Chapter 2: New and Familiar Faces
After packing for my last-minute job drafting along with purchasing enough pokeballs to get a Premier Ball
(this becomes important later) I met up with Barry at Route 201 for reasons I assure you I did not make up
August:
Well excuse me if I didn't exactly predict going on a Journey today
Barry:
You didn't expect to travel while being the understudy of a man who's memeticly irresponsible among your campus?
August:
...Fair enough, what do you want anyways?
Barry:
You know that lake Dawn and I found Rowan's Briefcase in?
August:
Yeah, I was there with Rowan to study the Starly migration
August:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's just a myth-
I immediately saw where this was going
August:
...You're not
Barry:
We'd be Famous! we wouldn't even need to challenge the Pokemon League with them on our side!
August:
WHERE DO I START WITH HOW DUMB THAT IDEA SOUNDS! Assuming for one second they even exist, how exactly are you, with one chimchar and only barely able to fend off wild Starly, going to catch a supernatural deity!?
Barry:
What's the big deal? we just throw a pokeball at it and then it's ours-
August:
You don't just "ThRoW a PoKeBaLl AnD ExPeCt It To Be YoUrS", pokeballs have a high failiure rate for powerful pokemon at full strength!
It was then I saw a Bidoof just minding their own business
August:
Here, I'll show you, Olympus?
Olympus:
10-4
Olympus then proceeded to tackle the Bidoof, I took advantage of them being momentarily dazed by this to throw my premier ball at them
Thankfully this worked and now I had a new Teammate
August:
so you got all that, Barry?
It was then I noticed that Barry was long gone by now and already at the entrance to Lake Verity
Barry
(from a distance)
:
Dude, you still there? Take your new catch with you and get over here!
You probably guessed I was muttering obscenities under my breath as I got over there
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August:
Did you not hear a word I was shouting at you for the last fifteen minutes on how dumb your plan is?
Barry:
Of course I did, we just gotta beat them up first!
August:
Do you know if it's even here?
August:
How is that even PROOF!?
Barry:
Well we're gonna find out soon, aren't we-
It was then I saw him, a man I didn't expect to see ever again, let alone how he appeared then.
I thought he was just a false memory of a past I thought I never actually had, but here he was, giving what was ultimately a warning to the lake's deity.
He then approached the two of us, we both stared at each other for five seconds before he finally spoke
Barry:
Hey August, you alright? you look like you saw a ghost or something
August:
Y-yeah, actually you know what, I just remembered I left something at the Lab, think we can do this some other time?
Barry:
Alright, hey you said there were Starly here, wanna catch one real quick?
August:
Actually that sounds like a great idea
So I went ahead and caught a Starly before heading back to Sandgem Town, I didn't know it yet, but that was just the first of several encounters I'd have with Cyrus, and the many lessons on just how different he became over the many years we were separated...
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To Be Continued -->
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