You know, they really undersold the size of the of the SS Anne. The thing wasn't humongous, no, it was fucking ginormous!
Like I could fit maybe thirty wailords in single file order and maybe have room for a couple more. Like how much resources did that thing take to make? The time spent ensuring it was up to snuff must have been torture, even with Pokemon.
However it wasn't quite yet time to board, so I decided to go and hit the gym, due to the fact Surge ran the city gym, the actual workout gyms, not Pokemon battle one's, were almost everywhere.
Sylveon followed beside me happily, she's taken to doing that all the time now, and it was fine. It was actually quite comforting. When I started to emotionally spiral, and it did happen, she would just wrap her ribbons around my arm a bit tightly.
Does this make her my emotional support animal?
I guess so. Oh well.
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"Blaring for the SS Anne has begun, all those with tickets please begin making their way towards boarding."
Oh cool, they broadcasted that throughout the entire city, actually nice of them to do so.
"Ten!" I grunted as I finished my final set of pull ups. Landing on the floor after letting go of the bar I took a sip of my water before throwing my jacket on, grabbing my bag and leaving the gym with Sylveon trailing behind me.
"Ticket?" I reached into my pocket and handed it over, having grabbed it from my bag earlier on my walking over.
"Thank you, enjoy your time on the SS Anne, your room is A17, Floor 5. Please enjoy all the amenities of our ship." The lady said smiling.
"Thank you, have a good day~" I smiled at her in return as I made my way up the ramp onto the boat. First and foremost, find my room on floor 5.
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"Wow. Did I get an upgrade or something to my ticket?" I asked as I looked at the extremely luxurious room. Like seriously, no way they provided such a room for a ticket from winning a gym battle.
A completely giant room, big enough for my whole team to fit comfortably. A nice big bed. Giant flat screen tv. Large bathroom with a huge tub. A private balcony overlooking the ocean.
Like it's amazing!
"This is amazing! Is there where we're sleeping?" Sylveon asked curiously as she explored the room and I smiled. She was so cute!
"Yes we are. Come on out everyone." I said as my pokemon released themselves from their pokeballs, I made sure they could do so, also because I was to lazy to keep doing it myself at times.
"There is where we will be staying for a the duration of the cruise. I'm going to take a nice hot shower and a nap. Then we can explore the ship once its departed. I'm not looking to fight everyone arriving." I said as the four of them sat down together and started talking.
"Ok!" "Enjoy!" "Sleep tight hehehehe!" "Would you like me to sing?"
"A song would be greatly appreciated." I said as I entered the shower, I didn't bother closing the door, it was just my pokemon and myself, the room door was locked, so no anime cliches of someone somehow walking into the room and seeing my half naked or fully naked.
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"That was a good nap." I said to myself as I stretched and looked over the ocean as the ship was departing from Vermillion City.
My pokemon were all returned to their pokeballs besides Haunter who was in my shadow.
By now everyone was exploring the ship, eating lunch, mingling with others or other things.
However I did remember one thing, there was a tournament style battle that was to happen and good rewards for the taking. I wanted them so bad. I probably couldn't win, but I'd like to think I wouldn't quite lose either in most cases.
Thankfully there was a employee walking by and I asked for directions and info about it.
"Oh yes, the tournament will be held in our main battle arena in the center of the ship. It will begin in three hours, would you like to sign up. It will be 1v1 battles only, you may freely swap your pokemon out between matches." They said and I said yes I wanted in and she wrote down my name.
"You have been entered, a call will be heard over the ship half an hour before it begins, please have a good time." They said before walking off.
7/10 hospitality, would have been higher if they asked if I needed anything else, oh well, can't expect much more from a team rocket scenario, I'm just curious how it would go.
Oh yes, I did know about it quite a lot.
I know there's several iterations of it, but one thing is certain. Team Rocket will try to steal everyone's pokemon sometime before this ship docks.
How I'm not sure, but it will happen. I intended to be ready for this, plus it's not like I can just say "Hey you know the villian team of Kanto, yeah they're gonna attack and raid the ship sometime in the future, so prepare of whatever."
Yeah, that would go so well…
"Welp time to explore." I hummed and started walking through the ship, I wanted to find the dining room and enjoy some nice food, all free too! At least it said it was on my ticket.
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Ok, so the draco plate might have fixed my direction skills, but I guess figuring out directions on a map perfectly still wasn't my expertise.
"Are you lost?" A voice asked and I glanced away from the map on the wall to the voice and hid my reaction which was to squeal.
Cynthia, known as Shirona in Japanese, in her very appealing black outfit stood before me.
"Yeah, I've never been the best with directions, I've spent the last hour trying to find the dining area." I said and she nodded in understanding.
"I can understand that, I've had some issues getting around the ship, but I did find the dining area earlier, would you care to join me? I was looking to eat soon myself." Cynthia said and I smiled before nodding.
"If you wouldn't mind, I'm Raven Inanis, thanks for the help." I said offering a hand shake and she smiled and shook it.
"I'm always happy to help, Cynthia Silvan."
Oh that's a good grip, but I expect nothing less from the woman who would throw down with my boy Pokemon Satan himself.
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Main love interest arrived a lot earlier then I was originally planning, but I decided to make them become friends early on to grow their bond. After all, what better way to start a friendship and eventually a relationship then dealing with an evil team attempting to rob you?
Anyways I was thinking on how I want to exactly handle the team rocket approach here. Do I make Mewtwo appear here and have some wild things happen between a plate holder and the human made legendary? Just have them use physic pokemon? Have them all just be in disguise?
So ima think on that tomorrow while I'm working, let me know what you think.
Also, MC will be gaining a new pokemon soon, it'll be an egg, so he'll raise it himself. I'm a little indecisive on what pokemon I want it to be. Having it be an egg gives me time to properly think on it, I can realistic make it almost any pokemon this way.
Anyways, ima go now, need to sleep, I gotta go to an eye exam tomorrow early in the morning before I gotta get ready for work.
Till next time!
Bye~
-Voidy, The Insomniac