FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Pokémon or anything related to it, although it was pretty awesome if I did. However, characters and plot are mine. You can use them but let me know first and credit me for them ok?

Leon woke up next morning feeling incredibly tired. His sleep had been plagued with dreams about a big white thing that insisted on appearing fuzzy and unrecognizable and waking him up every two or three hours.

'Ahh, crap.' He thought. 'Won't be training much I guess. At least not in terms of sparring with Kairi.' He got up, rubbing the sleep off his eyes. He took a cold shower to try and wake up and he was much more alert after he stepped out. He quickly got dressed up, packed his backpack and exited his room with his stuff. He stopped by the lobby to pick up Kairi and Miles' Pokéballs, checked out of his bedroom and released his Pokémon.

'Morning guys! How are you feeling?' Leon asked.

Miles gave him a thumbs-up. 'I feel awesome!'

Kairi yawned. 'Slept horribly.' She said, rubbing her eyes. 'Kept having a dream about this thing, couldn't understand what it was.'

Leon stared at her, surprised. 'Seriously? Me too!' They headed towards the cafeteria.

Kairi looked at him, astonished. 'Wow, this is weird. Why would we have the same dream?'

Leon shrugged. 'Beats me.' They looked around the nearly deserted room, finding Allison waving at them, Bubbles and Mrs. Nido eating on the floor near her. Leon waved back and they went to her table. Leon sat across from Allison while Kairi and Miles joined Bubbles and Mrs. Nido. After ordering their breakfast, Leon and Allison started discussing their plans.

'So what do you intend to do?' She asked.

'Well, I was thinking about camping in the Forest for a few days then head straight to Pewter.' He said, thanking the waiter for his and his Pokémon's breakfast. 'What about you?' He asked, starting to dig in on his pancakes.

She shrugged. 'I don't know, maybe I'll hang around for a bit, battle a few more people and then I'll head for Pewter. I don't like the idea of staying in the Forest.'

Leon chuckled. 'Let me guess... Bug-type phobia?' He asked, raising an eyebrow.

'No! It's not that! It's just that...' She hesitated. 'Well, I feel a bit insecure outside. I've spent almost all my childhood stuck in the house reading books so I feel more comfortable here. I'd rather cross the Forest only when I need to.'

Leon looked at her, surprised. 'Oh, sorry about that.'

She shook her head. 'It's okay.' They ate the rest of their breakfast talking about this and that. Finally, Leon paid the waiter, stood up and offered Allison his hand.

'Well, we'll be going. See you sometime.' He told her. She took his hand and they shook. Then, Leon hung his backpack on his shoulders, Miles took his left shoulder and Kairi took his right one.

They left the Pokémon Center and stared at the wall of trees that rose before them. 'Well, ready or not here we go!' Leon said, walking into the green and brown mass. The forest was cool and quiet, any sounds muffled by the incredibly thick foliage. They walked for a couple of hours, trying to find a good clearing to set up camp. Here and there they could see a wild Pokémon, usually a Caterpie or a Weedle. Miles managed to get a glimpse of something bright yellow before it disappeared, which Kairi confirmed with her Aura Sight that it was a Pikachu. Fortunately, they weren't attacked by anything. Suddenly they heard a stream and headed towards the sound, finding a clearing some ten meters away from a small river.

'This is perfect! I declare this clearing our HQ!' Leon said, trying to put on a regal air. 'SO NO BUGS ALLOWED GOT THAT!?' He roared at the trees. Immediately a small army of Bug-types ranging from Caterpie and Weedle to Butterfree, who were carrying their immobile brethren, the Metapod, trooped out of the nearby trees and bushes, running for their lives. The only ones left behind were a few Kakuna that couldn't move and were staring them down expressionlessly. 'There! That does it!' Leon said, dumping the backpack on the ground and extracting the canvas disk that was his tent while Kairi and Miles laughed their asses off.

'That was brilliant!' Miles told him, wiping away a tear.

'I can be convincing when I need to.' Leon replied with a smile, unzipping the disk and setting the tent on the side of the clearing closest to the river. 'I just did it so we won't get uninvited guests for dinner. Luckily there weren't any Beedrill on the mix.' He said, setting the backpack inside the tent. He then turned around to the forest. 'Well, guess we should get firewood. I need one of you to stay in camp and fend off any bugs from our supplies. I suggest you stay Miles, since you're part Flying-type.' He told Miles.

Miles saluted him. 'Aye-aye captain! Just don't take too long. I get bored easily.' He said, flying off to roost on the top of the tent.

Leon chuckled and he and Kairi left the camp. They returned about ten minutes later with their arms full of dry branches and logs. They found Miles on the same place they had left him, playing with a stone.

'Hey guys! Look what I found!' He told them, showing them the stone. It was bright blue and translucid and there seemed to be air bubbles trapped inside.

'Oh I know what that is! Professor Oak had some of them around his lab!' Leon exclaimed. 'It's a Water Stone! Some Pokémon evolve by touching these. Apparently they're filled with some kind of mysterious power, although not much is known about it. I think Professor Rowan from Sinnoh is studying these as part of his evolution studies.' He shrugged. 'Or so I'm told.' Talking about Professor Rowan made Leon remember about what Professor Oak had told him about Kairi. He looked at her.

She noticed him and looked back at him, confused. 'Why are you so serious?' She asked, raising an eyebrow.

'Oh nothing.' He dismissed her. 'Let's build that fire. Miles, could you stash the Stone on my backpack please?'

'Sure thing!' Miles answered, flying inside the tent to place the Stone. Meanwhile, Kairi and Leon built the fire. When they had a nice pile of wood, Leon set it on fire. Once it had caught nicely, Leon turned to his Pokémon.

'Alright guys! Time for training! Miles, you've got Gust pretty much covered right?' He asked him.

'Yep.' Miles nodded.

'Good! Then you'll try...' Leon entered the tent, extracting something from his backpack. '...to master this one.' He said, showing them a small box and a silver disk with the number 47 stamped on it.

Miles and Kairi stared at the objects. 'Isn't that...?' Kairi began.

'The TM Loader, yeah.' Leon answered, taking the black device from the box and strapping it to Miles. 'I remembered that I received this with it.' He said, shaking the hand with the silver disk. 'This is Steel Wing. Miles can learn it. And,' He smiled. 'It's super-effective against Rock-types.'

'Awesome! Juice me up!' Miles said excitedly.

Leon chuckled, turning the device on. It lit up, displaying a message saying to insert the disk into the slot. Leon slid the Steel Wing into it. It loaded for a few seconds. Then it displayed the name of the move, its effects and two options, "Check Compatibility" or "Eject". Leon tapped on the "Check Compatibility" option and it loaded for a few more seconds. A ring sounded and a green box showing "Species Detected: Pidgey. Pokémon is a Match!" appeared on the screen. Again, two options appeared: "Learn" and "Eject". Leon hesitated as his finger hovered above the "Learn" option.

'You ready for it?' He asked Miles.

'Just do it already!'

'Alright alright.' He said, tapping the "Learn" option.

Immediately the device started to whirr and make electric noises. Then, a sudden discharge ran through the TM Loader and enveloped Miles, blinding Leon and Kairi.

'Miles!' Leon shouted, trying to see what was happening.

'What the hell!?' Kairi shouted, trying to be heard over the electrical current. 'What went wrong?'

'I don't know!' Leon shouted back.

Then, as sudden as it appeared, the electricity vanished, leaving Miles knocked out on the ground. Leon and Kairi ran to him, panicked.

'Miles! Are you ok!?' Leon asked, shaking him.

Miles' eyes shot open and he took off, flying straight upwards. 'YEEEEEEEHAW!'

Kairi and Leon exchanged an uneasy look. 'Oh Arceus, he's gone insane.' Leon commented, worried but relieved he was alive.

Miles had reached the peak of his flight and shot straight down, spiraling.

'What is he doing!?' Kairi exclaimed.

'Oh crap, he's gonna crash!' Leon said, rushing forward to catch him. A foot from Leon, Miles banged right, flying parallel to the ground straight at a tree, his wings glowing with a metallic silver light. 'What the...?' Leon muttered, astonished, as he saw Miles swipe a tree branch as thick as his arm with his left wing and then shoot up again. For a second nothing happened. Then, the branch fell to the ground with a loud crunch, its base cleanly cut off from the tree. Miles swooped back down and perched on his shoulder, cheering,

'Did you see that!? It was awesome! Arceus, and I did it! Woohoo!' Then he suddenly collapsed.

'Whoa, easy there!' Leon said, catching him in mid-air. Miles was lightly snoring. 'Wow, he passed out.' Leon said, going into his tent and gently putting him inside his sleeping bag. 'Guess that's part of the process.'

'It is.' Kairi said from the outside. Leon exited the tent. She had the instructions manual on her lap and was following something with her paw. 'It says here that the electrical current is necessary to convey the information to every cell on the body but that it doesn't leave any damage. Also,...' She looked up at him. '...extreme fatigue is an expected side-effect.' She noticed him giving her an amused look. 'What?' She asked.

'You look cute when you read.' Leon said, chuckling.

Kairi blushed, slightly embarrassed. 'Thanks. Professor Elm taught me.' She explained

'Oh, Professor Oak said you were hatched at his lab. How is he?' Leon asked.

'He's ok I guess. Slightly klutzy and forgetful but he's really nice.' Kairi answered, putting the instructions manual back into the box. 'Now that Miles is knocked out for the count, what are we going to do?'

'I was thinking we could try to make you learn Force Palm.' Leon answered, taking out his Pokédex. 'Huh, wait a second.' He said, inspecting the main menu. 'What does this do?' He asked to himself.

'What?' Kairi asked, curious.

Leon knelt down to her level so that she could see the screen. 'This.' He told her, pointing to an option named "Activate AI". 'I mean, I know what AI is, artificial intelligence, but, what will it do to the Pokédex?'

Kairi shrugged. 'Don't know until we try it.' She said.

'Good point. Okay, here goes nothing.' He pressed on the option.

A robotic yawn suddenly came from the black device, making Leon almost drop it. 'Took your time didn't you? I was almost afraid you wouldn't turn me on your whole trip. Pun intended.' A voice was heard, chuckling from its own horrible joke.

'Who the hell are you?!' Leon asked, holding the Pokédex as far away as possible.

'I'm your faithful Pokédex!' The machine answered happily. 'My name is Sigma! I'm the most advanced piece of equipment in Pokédex technology!' He said proudly.

'Oh. Okay. That makes sense.' Leon said. 'Wait, it doesn't. Why did Professor Oak give you to me!?' He asked Sigma.

'My creator Samuel Oak favors you. He thinks you could have what it is needed to succeed in this line of business called Pokémon battling.' Sigma explained. 'So, that means I'm a gift to help you do it. I'm here to give you any information on everything Pokémon-related from battle-oriented facts such as move description and type effectiveness to more general knowledge about each and every species of Pokémon recorded to date from habitat to how to handle them, physiology, eating habits, mating habits-'

'Okay, okay, I get it.' Leon interrupted the machine, slightly annoyed that it was talking so much.

'So, what may I be of use to you?' Sigma asked.

'Uh, I was trying to teach Kairi Force Palm. Leon answered, scratching his head. 'Got any tips?'

'Force Palm huh? Sure, hold on a sec.' Sigma said as he pulled up the Riolu entry and scrolled down through the movesets. 'Okay, here it is. The description is very simple. Basically the user discharges a shock wave with a palm thrust. The difficulty is in releasing this energy. Fortunately for you, Riolu and Lucario are two of the four Pokémon that have the least difficulty on learning this move due to their aura mastery, the other two being Meditite and Medicham, who use their part Psychic traits to help them utilize it. Any questions so far?' The Pokédex paused.

'Nope, keep going.' Kairi said.

'Unfortunately Kairi, it doesn't matter how advanced I am, Silph Co. still hasn't been able to create a Pokémon translator so I can't understand you.' Sigma said, sounding sad. 'But, judging from your tone, I can deduce you're following so far. Good.' He said, sounding cheerful again. 'Now, please assume a fitting posture to begin your training. Leon, if you would please position an appropriate training object for Kairi to hit on the clearing it would be perfect.' Leon nodded and grabbed a rock the size of his head that was on the edge of the clearing, setting it on the side farthest apart from the tent. Meanwhile, Kairi stood about ten feet away from the rock, focusing. 'Now, when you are ready Kairi, I would like you to run at it and thrust your palm with as much force as you can. Meanwhile, you should focus your aura energy on the palm of your hand. On the moment of impact you must release it all at once, in order to succeed. Any questions?'

'Nope, let's do this!' Kairi said.

'I assume you're ready, then. Now,' Sigma paused, a small robotic arm with a cylindrical camera on its end emerged from the front of the Pokédex. 'could you please point me to the scene Leon?'

'Uh, sure. Just a sec.' Leon said, directing the camera so that it caught both Kairi and the rock.

'Thank you. Now, on my mark, you'll try to use Force Palm on the rock. Imagine that it is Brock's Geodude if it helps.' Sigma told Kairi, a hint of mechanical laughter on his voice. Kairi grinned and nodded. 'Get ready! Three! Two! One! Go!'

Kairi ran, closing in on the rock in under a second. 'Hi-yah!' She yelled, thrusting her right palm as hard as she could against the rock. Nothing happened. 'OOOOOOOOOW!' Kairi cried out, holding her right paw. Apparently the rock had done more damage to Kairi than the opposite.

'Kairi! Are you okay?' Leon said worriedly, running to her.

'Yeah, just going to have an epic bruise.' She growled between clenched teeth.

Leon knelt down and took her paw between his hands, gently feeling it. 'Nothing seems broken or out of place. You were lucky, it could've been worse.'

'Tell that to my wrist.' She answered bitterly. 'Any ideas on what went wrong?'

After Leon translated her question to Sigma he spent a few seconds thinking. 'You may not be experienced enough to discharge your aura as easily as I thought. Do you meditate?' He asked Kairi.

'Uh... Not really, no. Should I?' Kairi answered.

'You should. Riolu and Lucario use meditation to improve their aura abilities.' Sigma answered once Leon had translated. 'They meditate by pushing their Aura Sight to the limit, trying to see farther away every time. Eventually they can see extremely far, sometimes reaching over five miles away. Records from the Sinnoan Civil War tell us that both the eastern alliance and the western alliance used trained Lucario as scouts in advanced outposts on Mount Coronet because they could sense the enemy on the other side of the mountain range.' He explained. 'Anyway, eventually they have a better understanding of how aura works and can control it more efficiently.'

'Okay, so less butt kicking, more meditation?' Leon asked.

'Sounds about right.' Sigma answered. 'For that you won't need my help. You have to find out for yourself what makes you concentrate.' He told Kairi, withdrawing his camera. 'So, if you'll excuse me, I'll turn myself off.' He informed them, the screen going black.

'Interesting little fellow isn't he?' Kairi asked.

'You could say that.' Leon paused. 'You should get meditating. Take the time you need, no point in rushing it. I could really take the time to sleep what I couldn't last night.' He said, yawning.

Kairi nodded, smiling. 'Okay you lazy Slowpoke. You can sleep. I'll be right here.' She said, climbing the rock and sitting cross-legged on top of it.

'If you need anything call me okay?' Leon told her, entering the tent.

'Okay!' She answered. Then she closed her eyes, her braids rising parallel to the ground.