I don't have anything new to say at the moment so... here's the next chapter.
...Wow, this is awkward.
"Uncle Augustine! We're back!" Liam announced as they all came back to the lab.
"I'll be there in a moment! I'm a little busy!" Professor Sycamore called from upstairs.
Liam simply shrugged and turned back to the group. "Since we're gonna feed them anyway how about we introduce you guys to our Pokemon?"
While Illya had stars in her eyes, the others were eager but had some doubts. Seeing said doubts in their faces, Kaimana stepped forward with Eddy. "I'm also gonna have Eddy give you there Pokedex entries, so you guys can at least an inkling of what's in store for you. Knowing what a Pokemon can do is the first step to respecting them, got it?" She said in a tone that almost sounded like she was challenging them.
"What I live for, zzzrt!"
Rin really didn't like the tone Kaimana gave them; like she was implying they were defenseless against these animals. "Alright, you're the experts here. Teach away!" Rin responded with her honor student persona, but glaring daggers at her on the inside.
"Come on out everyone!" Liam opened his Pokeballs to release his team. A cacophony of cries came out from various creatures, including a certain giant green hedgehog.
"Hey it's Chester!" Illya beamed at the familiar Pokemon as Lerna kept moving his head at the new scents.
"Ches!" Chester beamed back as he gave the homunculus and Deino a hug. Lerna freaked out thinking he was attacked and started to bite the larger Pokemon on the arms, though Chester didn't really seam to notice.
"Okay, buddy, let them down! You don't wanna break them!" Liam laughed as his starter set them back down.
"That's my cue! Chesnaught, the Spiny Armor Pokemon. A Grass/Fighting type. When it takes a defensive posture with its fists guarding its face, it could withstand a bomb blast." Eddy went through his Pokedex data.
Archer raised a brow at this. Part of him doubted that this creature can survive a bomb but...
Then they turned to a very large blue turtle with... cannons coming out of it's shell? Both Archer and Shirou did a structural analysis on them and they were indeed real, organic but fully functioning canons.
The green haired trainer leaned against the turtle. "This is Tank, my Blastoise."
"Blast." Tank nodded stoically as Eddy changed the picture on the screen.
"Blastoise, the Shellfish Pokemon. A Water type. The water spouts are very accurate. They can shoot bullets of water with enough accuracy to strike empty cans from a distance of over 160 feet."
From behind Tank was a smaller, yellow and black frilled lizard, looking pretty nervous. "That's my Heliolisk, Skipper. He's a little shy..."
"Liii..." Skipper whispered.
"Heliolisk, the Generator Pokemon. An Electric/Normal type. It stimulates its muscles with electricity, boosting the strength in its legs and enabling it to run 100 yards in five seconds."
"Can Skipper really do that?" Shirou asked as Skipper kept hiding behind Tank when he got closer. That ability almost sounding like when magi reinforced their limbs to go faster.
"When he needs too. It can tire him out though."
"Reeee!" Squealed a high pitched voice as a floating green... thing flew right past Eddy, almost knocking him over.
"Hey! Watch it! Zzrrt!" He protests. The Pokemon in question was odd looking; it looked like a living cell, if a cell can have a face and arms and be over three feet tall. It was smiling brightly and shaking everyone's hands.
"Aren't you a friendly thing." Rider said with a smile.
"Rerereeu!" The cell squeaked.
"Yeah... Sorry if she spooked you. Jelly loves meeting knew people, so she kinda has no concept of personal space." Liam explained sheepishly as he looked towards the Rotom Dex expecting the description. "Eddy?"
"Fine! But she better appologizzze later-Zzzrt! Reuniclus, the Multiplying Pokemon. A Psychic use psychic power to control their arms, which are made of a special liquid. They can crush boulders psychically."
Then a tiny yellow bee-looking Pokemon flew up to Jelly's face after she shook everyones hands.
"Bee! Ribombee!" It said to the Reuniclus like it was a parent scolding a child. "Niclus..."
"Ribombee, the Bee Fly Pokemon. A Bug/Fairy type. It rolls up pollen into puffs. It makes many different varieties, some used as food and others used in battle."
"That's Tulip. She's kind of the mediator of my team." As he said this Tulip flew around the group, almost like she was inspecting them before stopping at Mimikyu holding out some a ball of honey covered in light pollen.
"Ribom?" She asked sweetly, used to dealing with Skipper's shyness, she thought the Disguise Pokemon needed a little help to come out of her shell. Mimikyu did nothing but squirm nervously a little in Sakura's arms.
"Go ahead, take it." Sakura supported the shy creature. Mimikyu seemed to sniff the ball for a moment before a black shadowy claw came out, quickly grabbed the treat and taking under it's costume before hearing what could be described as chewing.
"Chiii~"
While Sakura was smiling sweetly, everyone else in her group was giving the Ghost/Fairy type odd looks, still getting used to the idea that they had an tiny Eldritch horror hiding under an unasuming plushy with them.
Suddenly, a large bat-like Pokemon made it's way to Saber, started to sniff her and gave her big, sloppy licks right in her face.
"Wha-? Vera!" Liam exclaimed in surprise at his Pokemon's forwardness.
"Gah! Why... is... this... happening?!" The king exclaimed between the licks. "Is this another dragon?!"
"You win, Miss Saber! Noivern, the Sound Wave Pokemon. A Flying/Dragon ultrasonic waves it emits from its ears can reduce a large boulder to pebbles. It swoops out of the dark to attack"
Saber couldn't help but look unamused. It was starting to look like her being a Dragon type magnet was going to become a regular thing. Even on the way back to the lab Lerna couldn't help nudging her legs every chance he had.
"Illya, Lerna hasn't eaten yet. come along I'll show you where we keep the pokepellets. And Vera, I got your favorite treats~." Liam said as he left, beckoning to the pair to look through their newly bought stash, freeing Saber from one of her attachments when Vera heard the word treats.
"Well, you guys already met Pippa..." Kaimana started. "Guess it's time to meet my team."
"Pop pop!" The Popplio barked happily.
She then tossed two different colored Pokeballs, an all blue one with white bubbly accents and a blue-green one with a net like pattern, and they opened to reveal a blue and purple starfish-looking thing covered in spikes and a spider-like creature with three thin green legs and, most notably, a water bubble on its head.
"Eddy, how about you give all three entries at once, please?"
"But aren't you-?" Eddy started before going quiet when Kai gave him a look. "Okay then..."
"Popplio, the Sea Lion Pokemon. A Water type. This Pokemon can control water bubbles. It practices diligently so it can learn to make big bubbles."
"Mareanie, the Brutal Star Pokemon. A Poison/Water type. It plunges the poison spike on its head into its prey. When the prey has weakened, Mareanie deals the finishing blow with its 10 tentacles."
"Dewpider, the Water Bubble Pokemon. A Water/Bug type. It crawls onto the land in search of food. Its water bubble allows it to breathe and protects its soft head."
"This is Pokey and that's Skits." She introduces the Mareanie and Dewpider respectively. Trying to be friendly, Mimikyu hopped off from Sakura's arms and tried to shake hands with the Dewpider.
"Chii..." She greeted Skits but he didn't seem to notice her and was staring into space.
"Um... is he alright?" Sakura asked in concern with the spider's nonresponsive nature.
"Reanie..." Pokey rolled her eyes and used her tentacles to move Skits so he would be facing Mimikyu.
"Dew?"
"Piichii..."
The small exchange ended with Skits putting his spindly leg on Mimikyu's fake head and Mimikyu returned the gesture by putting her claw in his water bubble to touch his head.
"Huh, I gues they like each other." Kai mentioned blankly, even she found it hard to read her Dewpider's behavior.
"Isn't it cute?" Sakura asked, happy for her new little friend.
"Yeah... in a weird way." Rin admitted, surprised that her sister's mood seem to brighten with this little Pokemon.
"Sorry to keep all waiting, I was in the middle of a phone-" Sycamore said before he stopped when he caught sight of Lerna. "Why is there a Deino here?"
"I found him on the street! He didn't have a trainer so I'm gonna do it!" Illya beamed as she pet the little dragon; purposely leaving out the fact that she bought him, afraid Lerna would be taken away.
Sycamore letnout a sigh. "Illya... you and your friends are new to this so I don't blame you but because of their tempermant the Deino line aren't really the best choice for a first Pokemon unless you come from a dragon taming family and even THAT'S rare."
"I know that but he likes me!" She said as Lerna gave her another bite in the arm. "Ow! S-See? Those are love bites! Besides Dragon types seem to love Saber! She can help me teach Lerna to behave!"
"P-Pardon? Saber balked when Illya effectively roped her in the coversation.
"Pleeeeaaase Professor! Let me try and train him!" Illya begged putting on her best puppy dog eyes; which looked even more amusing since Lerna kept nonchalantly chewing her arm.
She even named it... Sycamore thought. He was worried because these people just learned about Pokemon and initially wanted the group to start taking care of the Pokemon in the biodome before actually giving them one of their own, but it looks like fate had other plans. Not just Illya, it seemed like Sakura made friends with a Mimikyu seeing how the little thing clung to her side. How did one even get to Kalos anyway?
"*Sigh* How about this? If you can prove to me you can take care of... Lerna. I'll see if I can arange for you to have a Trainer's Licence so he can be legally yours. Same goes to you Sakura."
"Really?" Sakura raised her head up in surprise.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" Illya cheered as she hugged the professor.
After shaking Illya off the professor saw Saber aproach, "Seeing as I've been volunteered to help take care of Lerna, May I enquire wether you have any advice on the matter?" Saber asked, a slight hint of concern in her voice.
"Well, I'd mainly recommend ensuring it's well fed, Dragon types are notorious for their ravenous apetite, but besides that the main issue would be..." the professor suplied, only to be interupted by a cacophony of clashing steel from the other room.
"Oh no... Not again!" The professor groaned as he ran past her.
"...Again?" Saber enquired with the rest of her group equally confused.
Random thought: Has anyone ever noticed in the anime that Mimikyu sounds like it's trying to say Pikachu but it's choking on something? It can't just be me right?
Anyway sorry if not much is happening in this story yet, it was kinda meant to have a mellow beginning.
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