Chapter 42 - Past of Alex

After the three left, the three future gym leaders and Agatha were left alone.

" Now that the matter is settled, what does the Johto government has to say about this?" Giovanni asked Agatha.

" Same as before, they just want to brush their hands off. It seems their government is decaying with all the struggle for powers among themselves." Agatha replied.

" The greatest enemy is not an outsider but an insider who will eat you from inside like a trapinch." Koga said his views.

" The times are changing again." Agatha said her view about the future.

And continued," almost every region now has started to choose an indirect leader among themselves who would lead them. The undisputed champion among these will be the leader of the alliance.

And the region will head it."

Agatha thought of the future and said," After Red and Blue , Kanto stood undisputed but some genius have emerged in other regions. With Those two living in seclusion the other regions forgot their existence. The other regions think that they can now pull us off the throne because we lack a strong deterrence.hmmm " She huffed in anger.

All the other people too were from Kanto and are in high enough position to know of some underhanded operation taking place by the other Nations.

" So this time Johto played the trick." Surge summed all.

But Agatha gave them no reply.

But Surge was really angry now and roared," I say we should show them Kanto is no joke. We still are the strongest."

Koga then added," If we talk about the strength of armed forced we are weaker than Hoenn and Sinnoh. Strength if Unova and Johto is weaker than us and only kalos is our equal."

Surge still angered returned," So we just endure and let them harass us. We should just crush them."

Giovanni asked Agatha," What is 'their' opinion?"

This stopped both Surge and Koga and they too looked at her, she just smiled at them.

She stood up from her seat and went to the window. There she saw our three heroes heading back to the Pokemon center," Let the youth handle it. The elderly will support them."

All of them understood the matter now. The matter will be settled by choosing an undisputed champion among the new trainers. Giovanni thought,' That's why they were rewarded and they were encouraged . So the next throne battle will begin soon.'

Agatha thought,' The future belong to the youth. They will build and destroy a nation. If we elderly people always take the lead how will they rise. Our presence had already weakened a generation. Only two rosee and others still stuck at the border. Only they can lead us now .'

With our three heroes,

They were unknown to the thoughts others had about them. They are still relishing about the rewards they got. They were happy and felt they could take on the world itself. They all separate to do their own things

After reaching the Pokemon center, The first thing Alex did was asked Nurse joy to check his new egg. She first returned him his Pokemons and then took the egg for check-up.

He released Eevee from the pokeball. She liked to roam around as much as she liked to keep her fur clean. She, pidgeotto and butterfree are the only female Pokemons in his team.

Not even Swinub who stole food from other Pokemon plates didn't dare to do that with her. She was earlier abandoned and was not too much into hygiene. But Alex had bought different soap and brush and other things to clean her up.

After her first bathe for a long time in Pewter city and him gently combing her hair to develop a bond between them, she was addicted to it. And whenever there is a chance she would run towards him with a brush so he could smoothen her fur.

This was effective too. She is one of his closest Pokemon just after Haunter and Charmeleon.

After being released, she first jumped on to Alex to hug him. The previous experience was quite scary for them so she did it whenever he released her. After that when he offered her to ride his shoulder, she declined it with pride and started walking ahead of him. To this, Alex just shook his head. She then yepped at him to follow as if saying,' Let go quick. I want to be combed. My fur is not as smooth as before. I am tired to lick myself clean. ah want a bath too.'

Seeing her looks Alex just followed thinking,' I shudder to think how dad handle mom.' as he was being ordered.

After he went towards the room but he was surprised to find Lance along with Lorelei standing in front of his room. Eevee seeing them ran towards Lorelei.

In their time together she and Lorelei had also bonded. As she didn't have a female companion to talk with and Butterfree wasn't much talkative. So Lorelei was a blessing to her.

But she completely ignored Lance. Whenever he greeted her, she just looked at him blankly as if saying she didn't greet brutes.

Just like this time , Seeing Eevee ran towards them, Lance greeted her, but Eevee ignored him and went to Lorelei and happily greeted her which she returned.

Lance complained to Alex," I know you have taught her this didn't you Alex to get back at me. I didn't know you played such a low blow. Having your Pokemon from even greeting someone as awesome as me. "

All the three just looked amazed at his bragging then chose to ignore him and followed Alex into his room.

After entering they sat on the bed and Eevee ran towards Alex with a brush and looked at him pitiful. Seeing this, he just smiled and took her on his l_a_p and softly combed her fur.

To show she enjoyed it, she purred.

Then he turned his attention to the others and asked," So what were you doing waiting outside my room."

Lance looked serious now and Lorelei just looked at Lance. The warm atmosphere suddenly turned heavy. This too affected Eevee. She then hissed at Lance blaming get for interrupting her rest and spoiling the environment.

But he ignored it and Lance looked at him seriously and said," You told me at that base you would tell about your past , Alex. And Lorelei is also our friend so she too deserve to know it."

Hearing it Alex stopped combing Eevee and this just increased her grievance with Lance.

Alex then started," Ok I will tell you." He just massaged his eyes thinking about it and looked sad about the past. This angered Eevee. She knew that the brute Lance made her happy trainer miserable so she jumped and bit hard on Lance's hand.

He jumped in pain. Seeing him jumping up and down with Eevee hanging on his hand was comical. This lightened up the atmosphere.

Alex rose from the bed and gently freed Lance from Eevee and then softly patted her head and said," Thank you girl for that. I will give you a long bathe after it. " Hearing it she squealed in joy.

But Lance wasn't happy. He was angry at Alex and shouted," Why are you rewarding her instead of punishment. See how hard she but me. Aren't you my friend Alex support me here."

Lance and Eevee always had such encounters so Alex learned to ignore them and let it be.

Alex ignored it now too and started," It happened when I was five years old,...

What is the past of Alex that turned hero into anti-hero? What is the mystery Pokemon ? While who will the undisputed champion be in the future and who are the other genius in other regions? For all the answers stay tuned.

to be continued...