Meeting Them

Unlike most kids who begin their journey a week after the annual Pokemon League...

Harry left home five months before that, to catch his ideal partners and to get them up to snuff before beginning their journey come the start of the year.

Harry has thirteen pokemon he only ever bothered to train to raise them all to full potential...that by the time of his official Journey beginning, most of his pokemon are all capable fighters proficient in their techniques and knows enough creativity but no fighting experience yet, so they are all unevolved, but spoiled silly in nutritious food that they were all bigger than what was expected of them in books. Although all of them were trained hard to develop properly which also contributed to their growth...focusing on gaining healthy, strong bodies trained to their peak physical condition as much as they're able to get...in Professor Juniper's Corral as all his other pokemon are in her lab.

He had stayed there for a few months after catching his dream team to train them all equally up to standards and for relationships to develop. He even sleeps with them outdoors in a sleeping inflatable bag so his relationship with them was great, it helps that he formed Telepathic Links to understand his teammates.

The words they speak may as well be human tongue to him and they were very happy that their human understands them.

Of course, this ability is kept secret for his own safety, that only his family and Professor Juniper knows he's Psychic so he could register to any league as a Psychic Trainer.

'Well guys. its now January 2, the day the League is over.' said Harry. 'Time to start our journey at last!' his teammates perked up. 'For the first half year, I'll take Bounsweet, Froakie, Chimchar, Rufflet, Venipede and Pikachu. Everyone else will go home to help out at the farm.'

'OK!' Harry then tossed out 14 pokeballs and returned them all, and equipping his chosen pokemon on his pokebelt while he gathered the remaining eight pokeballs to go back to the lab.

'Professor, I'll be heading out soon!' Harry told Professor Juniper. 'So I'll be sending these guys home.' he said, looking at the armful of pokeballs in his arms.

'Alright Harry, have you achieved what you wanted to achieve?' Juniper asked her.

'Yeah, we made great progress Professor. It helps that we got great communication!' Juniper snorted.

'Yeah, communication.' she stated wryly. Harry was a psychic who used his powers to help him bond better with his pokemon by 'auto-translating' thru Telepathy. When most trainers took nearly a year or more to emotionally bond well with their pokemon, Harry took less than four months. It helps that he was no collector, having captured what he wanted to keep for life than throw pokeballs at anything that moves.

It turns out that pokemon that had been focused so much on, actually showed more potential than pokemon given 'small attention' as a result of dividing time fairly and evenly among massive collections. His team who definitely had plenty of his attention and loads of food while training so hard, grew bigger than what was expected without being obese growth was more on bones and muscle by using Harry's powers by directing digested nutrition where it should go and build up the body. She was able to record so much data she could surely present a thesis with a lot of data to prove it.

'Yup! I got ahead in that regard!' Harry grinned unrepentantly. 'Be phoning home and borrowing your transfer machine!'

'Sure Harry!'

xxx

The Potter Farms in Southwestern Unova...

'Oh, hey Harry, how's your first few months out?' Mrs. Potter asked her son.

/I'm doing well mom, after I traveled around, and caught fourteen pokemon I wanna keep for life. I don't toss pokeballs at anything that moves, honestly./ Harry scoffed. /After that, I camped out at Professor Juniper's so I can equally train everyone before to officially begin our Journey in Sinnoh. I'm going to send my eight others home OK? They can help out in the farm./

'Sure! Anything else?'

/Er, it's Drampa, my dragon-type./ said Harry sheepishly. /His kind are very great with kids, and loves kids Drampa are pokemon well-known in Alola that moms have no worries about their kids out in the woods as long as Drampa are nearby, they're great playmates and babysitters. However, woe betide some fool who hurts kids in their ear or eyeshot, retribution is disproportionate. They're said to chase attackers and bash them real bad and burn down their homes. Warn the whole town to avoid bully issues but Child Abuse Cases sure are well-deserving of their anger./ Mrs. Potter gulped.

'Er, well-noted dear.' she said, sweatdropping nervously. 'I'll warn the local Jenny and the Police Station and the neighborhood before we let Drampa out.'

/OK! All's cool after that! I'll also send e-mail on what they eat! Be sending them in ten minutes at the Pokemon Center./

'Alright, I'll have your father pick them up for you! Your brothers are at the farms!'

xxx

And so...Harry's now on a Seaplane to Sinnoh, to begin his journey.

He stocked up on supplies in Twinleaf Town, and prepared himself for the cool region before going on his way, having his pokemon spar with anyone they meet for experience in order to evolve. He spent much of his time in the woods to prepare for the Oreburgh Gym.

But on his second week, he ended camp, confident enough with his team having experience against Grass, Ground, Water and Flying-types in the woods.

'Alright guys, we gained enough fighting experience, it'll be invaluable in your first debut.' he said. 'Gyms have tougher pokemon with good reason, this should be of great help to us!'

'Does that mean we'll get to grow up?' Bounsweet asked him.

'Good chances of that happening Bounsweet.' said Harry optimistically. 'We all worked our asses off, it should come easier and more naturally. So everyone back in Pokeballs, we'll soon step into Oreburgh in ten, and I'll have Nurse Joy take good care of you guys before we battle.' he floated their pokeballs and returned all of them, before the pokeballs reattached to his pokebelt and he went on his way.

He could use a real shower, and shopping before his gym battle...

And then he met them.

His arrival in their eyes and imagine-spots was that of light basking him in an ethereal way and rose petals marking his entrance. He also smells fruity-sweet!

'O-oh-wow...that's one good-looking guy...' 10 years old Dawn gulped as she, 14 years old Ash and 19 years old Brock gaped.

'I've never seen a guy look like that, and I traveled for four years!' Brock gawked out.

'Me either.' Ash swore numbly. 'Can boys look like...that?'

'Beats me, he's the first pretty boy I saw in my whole life!'

Harry wasn't oblivious to their thoughts as everywhere he went, was always like this. He is sooo done with it he just takes things in stride now.

So smiled at them, fully-aware of its effects and to think, he's not even using his powers. Poor kid melted into goo, while the older boys looked embarrassed.

'Here for your first badge too?'

'Well yeah.' said Ash. 'How about you?' he unwittingly blurted out a dumb question.

'Your friend said you traveled for four years so that'd mean this will be your 25th. This is literally my first Gym Battle.' said Harry. 'I finished school first before I started my journey.'

'How come? All kids always travel at ten.' Dawn pointed out.

'Almost everybody, yes but only the brave souls go...and for some people, they're not meant for travel or training anybody for various reasons.' Harry snorted. 'Or there's me, a rare oddball who just wants legalities out of the way before I start because let's face it, when you go back to school again after your journey, it'll be weird to sit in a class of students younger than you. My brothers are definitely awkward in the classrooms now.'

'Well, that's definitely planning.' said Brock. 'You finished General Education not just Pokemon School huh?'

'Yeah. That way when I'm done, I can just march into University without the awkwardness that everyone in my class is younger than I am.' Harry shivered. 'No way. Nuh-uh.' the trio exchanged looks.

'I can't believe we have to go back to school after our journey...' Ash croaked out.

'You got to. The journey just teaches you how hard life can be outside home without our families, the safety of home and constant access to money. That way you'd grow up a sensible adult afterward, worldly-wise and with a complete qualification, you can get a job. At least, that's what my parents told me since they've been there, done that.'

'Well, that's food for thought.'

'Yeah, that's one thing to think about too.' said Dawn. 'By the way, where did you buy your Perfume?' she asked hopefully.

'Yeah, its nice to the nose while fragrant, not the painfully-nauseating stuff in Celadon Gym back in Kanto.' Ash shuddered at the memory.

Harry chuckled. 'I wish I really AM wearing perfume, but I'm not!' he took out a pokeball. 'Its my starter who smells sweet!'

'A grass-type that can smell THAT good?!' Brock gawked. 'The only nice-smelling one I know is a Meganium and a Roserade but this one's on another level!'

'Its diluted now when she's in a pokeball but when she's out...it'll be full-blast.' Harry let out Bounsweet.

'Bounsweet!'

Indeed, the perfume is much stronger.

'SO CUTE!' Dawn sparkled while going squee.

'I-I'm seeing a fruit actually...' Brock sweatdropped as the pokemon is just a fruit with a face. 'But I gotta admit, she smells wonderful!'

Ash took out his pokedex, but no data.

'No data?!'

'She's from another region, there's no way a Sinnoh Pokedex will have data about her.' Harry chuckled. 'Pure grass, only-female line. Her kind are hunted down as food by other Pokemon they're nearly extinct the government had to build a preserve and breed them safely. Very few ever fully-evolve as a result. Very few trainers also give them a chance which doesn't help.' he said, returning Bounsweet. 'Because at the beginning, they really are weak, timid and clumsy, you need patience and encouragement. But the reward when they evolve is worth it. They'll kick butt when they evolve.'

'Ooh...so you're looking forward to Bounsweet's evolution huh?' Brock asked her.

'Pretty much.'

'Well...if she's juicy I better keep my Heracross away.' Ash sweatdropped. 'My Bulbasaur's putting up with him as it is!'

'Can you make perfume with their nectar though?' Dawn asked again.

'Perfume, no. Juice, yes. When Bounsweet sweats, I had to scrape it off with a blunt plastic scraper and save them in test tubes. But I have to dilute an three tablespoons into two liters of water. Its that sweet by itself and two liters is just perfectly right.'

'Wow!'

'Perfume only happens when they evolve into Steenee and Tsareena, but we lose the juice. The wait is a bit long kid.'

'Awww.' Dawn pouted.

'Why not travel with us?' Ash offered. 'It's Dawn's first time too. Brock and I got four years under our belts. Once you got the hang of it, you can leave the nest, so to speak.'

'...what to expect anyway?'

'Pokemon thieves, natural disasters, territorial wildlife, still more crooks and helping out when you can.' said Brock. 'We've done it all. Company is good to avoid first-year hazings at least. I'm Brock, former Pewter Gym Leader from Kanto.'

'I'm Ash from Pallet Town, I just live a city away from Brock.' said Ash.

'And I'm Dawn from Twinleaf Town.' said Dawn.

'I'm Harry, from Piorra* Town in Unova.' said Harry.

'Oh, your first year is in another region, not your native one?' Brock blinked.

'I like being unique!' Harry grinned. 'Well, let's see how hard a first gym battle can be. How different can it be from Wild Pokemon?'

'Well, you'll soon find out.' said Ash as they went in for their first gym battle. He felt rather nostalgic as his real first battle, was a Rock Gym against Brock!

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1. Piorra - fruit in Italian