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Chapter 105 – Broadening Horizons
Chapter 105 – Broadening Horizons
‘This must be one of the toughest decisions in a trainer’s life.’
I had come to find out that one of the Joys had sneakily registered Victini under my name after I had filled in that Arceus damned survey. That little hoax officially brought the total number of Pokémon under my care to eight explaining my current predicament. I was now standing in front of the center’s transfer machine struggling to pick which of my two partners I...
2025-12-15 18:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100 – Great Peril
Chapter 100 – Great Peril
The next morning we were standing in line at the ticket booth in Mossdeep City. The night prior I had Victini teleport us over the island in the hope that getting there before daybreak would guarantee us a spot at the front of the line. My genius plan was dashed as I encountered trainers and conference fans picketing outside. After asking some poignant questions I came to find out that all of them were either conference attendees or participants who ha...
2025-10-05 13:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 99 – Sharing the News
Chapter 99 – Sharing the News
Having received our winnings, Victini and I now found ourselves inside a Petalburg Pokémon center. Since our gym battle was scheduled in the evening by the time we queued up to receive nurse Joy’s ministrations the waiting time became negligible. This Nurse Joy was reading a medical journal under the light of a dimmed lamp as she let her Chansey take over most of her workload.
“Hello Chansey, Nurse Joy. I am here to have my Pokémon look...
2025-09-19 11:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 98 – Spoiling the Victor
Chapter 98 – Spoiling the Victor
There I stood inside the challenger’s box with only a single fighting capable Pokémon left. Our victory rested squarely on Numsy’s shoulders. Just like my other Pokémon he had gotten a face full of barraging stealth rocks. However, unlike my other partners my main stay Pokémon was partially a ground type, so it went through this hazing relatively unharmed.
Nelson’s Exploud was a formidable foe indeed, but we did hold two adv...
2025-09-09 00:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 97 – Final Challenge
Chapter 97 – Final Challenge
The top of Mt. Chimney was a barren place with the top edges of the volcano collecting a copious amount of snow. However, further in the elevation plateaus and any snow which happens to land inside melts instantly. I was struck in awe watching the slowly boiling magma knowing that at any point the volcano could erupt and swallow Lavaridge Town whole.
Of course, the town had emergency measures in case such an event occurred. Every household cam...
2025-08-28 11:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 96 – Gym Hopeful
Chapter 96 – Gym Hopeful
Having seen my little sister and mother fly off into the horizon I felt a strange feeling of emptiness. Not soon after that both my grandparents went off to man their confectionary store leaving me and the gang planning what to do with our spare time. We only had two days left until our deciding battle against leader Nelson and I didn’t plan to waste that time goofing off around the house. There I was in our garden feeding my remaining team members wh...
2025-08-01 20:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 95 – Sharing Secrets
Chapter 95 – Sharing Secrets
I’ve started noticing a pattern with our esteemed houseguest. A penchant to adopt pseudo siblings as a way to show fondness. Aster, who was holding the box containing our Mega Stones like a lifeline uttered a set of harrowing words which had my alarm bells ringing. Which caused me to try and diminish the effort I put in trying to gather those stones as a way to lower her overbearing gratitude.
“It isn’t really a big deal. We weren’t ac...
2025-07-21 13:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 94 – Stones and Fossils
Chapter 94 – Stones and Fossils It didn’t take long for Zinnia to come back downstairs with a wrapped parcel. All of us had already moved i
Chapter 94 – Stones and Fossils It didn’t take long for Zinnia to come back downstairs with a wrapped parcel. All of us had already moved i
Chapter 94 – Stones and Fossils
It didn’t take long for Zinnia to come back downstairs with a wrapped parcel. All of us had already moved into the living room eager to see Zinnia ...
2025-07-10 07:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 93 – Family Reunion
Chapter 93 – Family Reunion There I was sitting inside Petalburg’s Pokémon center with two of my oldest partners crowded around me. Hearing
Chapter 93 – Family Reunion There I was sitting inside Petalburg’s Pokémon center with two of my oldest partners crowded around me. Hearing
Chapter 93 – Family Reunion
There I was sitting inside Petalburg’s Pokémon center with two of my oldest partners crowded around me. Hearing Zinnia’s voice come out of my Xtran...
2025-07-04 22:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 92 – Welcome Home
Chapter 92 – Welcome Home While Grandma was busy doing grown-up talk with mommy and Aster, we kept ourselves busy in the kitchen. Grandpa h
Chapter 92 – Welcome Home
While Grandma was busy doing grown-up talk with mommy and Aster, we kept ourselves busy in the kitchen. Grandpa helped us out a bunch by filling one of Grandma’s mixing bowls with water so Horsea could stay outside of his poké ball after which we all enjoyed Grandma’s improved recipe.
There...
2025-06-22 22:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 91 - Parenting Issues
Chapter 91 - Parenting Issues “Egon do you and Victini want a tour of my… ahem! The gym’s breeding facilities?” “Miss Madeline…” “Vi…” “Tha
Chapter 91 - Parenting Issues
“Egon do you and Victini want a tour of my… ahem! The gym’s breeding facilities?”
“Miss Madeline…” “Vi…” “That’s…”
“It’s nothing like you are imagining! Being a Pokémon breeder is more akin to being a matchmaker. We just int...
2025-06-05 09:17:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 90 – Gymnapped!
Chapter 90 – Gymnapped! After graciously allowing us to stay the night, both Mr. Briney and Peeko decided to accompany us to Petalbug City.
Chapter 90 – Gymnapped!
After graciously allowing us to stay the night, both Mr. Briney and Peeko decided to accompany us to Petalbug City. Surprisingly, the walk over only took around an hour. If I had known that, we might have opted to continue on instead of crashing at Mr. Briney’s place. When it came time to leave the old sail...
2025-05-24 13:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 89 – Cottage by the Sea
Chapter 89 – Cottage by the Sea The sun had reached its zenith and the promised time to take a break from our trekking through the forest h
Chapter 89 – Cottage by the Sea
The sun had reached its zenith and the promised time to take a break from our trekking through the forest had come. Gathered around me were all of my current team members having fun being their rowdy selves. The only one missing was Victini who instead opted to nestle down with a snuggle of slakoths i...
2025-05-14 23:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88 – Netting Sponsors
Chapter 88 – Netting Sponsors
“This is too time consuming. I need someone with experience to go through all these sponsorship deals for me.”
“Ninee?”
“Do I know anyone? Well…”
The list of lawyer or business types on my contact list was exactly zero. That didn’t mean I didn’t know people who regularly interacted with those kinds of people.
“Let me try something. If that doesn’t lead to anything we’ll have to give u...
2025-05-04 23:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 87 – Chink in the Armor
Chapter 87 – Chink in the Armor
“It is a pleasure meeting you, Leader Stone. My name is Egon from Lavaridge Town.”
“The boy I have been waiting for. Take a seat we have much to discuss.”
‘This is… I’ve never met her before, why go out of her way to set all of this up? The only possible reason would be Roxanne’s sharing of our fossil adventure.’
“Roxy likes talking about nerdy stuff all the time! Even Rocky says so.<...
2025-04-24 22:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 86 – Zap and Flash
Chapter 86 – Zap and Flash
After a series of embarrassing wipeouts atop Mantine the two of them had to leave to make it in time for their other obligations. Marlon had to meet up with the teleportation Pokémon waiting for him at the center who had already been paid to transport him to the Lilycove Airport. While Roxanne was off to route 127 to avoid most of the heat coming her way from revealing Regirock to the public. Before leaving Roxanne assured me that sh...
2025-04-12 13:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 85 – Rock against Water
Chapter 85 – Rock against Water
The following morning was a hectic one. The team and I needed to get ourselves presentable quickly so we wouldn’t miss out on Roxanne’s big day. Which wasn’t helped by the fact that Victini only made it back to the center dorm room late last night disrupting our sleep schedule. The little rabbit was too excited about her new friends and insisted on me staying up to do a tell all about the Eon Pokémon and their lovely home ...
2025-04-01 22:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 84 – Diving for Calls
Chapter 84 – Diving for Calls
While Juan was kept busy playing host to the crowd that had just witnessed me earn my sixth gym badge. Marlon took this opportunity to take me along to the gym’s storage room with Roxanne hastily following in tow.
“You did amazing, Egon! Seeing you win your gym battle gave me a bunch of new ideas on how to win my own upcoming match tomorrow!”
“Would that idea involve the destruction of one of the gym’s v...
2025-03-24 21:36:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 83 – Water vs Fire
Chapter 83 – Water vs Fire
After recalling Relicanth back inside its ball Roxanne wasted no time changing back to her typical schoolgirl uniform while I was stuck waiting in the lobby. The notion that any Nurse Joy could find out that a Regirock recently checked in at the Sootopolis City Pokémon center seemed to have unnerved the girl. Although members of the Joy clan are trustworthy, having such information digitally stored was sure to lead to her being exposed by a particula...
2025-03-17 00:18:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 82 - Bilging & Co.
Chapter 82 – Bilging & Co.
It has been nearly two weeks since the first time I entered the Rustburo City trainer’s school. Most of our days were spent training, while making use of the school’s many facilities and our efforts have paid off. All of my partner Pokémon were now capable of firing off a proper Solar Beam. The technical machines I had special ordered did the trick and helped all of them gain insight into manipulating grass typed energy. Furthermore, due to my insis...
2025-02-26 09:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post