บท 5: C005 - Here comes trouble, make it double! (cute version)
*Cr-crack*
Pete, a tired Solosis and a lively Rapidash were watching as two eggs hatched simultaneously.
"Ciiii" "N-no, min-min!"
Both Minccino broke out of the eggs at the same time. One sounded very tired, the other one sounded very bright and eager to explore its surroundings already. Once they broke enough of the eggshell to get out of the egg, though, they both just kind of collapsed into each other devoid of any energy.
Their fur was already fully grown. However, it was also very wet, probably from the egg's insides. So Pete softly picked them both up as they fit into a palm each.
"Hey Rapidash, could you warm up one of the buckets?"
The mother complied readily and did as asked. Pete sat down on the floor next to the bucket of heated water, put one of Minccino into his lap, and gently began to clean the fur of the other little chinchilla pokemon.
He wasn't lucky enough to gain yet another shiny, not that he thought he would. Solosis informed him that both light-gray rodent pokemon were girls, which isn't too out of line, because to Pete's knowledge, this particular species had a higher rate of female births.
The little newborn were very cute and immediately warmed up to Pete, nuzzling into his hand. After they were clean and dry, courtesy of a little shake and soft use of fire energy from Rapidash, Pete noted how incredibly soft their fur was. Especially the fur of their ears that were just as big as their entire torso and their tail that was almost twice as long as their torso.
Though, having their tails touched didn't excite the two babies as much as soft scritches on their ears. They melted into his hand when Pete softly stroked their fur around the ears.
"Hey, you two. Now that you are both presentable and look as cute as a button, let's talk. I'm new to this whole thing, having pokemon, I mean, but I would love it if you stuck around with me. Eventually, we'll settle on the farm I want to create. Are you two interested?"
Pete purposefully explained it in a way that might also entice Rapidash and her foal to follow along, though he didn't think it would work. Now that that storm was over, what stopped the mother from finding her herd again?
"Mincciii" "Cino-Cino!" Both newly hatched pokemon immediately agreed, so Pete took out two luxury balls and had the Minccino press their little paws on the button.
Just like that, Pete had three pokemon before his third day in this world ended.
"Hey Rapidash, uh, now that the storm is over, me and my pokemon are going to try and make our way to Johto. You heard me just now, I want to live a quiet life there at a place called Evergreen Meadow close to Ilex Forest. Not sure if you know the names humans give to places, though... it's close to Celebi's home? Does that help?"
Pete addressed Rapidash after he released his two new normal pokemon and placed them on his still not packed up sleeping bag to rest. He fed the two babies little pieces of the poke treat and started heating up a bowl of water to make some potato stew for himself before he's going to start his journey.
"Not sure why you two were wandering around in this storm all alone, but if you need a place to stay, I'd love to take you with me. You seem like a lovely pokemon and, uh, honestly I'd probably need a pokemon as strong as you to even make it there," Pete continued speaking, though at the end he kind of stopped and scratched his head a little embarrased.
"I'd totally get it you just want to get back to your herd now that Ponyta is doing better," Pete added as he started cutting up the potatoes he had washed before with the grooming tool he had used to cut sprigs and offshoots earlier.
Rapidash moved closer, breathed softly close to bowl that Pete was trying to heat, and laid down close to it to keep the temperature steady.
"See, you're already invaluable. Who knows how long that would have taken, haha. Can't wait until I can snack some proper cooking tools once we reach civilization," Pete praised with a kind smile.
Rapidash turned to Solosis, and they apparently communicated for a while. After some time, while the potatoes were softly boiling with a few of the spices Pete had found, Solosis communicated the feeling of two balls in his mind, then Pete was made to picture both horses in his mind.
"Oh, you agree, Rapidash?" Pete asked excitedly as he immediately guessed what Solosis tried to convey.
Rapidash nodded her head, and Pete could have sworn he saw her smile. It was crazy how much emotion pokemon could show with their expressions.
"Nice, having you around is going to make this all so much easier! If you'd let me, I could even ride you, and we'd arrive at New Bark town in no time! Uh, not that I've ever been on a horse this tall before... we'd definitely have to train me a little before you could take off at your full speed," Pete shily added at the end.
Rapidash gained an amused glint at Pete's musing.
The stew was done and only needed to simmer for a while, so the potatoes won't be too hard. With what he had, no amount of cooking time would make this a gourmet meal, and he wanted to get some distance done today anyway.
However, it would still need a few minutes, so Pete got up and picked up two luxury balls, and just like that, Pete's total pokemon count shot up to five.
Rapidash and Pete talked a little. Well, Pete did most of the talking, but through nods and shakes of her head and suitable questions, Pete learned a lot while they waited on the stew.
Rapidash fled during the storm when a team with poison pokemon and the occasional water pokemon started attacking their herd. Apparently, the patriarch of the herd was a giant and very old Rapidash that had recently fought a wild Arbok, and despite winning and eating plenty of berries, it was still poisoned. The storm didn't do his recovery any favors, so the herd was told to split up.
With the patriarch gone, Rapidash mused that the herd would probably break up and search two other Rapidash led herds here in the region. And, which was just a guess on Pete's part, these herds wouldn't really like raising a newborn male pokemon. That's animal behavior from his old world, though, and was more in line with feline pack mentality. Which means he could be totally wrong about any of that.
Well, something bothered Rapidash in any case. So, instead of joining a new herd, she decided to stay with Pete, who showed her plenty of kindness.
The fiery unicorn even surprised Pete with a path she knew that they could take to Johto without having to climb the Tohjo Waterfalls or swimming along the coastline, which would be suicide anyway.
It would be a bit of a climb, but except for the odd Sandslash or its babies, the path would be safe. Pete suggested he'd ball Ponyta for the climb to be extra sure nothing happens, and Rapidash agreed.
"Okay, I think the stew won't turn any better with just these ingredients, so I'll start eating. You five can drink a little of the infused water in these two buckets over there, and if you want, you can taste a little cooked potato. I'll try it first," Pete explained and started eating by drinking from the bowl and sticking the potato pieces with a long and pointy twig he found earlier among the Leppa berry bushes. He really wished for a spoon or even a fork right about now.
"Very bland, definitely needs some salt," Pete immediately judged with a grimace as he had his first mouthful.
"I'll endure, and eventually, I'll find some Yoseban trees for some fatty and protein-rich addition to my food. The book did say it tastes a little like Farfetch'd meat and honestly, from the description, it sounds like a tree where instead of soy beans you just pick up processed tofu," Pete mused under his breath.
Seeing his face and guessing his mood from the muttering, none of his pokemon wanted a piece except for the one Minccino that's a little more cheerful than the other one.
"Cinooo~"
Minccino whined a little when she was done chewing. It didn't taste too great, apparently.
"I promise, in a few days, I'll cook you a feast," Pete assured when he saw how his first try at cooking in this world almost made his pokemon cry.
Done with his bowl of stew, Pete began to pick up all that was left in the cabin. He left the note that came with the TM-CDs in the cabin with a 'sorry' written underneath and placed five luxury balls under the pillow of the dusty bed.
He thought about leaving his name and future destination on the note, too, but eventually decided against it. Who knew, even the luxury balls could already be a dead give away on who looted the beached containers, and he didn't want the potential trouble of Team Rocket coming to take back what's theirs if they found the note.
He would even hide the extra bags when entering New Bark Town and only show them to Professor Elm at most, just to be sure.
On his way west led by Rapidash with an excited Ponyta looking all over the place and both Minccino and his Solosis riding in his hoodie, Pete kept a look out for danger and especially more edible plants.
It was now midday, so he couldn't raid all the berry trees and bushes unbothered because the pokemon began to notice that the storm had ended and started looking for food.
Thankfully, his tall Rapidash was intimidating enough that they weren't attacked so far. And even a few hours later, they hadn't seen another human soul.
When they reached Tohjo Falls, Pete's haul included a few more Orans and Leppas, and he even found a patch of Rawst berries, whose plants reminded him of strawberry bushes, barely reaching one's knees. They had orange leaves, however, while Rawst berries themselves were more or less light-blue strawberries. With a young fire pokemon on the team, accidents were bound to happen. So having a great treatment for burns available was a great find.
He didn't get to dig up any saplings of the Pecha berry tree because a Dodrio tribe guarded these trees, but Rapidash did break him off a branch with a few Pecha berries on it.
Maybe he could graft the branch onto another healthy tree or, with some grass type energy bullshittery, have the branch grow some roots on its own. In any case, these berries came with stones inside that he could plant.
The trees barely reached his chest height, had grey and green leaves, while Pecha berries looked literally like peaches with a pink hue. They would help against most poisons, so it was a rather lucky find yet again.
After that, they seemed to have exhausted the pool of berry variety growing on this route, so all they found was a few more Orans and Leppas. But even they were guarded by a whole bunch of pokemon, and Pete was thanking his lucky stars that Rapidash agreed to stay with him.
Eventually, the air started to feel a little more wet. The quiet thundering noise up ahead got louder and louder with every step. It was only a little more than four hours until sun down if Pete had to guess, so they still had plenty of time left to do the climb that Rapidash told him about.
The well trodden path led to a cave where all the wet air and noise came from, but Rapidash nudged Pete to the right into the thick bushes. It made sense to not use this path. Neither of the two wanted or even could climb up the five story high waterfall inside a cave with wet walls.
A good half an hour after they found another cave, this one decidedly not housing a waterfall if the quiet atmosphere and regular humid air of the forest were any indication.
The cave it turned out was rather well lit, several holes in the cave ceiling let in some sunshine from above to the chagrin over several Zubat who hid behind corners and pillars to stay in the shadows.
A few minutes of maneuvering in the difficult cave path, a fork was up ahead. One led to darkness, while the other one was still well lit.
Rapidash chose the well lit path, but Pete strained his eyes to look into the other path.
"Hey, wait a sec, Rapidash. I think I see some Bocan Mushrooms over there. Would you mind coming with me to pick some? I promise I just want a handful to maybe grow them later," Pete called out in a quiet voice.
Rapidash looked to him, then back to the dark cave, and nudged her head to Ponyta.
"You want me to ball him? In case we need to haul ass out of here?"
Rapidash nodded.
"Alright, little buddy, you heard your mom," Pete said as he took out Ponyta's ball from the quick grab pouch of his bag with the poke gear.
As he recalled Ponyta and Rapidash moved into the dark path to light it up a little with her fiery mane and tail, Pete followed closely.
"Hmm, you think we find some cute Paras here? They could help tend to a mushroom garden, I think," Pete whispered as he kneeled down to pluck some of the Bocan mushrooms.
These mushrooms looked like a strip of dried jerky with a blood red, wrinkled cap on top and white 'veins' that made it look like meat marbled with fat.
According to the plant guides, this mushroom should taste like Tauros bacon if treated a certain way. However, you shouldn't eat too much of these in a short while as a human because they build up a certain toxin in your blood that slows your heart rate. Perfectly fine in small doses and digested in a few days after consumption, but too much of these mushrooms without stop and you would die of a heart attack.
When he was done picking up a good wash basin full of these mushrooms, Pete had enough. He didn't want to push his luck, and both of his Minccino were shivering in his hoodie. Apparently, they were very much scared of the dark.
"Hey Rapidash, I got enough, we can go back," Pete whispered.
But Rapidash didn't look to him. Instead, she looked into the dark with rapt attention.
"Something there?" Pete whispered even quieter than before.
Suddenly, without warning, Rapidash shot what looked to be the move Flamethrower into the dark and picked up Pete by his collar with her blisteringly hot mouth and ran back into the lit path.
Because of the flames, Pete could make out what got Rapidash so riled up. Five towering moutains of orange, covered all over in mushrooms, were releasing spores non-stop and were glaring and screeching their hearts out in their direction.
"Holy shit! Are those Parasect? That's straight-up nightmare fuel!"
Pete shouted his heart out. Even though Rapidash merely dragged him for a short 8-second sprint, it felt like a 10 minute long trip. Once they were back into the lit part of the cavern, Rapidash released Pete and looked him over a little worriedly.
"Ugh, I'm fine! But you could have warned me that Paras and its evolution look like they are straight out of a horror movie! I'm definitely not catching those, no chance!"
Rapidash, done with her fussing, let out a little scoff.
"Anyway, what were those spores? Probably Stun Spore, right? So we would get paralyzed, and they can turn us into mushroom fertilizer? Ugh, gives me the creeps," Pete thought with a shudder.
"Well, no Cheri berries in our loot so far. You think a Pecha berry would help there?"
Rapidash tilted her head, and she indicated she wasn't quite sure with a soft neigh.
"My face tingles a little, I think I'll feel better if I eat a Pecha berry," Pete decided and rummaged through the bag with the food a little to pick up a fist-sized peach looking fruit.
After one big bite for himself, Pete broke off two pieces with his fingers as best he could to give to the two Minccino.
"Hey, Solosis, you should have the ability Overcoat, so spores do nothing to you. Still want a piece?" Pete offered the little light-blue blob in his hoodie another piece, a little bigger than the other two before, so his first pokemon wouldn't be upset.
He felt an affirmitive image in his mind, so he reached back to feed her some Pecha berry, too.
"I promise your Ponyta will get some later, but do you want the rest now?"
Pete pocketed the stone from inside the berry to possibly grow a tree out of it later and gave the rest to the hero of this particular adventure.
"Thanks for saving our butts, Rapidash. All the smooth sailing before lowered my vigilance, I think. At least we got a nice haul of Bocan mushrooms... ugh, now my hands are sticky with berry juices," Pete first thanked the flame unicorn, then complained when he felt his hands.
"Man, what I wouldn't give for a proper knife right n-"
Pete's complaint was interrupted by one of the small Minccino hopping out of his hoodie, running down his arm and stopping at his wrist with her tail pointed at his hand.
"What are you doing, little girl?" Pete asked curiously when he noticed the little chinchilla scrunching up her entire face in concentration.
"Ciiiiiii!" A little squeak sounded out, and suddenly, her tail was covered in water. It wasn't much, but this was clearly a water type move.
"Woah, you know Aqua Tail? That's amazing, Minccino!"
After a short moment of shock, Pete quickly used the little water the tail offered to rinse his hands. When he told her she could stop, the water as one fell off her tail to the ground. Done with the move, her tail was once again completely dry. Magnets, how do they work?
Without prompt, Rapidash had dried Pete's hands softly with fire type energy, so he could pick up the little wonder with the unexpected water move.
"That's so cool! That was an egg move you probably learned from one of your parents. Someone in your lineage was probably a Buizel or its evolved form Floatzel. I mean, it could be something else, too, but I think that's what your other parent would have most likely mated with," Pete explained as he happily scratched Minccino's ear.
She didn't understand much about egg moves or whatever, so she just enjoyed the praise and the scritches.
บท 6: C006 - Reaching New Bark Town
"You ever been to New Bark town or its surrounding, Rapidash?"
At the very edge of a forest, Pete had hung up his tent tarp with the holes in it because that's the only thing he had right now. Right now, Pete and his pokemon were at the foot of the mountain that stood between Kanto and Johto.
The sun was slowly setting over the forest in front of them.
The journey through the cave quickly ended after that Parasect horror episode ended, and the rest of the climb was tedious but uneventful. There was no flora where the cave ended, and the rocky mountain pass they ended up in only housed a few Sandshrews and Sandslashs that hurried away at the sight of the group.
"Rapidash!"
The mother softly called out in affirmation from her lying position next to her Ponyta foal.
"Hmm, you think we'll reach it tomorrow?"
Rapidash nodded to confirm.
"Will it be dangerous? According to the map, there shouldn't be any super strong pokemon down in the forest stretch before we're in New Bark. If we're unlucky, we'll run into some Heracross looking for a spar, but the rest should leave us alone with you guiding us," Pete asked with the atlas in his lap, studying the next stretch of his journey.
Solosis was impressed with Rapidash's show of strength earlier and was a little jealous of the praise Pete gave Minccino for knowing a water move, so she was quietly training her psychic powers on side by lifting rocks.
Both Minccinos were sitting in Pete's lap and playing what looked like Rock-Paper-Scissors. Pete taught the game to the two cute little rodents, hoping it would increase the dexterity of their paws. It was worth a try and the two sisters really liked the game.
Rapidash, meanwhile, thought for a little while before effectively doing what looked to be a shrug. It was a little awkward coming from a giant horse taller than himself, but Pete was getting more and more familiar with pokemon in the last few days.
"Hmm, Professor Elm is my ticket to a quiet life. Really hoping everything goes according to the plan," Pete mused as he ate another serving of potato stew. This time, with a few Bocan mushroom pieces, he ripped up with his hands. The flavor was instantly elevated by a few levels. He could even convince the Minccino who tasted his stew before that his cooking level wasn't completely hopeless.
"Will egg groupings be enough then? Should I tell him about my understanding of egg moves? Hmm, gen four evolutions of Johto pokemon like Gligar turning into Gliscor at night with a dragon type's razor sharp fang should be pretty exciting to the professor, same with Sneasel evolving to Weavile with a dragon type's razor sharp claw. The third evolution of the Swinub line from Piloswine into Mamoswine if the pokemon knows Ancient Power? How I got this information is way too hard to explain, same with the Girafarig and Dunsparce evolution... Dusk Stones! I have like six or seven of these from the containers, and there's Misdreavus turning into Mismagius and Murkrow turning into Honchkrow. That's super easy to show, uh... if Professor Elm has one of those two pokemon..."
It was Pete's first night out in the open instead of the supposed safety of a house. Understandably, his sleep was very light, and the constant calling sounds of the Hoothoots' and Noctowls' in the forest woke him up often.
Very late into the night, Pete looked into the forest only to get scared shitless of how big a Noctowl actually was. When it landed on a branch on the tree closest to them to observe them, the branch bent down almost comically low. If it didn't sit a little hunched together, Pete was sure the bird was almost as tall as him. And its red eyes, wow they looked menacing even more menacing despite the fact that the light the moon provided him was enough to see the pokemon was merely curious about the camping group.
When the sun rose from the mountain on their back, Rapidash urged the rest of the group to get up, and they all looked well rested. All except Pete, who didn't sleep a wink after that Noctowl stared at them for an hour.
"Ugh, what a horrible night. I think the Hoothoot line might be my least favorite pokemon I've seen so far. Well, after Parasect. Really, all of you look so cute and expressive, how come a pokemon exists that's just all teeth, ugly cancerous growths, uneven beady pale eyes and murder. I don't think I can ever unsee that," Pete narrated in a terrible mood.
His mood wasn't lifted when he heard at least three distinct different snickers.
"Keep it up and I'll let you travel in the pokeball," Pete spat with no real heat behind his threat. He knew he was just moody for a lack of sleep.
"Hey Rapidash, care to haul my lazy butt for a while? I know I'm being cranky, but having to walk without a proper shower and tired as I am, I'll just get more and more moody," Pete pleaded his case with his most powerful pokemon.
Rapidash looked at him with an amused glint and nodded with neigh that sounded like a chuckle more than anything.
He fed his pokemon some poke treats and asked Rapidash to find a stream with clean water first before making her way to New Bark town.
"Thanks again for doing this, Rapidash," Pete expressed his gratitude as he climbed on the flaming back of the toweringly tall unicorn.
At a stream that was a little wider than he is tall, Pete filled up two buckets, poured some of the vitamins he had in it for the young pokemon to grow quickly and healthily. So far, he hadn't used the same vitamin twice.
"Here, quickly drink up little ones. I think I saw a Tentacruel downstream, and I don't want to find out if they attack people for no reason. Why a Tentacruel of all pokemon lives in a stream as small as this is a mystery to me anyway," Pete said to hurry along the breakfast of the group.
When the little ones were done drinking their fill, Rapidash emptied the two buckets with a few big gulps, and Pete used one of the buckets once emptied to wash up a little and drink too, though with regular water he got from the stream.
Instead of a stew or any other form of proper breakfast, they all shared a handful of Oran berries in hopes of getting a proper lunch in New Bark town. If he couldn't find Professor Elm, Pete would pay for groceries with a pokeball if he had to.
Wait. Pokeballs? He still had three scuffed up pokeballs he had found in the metal case along with the Solosis egg! He didn't open them before in fear a foreign trainer's pokemon would act hostile toward him, but he had Rapidash now!
"Hey, before we continue. Rapidash, I have three pokeballs with me that hold pokemon I don't know. They could be wild and untamed or belong to a trainer and would act hostile on release. You think you could protect me when I release them one by one?" Pete asked in a hopeful voice.
Pokemon were in a kind of suspended state when inside a pokeball, but now that he remembered, he didn't want to drag it out much longer. A minimum of four days had already passed and these pokemon were surely hungry and bored. If not pissed and angry beyond compare.
With an unsure look, Rapidash looked to Solosis. The result was the image of the sun slowly moving in the sky and three cabins next to each other, likely put there by Solosis after a short mental conversation between the two.
"Later? After we reached town?" Pete asked a little unsure if he got that right.
Rapidash nodded.
"Yeah, I can live with that. They were stuck so long, a few more hours won't make much of a difference," Pete agreed.
"Let's get moving then," Pete suggested as he packed up the buckets again and climbed back on Rapidash. It was really crazy to him that he was sitting on actual flames but didn't feel any heat coming from the flames running along Rapidash's mane that went all the way from the horn on her head to her tail.
A little past noon when the sun shone brightest, Rapidash with Pete on her back and Ponyta next to her saw roofs on the horizon from the hill they were on.
"Hang on a sec, big girl," Pete suggested.
"Bear with me for a while, you guys stand out a little too much," Pete apologized as he pulled out the pokeballs for all four pokemon that weren't Rapidash. He also got out the tent and wrapped up his expensive bags of holding to make it look like all he was carrying was a makeshift knapsack with random items.
His travel weary and tired look sold the image of someone who had narrowly survived the storm. Which was kinda true.
A few minutes later, Rapidash and Pete stepped into New Bark town under the gaze of several people talking in the streets.
There was no entrance fee, nobody stopped him for an ID so the security was kinda lax in Pete's mind. The fact that he arrived with a fully grown Rapidash, however, had raised a few alarm bells in the town people.
"Hey buddy, could you please put that fire giant in a pokeball? This town has wooden houses mostly, and Old Moses, our resident water pokemon expert and firefighter, is out of town," a frowning middle-aged man with graying hair shouted at Pete from the window of his house.
"Huh? No worries, if nobody attacks us, my big girl has perfect control, see?"
To demonstrate his point, Pete ran his hand over Rapidash's mane and gently scratched her ears. The pokemon neighed in delight.
"Look, no burns," Pete held up his hand for the nosy man to see. There was no way he would ball his most powerful pokemon when he was just running through the streets.
"Hmph, you better be right, or I'll send my Murkrows after you, if it's the last thing I do," the man grunted, clearly displeased that he was rebuffed.
"Say, do you know if Professor Elm is present? Before the storm started and I had to hide in a cave near Tohjo Falls for a few days. I was on my way here to apply as a research assitant," Pete asked with his pre-prepared lies.
Sadly, he couldn't really tell a white lie about the direction he came from, that would raise suspicions, but he could lie about where he stayed so that potential Team Rocket investigators would dismiss him as a suspect. Well, that was what he came up with after going over his options. He was an engineer first and a hobby writer second - not a criminal mastermind.
"Hmm, the professor is in town, yes. Can't tell you if he's home, though. Just follow this road and head right at the Noctowl post office. Can't miss his lab," the man reluctantly helped. Professors really commanded a lot of respect in this world, something Pete counted on.
When Pete reached the mentioned post office, he saw a bunch of sleeping Noctowls through its window and clenched his fist at the sight. Truly, an irrational dislike was born yesterday.
Boy, that old man wasn't kidding. There was no way to miss the lab among all the other buildings. While the rest of the town was all built with regular wooden houses, roughly 80 of those, the professor's lab was like a futuristic version of that on one side, with the other side looking into the forest being just a giant glass dome with what looked like two floors of desk spaces and observation platforms. Furthermore, on yet another side, a very large fenced-in pasture with a whole bunch of different pokemon lazily interacting with one another.
A press of the doorbell started a bunch of chaos inside the lab, followed by barking, shouting, and what sounded like a bunch of chairs falling over.
"Damnit, almost had it! Granbull! The tooth needs to be pulled! Don't be such a baby. It won't get better on its own!"
A man's voice rang out from inside. The doorbell had clearly interrupted someone's effort to treat a pokemon in pain, so he was kind of reluctant to press it again.
But he didn't even need to.
"Yes? Who might you be?"
A very tall, bespectacled man with short brown hair and a white lab coat over colorful green pants and a blue and green patterned dress shirt opened the door. If he was annoyed that his treatment was interrupted, he didn't show it.
"Hi, Professor Elm, I'm Pete. I wanted to get an interview with you to hopefully become an assitant professor under your employ or whatever open post you might have," Pete introduced himself with a calm smile.
"Ah, did I announce an opening? But I already have Valentino, Fred, and Becca as assitants, no?" The professor looked a little unsure of what to make of this.
"Uh, if you did, it would be news to me, too. You see, I kinda escaped my family's arrangements back home in Unova to pursue my true passion instead of working in the family business. In my travels, I heard you're the leading expert in breeding and evolutions, and that's exactly my dream job," Pete 'clarified' while scratching his head.
"Hmm, and why do you look like like you didn't sleep in a week?"
"Professor, I would gladly answer all that, but... it might be presumptuous of me, could we do it inside instead of at the door?" Pete was getting a little awkward. He looked like a hobo, and only the majestic Rapidash at his back gave him any kind of credibility. If he could sit in a comfortable chair and maybe get a light, human snack, his job in convincing the professor would surely go over a little smoother.
"Ah yes, how rude. Sure, come on in, young Pete. But uh, would you mind leaving your good friend Rapidash outside or putting her in a ball? If she behaves, she can rest a little on the pasture to the side," Professor Elm offered.
"Yeah, sure. I'll release your son, so make sure you keep an eye on him. No playing with fire, okay?" Pete addressed Rapidash and gave her some light instructions. Ponyta wasn't a troublemaker to begin with, so Pete was rest assured.
Pete released Ponyta with a wink and asked Rapidash to go over on her own. Surely she was smart enough to operate the pasture's door. Probably most of the pokemon were.
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As mentioned in the synopsis, the chapter lengths are about to get smaller.
He'll probably stay at Professor Elm's place for like 6-10 chapters at this rate.
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