Chapter One: Prepare for take off!
Chapter One: Prepare for take off!
Equestria League!
Chapter One: Prepare for take off!
"...And so in this nail biting final battle between the challenger and our current elite champion is playing out in the challengers favor as Gilda recalls her Gliscor and gets ready to send out her last Pokémon" the commentator spoken into his microphone as the crowd cheered on so loud that the TV that this match was playing out on began to be turned down.
The current image being shown on the TV was that of badly damaged and very badly poisoned Flygon barley flying over a now damaged and K.O. Gliscor as Gilda began to recall her Pokémon to its pokeball.
The camera now cuts to show the elite champion as it starts on the ground showing her black commando boots, it then slowly starts to pan upwards going past her dark blue skinny jeans that are being held in place by a studded belt. Then it finally traveling up past her white t-shirt as her brown 3/4 sleeve hoodie came into being as the camera finally pulled back to show her gritting her teeth as she throws her pokeball.
"Now it's time to end this dweb" Gilda shouted out as she sent out her final Pokémon Honchkrow.
"The crowd seems to be cheering on our reigning champion as she sends out her signature Pokémon; how will the young challenger respond to this?" the commentators then began to go into detail about the match as the crowd began to chant Gilda’s name as Honchkrow took to the skies and started to stare down the injured Flygon.
As they began to battle the TV that was airing the match began to get a bit of static as this happened the sound of a girl signing into her pillow could have been heard.
Now the hero of this tale was sitting on the edge of her bed with her head half buried in her pillow as she waited for the static to go away and she could continue watching the match on her television. She was moving into a position where she holding on to her feet as the elite champion was backed into a corner by the young up start challenger.
"There is no way he will win, Glida will beat him down when I get to the Equestria league I will be the one to beat her" Scootaloo spoke aloud as she watched as the camera shoot to an over the shoulder view of the battlefield on Gilda’s side.
She could only see a black silhouette of the trainer Glida was facing and for the entire match she couldn't see what the challenger had looked like. She knew he was about her age and she has been too focused on the battle to pay attention to the guy's name.
"There is no way that Gilda would lose to this rookie, all he has left is that badly poisoned Flygon and he has one Pokémon left to switch to" She said with her head held high as the battle between Honchkrow and Flygon was playing out on her screen showing Honchkrow hitting a perfect night slash to the back of Flygon as it was sent spiraling down.
Then suddenly there came a very loud and powerful knock on her bedroom door that had caught her off guard and spooked poor Scootaloo into jumping out of bed, she barely had time to land on her feet.
"Scootaloo are you still awake?" questioned the voice from the other side of her bedroom door as the knocking slowly came to an end.
Scootaloo panicked and quickly sprang into action; she dashed forward and turned her television off and at the same time her bedroom lights. Then at lightning fast speeds tossed her orange zip up hoodie on the ground leaving her in her black track suit pants and her over-sized orange t-shirt as she dived under her bed covers.
"No mum I'm a sleep" Scootaloo replied halfheartedly as she got back under her quilt.
"So there is no chance that my 13 year old daughter was watching the match between Gilda and-" She was stopped from finishing her sentence.
"Yes, and I didn't just see Gilda send out Honchkrow and she isn't in the middle of schooling that rookie and his weak Flygon" Scootaloo quickly replied cutting off her mum, only then did she click that she had just let on that she was watching the match.
"Really now?" questioned Scootaloo’s mum as she opened the door to her daughter’s bedroom. Scootaloo’s mum was named Firefly she had blue hair that was currently styled in a ponytail, now she mostly wares pink sweaters that had a light blue under shirt with slightly darker blue jeggings.
"So with you not following your bed time again, do you mind telling me again why I should let you go and starts you're Pokémon adventure when you can't even go to bed on time?" She said as she folded her arms and leaned against the doors frame.
Scootaloo froze as she processed what her mother had just said to her with a heavy frown, negatively came beaming off of her face.
"You're not stopping me from starting my adventure are you?" worry was very clear in Scootaloo's tones as she was now holding on to her bed quilt.
Firefly slowly walked over to her and sat down on the bed and embraced her in a hug. "Maybe" Scootaloo was about to protest but her mum continued.
"I'm worried about you, you're going to be traveling on your own and I don't want to be staying up every night worrying about my only child" as she spoke she put her hand atop Scootaloo's head and gingerly rubbed her hair.
Scootaloo wondered for a few seconds about what her mum had just said to her, and then within an instant she thought up an idea that was going to try and keep her mum from stopping her from going on her adventure to become the very best, like no one ever was.
"Mum I have a deal too good for you to pass up" Scootaloo smoothly started as her mum took her hand off of Scoots head and looked her in the eyes while having an eyebrow raised while also nodding to her to carry on. "If Gilda wins tonight then I get to start my journey tomorrow..." her mums eyes widened at this point and she opened her mouth to argue with her but Scootaloo continued on "However if Gilda loses to whatever his name is then I will start my journey in three years time when I’m 16, does that sound okay with you?" She ended her proposal hoping her mum would take the part in her gambit.
"So you are placing you're trust in Gilda and her Honchkrow" Firefly replied and getting an approving nod from her child. "And you don’t have any faith in the mystery Pokémon of the 'Rookie' that is facing our elite champion?" with this statement she then lowered her right eyebrow and raised her left to show the concern that she is having with Scootaloo’s judgment at this very second, Scootaloo in turn waved her mum off then went on to say
"It's not that I don’t have faith in him, its I trust Glida to beat him down since I’m the only person who is ever going to beat her and take the top spot as the elite champion" spoken in her most boastful tone she could muster and it was followed by the biggest and most smug ear-to-ear grin she could produce while wiping her knuckles on her oversized orange shirt.
Her mum remained silent and blank faced as she was processing what Scootaloo has just told her without any irony or sarcasm in her voice and then within a heartbeat she begin to chuckle.
"Well if you want to bet your future on the elite champion then I’m okay with taking this bet" she said as got up from the bed and she began to exit the room. She then turned and said "But dear do know I always beat on the winning Ponyta" she then returned with her own trademarked smug grin going ear to ear as she closed the door and started to laugh louder as she walked down the hallway to her room, her laugh was help as she has the image of Scootaloo’s face dropping 50 feet.
"That doesn't count that Ponyta evolved into a Rapidash and that’s how it won, otherwise that Dodrio would of won the race" Scootaloo shouted at her mum with her fist clenched.
Now with nothing else to do but see her freedom won, she slowly got out of bed again and swiftly moved towards her TV and was about to turn it on and...
"BED NOW!" the unmistakable hyper voice came from Firefly and it was super effective as Scootaloo jumped into the air and zipped back into bed to try her best to get some sleep before her mum could come in make sure that she did go to sleep.
-Next morning-
The early sunlight broke through a small gap in the curtains and the light slowly reacted Scootaloo’s face as it shined over her closed eyes. After a few tosses and turns in her bed she still refused to get out of bed.
Slowly the door to Scootaloo’s doors opened up and in creped a dark and mysterious figure of a young girl, it tip toed around the pile of Pokémon plushies that where on the floor and hooped over a small mountain of unwashed clothes and landed face first in a pile of week old smelly socks. Pushing herself up off the ground with lightning fast speeds she shook her head to get the smell out of her system and she finally got close enough to Scootaloo to wake her up peacefully.
"WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD!" a voice roared out and pierced Scootaloo's ear drums with its high pitched squeal as the supersonic screech hit Scootaloo she became confused and ended up rolling out of bed and crashing face first into the floor in front of the other girl.
"Ouch that really hurt" says Scootaloo as she starts to rub the back of her head to help deal with the headache she now has thanks to the mystery intruder. She then slowly rises to her feet and with an annoyed sign and frown starts to look down at the slightly smaller girl with blonde hair.
“Dinky…why” question Scootaloo as she made eye contact with Dinky who at this point was doing her best I’m so innocent smile as she played with her thumbs.
"Scoots you need to wake up and it was either this or I used a marker pen and a slap to either side of your checks" Dinky's smile got more sadist more the she opened her mouth but at the same time she was still so cute as she started to play with the rim of her grey sunflower dress as made her golden eyes so big that she made you forget that she was grinning like a psycho-path.
Well unless you’re Scootaloo who can see past Dinky’s cute appearance due to growing up with Dinky and her odd mum this allowed her to see past Dinky’s sweet exterior for the trouble maker she was.
"Look I’ll let this one slide since I’m going to be starting my Pokémon journey later today so it would be pointless to punish you for what you did to me Dink" Scootaloo said picking up her good mood from last night since she knows there is no chance that Gilda would of lost.
"Oh" Dinky said looking generally surprised, she even looked a little depressed. "So does that mean you’re going to be leaving me to go on your journey then" she asked Scootaloo while looking away.
Lowering her defenses since Dinky was taking the news of her leaving very hard, Scootaloo now feels the need to cheer her up.
"Come on Dink, you know it was going to happen sometime soon and hey your ten soon if you want I can wait for you to get your license to start your journey as well and you can watch me become the best" Scootaloo said while putting her arm around Dinky’s shoulder and Dinky in turn grabbed her nose because Scootaloo smelled really badly.
Dinky slowly walked away from Scootaloo and timidly turned back to Scootaloo with her head hanging low. She then raised her head and went on to say “Nah if I have it my way then soon enough I’m going to be going to the elite Pokémon academy in Canterlot” She told Scoots as she left the room to get some food downstairs from Firefly.
Scootaloo was frozen in place as she watched the cute little girl she grew up with and thought was a sister had just pulled the wool over her eyes.
Scootaloo defeated slowly began to walk downstairs after Dinky. She headed out past her door and head straight down the hall to her stairway and head downstairs and cut through the living room to get to the kitchen.
As Scootaloo enter the kitchen she saw both her mum and Dinky sitting down at the table happily chatting away with the radio mindlessly playing music in the background. Firefly spots Scootaloo enter the kitchen and greets her.
"Hi honey how are you doing on this fine young day” firefly said to her daughter as she raised her coffee cup and took a swig from it.
"not bad besides the little devil here waking me up” Scootaloo pouted just to try and earn some sympathy points from her mum.
"Really...too bad I told her to wake you up or did she not tell you that" she continued to drink her drink.
Scootaloo pouted even more as she watched her mum guzzled down her morning coffee to the sounds of the radio. She got closer to the table and sat down at the table then began to grab a box of cereal that was on the table and started the use the bowl.
"So who won the Pokémon match last night, Oh wait I already know who won so let’s head to the professor Waddles Pokémon lab and let’s get my starter Pokémon" Scootaloo said victoriously.
Just as she finishes speaking the radio stops playing a song on the radio half way through and is interrupted by a news reporter.
"The great and powerful Trixie is here live on the air of TV, radio, live stream and mostly likely on YouTube for you people of the future who are checking out this historic moment, as I your ever lovely presenter get the first ever interview are elite champion of the Equestria region and he is the youngest ever elite champion of the all regions" the great and powerful voice dramatically announced across all airwaves.
In the kitchen at that moment in time Scootaloo froze in place. Her mum and Dinky had gotten ready for Scootaloo’s reaction by covering their ears as tightly as they could.
"WHAT!?" Scootaloo freaked out as she rushed over to the radio.
"Like the great and powerful Trixie was telling you audience, I have managed to convince Pokémon league chairmen Celestria to let me have an interview with our thirteen year old champion right on the tails of his red hot victory over the last champion Gilda. Say here he comes now...Now it is my grand and prestoious honor that I your real life magical girl Pokémon heroine get to interview the rambunctious new champion of Equestria! Give a round of applause to..."
The radio was turned off as fast as Scootaloo could do it. After turning it off she slowly turned towards her mother who had been beaming the entire time at Scootaloo.
"So..." she started out slowly her blank expression started to evolve into a smirk.
"Don't go there" Scootaloo replied starting to not like where her mum was going to go.
"...have you heard...?” Her smirk was getting larger with each passing word
"No mum, just no" Scootaloo started to shake her head
"...That Gilda can't lose..."Finally she broke and gave in and wore her victory Grin with pride as she watched her daughter getting more annoyed with each word that she spoke.
"I don't get" Dinky said breaking the tension between mother and daughter.
Firefly grin lessened into a more kind and motherly smile and spoke "Sorry Dinky but it one of those time and place sort of deals".
Dinky seem to get what was being said, she kept on eating her cereal. Scootaloo noticed something wrong with Dinky as she didn’t seem to be her cheer self so she decided to question it.
"Dinky what’s up you don’t seem to be you’re normally cheerily self" Scootaloo asked wanting to know what’s up with Dinky.
"It's that I’m worried" She said looking down into her cereal bowl.
"Worried about what" Scootaloo said while tilting her head.
"Remember the Pokémon School I quick mentioned up stair and few minutes ago" she said still her eyes not leaving her cereal.
"Yeah well what about it" Scoot said not grasping the situation.
"Well on the way down here my mum contacted me through my pokegear and told me that I got in and that she is going to catch me my first Pokémon soon and then when the new school year starts I can go to the academy right away" She spoke while holding back tears.
Scootaloo stood there her head somewhat trying to process the news that she can’t start her Pokémon journey for the next three years and that her best friend and honorary little sister is leaving her. Firefly looked on at Scoot, she was wondering what Scootaloo was going to do; was she going to snap and blame dinky, run away crying or even just run away and start her journey and never to be seen again. Scootaloo slowly walked towards Dinky and lift her arms up and wrapped them around her and she brought her into a hug.
"Why are you sad Dinky this is what you want to do isn’t it" Scootaloo said in a calm and relaxed voice it shocked both Dinky and Firefly to say the least. "I want you to follow your dreams, reach them and then I want you to succeed and I want you to do the same for me" Scootaloo had now started to rub Dinks back as Dinky started to full on break down into tears and she gripped on to Scootaloo for her life. Firefly had joined in on this hug as well and a few seconds later Dinky’s pokegear had started to ring.
Once Dinky left to go back into the living room Scootaloo reached out for the salt that was on the table and started to pour it into Dinky’s cereal. Firefly saw this and took the salt away from Scootaloo.
"Why are you doing such a horrible thing after reassuring her you harbor no hard feelings" she scolded Scootaloo for this.
"Because" Scootaloo started "She woke me up this morning by screaming, she has to pay for her crimes" she folded her arms.
Firefly just looked at her Scootaloo with a look of pour dumbfound confusion, till eventually shaking her head and just removing the salt from Scootaloo's grasp.
Dinky walked back in several seconds later with a smile back on her face.
Both mother and daughter had caught on to this and Scootaloo tried to ask why Dinky had just done an emotional 180 back to herself but Dinky shoot first.
"My mum just phoned me and told me she caught me my first Pokémon she also said that if we go to the park in a few hours time and have a picnic with her and an old friend of hers I can play with him" Dinky said her smile beaming brighter by the second.
"That’s great news Dinky, at least one of us gets to have a Pokémon " Scoots turned to glare at her mum. Who in turn just whistled while sipping her drink.
"Well then lets finish breakfast then prepare some food and meet up with my mum and the towns new professor that where getting since professor Waddle is too old and has finally retired" Dinky spoke as she tasted her cereal and continued to eat it to the bewilderment of Scootaloo and Firefly. "Hmm" Dinky thought aloud "This cereal is a bit salty. I like that!"
-An hour later-
After finishing there breakfast and Scootaloo finally having a wash plus putting on some new clothes they left to meet up with Dinky’s mum and the new professor and have lunch with them so while Scootaloo was washing up Firefly and Dinky start work on making Sandwiches and put them in a picnic basket.
As Firefly and the two girls walked down the street towards the park, the sun was beaming down and there was a gentle wind to accompany it. As they enter the park they head straight to the main tree where they normally eat, the closer they get to the tree they noticed a young women is already standing under the tree with Dinky's mum; as they spot them Dinky's mum waves to her and shouts something then gives a friendly hand shake to the woman. She then pulls a box out of her bag and hands it to the women before running off with her mail bag. Now she starts to walk over.
She was wearing a lab coat with some plain black pants oddly enough wore a cyan blue tartan shirt but most strange of all she had 7 bright colours in her hair. Firefly knew the seconds she saw her that she has meet her before and just for the life of her can’t remember who she is.
"So it’s been a while Firefly I take it your Scootaloo and you must be the lucky girl who is the proud owner of this new Munchlax" The rainbow haired woman spoke to the group.
They looked at her like the stranger she was, Dinky broke the silence first by saying "Sorry miss who are you?".
"Oh right that’s right I haven’t given you a proper introduction. I'm Professor Rainbow Dash and I'm her to replace professor Waddle since he is to old to continue working, so I’m the new professor of Cloudsfall and an old friend of Dinky's mum". Professor Dash said while holding out the silver box with the yellow bow holding it together towards Dinky with a kindhearted smile.
Dinky carefully took the box and untied the bow and saw that inside the box was a muffin...and a pokeball that had a letter attached to it. She opened up the letter and read it silently before smiling and grabbed Rainbow and pulled her into a bear hug.
"Hey calm down kiddo, I know it’s your first Pokémon and all but I didn’t catch it" Rainbow said as she struggled to get out of Dinky’s bear hug. Firefly started to chuckle at the sight, she started to then remember why she thought that she looked familiar.
“I knew you looked familiar” Firefly started as she helped to remove Dinky from Rainbow “You’re that little girl who I help to get her first Pokémon a Taillow all them years ago when I was training to become a professor myself” Rainbow Dash smile as she felt the pride as Firefly remembered her.
“Yeah I grew up and became a professor" Rainbow said looking at her icon eye to eye "I followed the example you showed to me all them years ago and now I'm a fully licensed Pokémon professor" Rainbow ended with putting her hands into her lab coat pockets, she then proceeded to tilt her head back while showing off a toothy grin.
"That’s the little squirt that I remember" she said handing her hand out to Dash "Its good to know that Cloudsfall will have a new and youthful professor" Dash shook her hand.
"Its good to know that" She said ushering them to come and sit under the tree as she started to head over to the tree.
Scootaloo had remained silent through all of that, she wonder if she could use her mums old friend to help her convince her mum to let her start her own Pokémon journey.
"So professor Dash am I right in saying?" Scootaloo asked why walking over to the tree "So when did you start your Pokémon journey?" Scootaloo now walking along side the rainbow haired woman.
"Me, well I started when I was ten so about 15 years ago, when your mum caught me my first Pokémon Taillow" Dash responded with a kind smile "In fact if it wasn't for your mum showing me how learning about Pokémon battle techniques was so awesome then I wouldn't of been able to go on my short lived journey in trying to become the best trainer there is, when instead I was having more fun traveling with my Pokémon; learning there strengths, weakness and how to train them to overcome there weakness then in order to get a stronger Pokémon but this also allows us to have an even stronger bond with them. Heck it's what I wrote my thesis on in order to become a professor" She said while a bunch if wild Pokémon native to the park came over and cheerfully played around her.
"Well I sort of had to stop my journey because I decided to settled down and focus on just teaching children about Pokémon rather then focus sourly on Pokémon themselves" Firefly spoke as some of the wild Pokémon came running up to her seeking her attention.
"Well you did make for a great teacher" Rainbow dash said parsing her.
"Thanks I hope my class thinks that as well" Firefly replied.
"So professor Dash do you think I'm ready to start my journey?" Scootaloo asked giving Professor Dash her biggest puppy dog eyes and saddest lip quiver.
Professor Dash looked down at Scootaloo and stay silent, till a few seconds later when she started laughing. "Nice try kid but that’s got nothing on a friend of mines little sister, she has the biggest and most tear jerking puppy dog eyes you will ever have the misfortune of looking into" She finished while holding her sides.
Scootaloo stopped looking at the professor, she looked away from her and was now looking upon Dinky and her new Pokémon Munchlax who had eaten the entire picnic basket they had brought with them and was playing with Dinky and the wild collection of bug, flying and normal type Pokémon that live in the park.
"Well it looks like lunch is out of the question wouldn't you two agree" Firefly said as she went to clean up the remains of picnic basket.
As she left both Scootaloo and professor Dash, Scootaloo took the initiative.
"Aren't you a professor? Aren't you meant to help me get started on my journey to become a Pokémon master? Why can't you convince my mum who your friends with to let me go and become the best" Scootaloo pleaded with the professor as she became more and more desperate with each passing second.
"Yes I am meant young to help young trainers" Professor Dash said as she let a near by Noctowl land on her shoulder. "But I'm also meant to let trainers start there journey when there ready" She spoke as she stroked the Noctowl head.
Scootaloo's face dropped as she was just told by a full licensed professor just flat out told her she isn't ready to start her journey.
"But it doesn't mean I'm not going to help you become ready, everyone has to start somewhere squirt and your not at that point yet because your mum doesn't seem to think your ready so I'm going to take her side since she had faith in me and well look at how that turned out" Professor spoke as she started to get up and grab a pokeball from inside her professor jacket and threw it in the air and out appeared a Swellow.
Scootaloo looked on in amazement at the Swellow that now was flying directly above her. She looked up at the bird Pokémon as it blue feather shined in the sunlight and strong wing flaps sent firm waves of air down at Scootaloo and professor Dash as Swellow took a look around at new surroundings.
"You know already how I got this big fool but that’s because my mum trusted me and your mum helped me obtain my partner here and he is one of my greatest companions" she said as Swellow desented down next to Dash. "He trusts me and I trust him and that took time and deviation to one and another, He's in the prime of his life and look damn good if I do say so myself" she said as she gave Swellow a playful slap to the back as Swellow looked like he was brushing while laughing it off.
"But..."Scootaloo started "I thought that Pokémon where only meant to be are obey us to become stronger and with our strong will they respect us and follow us into poke-matches" Scootaloo said looking the professor in the eyes.
Dash sighed as she walked over to Scootaloo.
"You see that’s sort of why your not ready, you don't see your Pokémon as equals more of soldiers and your the drill sergeant. Yeah its one way to go with your Pokémon if you are that strong willed and can inspire the respect out of your Pokémon" She said as she dropped to one knee and put an arm around Scootaloo. "But like I said that’s one way and its not the best way, nor is it the way you should take" Dash said as she gestured towards the wild Pokémon, Dinky, her mum and Munchlax. "Do you think you could go all Gilda on them?" Dash spoke.
"How did you know that’s..." Scootaloo began to speech before Dash cut her off.
"Look Gilda and I use to be tight but well are ways in Pokémon care and training changed. I respect that she was the champion but she lost last night to a trainer who took care of his treated his Pokémon as equals and show great compassion for them weather they won him the battle or lost it for him." She told Scootaloo as she got up off her knee and walked back over to Swellow. "Hell when the squirt won he ran over and hugged his Pokémon...almost as tight as that" Dash pointed towards Dinky who had her Munchlax in an tight embrace as it tried to break free and steal an apple away from a Whismur.
Both Dash and Scootaloo started to laugh as Dinky was being dragged along by her Munchlax as it inch ever so slowly closer and closer towards the still frightened Whismur.
"Look squirt this is just something that’s going to take time to sort out. But one day real soon your going to become a great trainer" Professor Dash said placing one hand in her lab coat pocket and the other onto her Swellow and smiled at Scootaloo.
Scootaloo looked at Dash and her Swellow and saw what could happen if you treat Pokémon as equals and sighed.
"Fine I'll wait it out, now come on lets go and help Dinky from being eaten..." Scootaloo stopped as a scream was heard and she and Rainbow turned around and saw Munchlax picking up Dinky and licking his lips.
"Of course you do need a little discipline with Pokémon Scoots" She said as both her and Scootaloo rushed over to help Firefly get Dinky to safety.
Author's Note
I was waiting on a friend of mine and friend of his to go through and edit this but they took forever to do so and I'm a bit into chapter 2 for this story and just couldn't wait. So yeah if you don't like it because it has poor grammar then well your going to have fun.
