1-2 Disturbance​

"Oww, has nobody got anything to say?", Inquired a young looking blue haired boy.

Izzy looked around, unsure whether or not he should answer.

"I've got something to say, runt!", said another trainer whom also looked like he was very young.

The two trainer's argument began, and Izzy decided to move back a little. Crouching he grabbed his pack, and hoisted it up. Quirk had been too fixated on the trainers than the fact that he was being lifted up with the bag.

Just as he did, a boy that looked about his age tripped and fell over his Pokémon.

"Are you all right?" , A female trainer who was closer to the door asked.

They began to talk as well, this prompted Izzy to take his leave; a short walk couldn't hurt, and it was much better than getting caught up in the nonsense the two younger trainers were getting into. Izzy walked out the door to the main hallway, thinking of something he could do to pass the time.

I know what I can do! Izzy thought to himself, I'll go pick some berries for the trip! Izzy exited the building, Quirk still riding on the top of his bag. They made their way through town heading for the berry fields. The town was still a fairly lively place, the bustling of the people, trying to finish unknown amounts of work.

Soon he had made it to the berry patches, the wild Pokémon were all playing around, enjoying the day. There was a sign near the entrance of the area (Trainers are allowed to Pick 3 berries, any more than three they will have to plant the extras back. Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day.) Izzy read the sign, 3 he thought, that's a pretty good amount.

He looked around for a healthy looking Oran bush. He soon found what he had been looking for, The Bush had plenty of berries on it, Izzy leaned into the bush looking for berries; He found two ripe berries, Now for the last, he thought to himself. As Izzy was looking through the bush, The small grey Pokémon from earlier wandered up beside him. Quirk looked down, seeing the Pokémon, He prepared to jump off of Izzy's pack.

"Found another one!" Izzy said, feeling accomplished.

Just then Quirk Jumped off of his bag hissing and running a short distance away,
"What's up Qui…" Izzy had laid eyes on the Pokémon standing next to him, he froze, not wanting a repeat of earlier events. The small Pokémon looked at Izzy's hand where he was holding the Oran berry he had just picked. It reached up and tugged on his pants.

"Esp, esp, Espurr?" The Pokémon sounded as if it wanted the berry Izzy had in his hand.

"Oh! You just want the berry?" Izzy said, hoping that when he gave the Pokémon the berry it would scurry off.

"Esp, Espurr", The Pokémon gleefully said, most likely thanking him for the berry.

The Pokémon stood there, and began to take small bites of the berry. Izzy decided to think nothing of it, just as long as he wasn't knocked over again. He looked through the bush for another berry, this time he could keep it. He looked over to Quirk who was wearily watching the joyful grey Pokémon.

"I grabbed some Berries for later, let's get back to the lab." Izzy crouched down, allowing Quirk to get on.

Quirk got on and took his usual place on the pack. They began walking into town. As Izzy was walking, He felt Quirk stand up, and shift himself around on the backpack. He looked back to see that the small Grey Pokémon was following a few meters behind. He stopped, hoping that the little critter would just walk on by, or maybe even detour off the road.

"Esp, esp, esp, esp, esp." The small grey Pokémon continued to walk towards Izzy still nibbling on the berry he had given it. It stopped right next to Izzy.

Izzy looked at the Pokémon, unsure what to do; ultimately he decided that, the little Pokémon was doing no harm by following him at the moment. So they continued into town, the small Pokémon following all the way.

Once he had made it back to the Lab Izzy looked at the small Pokémon,
"I don't know if you're allowed in here, and I don't want you to get in trouble. Would you mind waiting outside for a few moments?"

The small Pokémon, looked at him, it nodded and happily replied, "Espurr".

Izzy Figured that meant yes, so he left the small grey Pokémon, and proceeded inside. Once he had made it back inside, He began to walk back to the meeting room.

Izzy hoped that when he got there the earlier argument would be over and he hadn't missed out on talking to Lyra.​

Kaizen Yukimura -Prof. Lyra's Laboratory-
Cianwood City​

Kaizen Yukimura & Hikaru Morioka - Outside Doors of Prof. Lyra's Lab (Cianwood City) ; Day​

"No Backing Out Now..."​

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1-3 Ex-Espurr-ation and D-Espurr-ation!​

Izzy had just re-entered the lobby of the research lab, and he was on his way back meeting room to wait for professor Lyra. Just then, an all but too familiar feeling came to him; something was tugging at the left leg of his pants. He turned, and without hesitation, he crouched to come face to face to a curious looking Grey Pokémon.
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"Hmm, you are a persistent little creature aren't you" Izzy chuckled, taking his chances and patting the Pokémon on its head.

"Esp?" the small Pokémon questioned.

"Well if you're going to tail me around everywhere I'd best give you a name for right now… Hmm… How about Eri?" Izzy inquired.
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"Espurr" Eri agreed; Quirk, who had been wearily watching over Izzy's head, jumped down. He sniffed Eri, almost as if inspecting the small Pokémon for hidden weapons. Once he was done, he turned around, and jumped back on top of Izzy's bag, for the moment he had decided to tolerate the small Pokémon it seemed.​

Izzy stood back up, turning towards the meeting room, but Eri Tugged at his pant leg once again, pointing towards the exit. Izzy stood there for a moment, watching the front door. He then turned towards the door and began to head back outside, why waste such a glorious morning waiting inside, he figured.
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"Looks like we are in for a grand tour Quirk" He said, glancing back at Quirk, who stared back with a bored look.​

Once they exited the building, Izzy saw the two older trainers who had been in the meeting room before, in the midst of a battle. The professor must not be there yet, he thought to himself, knowing that it would be best to avoid a room full of restless trainers as well. Eri, was just ahead of Quirk and Izzy, cheerfully leading them down the road to the right, further into the complex.​

To his surprise, the deeper they got into the complex, the more Pokémon friendly it seemed to get; Every thing became rather overgrown on either side of the path. There was a rather large, heavily vegetated grove just ahead of where the three currently were. Eri ducked into the grove, turning to wait for Izzy and Quirk. Judging from how overgrown the grove was, Izzy decided that it would be best to leave his bag outside.​

"Well Quirk, we're going to have to leave the bag here, so unfortunately you're going to have to get off." Izzy advised, crouching to let Quirk off, and placing his backpack under a nearby tree.
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They began to make their way through the heavy outer growth of the grove, Izzy just behind Eri with Quirk following up the rear. Soon they broke through, revealing a rather well concealed clearing. Izzy Ran into Eri, He looked down, and saw that the small Pokémon was frozen in place staring straight ahead. Izzy looked up; there stood a figure, standing so still, that he could have easily mistaken it for a statue.
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There was something wrong; He'd seen this somewhere before, but where? Suddenly the thought struck him like a ton of bricks, this was the same figure he had seen standing on the boat to Cianwood city. At about the same time Quirk began to hiss loudly. The statue moved lifting its right arm, Eri and Quirk began to float in the air.​

"Leave them alone! Whatever your business with me doesn't concern either of them!" Izzy shouted, advancing towards the Pokémon that had a hold of his friends.​

Suddenly, materializing from nowhere, an invisible pain shot up Izzy's spine to his head. The pain was immense; he struggled to turn his head towards Quirk and Eri. Izzy managed to get a brief glance at his friends, who were at the moment floating uncontrollably, but unharmed. His vision began to blot out, he couldn't escape, frozen standing in place, Izzy Passed out.​

His eyes opened, the area was blurry, but it looked as if he were on a mountainside. He couldn't move his head for some reason, but the picture slowly began to become clear. He was standing on a rather small cliff, and below him, Izzy could make out several objects. A Graveler was tending to a Geodude, while a figure laid 5 feet away from them. The Figure was that of a young boy, he looked like he was unconscious and bleeding badly. A few feet away there was an extremely rough looking bike, lying on the ground, with its front rim vaguely resembling that which it used to be.​

Suddenly he looked up, scanning the distance, still unable to control his movements, Izzy just tried to spot anything unusual. Something was moving in the distance, he began to focus on it, trying to figure out what it was.
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"There!" an invisible omniscient voice rang out.​

Izzy could clearly see what the moving object was in the distance, It was a trainer, walking behind them was, what looked like a Sandshrew.​

Outside of Izzy's vision, Quirk and Eri were struggling to get back to the ground. They both showed concern for Izzy, who stood in front of them, almost frozen in time. Eri looked at the mysterious Pokémon, not knowing what to do; it began to lift its ears.​

"Espurr!" Eri Lifted Its ears, an invisible shockwave emanated out, and a rather large area was covered.​

Izzy, Quirk, and the strange Pokémon were thrown several meters from Eri. The strange Pokémon broke its concentration, which allowed Izzy to wake up. As he opened his eyes, he laid his to his right, silently watching the mysterious Pokémon. It was still standing, motionless about a meter and a half from where it had been before, Eri stood about 5 meters away, laboriously huffing and puffing. The little creature was obviously extremely exhausted from the previous attack; regardless Eri began to charge toward the stranger. Before its attack could connect, the strange Pokémon lifted its left arm.
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"Xatu" It emotionlessly said, just like at the boat.
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The stranger disappeared, leaving Eri standing in its wake; Eri turned, and hurried towards Izzy.
"Esp… Esp… Esp… Esp…" The little Pokémon looked like it had just fallen down a hill, and sounded as if it had just run a 5k in 10 minutes.​

Eri sat next to Izzy, trying to catch its breath. The Bushes behind them began to rustle, Quirk emerged roughed up but raring to go. He looked around seeing so sign of the strange Pokémon, he relaxed. Quirk then moved over to where Eri and Izzy were, and lay down next to Izzy.
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Izzy stayed still for several minutes, his whole body in pain, but he paid it no attention. Izzy's mind was racing, so many questions; what had happened just now, who was that boy, why did everything look so familiar in that scene? He suddenly snapped back to reality, Eri was seriously exhausted, and Quirk was in just as rough of shape. Grunting, Izzy pulled himself up, no time to cry about a few scratches he thought; Izzy knew he had to take his two little friends to the triage center of the complex.​

Izzy grabbed both Pokémon, and began to run blindly; He knew that both of them, especially Eri, needed medical treatment, which he couldn't give them with his medical kit. The run into the complex was nothing but a blur fueled by adrenaline. He rushed by the two trainers, who had been battling earlier, and the research lab as if they were invisible; soon the triage center was in sight. Izzy burst through the door, almost as if it hadn't been there.
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The Nurse looked up from behind the counter, "Excuse me, but what do you think you are doing sir?" she inquired.​

Izzy rushed to the front desk, the two Pokémon in his hands were unconscious, the nurse stood up at the sight of the Pokémon.

"They… They need help", Izzy stuttered.

"Ok… I'm going to need 2 stretchers, one for a small Rattata, as well as one for an Espurr." The nurse commanded, turning towards 2 nearby Chanseys.
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Two stretchers were brought out; Izzy put each Pokémon onto the respective stretcher. The nurse turned towards the door, and began rushing Izzy's friends towards the intensive care area. Izzy turned around, looked around the lobby, and began to blindly walk towards a seat. Before he had been able to take 2 steps, Izzy's legs gave out from underneath him.​

He collapsed in the middle of the lobby.​

Daze / Male
Ability : Blaze

→ Scratch
→ Ember
→ Growl

Alex Blake

Journey : Start!

Alex was walking calmly on the Mountains which were supposed to lead to the Cianwood Laboratory Complex. He was taking it slow as he didn't feel like using too much energy and he wasn't in any particular rush. As usual, Daze was running in circles around him feeling particularly happy. Even with his undying love for the little Charmander, he was sometimes, if not always, way too energetic for his lazy self. He couldn't handle that much youthful energy.

"Calm down Daze, will ya? If you keep it up, I think I'll need another break."

And as usual, Daze feigned ignorance and kept running. But Alex was kinda used to that. So much that he didn't bother calling after his Pokemon. He was starting to get tired of walking though. Just how far was this laboratory supposed to be? It was too much for him. In fact, everything was too much for his laziness. But he really hoped he wasn't too far from the Lab. And thank God, he started to see the Complex. He finally started to feel some spark. Alex grinned.

"Let's go Daze!"

1-4 What a Morning!​

He was back at the mountainside, staring at the boy. Why does this feel so familiar? Izzy just couldn't put it together, was this strange Pokémon asking for help? It certainly didn't seem that it was there to intentionally cause Izzy and his companions' pain. Even though he had felt a great bit of pain himself; Izzy had begun to think about it, the pain could have resulted from beginner's shock, or perhaps because he had tried to fight it.

Regardless, Izzy stood at the edge of the cliff, looking for clues. He looked over the ruined bike; he had seen that bike before, but where? He focused on the bike, there were two words printed on the side. He read them, trying to decipher what they said from this distance. After a few moments, he was able to make out the first word. Mach… Suddenly everything clicked, He remembered. Now wasn't the time to think about it.

Izzy's eyes fluttered open; he was lying on the floor in the lobby, several people stood around him.

"Sir, are you alright", One of the medical staff asked, Izzy looked up at him.

"How long was I lying on the floor?" Izzy inquired, hoping they hadn't just left him there all day.

"It couldn't have been but a few minutes" the man answered, looking Izzy over.

"You look pretty rough; do you need any medical attention?" The man asked after a few seconds had gone by.

Izzy Pushed himself up, the pain had begun to subside; only a dull pain remained. Now standing up, he had looked around; the medical facility here was packed with wild Pokémon, researchers scurried around. They must be studying the recent change in Pokémon behavior here, Izzy thought to himself.

"I'm fine, thank you" Izzy replied, turning his attention back to the small crowd that stood around him.

After a short talk, with the people standing around him, Izzy had satisfied their inquiries. He decided that the best thing to do at the moment was to take a seat and wait for news on his friends. He took mental stock of everything he had on him, his Friend ball and his shemagh were the only things he hadn't left behind. The rest was probably back at the grove, He still wondered what was back there, that Eri wanted them to see. No matter now, He just had to sit and wait.

Ten minutes went by; Nurse Joy came out of the ICU, holding a patched up Quirk. Quirk looked cheerful enough, though he did look just as roughed up as Izzy.

"He wasn't actually hurt very much, this little guy is tougher than he looks." Nurse joy gleefully chuckled.

She handed Quirk over to Izzy, "your Espurr is stable, but it will need some rest. Please pick it up later in an hour or two." She informed them, turning to walk back to her desk.

Izzy set Quirk on the ground, deciding to go back to the grove where everything had taken place, to pick up his stuff and to figure out why Eri had shown so much interest in the area.

"Follow me, we're going to go back to that grove." Izzy said, heading towards the door.

Quirk followed behind reluctantly, probably wondering why they were going to the same place that had caused so much trouble. Izzy walked briskly through the complex focusing on one thing, making back to the grove. After a short 15 minute walk, he stood staring at his untouched backpack. Looking around, Izzy ducked back into to the brush. As he made his way in, He was cautious to watch for any signs that the strange Pokémon was still around.

They emerged from the brush, to find a small clearing. There placed next to a small, tranquil pond, sat a single bench and a small Oran tree. Izzy looked around; even though there was a clear indicator that there had been a struggle here, but a small group of grey squirrel-like Pokémon were busy clearing the mess. Izzy walked over to the bench and sat down; he stared forward as the soon to be afternoon sun glistened off of the pond.

"This is what Eri wanted to show us, this is breath-taking" Izzy observed, His mind was transported back to the scene earlier, when the small Pokémon tried so hard to defend Him. Izzy turned towards Quirk.

"Thanks for defending me earlier… I'm glad to have friends like you and Eri." Izzy said, patting his friend on the head.

"Rattata!" Quirk replied happily.

They sat there for a few minutes, taking in the view. Izzy finally stood up, looking around for his hat and goggles that had been thrown off earlier. He found them in a small shrub near the opening of the brush. He put them back on and situated everything around.

"I guess we should get back to the lab" Izzy complained, taking once last look at the clearing and ducking into the brush.

They made it to his backpack, and after checking to make everything was there, Izzy crouched to put on the pack and let Quirk ride on back. Quirk got on, and their rather sluggish walk back to the lab progressed. They were both tired out and the day was nowhere near over yet.

Once he made it to the lab, Izzy began to head inside. Izzy walked back to the rest of the trainers. Tired and fairly dirty he opened the door to the meeting room. Looking around, Izzy could see that the battle from earlier was over, and there were far more trainers in the room than the last time he was in the room. He looked around for a good spot, eventually spotting a few seats near the corner of the room. A trainer stood in the very corner, with their hood up.

Izzy took his seat, leaving a chair next to him in the case the trainer in the corner decided to sit down. He set his bag down and leaned back in the seat.

"Quirk, so far… this morning has been exhausting." Izzy muttered.

He figured that he should try to get a little rest before Lyra shows, laying back to take a quick nap.
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