001: Just My Luck-xio!
"Lucas! Hurry up ma' boy!" Professor Rowan yelled out to his assistant, who was running along behind holding all sorts of charts and graphs in his arms. Every step he took he seemed to drop one of the large scrolls onto the ground, where he would stop, pick it up and continue running after the slowly walking professor.
"Ah, yes uh, I'm coming sir!" Lucas yelled back nervously. The two were travelling west across Route 201 from Sandgem town, heading towards Lake Verity.
It was still early morning, around ten o'clock, and the orange light of the rising sun reflected off of the morning dew, slowly dripping from the trees. The wispy clouds were bright pink, and the puddles of water along the trodden track reflected this pink colour.
Rowan and Lucas had been walking for little over an hour, and they expected to reach Lake Verity any minute now. The professor was very interested in Lake Verity, due to the rumour of the legendary Pokemon Mespirit taking refuge here, a rumour the professor believed to be true.
As planned, they arrived not a minute later, looking over a glistening blue lake, completely still but for the leaves dancing across the waters' surface in the wind.
"Alright Lucas, we can set up here," The professor calmly ordered, still looking out at the lake. Lucas placed the sheets of paper on the ground, and spread them out across the grass, shining with the morning dew. He placed a rock on each corner of the sheets so to keep them from blowing off in the breeze.
"Do you really think we could see one, Professor?" Lucas asked excitedly.
"I am certain about nothing," he replied, dampening Lucas's sprit. "But I am certain that they do very much exist." Lucas smiled, and stood up, too looking out at the mysteriously beautiful lake. "Magnificent, isn't it!" Rowan spoke calmly. "All of Sinnoh, all of the world is beautiful, but what no one seems to ask, is how was it created." Rowan now turned to Lucas and smiled.
"And, and you think that they had something to do with the world's creation?" Lucas conveyed.
"A possibility we are here to research," Rowan said, walking over to the maps spread over on the ground, viewing the charts. "Today Lucas, is the summer solstice," Rowan started. "Do you know what that means?"
"Ah," Lucas thought. "Yes sir! It is the day that the moon is closest to the Earth!" Lucas beamed excitedly.
"Correct, but not my correct answer. Today is also the day that the dimensions of the universe are closest together. And the walls of reality are at its weakest." Lucas was shocked at the Professors theory, though he surprised Lucas regularly.
"Where Professor, did you learn that?" Lucas asked inquisitively. Rowan smiled and looked at him.
"You are not my first assistant Lucas, but you are my favourite," Rowan smiled, before looking out at Lake Verity again. He admired the beauty, the calm, and the silence, which was soon broken as loud squawking sounds came from the sky above.
Rowan and Lucas looked above to see a flock of wild Starly diving beak first.
"Professor, look out!" Lucas called as he jumped into Rowan, pushing them both out of the way of the Starly's attack.
"Starly attacking humans!" Rowan yelled distressed. "This is unheard of!" While Rowan hid behind Lucas, Lucas took a Pokeball from his belt and pressed the button enlarging it.
"Mag! Go!" Lucas threw the Pokeball, which span out at the Starly, hit the ground, opened and bounced back into Lucas's hand. Where the ball had opened, there was a red light, which morphed into a Magby.
"Magby!" The baby Pokemon cried out.
"Alright Mag, use Ember!" Lucas yelled out to his Pokemon.
"Mag Mag!" Magby opened its' mouth to reveal a small flickering flame, which then exploded out of it's snout into the flock of Starly. Most of the bird Pokemon were burnt, and fled, but at least ten still remained. They charged at Magby, who began to panic.
"Magby! Smoke Screen now!" Lucas called out. Magby closed it's eyes, and then a black plume of smoke erupted from its' snout, covering Lucas, Rowan and itself. One of the charging Starly stopped and used its' wings to blow the smoke away into the air, while the rest continued to charge.
'Magby!" Magby cried in fear, as it closed its' eyes waiting for the flock of wild Starly to attack. But before they could, a four-legged Pokemon jumped into the battlefield, and from its claws a zap of lightning shot out into the flock of Starly, which were electrocuted into fainting.
"What! What happened?" Lucas said, covering his eyes to protect them from the brightness of the lightning. He turned to see a tall, slim boy with messy brown hair, blue jacket, black shirt and knee length black trousers step out of the tree line.
"Good work, Luxio!" The trainer called out to his Pokemon, beaming. One Starly managed to stand up straight again, and proceeded to squawk loudly at the trainer's Luxio. "We're not finished yet, Luxio. Now! Use Spark!" The trainer threw his arm out in front of him, pointing his index finger at the Starly. His Luxio started to run forward towards the Starly, its claws beginning to create large sparks. As the Starly dived towards the electric Pokemon, the Luxio jumped upwards and expelled a vast amount of electricity from its' entire body, creating a bright light which Lucas and Rowan had to look away from to shield their eyes.
The Starly's eyes began to spin in its' head, then it collapsed to the ground.
"Yeah! Great work, Luxio!" The trainer called out to it's Pokemon, which ran back up to its' trainer and pounced up into his arms smiling.
"Well, uh, thankyou boy!" Rowan said to the trainer, a little surprised.
"No worries!" The trainer replied. "You were really lucky I was nearby otherwise you guys or your Magby could have been really badly hurt!"
"Mag, Magby," Magby said from afar, lying on the ground.
"Magby, return!" Lucas said, pointing his Pokeball at the injured Pokemon, which turned into a red energy like light, and flew back into the Pokeball. "I'm Lucas, and this is Professor Rowan. We are scientists from Sandgem Town who have come to study Lake Verity."
"Yeah, I know who you are. I'm Jason! I'm from Sandgem Town too!" The trainer said beaming. "And this is Luxio, he's been my pal since I can remember."
"Luxio!" The Luxio cried happily.
"Are you taking the Gym Challenge, son?" Rowan asked, scratching his white beard.
"No, I'm not," Jason said looking at his feet. "Me an Luxio are just good pals, nothing else to it."
"Really!" Rowan said, smiling in thought. "Well then Jason, I have a job you may be interested in, meet me in my laboratory this afternoon."
"Sure thing!" Jason said, smiling. With that Rowan and Lucas, carrying the scrolls of paper, left Lake Verity and travelled back to Sandgem Town.