Pokemon United

The fence had been badly damaged by a stampeding herd of Bouffalant, luckily that had been the only serious property damage and the herd had been corralled back into the reserve. It was just the one of those things that could happen when dealing with wild pokemon after all.

Of course that was no consolation to the workers who now had to fix the damage, but they put up with it as they had been here for years and cared about the place.

When the carriage pulled up, all five of the workmen stopped working briefly to see what was going on. Once they were asked about the owner, a bit of snickering could be heard. "Well I believe that she's just finishing up her rounds, but her grandfather is in the visitor's center up ahead who can call her in. Your passenger has impeccable timing as even tomorrow would have been too late to catch her."

Then once the carriage had passed on through, the men went back to their work while wondering what the passenger could want with Titania.

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Titania had just finished a new caretaker's training which would be the last thing she did at the sanctuary for quite some time. After all, tomorrow she would be leaving to start her own pokemon adventure, the adventure that she had put on the back burner three years ago for the sake of the reserve. However her grandfather had told her that she had worked very hard and that now it was time for her to chase her dreams. He had assured her several times that everything would be all right without her and that he would make sure things would run smoothly in her absence.

The sixteen year old looked down at her Obereon, her constant companion since her parents death and stroked the shiny Slyveon's head. "It's going to be strange leaving the reserve huh Obereon?" The Slyveon responded by wrapping his lower right feeler around her wrist and saying. "Veon!"

It was at that moment that the radio on her belt buzzed and she received a message from her grandfather Lance Acacia. Looks like she needed to make her way to the visitor center.

(Fyi, right now she is dressed in a work shirt and jeans since she was working. She will been in her avatar clothes later. Also Obereon has a different then normal shiny coloration that can be seen on her pokemon page.)

The visitor center had a country feel to it with the decorations and furniture. The walls had several posters detailing information on some of the Pokemon that lived on the reserve and viewing tips. Also for the visitors benefit were benches, snack machines, complimentary cold water as well as information of safaris and their prices. There was even a children's corner stuffed with pokemon books and plushies. There were also some rentals of hiking gear as well as maps to the areas reserved for camping and swimming. One thing of note was a large sign that reminded people that it was illegal to catch Pokemon on the reserve.

Mr. Grey Suit had arrived first to the visitor second and she would arrive only a few minutes later with Obereon right beside her. It only took a single for her to decide that she didn't like this man, but she politely shook his hand anyway since she needed to be professional.

She would grow angry at his offer to sell Virvana reserve, but managed to keep a polite neutral expression on her face with great effort. "I'm afraid I don't have even the slightest interest in selling Nirvana reserve. Now if tat is the only thing you wanted, then I'll have to ask you to excuse me as I have a lot of work I need to do. Please feel free to rest and have some water as it is a hot day today."

Her tone was polite, but extremely firm. Titania then fetched one of the water bowls meant for their pokemon guests and filled it with cool water for Obereon who drank from it happily as she waited to see if the business man was done with her.

Titania said goodbye and watched the business man leave. Now while it was true that the money would have been very useful on her journey, the reserve was her life, family legacy and her home. To abandon it for simple money was truly the unwise choice in her mind and one she had no intention of making.

"I'll be in my room Grandfather making final preparations for tomorrow. Let's go Obereon."

She headed out of the visitor center and got in the jeep. She wasn't going to be able to drive it all the way back to the house as the jeep was used for reserve work, but she could drive it to the ranger station between the visitor center and the house.

Actually rangers was the one area in which the reserve was doing phenomenal in. After her parents death in the Team Rocket attack, she had reached out to both the scientific community and the pokemon league. After all, the reserve boasted one of the largest herds of Kangaskhan and was an important breeding area or several pods of Lapras. Pokemon researchers often visited to study the two species in the wild so she had used that to appeal to the scientific community pointing out that if they didn't help to protect them, then they wouldn't be able to study them. As for the pokemon league, she pointed out that if they wanted to continue seeing the species at the pokemon league, then wild populations had to be protected so they could reproduce. As a result some of the best rangers were moved to Nirvana to help attract and train aspiring rangers. Of course the chance to work with two highly endangered species was a huge bonus for several of them.

As a result of this success, there had been fewer poaching attempts in recent years, but they had to remain vigilant, any sign of weakness would be an open invitation for another attack like the one that claimed the lives of her parents. However on the bright side, there were plans in the works to start taking a very limited amount of eggs from the Kangshkan herds. While most of the eggs were destined to be used for starting new herds in other protected areas, a few would become trainer pokemon. They would serve as prizes for an invitation only tournament which would serve to both raise money for the conservation of the species, raise awareness as well as give some very experienced trainers the chance to obtain one. There was also a plan to do the same with the Lapras populations, but that was for even further in the future.

She soon arrived at the ranger station and dropped off the jeep. She would have to walk the rest of the way. Titania fetched Lagi's pokeball and let out the charmander to walk with them. The teen had only recently obtained the fire type and thus was careful about when she let it out. After all a fire type pokemon could do a lot of damage if it misbehaved. However now was a fine time to spend time with him and let him get some exercise as she could keep a proper eye on him. She believed that her pokemon journey would be a great way to help them develop a strong bond.

Now it would still be a half hour walk to her house, maybe if if she was lucky she would find some berry plants on the way. After all there were several medicinal types of berries that would be very useful for a pokemon journey.

Titania had been hoping for a bit more luck on the berry front, but that was ok, maybe she'd be lucky some other time. She soon arrived at her fenced off home, entered the gate and recalled Lagi. She then headed inside with Oberon and headed to her room. She had done most of her packing already, but wanted to do a last minute check as she intended to be on her way first thing in the morning.

Oberon would help her gather up a few small things she had missed and then the girl would set out the clothes she intended to wear tomorrow. It was a larger, but perfect replica of the outfit her mother had sewed for her on her 13th birthday. It was mostly black dress with a purple ribbon across the waist, with several purple and gold tassels. As the skirt was quite short, she would wear a pair of black short shorts underneath. She would also wear black knee high socks and black shoes with a white bow as well as a fake purple gem in the center. She then went into the kitchen and got some pokemon food out in bowls for both of her pokemon. After letting Lagi out again to eat, she prepared dinner for herself.

Once the three of them had eaten, she would recall Lagi and locked the door. She intended to go to bed early tonight so she would have an early start in the morning. Titania would change into a simple night gown and get into bed with Oberon following immediately behind her. Then hugging Oberon close, she would close her eyes and go to sleep.

~~~The Next Day~~~

Titania was in the jeep with her grandpa as he insisted on driving her to Nirvana's gate. Both her pokemon and herself had eaten a large breakfast which was to tide them over to dinner. In her absence, her grandfather would be looking after both the reserve and the house. As for her normal salary from the reserve, she had arranged for most of it to be used on the reserve. She would however keep enough to keep the house bills paid and for a savings account to be used to put towards the care of her future pokemon when she returned.

Once they arrived at the gate, Titania and Oberon would get out of the jeep. Then they would say their farewells to her grandfather before setting off. Titania would let out Lagi to get some exercise and started to walk. She was now off the reserve grounds so any pokemon she saw would be 100% legal to catch. So she kept her eyes peeled for any wild pokemon as well as any edible foodstuffs like berries and mushrooms.

(I suck at describing clothes so please look at the gallery page in Titania's profile to see her outfit.)

Titania gathered up the berries and studied them to see if they had valuable properties or if they would be simply food for later tonight. In either case, she would stash them for later and head into the woods. She hoped that she would have more luck finding wild pokemon here then on the flat land.

She held onto one of Oberon's ribbon like feelers and kept Lagi slightly to the front of her so she could keep an eye on hi,. It would be easy to get lost in the woods so she wanted to make sure her pokemon stayed very close to ensure they didn't get seperated. Luckily she had a compass so she wouldn't have to worry about going in circles.

(Did I ever tell you what edges I gave her? Well I know right now that she would have a high pokemon education rank as I was planning to give her that from the get go. Anyway let me know if I forgot to give you those so I can fix that.)

Titania wasn't very pleased when the berries turned out to be Redsturm, but maybe when she reached a city or something she would find someone who could show her how to make something useful out of them.

Then not too long after she entered the forest, she managed to find a wild Weedle in a bed of tall grass. While it was a wild pokemon, she only had a limited supply of pokeballs and decided that she would rather save them for something else. However this could be a good chance to train Lagi her charmander a little.

She ordered him in front of her and prepared to battle.

(Would asking Lagi to use Ember potentially start a forest fire? I don't know how realistic we are going to be.)

(Edit: well I'm probably not going first. )

Titania was pleased to see that the weedle had failed to damage Lagi with it's stinger and quickly ordered him to counterattack. "Lagi use your Ember attack on Weedle, but don't hit the grass!"

Titania wanted Lagi to win the battle, but she didn't want to damage the environment in the process. After all, growing up on a pokemon reserve meant that she understood just how precious the natural world was.

(Not sure what the burn chance roll would be, so I just copied your 1d100.)

Titania was happy to see that Lagi had managed to win the battle, but quickly became concerned by the strange sound she heard. Even so, she would take the time to cover the knocked out Weedle with grass to protect it from predators. After all, she was the reason it had been knocked out, so she could at least hide it while it recovered.

She would then walk in the direction opposite from that strange sound while praising Lagi for his performance at the same time. The young trainer would then go back to looking for wild pokemon once she felt she had walked about half a mile from the battle site.

As she walked with her two pokemon, she fetched her compass making sure to take a glance every now and then to help her avoid becoming lost. She soon came across an ancient oak that had a Mankey angrily throwing berries down below. Also in the trees were Tailows preening their feathers

On the ground were the Flabebes and the Zigzagoons eating the fruit that making was throwing to the ground. Out of all these pokemon, it was the Mankey and the Tailow that caught her attention. However she quickly ruled out trying for the Mankey as it would likely be too great a handful for a novice like herself. So that left the Tailow.

Noting the distance been the Tailows and herself, she decided that this was a job for Oberon. "Obereon, use Fairy Wind on the right most Tailow."

(Edit: No getting lost for me!)

Titania had a problem with the Mankey approaching her. Thinking fast she ordered Oberon to leave the two Tailows and intercept the Mankey using Quick Attack. Luckily the Sylveon had hardly been touched by the two Tailow's attack.

Then to protect herself from the Tailows, she ordered Lagi to attack them with Ember on the closest Tailow and at the same time would study them trying to determine their relationship. If the pair were mates or best friends, then she didn't want to separate them.

(Don't forget, the quick attack will be be super effective due to Sylveon's pixalate ability.)

Unfortunately due to the chaos of the whole situation, Titania was unable to tell the relationship of the two tailows. So deciding not to risk separating a mated pair, she decided to see if she could intimidate them into leaving her alone.

She would scream at them and stomp her feet trying to make herself look as scary as possible. However if her attempt to frighten them away failed, then she would go to her back up plan of fighting them with Oberon and Lagi. If it did come to that then she would order them to use Fairy Wind and Ember respectively, though being careful with the later.

Titania noticed that one of the tailows had flown away, surely if they were mates, then the fleeing tailow wouldn't have abandoned the other one or even if that happened then this one would have likely followed after. Lagi meanwhile managed to perfectly defend himself from the tailow's beak and thus didn't take any damage.

While all this was going on, Tiantia would fetch a pokeball and then she ordered Lagi to try distracting the Tailow which he did by lashing his fiery tail at it. Then she let the poke ball fly towards the Tailow. All she could do now was hope that the ball hit and that the Tailow was weak enough to be caught.

(I will edit this post a bit depending on the defending rolls.)

Edit: Post edited and yes, I caught a pokemon!)

Titania smiled with glee as she saw that her first attempt to catch a pokemon and ended with success. She quickly ran over and picked up the pokeball containing the Tailow and then put the ball away. The young trainer then approached Lagi and stroked the top of his head. "Good job Lagi! You did a very good job and I'm proud of you." She would then turn her attention to Oberon to praise and pet him as well.

However she wasn't about to get too caught up in her celebrations however. She had injured the Tailow to catch him and thus needed to get him treated. Unfortunately she didn't have any potions at the moment, so she would have to find either a Pokemon center, or maybe get lucky and find some healing items. She also had to come up with a name for her new friend, but she could think on that as she traveled.

Titania would recalled Lagi into his pokeball to give him a chance to rest after his back to back battles. Then with Oberon at her side, she would move on looking for the way out of the forest while also keeping an eye out for any bushes which bore HP restoring items.

Titania was disappointed by the lack of useful berries, but she knew that it was a long shot in the first place. However her spirits were quickly lifted when she heard people talking in the distance. She may not have been able to understand what they were saying, but that didn't matter as they were people.

She would quickly pick up the pace and heard towards the directions of the voices. Hopefully they would be able to point her to the nearest pokemon center.

Titania's relief at hearing the sound of people nearby would instantly turn into pure undiluted hatred the second she spotted those red Rs on their uniforms. Luckily they hadn't seem to have noticed her yet, so she silently hid herself behind a large tree with Oberon following immediately after.

From behind the tree, she would motion for Oberon to stay silent. Now despite her boiling rage, she was able to think logically. She was a beginner trainer after all, so the two rockets were probably stronger then she was, on top of that, they also had the advantage of numbers. So just rushing in there was a no go. If she wanted to help whatever poor pokemon they had caught, then she was going to have to be smart about this.

She would carefully peek from behind the tree and carefully memorize the locations of the two rocket as well as the crate. Then the teen would quickly come up with a battle plan. Her only advantages were that the rockets didn't know she was there and that they didn't have their pokemon out. So she would have to capitalize on those two advantages.

Tiantia knew that Lagi knew the move smoke screen so she could probably use that to cause confusion and hopefully hide herself. Then she could order her pokemon to attack the rockets and hopefully keep them from being able from releasing their pokemon or at least slow them down.

So with that in mind in mind, she released Lagi from his pokeball while attempting to block out as much of the light as possible by using both the tree and her own body. She then whispered for him to use Smoke Screen on the two rockets.

Then immediately afterward, ordered Lagi and Oberon to attack the two using Ember and Quick Attack respectively while pointing directly at both rockets. Then she would run with her head down towards the crate with one hand over her nose and mouth. Her other hand would release Tailow who she would also order to attack the two rockets.

Once at the crate, she would quickly try to open it to free the captive pokemon.

(Don't forget to add whatever modifier I get from the smoke screen to the stealth roll.)

Titania quickly pushed the two knobs in and unlocked the cage. She would then open the door for the trapped pokemon while whispering soft encouraging words so that it could tell that she wasn't one of the two rockets.

The teen would then attempt to sneak up to the closest of the two rockets and attempted to punch him in the back of the throat to knock him out.

Meanwhile both Lagi and Oberon were still on the offensive. Oberon would attempt to use Quick Attack on the just released Voltorb while Lagi would use ember again aiming for the man with the club.

(Basically if Titania keeps her stealth then make her attack a sneak attack.)

Titania noticed the strange coloraion and wings of the Rufflet she had freed, but she had more pressing concerns at the moment. would attempt to finish off the weakened rocket with a kick to the shin in order to get one combatant out of the fight. While she did that the enemy voltorb would attack, but Oberon rushed in-between them to take the hit himself. The intertwining pokémon would then retailate with Fairy Wind.

Meanwhile Lagi would take a very heavy blow from the rocket with the club and would be on his last legs. Titania would notice this and quickly recall the charmander. While she really hadn't wanted to, she really needed the extra help and thus sent out her newly caught Tailow. "Go Zephyr."

(I didn't think it would be fair to let Zephyr attack this turn and remove charmander's attack.)

Titania didn't bother to speak even a single word in reply, all she wanted to do was beat these rockets. The young trainer could also see that Zephyr didn't seem to be interested in helping her fight them.

The teen would run forward and attempt to kick the weakened rocket right in the kneecaps knowing that it was a vulnerable area. As she attacked she would speak, not to the rockets, but towards the reluctant Tailow. "Zephyr, please I'm not asking you to fight for me, but for the good of all pokemon. These men will hurt many more pokemon if we don't stop them now. Please help me to help pokemon!"

Zephyr would be able to recognize the sincerity in her words and thus would be moved to battle. However the Tailow was weakened from his battle with Lagi and would thus miss his first attack, but he wasn't ready to give up yet.

Oberon meanwhile would only suffer a bit more scorched fur from the Voltorb's attack and would retaliate with Fairy Wind.

(Since Voltorb's accuracy roll was a -1 and his damage was a 1, I assume that meant no damage. Also I'm going to be very annoyed if that rocket manages to avoid a knock out a 2nd time. X.X)

Titania was glad to see one rocket go down which now meant that it was three vs two. Of course she wasn't about to celebrate as the fight wasn't over yet. She would attempt to attack to land a solid blow on the remaining rocket, but would end up becoming distracted out of concern for Oberon and thus miss entirely. Oberon meanwhile managed to put up a godly defense and take very little damage from the rocket's vicious assault. The intertwining pokemon would attempt to retaliate against the rocket with quick attack, but since he had put so much effort into defending himself, his accuracy suffered a bit. However he still might manage a glancing blow.

As for Zephyr, the Tailow was currently trying to find a safe opening to attack his much larger opponents and didn't manage to make an attack this turn.

Titania noticed that the voltorb was about to do the one thing that it's species was infamous for; blowing up. She would response to this by immediately recalling all of her pokemon and then getting the heck out of there. Luckily she managed to get out of the blast radius in time. Knowing that there wasn't likely to be any left back there, she would release Oberon from his pokeball and move on. He was the least injured of her pokemon and she needed one out in case she was attacked by wild pokemon again. Besides Lagi and Zephyr had earned a good rest.

Now as much as she knew that she needed to find a pokemon center, she was still really worried about about the odd looking rufflet from earlier. She would ask Obereon to help her look for it, but ultimately wouldn't find even the slightest trace of it. Maybe she could try again later, but for now she really needed to find that pokemon center.