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Pokemon - The Tokko Adventures

Episode1 - Vacation in Ecruteak City

The phone was ringing way too early for a Saturday morning. Yui picked up the receiver and, lying back down on her pillow, mumbled, "Hello?"

"Good morning, Yui!"

She sighed deeply, her head sinking down. "Koji… it's seven in the morning. Why are you calling me?"

"I wanted to make sure you were awake," Yui's brother replied smartly.

"Well, I wasn't," Yui said. "Now… is there something else you want, or can I go now?"

"Yui, Yui, Yui…" Koji said disappointedly. "Don't you remember what you said you were gonna do today?"

She thought for a minute, her eyes blinking rapidly with exhaustion. "No…"

"You said you'd come over and see me!" Koji said. "I cannot believe you forgot…"

Yui's eyes widened a little. "That was today?" she asked loudly. The little green Pokemon that was sleeping on the other end of the bed awoke quickly, looking around the room for what was making her trainer yell. "Chikorita, go back to sleep," Yui whispered. Then, she got back to her conversation; "Well, did you have to call me so early?"

"Yup," Koji said. His sister sighed, getting ready to hang up the phone.

"Listen, call me later," she said, annoyed. "I'll get ready and come over, just… let me sleep."

She hung up. Koji stared at his receiver and, puzzled, put it down.

Later on that day, Yui packed a bag for herself with all the stuff she'd need to spend at least a week at Koji's; clothes, manga books, a sketch pad… all of her favorite things to do, just in case her brother got on her nerves. She had changed into one of her favorite outfits; a black tank top and a light purple mini-skirt. Chikorita bounced around her releasing a sweet scent, excited about leaving home for a change. Yui smiled softly at her pet.

"Now, it's just the matter of getting there," she mumbled to herself as she threw in one more pair of socks and zipped up her fluorescent pink pack. "Ecruteak's kind of far to walk…"

"What'cha up to?" asked a voice from the doorway. Yui looked up to see a man with warm red hair, like her own.

"Hi, Dad," she said excitedly. "I'm getting ready to go and visit Koji."

"Oh… that was today, wasn't it?" he said. "Well, if you want a ride…"

"Would you really?" Yui asked, jumping to her feet. "You never let anyone…"

"You're my daughter, Yui," said Lance. "Family gets special permission."

"Thanks so much!" Yui said, picking up her backpack. "Are you ready to go?"

Minutes later, Lance landed his Dragonite in front of Koji's house in the north parts of Ecruteak City. Yui climbed off, clutching her backpack tightly and helping a very shaken Chikorita down.

"That was so fun," she said. "Thanks again, Dad."

"Just call me when you want me to pick you up," Lance told her, repositioning himself on the giant dragon's back.

"I will!" Yui called as Lance took off into the wild blue. "Come on, Chikorita, are you ready to go see Koji?"

"Chiko…" she said, less than impressed. Chikorita didn't like Koji all that much and, due to the rude awakening, she was even edgier than usual…

"Aww, Chikorita," Yui said. "Don't worry; I'll keep him far away from your leaf this time."

"Rita."

Holding Chikorita in her arms, Yui kicked open her brother's door and bounded in. "Are you even home?" she called, letting Chikorita down to walk on its own. "Koji?"

"In here," he said from the next room. As usual, he was in front of his computer, probably chatting with some girl.

"Well," Yui said, holding her hands on her hips. "You invite me over, and decide to chat with your girlfriend all day? How very considerate."

Koji sighed, clicking down the tiny windows on his screen. "All right, I'll stop," he said, turning off his screen. "Well, hello Chikorita."

"Chiko!" she scowled, preparing her leaf for attack. Koji just grinned and patted her head. "Ya know, you really should start training this Chikorita, Yui," he said. "It's still mean to me."

"Well, what do you expect; you tried to take off her leaf!" Yui snapped, picking up her Pokemon and sitting down on the couch. "Of course you'd expect her not to like you."

"That was… a long time ago, Chiko!" Koji said. "Can't you forgive me?"

"Chiko." It said bluntly, meaning "Not on your life."

Koji frowned. "Fine," he said. "So Yui… still into my gym leader friend?"

Yui blushed, hanging her head a little bit. "You shut up," she said. "And what do you mean by friend?"

"Oh, I talk to Morty all the time," Koji bragged. "He's a good friend of mine here."

"HE IS NOT!" Yui yelled, shooting up and knocking poor Chikorita onto the floor. "A guy like him would never ever want to speak to someone like… like my brother!"

"Want me to prove it?" Koji said. "I'll call him; he can come over and meet his stalker…"

"Don't call him over here!" she screeched. "And I am NOT his stalker! I just happen to like him! Koji, don't call him!"

"Too late," her brother smirked as the phone dialed the number. Yui could hear a deep male voice on the other line… and from all of her taped Ecruteak Gym battles, she knew exactly whose it was…

"Hey, Morty! …Duh, Koji! Listen, I need you over here… I know, but someone really wants to meet you… you will? Great! See you soon!" And he hung up.

"You are so cruel," Yui said. "Do you have a closet where I could hide?"

"Not a clean one," Koji said. "Come on, Morty's your dream guy! Why are you so scared to meet him?"

Yui stopped; Chikorita looked up at her with a confused face. "Because… I love him," Yui said, "and I don't even know him."

"Aww," Koji sighed. "Yui, you don't love him. You're hopelessly obsessed with a cute celebrity, like most girls your age. Get over it!"

She frowned. "Whatever. I'll… try to speak to him."

Suddenly, a knock at the door made Yui jump ten feet in the air. Koji smiled slyly at her, and went to answer the door. Minutes later, her brother returned to the room with… him. The actual living, breathing Morty Avalon.

"Well, this is certainly a surprise," he said while stepping up to Yui. "So, you're the one who wanted to meet me, huh?"

Yui stopped dead. "I… I…"

"What's wrong?" Morty asked. "You seem a little bit… nervous."

"Oh… It's nothing, I just… You're Morty!" she blurted.

Morty looked at her strangely. "Last time I checked, anyway," he joked. "What's your name?"

"Y…y…Yui." She stopped there, not wanting to sound stupid any longer.

"Well, Yui, you seem to already know me pretty well," he said, sitting down next to her on the couch. Yui almost toppled over, her face blushing like crazy. She turned away from him a little bit to hide her flushed face.

"This could be fun, huh Chikorita?" Koji asked. "Hey, Chiko, wanna go for a little walk? Let these two get to know each other?"

"N…" Yui almost protested, but Koji cut her off. "Let's go, Chikorita," he said, making his way out the front exit with Yui's Pokemon in tow. She smiled evilly and waved her leaf in Yui's direction. Morty just kind of sat there, looking incredibly confused.

Yui frowned. "Stupid Koji," she mumbled.

"Are you okay?" Morty asked. "Is there something wrong?"

"No," Yui sighed. "It's just that my brother can get really annoying at times."

"Yeah, siblings are like that," Morty said. "I have three… two older brothers and a twin sister. Now there's annoying."

"Three? How did you live through your childhood?"

The two of them laughed out loud, and soon they got into a huge conversation, talking about anything and everything. Yui slowly became less nervous and more used to being around him; it was hard, since she had liked him for longer than she could remember, and had just met him now… but she grew into it. Soon, it felt like she had known him for a long time as they talked and laughed it up.

"So, is that Chikorita yours?" Morty asked out of nowhere.

"Yuh-huh," Yui said, still snorting with laughter. She sounded stupid, but she hardly cared.

"Do you train any other Pokemon other than her?" he asked.

Yui stopped laughing. "I'm not a trainer," she said. "I just keep Chikorita as a pet."

"Seriously?" Morty said. "You should be a trainer! You're such a great and caring person; Pokemon would love to have you train them!"

Yui blushed again. "Yeah right," she said. "I'm already sixteen. There's not much chance of me becoming a trainer now."

"I can help you with that," Morty said. "I'm a Gym Leader… I have connections with the League. We could get you registered… say, today, if you wanted it."

"T…Today?" Yui stammered. "Well…"

"If you don't want to, I'd understand," Morty said. "I mean, if you're sixteen already, there must be a reason why you haven't started training."

Yui stopped then. This was a very good point Morty was bringing up. Why hadn't she started her training yet? She was old enough, perfectly capable of traveling, and she had a great beginner's Pokemon. So why wasn't she out there?

Oh yeah… She was the daughter of the Elite champion. Duh! She couldn't be caught out there training… if anyone found out, they could use that as their advantage to get inside of the Plateau. It was too much of a risk, Lance had said.

But then again, who would find her? Nobody knew who she was… she had been living in secret all her life…

"It's not that I don't want to," she said. "I just… have to get permission from my dad first."

Morty smiled widely. "You're kidding."

"No, really, Morty," she said. "You think you have League connections… I live at the Plateau. I'm Lance's daughter!"

Morty blinked once. "I should have known that," he said stupidly. "I knew Koji was related to Lance…"

"And you forgot?" Yui asked, smiling. Morty sweat-dropped and Yui fell over laughing, her head landing absently on his lap. He looked down at her, giggling her heart out, and laughed himself. When Yui finally stopped, she realized where she was lying and shot up, blushing furiously.

"I think I'm going to start training," she said. "You're right. I should be training Chikorita instead of keeping her confined as a pet forever. I'll call and ask my dad right now! You get Koji and Chikorita in here!"

Yui dove for the phone, and Morty didn't protest against his orders. He walked outside as Yui dialed the number to Lance's phone line (each Elite trainer had their own phone line).

"Yes?" he questioned into his receiver.

"Hi, Dad!" Yui blared happily. He pulled the phone away from his ear and blinked.

"What's up? Do you want to come home already?" he asked. "Are you already annoyed with Koji?"

"No, not at all!" she said. "Well… yes, I'm annoyed with him but when am I not?"

Lance laughed. "Go on. What is it?"

"I want to start training!" she announced straightforwardly. "I actually want to be outside for a change instead of being locked in the Plateau all the time…"

"Yui, we discussed this," Lance said, his tone changing from buddy-buddy to serious. "If anyone ever finds out whom you are… the Rockets, for example…"

"How will they find out?" she asked as her brother, Morty and Chikorita came back into the room. "Nobody has ever seen me. Whenever you battle, I'm on the sidelines. I've never been on TV. They wouldn't find me out unless I told them."

"You have been seen on TV before with me," Lance said. "I'm very worried that someone will want to hurt you just to get to me. I don't want you endangered like that."

"Nobody will know," she pleaded. "Please let me go. I really want this!"

There was a pause on the other line. Morty, Koji and Chikorita stared as Yui clutched the receiver, waiting for any response. Finally, Lance's voice came out. "Yui… I can tell this is really what you want. I'll have your Pokedex brought to you immediately."

"REALLY?!?" Yui exclaimed. "Thank you, Dad!! Thank you so much!!"

"No problem," he said. "Stay there. I'll bring your Pokedex over now… Chikorita's not a problem since it's already registered to you."

"Yay!! I love you, Dad! You're the best!" she said. "Bye!"

She hung up the phone, and ran to pick up Chikorita. "We're finally going training!" she said.

"Chiko!" it said as its eyes lit up. Yui hugged her and put her down on the couch, then threw herself into Morty's arms.

"Thank you for bringing this up," she said. "If it weren't for you, I never would have realized that this is what I really wanted to do."

Morty looked down at her, astonished, his cheeks slowly reddening. "T..thanks," he said, hugging her back softly. "I'm glad to help… I guess."

"Oh, ignore her," Koji said. "She gets this way around guys she likes."

"I figured," Morty said, looking down at her with a blushing smile. "She's a great girl."

"Heh, just try being related to her," Koji said. "Or better yet, try sticking around her for a long time. That's really difficult. She gets really annoying."

"Hey," Morty thought to himself, looking at Yui whom had gone back to dancing with Chikorita. "Not a bad idea."

Later on that day, Lance dropped by Koji's again with a couple of things for Yui; not that she didn't have enough already. He also brought her Pokedex and a few PokeBalls, and a belt for equipping her PokeBalls. The belt was black, so it would pretty much match with anything she decided to wear. She put Chikorita's PokeBall on the belt with all her empty ones, and held her Pokedex in her pack with all of her other things. In an instant, she was all ready to go. Now, it was just the matter of decided exactly where she would start training.

"You could just start here in Johto," Koji said. "It's not that difficult of a league. You might be able to get through it."

"Koji, remember that it was difficult for you because you had started in Kanto before," Lance said. "Johto, in fact, is a very challenging league. It might be better off for Yui if she started in the Tokko league."

"Where's that?" Yui asked.

"The Tokko league is just north of Johto,' said Lance. "In fact, Starlet Town, the beginning city of Tokko, is directly north of Ecruteak City. You can get there easily right now, it shouldn't take you more than a few hours. The Tokko League Gyms just opened up recently, so it's a fairly new league. It shouldn't be too challenging."

"All right then! It's off to Tokko for Yui!" she announced. "Is then anything else that I'll need?"

"Just one more thing," Lance said. "Be very careful. I know I can trust you… I'm just worried, that's all."

"I know," she said. "I will be careful. Bye, Dad."

She gave him a hug, and proceeded to hug Koji. "Bye," she said. "Thanks for being so close to Tokko," she added smartly.

"Yeah. No problem," he said sarcastically. They both laughed, and Yui looked up and around for the last person to say goodbye too. "Hey, where's Morty?"

"He left," Koji said. "Said there was something important to do."

"Oh…" Yui said, utterly disappointed. "Well… Next time you see him, tell him I said goodbye."

"I will," Koji said. Then, he added jokingly, "Want me to kiss him for you too?"

Yui's cheeks blushed. "I told you to leave me alone," she said. "I'd ever stand a chance with a great guy like Morty. Besides, he's my friend now and I doubt we'll ever be anything more."

Yui started walking then, looking back to wave every few seconds. There was a small path north of Ecruteak, behind the two towers. She took the path and began walking, planning to call her father as soon as she reached Starlet Town.

"Luna… I have to ask you a really big favor," Morty said, sitting in the living room with his twin sister. She smiled, put down her cup of hot chocolate and stared him down. "What now?

"I need you to… take the gym off my hands for a little while," he said. "You're just as capable a ghost trainer as me, so you can be the leader for a while."

Luna's eyes lit up bright enough to blind an Onix. "Really?" she squeaked. "Great!! But.. Why?"

"It's hard to explain," he said. "I think I may have found my ideal."

"That's great!" she said. "Mom and Dad said we'd be meeting our matches soon. Who is she?"

"Koji's little sister," Morty said. "Her name's Yui."

"Yui… Oh, her! I've seen her at the Plateau and at some conventions with her dad," Luna said. "She's pretty."

"You're not kidding," Morty said. "But I have to go. She's starting her training today and I have to catch her before it's too late."

"All right. I hope she really is who you think," Luna replied. "I'll see you later, Morty. Thanks again."

"Yeah," he said. He ran, through a bunch of things together, and took off like a shot back to Koji's house. Lance and Yui were already both gone.

"Yo, Koji!" Morty called, knocking on the door. Koji strayed from his computer screen for a second to talk to his friend. "What, Morty? I'm… busy!"

"I see," Morty said slyly. "Chat rooms again?"

"Shut up," Koji said, blushing profusely. "What do you want?"

"Where's Yui? Did she leave?"

"Yeah," he said. "She went north to Tokko."

"Tokko, huh? Thanks, man," Morty said, quickly bolting toward the north end of town. Koji sighed, and went back to his computer screen.

Yui reached Starlet Town just as the sun was beginning to set. It was still fairly warm outside, and a couple of wild Pidgey flew past the darkening horizon. Yui sighed… it was really nice to be in a new, beautiful place like this. She looked around; there were not very many buildings. A couple of houses, a Pokemon Center… but the biggest of all was the Pokemon Lab. Yui came to the conclusion to stay at the Pokemon center for the night, and drop by the lab in the morning to find out where she had to go. So, ever so quietly, she slipped into the Pokemon center, making sure not to wake anyone who might be asleep.

"Hello?" Yui whispered. She was answered by a pink-haired nurse with her hair done up in two little rings.

"Hi, good evening!! What can I do for you?"

"I'm going to start training in Tokko tomorrow," Yui said. "Would I be able to stay here for the night?"

"Of course," said the lady, Joy, perkily.

"Thank you," said Yui. After quickly running to get changed into nightwear, she curled up on a small couch by the fireplace, and covered herself with a pink blanket that was sitting there.

"I sure hope I can do this," she thought, snuggling up against the backrest of the couch. And just as she was falling asleep, the door crashed open and somebody else ran inside. Yui looked up, ready to give whoever it was the bitching-out of a lifetime.

"Ah! Yui, you're here!" said Morty. Yui blushed, and almost sunk back down onto the couch,

"Morty? Why are you all the way in Tokko?" she questioned. "Aren't you a gym leader?"

"Well… Yes," he said. "But my sister agreed to watch the gym. I want to come with you."

Yui blinked, and her cheeks went just as red as her hair. :W…why would you want to do that?"

"Well," Morty said, sitting next to her, "to name just a few reasons, I want to make sure you're all right. I really like you. And, I need to get some training in myself… Please let me come?"

"I'd love for you to come!" Yui blurted. "I mean… Of course, Morty."

He breathed a long sigh of relief. "Thanks," he said. "You don't know how much this means to me."

"Believe me, it means a lot to me too," Yui said. "Now… I just want you to do one last thing for me."

Morty blushed. "What's that?" he asked.

Yui smiled. "Move. I want to go to sleep."

"Oh…" Morty quickly sat up from the couch, watching as Yui sprawled herself across it. "Good night, then, my traveling companion."

"Good night, mister drama-queen," she said, turning around to face the backrest. Morty sweatdropped and sat down on a huge armchair by the fire and fell asleep almost instantly.

To Be Continued…

Author's Notes: Hi!! Well, there it was, Episode 1!! I hope you liked it… I'm really going to try hard to go through with this story. I think it's going to be great! I hope you all bear with me…