Worthless Necessity: Project Pokemon [HitoZuku]

Chapter 3 - Shiny Stones and Emeralds

It had taken some time for Iida to pack his bag.

Actually, scratch that. It had taken almost forever for Iida to pack because he wanted to bring so many books and potions and antidotes just in case something happened, as well as berries, and a ridiculous number of spare glasses.

But finally, after what felt like an eternity, Iida was finally ready to go, and they could start heading to Mt Gunga. Tensei waved as Iida and Shinsou left the building, and turned to Valkyrie, who was just staring at the door forelornly.

"You okay, Val?" Tensei asked, and Valkyrie let out a sad chirp, scratching the ground.

"You want to go with Tenya, don't you?" Tensei asked, and Valkyrie nodded, as one of Tensei's Pokeball's snapped open, releasing his Skarmory. Tensei's Skarmory was much larger than Valkyrie, and he patted Valkyrie's head gently with his wing, pushing her towards the door.

"He should be either be in the city or on Route 2; I don't think he's gone too far yet. Go on." Tensei grinned, also urging her towards the door, "I'm sure he'll be happy to bring you along."

Valkyrie perked up, and screeched, waving at Tensei and his Skarmory with one wing as she took to the air and flew out of the gym, the automatic doors opening and closing in her wake.

"Well, come on, Shu. Let's get ready for the next challenger." Tensei spoke up, and Shu nodded.

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But first, they had to traverse through Route 2, and that route was full of trainers that wanted to battle, though with Vee's vast moveset and Aqua's evolution, it honestly wasn't too hard for them to beat all the trainers, though Aqua and Vee were both exhausted by the end of the battle. At least, they did get a fair bit of money as their winnings, and Plasma was having a blast scanning all the Pokemon.

Luckily, there was a Pokecenter right outside of Mt Gunga, so Iida and Shinsou decided to heal up their Pokemon while they were at it.

"Oh! Hey!" A familar voice rang out, and Iida and Shinsou both turned, noticing Uraraka and Koda waving at them, seated at one of the tables at the Pokecenter.

"Hallo!" Vee tiredly waved, and Iida smiled, "Hello Koji, Ochako!"

"Hi!" Uraraka waved, "Heal up your Pokemon first! We can talk later!"

After leaving their Pokemon with the Chansey at the counter, Iida and Shinsou sat down at the table with Uraraka and Koda.

"Don't you two live in Hosu City? On the other side of Mt Gunga?" Iida asked, "What are you two doing here?"

"Ah, my parents caught a Minccino for me as my starter a few months ago." Uraraka explained, "We've trained a little, and she's strong, and she's been really eager to evolve, though we're still training to get even stronger. And since she needs a Shiny Stone to even have a choice in evolving, but we can't just outrightly buy one, we're just searching around Mt Gunga for one. There's a few Clefairy here, and maybe one or two Clefable, so there's a pretty high chance that there are moon stones here. And maybe, if we're lucky, we could also find a Shiny Stone, since there were also people who found other evolutionary stones here there. Koji also wanted to explore Mt Gunga, and we decided it was safer to just explore together, you know. Safety in numbers and all."

Koda nodded in agreement, and the television near the table blared to life, and a Rotom spoke out, "Uraraka and Koda, right? Your Pokemon are ready for collection!"

"Thanks!" Uraraka grinned, and she and Koda move to stand up, before the Rotom seemed to notice Shinsou and Iida at the table, "Ah! Shinsou and Iida! You're Pokemon are ready too!"