It didn't take Ash long to find, nor reach the residence of Benny the Breeder. It wasn't too far from the Pokemon Center in actuality. A mere ten minute walk that led to a large hillside area. Honestly, it was more like a very small mountain, or rock plateau. It was bordered on all sides by a sheer cliff face leading a good hundred feet or so in the air, maybe more. At the very top, he could make out what looked to be electric fencing ranging around the cliff side and leading back to a large, comfortable and homey looking villa.
"This place looks beast," Ash whistled in appreciation staring up from the bottom of a very large fleet of crisp white stairs. The only way to actually reach the top. As he began scaling the stairs, Ash enjoyed taking in the view of the area. It was something he himself wanted to work towards. His very own private piece of land, a territory for he and his pokemon alone.
He paused midway up the stairs to give a wild murkrow perched on one of the railings to the side of the stairs a pat on the head and even feed it a little bit of food before continuing on his way. Murkrow were odd for dark types, not quite as aggressive as others of the typing and much more sociable on average, probably because they commonly lived in urban areas and were fed by humans all the time. He was tempted to catch it, Honchkrow were quite powerful physically and had access to quite an interesting and varied move pool - but in the end decided not to.
It would probably have joined him willingly just for feeding it, but he already had seven pokemon already and was planning on purchasing an eighth as soon as he reached the top of the stairs and met Benny. He was all for catching tons of pokemon, but he didn't want to be overwhelmed by a massive amount of them this early on his journey, he'd only been travelling for just over a week at this point after all. And he was already planning on going for a decent rock or ground type at Mount Moon.
His original plan with Ignis had been to go through the Diglett Cave, but with Fang taking his place he wanted to look for some Moon Stone and get Fang started on the path to becoming an Umbreon. The affection route was all well and good, but even then there could be the problematic point of leaving the evolution up to chance between Umbreon, Espeon and Sylveon. Not to mention, there wasn't much affection between Fang and himself yet.
Oh he obeyed his commands happily, and had warmed up to him even more through the time they spent training in the woods because Fang had seen the sheer amount of progress he had made in gaining strength. Heck, he could even say the violent little normal type respected him - especially since he himself had shown the ability to pin Fang down himself if he got too rowdy. But at the end of the day, there was still little affection between him and his 'starter' pokemon.
Thankfully there was a way to skew the results in his favor. A big enough moon stone would be enough to trigger an evolution into Umbreon right away. Eevee evolved into Umbreon through absorbing the power of lunar rays into its body and storing the energy, until it had enough to trigger an evolution into Umbreon. He'd taken to keeping Eevee out of the sun and in his pokeball all day and then training with him and letting him stay out of his ball the moment it set right up until it came to rise again.
Finding one of those big moon stones would be another matter altogether though. And buying one? No way, they were worth on average at least fifty thousand hard cash. Which was saying something when the average sized moon stone, enough to evolve any Nidorino into a Nidoking, was priced at 2,100.
So his plan was to find a decent ground or rock type at Mount Moon, catch it and then have them help search for smaller moon stone fragments and just have Fang drain the lunar energy bit by bit until he either evolved or got close enough too. Then he'd just buy a few normal moon stones to finish things up. Young as he was, Fang had already approached much of his power limit as an Eevee - he'd picked up Double Kick just this morning. There wasn't much variety of things left to teach the little guy, but evolution would open up a bunch of new avenues for him.
'Lancer will probably evolve today at some point, and Blitz is already turning a darker green so it won't be long till he evolves into a Grovyle either.'Ash mused as he finally reached the top of the massive staircase and found himself standing in a fancy, pristinely made garden with a spotless pathway leading up to the door of the villa. He was actually quite impressed with the garden when he saw that instead of being full of flowers, the garden had a bunch of berry bushes, easily a dozen and more filled to the brim with growing berries, many he could ane on sight.
Oran, Sitrus, Pecha, Cheri, tomato and more. Quite a variety he had to admit. When Ash finally got his own territory, he planned to splurge on berry seeds himself and hopefully get his hands on a grass pokemon that excelled at helping plant growth. Maybe Roserade, or in his dream of dreams, a Venasaur.
Shaking his head, the amber eyed trainer made his way over the path to find himself standing in front of a warm red door and pressed the doorbell he found at its side.
It took a good thirty seconds for the door to swing open and a kindly faced, well built brunette clad in dirty blue overalls to stand in the doorway. He smiled at Ash kindly when he saw him, "Hello," he greeted, "How can I help you young man?"
"Hey," As replied with a wave and smiled back at the older man, "Are you Benny?"
He nodded, "That's me."
"Perfect," the amber eyed trainer replied, "I was hoping to come in and get a look at some of the pokemon you have for sale, I'm looking to get my hands on a decent mount pokemon to travel on."
"Oh?" Benny hummed in interest, "Well why don't you come on in and have a seat? I've actually got another customer right now but we're just finalizing payments right now so it should be fine for you to join us." after saying so, the man opening the door wider and beccommed him inside.
Nodding, Ash followed him in, closing the door behind him and then following the man's lead. He was lead through a decent sized, warmly colored hallway, from which he could see four doors, two on the right, one up under a large staircase and another he just passed and saw lead into a kitchen of some sort. Benny lead him through into the first doorway on the right and started speaking as soon as he entered, "Sorry about that, I just had another customer at the door."
"It's fine, can we just hurry this along?" A gruff, familiar voice replied and Ash almost stumbled as he heard it. He felt a grin come to his face. Of all the places.
He made sure to keep his gait calm and confident as he walked and he couldn't help but delight in the way the red haired teen sitting on one of the couches, clad in purple red trim jacket and dark jeans had his eyes widen in shock, and near outrage as soon as he saw him. "You!" Silver, his older half brother and trainer of two years his senior snarled, dark heavy eyes filling with, while not hatred, an intense dislike.
Ash smirked at him, allowing his hands to casually rest in his pockets and displaying a facade of complete nonchalance, "Hello... brother." he greeted slowly, the words lazily rolling off his tongue, his superior smirk audible in every syllable as he strode confidently forward into what he now noted was a lovely sitting room.
"What the hell are you doing here brat?" Silver ground out through gritted teeth, bodily slapping what looked to be a paper contract of some kind into Benny's chest as he stepped passed the breeder and got right up close and personal with Ash, an effort to look down on him from his three inch taller height. "What little plan have you got running this time?"
Ash rolled his eyes. His brother was the same as ever. Ever since their father had started putting more and more attention into Ash himself, preparing him for his journey, Silver had taken it as a personal affront.
It had come to a head when he returned from his first journey where he had run off to Johto. And honestly, hadn't that just been sad? Running off to an entirely new region all dramatic like just because dear daddy wouldn't shower him with attention any more. He'd come back after reaching the top sixteen in the Silver Conference acting like hot shit because he'd done so well for his age and tried to lord it over Ash himself.
Only for he and Pikachu to shut his ass up alongside his starter Nidoking that he got from their father as a Nidoran. It had hardly even been much of a battle. Nidoking while strong, hadn't had the speed to contend and Pikachu had more or less made a game of ping ball out of the behemoth with his speed and liberal use of Iron Tail.
And when their dad had been so disappointed in him, he'd thrown another tantrum and ran off to Hoenn. Last he heard, he'd made top eight at the Ever Grand Conference. And he'd gotten so paranoid that Ash was out to get him, it would have been funny if it weren't so sad. As far as Ash cared, his brother could keep all of their bastard dad's attention to himself, he didn't want it.
"What does it look like I'm doing here Silver?" Ash rolled his eyes. Not intimidated in the least by his brothers posturing. They both knew who would win in a fight between them. "I'm here to get a pokemon."
"Ah, give it a rest will you Silver?" a lovely, feminine voice cut in from behind his brother. Another familiar voice "You're just going to embarrass yourself if you pick another fight with little Ashy." There was only one person who called him that. He gulped down the butterfree he felt suddenly hammering in his chest and casually stepped around his older brother, grinning when he caught sight of her.
An older girl standing by one of the couches, around the same height as Silver. She had a lovely fair skinned face and sparkling blue eyes. Long brown hair that reached to near the small of her back and curves to die for at her age. She was clad in a white hat with a pink pokeball at the front, a tight blue tank top that showed off her blossoming buxom figure and a small red skirt that left her long legs on full display leading down to a pair of blue slouchy socks that reached half way up to her knee and red travelling sneakers with blue trim.
"Green!" Ash shouted in excitement, hurrying over to meet her when the older girl held her arms out. He swept the older girl up into a tight embrace, arms encircling her waist and lifting her up - and if his face pressed into her chest, well who could blame him?
She wrapped her own arms around his neck and hugged him tight as soon as he set her down. She laughed, her voice sending pleasant shivers down his back when she held him tight, "I missed you too Ashy!" she said with delight.
When she pulled back Ash felt a bit of disappointment well in his chest, but kept it down, alongside the flush that threatened to spill over his face. Green Leaf was one of his neighbours in Pallet Town - he'd grown up alongside the older girl and may have grown a teensei weensei little crush on her since she was always there to help him out and always stuck up for him even when all the other kids his age started to dislike him because of the rough ways he liked to play around and happily chasing down wild pokemon to play with despite the danger. They had thought him a freak - and while he could have beat the crap out of them himself even then, Leaf had stuck up for him throughout their ridiculing and chased them away.
His time spent growing up had always been between her, Gary and Pikachu. Then Silver moved in and his broody attitude forced her sympathetic side to reach out to the boy and try and 'fix' him. Ash rolled his eyes at the thought. There was nothing wrong with Silver, he was just an angst ridden drama queen that couldn't stand the fact that he wasn't daddy's favorite anymore. And so when he ran away to Johto, Green had run off following him to make sure he didn't get in over his head.
Even Gary thought he was a damn drama queen, and Gary loved hamming everything up.
Not that it did much good considering in the first few weeks, he'd stolen a Totodile from Professor Elm and their dad had to smooth it over before the idiot got his license revoked and caused a massive scandal.
God his brother was such a dramatic pansy.
"How've you been?" Ash asked once their hug broke apart.
She smiled brilliantly at him and Ash had to force himself not to stare as her lovely brown hair shimmered from side to side with each motion she made, "Same old same old, just been keeping your brother from doing too many stupid things," she replied with a lovely, near musical chuckle. Then she gasped and pulled a pokeball out and held it up to him, "But Blasty evolved into a blastoise just last week and he's so powerful now, even Silver's Fergaligtr could barely beat him when they battled for the first time."
"That's amazing!" Ash gushed in genuine excitement for the girl. Green was a very talented trainer, actually she had more latent talent than his brother and could be a top league contender. Instead, she had to waste her talents while looking after his twit of a brother. She was already thirteen, had been on her journey for three years now and she hadn't been able to accomplish anything because of looking after Silver. Heck, her birthday was just a week before he left on his journey.
Which reminded him;
"Did you get my gift?" he asked.
"Yes!" She replied happily, switching her pokeball for another, "It was just what I needed Ashy, thank you! I used it to evolve my Snubbul into a Grabull and he's gotten so strong now!"
Before he could say anything back, his brother behind him stamped his feet and growled loudly, "Green come on, I'm getting out of here! I don't wanna hang around and catch loser off of this brat." then he heard the sound of footsteps and moments later a door slamming shut loudly.
What!? Loser!? He'd show that weakling a loser!
Whirling around with a snarl on his lips, Ash was about to march out behind him and smack the shit out of his brother before one of Green's soft arms looped around his own. He could have easily broken her hold, but that might hurt her, and he never wanted to hurt Green. "I suppose we should get going, we are on a busy schedule today after all," Green sighed. Stepping around Ash, she took place in front of him before leaning down and pressing a soft, chaste kiss at the side of his lips and pulling back with her eyes glittering mischievously, "I'll see you later kay? Silver wants to hunt down some Tyranitar that's been rumored to be living on top of the Diglett Cave."
And then like a feather dancing on the wind, she left and was just out of reach. Ash withheld a sigh. He missed seeing Green everyday. Green was his in the beginning, not his freaking wimpy ass drama queen of a brother! He had half a nerve to follow that cunt down and chase down that Tyranitar himself. He only didn't because the odds of him succeeding were slim. Pikachu could probably take it down, but the mountain tops of the Diglett Cave were clad with tons of powerful rock and ground types like Golem, Onix and even the odd Aggron or Rhydon. He'd need more than one powerful pokemon like Pikachu to handle that many. Pikachu was extraordinarily powerful, no doubt about that. But he couldn't be everywhere and handle every problem for him.
He'd just have to let it go. No matter how much the idea of Silver getting to insult him and then leave with Leaf toiling after him like a lost growlithe puppy made him want to vomit. His brother was a petulant brat and he knew just how to push his buttons. He knew that little tantrum and storming out was just to force him and Leaf apart. A way to hurt him because he knew if it came down to a battle Pikachu would mop the floor with whatever pokemon he sent out and if it came down to a fight? Well, he'd always taken much better to their fathers martial training than Silver ever had.
"Well, that was a little awkward.." Benny laughed nervously snapping him from his thoughts.
Ash sighed, "Sorry about that."
The breeder waved his arms and laughed again, "No it's fine, I don't much get along with my brother either so I can see where you're coming from." He stepped over to Ash and handed him what appeared to be a catalogue of some sort, "Why don't you take a seat and give this a read through to see if there's anything you want and I'll make you a cup of tea to help calm down."
After thanking the man who went off to the kitchen, Ash sat down on the couch and popped open the catalogue. A catalogue that happened to have lists of each individual pokemon that Benny was raising, their gender, abilities, move pools, preferred foods and more. He had 22,400 Pokedollars left currently after splurging on a few things at the mart earlier and getting the reward for dealing with Mith, he hoped the could find and afford a decent land mount.
Machop - M/F - Guts/No Guard - Karate Chop, Low Kick, Seismic Toss, Dual Chop, Bulk Up - 7,500 Pokedollars
Geodude - M/F - Rockhead/Sturd - Tackle, Rock Throw, Rollout, Mega Punch, Defense Curl - 6,500 Pokedollars
Nidoran - M - Poison Point - Peck, Horn Attack, Leer, Poison Sting, Double Kick, Confusion - 8,500 Pokedollars
Nidoran - F - Poison Point - Scratch, Growl, Tail whip, Poison Sting, Double Kick, Bite, Ice Beam - 8,500 Pokedollars
Caterpie - M/F - Shield Dust - Tackle, String hot, Bug Bite, Headbutt, Electro Web - 4,000 Pokedollars
Weedle - M/F - Shield Dust - Poison Sting, String hot, Bug Bite, Peck, Fury Attack, Electro Web - 4,000 Pokedollars
On and on they went, dozens of different species and each were bred to have the same types of attacks so there wasn't much difference in each one. What was astounding though was that apparently some of the best sellers were the Caterpie and Weedle. Especially with how close to the Viridian Forest Pewter City was. You couldn't go two minutes without tripping over one in that forest.
'Then again, none of them would have Electroweb, Peck or anything like that. How the heck did he even breed Caterpie and Weedle with an electric type attack?' Or rather, how did he teach the parents those attacks because it would be the parents they inherited those attacks from. It was a steep price, but Ash figured he should get himself a Caterpie and get it to teach both Lancer and Pikachu Electroweb. It would add another mouth to feed, but Butterfree weren't much maintenance and they had access to amazing stat effect moves like Stun Spore, Poison Powder and Sleep Powder. Not to mention psychic attacks, which would be a massive boon for setting up barriers to protect their campsites, and they could even learn Teleport.
With that decided he palmed through the pages again, only to be really disappointed a few pages later when he found one dedicated to Growlithe, only, none of them were in stock and he only had eggs. Too bad, Ash wasn't really ready to raise an egg this early on his travels, he'd need more stability first before he'd risk it. Even if he wanted to risk it, they were priced at 15,000 pokedollars a piece. Fifteen thousand he could end up wasting if he didn't take care of it well and there were so many ways things could go wrong while travelling wild pokemon filled areas.
Sighing, he idly plamed through the rest of the catalogue, taking in the pokemon but finding none that really stood out. None that he couldn't just catch in the area. Sandshrew and Paras were abundant in Mount Moon. Diglett wouldn't be hard to catch, he could find one in the caves just a half a days travel from here in the Diglett Cave. There were apparently too many of them to count there, the saying went that you could accidentally drop a pokeball and capture one in there, that was how many there were.
He was just about to give up with it all and settle for just the Caterpie when he found something interesting on the last page. A certain pokemon with only one in stock. One that would fit his needs, although why it was so low priced, especially with such a great move pool he couldn't understand.
Doduo - F - Tangled Feet - Peck, Quick Attack, Jump Kick, Haze, Supersonic - 2,500 Pokedollars.
Why was a pokemon like doduo that could easily support the weight of a full grown man riding on it, a pokemon that could run at speeds rivaling that of an average car casually and scale almost any terrain priced so low?
How very odd.
Either way, he was quite happy with what he'd found. He'd have much prefered a Growlithe, he could have gotten Professor Oak to send him a fire stone he was sure and would have had an Arcanine by the end of the day, but this wasn't too bad. He could always find one later. Each major city had at least one breeder that bred Growlithe after all for the local police force.
He was tempted to grab a Machop as well, but adding another two pokemon to his team was enough for today. Yeah, this wasn't too bad at all.
Purchasing both Doduo and Caterpie from Benny didn't take too long. He simply had to fill out a a contract so that Benny had proof of Ash actually purchasing the pokemon, something to do with a past client trying to pull a fast one and sue him by claiming he didn't get the pokemon he paid for.
So after Ash asked for Doduo and the strongest Caterpie in stock, Benny showed them to him, and both sides were all too happy with the arrangement. Ash because Doduo was much bigger than he'd anticipated, which came from the fact that Doduo wasn't quite as young as the other pokemon hanging around, having been up for sale for over a year and not bought, she would have no problem carrying him around.
Doduo herself was very affectionate with him, according to Benny, she'd been rather morose because nobody wanted her, the Dodrio line apparently weren't very popular, which stumped Ash because despite not being able to fly, they were fast as hell and could be very powerful in comparison to the average flying type species. Their looks were a little odd, but Ash just thought it made the species stand out more.
Caterpie on the other hand, unlike typical members of his species, apparently liked to battle and wanted to evolve, but couldn't because the caterpie and weedle that were bred, like all the other pokemon at the breeding facility, besides a select few were kept in areas littered with everstones to keep them from evolving. So Caterpie was all too happy to go with him.
Ten minutes later and 6,500 pokedollars less rich, Ash found himself sitting a bit awkwardly on Doduo's back as she strolled down the street much faster than Ash himself could walk, following his directions towards the pokemart he had been in earlier that day, having spent less than he expected, he wanted to go grab a few more things, Caterpie sitting casually on his shoulder, taking in the sights, "How about Gem?" Ash asked Doduo, one of her heads rotated around to look at him while the other kept an eye on things at the front, "I was thinking Gemini, but that wouldn't make much sense once you evolve, but since you're a girl I think Gem suits you quite well."
Honestly, Ash was quite surprised that her neck was so flexible that it let her literally rotate her head's around three hundred and sixty degrees. The minute he saw her do it, he realized how big a boon her two heads were, she could really look in almost any direction and have two sets of eyes looking out for trouble at any one time. That was actually freaking amazing, and she'd get another head upon evolving, doduo were truly an under appreciated species.
Barking happily, her head stretched over and nuzzled her furry face against his cheek bringing a laugh from the amber eyed boy, "Gem it is then!" he named her, rubbing her head.
He would have continued that, if not for the surprisingly hard green head butting against his other cheek wanting his attention, "Mrrrh!" Caterpie growled.
Pulling back from the newly named Gem and letting her second head join the third he turned towards his now third bug pokemon sitting on his shoulder, nearly glaring at him, "Don't worry, I didn't forget about you!" he consoled the little green worm, patting him gently on his little red antenna.
He let loose a little huff like sound and peered into his eyes expectantly, forcing Ash's grin to widen at how confrontational the little bug was. He'd never heard of any of the caterpie line being so bold, they were generally much more skittish, but then this little guy had an absurd move pool for a caterpie, had grown up in a safe environment unlike the ones out in the wild where they were meer prey until they were butterfree, and was way stronger than any caterpie had any right to be compared to his wild counterparts because of how long he'd spent at Benny's under the effect of everstones.
Caterpie was apparently the oldest caterpie kicking around at Benny's before Ash got him. Caterpie were generally pokemon bought to be pets, not many bought them from Benny for the express purpose of training up a battler, so one as battle happy as the one Ash bought was basically at the bottom of the barrel of pokemon that people wanted to buy.
Benny had been kind of perplexed at him wanting the two pokemon he had that basically nobody wanted above the rest. Truly, Ash didn't understand most people, his two new pokemon were awesome.
"I'm thinking Crusher," Ash told the little green bug on his shoulder, "People are gonna expect some big monster of a pokemon like an aggron when I call out that name, only to get really confused when a butterfree pops out, then it's gonna be super funny when you actually end up crushing their pokemon."
Caterpie stared at him for a few more moments before letting loose an odd sound, "kekekeke," it was an odd cross between a bark and a bird like chirp and it took Ash a good few seconds to realize the little bug was laughing.
Gleefully at that.
It didn't take them much longer to reach the mart. Once there, he was quick to splurge a little and grab the Double Team TM, as a permanent copy and then grab a good comfortable saddle that would still fit for Doduo once she evolved, which shouldn't be that far away since she was already over a year old, bringing his total funds down to ten thousand pokedollars, the exact same amount he started out with, and honestly not to shabby.
He'd asked the clerk about Metal Coat's while he was there, but they had none in stock, and it would cost forty thousand for them to order one in for him. He passed on it, while the idea of evolving Mith into a Scizor for his gym battle against Brock was tempting, he didn't want to stick around for too long in Pewter City, and to raise that amount he'd have to do multiple trainer jobs, so he'd wait till he built his funds up a bit more.
He was quick to head back to the Pokemon Center after that and introduce his new pokemon to the others. They were all welcoming as expected, besides Fang who didn't care and maybe Blitz who was kind of stoic and hard to read, but generally they got along okay.
He wasted no time in teaching Protect and Double Team to everyone on the squad, except Levia, Lancer and Crusher who couldn't learn them until they were fully evolved.
Crusher seemed quite happy when he got to battle quite a few of his pokemon, holding his own decently against both Fang and Blitz, before losing. Fang hadn't expected to be defeated outright by Gem in their practice battle, and neither had Ash to be fair. Gem was a lot stronger than he gave her credit for, and that Jump Kick was incredibly powerful.
The most excitement Ash got out of the training session though was Crusher attempting to teach Lancer and Pikachu, Electroweb, Pikachu actually got it down after a few hours, but Lancer was far from mastering it, only able to spark a thread of electricity even after Pikachu lightly shocked him for a while to let him get a feel for the electric type power, the same way he'd went about teaching Ignis thunderpunch.
Very early the next morning, Ash and all of his pokemon were awakened long before they planned to get up due to the duo of bright silvery white light erupting in the middle of their room in the Pokemon Center as both Lancer and Crusher evolved.
Well, as tired as he was, Ash was quite happy with his new Beedrill and Metapod, Crusher had already been ready to evolve at any time, and the stress of training so much had accelerated Lancer's own ascension from a Kakuna.
Him learning Twin Needle upon evolving was quite a nice surprise as well, to go along with Crusher's newly learned Harden.
Fun fact, did you know in the anime canon Ash would have caught a Dodrio, Weepinbell, Voltorb and quite a few other pokemon if it weren't for Misty? That episode where he helps out that lazy doctor guy, the episode after they find Togepi's egg at that if I remember right, there were quite a few injured wild pokemon that needed help and Ash being a savage was all for capturing them while they were weakened. Except Misty being a pain in the ass smashed his head and stopped him, with a mallet if I remember right at that. I don't actually see the problem in that? They were wild pokemon and Ash was showing them kindness in helping them out, so why not let him catch them? As if she had any right to make complaints about that when she was all for stealing Togepi's egg from Ash despite being the one that found it in the first place.
Hopping off the rant there, cuz jeez I could rant about anime Misty for hours. She's an up-jumped cunt for 90% of the time, a tsundere with like 1% dere, and doesn't calm down until the very end of her journey with Ash. If you watch Pokemon Chronicles after Kanto and Johto, it's hard to recognize her as the same person.
I'm going to address my absence from fanfiction and other platforms here. I've had a lot of family problems lately over the past few months, looking after my nephew was a near constant job for a while, but one of the bigger problems stems from my PC being confiscated by a certain organisation because my cousin was caught up in some shifty things. It's pretty obvious, so I won't really explain. I stayed up to date with my tablet, but couldn't get on most of my accounts from each website, especially my , hentaifoundry and such. So anyone following me on there, I apologize for my absence.
It's been over a month at this point without my pc, so I decided to just bite the bullet and buy a laptop to tide me by for now. And a heads up to any of my patrons, with my new laptop I'm working on a ton of shit right now, have been since I got it a few days ago and I've already got 5 pieces down to post. I'm gonna get a few more down then try to get my password reset - I done it through an alternate email and such for security, which also needs my phone to get into if I lose that password and my sister stole my phone - but yeah, I'm looking to come back with a bit of a bang and have a ton for you guys to read.