The Ponies of Kanto
Chapter: 2
Previous ChapterThe girls all left the lab. They had just gotten their Pokémon and Pokedex's. Now they each went to one part of the town to get better acquainted with their new partners.
Twilight & Mudkip
Twilight headed to the field next to one of the other two houses in the town. She looked down at the Pokeball in her hoof. She tossed the Pokeball on the ground in front of her releasing her new partner. In front of her stood a blue mudfish-like creature.
“Mudkip!” it cried out as it looked around for its new trainer. It looked at Twilight and kept looking around, "Mudkip?"
"Over here," Twilight said with a smile, greeting her soon to be friend. "So, this is a Pokémon huh?" She looked over the Mudkip a little more. Just as she moved in closer, Mudkip looked over Twilight just as much as she did him. Twilight laughed a little bit, "Looks like you're just as curious as I am." The Mudkip nodded and seemed to smile at Twilight. "Oh yes! I almost forgot," She took out the Pokedex that Oak gave her, "I should be able to find out more about you from this." She pressed the button on the device and a back panel with another screen flipped up above the first screen. It lit up and showed Mudkip on the top screen. On the bottom screen were all kinds of statistics about this particular Mudkip. Before Twilight could make any remark about this technology, The Pokedex started to speak.
“Mudkip the Mudfish Pokémon. In water, The fin on Mudkip’s head acts as highly sensitive radar. Using this fin to sense movements of water and air, this Pokémon can determine what is taking place around it without using its eyes.”
Twilight looked back at Mudkip and decided to test this theory.
“Hey Mudkip do you feel anything in the air?”
The Mudkip looked at her confused for a moment before immediately turning away from Twilight and looked at three flying Pidgey flying overhead.
“Wow. You didn’t know you could sense things in the air. It says here you can do the same thing in water too.”
The Mudkip happily said its name knowing that he impressed its trainer.
She smiled and then looked back to the bottom screen of the pokedex. "Ok how about we find out what these attacks do then we can go find out more about this world." She read off the attacks that Mudkip had currently.
“Hmm. Only two. Tackle and Growl?”
Twilight thought for a moment, her horn lit up and a patch of ground lit up with it. The patch then lifted up and molded into a pillar. "Okay Mudkip try using Tackle on the pillar."
Mudkip nodded and jumped up toward the pillar hitting it with his head, upon impact, the pillar shattered. Twilight brought up a small shield as pieces of rock flew toward her.
"Well, it seems there is more to you than meets the eye." She smiled at her partner
“Mudkip! Mudkip!” the Mudkip said happily
She looked back at the pokedex again, "I wonder what growl would do?" As she finished asking the question the pokedex spoke up.
"Growl: the user lets out a cry that will lower the effectiveness of other Pokémon's attacks."
"Interesting, seems like you also have moves that don't do damage, but instead give you a tactical advantage." Twilight looked back at Mudkip.
He was looking around at some of the other Pokémon. Twilight did the same and thought back to last night, trying to deduce what happened to her and her friends. She made a small thinking pose, putting her hoof to her chin and closing her eyes. Mudkip turned back to Twilight, looked up and decided to mimic her, putting his paw up to his chin and closing his eyes. Twilight opened her eyes, not being able to remember anything from the previous night, to see Mudkip mimicking her previous pose. She let out a light laugh.
"You're so adorable hehe."
She picked up Mudkip with her magic and set him on her back. "I know Professor Oak said I shouldn’t leave this area, but let's go see what we can find out about this town shall we?" Mudkip let out a hearty cry as if to say, 'let's go!'
As they jumped over the fence of the lab and sneakily passed the lab Twilight made her way to one of the houses in the town.
“Mudkip. Do you think we should knock?” she asked her partner.
He replied by nodding his head.
Twilight was about to knock on the door when she realized, "Wait a minute, I'm a strange creature in a stranger world, who knows how will they react." She thought out loud. Before she could decide what to do someone's voice came from behind the door.
"Oh, is someone there?" The voice was from a woman, much older than Twilight.
Twilight panicked a bit "No wait! don't open the door!"
"Why ever not dear?" The door slowly opened to reveal the owner of the voice, a tall mature woman with lightish brown hair, and a face so kind, Fluttershy would be seen as mean. The woman looked down at Twilight and her Mudkip. "Aww. You two look like you were meant for each other" She smiled and motioned for the two to enter.
Twilight walks inside the house, a small table, kitchen, and a living room all in the same room. The rest of the house was neat and organized, just how Twilight liked it.
"This is a lovely home, miss... uhh"
“You can call me Delia” She smiled as she took a seat at the floor table. “Do you want anything to eat or drink?”
“Oh. No thanks.”
Twilight took a spot on the floor across the table from Delia, and the two shared an awkward silence for a while. Twilight was surprised to see her calm reaction to a talking pony. The front door then opens to show a similar creature to Delia but was shorter, had some proportions that didn’t match Delia and looked like a mime.
“Mr. Mine! Mine!” it said happily
Twilight was surprised by its enterest.
“Oh! Miney your back. Did you get the tomatoes?”
Miney opened a basket and passed over a bag of tomatoes to Delia.”
“Thank you Miney.”
Miney gave her a thumbs up before heading upstairs to start cleaning upstairs.
“Is he your assistant?” Twilight asked her.
“I wouldn’t say he’s, my assistant. More like my Pokémon helper for things I need to do around the house.”
Twilight then remembered spike her number 1# assistant. She knew he wouldn’t see him for a while, but she wouldn’t lose hope.
“Mudkip?” Twilight partner looked at her waving his paw across her face. While he was sitting on her head Which snapped her back into reality
“Are you alright?” Delia questioned
“Sorry. I'm fine”
Twilight wanted to change to subject so she looked around the room and saw a picture of Delia, her Pokémon helper and young-looking boy.”
“Who’s that with you?”
“Oh. That's my son Ash.” Delia said as she got a bag of pet food from the pantry
"Umm...I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring up a touchy subject" Twilight blushed a bit, as Mudkip and jumped off her head and onto the table.
“Oh, you don’t have to feel bad about it. My boy calls me almost every day when he’s on his journey.” she smiled
She filled a bowl with the pokefood and set down the bowl for Mudkip. He had stars in his eyes as he started to devour the food. Delia laughed a bit seeing Mudkip.
"You have such an appetite huh?"
Twilight couldn't help but smile watching Mudkip, but they were getting off topic.
"So, what was that about Ash?"
Delia sat down on a chair and sipped some water.
“Ash used to live with until he when on his first Pokémon journey with his partner Pikachu.”
She took a sip of her water.
“he’s been on many adventures after that. He's made many friends and they have helped him to become the very best he can be. I'm proud of him that he is still following his goal after all this time.” she smiled
Twilight was invested in this conversation. This boy what set on his dream for a long time and is still following it.
“"Do you know where he is now?"
Delia looked out the window with a smile.
“He’s in Galar right now help one of Professor Oaks students who’s studying more things about Pokémon.”
“Really! You're still learning about these Pokémon! How can I help!” Twilight said happily.”
Delia giggled at Twilight. “You seem to like learning.”
“Oh. Umm... Well yeah, I do.” she said embarrassed.
“Well. I think I have something you will enjoy.” She got up from her chair and headed upstairs.
Twilight waited for her to return. She didn’t have to wait long as Delia came down with a book in hand.
“Take this. It should help you understand more about Pokémon.” she passed the book to her.
Twilight used her magic to pick up the book which Delia was surprised at first but understood that she didn’t have hands.
Twilight looked at the book. "An Experts Guide to Pokémon." As the title read. It was all she needed to know.
“Really! I can have this.” she said
“Of course. You like to learn a lot of things, and my boy won’t need it.”
Twilight felt like a kid getting a gift from her friends. Even though she was a stranger, she just knew Delia was good on the inside and outside.
“Thank you.”
The front door then suddenly opens. It was none other than Professor Oak.
“Delia have you seen a-” He pause noticing that who he was looking for was right in front of him.
“Oh, there you are! You know I told you to stay at the lab.”
“Oh, you don’t have to worry. She was good company.” Delia told Professor Oak
“I just wanted to explore a little bit. I was going to come back.”
Oak sighed.
“You're right. I should have known some of you would at least want to explore our world, it a good thing I finished those the devices you need to get the Pokémon league.”
“Wait! You finished the devices!?”
“Yes, I did. Now I wanted you to come along so we can start the procedures.”
“Hold no. I'll come.”
Twilight turned to pick up her Mudkip and put him on her back. She then turned to Delia.
“Thank you for the book.”
“Not need to thank me. I hope you have a good time at the Pokémon league. If my boy comes back maybe, he can teach you a thing or two about Pokémon battles.”
“Pokémon battle?” twilight question but was silenced by Professor Oak.”
“Are you coming Twilight?”
“Yes, I am. Sorry, but it looks like I need to go.” she apologized to Delia
” Thats all right. I hope we can meet each other again soon.” Delia smiled
Twilight smiled back.
“Goodbye.” she waved with her hoof before following Oak back to the lab.
Author's Note
Also, they can only use Pokémon from Kanto Except the starters
Here's the list.

