by how he's holding a poke ball with a Pokemon in his hand and spinning it around... *sigh* there's only one thing I can do now.
"James," a confirmation from him and I continue on "I'm heading to the open battle centers and I'm gonna fight beginner tier trainers ok."
First he just hums in agreement but once he processes what I said his eyes open wide and he looks at me like I'm a madman.
I just send back my Pokemon and begin heading around the town to different battle arenas challenging any trainer who are beginner tier or below. For beginner tier trainers I used Leaf and occasionally Chardon while all the others would face off against newbie tier trainers.
After my tenth win in a row I looked around for James and it seems like he's in the middle of his own battle with Rufflet and in the end just barely won. Rufflet using Leer before Peck was the right play against the opposing Lotad.
When I head to him it seems like he's gotten his head clear. In fact the dude seems more confident on something, what that might be I have no idea.
At one pm we all head over to the town hall to listen to the big speech that's said to happen.
The building was at least four stories tall and sleek white as compared to the blue and black buildings next to it. The design is like a generic town hall with the outside spanning about six evenly spaced windows on the left and the right. It's pretty big all things considered. In the front was a stage and podium with no one there yet.
There were a lot of people waiting when we got there and it seems like there are a bunch of ace trainers keeping guard of the place, most likely to prevent a surprise surprise rocket raid.
While waiting there was Whismur guy and Valencia there so I chose to say thanks to Val for being 'Valiant'.
She did not like the joke.
Anyway about like five minutes of waiting some old guy came up to the podium to begin some type of speech.
"Greetings trainers young and old it is I, Charles Goodman the president of the Pokemon league committee." An old man with a backwards cap on is our league president... THAT IS SO COOL. "It is a pleasure to announce the new Pokemon league conference, and to all participants, may you all have a wonderful journey of growth and adventure."
And with that the awesome Mr Charles proceeded to leave the stage only for some really tall and buff lady to appear. Why did Val just stiffen?
"Greetings trainers, I am Emiliano Tristy and it is a pleasure to meet you all." She took a second to look at the crowd, her eyes darting to some trainers like my friends. "The recent event that occurred due to team Rocket was barely controlled thanks to gym leader Blue destroying two separate bases of the criminal organization, unfortunately the ace trainers and rangers were out of town arresting the individuals and were unable to handle the threat that occurred within the city."
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After taking another second to pop out a Ninetales next to her she continued on. "It is with great pleasure that I can say that despite the injuries caused to civilians there were zero casualties, and for that I must congratulate the individuals who bravely fought against team rocket."
She waved her arm to the stairs on the right of the podium (her left) right as a few carts appeared. "All those who faced off against team Rocket please come stand on the podium to receive your reward."
A few people in the crowd began shifting towards the podium but a couple of them were lifted up and placed further back in the crowd for some reason. It took maybe five minutes for everyone to reach the podium and stand on the stage but apparently that wasn't everyone as a few seconds later a couple people were picked up and placed next to me. Oh, Mirielle was one of the two who didn't come up, the second person was a dude who looked 8, I've never seen him before.
Now the group is about thirty six people standing here including the little Swampert kid, hehe.
Once supposedly all of the people who faced off against team Rocket were here miss Tristy continued. "A round of applause for these 'valiant' individuals," how did sh- clapping occurs snapping my thoughts away before fading after an appropriate time "as a token of our appreciation we will now be giving all these trainers Pokemon eggs found outside the region alongside specific type pellets for all their current Pokemon." Wait dat be big.
Pellets are the lifeblood of regular trainers trying to feed their group of Pokemon as they're filled with nutrients and vitamins that would have fed a regular Snorlax with one bag. But there are always nutrients or minerals that a typing does or doesn't need which the generic version just can't fulfill so the higher tier trainers usually buy chow just for their Pokemon's typing. The chow for specific typing can cost up to six hundred dollars per bag which is why no sane beginner or newbie trainer should buy them, unless they were rich.
Having a specific psychic fairy chow for Ralts and a poison bug chow for Kakuna is massively helpful since the disparity in food quality is even more noticeable in dual types.
The carts that were holding chow open up and a blue tinge surrounds the different bags of food before being deposited on each trainers feet. Oddly enough I got a steel fairy chow including the ones that will actually help my team.
Looking around some people also got confused as to why they got extra chow with the girl getting a water type chow despite having no Pokemon herself.
Then it clicked and I opened up my pokedex to check the list of Pokemon available.
"Steel Fairy Pokemon lines: Mawile, Klefki, Tinkatink" that was the list of what was available for now and some people nearby got the hint as to what their Pokemon eggs might be and asked for a list of the specific typings of their chow to which I agreed for the dual types since mono typings have way too many Pokemon.
The Ninetales looks on in amusement on my clear spoiling of some surprise, if it was meant to be a surprise they could've tried a little harder to keep it as one.
"You have to understand that we only had half a day to accomplish this but yes we could have done a little more" was that the Ninetales. "Yes" Oh. Neat. Bingo Bongo Blorgo.
The Ninetales looks at me with a chortle escaping its mouth, oh ye I made it- "Him" him laugh.
Anyway I get the hint and put away the pokedex to pay attention to the words Mr Goodman says, it started with something about how trainers should be courageous but also know their limitations, the speech seems to be ending now so I just wait for the eggs to appear.
This time Ninetales takes the center stage and in a grand display of psychic prowess that would no doubt make a Metang jealous-"Only a Metang" would no doubt make a Mime Jr. jealous "Now you're just messing with me" Ninetales picked all of us up and took off the cloth covering the eggs all at the same time before picking up the eggs and gently placing one in front of each of us before letting us down once more into neat rows instead of the mess that we previously were with all our respective chow in front of our feet.
Will I catch a Vulpix, battle with it, train it telepathy, and then evolve it... probably not judging by the fact I have a potential Charizard in my poke ball just waiting to evolve.
After a couple photos of us all the trainers that aren't a part of the speech begin moving off stage. This is my chance to- "Don't even think about it" Awww why not "Because my trainer would take away my favorite toys" alright I won't happy, Mr Nine. A smile takes place on the fire types face before he was sent back into his ball.
I did stay till the end to hear about any new rules or anything to be careful of but other than an infestation of some Bisharp improperly released there wasn't anything big; though Mr Nine, Cherry's Gothita, and Ralts alongside a couple other psychic types force released themselves outside their poke balls in panic before calming down and being sent back. Weirdly enough the unknown Pokemon in James's poke ball was extremely shaky before calming down as well.
At the very end we got a couple poke balls for free and an antidote before being told to go on our ways.
I got out relatively quickly and had to wait for the others. Easy enough until you realize that I have to wait for captain Slowbro as well who will no doubt come after everyone else has left.
A wait that felt like an eternity but really was sixteen minutes later and now my friend group is ready to go. Though there was a slight hitch to the plan.
Namely Miss Tristy came to our group to say something.
James, Amy, and myself were thrusted a poke ball with a Pokemon inside each while Cherry and Mirielle were given a few items alongside miss Tristy sending out an Indeedee that knew Heal Pulse and subsequently aimed the move on one of Mirielle's poke balls.
"Use these gifts wisely you five, now to give my daughter a similar reward."
And then she left. A quick check on the ball that hit by the psychic move and out came little Rookidee who had a perfectly healed wing.
The three of us who got a poke ball from her began opening it to check what was inside and lo and behold the three Rockruff that belonged to the Rocket grunts are standing in front of us.
We all were stunned but I snapped out of it and put an open hand towards the Rockruff to allow them to sniff me as is proper ranger protocols.
The step siblings both copied me and two of the rock type puppies began rubbing into us with their rocky tuft of fur which felt really nice and scratchy. The last one just stares at me before taking its poke ball from James before giving it to me and sending itself back in.
I gave James the poke ball of one of the remaining rock types and the two jumped into Amy and James's arms.
After we left the townhall we were heading to the center when Cherry motioned to draw our attention.
"Sorry guys I kinda want to stay in the city and beat Blue before leaving, it'll take a couple months at least though so go ahead without me." Cherry spoke worriedly
By my guess Cherry probably want's to beat Blue first and face off against Sabrina last. I ask her if that's her plan and she nods.
"Nah that's fine, I'm gonna face him for last so its alright" Amy said with a weird grin.
"I was gonna head to Celadon after Pewter to enter a tournament in two weeks so I was always gonna split off," after a second I also say "plus I wanna save Blaine for last so I wouldn't really be able to join Amy or the others."
We all headed to the center which was already in the middle of repairs to get all our gear and such.
A short while later, with Cherry guiding us, we were standing in front of Viridian Forest.
"Oh right. Don't worry about Ralts not really getting Reflect since she's really close and a battle will be all she needs to learn the move."
We all gave our goodbyes and Mirielle gave a short hug to Cherry which sparked me into giving a hug and then James and Amy turned it into a group hug with the excitable rock pups in their arms before we left Cherry waving goodbye.
I already placed some ground rules that no fire or electric type moves could be used in the forest in case of a fire so Pikachu and Chardon would only be able to come out during night time.
And with that the four chosen lab trainers headed over to the forest in order to do their first gym battle... after a toilet break.
"I'm so sorry but I really need to go." I tell the other three while bowing and everybody began laughing at me when I shuffled away.