Jordinio Version - 16.1 (Patreon)

As it turns out, Graveler isn't the only one smarting over not coming out the top contender tonight.

While Butterfree didn't seem to give a crap at all, neither Pidgeotto or Fearow were at all pleased that they did not find Meowths old gang. They were the try hard birds after all, even a simple search mission was a competition for those two.
Possibly Zubat as well. Because, the bat perched on my shoulder and directing me towards my targets? His small form seemed a little bigger and more puffed out in the chest than usual.

'I think this is his first win since joining the team.' I mused, eyeing the bat on my shoulder out of the corner of my eye. Granted, this little mission was tailor made for him with his sonar abilities, but a win was a win.

It was probably pretty grating for him in a way. Going from the strongest of his flock in Mount Moon, to one of the weakest in my team. It was probably why he trained so hard over the last week.

Too bad Pidgeotto and Fearow had little problem putting him down in spars. But, once he evolved and put on a little more bulk, he'd get there, I'm sure!

Which reminded me. I should really look in to finding out how to teach Graveler Rock Polish and maybe Automize while I'm at it. If he wants to be Sonic the Golem in the future, then I'll make it happen.

'Ah, so much to do, so little time.' I withheld a sigh. The sooner Pidgeotto evolves into Pidgeot the better. There's only about eleven months until the Indigo League.

Call it wishful thinking. But, I want to go dominate it. But before that, there are a ton of pokemon I want to try and get my hands on. Which I can't really do reliably until Pidgeotto evolves.

I've got the money I need now to put my plans into motion, just not the pokemon.

And beyond all the pokemon from the anime I remember that I want, like the shiny Metagross in Sinnoh, there's a single specific pokemon I have a plan for that goes beyond merely being an incredibly rich and powerful trainer that can live the best life possible.
Honedge.

'The pokedex claimed it can drain peoples life force with the cloth hanging around its hilt.' I thought to myself, walking down the abandoned streets of Hollywood.

If it could drain life force. Was it then possible for it to pass that life force on to others? 'There's plenty of evil pieces of shit this world would be better off without.' I felt a grin spread across my face.

And their life force could be better used in the hands of an upstanding citizen like myself. I'd practically be doing the world a favour taking their life force for myself.

It was a win win situation. I get what may possibly be eternal youth, the evil pieces of shit get erased from the world. Everybody wins.

Except them. Which was a good thing in my book.

I put it out of mind as Zubat lifted his wing, grabbing my attention and motioned to a huge hill of junk rising up behind a few buildings. A junk yard, I'm guessing.

"Is that where they are?" I asked.

"Ka!" Zubat grunted and nodded his little furry head.

"Got it, good work." I praised him, reaching up to stroke his fluffy head.

The small flying and poison type grunted and merely ducked his head under his wing, but didn't actively push me away or recoil.

Progress is progress I suppose.

I made my way through the streets towards where I could see the massive hill of junk and soon found myself standing outside a massive junk yard. It was bordered entirely by a huge circular metal fence, but the gates of it were literally rusted to all hell and barely hanging on to the hinges keeping them up.

Leaving them wide open for me to just walk on in.

And just like the junk yard itself, it didn't take me very long to find my quarry at all.

After all, they were all lounging not far from the entrance, relaxing or sleeping on various piles of junk. I counted eight in total. Eight meowth that is.

Seven of them were spread around the piles of junk, while the eight lay at the very top of one junk pile atop a car, laying next to a much larger cream furred feline with a red gem on its forehead.

"Mrow Mrow!" Persian hissed at me as I entered the junk yard and began walking towards where they all lay strewn about. All the Meowth, at the sound of their leaders hissing leaped to their feet and began snarling at me.

They were warning me not to approach I assume. Probably also something about this being their turf or whatever.
The only one not doing so, was the Meowth that had been laying beside the Persian. 'Meowzie, I take it?' I grinned.
I don't at all feel threatened. How could I be after all? For all I wanted to catch this gang of cats, it wasn't for their strength.

Their leader got defeated by Meowth after all.

"How's it going kitty cats?" I greeted them all with a simple wave and smile.

Persian stopped hissing to give me an odd look, before jumping down from the car and getting closer and glaring at me, the gem on its forehead gleaming with crimson light.

"C'mon mate, don't be like that," I chuckled, crossing my arms, "I'm here with a great offer for you guys. Like, how would you like to live in an actual comfortable place and never have to worry about being hungry again?" I tossed the offer.
Persian paused in his hissing, head cocking to the side at my words.

"The names Jord, future strongest trainer in the world," I introduced myself casually, "How would you all like to become my pokemon? You won't even really have to battle much, only you Persian. In return, I'll make sure you're all well looked after and well fed."

Persian stared at me for a few moments, looking me straight in the eye, "Mrow?" the cat pokemon said.

I have no idea what it meant though. I could take a guess though.

"Are you asking how you can trust my words?" I guessed, then my smile stretched wider when Persian nodded his head, "For one, it doesn't cost me anything to look after you guys, in fact, the more pokemon I catch the more funds I get to look after you all. But, to sum it up, I can't really be the strongest pokemon trainer without the strongest pokemon, now can I?"

Persian digested my words for a moment before looking around at his subordinates, "Mroow mrow?"

It seemed to be asking its followers for their opinion. But in return, most of them gave a bunch of varying noises and nods. Apparently, from what I'm guessing;

They're leaving the decision up to Persian itself.

The only one that didn't reply, was the final Meowth sitting at the very top of that junk pile above. It, or rather she was just staring at me.

"Mrow, mrow?" Persian spoke up again, this time directly to Meowzie.

I saw her bite her lip and look away, "Myoth." she replies softly, and Persian frowned, shaking his head and turning back to me.

It looked like he was going to deny because of her. How annoying, "Come on now Meowzie, don't be like that," my mouth ran off before my brain could catch up. The female cat pokemon's head whipped around to stare at me wide eyed, "I'm not like that old lady that tossed you aside, who was only using you as a status symbol. I'm the real deal. Why not put your trust in me, and you and yours won't ever have to struggle just to find food to get by ever again."

I'm much less hesitant about revealing some of my knowledge to my pokemon. Simply because, very few people would be able to get understand anything pokemon said about me.

Persian paused as the female looked down at me, gaze hesitant, "...Mrow?" she asked something, voice low and just as hesitant as her gaze. But, there was a tinge of something else there.

Some hope maybe?

"I already have fifteen pokemon, adding you guys won't at all be a problem for me, once I catch you, you'll be transported to the Viridian Pokemon Centre and be able to live out your lives there in comfort alongside my other pokemon when not in my party," I replied, looking from her, to all the other Meowth and Persian before looking back up into the female Meowth's eyes, "I'll make sure you're well taken care of, all of you, I promise."

Meowzie stared at me for a few moments, before turning her face to look down at Persian and nodding.

"Mrow, mrow!" Persian grinned at them all before turning towards me and lifting one cream furred paw and pointing at Zubat on my shoulder, the nails on his paw glowing white and elongating out into claws.

What he meant was very easy to understand.

"You want to see how strong my pokemon are, huh?" I snorted before nodding. That was totally fine with me, "You up for it?" I asked the bat pokemon on my shoulder.

"Ka!" Zubat snorted and with a flap of his wings hopped off of my shoulder and lazily glided through the air to face Persian.

That seemed to be the signal for the battle to start. Persian gave a yowl and leaped through the air towards Zubat attempting to slash at him.

With a flap of his wings though, Zubat easily shot up into the air and avoided Persian.

Persian landed on the ground but didn't waste a moment after missing, turning around and clapping his front paws together, a small shock wave erupted from his paws and shot up towards Zubat.

Slash and now Fake Out, huh?

"Steel Wing." I ordered.

The dual poison and flying type's wings erupted into silvery white light and he slashed his wings out into the shock wave and tore right through it then sped downwards in a blur of speed.

Before Persian could react, one of Zubat's wings smashed into his face and sent the normal type cat skipping backwards across the ground.

I reached for my pokeballs, thinking it was done. But to my surprise, Persian flipped around to land on all fours, nails digging into the ground to stop him from going any further and his red gem was glowing brightly.

A moment later, a large red beam shot from gem, a corona of white energy surrounding it and shooting through the air towards Zubat.

I know that move as well!

"Block it!" I shouted quickly.

Zubat, wings still enshrouded with the power of Steel Wing crossed his wings over his body and took the Power Gem head on.

He struggled against the beam before losing ground and pushed up through the air by the attack.

The beam carried Zubat higher and higher before my pokemon gave a loud cry and pushed his wings out and physically pushing the beam up and above him to fly off into the air out of the distance.

"MROW!" Persian hissed loudly and began to rapid fire a bunch of Power Gems, though each beam was much smaller than the one fired before.

But were much faster.

Huh, I didn't know they could be fired like that.

To bad for Persian though, the extra distance created by the attack Zubat took initially, made it easy for him to fly higher up in the air and dodge around the attacks, getting closer with each one.

"Now, Hypnosis!" I ordered when he was close enough.

Spinning out of the way of another beam, Zubat flared out his wings to stop mid-air and the upper area of his face, where his eyes would be glowed with dark energy, before a series of ever enlarging rings of power erupted out and shot down towards Persian.

The normal type cat jumped backwards, dodging and juking from side to side as Zubat turned and aimed the hypnosis rings.

And to his credit, Persian did quite a good job of dodging for a good ten seconds. But, Zubat was simply faster and too used to now training against the speed demons that all of my pokemon were.

And before long, the Hypnosis attack washed over Persian. The normal type shook his head under the onslaught and tried to stay awake, but within seconds lost the fight against sleep and tottered to the side before slumping downwards in a heap and laying down.

I didn't waste any time and pulled an empty pokeball from my pocket and walked over, touching it to the sleeping normal type pokemon. The ball clicked open and enveloped Persian in a red beam of energy before sucking it inside.

It closed with a click and shook lightly for a few moments, before giving off a pinging sound. A moment later, the pokeball glowed white and disappeared, being teleported off to the Viridian Pokemon Centre.

The junk yard was silent for a moment, and I looked to see that all of the gathered Meowth, all eight of them were staring at me wide eyed, and seemingly not knowing how to react.

Good thing I was shameless enough to prompt them into action myself, "Alright boys and girl," I grinned at him and reached into my pocket and pulled out a bunch of empty pokeballs, "It's your turn. Line up in a nice and orderly fashion please."

They gave him odd looks and hesitated, but slowly some of them nodded and hopped down and approached me, allowing me to touch the pokeballs gently to them and capture them. And seeing their friends coming to me, it prompted the others to do so.

In two minutes, the last one remaining was Meowzie who looked a bit uncomfortable sitting in front of me, "There's a good girl," I bent down and gently stroked her head, "Don't worry, I wasn't lying, you and your friends will be well taken care of and be able to live comfortably, I've already got a few pokemon there that will show you guys the ropes and help you get settled in, okay?" I explained.

She stared up at me for a moment, before slumping slightly, the tension leaving her, "Mwow." she purred lightly, leaning in to my touch.

"Good girl." I praised her lightly, before tapping a pokeball to her and capturing her just the same as all her friends.
Moments later, she was teleported off to Viridian alongside her friends and I stood up, dusting off any dust that had accumulated on my person.

As soon as I did, Zubat landed on my shoulder, "Doing okay?" I asked, "That was a pretty powerful Power Gem you took." blocking it as he did was pretty amazing to see, but he would have still taken some damage.

"Ka." Zubat shrugged his wings, showing me the edges that were bruised purple a bit, but they were fine beyond that.

I nodded, "I'll get you fixed up at the Pokemon Centre soon," I promises before reaching up to stroke him under the chin, so he couldn't duck under his wing to avoid it this time, "Great work by the way, Persian was stronger than I thought he'd be but you handled him easily. You're gonna be a real power house in the future."

"Ka.." Zubat grunted against and looked away. But, if I'm not wrong and my eye sight isn't failing me.

I can totally see the fur on his cheeks flushing lightly. Huh. How odd to see something like that happening.

Chuckling, I pulled my hand away from his chin, stopping my little bullying of him and left the junk yard behind.

As I did, I pulled out my phone and checked out the pokedex app on it, bringing up my pokemon profiles to check out my new captures.

Interestingly, all of the Meowth's had the same ability and moves. Pick Up as an ability, with Scratch, Growl, Slash, Fury Swipes and Bite as attacks. The only real difference between any of them besides their general weight and sizes, was Meowzie being female.

Now Persian on the other hand. He looked to be a bigger catch than I initially assumed. I was only really going to capture him and his gang for collectors purposes.

But surprise, surprise. He's actually pretty strong. 'He actually has Technician as an ability, that's amazing!' I mentally cheered. Technician was such a great ability.

On top of that, his move pool was pretty impressive. Scratch, Growl, Slash, Fury Swipes, Bite, Fake Out, Power Gem, Taunt and Play Rough.

"How the hell did this guy ever lose against Meowth?" I couldn't help but gape. Really, it made no sense to me...except for the fact that Persian out of pure kindness took Meowth into his gang, taught him how to survive and made sure he lived.
Zubat gave me an odd look before grunting and going back to ignoring me.

And even when they met back up again, Persian wanted Meowth back in his gang. 'Could it be, that Persian actually took a dive?' I wondered.

Thinking on that, it made much more sense to me than Meowth managing to beat this Persian.

Well, Persian did basically raise Meowth, didn't he? Yeah the more I think on it like that, the more it makes sense.
What a big softie for a feline gang leader. No wonder Meowzie wanted him over Meowth.

Chad Papa Persian versus Virgin Rocket Cuck Meowth.

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself at the thought as I made my way back to the Pokemon Centre where I'd be staying for the night.