Worthless Necessity: Project Pokemon [HitoZuku]

Chapter 8 - Branching Out

Midoriya sat on a low branch of a tree that overlooked the lake, watching all the Pokemon playing with each other, when he noticed a small ripple by the side of the lake. A small white being with a gem on her forehead poked her head out of the lake, before she looked up at Midoriya.

The greenette nodded his head slightly in respect, "Good morning, Uxie."

"Hello, Izuku." The fairy-like Pokemon floated up to Midoriya, "Mew visited just now."

"Oh." Midoriya blinked, "What's going on?"

Mew liked to visit the lake often, and Midoriya really didn't know why. The small playful pink feline was hard to read, and Midoriya could never tell when Mew was trying to play a prank, or something serious was going on and she was just trying to help out.

With the ability to Teleport, Mew also liked to just pick up random items and deposit them in Uxie's cave, or in the homes of the other two members of the Lake Trio. The last time Mew had done that, she had given Uxie some rainbow-coloured glass rock that looked like a marble with a small double helix in the center of the rock, and Uxie had given it to him for absolutely no reason.

It was kind of pretty, though, and Reiko also seemed to like the weird looking rock, so Midoriya had kept it.

Still, if Uxie thought that Mew's visit was important enough to warrant telling him, then it was probably something serious; he trusted Uxie's judgement.

"Nothing too much at the moment." Uxie replied, "There was a small tsunami that other day, remember?"

Midoriya nodded, and Uxie continued, "A bunch of idiots tried to summon and control Kyogre by using the Red Orb of all things. Stole it from the Celestial Tower, and the Blue Orb was left untouched. Mew found it funny when Kyogre got pissed and drowned all them before going back to sleep, and went to return the Red Orb back to the tower, before coming to inform me of the humans' idiocy."

The green haired boy just rolled his eyes. Humans were just... so incredibly stupid at times.

Midoriya muttered, "Kyogre's blue; how on earth did they think that the Red Orb of all things was the key to controlling them?"

Uxie nodded, floating up to sit next to Midoriya, "Exactly. Even if they didn't know which orb to use, they could have just taken both orbs."

They sat there in silence for a while, before small, green vortex of light appeared, and Celebi appeared out of thin air, "Hi!"

"Hi, Celebi." Uxie looked at the time-travelling Pokemon, "What's going on?"

"Well, there's are Pokemon Catching contest in the forest by Shimane City." Celebi stated.

"And that's important... why?" Uxie asked, and Celebi replied, "Well, tonight, during the competition, some villains will use that opportunity to steal people's Pokemon, since they are only allowed to bring one of their Pokemon into the forest for the competition because of the rules. And that boy you like, he will be participating in that particular event, as well as his friends."

"Oh." Midoriya blinked. He was going to have to make a trip to Shimane City, then, though he had no idea how he was supposed to take care of the poachers when he wasn't sure where they were.

"You should go get used to the city." Uxie stated, almost as if they had read his mind, "Bring Lu with you. His aura abilities would be helpful in trying to figure out where they are. I'll go talk to Azelf to see if he has any other information."

Midoriya just nodded. Most legendary Pokemon were non-binary, though most people just like to call them genderless, but most of them do have gender identities that they prefer.