I want to thank JeAnnSong for helping me write this chapter
Our heroes were back in the forest, they decided to relax, right now, jacob, max and may were hiding behind a bush as they were watching a zigzagoon
Max:(loudly) wow, it's a zigzagoon!
May:(quietly) quite may, or else you'll scare it off
The zigzagoon then ran off
Jacob: like that
Max: hey, it wasn't my fault
Jacob: It's okay max, just try to keep it down a bit alright?
Max: okay
Just then they saw a group of Stantlers
Max: a stantler and it's fawns
May: how cool
Jacob: indeed
Small timeskip
The three of them returned to the other as max began to look at all of the pokemon
Max: there are so many pokemon in this forest
May: I know, I've never seen this many in one place before.
Jacob: I have, in fact I've seen a lot more, my world is filled with tons of pokemon, more than you could ever imagine
Brock: he's right, no matter where you look, you'll find a pokemon
Max then accidentally scared off a sudowoodo and some shroomishes
Max: hey, no wait
Jacob: careful max, don't get too max or else you'll scare them
Max: I know, but the real-life Pokemon out here seem so much bigger than the ones in books or on the Pokedex.
Jacob: indeed they are max
May: What's the big surprise? If you'd studied up, you'd know how big Pokemon are out here in the wild.
Max: (gasps) I have studied Pokemon, and I'll prove it. Zigzagoon like the one we saw at the river are 16 inches tall and weigh 39 pounds. Shroomish are 16 inches tall and weigh 10 pounds. And Sudowoodo are a Rock-Type and are 3 feet and 11 inches tall and weight 84 pounds. I know all their statistics, but they just still look different now that I'm seeing them in person for the first time.
Jacob: he's right you know
May: how?
Jacob: you see may, reading about pokemon is good, but seeing one up close is the best, you get to experience life with them, share moments with them and even become friends with them, it always feels good to be around pokemon
Max: exactly
Just then, the group heard some howling
Brock: huh?
May: what's that sound?
Jacob: I know that sound
Just then, three of these guys appeared in front of them
Mightyena: male
Max: woah, they're Mightyena
The Mightyens growled at them as may went behind jacob
May:(nervous) uh jacob, maybe you should take care of this!
Jacob:(sigh) I got this
Jacob then walked up to them
Mightyena 1: hey get back
Jacob: relax, we're not bad people
Mightyena 2: yeah right
Jacob: seriously we're not
Just then a Poochyena tackled jacob to the ground
Max: hey, a Poochyena, it must be with them
Jacob: oh god, why are you guys attacking us?
???: That's enough Poochyena
The team then saw this girl come towards them
Katrina
Poocheyna then got off of jacob and ran towards her
Katrina: Do you mind telling me what you're doing here? This entire area is a Pokemon preserve
Jacob: really? I guess that would explain why there's so many pokemon here, well we're sorry miss, we didn't know, we were just passing by
Jacob then got back and and once Katrina saw him, she blushed
Katrina:(mind) wow, this guy is cute (out loud) really, and where exactly are you guys off to
Jacob: Rustboro City
Katrina: I see, well that's okay, I didn't mean to sound suspicious, but we get poachers here sometimes, so I really have to be careful. I'm Katrina. I'm a ranger for this Pokemon preserve.
Jacob: nice to meet you Katrina, my names jacob and these are my friends
Just then brock ran in front of Katrina
Brock: (lovestruck) And my name's Brock, but you can call me....
Katrina: (groans nervous)
Brock: (lovestruck) Sweetheart. Or Romeo, or whichever you prefer.
Katrina: (feeling awkward) Um, wow.
Misty: not again
Brock: (lovestruck) It must have been fate that we would find each other here, Katrina. (The Mightyena trio and Poochyena growled mad at Brock) You're like a beautiful flower growing in the wild, and I'm...
Just then, the Mightyena trio and Poochyena charges and growled towards Brock
Brock: ow, hey no biting, ow, ow
Jacob: quick brock, curl up, make yourself look as small as possible
Timeskip
Katrina brought the team to the Preserve Center
Katrina: Welcome to the Preserve Center. This is where we nurse sick and injured Pokemon back to health.
They looked around as they saw a bunch of pokemon with bandages on them
May: I can't believe how many different Pokemon you're taking care of, Katrina.
Jacob then noticed a bandage Azurill
Jacob: Hey, what happened to this little guy?
Katrina: he got injured when it was lost in the woods, but it's almost better now
Brock: (lovestruck) You're great. You're the girl I've been looking for to work alongside and share my dream of caring for and healing Pokemon.
Katrina: You're a doctor? What kind?
Brock: (lovestruck) Well, all kinds: M.D., CD, DJ....
The poochyena then tackle brock down
Brock: not again!
Katrina: Poochyena!
Poochyena looked up and was nervous
Katrina: What kind of behavior is that, huh? (picks him up) Now no more tackling, or you get a time-out.
The Poochyena then whimpered
Brock: (lovestruck) She even knows how to scold beautifully.
Jacob: down brock, down,
Max: I bet that Poocheyna will evolve into a Mightyena soon.
Katrina: I'm not so sure.
Jacob: What do you mean?
Katrina: That Poochyena was born at the same time as those other three, but they all evolved into Mightyena together and that was a while ago.
Jacob: really?
Max: So this Poochyena is way behind schedule. I wonder why?
Katrina: Well, my guess is that its habit of using Tackle attack on everyone has kept it out of too many battles. But I wouldn't worry about it.
Max: why not?
Katrina: It's really not a problem, Max. When you've seen as many Pokemon as I have, you know that each one evolves at its own pace. And when the time is right, Poochyena will evolve, too. It's also possible that it may never evolve at all, and that's okay too.
Jacob: she's right max, pokemon should evolve when they feel like it and someone are better off stay in the form they are
Max: no it's not! Everybody knows when a Pokemon evolves, it gets much more powerful. That gives it advantage in battle and confidence to take care of itself. Poochyena, you want to become more powerful, right?
The poochyena was just confused
May:(mind) I have to admit, he makes evolving sound pretty good. Just imagine my Torchic evolved.
May's fantasy
May imagined her torchic evolving into a tall buff looking Torchic
Fantasy end
May: (groans awkward) Maybe not. Oh, I know. I'll check it on my Pokedex.
May check her Pokédex and found out that torchic evolves into Combusken
May: Well, that would be totally awesome, right?
Max: So a Combusken, huh?
May: Yeah, so?
Max: Well, you want a Combusken, and I want to see a Pokemon evolve. So give it a try. There must be something you can do to help Torchic evolve.
Jacob: Hold on a minute, you guys can't do that?
May and Max: why not?
Jacob: cause that's not how it works, you can't just make a pokemon evolve because you want it to, it has to gain experience through battling and even then it takes awhile
Max: (disappointed) Great. Why does stuff take so long?
Jacob: you just got to be patient max
Brock: I agree. Don't get all bummed out about it. If evolving Pokemon was quick and easy, it wouldn't be any fun anyway.
Jacob: exactly
Max: How so?
Jacob: Just think about it max, Pokemon only evolve after they've battled and traveled with you for a long time, all though winning and losing battle is a way to gain experience but getting to know your pokemon is the best part of the experience, right guys?
Jacob's pokemon agreed
May:(disappointed) well I guess I can forget about my Torchic evolving any time soon.
Jacob: don't worry may, torchic will evolve when he's ready, beside, not every pokemon evolves the same way
May: Are you saying there are different kinds of evolutions?
Jacob: yep, show em brock
Brock: With pleasure, When Poochyena evolves into Mightyena or Pineco evolves into Forretress, for both of them it's all the matter of the level they've reached. Other Pokemon such as Pikachu need one of a group of special stones to shape their evolution. Pikachu will only evolve into a Raichu if a ThunderStone is the one that's used. Probably the most famous Pokemon when it comes to the concept of branched evolution is Eevee.
Jacob: now eevee here has many different forms it can evolved into, it all just depends on what it uses to evolve
Jacob summoned his flareon, vaporeon, jolteon, umbreon and espeon
Jacob: you see may, the thunder stone will give you a jolteon, a fire stone will give you a flareon, a water stone will give you a vaporeon And depending on the skill of its trainer, it could also evolve into an Espeon or an Umbreon
Brock: So you see, what we call evolution can actually mean a lot of different things. Ready for the test? Define Pokemon evolution in an essay of 9,000 words.
Jacob: okay that's a bit much brock
Brock: (embarrassed) Just kidding, that's all for today, class.
May: Wow. Thank you guys.
Max: Yeah, I think I understand now. And since I know how cool it is, I'm even more determined to see a Pokemon evolve! Let's do it. It'll be really great. (laughs) Come on, May.
May: but max, didn't you hear what they told us? You can't make a Pokemon evolve just because you want it to.
Max: May, Why do you always have to be a big bummer when it's something that I want to do? All we need to do is give this Poochyena a little push, and it'll evolve.
Jacob: push, what do you mean push?
Max: well Since we know that Poochyena's friends have already evolved into Mightyena, and since all four of them were born at the same time, this one is obviously ready to evolve any minute now, and I don't want to miss it. We've just got to stay here till it happens, please.
Jacob: first off that's not how it works and second, we can't stay here for that long, we have to get to Rustboro city
Katrina: And remember, there's no guarantee it'll evolve soon, but I do have room if you want to stay here for a while.
Jacob: Well that's very kind of you Katrina but...
Brock: (lovestruck) We accept Katrina. I agree we should be together, and if you need any help with the housework.
Jacob: Seriously brock!?
Jacob then pushed brock out of the way
Jacob: sorry about him, you know what I guess we can stay for a little bit
Max: alright!
Max then picked up poochyena
Max: don't you worry. I'm gonna do everything I can to help you evolve, 'kay?
Poocheyna was confused
Max: You're gonna be a big Mightyena before you know it.
Jacob: Don't get your hopes up max
Timeskip
Jacob and max were now training the poochyena and with may's torchic, while this was happening, Katrina was staring at jacob while blushing
Katrina:(mind) why can't I get him out of my mind... am I in love
Brock began to walk towards her but he was chased away by the mightyenas
Back to jacob and max
Max: okay Poochyena. Try it once more.
Poochyena tackled Torchic which caused torchic to fall to the ground
Max: No, you used Tackle again. You've got to start using Bite instead, Poochyena. It does lots more damage.
Poochyena was shocked a bit
Jacob: max, I don't think this is working
Max: I will trust me, now poochyena, Try again, and use Bite this time
Poochyena jumped but used Tackle again
Max: No, not again
Torchic had enough and used ember, Torchic opened his mouth and shot out multiple round balls of fire at poochyena
The attack crisped poochyena as he fell down
Max: Hey, are you alright?
Torchic then used ember on max as he groaned and got crisped before collapsing down
Max:(groaning)
Jacob: You okay max?
Max: I'm okay, torchic! You used Ember. I thought we agreed that you weren't gonna use Ember attacks.
Torchic then ran off
Max: oh boy
Jacob: yeah this isn't working
Max: Say Jacob, can I borrow one of your pokemon?
May: don't do it jacob
May then walked up to them, max shivered a bit
Max: Uh...
May: He's gonna make them lose on purpose so that Poochyena will evolve, aren't you?
Jacob: seriously max, is that what you've been doing this whole time
Max: Yeah but how else can I get Poochyena to evolve?
Jacob: that's not how it works max and even if I did give you them, they won't lose on purpose, poochyena won't stand a chance
Max: fine, You don't want me to cheat. Don't worry, come on Poochyena
Max then began to run off as poochyena followed him
Jacob: Max, where are you going?
But it was too late, he was already gone
Jacob: and he's gone, well that was weird
May: Well, he's a weird kid
Just the Katrina appeared
Katrina: hey may, (looking at jacob and blushing) hey jacob, what's up
Jacob: not much, just watching max trying to evolve poochyena and failing at it, what about you
Katrina: well I found the in the Preserve
Katrina held out a piece of a net
Jacob: that's a piece of a net
Katrina: yep, it's part of a pokemon trap
Jacob: What, did you just say Pokemon trap?
Katrina: yep, and that can only mean one thing
Jacob: oh no, we got poochers on the loose, I better go warn max
Jacob then ran off as he looked for max
Timeskip
Jacob, bluey and his pokemon were no searching for max
Jacob:(yelling) max! Max! Where are you?! (Not yelling) oh god where is that kid
Jaraja: just use your spirit sensory
Jacob: oh yeah I forgot
Jacob used spirit sensory
Jacob was able to pinpoint max's location
Jacob: found him, let's go guys
Small timeskip
Jacob managed to find max but he found shocked him, he found max and poochyena trapped in a net along with some other pokemon
Jacob: max!
Max: jacob, thank goodness you're here
Jacob: max, what happened to you?
Max: we got trapped by some poachers
Jacob: What poachers?
???: us
Jacob turned and saw five poacher, the one in the middle was the boss
Boss: looks like we have another visitor boys
Jacob:(angry) poachers, what the hell are you doing here
Boss: oh nothing, just capturing pokemon that's all, though we didn't expect to capture a kid
Jacob:(angry) well guess what, your time here is up, release my friend and the pokemon now
Boss: oh sorry kid but that's not happening now why don't you hand me your pokemon and we'll let you go
Jacob:(angry) why don't you go to hell, cause the only thing i'm giving you is a beat down
???: so are we
Jacob turned and saw the rest of his team
Jacob: guys you came
Brock: yeah it took us awhile, but the mightyena were able to lead us here
Boss: looks like we're a bit outnumbered here, no matter, you'll still lose, boys, you know what to do
Poachers: roger
The poachers summoned their pokemon while Jacob's team summoned theirs
Boss: get em boys
Jacob: guys, take em out
Both sides charged towards as they began to fight, while fighting jacob noticed that the boss was getting away in a truck with max and the trapped pokemon
Jacob: hey!
Boss: so long suckers
He then sped off
Jacob: guys, they got max
May: what!
Jacob: don't worry, I'm going after him, stay here and take care of these guys, octillery come with me
Octillery: got it
Octillery got onto Jacob's head as he ran off towards the truck
Small timeskip
The boss was now laughing as he was driving away
boss: hahaha, i'm gonna be rich after this
Jacob: i don't think so
Boss: huh
The boss looked behind him and saw jacob catching up
Boss: oh great, now he's on the agenda, no matter
The boss pushed a button as a bunch of missiles were launched out of the truck and headed towards jacob
Jacob: octillery use sludge bomb
Octillery: on it
The sludge bomb was able to counter the missiles, soon jacob managed to get to the side of the truck as he began to bash it a bunch of times
Boss: hey, knock it off!
Jacob: never!
The truck then sped up
Boss: grr, let's see you get through this
He pressed another button that cause a bunch of oil to spill out of the truck
Jacob: pathetic, you think that'll stop us? Think again, octillery use ice beam
Octillery launched in ice beam that created an ice ramp in front of them
Jacob: hold on octillery
Jacob charged at it at full speed as he ran on the ramp and was sent flying over the oil as he landed back on the ground and kept running
Boss: Are you kidding me, what the hell are you?
Jacob: your worst nightmare
Jacob then got to the side of the truck and slammed it off the road as it crashed into a tree
Small timeskip
Jacob got to where the truck crashed as he saw the boss pulling out the net that held max and poochyena
Jacob: hey! Let them go!
The boss then looked at him
Boss: hahah not a chance you little shit, you already ruined my truck and now your gonna watch as I leave with your friend
Jacob: (angry) over my dead body!
Boss: fine then
Jacob: It's fighting time!
The boss summoned his Ursaring
Boss: ursaring, use focus blast
Ursaring put his hands together and created a light blue ball of energy. He then fired it at octillery
Jacob: octillery, use water pulse
Octillery opened his mouth as a blue ball formed in front of it, he then fired it at ursaring. Both attacks counted each other
Which one should hammer be or ursaring
Ursaring's forearm glowed white as he tried to punch octillery
Jacob: octillery dodge it
Octillery jumped into the air right before he could get it
Boss: ursaring use hammer arm again
Ursaring used hammer arm as he punch octillery while he was in the air and sent him flying
Jacob: octillery!
Octillery managed to safely land on a tree branch
Jacob: you okay octillery
Octillery: im fine
Boss: after it ursaring
Ursaring ran towards octillery
Jacob; octillery use ice beam
Octillery used ice beam as he froze the floor, once ursaring stepped on the ice, he slipped and fell and slid towards the tree, octillery jumped off the tree right before ursaring hit his head on it. Ursaring got back up and was now pissed as he let out as massive roar
Jacob: I think we might have pissed it off octillery
Octillery: no kidding
Boss: ursaring, use hammer arm
Ursaring used hammer arm and struck octillery hard
Does octillery know any healing moves
Jacob: octillery!
Octillery was now laying on the floor in pain as ursaring slowly walked up to him. Max and poochyena was watching this and couldn't stand it on bit
Max: this is bad, we have to help him, Poochyena remember what we worked on, use bite
Poocheyna just stood there confused
Max: Come on, Just bite through the net! If you do, you can save octillery and all your friends
Poochyena looked at octillery as it got cornered in a tree, this concerned Poochyena
Max: Bite it, Poochyena! Bite! You can do it! I believe in you
Poochyena finally listen and used bite as he bit through the next
Max: alright, you did it, now go help octillery
Poochyena ran towards them. Meanwhile urasring was now standing right in front of octillery
Boss: say goodbye to your octillery loser, ursaring use hammer arm
Ursaring was about to use hammer arm but suddenly, poochyena jump up and bit down on ursaring arm
Boss: what the...
Jacob: huh?
Max: jacob
Jacob and the boys noticed that max was free
Jacob: max!
Boss: huh, how did you get out
Jacob: now's my chance, octillery, use octazooka
Octillery formed a black ball of ink in front of his mouth, he then fired it at ursaring, the attack hit ursaring's face and blinded him, poochyena and octillery then ran away from him as he tried to wipe the ink off
Jacob: wow max, you managed to get poochyena to learn bite
Max: yeah, you did poochyena
Poochyena smiled
Jacob: like I said max, pokemon can be awesome even if they don't evolve
Max: yeah your right, sorry that I doubted you
Jacob: it's fine
Max: Poochyena I think you're a great Pokemon, whether you ever evolve or not.
Poochyena began to howl happily as he suddenly began to glow
Max:(gasp) huh, what's happening, why is it glowing
Jacob: Max, it's evolving!
Max: No way!
Poochyena evolved into mightyena
Max: awsome, it evolved!
Jacob: congratulations max
Just then ursaring got the ink off as he stared at them in anger
Boss: you may have evolved your pokemon but your still gonna lose
Jacob: I don't think so asshole, looks like we're gonna have to beat him together max, you know the other move mightyena knows
Max: of course
Jacob: then let's do this
Boss: ursaring use hammer arm
Ursaring ran towards them as he charged up a hammer arm
Max: mightyena use snarl
Mightyena released multiple purple and black rings of energy from his mouth at ursaring
The attack pushed ursaring back
Jacob: octillery use energy ball
Octillery launched an energy ball that struck ursaring
Boss: grr, focus blast
Ursaring launch a focus blast
Jacob: water pulse
Octillery counter it with water pulse which created a smoke cloud in the field
Max: mightyena use fire fang
Mightyena ran through the smoke as The inside of his mouth became covered in flames
He then jumped through the smoke and bit down on ursaring's arm which did a lot of damage to him
Jacob: fire blast
Octillery jumped into the air as he fired a blast of fire from his mouth that took the form of a 大 shape
at the ursaring
Mightyena jumped out of the way as the fire blast struck ursaring and did even more damage
Boss: grr enough! Ursaring use hyper beam
Ursaring fired out an orange beam of energy from his mouth
Max: mightyena, use hyper beam as well
An orange ball of energy appears in front of Mightyena's mouth as he fired it
Both hyper beams collided as they tried to overpower each other
Jacob: this is what I've waiting for, octillery, do your thing
Octillery: oh I'm gonna enjoy this
Octillery jumped into the air and he began to fall towards ursaring head first. He then got right in front of ursaring which shocked him
Octillery: so long Smokey
Jacob: now, octazooka
Octillery fired an orange blast of energy from his mouth at ursaring, the attack completely engulfed it
Boss: ursaring!
Ursaring smoked body fell to the ground knocked out
Jacob: max, look away
Max: okay
Max looked the other way as jacob then began to walked toward the boss in rage as he began to walk back from fear
Boss:(scared) uhh hey now let's talk about this, can't we work something out
Jacob:(angry) no
Jacob then slammed his fists together
Jacob:(angry) your dead
Boss:(pissing his pants) oh shit
Jacob then beat the living hell out of him
Boss: AAHHHHHHH
Timeskip
Meanwhile, the others were able to defeat the other poachers and tie them up
May:(worried) I hope max and jacob are okay
Brock: look, over there
They saw jacob and max coming back with a beaten up boss on mightyena backs, jacob then picked up the boss's body
Jacob: here we go, one heartless bastard
May: Language!
Jacob: it's not cursing if it's true, trust me there is no other word to describe him
Max: I agree
Brock: hey is that the poochyena
Jacob: yep, it evolved and it's all thank to max, he helped the little guy evolve
Katrina: wow, thank you guys for helping me
Jacob: no problem katrina, we were glad to help
Katrina: well then I guess it makes it easier for me to do this
Katrina suddenly kissed jacob as may look in shock, Brock was upset and max was just disgusted
May: WHAT!
Max: yuck
Brock: oh come on, not again
May and max: AGAIN!
Jacob: You love me do you?
Katrina: yes, I can't help it, your so cute and nice, I just couldn't resist, can I pls join you and your harem
May: HAREM!
Jacob: Wait, who told you about the harem?
Katrina: jessie
Jessie: yeah I might have bragged about it a bit in front of her
Jacob: I see, well katrina I'll be happy to have you join my harem and my journey
Katrina: yay, thank you
Jacob: no problem
They then kissed again as may just stared in shock
May: WHAT IS HAPPENING!?
Jacob: oh by the way, max I think mightyena wants to join you
Max: Really, (to mightyena) do you want to join me?
Mightyena nodded and licks Max
Max: Alright, awesome!
Jacob then handed max a pokeball as he successfully caught him
Max: alright my second pokemon
Jacob: congratulations max, now let's continue our journey
Everyone except may who was still in shock kept moving
May:(shocked).....
Jacob then pulled may along
Jacob:(dragging may) come on may