#Duck family as pokemon trainers

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2017 Ducktales as pokemon trainers an their Teams

Here’s the next, are currently final, Disney cartoon on my list for makings characters into pokemon trainers. After this I will move over to doing other shows on Cartoon network. I did not get into this show when it was airing, and that was my bad. Once I did watch it it quickly became on of my favorites, and inspired me to look up older cartoons surrounding Donald, and his family as well. Its a good show an seems to be (rightly) held up as one of the best done reboots. Hopefully it still has some fans going back to its fan base, who will check this out.

I am going to do this list a bit differently than my other though. In previous lists I have either given all the characters full teams of 6, or given main characters teams of 6 and secondary characters teams of 3-4 pokemon. For 2017 Ducktales though, since it has such a large cast and they all always go on adventures in groups, I am not giving anyone 6 pokemon. Because then there would really be to many characters to fit in the plane, much less the show. Considering the group sizes I have decided to give the child characters 2 pokemon each, adult members of the duck family (by both blood and heart) get three each. This way the three triplets, or Webby, and her friends would all have six in total. Same with Duo’s like Donald and Della, or Scrooge and Beakley. I am also only giving villain or antagonist characters two, because that’s about the mass number villains ever had at one time in the show.

Kid characters are all on this list, adults will be my next list

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck

Huey Duck

Pansear: Its the red one in a red, blue, and green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his two younger brothers

Snover: I wanted to give him a woodland grass-type, since in the 2017 version he is the boy scout of the trio and loves camping/the wilderness. What makes Snover work even better for him is that it is also an ice-type pokemon. Huey having both a fire and an ice pokemon represents his need to keep balance in his life, both externally and internally.

Small note I know he’s the “Smarter than the Smarties” brother, but the smartest pokemon I know is Slowking, and its first two evolutions are dumb. So for Huey I went with his other traits.

Dewey Duck

Panpour: It’s the blue one in a red, blue, green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his older and younger brother.

Rufflet: Dewey was the hardest to pick a second pokemon for. He is the “tougher than the toughies” brother, so he needed a tough, scrappy, pokemon for his second. He also wants to become a daring adventure pilot, like his mom and launchpad, so I had to pick a flying pokemon. Since he is only just starting out I decided to look for a smaller flying type pokemon, that would one day evolve into a more massive bird, so it could kinda grow with him. It would also need to be super cute because, you know he would post lots of pictures of him and his pokemon to garnish media attention. My search led me to Rufflet, who was all that and blue too. Perfection

Louie Duck

Pansage: It’s the green one in a red, blue, green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his older brothers.

Meowth: Louie is the “Sharper than the Sharpies” brother, and Meowth has a pretty mean fury swipe. It also loves money and can be kinda lazy. Louie and a meowth is an easy match

Webby,Lena, and Violet

Webby Vandraquack

 Webby is the warrior of both her groups, so I decided that both her pokemon would be fighting types.

Medicham: Not gonna lie a lot of the reason I picked this pokemon was that it is pink, which is Webby’s trade mark color (and one of Lena’s nicknames for her). But it also works because its a very patient and studied fighter, like Webby. Its also the only pokemon I have given to a child character that has evolved. Let’s be real Webby would easily be the first of her group to evolve a pokemon, and its potential to mega evolve means she could still go farther with it

Machop: for Webby’s second pokemon I bounced a few around and kept going back to Machop. Its gray coloring fits her ascetic, much like Medicham. But it also fits her in that it is a tough, brawny fighter, that is trained in multiple types of martial arts, just like Webby. Machop never tires of training/working out. Webby never tires of adventure.

Lena (De Spell) Saberwing

Just as Webby had fighting types I decided that Lena, being the living shadow of a sorceress, should have dark types. More specifically Heroic dark types

Absol: Same reason I gave one to (TOH)’s Hunter. It has associations with bad things happening, and many believe it to be a bad pokemon. But once you get close you learn that Absol is not really bad underneath it all. It wants to help people and pokemon a like stay safe when disaster falls.

Also both it and Medicham can mega evolve. So power couple Weblena can go together to find their stones, and then show the younger generation how strong their Pokemons mega forms are.

Zorua: Another easy choice for Lena. A shadowy fox, with has illusion based magic powers, that it will use when it gets scared or defensive. Zoura discriptions honestly  make it sound like it is a pokemon version of Lena. I could see it, Absol, and Lena making a really strong and supportive team/family for each other.

Violet Saberwing

So unlike the other two girls, I am not going to link Violet to one particular type of pokemon. Looking at her character I think she would prefer to catch and train different types of pokemon.

Anorith: First things first violet absolutely has to have a fossil pokemon. When asked by Scrooge if she liked history the girl out right said “It is my life”, so there’s no way she would not have one. I picked Anorith for couple reasons. 1. Is that even if we never saw it in the show, I 100% believe that Violet is the type of child who is absolutely fascinated with bugs and insects. 2. She is not ready yet, but when she did eventually evolve it, it would be way cool to see this stone faced, brainiac, goth girl with a big, armored, dinosaur.

Vulpix: I also really wanted to give her a fire type pokemon, since two of her best scenes in the show (building herself a hang glider to get over a lava pit in the senior woodchuck race, and downing those ultra spices without breaking a sweat) involve being around extreme heat. Vulpix and its evolved form Ninetales have some really interesting lore and connections to Japaneses mythology. Once again I could see Violet being very fascinated with it.

Also giving her a Vilpix would mean that both her and Lena would have mystical fox pokemon, which could reference the sisterly bond they eventually develop.

Gosalyn Waddlemeyer

I wanted to give her two pokemon for the two parental figures in her life.

Klefki: This one is for her grandfather. Klefki is a magic set of keys that can help its trainer enter into new places for adventure. This represents Dr. Waddlemeyer and what he originally wanted with the Ramrod.

Rowlet: For her connection to Drake Mallard an the dark wing trio (Drake, Launchpad, and Gosalyn) I at first wanted to give all of them bat pokemon, but even after spending days going over each and every bat pokemon I could only really make one work for Launchpad. Then I read that Darkwing is supposed to be more of a general superhero based parody, rather than a batman specific parody. I also  thought about how Drake isn’t even the original Darkwing duck, but a fan emulating what the story meant to him. So I switched the connection between the three to being nocturnal pokemon, and it worked so much better.

After the switch Rowlet became a clear pick for Gosalyn’s second pokemon. It is scrappy, able to give powerful kicks. It is sharp and will one day evolve into a skilled archer, a weapon Gosalyn showed interest in learning to use. It also would be interesting to see it interact with Dewey’s Rufflet, given how Dewey and Gosalyn become good friends in her introduction episode, and how it would be easy for Dewey to come with Launchpad to visit Gosalyn and Drake.

B.O.Y.D

Because B.O.Y.D is a sentient, artificial boy, who was created in a lab; I decided to give him sentient, artificial, pokemon, that were also created in a lab.

Porygon: Because of course he would get a porygon. It’s the original artificial pokemon. Both an anomaly and a wonder. It is also decently powerful, can safely go into many environments, and even moving freely in cyberspace.

Castform: I picked this as B.O.Y.D’s second pokemon because it is adorable and can change its forum depending on its environment. Both Castform and B.O.Y.D have the opportunity to chose who they want to be.

Doofus Drake

I did not want to do him, but if I can give pokemon to Gideon Gleeful I should be able to give them to Doofus too. One qualification I am looking for is “must be powerful enough to beat his butt if he does not treat them well”

Abra: Okay so I do not really fully remember what reasons I had for choosing this one for him. Its powerful, kinda creepy, and can appear very suddenly, just like Doofus. It likes to hang out in tree tops, which Doofus does too. Also its a pretty calm, blank faced pokemon. In Doofus’s supposed “Birthday (I doubt it was his actual birthday) episode” he said blank stares are soothing to him. So it is feasable he may actually like Abra. If not again it could easily send him flying and teleport away,

Cubone: Its a lonely pokemon that misses its deceased mother badly. When I try to look at things from Doofus’s eyes his grandmother was to quote him “the only parent I have ever known”. There are some subtle hints that maybe his mom and dad weren’t really interested in being parents at first. The family lives off Gummeemama’s money, and presumably did when she was alive. Gummeemama likely could not cut them off without losing access to Doofus, and if she was the one raising him she could have feared his neglect if his parents took him with them. This would give some explanation as to why she willed all her money to her grandchild instead of his parents.

After her death Doofus forced his parents to take employment from him to be able to keep up their lifestyle, and threatened to fire them if they did not spend time with him the way his grandmother used to. But even they are not enough to fill the void her death left in him, and he really wants a close connection like that to someone again. Kid Gammeemama is gone, and nothing you can do will change that. You need grief support, and maybe Cubone could give that to you. Once again if he treats Cuey badly, at least it could take out its bone and defend itself.

May and June

So originally they, and their sister April, are supposed to be Daisy’s nieces and female versions of the three boys. In the 2017 series May and June are Webby (formerly April)’s clone sisters, and at the end of season 3 the pair are implied to be adopted by Donald, and eventually Daisy too. The show was canceled one season early, and as a result we never got to see much of the two girls or their personalities (Seems like May (the yellow one) is a bit more protective/confrontational, while June (the blue one) is more curios and silly) so I originally was not going to have them on this list. But they are part of the Duck family, and it seemed wrong not to give them at least one pokemon each.

At first I was just gonna have them each get the same pokemon, and I went through eevee (I feel like I may use its line to much as it is), dito (doesn’t have yellow form and in this case felt like a cop out), and Pichu (closer, but still not right). Finally I decided that they would probably have water pokemon since thy would have to catch them while sailing with Donald and Daisy (Since Bradford hates adventure so much, I headcannon he would probably also hate pokemon and would have not allowed the girls to have them at Fowl). So I went back and looked over water pokemon, particularly ones Misty had, for some that would be easy enough for a bargainers to train but still pretty powerful.

Then once again wanting to Match their pokemon to their trade mark colors (I did it for Webby and the boys) I decided May has a Staryu and June has an Azurill.

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[yersina]

[part 2]

When Eddie walks into the new Pokemon Nursery in his hometown and is confronted with the view of Steve Harrington, former member of the Elite Four, behind the counter, he immediately turns on his heel and walks back out so he can duck behind the brick wall of the exterior and hyperventilate for a little bit.

Right.

He’d forgotten: Steve (former member of the Elite goddamn Four) hails from Hawkins too.

When Steve had fought his way onto the Elite Four, he’d been the talk of the town. Even Wayne had brought it up when Eddie had finally stopped at a Pokemon Center to accept his call. The Harrington boy’s in the Four, didja hear? he’d said. Eddie sure had—from every single person who’d seen his hometown written on his Trainer License that week. His Rotom Phone had proudly displayed every article written about the guy, each with the same photo in its thumbnail: Steve, backlit by the bright gym lights, Pokeball in hand and Growlithe at his side.

It made for a pretty picture, sure, but Eddie still has memories of the Harrington manor on the outskirts of Hawkins, like Harrington Senior and Lady Harrington couldn’t bear to set foot in the town proper. When he’d run into them at the PokeMart once, they’d sneered at him and his dirty shoes and tugged away a young Steve with rough motions. He can’t imagine that Steve himself would be any different, growing up in a family like that.

(None of this stops him from caving and watching the recording of the fateful gym battle on his Rotom Phone, screen bright in the darkness of his room in the Pokemon Center and breath caught in his throat. Steve, oddly, had a rough way of battling—intuitive and smart but not elegant. Not like it’d be if he had battling tutors or proper training. At the end of the battle, he runs out onto the field, heedless of the craters and cracks in the ground, and smothers his Empoleon in a hug while Growlithe barks up a storm behind him.

Eddie wonders why they didn’t take a picture of that.)

But here Steve Harrington is, back in Eddie’s hometown and standing between him and getting his Chingling looked at. Great.

He briefly wonders if he could wait and come back another day, or preferably find his way to another town far from here where there’s no threat of having his Pokemon seen to by Steve Harrington (formerly of the Elite Four) but he’s already promised Wayne that he’s staying for dinner at the very least, and also that’s Steve Harrington pushing open the door and looking over at him with a raised eyebrow.

“Hey,” Steve greets. Eddie stares. “You. Uh. You okay over there? I noticed you come in for a moment earlier.”

“Yeeep,” Eddie squeaks miserably. Out of the limelight, Steve still looks unfairly pretty. Eddie can no longer say that it’s the magic of makeup and adrenaline that makes his cheeks rosy red and it’s not sweat that makes his skin glow. That’s unfair, right? Some people just get dealt all the luckiest cards in life. “I’m doing just peachy. I’ll head in in a sec, just… decided I needed some more air.”

Steve gives him a look that says he buys absolutely none of Eddie’s bullshit. “…right. Well, we’ll be here when you’re ready.”

And just like that, he’s gone.

Eddie groans and knocks his head back against the brick wall. What is his life.

He allows himself ten seconds of self-pity before sucking in a breath and then ten more seconds of self-questioning before he lets the breath out and then he has a final ten seconds of pep talk before finally pushing open the door—for real this time.

“Hi,” Steve greets again, and oh, that’s not fair, he’s got his arms wrapped around a wriggling Tinkatink, looking completely nonchalant and distressingly competent while she wails. “Sorry, this one grew up kind of isolated, we’re still getting her socialized to humans—hey, calm down, it’s okay, remember? We talked about this. I’m here, I’m not going anywhere. You’re safe with me.” He says all of this in a low, soothing tone, stroking the sides of the Tinkatink until she finally seems to cry herself out, blinking watery eyes up at Steve. “Can you stay out here while I help this nice gentleman?” Her mouth wobbles concerning for a moment before she nods hesitantly. “You’re doing so great, Tinkatink. Proud of you.” He gives her one last head pat before looking up at Eddie. “Sorry, again. How can I help you?”

Eddie hesitantly inches towards the counter, not wanting to provoke the Pokemon into a crying fit again. “Hey, it’s cool. Can’t say I’ve had anyone call me ‘nice’ or a ‘gentleman’ before though.”

Steve huffs a laugh. Great, now Eddie knows the corners of his eyes crinkle when he’s amused. “Thanks for the warning, I think.”

He waits expectantly until it finally, embarrassingly, clicks for Eddie, and he scrambles to bring out Chingling’s Pokeball from his bag. “My Chingling hatched recently, but she’s been making this weird garbled noise? I’ve been keeping her in a Pokeball ever since, just in case, but I’m not sure what to do.” It had been terrifying, frankly, when Chingling had started making sounds that were awfully reminiscent of choking. Putting her in a Pokeball was as much for her own protection as it was for Eddie’s sanity. “I’ve used a heal on her and taken her to a PokeCenter already, but neither of those changed anything.”

Steve hums. “Tinkatink,” he says to the pink Pokemon now huddled half-behind Steve on the counter, “can you step to the side for a little bit? I’m going to look at this nice gentleman’s Chingling.”

Tinkatink, to her credit, looks like she thinks about it very hard before shaking her head in a firm no. Steve sighs. “Will Chingling be bothered by another Pokemon? I don’t think I can get her away at this point unless I return her to her Pokeball.”

“No, no, it’s fine. Chingling loves socializing.” Eddie doesn’t actually know, since his Chingling’s been stuck in a Pokeball most of the time since she’s been hatched, but it’s an educated guess. Probably.

He taps on the Pokeball and lets Chingling out onto the same counter. “Hey, sweetheart,” he greets softly. He winces when Chingling’s returning chime is the equivalent of a human wheeze. “Yeah, there it is.”

“Well, her breathing sounds fine, thankfully,” Steve evaluates swiftly, which is already a weight off Eddie’s shoulders. “She seems to be doing alright other than when she talks, so—”

And then, to Eddie’s horror, he clamps one hand down on each side of Chingling’s head, pushes her mouth open, and sticks a hand inside. “Uh,” Eddie says weakly. “Excuse me?”

“This isn’t as awful as it looks, I promise,” Steve mutters distractedly, fishing around in there for something. Chingling doesn’t look particularly bothered, at least, even with her mouth propped open on Steve’s arm. Eddie’s still not sure how to take any of this. “Faster than looking for my flashlight—ah.” He pulls his hand out from Chingling’s mouth, fingers wrapped around something. “There we go.”

And… it’s a rock.

“It’s a rock,” Eddie observes astutely.

“Yeah. Not uncommon for Chinglings, actually.” He pats Chingling on the head, and she jingles merrily at him.

“Oh, you’re back to normal!” Eddie cries. He scoops Chingling up in his arms and attempts to cuddle her within an inch of her life. “Never scare me like that again.” He gets a muffled chime in return.

Steve watches the whole show with a faint smile. “Just be careful of what Chingling eats from now on. They make sound through, uh, what’s basically their own rock, so if anything else gets stuck down there, it messes up the sound. Not really harmful, but it’s worth keeping an eye on her, especially if she’s the curious sort.” He reaches over and tickles her side until she sticks her head out curiously from the circle of Eddie’s arms. “Be careful, okay? If you keep out of trouble, you’ll grow to be a big and strong Chimecho in no time.” She jingles at him cheerily. “No biggie,” he says, turning back to Eddie. “Just a quick fix.”

“Seriously, thank you so much.” Eddie shifts Chingling to one arm and goes digging for his wallet. “How much do I owe you?”

“Don’t worry about it.” When he meets Steve’s eyes, agape, Steve gives him a wink and a smile. Eddie refuses—refuses—to think of the smile as shy. Or bashful. Or flirtatious. Or anything that might be Eddie’s own wishful interpretation. Steve is just smiling. Just smiling. “It took, like, two seconds. Chill. We’ll call it a free consultation.”

“I mean, yeah, I guess, but.” Eddie flounders awkwardly like a Magikarp out of water. “Are you sure?”

Steve rolls his eyes. “I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t mean it.” At Eddie’s continued hesitation, he sighs. “Seriously, don’t think too hard about it. If you really want to thank me, come back again.”

As much as he wants to protest, Eddie hadn’t been raised to turn down what is the equivalent of free money. “Alright, if you say so.” He shifts Chingling to a more comfortable hold, cradling her in his hands. “And it’s Eddie by the way. Still wouldn’t say that I’m a ‘nice gentleman’.”

Steve laughs. “Sure, sure. Nice to meet you, Eddie. I’m Steve.” Eddie swallows down his I know. “Have a good day,” he says in a very clear dismissal. “Hope to see you back here soon.”

“‘Bye, Steve,’” Eddie squeaks in a falsetto, waving one of Chingling’s arms. Steve, gamely, waves back. “See you around, man.”

And just like that, he steps back out of Steve Harrington’s life, but now with the knowledge that the guy is so, so gentle with Pokemon, has a beautiful smile, and is generous enough to let Eddie get away with what was definitely not a free consultation.

Fuck, he’s gonna have to come back, isn’t he?

Goddammit.

#sina writes #fanfiction #stranger things #steddie #tho I guess this is more pre-steddie #pokemon au #why did Eddie choose to take chingling to a nursery instead of a Pokemon center you ask? #good question! my excuse is that Hawkins is too small for their own Pokemon center so they don’t actually have one #you’d have to go to a bigger town further away to get your Pokemon checked out so the nursery’s more convenient

[softquietsteadylove]

Gil makes friends with an unusual Pokémon and this one decides very stubbornly he wants to be his partner Pokémon to someone who never really fought a battle.

Gil has no idea what to do and asks Thena for help

Snap!

Gil looked down, dread filling him from the neck down. Under his boot was a very nice leek stalk. And a very nice, very sturdy, plucked leek could only mean one thing. He looked up, "uh..."

"Farfetch'd!"

"Sorry, I'm sorry!" Gil held up his hands as the furious Wild Duck pokemon stormed out of the pondside grass and towards him. "I didn't mean to!"

"Far-Farfetch'd!" Well, of course he hadn't meant to, but what was done, was done!

"I know, I'm sorry, really!" Gil continued to plead, even holding up the snapped leek. "I would never-!"

The ruffled bird pokemon continued to glare at him, the marking of its 'unibrow' making it look even more severe. It snatched back the two halves of the leek from him in a huff. "Farf!"

"I really am sorry," Gil repeated, sadder this time as he watched the Farfetch'd look at its beloved leek forlornly. He removed his hat and pressed it to his chest. "I can help you find another one."

"Far?"

"I will," Gil nodded, already resolute to help no matter what duties he was putting off by doing so. "I'm a pokemon ranger. I took an oath to help any and every pokemon that needs my help."

The pokemon looked skeptical at best. It even crossed its wings at him in a look of pure disbelief, "Far-Farfetched."

"Well," Gil ruffled his hair in the face of the pokemon's skepticism. "No--but if you tell me what you're looking for, at least I can help you look twice as fast, right?"

Farfetch'd continue to glare at him, mostly, but he could see the expression on its face lightening. It slapped its webbed feet on the grass a little more firmly, "Farfetch'd?"

"I won't leave until I make this right," Gil vowed to the small avian pokemon, holding up his hand like he did on his first day of initiation.

Farfetch'd did not seem moved by his solemnity, but it did shrug its wings before tucking its broken leek under one of them. "Far!"

"Yes, sir," Gil chuckled. He wasn't used to such a non-confrontational - at least with humans - pokemon being so bossy. But the obstinate little duck reminded him of someone. "So, uh, I know the basic height and shape, but what else should I know?"

"Far!" he squawked back at him as he began rooting through the lower grasses as Gil searched the higher stalks. "Far-Farfetch'd-Far."

"Right," Gil murmured, directing his attention to the colours of the stalks of choice, as well as the thickness of them. This would be Farfetch'd's primary mode of protection, after all. Even if Farfetch'd mostly only confronted other Farfetch'd, he would still need to defend himself.

"Farfetch'd?"

Gil looked up and over, although Farfetch'd was entirely focused on the task at hand. He just wasn't used to making small talk with a wild pokemon. "Uh, y-yeah, I have a, uh, family...of sorts."

"Farfetched?"

Gil blushed faintly, batting some taller water grass out of his way. "I don't know if I'd say a hatchling, but we have a...we have a Teddiursa. I rescued him and he imprinted on Thena, so-"

"Far?"

"Yes!" Gil huffed, feeling agitated by the bird's overly direct line of questioning. He really tried not to let pokemon get him on the 'mate' topic, though. "She has a house up at the top of the mountain."

"Far," the little pokemon mused aloud, tapping the bottom of its beak. Only very strong trainers and pokemon chose to live so high up and in the open.

"Yeah, she is tough," he chuckled. "I think you'd like her."

"Fetch'd," he looked back over at Gil, still with no leek suiting his fine tastes. "Far-Farfetch'd."

Gil laughed, picking one with potential, "nah, I'm the lucky one. I love my job, but they also make it nice to go home to someone, y'know?"

"Far." Farfetched looked down at the grass beneath its feet, even the feathers at the top of its head sinking lower.

"Oh," Gil uttered gently, taking in the suddenly more melancholy Farfetch'd. Sure, not everyone in every colony managed to find a nestmate, but he couldn't imagine what it was like to be the only one without that feeling of having a family. "Hey."

Farfetched look up at Gil, letting him pat the top of his head, feathers and all. He sighed.

"Listen," Gil smiled down at the little guy. "I know it's hard to really devote yourself to taking care of everyone else. It takes a lot out of you, right?"

"Far," the pokemon reluctantly agreed, the weight of his responsibilities to the flock weighing on his wings.

"But you're doing great work, right? I bet your colony has been really safe all these years with you," Gil attempted to encourage him. "You may not have hatchlings of your own, but you've helped keep all of them safe."

"Far?"

"Really," he smiled, taking a seat next to the reticent duck. "That's kind of what it feels like to be a ranger, y'know?"

"Farfetch'd?" it tilted its head at him, also seating itself properly.

"Well," Gil shrugged, ruffling his hair under his hat. "Being a ranger is a tough job. And I'm not saying rangers never think 'oh, this would be so much easier if I had my own pokemon'. I'm lucky I have a Dragonite I hatched from an egg, but a lot of rangers don't have pokemon who are really bonded to them like that. We don't believe in it."

"Farfetch'd?"

Gil sighed, tugging at the collar of his vest. "Pokemon are amazing creatures, and we're lucky to share our world together. I don't wanna force any pokemon to be bound to me, in a pokeball or otherwise. Even Dragonite--I hatched him, but he doesn't have a pokeball. If he didn't wanna stick around, or be a ranger, he didn't have to be. He chose that life."

"Farfetch'd!" the bird pokemon squawked, starry-eyed at the idea of a pokemon having such a designated and impressive job.

"Yeah, he's the best," Gil laughed in agreement. "And now our little Teddi is a ranger too! Well, a ranger in training. He's still a Mama's cub when he gets home."

"Fa-fa-far," Farfetched chuckled into its wing.

"Don't tell him I said that! If you ever meet him," Gil rushed to amend. Teddiursa felt very strongly about being babied these days.

"Farfetch'd," the bird agreed, nodding and raising a solemn wing as a promise.

"Thanks," Gil sighed. He looked at Farfetch'd again. "So listen, I get it. It's hard to devote your life to the service of others like that. But you're doing good work, and I'm sure your colony really appreciates it."

"Far," Farfetch'd hummed, tapping its beak again. He looked up at Gil, something about his expression shifting.

"I really admire you, and all the work you've done," Gil tipped his hat to the pokemon.

"Farfetch'd!"

"Huh?" Gil blinked at the sudden demand. But Farfetch'd jumped back onto its feet, flapping his wings, repeating the request to see his life as a ranger--to meet his family! "I-I don't-"

"Far-Farfetch'd!" he repeated. He wanted to see what it was like to be a colony protector of a different kind! He wanted to see life outside the grasslands! And he wanted to know more about this ranger.

"I don't really, y'know," Gil paused. He had just described how he didn't really have a partner pokemon, and Dragonite and Teddiursa somewhat fit into that category for him. But he didn't think it was an invitation.

"Farfetch'd," the bird pokemon stood tall, though. "Far-Farfetch'd."

Gil looked at the stubborn pokemon. He had to admit, he did make him think somewhat of Thena and how hard headed she could be sometimes. Farfetch'd was a pokemon who was used to being a diligent protector and caretaker. He would probably fit right in with them. Gil sighed.

"Far?"

"I don't have pokeballs," he held his hands up. "But if you wanna just come and...see the ranger centre--I guess that's fine. Don't get ahead of yourself, okay? I'm not...catching you, or anything."

"Fa-fa-far-fetch'd!" he laughed in the face of his reluctance.

Gil rolled his eyes; a pokemon laughing at him would fit right in with Thena's pokemon just fine. "Okay, let's go I guess."

"Farfetch'd!!!"

"Right, s-sorry," Gil nearly tripped. He had almost forget they had to find him a replacement leek first.

#Thenamesh pokemon AU #thank you for the ask love!!! #I love the idea of Gil getting a new pokemon #I thought really long and hard about what to pick for him #I thought about munchlax and oddish and alcremie #and ultimately I decided #Farfetch'd leek bird #Farfetched meets this human and thinks hm #he seems like a responsible family man #I am going to adopt this human for myself #Gil is like dude you can't just ask for a rootbeer float #don't just say you're MY pokemon now #he comes home with Farfetch'd #and Thena just laughs because she remembers how Gil reacted to Teddi first bonding to her #and Farfetch'd introduces himself #like a gentleman #and she says y'know I knew a Farfetch'd once you remind me of him #Farfetch'd says thank you for your hospitality #he makes dinner #and y'know what? #he's a great cook #Thena raves about the food and he's like okay maybe this duck is okay #she even kinda already knows how to care for one! #hers was Galarian and technically a different typing but still!

[sxrrandomfanfics]

AUgust - Into the Pooterverse

Day One

For those unaware, AUgust is a Fandom thing that I haven't seen celebrated in a long time! Basically, the tradition was to focus on AUs of series you enjoyed. Make drawings, or make writing!

Because "Pooterverse" hasn't left my brain, I'm going to make compilation pictures, adding a "Raz" each day to Giant Paper I will draw on.

Here's the current list of AUs

Family Swap

Beta AU

Wizard of Oz AU

RRR Bad End AU

Ducks AU (requested by @boxmorelover232)

Royal Family AU

Future Raz AU

Psychonauts don't exist AU (requested by @sideburndanny)

Pirate AU (requested by @sideburndanny)

Universal Monster AU (requested by @sideburndanny)

Magic AU (requested by @sideburndanny)

Greek Mythology AU (requested by @sideburndanny)

Pokemon Trainer AU

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon AU

Data Squad AU

Warrior Cats AU (requested by @summer-skye-64)

Raz's Towering Tales (requested by @theyaremanycolours)

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#Psychonauts #Into the pooterverse #AU-gust #lili zanotto

[yourfavhasapokemonteam]

Duck has a pokemon team!

Pokemon under cut (possible spoilers)

Quaxwell: Duck is a dapper fellow who likes to dress up (whether it be drag or digital style) and Quaxwell despite the pokedex more focused on its dancing it is also quite fond of its hair and it will take physical damage if it’s hair is messed with. (it’s not a quaquaval because Duck is middle maturity. Like he’s more mature than yellow but less mature than red, ya catch my drift?) 

Galarian wheezing: based on old-timey Victorian gentlemen, with ridiculously tall pipe hats and we kept smog beards, Duck is old fashioned himself, reading papers, having pocket watches, and wearing a tweed suit.

Galarian farfetch’d: Ok farfetch’d is a duck, like just a duck, it has the same aesthetic as duck but more than that farfetch’d were almost hunted to extinction because people found it yummy and it carried its own leek. In the friendship the Duck and Red Guy ate a chicken picnic: ducks and chickens are from the same family of birds; just saying. It’s galarian farfetch’d because otherwise there wouldn't be a pokemon as it is pure fighting type (again just saying) 

Lilligant: an elegant flower and is quite popular with celebrities, though it is difficult for trainers to keep it’s bloom. Duck would have gotten Lilligant just for its status, Duck is rather vain, although his Lilligant probably never blooms.

Alolan Meowth: Meowth is a luxury pokemon with a coin theme (digital currency!!) Alolan Meowth evolved due to experiencing an even more luxury (can you tell Duck likes nice things) Duck would definitely have this lap cat so he could have a gossip buddy that understands him. 

Smeargle: Duck is rather creative, painting, singing, writing, he was stunted in the work episode, being creative in a way that alienated him from the work environment. Smeargle is known for it’s painting and it’s shiny form has red paint, duck’s favorite color. 

#dhmis #pokeblr #pokemon #duck dhmis #alolan meowth #smeargle #liligant #galarian farfetch'd #galarian weezing #quaxwell #chicken picnic

[dakota-and-paris]

[A video from Roro's Rotomphone Signature]

[Take a look!]

[The video opens with the crunching of leaves and light snow beneath a pair of boots. Dakota can be heard chattering to some of the other pokemon.]

After a few moments of walking, they come upon a clearing in the White Forest, and within that clearing... is a ralts. Its horns are purple, upon seeing this, Dakota immediately motions for the pokemon following her to hush, and she ducks down into the bushes.

At the rustle of the leaves, the ralts turns. It seems... suspicious

[Pokemon translation mode active]

"...Who's there?"

The pokemon turns, and stares directly into the bushes.

"I can sense your emotions- I know someone is there!"

Dakota looks between her pokemon with a furrowed brow.

"uh.. um what do we do, I- didn't really have a plan."

Paris slaps a tasseled hand over his gem eye, making a frustrated noise. And floats out of the bush.

"ah... hello there. little one."

The ralts tenses up at Paris's appearance and speech. It then growls.

"You! You're not from around here! I don't like you!"

"I promise I mean you no harm."

Paris extends a tasseled hand to the ralts.

"My name is Paris, My trainer and friend Dakota is seeking strong companions-"

A psychic wave emits out from the Ralts, powerful enough for the group in the bushes to feel.

"We're gonna fight! You think I'm gonna go with some strange pokemon and live life without the thrill of a fight?? No!! Fight me now!!"

A battle begins- though it mostly consists of Paris dodging as the Ralts tries to land a hit on him.

"Please we don't have to fight if you'd just listen-"

[RALTS used Psychic!]

[It's not very effective...]

"I'm not trying to hurt you, kid! I'm just trying to talk!"

"Well I don't wanna talk to you!"

The ralts sticks out its tongue to add insult to injury. Paris's eyelid twitches.

"I wanna FIGHT YOU!"

"..."

Paris looks about ready to hit the ralts with a move that would surely kill it- when Dakota finally emerges from the bushes.

"Hey!! Wait please-" She tries her best to put on a smile, trying to keep her emotions calm to hopefully calm this little spit fire of a ralts. "We can fight but- Can we make a deal first?"

"No!!! I wanna fight now- wait. lady did you understand me?"

The ralts looks curious- and Dakota smiles with a nod.

"Yup, I can talk to pokemon- But you don't wanna talk, right?"

The Ralts nods very determinedly.

"I wanna fight, and then I'm gonna evolve! I'm gonna be big and strong like my family!"

Dakota holds in a giggle and nods back.

"Okay, how about this then? I'll let you fight my buddy Paris here-" The ralts starts to wind up another attack but Dakota holds up a hand.

"And! and. afterwards if it sounds good to you- I want you to join me and my team. I want you to achieve your goal of getting stronger, and I think training a pokemon like you would be a cool experience. How's that sound, little dude?"

The ralts thinks for a moment. Then nods with a smile.

"YEAH! Let's do it!!"

[Video end]

[A second video is attached, this one begins in the clearing. Paris and the ralts facing each other. After Dakota waves a start flag, the two go for each other.]

[RALTS used PSYBEAM!]

[It's not very effective...]

The Ralts' psybeam barely seems to effect Paris, Paris retaliates- swinging his tassels at the Ralts, as they go through the air the hand turns to shadowy talons.

[PARIS used SHADOW CLAW]

[It's super effective!]

The Ralts is sent rolling... and for a moment it looks like the battle is over but... it gets back up. It looks.. determined. Paris looms over it- about to go for another hit when...

[Kirlia used DISABLE!]

in a flash of light, the Ralts has evolved into a Kirlia!

[SHADOW CLAW FAILED!]

Paris's attack fizzles at his tassles, and the kirlia follows up with more attacks- kicks and punches and lands hit after hit imbued with psychic energy. Eventually- Paris backs off, the kirlia goes to try and hit Paris again- but catches its reflection in Paris's blades. It blinks, once, twice- and then pats its face.

"I... evolved?"

It pats its face again and then beams, beginning to spin and dance about.

"I evolved! I'm stronger now! I'm stronger look at me!"

All observing the battle are stunned, the Kirlia runs to Dakota and grabs her hand.

"You!! Your training did this!"

Dakota laughs nervously. "I mean... I don't think I did much of anything I-"

"No!! No this is your doing!! Thank you!"

Dakota is pulled into a hug, still shocked she looks to her other pokemon, to Paris who shrugs. Dakota shrugs back and pats the Kirlia's head.

"um... you're welcome. Little dude."

[Video ends]

#pkmn irl #rotomblr #lilos champion challenger arc #ralts FIGHT #er... Kirlia fight?? #art post

[eternal-love-song]

Dice Daycare ch2

During the day, Dice Daycare takes care of Pokemon. During the night, the group known as Phantom Mask steal Shadow Pokemon from the evil Team DR so that they can be purified and rehabilitated. Kokichi, along with his organization Dice, show these pokemon how to open their hearts again.

Too bad no one told Shuichi Saihara this. When his friend Kaede, who can see the auras of Shadow Pokemon, brings him news of her sister having one of these evil pokemon, it puts him on a crash course with the vigilante group. As he tries to investigate the daycare and figure out what these Shadow Pokemon are and why Dice seem to be involved, he learns about pokemon being stolen and slowly uncovers the existence of Team DR.

[Kokichi & Dice, Shuichi & Kaede]

[Pokemon Crossover, Non despair, Original Pokemon Region, Pokemon Trainers, Team Dynamics, Teams as Family, Friendship, Developing Friendships]

Chapter 1: Welcome to Dice Daycare

Chapter 2: Case File - The Dark Aura

Shuichi Saihara was used to travel. His parents were famous pokemon trainers and had taken him all over the region, entering pokemon contests and challenging gym leaders. One of the things that he had learned traveling with his parents, whether they intended for him to learn this or not, was that large cities always had a lot of crime. 

Alto City was one of the larger cities in the Talon region and it had as much crime as could be expected. Unlike when he was traveling with his parents though, Shuichi now had the ability to help.

"H-hey! Stop right there!" he yelled. He nearly tripped as he was running, but managed to stay on his feet to continue the chase only slightly worse for wear. He tightened his hold on his Horsea, making sure it stayed safe in his arms as he tripped through crowds and dodged around tourists. 

"I'm not gonna stop just because you ask me to!" The guy yelled back, not breaking his stride in the slightest. 

"Horsea, smokescreen!" Shuichi called.

His pokemon cried out as it unleashed a plume of smoke around them. A confused murmur rose up from those around them, but Shuichi had kept an eye on the guy's trajectory and knew that he was likely to trip over someone and come to a stop for long enough for him to catch up.

The smoke was dissipated by the time Shuichi caught up to his suspect, laying in a tangle of limbs on the ground. He bowed to the two innocent people tangled up with his suspect. "Ah, sorry about that."

"Aw man," the guy sighed, rubbing the back of his head. He wore a genuinely remorseful expression and looked like the fight had finally gone out of him. "You got me." This was the first time that Shuichi was able to get a good look at the man. He looked older than Shuichi by a few years, with pale brown hair that seemed almost tinged pink and equally pale green eyes. He wore an oddly poofy dark hat that matched the loose dark jacket that was draped over his arms. His ruffled shirt and pants were pure white, the latter of which were tucked into dark boots. 

The two civilians were quick to untangle themselves and take their leave, leaving Shuichi with his suspect when Officer Jenny and Growlithe caught up to him. Growlithe stood right in front of the guy, growling slightly.

"Good work, Shuichi," she smiled at him. "I knew that you could do it."

Shuichi ducked his head and pulled his hat over his eyes. "I-it's nothing," he mumbled. "You would have done a better job."

Jenny laughed. "Don't be silly, you're still learning. You'll never learn anything if you talk like that." She smiled again as she pat him on the back. The look turned fierce as soon as she looked down at the man Shuichi had caught. "You're coming with me for being suspected in several crimes of Team Midas. Attempt to flee again and my Growlithe might not be as nice to you as my apprentice was."

The man sighed again. "Man, Coine is going to be so mad when she comes to get me," he mumbled.

"What was that?" Shuichi questioned, leaning forward.

"Nothing," the man said. "Let's get this over with."

Jenny smiled at him again, her hand holding tight to the suspect's shoulder. "You go on ahead, Shuichi. You'll be late to the academy if you hang around here any longer."

"Ah, you're right," Shuichi said. "Thank you for everything Aunt Jenny."

"It's still Officer when I'm on the clock," she told him. She was almost never off the clock, his aunt was a workaholic if he'd ever met one, so Shuichi just smiled as he turned on his heel and ran toward Hope's Peak Academy.

Hope's Peak was a rather famous pokemon academy and one of the things that drew people to Alto City in the first place. Hope's Peak was different from other Pokemon academies, which just taught the ins and outs of pokemon and battling. The academy worked closely with the Maple Research Labs, which were also a huge draw to the city, meaning that the academy was a fast track into the more professional or academic world. Graduates from the academy had an open door to the research labs, to official league work, to the police station, or even the pokemon center. For that reason Hope's Peak was considered the best pokemon academy in the region. 

The academy was one of the reasons that Shuichi's parents had decided to leave him in the care of his aunt. If he attended the academy, he would have a world of opportunities open to him. He was just lucky that his Aunt Jenny was willing to take him in, since it gave him the opportunity to have a first hand look at one of the paths he was most interested in taking. Being a detective wasn't the same as working as an officer, there were less restrictions for one and Shuichi had never gotten along with fire pokemon as well as he did with water types, but the two groups worked closely with each other. And if things didn't work out, he still had the connections formed at the academy to fall back on.

"Horsea!" His pokemon cried out, getting his attention. He looked down at his Horsea before realizing what he was doing.

"Ah, if I stand here daydreaming, I'll be late!" He broke into a run again, glad that his aunt often insisted on having him run with her. It had really helped his stamina over the years. 

OoOoOo

Hope's Peak Academy was very large. The school had multiple floors and was divided into seven different departments: Research, Healthcare, Technology, Battling, Pokemon Breeding, Protection/rescue, and League Facilities. While it was encouraged that attendees chose a department and stick to it, no one was barred from sitting in on other classes or even just jumping around. Once you were in the academy you had access to all its facilities and resources.

Shuichi had often split his time between the departments of Protection and League Facilities. While working with his aunt was nice and did give him a lot of field training, he still wanted to take the classes offered by the department of Protection and Rescue. He wanted to help people, after all, and in order to do that, he needed to learn the areas the police didn't cover. Who did people go to when they were in trouble? What could the police do and where could they go? There were a lot of questions that he wanted answers to and a lot of information that the academy could offer. 

The department for league facilities was a bit different. It was one of the larger departments, covering more information than most. This was where you went if you wanted to become a gym leader, join the elite four, open a pokemart or a daycare center, or even if you wanted to open or run a contest hall. Shuichi would need their help and approval if he ever wanted to open his own detective agency rather than joining the police department or having to join an already existing facility. It wasn't something that he knew for sure he wanted to do, but gaining connections was good and having his face known to the people that could help him would be better in the long run no matter what he ultimately decided to do. 

He kept his Horsea cradled in his arms. The academy allowed you to keep one pokemon out at all times if you wanted and he usually chose Horsea for that. It made him feel a bit better being able to hug his pokemon whenever he felt nervous or out of his depth and it was a lot more subtle of a gesture than tugging on his hat could be. 

Shuichi was intercepted by Kaede before he could make it up to the Rescue and Protection department. Chimeco was floating beside her as always, but Kaede's expression looked more worried than usual. "Shuichi! I need your help!"

"What's wrong?" he asked, tripping a step as Kaede latched onto his arm and tried to tug him down the hallway.

"I told you that Kanade has been acting really weird lately, right?"

Kanade was Kaede's twin sister. The two didn’t seem to get along very well from what Shuichi had heard and the few times that he had seen them together, they were complete opposites. Kanade wore all black and he's never seen her smile, while Kaede was as cheerful and helpful as they came.  Even though he'd never had a full conversation with her, Shuichi found Kaede's twin kind of intimidating. Her glare alone made him feel like she could paralyze him, he couldn't imagine talking to her  for longer than a minute. 

"Um, yeah. You told me," he answered uncertainly. He realized after a moment that she was pulling him toward the battle hall. Kaede and her sister were in the same department, but Kaede was training more for contest while her sister seemed to have a focus on battling. He could only assume that they were going to the hall to see Kanade, which made him hold Horsea tighter as well as tug his hat more firmly on his head. He felt like he needed all the armor he could get. He'd never entered the battle hall without finding at least one person that looked more intimidating than he felt comfortable dealing with. 

"Well she disappeared the last few days and came back with... with..." Kaede huffed, unable to find the exact word she wanted. "I don't know, some kind of evil pokemon!"

Shuichi choked and stopped in his tracks. "Evil?"

Kaede paused in her pulling to look back at him. "I don't know how to explain it. But when I saw it, I knew that there was something wrong with it. I saw it attack someone when she was battling earlier and it used some move that I'd never seen before."

"It attacked someone?" He gasped. "Kaede, you shouldn't be telling me this, you should be talking to the professors or--"

"It wasn't here," Kaede told him, cutting him off. "I tried to follow her last night, because I wondered where she'd snuck off to, and I saw her battling someone in the cemetery near our house. I didn't see who it was but..." Kaede let go of him to wrap her arms around herself. "Shuichi, I don't know what to do." She looked up at him. "What if my sister is abusing her pokemon? What if she made them evil someone?"

"I really don't think we can jump to that kind of conclusion," he told her.

"What else am I supposed to think?" she asked, her voice high and slightly hysterical.

"Chime! Chime!" Her Chimeco floated next to her, nuzzling her cheek until Kaede reached out to hug the pokemon.

Shuichi moved to her side as well, wrapping an arm around her shoulders to comfort her. "Have you talked to her?"

She shook her head. "Kanade wouldn't talk to me. She hates me."

"Well let's start there," he said. "We'll try and talk to her before deciding that she's some kind of evil mastermind, alright?"

Kaede nodded, putting a wobbly smile on her face. "Okay. Thanks, Shuichi."

Shuichi wasn't really sure what he could do in this situation, but he was a detective. Or at least, he was trying to be. If he couldn't do anything else, he could investigate and try to get to the bottom of whatever it was that Kaede saw. It was a good thing Hope's Peak was so unrestrictive. He had a feeling that he wouldn't be getting much done in his chosen department today.

The battle hall was made for Pokemon battles with two areas marked for battles at opposite sides of the room and an area off to the back with a desk for lectures. Kaede's sister was there, along with Kokichi from league facilities and his twin brother Kimochi, who Shuichi was fairly certain didn't actually attend the academy and just snuck in sometimes. Kaede paused in her tracks when she saw them and Shuichi looked closer, trying to see what she could. 

Kanade was wearing all black, as usual, dark lips drawn into her usual frown and purple eyeshadow on her eyes. On one shoulder was a Murkrow and looming over the other was a Seviper. Kokichi had his hands behind his back with two ghost pokemon floating over his shoulder, a Ghastly and a Misdreavus. Shuichi wondered if the Misdreavus was new, since Shuichi didn't think he'd ever seen it before. Kimochi, who looked so much like Kokichi that he wouldn't be able to tell them apart of he hasn't decided to wear all black, had his arms wrapped around a Togetic, the pokemon flying out of his arms and hovering over his shoulder when he began to make a wild gesture in their conversation. 

No matter how hard he looked, Shuichi couldn't spot anything that seemed off or out of the ordinary. He turned to Kaede, speaking softly to make sure that he didn't draw attention to them. "What is it that you're seeing, Kaede?"

She looked at him in surprise, mouth agape. "You...  you can't see it?"

Shuichi shook his head. "No, I don't see anything abnormal at all."

Kaede wrapped her arms around herself again, her eyes glued to the sight before them. "It's that Seviper," she whispered. "There's something wrong with it. It's like... there’s an aura around it or something. I don't know how else to explain it."

Shuichi looked back at the scene in front of him, but he still couldn't see what she was seeing.

"That's not all though," she said. "I thought it was just her, but... Kokichi's pokemon, the Misdreavus. It has the same aura."

Just then, the ghost pokemon turned to look at them. The Misdreavus smiled and Shuichi felt almost like it was a threat. It couldn't hear them, could it? How good was a ghost pokemon's hearing?

But then Kokichi was calling its attention and he and Kanade were standing across from each other, ready to battle. That would explain why they both had two pokemon out. Double battles were usually harder to maintain between single trainers as opposed to in pairs, but he wasn't surprised that two difficult people would prefer difficult battles. But then... where did Kimochi go?

"Hi!"

"Ah!" Shuichi screamed and fell back on his butt, Horsea spitting ink at Kimochi's face. The boy began coughing and spitting, reaching up to rub his eyes and stopping short. "I'm so sorry," he said, quickly getting to his feet.

"Ack, this is a terrible hello!" he said. 

Shuichi frowned, "Horsea, you can't just do that!"

"Horseeaa!" A stream of water shot at Kiomochi's face, washing off the ink.

Kimochi blinked a few times, before running a hand over his face to get the water off. "No harm done," Kimochi said. "You're lucky it's me here and not Kokichi or you'd never hear the end of it."

Shuichi knew that he was right. Kokichi had gained a reputation for pulling pranks on others, especially those that he didn't like or that bothered him. Kimochi was only somewhat better in that he only seemed to care about people that hurt his brother and made a career out avenging him. Though Shuichi hadn't seen Kimochi too often, he'd never ended up on the other boy's war path either. Even if they'd had other embarrassing incidents like this. 

"So what were you doing staring and gossiping, huh?" Kimochi asked. He looked at them with the same excited expression Kokichi often wore and the similarity made him nervous. Most of Kokichi's expressions spelled trouble and he wasn't sure what to expect from Kimochi just yet. 

"Um, we were just..." Shuichi hesitated, not sure what to say. Kimochi tilted his head as he waited for Shuichi's answer. Kokichi would have already made a fuss about Shuichi's hesitation or accused Shuichi of trying to lie by now, but Kimochi looked like he had all the patience in the world.

"We just wanted to watch the battle," Kaede said. 

"The battle hadn't even started yet," Kimochi rebutted. He opened his arms and Togetic floated down to be embraced, letting out a small yawn as it did so. Shuichi felt himself yawn back almost immediately, those things were so contagious.

Kaede besides him was yawning as well, but she shook it off quicker. "Kanade is my sister, I'm allowed to watch her if I want to."

"And she's my girlfriend," Kimochi said with a grin. "Does this mean I'm allowed to stare at her from across the room and gossip about her, too?"

"We weren't gossiping!" Kaede said.

Kimochi laughed. "Yes, you were. You always are."

"Am not!"

"You wouldn't know how to keep your nose out out Kanade's business if you were paid to."

"H-hey, that's uncalled for," Shuichi stammered. 

Kimochi tilted his head at him. "Oh, is it? So Kaede's allowed to be a busybody at everyone else, but when she's called out on it, there's a problem."

"She isn't..." Shuichi suddenly felt really tired. "She isn't..."

"Kanade's had enough of people talking about her behind her back, especially when that person is her sister," Kimochi said. "Don't worry, I'll take you to where you belong."

Shuichi didn't get the chance to say anything else before he felt himself dropping to the ground. Before he fell asleep, he could feel Kaede leaning against him, also out like a light. 

  OoOoOo

Shuichi woke up in his usual classroom in the Protection and Rescue department. He raised his head sleepily from the desk it was laying on before bolting upright when he realized he had been moved. His eyes immediately landed on the fishtank that was on the table across from him, where Horsea was. The pokemon jumped up from the tank and made an excited sound when it realized that Shuichi was awake. Looking to his side, he saw Kaede still slumped on the desk with Chimeco. He leaned over to check on her and let out a relieved sigh when he found that she was asleep. Checking the other side of the room, he saw his longtime classmate Rantaro with a book in hand and his Chikorita in his lap.

"Oh, you're awake," Rantaro asked with a smile. How are you feeling?"

"Um, fine, I guess," Shuichi answered. He pushed himself away from the desk to check on Horsea, but the pokemon seemed to be having a good time, so Shuichi decided to leave him there for the time being. He was grateful that Kimochi had put his pokemon in the tank for however long he was out, even if he was a little annoyed at having been put to sleep in the first place.

"I was really worried when Kimochi carried you in here," Rantaro went on. 

"He carried me?" Shuichi asked, his voice going a little high with embarrassment. 

Rantaro smiled. "Kimochi is really strong. Blissey carried Kaede and since he had Blissey with him I figured nothing could be too wrong but..."

"He has a Blissey?" Shuichi questioned. Shuichi didn't know much about Kimochi, but he did know Kokichi. Kokichi was a troublemaker and a prankster. More than one person had complained about him at the school, though never about anything serious enough to get him in trouble. He would have assumed that any twin of his would be the same kind of troublemaker, and the stunt he just pulled proved that, didn't it? But Blissey only evolved through high friendship and the only other pokemon he knew that Kimochi had, Togetic, was the same. So, maybe he wasn't as bad as Shuichi was thinking?

"Yeah, you should have seen him with Happiny, he absolutely babied that thing," Rantaro explained with a laugh. Shuichi hadn't known that Rantaro knew Kimochi so well. Were they friends? "Anyway, he said that you both passed out."

"You could say that," Shuichi said. "His pokemon used yawn."

"Ah, that explains it." Rantaro closed his book and placed it on the table. "Well, it hasn't been too long, only about ten minutes. He asked me to look after you both."

"Ah, thank you."

He wondered how Kimochi knew what classroom to take him to. Had he asked someone? Did Kokichi or Kanade know? He had gained a lot of questions in a short amount of time and he wasn't sure where to start with any of them. Even if he ignored those questions, what was it that Kaede saw and why couldn't he see it, too? 

There was a chance that Kaede was just wrong and making a mistake. There was even a chance that she was making it up, but that would be so out of character for her that he dismissed the possibility. If there was something wrong and he just couldn't see it, maybe other people could? Perhaps he should ask his aunt later and see what she has to say about it. It might be a long shot that she'd know something, but it couldn't hurt to try, could it?

With his mind made up, Shuichi went back to Kaede's side. Even if there wasn't anything else to be done right now, he didn't want to let her waste an entire day sleeping. He placed a hand on her shoulder to gently wake her up. They could talk more about his plans and then they could try to go to class like normal. Hopefully.

  OoOoOo

Rupert sighed and hung his head. The bench beneath him was hard and uncomfortable, the wall across from him was dull and unadorned, and the guards watching him had been ignoring him all morning. This day was going horribly and he knew that it was likely to get worse before it got better. If it wasn't bad enough that he had failed his mission, he had been brought in by a kid. Granted, he was probably barely older than that kid, but still! It was embarrassing and his superior was going to be so mad when he told her. If he told her. He still hadn't ruled out lying about how he was captured.

He wished they hadn't taken his Pokeballs because he would really feel better if he had Christmas at his side. Unfortunately, criminals didn't get to have pokemon in their holding cells. He sighed again, turning his gaze to the window, and wondered just how much trouble he would be in.

That was, of course, when the wall was blown in. 

Rupert jumped to his feet, waiting for the dust to clear to confirm that this was his jail break, but he didn't have to wait long. He heard the click of her heels as she strode into his cell. Coine was a very sharp dressed woman and her appearance already made him vividly aware of how much of a sloppy newbie he looked like, and was. She was dressed in a lovely white dress that fanned out around her knees, the long sleeves of which ended in black cuffs that highlighted her white gloved hands. She had a white hat that matches his, team issued, sitting on black hair, most of which was hidden under her hat but a few locks of it framed her face and spilled down almost to the bottom of her dress. The look was completed by black and white heels that were as sharp as the steely look in her lavender eyes. 

She didn't speak of his failure at first, which surprised him, just looked him up and down with her assessing her gaze. "You don't have your pokemon."

It wasn't a question, so he didn't answer, just lowered his gaze to the ground and rubbed the back of his head. 

She turned from him, her Meowth running along at her heels. He looked out of his cell once the dust cleared and saw her Gyrados floating there, glaring down at him. Rupert decided to scurry after her rather than stay in the pokemon's sight. 

"Hey!" One of the guards yelled, raising a baton.

Superior Coine just glanced at the man and spoke softly, "Pay Day."

Meowth happily ran up and tossed a fist full of coins at the man's face, making him quickly cover his eyes. The cat pounced on him, jumping off hard enough to knock the man over. Meowth followed Coine, using pay day on anyone that so much as looked at her until she found his pokemon belt, his two pokeballs still attached, and tossed it at him.

He nearly fumbled it before he was able to put it around his waist and release Christmas. His Delibird cheered happily upon being released, snuggling up to him and making him laugh as he nuzzled her back. "Thanks, Superior Coine."

Her expression didn't change when she looked at him. "We're leaving. Come along," she said as she walked past him, heels clicking against the floor. 

"Yes, Ma'am!" 

She walked fast for someone in heels and he had to hurry to keep up. He slipped a few times on the scattered coins and any time one of the guards tried to come after her, Meowth was there, preemptively stopping them. It was a good thing Officer Jenny wasn't here or this would be way harder. 

Rupert followed her into the busted remains of his cell where her Gyrados still floated outside. She held up a pokeball, calling the pokemon back and stalking outside. "Do not get caught so easily again, Rupee. It's annoying having to fetch you."

He laughed nervously. "Sorry you're stuck having to train someone like me."

"I will do whatever Team Midas needs of me, even if that is training new recruits like you." She looked at him over her shoulder. "Now, I hope you're ready to run. We need to blend in before anyone catches up." She took off without waiting for an answer. He would never stop being amazed at how much more graceful she was than him, even while running in heels. 

  OoOoOo

The police station was a bit of a mess when Shuichi arrived. There was a large hole in one side of the building and he could see his aunt Jenny yelling and pointing at those around her. He moved closer cautiously, staying quiet and holding Horsea close.

"I can't believe that all of you just let them walk right out of here and why? Because they threw a few coins at you?"

"She had a Gyrados," one of the men objected.

"And did any of you even take your own pokemon out and battle her?" Jenny asked loudly, stomping her foot as she did so. Even Growlithe looked annoyed beside her, giving a side eye to all the officers. 

"It happened so fast."

"I should send all of you back to the academy if you can't even keep one lousy criminal!"

"Um," Shuichi spoke up hesitantly, reaching out to tug on his aunt's arm. As much as he wanted to stay out of the yelling, it was hard to watch the other officers being so harshly chastised. "What, um, what happened?"

Jenny sighed, but she looked much less annoyed when she looked down at Shuichi. "That Team Midas member you brought in earlier escaped. One of the other members came and sprung him and made a mess of my station in the process."

"Oh. I'm... sorry to hear that."

She smiled at him, placing a hand on his head and pushing his hat back in the process. "Don't you worry about it, Shuichi. This is a police problem and we'll handle it. You did everything right." She glares as she looks back over at her officers. "In fact, maybe I should hire you in place of these rookies!"

They all flinched in the face of her anger. 

"Is there anything I can do to help?" he asked.

She smiles at him again. "Don't worry about all this, Shuichi. Team Midas isn't the most dangerous team out there, but clearly someone in that group isn't afraid to go to extreme measures. I don't want you getting hurt."

Shuichi nods, pulling his hat back down. "Alright. Ah, I had something else that I wanted to ask you."

"Ask away, kid."

"Well..." Shuichi tried to think of how to word this. It was a little hard to ask about something that he hasn't seen himself, but he'd spent all day thinking about this and his aunt was the only lead he could think of outside of trying to talk to Kaede's sister again. "Have you heard anything about, um, evil pokemon?"

"Evil... Shuichi, pokemon aren't inherently good or evil. You know that," she said.

"I, I know, that's not what I meant. I mean... pokemon with dark auras or something like that."

His aunt got an odd expression on her face as she looked at him more closely. "Why? Have you seen something?"

"No, not me," he answered. "My friend thinks that she saw a pokemon with a strange aura. Two actually, and... I wasn't really sure what to make of it."

She looked at him for a long time before answering. "I don't want you getting in over your head, Shuichi. If your friend is seeing things, tell her to come down to the station to talk to me directly. And tell her to stay away from pokemon that look or act strangely."

"So does that mean..."

"It's just a precaution," she told him. She smiled at him but it was thin, weak. She was hiding something. 

Shuichi looked down, holding his pokemon tighter. "A-alright."

Jenny placed a hand on his head again before walking off to talk to her officers again.

"Horseea!" His pokemon cries out to get attention, blowing a few bubbles at him to cheer him up. Shuichi smiles down at Horsea, but his mind is still spinning. Is whatever Kaede saw real? Do evil pokemon really exist? And if they do, how can he protect her if her sister has one?

"What should I do?" Shuichi asked quietly.

Horsea just blows more bubbles at him. It doesn't answer his question, but it does make him feel better.

#ELS Writing #Danganronpa V3 #Pokemon AU #Kokichi Ouma #Shuichi Saihara #Kaede Akamatsu #Fanfiction #Dice Daycare

[shoppncarticles]

The Porygon Family

Now this may quite be the most unique and strange Pokemon of the original 151. Porygon here is a Normal type, and said to be completely artificial, developed by the in-universe megacorp Silph Co. It was somehow born in computer programs and translated seamlessly into real life, and is just as sentient and alive as any other Pokemon. It’s said to be completely made of code, and nobody really knows how it lives, since it’s without a heartbeat and doesn’t even breathe. It somehow even travels freely between reality and cyberspace. 

It’s never even precisely explained why people decided to create Porygon back in the day. Apparently they did it just because they could. That certainly bodes well.

It’s really amusing that Porygon is an extremely low-poly model, common in games back in the mid-90s when Pokemon was released. Porygon almost resembles a rubber duck in its anatomy, something made clearly in its more high-definition upgrade.

Once Porygon is given a disc containing several development patches, it evolves into the aptly named Porygon2. Containing a dozen times as many polygons, Porygon2 looks even more like a rubber duck, and is animated in the 3D games to bob listlessly like a drinky bird. Adorable.

Porygon2 was said to be developed in order to travel into space on interplanetary expeditions, but sadly didn’t manage to live up to expectations in reality. The poor thing can’t even fly properly. 

Still, Porygon2 is a pretty impressive display of the technological capabilities in the Pokemon universe. The upgrade was said to give Porygon2 a proper AI, and it enjoys studying new things and analyzing as much information as it can. It even is capable of developing new mannerisms that weren’t originally programmed into it, which is just delightful. I’m glad that if the Pokemon universe was able to develop a sentient, self-operating AI they put it in a cartoon duck body to make it absolutely charming and goofy in demeanor.

Then, the fourth generation added Porygon-Z to the family. After space exploration failed, the obvious next step was to try exploring alien dimensions (which are completely real in Pokemon, by the way), but apparently something went horribly wrong, leading to this more unusual and distinctly differently designed Porygon.

That’s not all, though. While the item used to evolve Porygon to Porygon2 is mentioned to be an official upgrade produced by Silph Co., the Dubious Disc used to evolve Porygon2 into Porygon-Z is explicitly mentioned to not have been developed by Silph Co., and instead by some shady third-party company who cracked Porygon’s code. This resulted in Porygon-Z becoming a horribly glitchy mess of a Pokemon, something I am also delighted to see brought to life in the games. It would be fun to see Porygon-Z with error textures or faces breaking on its model, but I suppose there’s only so much they can do intentionally. It twitches erratically during its idle animation on occasion, at least.

I do like how the glitchiness of Porygon-Z is conveyed by its odd design, though. It may look pretty different from Porygon2 at first, but you can actually tell how they used to be the same creature. Porygon-Z’s body seems to be rotated on the wrong axis, with its arms stuck out like a T-posing model. Even the ‘horn’ on its head is actually its old neck, meaning Porygon-Z’s head got flipped upside-down in the corruption process. Wild!

(I wish there was a higher res scan of this card...)

When you think about it, Porygon-Z is another really disturbing, genuinely sickly Pokemon along the lines of Weezing, only due to its more cartoonish, digital model nature, it’s not as apparent. Porygon2 was on the path to HD success, and all the trainers who decided to evolve it into Porygon-Z went and infected its body with terrible malware that ended up horrifically malforming its body. The poor thing’s even been driven mad by looking into alternate dimensions, just look at its wild yellow eyes.

Score: 5/5 - PERFECT!

Having digital Pokemon in-universe which somehow transferred over to the real world is such an excellent idea, and their evolutionary path makes for one of the more interesting Pokemon family histories to boot.

[Gen 1 Archive]

#pokemon #pokemon review #porygon #porygon2 #porygon-z

[tobiasdrake]

Orange League, Episode 35 - Back in Pallet Town

Ash returns home with -1 Brock but +1 Tracey in tow. But that's okay because Brock's here anyway. He made his choice to remain on Daidai/Valencia Island and study under Professor Uchikido/Ivy, but then something happened. He refuses to elaborate, but it's pretty clear from Brock's tendencies that he made a pass and got fired. Misty even says as much.

So, rather than actually. Like. Go home? He came to Pallet Town and has been doing housekeeping for Delia ever since.

You know that thing in RPGs where, like, you have a party limit. And for any characters not currently in your party, there will just be this designated social area where they can hang out and wait to be selected? I guess Ash's house is the social hub for inactive party members. That makes sense.

Ash also gets to show off his trophy to his mom, giving us some truly bizarre characterization for her. Delia's been a bit of an odd duck; She's presented in a positive light but is rarely supportive of her son. It's been suggested that she doesn't want him to be off on his Pokemon journey, and expected him to fail and come home like most Trainers do. But she was also the one pressuring him to live up to his family legacy, so I don't know.

When Ash shows her the trophy, she plays it off in the most heartbreaking way imaginable. Due to its shape, she mistakes it for a dumbbell that he bought to replace her missing one. She snatches it from his hands and goes off to exercise with it, giving him none of the validation or appreciation he was seeking. Ash is left crushed by his mom's complete disinterest in his victory.

But as soon as he's gone, she polishes the trophy, displays it in a place of honor, and just stands there smiling at it. She is proud of Ash. She loves her son, she fully recognizes what an accomplishment this is, and she's so happy for him. She just. Can't seem to bring herself to communicate that pride and love to him, and so ends up hurting him all the same.

What a complicated character for someone with such a minor role in the story. Kinda puts a new spin on her whole "How dare you save the world!?" thing in Lugia's Explosive Birth/Power of One, too.

Speaking of which, Ash finally turns over the GS Ball to Oak, since he forgot to do that in the movie. Can't have important plot points happening in optional side media, after all.

But there's one other reunion waiting for Ash here. One last bit of business before we finally wrap up Kanto and officially begin Pokemon Gold/Silver. At long last, it's time for Ash to have his final boss Rival Battle with Shigeru/Gary, the anime version of Blue.

#pokemon liveblog #pokemon #orange league #ash ketchum #satoshi #brock #takeshi #delia ketchum #hanako

[griffintail]

I just had this small idea of a Pokémon AU? One where the Sbi family helps their younger sibling, who’s nervous around Pokémon, to get more comfortable around them? I just think it’d be cute to have Techno, Wil, and Tommy be good big brothers. And yeah, this is kind of inspired by that kid from the Destiny Deoxys movie, and Lillie from the Sun and Moon games/series.

I don't think I've researched this much for a request XD I even watched the movie! Bonus points to those who know who I based Techno's character off of!

Pokémon Fears

Pairings: Platonic! Tommy, Technoblade, Wilbur, x GN! Sibling! Reader

Warnings: Pokemon Battles?

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Technoblade

(Y/N) cheered up in the stands louder than most of the people around them, Phil having long ago given up on quieting his youngest as they were watching his oldest battle. It was the championship and they were against the champion of their region, Technoblade. (Y/N) loved watching Techno during the League battles, though it was a different story off the field.

They roared with the crowd as the finalist last Pokémon was down, Techno patting his Garchomp’s shoulder for a good job.

“Alright.” Phil laughed before picking (Y/N) up and putting them on his shoulders. “Let’s go congratulate Techno.”

Holding onto Phil’s hands as he walked, (Y/N) eagerly chatted about the different Pokémon the other trainers used. It always surprised Phil that (Y/N) was always interested in the different creatures but if one so much as got too close…

(Y/N) squeaked as a Pidgey flew by their head, ducking down. Phil sighed patting their knee.

“It’s alright. They’re not going to do anything.”

Phil and the boys were never quite sure why (Y/N) was afraid of Pokémon, but they just were and couldn’t get near them. They could watch battles from a distance and had a decent amount of knowledge about various types, but couldn’t pluck the courage to be a few steps from them.

Techno was moving away from a few fans when (Y/N) and Phil showed up.

“Techno!” (Y/N) grinned again. “That was so cool! When Garchomp earthquaked their Blaziken-”

Techno chuckled as he took his sibling from Phil and let them ramble.

“Alright, alright.” He told them. “Why don’t we get something to eat and give Phil a break while you talk?”

“Can we go to that good sandwich place?” (Y/N) grinned.

“Yeah, ok. We’ll be home later Phil.”

“Ok, make sure you’re home before ten,” Phil told him and Techno gave a mock salute before walking off.

He let (Y/N) ramble away about the battles as he got their food and brought them to a park, sitting at a more secluded table. (Y/N) went quiet as they began to eat and Techno waited before speaking.

“So, why don’t we try again?” He offered as he took a Pokeball off his belt.

(Y/N) frowned as they shrank in their seat a bit, muttering, “I don’t know…”

“You got really close last time to actually petting Togekiss.” Techno reminded them. “So, why don’t we try one more time?”

“I got really close but I didn’t…I’m still scared.”

“It's ok to be. You sit and watch me battle trainer after trainer after all. You see what they do for battle. You don’t take a lot of time to just sit with them.” Techno said. “So, let’s let Togekiss sit with us.”

Techno let the Pokémon out and the creature let out a small noise as he stood on the table. (Y/N) squirmed in their seat as they looked at the creature.

“Why don’t you keep eating then try and pet him? Ok?” Techno offered and (Y/N) stared at the Pokémon before slowly nodding.

Their lunch continued, (Y/N) even quieter with the creature so close. Techno occasionally gave a bit of food to his Togekiss until both he and (Y/N) were done.

“Alright, now let’s try. Just be gentle, just like this.” Techno pet his Togekiss. “You can do it.”

(Y/N) stared at the Pokémon before reaching a hand out shakily. Togekiss stayed still, having done this a few times before and knowing his movement scared the poor child. (Y/N)’s and hovered above his head before closing their eyes and finally put their hand on top of it. Techno grinned proudly as (Y/N) stayed still for a moment before opening their eyes and grinning themselves when they saw that they actually did it.

“I-I did it!” (Y/N) grinned as they gently pet Togekiss, the Pokémon giving a small noise of delight.

“You did. I told you, you could.” Techno patted their head. “Now, you’ll be a champion before you know it.”

(Y/N) giggled as they smiled lightly at the Pokémon. Yeah, they’d be just like Techno.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wilbur

Wilbur came up to (Y/N)’s door, knocking. A moment later, (Y/N) opened and smiled up at him.

“Hey, kiddo. I’m going to play my guitar with my Pokémon, want to come and try sitting with us today?” Wilbur crouched in front of them.

It was always sad to Wilbur to see his sibling afraid of Pokémon. He knew they had a bad encounter with a more aggressive Taillow but he was sad to see they couldn’t bring themselves to be near other types. It made sense why they were extremely afraid of Phil’s Murkrows but not as much for other types. He actually missed sitting with (Y/N) while he played guitar and his Pokémon sang with them.

(Y/N) hesitated at the doorway before nodding slowly. “Yes.”

Wilbur smiled, ruffling their hair as he stood up. “Ok, get your shoes on and grab your jacket just in case and we’ll go to the park.”

He waited by the front door for them and called to Phil they were going out when they came down. They walked side by side to the park, the pair joking with each other. At one point, Wilbur gave them a shove before sprinting the rest of the way, challenging them as he ran away. (Y/N) laughed before sprinting after him, calling him out for his cheating.

The pair finally sat by the lake and Wilbur tuned his guitar.

“Any requests?” Wilbur looked up at them.

They shifted nervously now as now would be the time to let the Pokémon out and he smiled gently as he ruffled (Y/N)’s hair.

“Hey, it’s ok. I’ll only let Lapras and Marill to start, ok? We’ll work up to Altaria.” Wilbur assured them.

(Y/N) was silent before nodding. “Ok…can you sing one of your songs?”

He kept his soft smile for his sibling as he took out two Pokeballs from his bag. “Of course, I can, you ready?”

They nodded once more and he released Lapras in the lake and Marill next to the water’s edge. (Y/N) moved back slightly as Marill gave a delighted motion to see the other human again.

“Alright, you two,” Wilbur said putting a hand on top of Marill’s head. “We’re going to stay calm and sing for (Y/N).”

Both of the Pokémon let out a noise of agreement before Wilbur started to play. (Y/N) watched nervously as the trio in front of them. Wilbur was singing the actual words as he strummed as his Pokémon managed to harmonize with him, making a beautiful sound. They were starting on the third song when (Y/N) finally started to sing with them. Wilbur grinned brightly as he continued, Marill giving an elated noise as Lapras gave an encouraging one.

After the group finished the fourth song, they took a moment to break and Wilbur just strummed mindlessly when Marill wandered over to (Y/N). They scooted back slightly as Wilbur paused to put his instrument down.

“It’s ok. Marill would never hurt you. She just wants to sit in your lap, just like she used to.”

(Y/N) hesitated but sat still, shaking as Marill sat in their lap. They looked up at Wilbur to see him smiling as he scooted next to them to put a hand on their shoulder.

“See? You’re alright. It’s just Marill.”

(Y/N) stared down at the Pokémon in their lap before shakily putting a hand on her head. Marill gave an excited noise, startling (Y/N), but Wilbur hugged them around the shoulder to calm them.

“It’s ok,” Wilbur assured them.

They sat with their hand on Marill’s head for a few minutes before finally smiling lightly as they finally ran their hand along her head.

“There you go. I’m very proud of you.” Wilbur grinned.

“Thanks, Wilbur.” They smiled up at him.

It was a week later when Altaria was able to once more join their group.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tommy

“How do you plan on helping (Y/N)?” Tubbo asked and Tommy groaned loudly.

“I don’t know big man! Phil, Techno, and Wilbur all tried to help them out but they still can’t even get close to their own Pokémon!” Tommy threw up his arms.

It had been a week when Tommy and (Y/N) had snuck into a safari area they weren’t supposed to be in. As such, the Pokémon in the area had been startled by their presence and both had to be helped by the adults. Tommy had been fine, he didn’t mind the change in their adventure, but (Y/N) being a bit younger than him had been freaked out by the experience and was terrified at the moment to be around Pokémon, even their own Eevee, Electrike, and Riolu.

So, not only was Tommy in trouble for having the pair sneak into a place they were supposed to be but for also making (Y/N) freak out like they were.

“What can I do?” Tommy asked his friend.

Tubbo hummed. “Well, what did they like to do with their Pokémon before?”

“We’d have mock battles and they liked to go on walks and play with them,” Tommy told him.

“Well then do that! Have a mock battle with them. I’m sure they can’t resist, you both want to be trainers, right?”

“Well, yeah, we’re going to be the best champions!”

“Then they won’t be able to say no.”

Tommy nodded after a moment, grinning. “Yeah! Thanks, Tubbo! I got to go do that now!”

Tommy ran back home to gather (Y/N)’s Pokémon and his own in the backyard. Once he had them all, he knocked on (Y/N)’s door. They opened, raising an eyebrow.

“What’s up Tommy?” They asked.

“I challenge you to battle!” Tommy declared.

(Y/N) frowned, shuffling nervously. “I…Don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“Come on! We’re going to be Pokémon Champions, right?” Tommy grinned.

“I don’t know if I want to anymore.” (Y/N) muttered.

“Oh, come off it.” Tommy huffed before grabbing their hand.

“Tommy.” (Y/N) protested but Tommy dragged them to the backyard.

“No, come on. We’ve both wanted to be trainers since before we could even have Pokémon. You have been training yours and learning to be a trainer and now you want to quit? I won’t let it happen.” Tommy told them before going into the backyard. “So, let’s battle.”

(Y/N) shook as they saw the six Pokémon waiting and having their own conversations it seemed. There were (Y/N)’s own three and Tommy’s Charmander, Torchic, and Cyndaquil.

“T-Tommy, I can’t!” (Y/N) tried to leave.

“You can. Look, you and I are better than any other trainer. And you’re not giving it up.” Tommy pulled them forward and made them stand away but behind their Pokémon before he stood behind his own. “Now, you make the first move!”

Tommy didn’t want (Y/N) to throw away everything the pair of them had learned. They had both been excited about becoming trainers and had mock battles where their Pokémon didn’t seriously hurt each other and they even used all of their Pokémon at once. They both thought it’d make them better trainers as they would be able to focus much better on a one-on-one battle and they’d know how to make split-second calls faster. The pair of them worked so hard! And Tommy didn’t want to be the reason (Y/N) quit.

This had to work.

(Y/N)’s Pokémon were very happy to see them. Their Eevee and Electrike wagged their tails as their Riolu waved at them. (Y/N) gripped their hands nervously. They were so close to Pokémon and they were scared…but Tommy was right, they did want to be a trainer…even if they thought quitting was best.

“Come on (Y/N)!” Tommy cheered from his side.

They looked over at their brother and Tommy was grinning. They thought before taking a deep breath. They could do this…

“…Electrike! Thunderwave on Charmander!” They called out, Electrike letting out an excited call before doing as told, the rest of the Pokémon eager for the mock battle.

Tommy grinned brightly. “Cyndaquil! Smoke Screen!”

“Riolu, foresight!”

The pair played out their battle, both smiling and enjoying time with their Pokémon after. Tommy was extremely relieved as (Y/N) sat happily petting their Eevee. He’d be careful next time.

#mcyt x reader #tommyinnit x reader #wilbur soot x reader #technoblade x reader #sbi x reader #mcyt imagine #mcyt fanfiction

[imfluentinfangirlandgay]

Emmet's Adventures in Babysitting - Ch 3 (Kanto)

Emmet had to take a second to think back. He looked around at the seven heads around him, each one with a Pokemon containing powers he could not even imagine, all with eager eyes hellbent on one thing and one thing alone: him. How had he even gotten here?

Word Count: ~2000

Since Elio had mentioned Kanto once, Emmet figured that may as well be the region they go to next. The boat ride was much shorter this time around. Kanto and Hoenn were on opposite ends of the same landmass. The two children with him talked excitedly to one another. “I used to live in Cerulean City! We moved, though, after Dad left. Mom said she wanted some time away so we went to Alola,” said Elio. “Maybe we can see my old house!” Emmet felt a pang of sympathy for the boy. He hoped that he was alright.

They landed on Cinnabar Island and had to take a second ship to get back to Mainland Kanto. The ride was only about thirty minutes, thankfully. Emmet played with the zipper on his duffel bag the whole time, idly watching the sun move across the water. He snapped some photos for Elesa.

Was Ingo here? Emmet looked at the shoreline as if his brother would pop out of the sand at any given moment. He couldn’t imagine Ingo being in such a small town as the one they were entering, but he also could not have imagined his life without Ingo. The boat reached the land, allowing its passengers off. They started by curling up the right side of the map, searching along every route and again asking every Trainer they met if they recognized Emmet, and by association, Ingo. Nobody came up with any information. Chandelure did not react, either.

They searched for a couple days, the teens watching new species of Pokemon they had never seen before. They even walked through a museum on their way through. The stopped in Cerulean City, Elio excitedly showing them his old street. “I used to live in this house over here! I wonder who lives there now. I won’t go knock, but I'm curious. And over here was my friend’s house! Is he still there?” Elio led them a little closer to a two-story house next to the one he had pointed out as his previous one. He walked up to the door and knocked, leaving May and Emmet by the street. They waited for a moment. Then the door opened.

Another kindly woman stood in the doorway. Emmet hoped he didn’t get a repeat of last time. Her eyes widened as she looked at Elio. “My, my, Elio? Is that you?” Elio nodded. “Well, it’s good to see you!” She smiled broadly, her voice more melodic and brighter than May’s mother’s had been. “I suppose you are looking for Chase, yes?”

“If it isn’t too much trouble!” Elio replied, grinning.

“Last I heard he was exploring Viridian CIty. My boy just beat the old Champion Red! He was a little sad you couldn’t be his rival, but instead it was that other boy. The one from Pallet Town.”

Elio’s voice carried back to Emmet and May a little too well, “No way! I just became the first Champion of Alola!” They chatted a bit longer and then the woman shut the door, Elio bounding back to them. “My friend is in Viridian City, which is on the way anyway. Maybe he’ll have seen Ingo!” Emmet smiled and nodded, allowing the boy to lead the way.

“What were you talking about for so long?” May asked Elio. He ducked his head, looking a little sheepish.

“She was asking about you guys. I remember how weird your mom was about Emmet so I just said he was my Uncle taking me on a trip around the regions. And you were a distant friend.” Emmet’s ears burned a little at that. May’s eyes widened.

“That’s genius! Adults don’t get as weird when it's family. I’ll just say he’s my uncle, too!” Emmet’s smile became a little wonky, his hands beginning to flap a little as they walked. They were going to call him their uncle? Why did that make him so happy?

“Are you okay, Emmet? Is that okay for us to call you that?” Emmet’s hands were still flapping as he nodded vehemently. May and Elio locked eyes and glanced at Emmet. May was smiling. “Are you… really happy?” Emmet nodded again, still not speaking. May laughed, taking his hands. “You’re our uncle now! Uncle Emmet! Uncle Emmet!” Elio picked up the chant and grabbed their hands, too, spinning the three of them in circles. The kids laughed and Emmet couldn’t help it. He did too. They were such sweet kids.

“Alright,” Elio finally breathed after they stopped chanting. “We should go look for Ingo.” Emmet nodded, still flapping a little. They continued on, looking at the local wildlife and asking everyone who had a spare moment if they knew Ingo. Finally, they arrived in the biggest town that Kanto had offered yet, Viridian City. Though, compared to Nimbasa, it was just a town. A big town, but a town all the same. They looked through the streets, Elio on high alert. It didn’t take long for him to spot his target.

Another young boy, about the same age as Elio, stood on the opposite end of the street, reading a sign. He had a Pikachu sitting atop his head. Elio crept up behind him, startling the Pikachu, which squeaked at him. Its trainer whirled around. “Elio?”

“Chase!” Elio greeted. Emmet and May followed close behind, watching the two boys reunite. “I came here to visit from Alola! I heard you are Champion now! Which is crazy, because I just became the Champion of Alola.” Elio and Chase hugged for a moment.

“Well, you know what that means,” Chase said, smirking. “Now we have to battle. But be warned, I have some pretty powerful Pokemon!”

“How about a Multi Battle?” Emmet suggested suddenly. “Two on two.”

“Who are you?” Chase asked, looking up at Emmet with wide eyes.

“This is Emmet and May. May is the Champion of Hoenn. Emmet is a Subway Boss in Unova. He lost his brother, so we are trying to help him find him!” Chase nodded, smirking.

“I like the idea of a Multi Battle. How about you and May team up and I can team with Emmet?”

“You just want to see what Pokemon he has!”

“Let’s do it. Full steam ahead! Pokemon battle on schedule!” Emmet called, pointing one hand directly ahead and the other at the floor.

“Does he usually do that?” Chase asked cocking his head.

Elio slapped his shoulder playfully. “Yeah, he’s really cool. He does that a lot. I like it.” Emmet smiled.

He and Chase lined up on one end of a field, Elio and May on the other. They all threw out their Pokemon. Chase’s team consisted of Pikachu, Lapras, Arcanine, Dragonite, Snorlax, and Mewtwo. Emmet wasn’t even too surprised anymore when the boy sent out the Pokemon of legend. Emmet just rolled with it. And he and Chase ended up winning. Elio and May watched in shock as Emmet’s Klinklang sent the final Pokemon on the opposing team - the Araquanid - returning to its ball. Chase immediately jumped up in the air, exposing his hand for Emmet to high-five. Which he did.

“That was so cool! I can see why you’re Champion,” May ran over. Emmet healed all of their Pokemon, allowing Chandelure and Eelektross out again. Pikachu stayed on Chase’s hat, Marshtomp following behind May and Decidueye next to Elio. It was quite an eclectic group.

“Where were you all planning on heading next? I know my way around Kanto. You said you were looking for someone?” Chase’s eyes darted between the three of them.

“I am Emmet. I am looking for my twin brother, Ingo. He has been derailed from our station for two years.”

“Where did you say you worked again?”

Emmet cocked his head. “In the Battle Subway. I run the trains and battle Trainers competitively.” Chase smirked.

“That makes sense. I couldn’t tell if it was train words you were using. You’re team was so strong! I didn’t recognize most of the members, though.”

“They are all native to Unova.”

“Ah.” Chase nodded. Pikachu squeaked, patting its Trainer’s hat. “Pikachu says we should get going. Do you want some help?”

“The more passengers, the better the cab!” said Emmet.

“Yeah! We should catch up!” added Elio. And so their group of three became a group of four that traveled across Kanto. They found more Trainers, none of which had seen Ingo.

“Oh yeah, we’ve been telling people that Emmet is our uncle. They think he wants to kidnap us or something so we say that to make them back off,” May added. Emmet didn’t like the thought, though he knew it was true. That was what people thought when they saw a grown man around a group of children. Emmet sent Elesa some more photos and updated her on the situation. She joked that by the time he came home, he was going to have a whole class of children following him around. He didn’t think he’d mind too much.

“Ok, that’s no big deal. I can, too. Uncle Emmet.” Emmet’s hands flapped for a good ten minutes again. “What was your brother like, Emmet?” he asked suddenly. Emmet had to take a moment to stop his hands.

“Ingo is eloquent. He loves coffee, but only with a lot of sugar and cream. He is three minutes older than me. He was more focused on the way things worked. How engines ran. Making the rules. I enforced them. He would hold me back. He wrote long, long letters when he knew his talking was too much for me. He is verrry loud. He is right-handed. He loves watching short documentaries. He also loves reading books. He loves his Pokemon and trained with them daily. His favorite place to eat was a Kantoan restaurant down the road. He would eat their jelly-filled donuts forever if he could. His favorite flavor of Castelicacone is vanilla.” Emmet continued spouting off facts about Ingo as they walked along, allowing himself this. He wasn’t even getting emotional! This was progress. Because these kids were going to help him find his brother. They were actually interested in him and Ingo. It was a feeling he was not used to. “He knew what I was thinking and spoke for me. He could not move his face. When I go nonverbal, he always calms me down. His partner is Chandelure here,” he gestured to the ghost-type.

“The day he disappeared was the worst day of my life. He just needed to check Line Four, it was having a maintenance problem.” He paused, momentarily pausing in his tracks, too. He continued after a moment’s delay, hoping the children did not notice. “I watched the footage a thousand times over,” he added, his voice getting quiet. “One minute he is there. The next, he looks at something off-camera. The screen glitches. And my brother is gone. All that was left was his flashlight, his Pokemon, and his bag.” Emmet stops speaking for a moment. The moment stretches on. Chandelure whines at him.

“I’m helping you guys find him,” Chase said, his tone noting the finality of his decision. And nothing else was said that night as they piled into a Pokemon center to stay overnight. Only four days total were spent in Kanto. It was not a big region. Before long, the four of them set off on another ship, off to a new region.

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2017 Ducktales as pokemon trainers an their Teams

Here’s the next, are currently final, Disney cartoon on my list for makings characters into pokemon trainers. After this I will move over to doing other shows on Cartoon network. I did not get into this show when it was airing, and that was my bad. Once I did watch it it quickly became on of my favorites, and inspired me to look up older cartoons surrounding Donald, and his family as well. Its a good show an seems to be (rightly) held up as one of the best done reboots. Hopefully it still has some fans going back to its fan base, who will check this out.

I am going to do this list a bit differently than my other though. In previous lists I have either given all the characters full teams of 6, or given main characters teams of 6 and secondary characters teams of 3-4 pokemon. For 2017 Ducktales though, since it has such a large cast and they all always go on adventures in groups, I am not giving anyone 6 pokemon. Because then there would really be to many characters to fit in the plane, much less the show. Considering the group sizes I have decided to give the child characters 2 pokemon each, adult members of the duck family (by both blood and heart) get three each. This way the three triplets, or Webby, and her friends would all have six in total. Same with Duo’s like Donald and Della, or Scrooge and Beakley. I am also only giving villain or antagonist characters two, because that’s about the mass number villains ever had at one time in the show.

Adults are on this list. Kids are on my previous list

Scrooge and  Beakley

Scrooge Mcduck

Scrooge’s thing is that he is“Smarter than the smarties, tougher than the toughies, and sharper than the sharpies”. So I picked out three pokemon for him based on those traits

Slowking: Scrooges “Smartier than the smarties” pokemon

Charizard: Scrooges “Tougher than the toughies” pokemon. Yes, of course Scrooge is able to mega evolve his charizard. He is Scrooge McDuck

Mightyena: Scrooges “Sharper than the sharpies” pokemon

Even with limiting the characters to to a maximum of three pokemon each, this is still a more Op team than I usually try to give. But it’s Scrooge Mcduck’s team, and his character is designed to be an OP mentor to the next generations of adventures.

Bentina Beakley

Greninja: Well she is not just Bentina Beakley. She is also Agent 22. Greninja is a pokemon that Agent 22 caught (as a froakie) and trained to assist her in her spy days. It still assists herto this day, in keeping the manor, and its inhabitants safe

Nidorina: So one notable change in the 2017 ducktales depiction of Mrs.Beakley is her physical appearance. She went from being a soft and round women to a more muscled and fit women. This change makes sense when you take into count the changes to her backstory, and that she has lived a more physically demanding life. Well anyway because she is such a muscular and fit women I decided to give her a muscular and fit female pokemon. Why did I give her a Nidorina, instead of its evolved form Nidoqueen?  Because I wanted it to  still have the potential o evolve in a battle, while helping Beakley protect the kids.

Minccino: In both the 2017 version, and in the original one Mrs.Beakley is Scrooges house keeper. It’s a big manor, and I thought she could use a pokemon that would give her a hand with all the wok. I googled what the cleanliest pokemon was and got Minccino. Honestly the idea of this big, strict, and sophisticated, women having a cute, little, chinchilla pocket pet is just to good to pass up.

Donald and Della Duck

Donald Duck

Dewgone: Because he is a sailor and a former Navy seal.

Psyduck: Because as a tough, pretty unlucky duck, that is constantly dealing with headaches, and has a bad side you do NOT want to be on, Psyduck is basically a pokemon version of Donald.

Minun: This one is a tie to and representative of his bond with Della. Because of that I might swap Minun out for another pokemon if I ever do Donald in a different usiverse, where he lives with either the other two Caballeros or Micky. In this Universe Della has a Plusle and the twins siblings caught them together, back when they first started adventuring with Scrooge.

Della Duck

Skarmory: She is a pilot so she needs a champion flying type. The size and fiercness of a skarmory makes it a pokemon that would suit Della very well.

Plusle: The sibling to Donald’s minun, and representative of Donald and Della’s bond as siblings

Klefairy: Picked because of Della’s goals and association with the Moon. I think she had it before going into space (if she caught it on the moon couldn’t it have just taken her to the moonlanders) and it helped her try to rebuild her rocket to get back home.

Launchpad and Darkwing Duck

Launchpad McQuack

Flygon: He is a pilot so, like Della and Dewey, I am giving him flying pokemon. But they both have birds, and I wanted to give Launchpad something different to help distinguish himself a bit, while still making sure it was big enough for him and others to ride on. This led me to flygon.

Gligar: a cute, clumsy, silly, little bat-scorpion pokemon. A prefect buddy, secondary flying pokemon for launchpad. Also I headcannon that in the original dakwing duck cartoons D.D. has a gliscor, and that inspired L.p. to catch a gligar

Mantyke: While going through the list of flying type pokemon it occurred to that some of Luanchpad’s crashes happen over water, and he probably gets suck in the ocean a fair bit. So it would come in handy for him to have a pokemon that could help him swim to shore,

Drake Mallard a.k.a Darkwing Duck

Growlith: To highlight that he is a brave, little guy, who guards others.

Koffing: It can do smoke screens, and Dawrkwing uses smoke screens all the times to appear and disappear

Drifblim: So I said on my kids form that I tried to do bat pokemon for all three of the dark wing trio. But that I could not make any of them work for Gosalyn or Drake. So I changed the linker to just being nocturnal pokemon. Launchpad has Gligar, Gosalyn has Rowlet, and I think Driftblim is a really good fit for  Drake/Darkwing. It can help him swoop around around the town to “watch over it”. It’s big enough to carry him and his companions. It does not have control of where it goes, but that works to since this team is largely klutzes with Drake/Darkwing being the biggest klutz of all.

Gyro and Fenton

Gyro Gearloose

The way I see it Gyro would be an electric type trainer 

Magnamite: A cute little magnet pokemon. Represents when Gyro’s inventions (such a little bulb) are small, and helpful, and not evil and trying to destroy everybody.

Zebrashtrike: For Manny, since Gyro is the one who employed him and made him a part of the Duck/Mcduck’s family.

Electivire: A big electric monster. Represents when Gyro’s little, helpful, non evil inventions turn big, and angry, and dangerous.

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera

Fenton I believe would be a steal type trainer

Registered: The most similar a pokemon I could find to his Gizmoduck suit. It would be a partner to him when he is out doing hero patrols.

Bronzo: Because both Fenton and Gizmoduck care about defending people in need. This pokemon would be shared among both personas. It’s not like Fenton’s “secret identity” is really an actual secret after all.

Togedenru: This one is just Fenton’s, not Gizmoduck’s. I picked it because it’s an electric and steal type. Gyro is the person Fenton admires most (I persoanlly do not ship them as a couple, but I am also not opposed to them being one) so I could see him wanting a pokemon that’s half his type and half Gyros. Its also pudgy, fluffy, and cute. So maybe its Fentons emotional support pokemon for when his life gets to stressful (Because you know it would).

Daisy  Duck

Daisy is a fashion designer in this  universe, so I picked pokemon that had very elegant and fashionable appearances: Milotic and beautifly.

For her third pokemon I picked a ducklett. It’s still a very elegant white/blue pokemon. It being another water pokemon goes well with the life the season 3 finale sets up for her and Donald to have together. Maybe it and  Donald’s Psyduck could become friends.

Gandra Dee

Looks like she will primarily be a ground type trainer

Claydol: Some of its battle moves are similar to ones Gandra uses.

Ditto: Her goal is to push the boundaries of science. Given that Ditto can turn into pokemon, people, and inanimate objects, it is a pokemon where it and its tainer can certainly work to push the boundaries of its transformative abilities

Drilbur: She caught it sometime after she and Fenton started dating and she became a mole inside F.O.W.L.

Penumbra

Honestly at first I was not going to even put Penumbra. Not because I do not think she is cool (she is), but because a big part of her character is that she is from the moon. So she would have to have lunar/space pokemon, and there are only a few of those, much less ones that would suit her.

Deoxys: I finally remembered this one. While not a fighting type, Deoxys is a super tough warrior from outer space, and a very loyal friend (see the pokemon movie Destiny Deoxys, and everything it goes through to rescue its friend). This is perfect for Penumdra, as I cannot see her just standing at one end of a battle field calling out attacks. She would want a pokemon that she could fight hand and hand along side with

Starmie; She already has a deoxys, and that could have been enough if I did not find anything else... But I rewatched some of the first season; saw Starmies spin attack, it come in like 3rd place in a race while carrying Misty, and it fly out to confront a giant, angry, tenticruel. I also read on wiki that it can flash its core a rainbow of colors (ooh reference to Penny being Lesbian). So I would say it and Penumdra would be pretty cool too.

Chespin: Deoxys and Starmie are the two pokemon she had in space/on the Moon. When she decides to live on planet Earth instead though she catches an Earth starter. Starmie is already a water type, and I personally feel like she would chose grass over fire types. I looked at all all the grass types and selected Chespin due to its move pool and evolution's.

Goldie O’Gilt

Goldie has 2 pokemon. She has a Persian and a Liepard. 2 strong, stealthy, theiving, cats  to help Goldie track down treasure and scare away anyone who does not think Goldie should be taking it with her.

Villians

GlomGold: 2 sharpedo’s. Because he loved Sharks so much, he states a few times that his personal sharks are basically the closest thing to a real family (as apposed to the employs he hires, doops, uses, then Betrays) that he has.

Magica De Spell: She is a ghost type trainer and has a Misdreavus and a Mismagius. Beautiful, loud, terrifying, nocturnal, tricksters.

Ma Beagle: She has a Snubble and a Grubble of course. Basically the pokemon versions of her “boys”

Mark Beaks: He has a pikachu and a Raiachu. Like everything else in his life he acquired them because the public thought they were “cute” and “meme worthy”. So he got a pair to be his mascots.

I am leaving Lunaris and Bradford off this list. Lunaris because simply put I am out of space pokemon. Bradford because given how he hated adventure as much as he did, I feel like he would probably also hate pokemon, and pokemon training.

Storkules and Selene

I like them a lot and want to have them on this list. I will give them one Pokemon each. Storkules has a Regigigas and Selene has a Lunatone. Zeus does not get any pokemon. Zeus is not mature enough to be a trainer

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Hi, um... since you were nice to ex-rocket folks I thought I'd ask, my name's N and I'm looking for places to fly out and talk to some Pokémon to see more than I got to see with team Plasma. Would you mind if I came and said hi? I admire your ideals here, allowing Pokémon to choose whether they want a trainer or not or even not to see humans ever seems like a perfect formula. I wanted to ask first though, I'm trying to find the truth now but I'd get it if you didn't want me around.

Gates always open, make your way over and take a look around. The whole place is teaming with species from all over, each here because they met misfortune or found a family here. We encourage folks to camp out, so you don’t miss out on the night time Pokemon.

Ex-rocket, ex-plasma, Ex-convict, whatever, we’re not here to turn people away, it’s only if you do something stupid or dangerous while here that we intervene. If people play by the rules, there’s no need to do anything, we don’t snitch either, so ducking out of trouble or the public eye is possible, so long as you do nothing wrong here.

Fridays we have karaoke, maybe you can make it in time for that. Always fun with the Pokemon.

#pokemon #prof.peach #peach talks

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Commissioned @surreal-duck for this art of Hop wearing a C x L hoodie! He’s always happy to rock his big bro’s merch, even when he’s not the Champion anymore <3

88 notes • Posted 2021-04-23 17:00:48 GMT

#4

why do these three all have the exact same pose

what are they pointing at

98 notes • Posted 2021-03-12 04:21:22 GMT

#3

On the Legendary Wolves’ Plot in Pokéspe SWSH

I really like the way the legendary wolves’ plot is being handled in Pokespe so far. They’ve made a handful of changes and additions to the plot as it’s presented in the games that make it feel integral to the main characters and the overarching story, as well as just being more interesting to follow.

Part of the reason why this plotline is weak in the games is because it’s presented as just a minor subplot. You occasionally get more information about what really happened as you progress through the game, but it doesn’t seem important for you to pay attention to it until you get to the climax and Rose reveals that he’s caused the Darkest Day. Even though you encounter Zacian or Zamazenta in the Slumbering Weald at the beginning of the game, it’s not until Circhester that Hop connects that encounter to the legend you’re unraveling. And in the grand scheme of things, all that encounter does is confirm that the sword and shield Pokémon live in the Slumbering Weald - which Sonia apparently also learns about in a book that mentions Zacian and Zamazenta by name. So, why was it necessary, again?

But right out of the gate, Spe immediately ties the legendary wolves into the main characters’ backstory and motivations. A year prior to the beginning of the chapter, Sou goes to the Slumbering Weald to try to find the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield. He knows about them – and has an interest in them – because he’s from a family of swordsmiths, and he wants to see genuine, historical pieces of armor in person. Meanwhile, Schilly goes to the Weald to look for a Wishing Star that she had seen falling, since she wants to get it made into a Dynamax Band. The pair encounter the illusory Zacian and Zamazenta, and Sou immediately comes to the conclusion that these two are here to protect the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield – a conclusion supported by the fact that when they walk through the illusions to try to take a look at the artifacts, they’re knocked out by a flash of light. When they awaken, the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield are gone - as are all of Schilly’s Pokémon. Sou decides to start traveling with Schilly because he feels partly responsible for her Pokémon going missing, and Schilly decides to compete in the Gym Challenge to spread the word about her missing Pokémon and make it easier for her to find them. Additionally, it’s later revealed that Sou decided to participate in the Gym Challenge so he can get stronger and challenge Zacian and Zamazenta to a battle, believing that they’ll only allow someone with skill as a Trainer and an earnest desire to see the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield to see the artifacts in person.

So, in short, the reason why Sou and Schilly met and their respective reasons for taking on the Gym Challenge are both intrinsically linked to their encounter with the legendary wolves. This makes the wolves’ presence relevant throughout the whole story, ensuring that the reader doesn’t forget about the encounter by the time it becomes relevant again. (I also appreciate that they gave the wolves a concrete reason to appear before the protags in the Weald, something which the games and anime never really bothered to provide.)

Additionally, the decision to introduce the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield right away instead of saving their introduction for the climax like what happens in the games was a really smart choice. First, it ties directly into Sou’s interests, giving him a good reason to be interested in the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield as well as the other legends involving swords and shields. Second, it allows the characters to link together the encounter with Zacian and Zamazenta to the information they’re learning about the legends - Sou observes that the sword and shield held by the statue of the hero in Motostoke as well as the sword and shield depicted on the Hammerlocke tapestries resemble the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield, suggesting that the legends have a connection to the artifacts. And when I say “suggesting”, I don’t just mean in the sense that it’s something you can interpolate from the text. I mean that Sou literally says, “It’s not entirely unlikely that the three are all the same,” and Raihan brings up later that if they’re the same sword and shield, the legendary wolves may be connected to these events in some way as well.

This is another thing that I really appreciate about the way that Pokéspe is handling this plotline: the characters actually speculate, hypothesize, and draw conclusions about the evidence that they’re being presented with. In the games, most of the encounters with Sonia just involve you pointing out incredibly obvious things about the historical artifact/legend, and Sonia agreeing that they’re significant. She asks a lot of questions, but doesn’t postulate answers to them unless they’re directly being shown to you. And even some of the conclusions she draws seem like leaps of logic, like when she assumes that the statue behind the Stow-on-Side mural must be correct because it was made in “truly ancient times” - like, we just discovered this statue, Sonia. We have no idea how old it is.

But in Spe, the characters draw logical conclusions from the information they have, which means they can figure things out a lot faster than they do in the games and makes the conversation interesting to read whenever they learn new information. For example, Sou speculates that the sword and shield wielded by the hero might’ve had special powers, which is true. How did he figure this out? He explains that he thought about it because the hero used them to fight giant, rampaging Pokémon, which is a bit difficult to accomplish with a normal sword and shield.

Another great example of this is in Hammerlocke vault, when Sou guesses that Chairman Rose wants to cause the Darkest Day. One might think that he’s figuring things out way too quickly, but the thing is, this conclusion makes perfect sense given the information he has. While looking at the tapestries, Sou notices that the first one depicts a Wishing Star falling and the second one depicts the Darkest Day occurring. Thus, he guesses that Wishing Stars might have caused the Darkest Day, a hypothesis that Sonia agrees with because they’ve already figured out that the Darkest Day has a connection to Dynamaxing, and Wishing Stars cause Dynamaxing. But Sou had previously learned from Bede that Chairman Rose is collecting a massive amount of Wishing Stars, so it’s only natural that his next thought would be to wonder if Chairman Rose is - advertently or inadvertently - going to cause the Darkest Day again. This immediately ties the Rose plot in with the legendary wolves’ plot, a connection that doesn’t start to be made until your third visit to Hammerlocke in the games.

In general, the Hammerlocke vault scene is way better in Spe than it is in the games, where all you get is Sonia saying that the disaster depicted is probably the Darkest Day and wondering if there was one hero or two. Besides the conclusions that I already mentioned, Sonia also connects the disaster shown in the tapestries to the disaster shown in the Turffield geoglyph, concluding that they’re both depictions of the Darkest Day. However, Sou points out the lack of giant Pokémon in the tapestries, which are always associated with the Darkest Day. I really like how they point out both the similarities and the differing details between the stories, which makes it a little more understandable why no one has ever put together that this myth of the creation of Galar and the legend of the Darkest Day might be referring to the same event.

Finally, the last major improvement that I want to talk about is the one that was introduced in the latest chapter: an explanation for why the legendary wolves’ existence was lost from the legends. The destruction of the Stow-on-Side mural happens offscreen in this story, which is kind of understandable - the main significance of this statue in the games was to introduce the concept of Pokémon being involved in the legend, which Sou, Sonia, and Raihan had already figured out. This statue holds a completely different significance here: when Sonia is telling the protagonists about the newly discovered ruins, she says that she thinks the mural was put up by someone who wanted to deliberately hide the two Pokémon from the legend, giving all the credit to the humans. She points out the tapestry at Bob’s Your Uncle as further proof of this, which - given its condition - looks like someone threw it away so it would disappear from history. 

I don’t believe that the games ever explain how the tapestry ended up in the restaurant, so the fact that it’s given any sort of context here is really neat. But more importantly than that, it’s really interesting that they’re stating outright that the legendary wolves were deliberately removed from the legend. In the games, Sonia wonders why the ruins at Stow-on-Side would be hidden, but doesn’t offer an explanation - she doesn’t even say anything to suggest that it was done intentionally. The question is never brought up again. So I’m really hoping that Spe won’t go that route, and this revelation will have broader implications in the story next chapter or even later - that we’re going to find out who covered it up, or possibly that someone in the present day knows about the cover-up and is willingly propagating it. The immediate assumption is that it’ll be connected to Sordward and Shielbert in some way, since they benefit from the legend being that their ancestors were the heroes who saved Galar. But I think it could also be interesting if we find out that Rose knew about the statue and is deliberately trying to keep the existence of the sword and shield Pokémon covered up - it’d make a lot of sense why he was so unforgiving to Bede for trying to destroy the mural if that were true. Either way, I’m excited to see where they take this concept.

tl;dr The way Pokéspe has been handling the plot points related to the legendary wolves has been really good so far, much better than it was in the games, and I’m very excited to see how it develops going forward!

98 notes • Posted 2021-08-05 01:37:54 GMT

#2

well, no wonder he got lost

131 notes • Posted 2021-10-03 04:54:23 GMT

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A collection of all the Hops from the latest SwSh round <3

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[Image Description: Three fan-made Pokemon resembling red-orange cows with flaming tails, the largest one being a minotaur.

The first Pokemon is a red calf with brown hooves, a brown tuft of hair on its head, dark red eyes, tan muzzle and belly, tiny beige horns, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It has one hoof slightly off the ground and appears surprised. Orange text outlined in tan to its right reads “Calflame”.

The second Pokemon is a reddish-brown bipedal cow with dark purple mohawk-like hair on its head and matching neck fluff, bright red eyes, tan muzzle, blue hooves, silvery horns and matching shoulder spikes, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It has one hand-hoof on its hips and one held up as though raising a fist, its expression showing off its confidence. Orange text outlined in tan to its right reads "Kinedle".

The third Pokemon is a red and orange minotaur-like creature with a tan muzzle, bright red eyes, a gold ring passing through its nostrils, golden horns and shoulder spikes, dark blue mohawk-like hair, dark purple hooves, grey plates on its knuckles with golden spike protrusions, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It is standing in a powerful-looking position and glaring off to the side. Orange text outlined in silver to its right reads "Minosteel".

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Calflame - Small Calf Pokemon - fire Curious in nature, Calflame have a tendency to wander if not kept under careful watch. Thankfully they also tend to snort out small embers, so it is fairly easy to track a runaway by the lightly scorched trail they leave behind. / Their tendency to snort out small embers can become quite troublesome if housed in a flammable environment. Experienced farmers that keep Calflame in large groups always make sure barns and other shelters have adequate fireproofing.

Kinedle - Young Cow Pokemon - fire Having grown a bit haughty after evolving from Calflame, they often engage in more risky behavior due to thinking that they already know best. Human parents often joke that Kinedle act much like rowdy teenagers. / Individuals in the same herd tend to butt heads and lock horns with one another, both as a play activity and to establish some sort of dominance. Trainers should be advised to watch out for this behavior, especially when combined with spurts of flame.

Minosteel - Protective Pokemon - fire/steel Despite their fearsome appearance, Minosteel are gentle to small creatures and have a very protective nature. They will not hesitate to come to the aid of injured Pokemon and children. / Due to misunderstanding of intent, farmers used to live in fear of their Moofer calves being abducted by roaming Minosteel. It is now common for Minosteel to be seen as a welcome farm assistant, prepared to aid in rearing abandoned calves and to guard the entire herd.

All right, we get to look at the full evolution line for Cantessy's fire starter Calflame, now with its evolved forms Kinedle and Minosteel! Hope everyone who liked Calflame in that survey from a while back is happy with how their cow friend turns out! :D

I wanted to go with the perceived theme of fire starters being based on the Chinese zodiac, so with only four options available on that front I went with an animal that's quite prominent around here. Yup, we got Cows. Cows and cows and cows. Like I can look down my street when it's daytime and there's a good chance I'll see a cow just Out And About in their humans' pasture. We've also got a pretty strong manufacturing industry, so with that in mind I eventually turned our little fire calf into a metal minotaur. And yes, I'm sorry if this disappointed anyone, but I just immediately stood Kinedle up at the first opportunity hehe.

In terms of gameplay if this were an actual game, the Calflame family is gonna be more attack-focused with some strong defenses and solid HP, to fit in with Minosteel's lore of being a fierce protector. They'll obviously learn a good amount of fire and steel moves that take advantage of this along with some other strong physical attacks, and when Minosteel has evolved they'll learn the move Red Hot Pierce, which acts similarly to Flying Press in that it works as both a fire and steel type move in terms of super-effectiveness (and by that I mean it does double damage to the things that are weak to steel as well as those that are weak to fire, but does normal fire damage on things that are neutral to or resist steel). Is that broken? It might be broken, but at least the other starters get something like it so maybe that balances it out? I'unno, I'm a character designer, not a game balancer hehe. I mainly just get the visual for how it'd look, and I can imagine a Minosteel using this move to heat their horns before ducking down and ramming into their foe.

Also if anyone wants to suggest other moves for these guys to learn and some physical stats (ie. height and weight, I only have a height for the base form starters atm and no weights XD ), feel free to throw 'em at me :3 Links to their info pages will be provided in the replies!

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Title: Hop and Gloria to the Rescue!

Rating: G

Summary: Gloria and Hop are finally home for a visit after their stays in the far-off Crown Tundra and the Isle of Armor, respectively. But what's this? Someone is breaking into Hop's house!? And Leon's there alone? They have to save him!

Ships: Leon x Piers

Content Warnings: Mild spoilers for the SwSh post games and DLCs

Read on AO3

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"Anything but curry. Let's agree to that."

"Oh, definitely!"

Hop rubbed his stomach. "If I ever see another Max Mushroom curry in my life, it'll be too soon."

"At least the Dojo has a snack machine!" Gloria bumped into his shoulder with her own. "You know what I got to eat? Camp curry and carrots."

"So that means you got the best eyesight now, don't it?" Hop teased.

Gloria wrinkled up her nose. She moved to push Hop forward, but he dodged. She snorted. A smile played on her face.

For the last few months, the Galar continent separated the best friends, with Gloria exploring the Crown Tundra and Hop studying in the Isle of Armor. They kept in touch, of course, texting, calling,and sending pictures of interesting pokemon they saw, but none of that compared to walking and chatting with each other on their journey home to Postwick.

Both trainers had so much to tell everyone and each other.

Notebooks weighted down Hop's pack. Each one filled with notes, sketches, and photographs about the pokemon he'd been studying on the Isle of Armor. One, in particular, had a blurry photo of a black and pink bird pokemon that sped by the front of the Dojo one afternoon.

Hop already knew exactly how he would convince Gloria to help him track it down.

Gloria's pack, on the other hand, held a folder with all the notes she'd taken from her own journeys around The Crown Tundra with Peony. If the pictures of the Legendary pokemon didn't leave Hop gobsmacked, then seeing them registered in her Pokedex would!

Of course, once he knew she was tracking down Moltres somewhere in the Isle of Armor, he would have to join her.

But all that could wait until after a few days rest with their families.

Patchy clouds darkened the sun as the two crested the final hill to Postwick. Far in the distance, over the Slumbering Weald, the heavy clouds poured down. The travelers missed the deluge by less than an hour.

Gloria took a deep breath, enjoying air that didn't fill her lungs with an icy chill. Coming home a day earlier than she'd told her mum turned out to be the right idea.

Not just their families would be elated to see them. Gloria had message after message from Marnie: how she was improving her gym and the new boutique that opened near the Spikemuth pokemon center--and about The Big Secret.

Marnie had taunted her with the huge, life changing secret that was too sensitive to tell over the phone for weeks now. If Gloria wanted to know what the secret was, she would have to come to Spikmuth and hear it from Marnie face to face.

Hop ran over to a wooden fence.

"I didn't know how much I'd missed wooloo." He laughed and gestured to a herd of grazing wooloo.

One of the wooloo raised its head at the sound of his voice. It baa'ed at the two before trotting over. It butted its head against Hop's palm. Soon the rest of the herd crowded the fence line, baa-ing in delight at the attention Hop readily gave out.

"Remind me to let Dubwool out after we get home so he can talk to all his old wooloo friends. He's grown even stronger since the last time they all saw him. Master Mustard said he thinks Dubwool is getting stronger faster than even Lee’s Charizard did."

Hop scratched a wooloo under the chin. It bleated in delight.

Gloria leaned her arms on the fence. "Speaking of Leon, will he be home too? My pokemon are itching for a battle with him." She fingered the pokeballs at her belt.

If Cinderace didn't get a chance to battle Leon's Charizard, he would give Gloria the silent treatment for a week. After all the rememensing about the amazing championship battle Gloria and Leon had, Calyrex, too, wanted a good look at the former champion. Not to mention the rest of her team wanted to test their strength against the toughest trainer they knew.

Hop jumped back from the fence, much to the sorrow of the wooloo herd. "He should be. Lee told me he's been helping Mum and my grandparents around the house the last week or so."

"Well, if he's not home," Gloria punched her fist into her palm, "I'll go drag him back to Postwick myself."

Hop chuckled as he spun around towards Postwick. He wished he could see that: Tiny Gloria carrying his big brother over her head all the way through the Wild Area and back home. It was almost too bad Lee wouldn't miss a chance to see his little brother after so long apart.

He opened his mouth to tell Gloria as much when something caught his eye. He shielded his eyes from the sun and squinted.

"What's that?" He pointed.

Gloria followed his finger to see a figure in black with a hood pulled up walk through the gate to Hop's house. The figure shut the gate behind them before passing a large tree and leaving her sight.

"I dunno, but it gives me a bad feeling." Gloria grabbed Hop's wrist. "C'mon! Let's investigate!"

They hurried down the road until they came to the edge of the stone wall that surrounded Hop's home.

"Do you think we should go inside? What if that's a burglar? Should we call the police?" Hop asked. His fingers brushed his rotomphone in his pocket.

"Not yet. Let's see if we can tell what's going on first."

Gloria dropped her bag. With a leap, she effortlessly cleared the wall. She rushed past the tree and to the shed beside the house. Hop shouldered off his heavy pack and mimicked her until both their backs pressed against the worn paint of the shed.

"There's a window 'round the side of the shed. It looks into the kitchen." Hop jerked his head towards the house. "Let's see if we can see anything."

At the edge of the shed, Gloria and Hop exchanged looks. They nodded at each other then dropped to their stomachs in the wet grass. The smell of soggy earth filled their noses. They army crawled to the side of the house.

Hop's grandfather, or maybe even Leon, had recently cleared the leaf litter from around the shed into a tidy pile beside the house. The pile blocked their path like a sodded brown mountain.

Gloria started to ask, "Should we go arou--" when the kitchen window opened.

Hop slapped a hand over her mouth and pulled her until they were right next to the leaf litter pile.

A voice floated out the window.

"...won't be back until tonight."

Hop stiffened.

Leon! That was Leon's voice! So he was home. What about the burglar? The figure who walked through the gate. Did that person know Leon was home too? Did Leon know he wasn't alone?

Leon stuck his head out the window and gazed at the sky. "Rain's well past," he said before pulling his head back in.

Gloria held Hop against the wall to stop him from jumping out of their hiding place and dragging Leon out of the window by his shoulders.

She put a finger to her lips. "We don't know if anyone is in there with him yet," She hissed into his ear. "We don't want to scare him over nothing."

Hop swallowed the lump of worry in his throat. Gloria was right, of course. Maybe the figure was just cutting through his yard. People did that all the time, didn't they?

A hand with skin much too pale to be Leon's came from the window. It turned, palm to the sky, before returning to the house. The window shut with a click.

Hop and Gloria's eyes met.

There was someone in the house, someone beside Leon.

Without another word, the two crawled around the leaf pile and to the window. They waited a few heart-pounding moments before, carefully, peeking into the kitchen.

The figure in black, hood still up, had their back to Hop and Gloria. A sharp knife stuck out from their sleeves.

The figure started to turn towards the window. Hop and Gloria ducked down. Their hearts threatened to tear right out of their chests.

"Oh, Arceus." Hop sucked in a breath, going to his knees.

She put her hands on Hop's shoulders and shook him once. "Do you know what this means? It's not a burglar! It's a murderer!"

"But why? Who would want to hurt Leon? He is the greatest Champion Galar's ever had!" He paused a beat then added, "Ah, I mean--"

Gloria cut him off with a wave of her hand. "That's probably why! He must know something someone doesn't want him to. He has to have some top secret information about the League or someone very powerful."

"So they sent an assassin!" Hop interjected.

"Maybe more than one!"

Then, like a feedback loop of movie cliches, the mysterious figure walking through Hop's gate turned into a burglar, then murderer, then one of a team of well trained ninja assassins from Kanto coming to either kidnap Leon to extort information out of him or kill him to keep him from talking.

Midway through Hop's edition of a secret underground society of pokemon psychics, a scream pierced the air from inside the house.

"Lee!" Hop jumped to his feet.

He ran to the front of the house, weaving around the set of metal chairs and table near the kitchen door, and skidded to a stop, sending mud and wet grass up into the air.

He took a pokeball from his belt. "Dubwool, come out!"

In a flash of light, Hop's dubwool appeared. He shook out his fleece. For a moment, excitement rose on Dubwool's face upon being home. It disappeared when he looked at Hop's terrified expression.

Gloria let out her Cinderace. Cinderace took a breath for an delighted shout but Gloria shushed him with a hand over his mouth.

"There is an assassin in Hop's house trying to kidnap Leon," She explained quickly to the pokemon. "They probably have the door blocked, so we need to break it in then take out the assassin, got it?"

Dubwool and Cinderace nodded without a second’s hesitation. Their trainers knew exactly what was going on, and the pokemon always trusted their judgement.

Hop picked up one of the metal garden chairs and Gloria the other. They weren't much for weapons or protection, but they were better than nothing.

Another scream made all four jump.

"Let's go! Dubwool, use slam on the door!" Hop ordered, throwing out his arm.

Dubwool bleated. He pawed at the dirt once, twice, then rammed, horns first, into the door. The door flew from the hinges and crashed into the stairs across the hall. Photos rattled and fell to the floor with a shattering glass. Shards of glass scattered across fleece as Dubwool righted himself.

With a war cry, Hop, Gloria, and Cinderace raced through the door.

Cinderace jumped onto the broken door and used it as a springboard to leap across the living room.

"What in the world?" Leon jumped up from the couch in time for Cinderace's foot to plant firmly on his chest. His hat flew off his head as he landed, pinned between the wall and Cinderace's foot.

Gloria raised the chair above her head and threw it as another head came up from the couch.

The assassin ducked in time to miss the metal chair, but not the Dubwool who jumped over the couch to land on them with a victorious bleat.

The shelf above Leon swung down by one nail, disturbed by the chair hitting the wall. A trophy rolled and landed square on Leon's head with a bell-like ring.

Hop darted around the chaos towards his brother, his chair forgotten by the mess near the broken door.

"Lee!" Hop pushed a shocked Cinderace away and crouched next to Leon.

"H...Hop?" Leon squinted. "What are you doing here?" He winced, holding his head. A nice sized lump began to grow where the trophy collided with Leon’s skull.

Before Hop could answer, Gloria took a pillow from the couch and began beating the only part of the assassin's body that wasn't under a mass of thick wool--their thrashing legs.

"How do you like it, huh? You're not killing any champions on my watch! Bam! Ha! Boom! Take that, assassin!" She cried, repeatedly slamming the pillow against the assassin's ankles.

Leon gasped. "S-stop! Gloria, stop!" He tried to stand, but could barely lift himself up without falling back.

Hop wrapped his arms around Leon's shoulders protectively. Why in the world would he want them to stop? That assassin was trying to kidnap him, take him to their underground base, and torture him for information!

"Get the 'ell offa me!" The assassin yelled. With a grunt of effort, they pushed Dubwool off.

The sheep pokemon rolled onto his back, hooves waving in the air. Gloria quickly changed her angle and slammed the pillow into the assassin's face.

I hope I broke this jerk's nose! Gloria thought, though she didn't hear any cartilage crunching against her attack.

A pale hand gripped the pillow and tore it from her hands.

"What was all that for?" A familiar person demanded, throwing the pillowing back at Gloria. It hit her face and landed in a sad lump on the ground.

"Piers?"

Piers narrowed his eyes. A chill worse than anything she felt in the Crown Tundra ran up her spine at his icy glare.

"Did you throw a chair at me?" He demanded.

"I, I, uh..." Gloria floundered.

What was going on? Why was Piers, of all people, here? He wasn't a gym leader anymore, so he didn't need to talk to Leon about the League. Gloria couldn't think of a single reason the two would ever be in the same place together.

Unless something was wrong with Marnie. Was that The Big Secret she wanted to tell her? Had Marnie broken some sort of huge rule? Did something bad happen? Was her best gal friend in trouble?

Leon groaned again. Piers moved his gaze from Gloria and towards Leon. He jumped to his feet and hurried over.

"Leon? Are you alright?" He winced, seeing the blooming bruise on his forehead.

Hop tightened his grip on his brother. His head spun. Had his and Gloria's grand plan to save Leon been for nothing? No way they were wrong about the danger Leon had been in.

"I'm ffffffine," Leon slurred, "propsably."

Piers held up three fingers. "How many fingers I got up?"

Leon stared into the middle distance for a few beats longer than he should before squinting at Piers' fingers.

"Six."

Piers groaned, throwing his head back dramatically and slumping his shoulders. "I think you two gave him a concussion."

"Concussion?!" Hop nearly choked on the word. "But, we didn't mean to!"

Cinderace took a few steps around Gloria. He lowered himself to hide behind her, ashamed of the damage he'd caused. She reached back and patted him reassuringly. It wasn’t his fault. If Piers had been an assassin ninja, Cinderace would have just saved Leon from a dagger to the neck.

Piers disentangled Hop from Leon. He put his arm under Leon's and around his back before hoisting him up. Leon tried to take a step on his own, but wobbled back against Piers.

"Let's get you to a doctor. That's a nasty lump." Piers' voice came out softer than Gloria or Hop had ever heard it. To Hop, he asked, "Do we got to go all the way to the next town or is there a doctor in Postwick."

Hop's mouth gaped before he shook himself. "There's not, but if I call the one in Wedgehurt, he can be here in a jiffy." He already had his rotomphone out before he finished speaking.

Gloria, feeling useless standing there like a slowpoke on a stone, went to roll Dubwool back to his hooves. She dusted some of the wood chips and glass shards from his fleece. A few chips hit the cracked screen of a laptop on the floor.

She had a feeling she would be paying for that, and for everything else...

Leon rested his weight against Piers' side.

"Surry," He muttered. "This didn't go alls well 't all."

Piers shrugged as he carefully helped Leon through the broken mess on the floor.

"Believe it or not, this still isn’t the worst date I've ever been on."

Hop dropped the rotomphone and Gloria fell over herself, landing on the other side of Dubwool.

"Date?"

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Piers shook the rain off his coat.

“Walk more,” they said.

“It's good for you,” they said.

“The weather is great today,” they said.

Bull crap!

That's the last time he takes his gym trainers' advice on the weather--no, not his gym trainers. They were Marnie's now. He hadn’t been a gym leader in a few months, but sometimes that fact still slipped his mind.

He should have gotten a taxi to Postwick. That way he wouldn't have gotten caught in the rain.

He hurried down the road to Leon's house. He opened the gate, surprised it didn't screech in protest. Well, Leon did say he'd been doing handiwork around his family's house recently. He probably oiled the gate.

Or maybe Piers just wasn't used to gates that didn't squeak from years of rust.

He shut the gate behind him as he wondered if he could talk Leon into helping him around Spikemuth's gym. Marnie might be the gym leader, but that didn't mean Piers couldn't still keep the gym up to snuff.

Leon opened the door after the second knock. He wore a floral themed apron with his sleeves rolled past his elbows and hair pulled back at the nape of his neck.

He covered a chuckle.

"Spooky. Are you the grim reaper today?" He gestured at the long black coat and hood.

Piers rolled his eyes and pushed the hood back. How he fit all of his hair in the hood, Leon couldn't fathom a guess.

Leon gestured for him to follow him to the kitchen. Piers peeled off his coat and draped it over a kitchen chair. Leon reached back to untie the apron.

"I lost track of time," he explained, hanging the apron on a hook. "I promised Mum I'd get the kitchen spick and span for tomorrow."

"How kind."

Hop came back tomorrow from the Isle of Armor. Piers' knew that well at this point. It seemed every other conversation lately had been about how excited Leon was about his little brother's return.

Leon couldn't wait to hear what kind of research Hop was doing and what kind of pokemon he'd met and all about how everything at the Dojo was.

Of course, Gloria was supposed to come back too. Neither Leon nor Piers had ever been to the Crown Tundra, but they knew the rumors of the incredibly strong pokemon that live in the barren, frozen north of Galar.

Both of them knew they would need to battle the current champ to see just how strong she'd become before she left to continue her explorations.

Piers peered around the kitchen. As far as he could tell, it looked fine. All the counters were clean and the cobwebs dusted from the corners, but he still asked, "D’you need help?" anyway.

Leon shook his head. "No. It's just a few dishes I have to do." He jerked his head to the sink.

In fact, Leon started cleaning all the nooks and crannies of the kitchen right after breakfast. He intended to finish well before Piers showed up, but only having a few pieces of silverware left wasn't that bad.

Piers took a dish towel from beside the sink and dropped it. Using his foot, he mopped up the puddle he and his coat created on the tiled floor. With one quick movement, he hooked the towel with his toe and kicked it up into his waiting hand.

"You're welcome." He tossed the towel next to the sink.

Leon snorted a laugh. "Thanks."

"When is your family 'ppose to be back? The movie isn't that long, but..." Piers trailed off, rolling his wrist to finish the comment.

Leon didn't need him to finish to know what he was talking about. They were a little secret, for the time being. Only the bare minimum of people knew they were dating, and Leon had been putting off explaining the situation to his family until after Hop and Gloria’s homecoming.

"My grandparents are visiting friends in Ballonlea. My and Gloria's mums are in Hammerlock, so, they," Leon opened the window over the sink, "won't be back until tonight."

Leaning over the sink, he poked his head out and looked up. The dark rain clouds moved on, leaving Postwick humid, but drying. A weather Piers didn’t seem to mind, though Leon couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of humidity being better than a sunny afternoon.

"Rain's well past."

Piers strode next to him and stuck his hand out the window. He turned his palm up, half expecting more rain, before pulling it back in. He shut the window.

"Too bad," he smiled slyly, "a scary movie is always better with some thunder and lightnin' in the background."

"I wouldn't want Hop treading home through mud," Leon replied, only half joking.

Piers took his coat from the chair and draped it over Leon's shoulders. He chuckled and patted his warm cheek.

"It's cute you care so much about your bro like that."

A faint blush crossed Leon's cheeks. Their faces were so close. It wouldn't take much to close the gap and--

"We should start the movie soon." Piers stole a step away. "We're doing this in the living room, yeah?"

Before he could get any farther, Leon took hold of his wrist and gently pulled him back. He placed a kiss on his cheek.

"I have to empty the sink first, so don't miss me too much."

Although he knew it was unlikely, Leon wished his impromptu romantic gesture would leave the formidable dark-type trainer flustered. It didn't, of course. Leon had only ever gotten him blushing and gobsmacked once, when he first proposed the idea of a date between the two.

Piers shook his head with a smile then pulled the hood over Leon's head.

"Smooth as a druddigon."

He paused, mentally storing that line away. It could make a good lyric someday. Smooth as a druddigon, loving as a gorbis? Bisharp?

He'd work on it later.

With Piers out of the kitchen, Leon sighed in defeat. Maybe next time he'd get him.

Instead of taking off Piers' coat, he put his arms through the sleeves. Piers was taller than him by a half a head, so the sleeves fell past his hands

Leon took the last fork and spoons from the sink and set them aside. Careful of the blade, he took a knife out. Mum used the knife to chop vegetables for dinner the night before, so it was a relatively easy clean.

Leon shuddered. The coat wasn't even that warm. Did Piers only wear it for the style? He turned away from the sink, knife still in hand and lifted an arm. At least the material seemed to dry fast after being caught in the rain. Maybe that's why Piers wore it?

As he turned back to the sink, something moved out of the corner of his eye. He frowned. Did a rookidee fly down from the tree in the yard just then? Setting the knife aside, he reached to open the window again when a blood curdling scream made him jump.

With his hand to his pounding heart, he hurried to the living room.

"What was that?"

Piers nodded to the laptop set up in front of him on the coffee table.

Leon craned his neck towards the laptop screen. The fakest monster costume he had ever seen loomed over a frightened woman on the title screen.

"Night Of the Living Nightmare" the title read in a dripping green and purple font.

When Piers said he had a classic of Galar indie horror to show him, Leon expected a movie with thrilling psychological horror and innovative use of pokemon moves for special effects, not a repainted rubber gyarados mask with extra teeth glued in.

"How old is this movie?" Leon asked, taking off Piers' fashionable, but impractical, coat.

"Would you believe me if I told you it was made only eight years ago?" Piers took the coat from Leon and tossed it in the corner of the couch.

"Really?" He sat next to Peers.

Piers scooted over and pressed against his side. Leon always felt warm, which was part of the reason Piers took his less than warm coat with him. A good excuse to get close as they watched the movie. At least one of them was actually smooth.

He hummed the affirmative.

'The Night Of The Living Nightmare' was a terribly cheesy movie. The fake blood wasn't thick enough, the teeth on the mask fell off half way through, the editing made scenes drag on much too long, and the actors either over exaggerated their lines or delivered them with as much life as a dead magikarp.

All together, 'The Night Of The Living Nightmare' made for a good date movie in Piers' opinion.

"Ready?" Piers already hit play before Leon could answer.

The movie started with a scene of a woman rising up out of a pool. The camera lingered on her chest and stomach and legs before it panned back towards the water. A ripple skittered across the pool water.

The scales on the wishiwashi making the waves gleamed in the harsh set lighting.

The woman dried her hair with a bright pink beach towel. She hummed a pop song that Leon remembered being popular when he was a teenager, but couldn’t recall the name off.

A set of rubber fins slapped against the pool tile. The music grew frantic with each wet slap as the monster neared the woman.

A three clawed hand reached out towards the woman. She spun, screamed in terror and--

"Is that a boom mic?" Leon paused the movie and pointed to the mic in the corner of the screen.

"There are at least seven hangin' around in different shots," Piers confirmed. "You think you can find 'em all?"

Now with a goal of finding all the hidden mics, Leon went to hit play again. Before his fingers brushed the space bar, something let out a loud "Baaaa!"

He bolted up in time to see the front door fly off its hinges, followed by a dubwool.The door and dubwool slammed into the steps. Picture frames crashed to the ground. Glass scattered across the floor.

Outside, several people screamed, then a cinderace then leapt over the dubwool.

It ricocheted off the busted door and aimed a well placed kick into Leon's chest.

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"...And that's what happened before you brusted in." Leon adjusted the ice pack against his head.

The doctor from Wedgehurts said Leon got lucky that Cinderace's attack only left him with some bruises, bumps, and a mild concussion and not broken bones. When he left, the doctor tutted at the broken door and muttered about kids these days.

Piers set a glass of water on the table in front of Leon and two pain pills beside it.

From across the kitchen table, Hop and Gloria avoided looking at the older trainers. How could they let their imagination get away from them like that? Gloria was the Galar champion and Hop was a professor in training, and yet they really believed assassins had broken in.

How foolish! Leon was a champion, too. Of course he could take care of a few assassin's without their help!

"We're really sorry, Lee," Hop muttered then added quickly, "and Piers."

Gloria added in, "We just wanted to help."

"It's not the first time I've been hit by a pokemon, and it probably won't be the last," Leon reassured after he downed the pain killers.

Piers took a seat. He steepled his fingers and looked over Hop and Gloria with a hard, steady gaze. The two squirmed. Should they apologize again? Get on their knees and beg for forgiveness?

"This wasn't how this was s’pposed to go." Piers sighed, turning to look away and releasing the kids from his stare.

Leon nodded in agreement, only to flinch. He blinked hard until the kitchen finally stopped spinning. The doctor told him not to do anything that required much mental or physical exertion, but he didn't particularly have a choice in this case.

The thought of explaining the door, the wall, the shelf, his head, not to mention Piers, made his head pound in anticipation of the confrontation. Mum would be upset about the door, worried about him, and annoyed about Piers being kept a secret from her.

"I don't get," Hop frowned, "why you two keep this a secret from everyone? What's the big deal?"

Leon scratched his cheek with his finger. "Well, ah, that's because--"

"We were breakin’ rules," Piers cut in.

"Rules? What rules?" Hop wrinkled his brow.

Leon was a grown up now, so the rules Mum set up for dating when he was a teenager didn't apply anymore. Or, Hop thought they didn't. Had Leon broken his curfew to spend time with Piers? Did he leave for a date without telling Mum how long he’d be out?

"The Pokemon League rules. Members of The League aren't allowed to date each other. Conflict of interest and all that," Peers explained. "I was still a gym leader and he was still champion when this started." He nodded towards Leon.

Now Hop felt really confused. He couldn't imagine his big brother breaking a rule like that. Then again, he couldn't imagine Leon breaking curfew either, at least not without a really good reason.

Gloria crossed her arms. This was news to her. What a dumb rule. Who cared if a gym leader wanted to date another leader. What if she wanted to go out with a gym leader? The League could try and stop her!

"I don't think we'll get in too much trouble now, but we figured we'd wait it out before saying anything to anyone." Leon switched the hand holding the ice pack. He wanted this conversation over so he could go lay down and stare at the ceiling for a bit.

A thought crossed Gloria's mind just then. Could it be this The Big Secret Marnie had to tell her in person?

"Does Marnie know?"

"That you two nearly suffocated her brother under a hundred kilo of unknit sweater? She will when I get home." Piers glanced at the side of the kitchen where the pokemon were. Dubwool lowered his gaze. Cinderace coughed into his paws and turned to stare out the window.

"No, did Marnie know about you two?"

Piers raised an eyebrow. "Yeah. She knew."

Gloria's eyes gleamed. Now Marnie owed her a new secret, since Gloria knew this one. It was only fair after all! Maybe this whole ordeal was worth it to learn Marnie’s crushes!

Hop asked, "Is there anything we can do to make this up to you two? We messed up, and we deserve it."

Piers and Leon exchanged looks. Piers shrugged. He could always find them something to do at Spikemuth: the less artistic graffiti needed to be washed off walls, trash picked up, or moss scraped off buildings.

Leon, though, was the one who had actually been hurt so he let the punishment for the kids’ transgression be under his discretion.

"I can think of one thing," Leon said. He gestured for Piers to lean towards him. He covered the side of his mouth and whispered into Piers' ear.

Piers cackled and sent Hop and Gloria a smirk.

"Brilliant. Just brilliant." He clasped Leon on the upper arm and squeezed.

Leon set the ice pack on the table. He reached across and put a firm hand on one of Hop's and one of Gloria's shoulders.

He half smiled. "Someone has to tell Mum what happened to the door, and I don't think it will be me."

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AN: I haven't written a fanfiction in like more than a year. But last year was 2020 so can you blame me?

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