"Seismic waves of 5.4 on the scale of Groudon, struck this morning in the East part of Galar. There has been major damage done to the landscape but luckily it appears that the casualties among Pokémon and humans are relatively low. The earthquake's epicenter was luckily in a wild area and no-"

I tapped on the screen of my Pokédex and the radio switched to a different station.

Nothing important happened in Galar it seems, though it was interesting to see that people used Groudon as a magnitude scale instead of Richter like my world had. Does this mean they recorded a Groudon related earthquake once and used that to set the standard?

"Raaaltts!" Ralts complained and pulled on a hair lock.

I raised an eyebrow, "Seriously? You want to hear about that?"

"Ralts," She exclaimed and I sighed and switched back to Galar Star-Radio, the most important news station according to themselves.

The Pokédex began playing the radio again and the people in the studio were discussing the aftermath of the earthquake.

I tuned it out as Ralts kept listening to it, from atop of my head.

It had been a grave mistake to listen to the radio while Ralts was nearby because the moment I flipped open the Pokédex she wanted to listen in too, despite the fact that I only wanted to do a quick listen to see what was going on, she wanted to listen to it till the end.

My guess was that she was starving for entertainment, considering she was now paying attention to 3 nerds talking about seismic waves and she genuinely seemed to like it.

Guess I had to get her a book sometime in the future, otherwise I wouldn't be able to actually do something useful.

It was kind of funny though, the fact that I considered an earthquake unimportant news. In my old world it would be big news but living in this world has changed my view on a lot of subjects.

I had been listening to the news every evening, first Sinnoh Daily and after that I did a quick check on all the other regions.

The Pokédex was able to receive radio signals from almost all over the world which was very convenient, or so I thought.

You see, It always struck me as odd that people thought it was a good idea to send a 10 year old kid into the world and though Looker had told me that most people waited until 16 it was possible from the age of 10 which seemed like utter bullshit to me at first.

But now after listening to the radio for a week, reading the guide book from Professor Rowan over 3 times and seeing the world of Pokémon with my own eyes it became clear.

You know, the usual bullshit that happens to Ash in the anime? Like how every week or so a small town is in danger because of some stupid Pokémon related issue? Or how a giant Tentacruel just attacks the city out of nowhere or an ancient fossil Pokémon breaks free and decides to go on a rampage?

Turns out, that bullshit does not happen because Ash is the anime protagonist.

That bullshit happens everywhere around the world.

Apparently living in a world that has creatures with the powers of the gods made it a bit dangerous for people and Pokémon to live in.

Just listening to the radio for a week made me realize that; in this week alone there were about 4 natural disasters caused by Pokémon and multiple small towns threatened by flocks and herds of Pokémon who were pissed off for some reason.

Shit doesn't happen to Ash, it happens to everyone.

Which kind of makes sense, in a world with bullshit creatures there are bound to be bullshit problems.

And that's where Pokémon trainers come in.

I really had to read between the lines in the Trainers Guide Sinnoh edition but after re-reading it a couple times I think I understood it a bit.

You might wonder how the entire world hasn't torn itself apart with all those Legendaries roaming the world and the truth is: the world almost ended a few times.

In fact, it's not that rare for the world to almost end at all.

History books in this world were filled with disasters on a large scale and people in this world heavily relied on Legendaries and Aura Guardians to help them and fix their shit.

However nowadays the Aura Guardians no longer exist and Pokémon still cause trouble for both humans and other Pokémon.

So the League thought: Hey, dealing with that stuff is very costly and takes a lot of time and organizing, why don't we make someone else do our job?

And here comes the entire ‘becoming a Pokémon trainer' business.

It's this world's number one job with great promises of fame, glory and money. Not in that specific order but you get the idea.

And why wouldn't one want to be a Pokémon trainer? It's awesome, you travel the world, make friends with Pokémon and if you are good enough you become a hero like Ash!

And heroes are what this world really needs, so that's why they supply people with all the possibilities to become Pokémon trainers.

They set up tournaments, Gyms and free Pokémon Centers instead of spending money on every problem that pops up in the region (and there are a lot of problems) all underneath the banner of glory and fame.

It's smart, Pokémon trainers travel a lot and they do have the Pokémon to combat any trouble they come across on their way and with their hero complex and lust for challenges they are bound to solve problems along the way to fame and glory (the league really pushes the fame and glory part) and registered issues even have bounties on them, their amount based on the threat level they propose.

Do I mind this? Not really, if a problem gets too big and the reward is not worth it I just leave it to a more competent trainer.

It at least made more sense, considering this world really has some problems with Legendaries causing trouble.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

"Are you done yet?" I asked Ralts and she nodded.

"Finally," I muttered, "can't wait till we get to Jubilife City. I'm buying you a Nintendo DS or something."

"Ralts." Ralts clapped her hands together, excited for the DS although I never even told her what it was.

Does the DS even exist?

I turned off the Radio and switched to the map of Sinnoh, zoomed in on our current location.

"Tomorrow," I said out loud, "Tomorrow we should arrive in Jubilife City."

Ralts didn't have a response for that.

"Welp, you feel like doing a training montage?" I asked her.

She hopped off my shoulders and landed in front of me, somehow doing a flip in the process.

I raised an eyebrow, "A flip?"

She pumped her fist a few times and shot me a grin. Guess, someone was ready for training.

I was standing in the middle of a big forest that was split into two parts by a dusty road that went through the woods and straight towards Jubilife City.

The clouds were blocking the sun, luckily there was no wind and for the love of the gods there was no rain.

Rain really sucks when traveling. Ralts and I had been stuck at the Pokémon Center for an entire day after our battle against Paul because of some water falling from the sky.

Luckily there was a guy who had a shitload of comics and I bought a few from him so Ralts and I wouldn't die from boredom.

Regardless, as a Pokémon trainer, the weather could really make or break your day. Today, it was a good day.

We found a small clearing after a bush and I decided this place would do.

It was not much, just a patch of grass surrounded by trees on all sides. Hidden from the world and waiting for us to find it.

Ralts patiently took place in the middle of the clearing and patiently waited for today's lesson.

I knelt down and put down my backpack. I took out a couple of empty food cans that were left from the past days of living and camping on the road.

Patiently I stacked them on top of eachother until they formed a small pyramid.

A nearby Starly descended from the sky and took a seat on one of the tree branches and began watching us, clearly interested in what was happening.

"Okay," I took a step back, "Today's lesson is aiming."

Ralts gave me a questioning look.

"You see the empty can atop of the pyramid?" I pointed and Ralts nodded.

"Knock it off without toppling the other cans."

She took a step forward, ready to punch it. Just in time I blocked her with my arm. Silently I cursed myself for forgetting to be specific.

"With Confusion and Disarming Voice," I added.

"RaaaraRalts!" She complained loudly, and whatever she was saying sounded really complicated. I had no idea what it was though. When she noticed I didn't understand a single bit of what she just said she moved her hands in front of her body and moved them away from each other.

"You say that your attacks are too big?" I guessed and she nodded.

I smiled. "That's the point of this training, I want you to hit it with the low part of your attacks, aim a Confusion or Disarming Voice above the pyramid so it will only topple the top one. Then the next one, until your aim improves and you can hit a certain part without hitting the other cans."

"Ralts?" She scratched her head.

"It's simple," I said, "I want you to be able to hit someone's left side or right side. Mess up their directions instead of just sending them backwards."

"Raaaaallttsss," she said enlightened and I translated it to an: "aaaaahhh, I get it".

She gave me a determined nod and smile before turning to the pyramid of empty food cans.

"Now go train Padawan." I joked and left her to her training.

I found a perfect tree to lean against that provided me shade and a good look at Ralts' training without being too close.

I pulled out my Pokédex and earphones, little did she know the training was nothing more than a ploy to claim the Pokédex for myself.

Though I did intend for Ralts to train her aim, just not this moment.

The plug of the earphones slid into the Pokédex and flipped it open.

"Oracle, switch to Sinnoh Daily."

"Just add water to the flour and mix it for-"

I rolled my eyes, who the hell would listen to a baking program on the radio? Like, do they write everything down for later or are the people who listen to this kind of stuff just that bored?

"Switch to Trainer Station." I said.

I listened for a good while and it was pretty entertaining, though nothing new. A Minor theft in Floaroma Town, but that was pretty boring since I joined midway and missed all the juicy details.

The second piece was about a man who had a Meowth with the move Pay Day that got arrested by the International Police for using Pokémon abilities to manipulate the economy in an illegal way.

It made me raise an eyebrow, why would anyone use Pay Day with Meowth?

In this world, it was common knowledge that Regions all over the world had Pokémon who could detect such interferences.

Guess the guy didn't believe that rumor and got the short end of the stick.

The third piece of the broadcast was more interesting, though not new to me.

"And Pokémon Hunter J has been spotted near Snowpoint City. The local Gymleader managed to chase her away with the help of a couple of brave trainers but it seems that she still managed to raid a Pokémon Center during her brief stay. She managed to steal a couple of rare Pokémon before people came to stop her…"

This made me reconsider why I had called this world easy. Hunter J was really a bitch in this universe, stealing rare Pokémon to sell them to her clients.

In the anime she was just an antagonist that appeared every now and then. But here, in this world, although similar, she was far more menacing.

Three regions were after her but because her fleet could turn invisible along with the overwhelming firepower they only managed to drive her off every time they encountered her.

It really made me wish not to run into her. Maybe in the anime universe some smart kid could overpower her, but if even the best trainers could only chase her off, I didn’t like my odds.

The discussion about her on the radio continued, they had a lengthy discussion about the consequences of the raid that went on for 3 minutes before they switched to a different topic.

Apparently there was a girl in Shorelight who claimed to see the future and saw the sun coming down from the heavens and scorching the earth.

I thought she might be for real and had some precognitive skill, that was after all not impossible in this world, but when I heard another claim of hers was that the world would be saved by a talking Magikarp I started to doubt it.

Nothing else noteworthy came up after that which meant it was a very peaceful week for Sinnoh.

I switched to a few radio stations from Johto to see what was going on over there.

"And a Ninetales in Ilex Forest has killed its trainer, according to witnesses his throat was bit open before the Ninetales fled the scene," A male voice droned, apparently not really liking his day so far.

Or was it in the middle of the night over there?

"I know," A female voice said, sounding fake as hell. "Such a tragedy."

"According to the witnesses this Nintetales has the ability to speak, Pokémon trainers and travelers who pass through Ilex Forest are advised to stay away from any Ninetales they spot in the wild just to be safe." The male voice droned on.

I raised an eyebrow, sometimes I wonder why people even become Pokémon trainers.

Of course that would be very hypocritical for me to say, also; a shit load of PR and money can make people do almost anything.

"Next topic," The woman said, sounding annoyingly cheerful, "You won't believe what this woman did with her Magikarp!"