Pokemon Cards Book One

Proving Your Worth!

"This is going to be so great! Who's coming with us so far?"

Froakie was talking excitedly and asking questions about our trip. All the team knew so far was when we were leaving and that our first stop was Toronto. We hadn't taken the chance to tell them anything else yet.

"I think we already mentioned Lilac. Aside from her, Jake, Desmond, Payton, Wilby, and Callen are also coming along." Greninja responded. "Our entire group is there, so not that much pressure, but you still need to behave."

"Okay, fine Dad."

"Shush."

"This is great! We haven't seen Wilby in a while! This is going to be so much fun!"

"It's only been a week-"

"He's excited. Let him blab." Cinderace grinned. "It won't hurt anyone."

We continued walking as Froakie talked excitedly about how we were going to ace all of the gyms. Vulpix tried to tell him that probably wasn't going to happen, but the little frog just wasn't having it. I admired his confidence, but I agreed with Vulpix. Gyms were supposed to be a challenge, and our team couldn't even beat the municipal league. I didn't say anything to Froakie though. I didn't want to ruin his mood for the rest of our walk.

Greninja, Frogadier, Froakie, Vulpix, Pikachu, Eevee, Popplio, Cinderace and I had all decided we needed some fresh air and gone for a walk. The sun was setting and we were headed back home now. Frogadier was carrying Popplio and they were trailing behind. Pikachu and Eevee ran up ahead, but not out of sight. Froakie, Vulpix, Cinderace, Greninja and I stayed in a group right where we could keep an eye on everyone.

"What do you think will be the hardest gym?" Froakie asked.

"Dragon type gym! We barely have anything to fight them with!" Vulpix replied.

"We have Clefable, Clefairy, and Dragalge. I think the electric gym will be the hardest."

"Because the team is mostly water types?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah, I guess we don't have a great variety of mons for the electric-" Vulpix got cut off there.

"Hey, what's this?" Froakie asked, picking up something he'd found on the ground.

"You dummy, can't you see it's a pokemon card?" Vulpix said. I took the card from Froakie and inspected it myself.

"Good find Froakie. We're lucky this isn't damaged. It's a greninja card." I said after a few moments. "We should let whoever's inside, out."

I released the greninja from their card, and they looked panicked. The first thing they did was look around frantically, probably for their trainer. It was just a regular greninja, a little shorter than mine. Nothing notable about them. He didn't seem to notice us. At the very least he wasn't acknowledging us.

"Hey, are you okay?" Cinderace asked. I tried to say something as well, but the new 'mon wasn't paying attention.

"Hey!" My greninja grabbed the other one by the shoulders, holding him still and shocking him for a minute. "Calm down! What's wrong?"

The other frog ninja said something in their own language, to which my greninja chuckled a bit and told him he hadn't stepped into an alternate universe where pokemon speak human language. After explaining the translator microphones, he went through the bag I usually carried with me and found a spare, then gave it to the other greninja.

"Hello?" He tested the microphone, and jumped back, startled. "What the-"

"See? Aren't they cool? Now our human can understand you!" Froakie grinned up at the new greninja, who only gave a slight nod back.