...new trainer

hi! @pinkpoweredpunk mod here with another roleplay blog LMAO, this one's for my pokesona. they're a Latias disguising themself as a human, and basically they're gonna go through each of the mainline games in a row. playing through all the games again in order is somethin i've been wanting to do for a while now, so why not make a blog out of it? (even though i already have several incompleted playthroughs but SHHHH-)

we're gonna be starting with FireRed first! throughout the games, Goldie will grow up and change in slight ways.

here's what they look like in Latias form:

RULES

-Strict no NSFW rule.

-Magic Anons are on, within reason. If I don't feel like doing one I'll postpone answering it/ignore it

-Pelipper Mail/Variants are on

With the way he squints at them, it’s clear the guard already can tell something is off.

Guard: “Uh… who are you?”

Goldie: “Um. Worker person.”

The guard blinks.

Guard: “You look like a kid. We don’t hire youngin’s your age. How’d you get that uniform?”

There’s a flicker of nervousness in Goldie’s eyes, but they try to keep their composure.

Goldie: “Th-they gave…one ca-cause work- I-I work… here.”

The guard frowns with scrutiny.

Guard: “Quit fooling around! You’re not convincing anyone, let alone me. I dunno what you’re trying to do, but stunts like this can getcha in big trouble, you hear?”

He steps forward, looming over them, and the child shrinks back. Trembling slightly now, they point to the door behind him.

Goldie: “N-Need to go in…”

Guard: “This place here is for authorized personnel only. Unless you can show me your staff ID, this little prank won't work on me! Honestly…”

Grumbling to himself, the man pulls out a walkie-talkie and holds it up to his face. You watch Goldie’s fretful expression… darken into annoyance.

Guard: “HQ? Yeah, we have a troublemaker here pretending to be an employee. Not really sure how this kid got in, but-“

All of a sudden, the guard’s muscle seize up, locking him in place. The walkie-talkie clatters to the floor.

Guard: “A-Ack—!”

Light outlines his struggling form. Soon, he’s levitated off the ground and oh-so-carefully placed just a few inches to the side. As soon as he’s out of their way, Goldie skips up to the door with a much more calm demeanor now and turns the knob, and waltzing inside.

After breaching the threshold, they pull the guard in with them before pushing the door back shut with their hand, scanning the contents of the building's interior.

As they do, the guard is released from the telekinetic hold and dropped over by the far wall. He scrambles to sit up, his breathing unsteady and his eyes wide blown with terror.

Guard: “Wha-what are you doing?! Let me go! Please!”

Ignoring him, the child treads further in. That’s when they discover the room is filled entirely and only by tall, metal racks, each of them lined with rows of Pokéballs from floor to ceiling.

They walk up to the shelf closest to them, eyes scanning over the sticker labels that list each row’s contents. “Rhyhorn”, “Paras”, “Tauros”…

No sign of which ‘Mon Goldie was actually looking for, though. Stumped by seeing the sheer amount of Pokéballs they’ll need to scour through, they turn to the guard who’s still cowering in the corner and switches to their telepathic voice.

Goldie: “Um, I'm looking for a Snorlax. Do you know where he is?”

He jumps at just how different they sound, then quickly shakes his head.

Guard: “I- I don’t know anything a-about a Snorlax! Please don’t hurt me!”

Goldie just gives him an eye roll as they turn back to the shelves.

Goldie: "I'm not gonna hurt you, I just need to find my friend... I won't take long, a-and I'll leave after that, promise!"

That doesn't do much to comfort their... probably unintentional captive. Either way, it looked like they had a long search ahead of them. Figuring this would go much faster with some help, they reach for one of their own Pokéballs.

Cheese pops out, seeming to already understand the objective as her ears perk up and she gives the air a sniff. Her mouth drops open when she beholds the shelves towering above her on all sides.

She bounces to face her trainer.

Cheese: { “Is this where they’re keeping Biggs?” }

Goldie nods, looking around.

Goldie: “Think so… I dunno why they have so many Pokéballs in here, but he’s gotta be in one of them.”

Standing up on her hind legs, the Pikachu scratches her ear as she thinks.

Cheese: { “Hm… Oh! I know, send out Peanut and Copper! They’re small enough to fit in here. Peanut can climb up and check the top rows, I can get up to the middle rows, and Copper can search the bottom!” }

Liking her idea, Goldie nods before letting the aforementioned Pokémon out next. After giving the Marowak and Primeape a rundown of the situation, the four hastily get to work, checking row after row. All the while, the security guard remains balled up in the corner watching, too scared to make a move after he’s long realized who- or more specifically what- this bizarre vigilante child is.

With their collective effort, the team’s soon able to get to the near-end of the room, yet still with no sign of Biggs. After clearing another shelf, Cheese stops to cross her arms with a huff, tapping her foot against the metal.

Cheese: { “Still nothing! Where the heck could they be keeping him?!” }

After examining a ball with a Kangaskan in it, Copper snaps out of a deep thought he was in and looks up at the electric mouse.

Copper: { “Why are there so many Pokéballs in this room, anyway?” }

Peanut backflips from a different shelf onto the one they’re all crowding around, peering down at the smaller ‘mons.

Peanut: { “Beats me! They’re all occupied, too. Who the heck needs THIS many Pokémon?” }

Goldie brings a finger to their chin.

Goldie: “This is a place where trainers come to catch Pokémon… maybe this is where they keep them all?”

Cheese tilts her head, pondering her trainer’s theory.

Cheese: { "Uhhh... So they catch them and then release them here?" }

Peanut: { "Where do they get the Pokemon if they're not originally from here?" }

Copper’s brows crease as he looks at the Pokéball again, paw ghosting over it.

Copper: { “Are they trapped here? Should we free them, too?” }

Peanut: { “Yeah! Maybe stirring up a bit of a riot in this place will help us get out!” }

Cheese: { “Well, let’s hurry and find Biggs first! There’s no way we’ll be able to if this place gets torn down by a bunch of angry-” }

Sssssssss…..

A low, eerie hiss makes everyone stop in their tracks. Cheese’s fur spikes up, Goldie’s ears prick on high alert, and Copper grips his club. Peanut raises into a stand, eyes diligently scanning the room for the sound's source. Her pupils narrow when she hones in on something you can’t see, and her hackles raise. Without any word of warning to her teammates, she lunges across the room. You watch her fly over Goldie’s head before roughly tackling something to the ground.

Whipping around, Goldie jerks their head back after a pair of Arbok fangs snap right in their face. They stumble back, knocking into one of the shelves and sending several balls clattering to the floor.

The poison snake continues to bare its teeth at them, but is held back by the restricting grip Peanut’s already got its lower half in, its body practically tangled around her arms. Cheese yelps and scrambles up onto Goldie’s shoulder, where they clutch her tightly as they step further back from the restrained Pokemon, and Copper takes a protective stance in front of them.

Cheese: { “Wh-where did that guy come from?!” }

Peanut grunts as she struggles to hold the thrashing snake, but glances to the side when her ear twitches at the sound of something else.

Peanut: { “We’re not alone! Get outta here and-” }

Another hissing sound cuts her off, as suddenly, a white smog starts to fill the room. This time, it comes from above, and everyone looks up to see a circular shape descending from the ceiling. The Weezing stops in between Goldie and Peanut, choking out a low cry. Before anyone can have time to react, a voice barks out from somewhere-

???: “Use Smokescreen!”

Dark plumes explode out of the Weezing’s exposed pores, and the feed fills with a thick gray. You hear Goldie shout for someone to attack, and a Thunderbolt from Cheese just briefly illuminates everything again, but even in those millisecond flashes all you can see are indistinguishable figures scrambling about in the smog. After that, you hear the thumps and thuds of moves being used, rattling and clattering of things getting knocked over, and Pokémon crying out.

Another flash of light breaks through the haze, this time dispelling it entirely. When it’s all cleared, you catch the end of Goldie’s transformation back into their Latias form. The Dragon-type and their Pokémon stand back-to-back, standing in a field of knocked over shelves and more Pokéballs scattered across the ground.

Goldie’s feathers ruffle, and they arch their neck as they growl.

Goldie: “Who’s there?! Who’s doing this?!”

Peanut: { “Show yourself!” }

Ahead of Goldie, the smoke starts to clear in a specific spot. Slowly, you’re able to make out the shape of a person with spiky hair, donning a scarf that billows in the wind.

???: “I’m the one sent to put a stop to your transgressions.”

Now fully visible, it’s revealed to be a middle aged man wearing purple ninja attire. Arbok and Weezing arrive at his sides, giving you the impression that they’re his Pokémon. He straightens his stance and faces Goldie with his fists balled.

Koga: “My name is Koga. I am the Fuchsia City gym leader.”

After introducing himself, he points at Goldie.

Koga: “And you’re that Latias I’ve heard so much about- the one that’s been trying to disguise itself and infiltrate human society, no?”

Goldie tenses. The gym leader was showing up here of all places? Maybe they had gotten in over their head… Still, they thrash at the older trainer threateningly.

Goldie: “Leave us alone!”

Their new adversary remains unfazed, his hand falling back to his side.

Koga: “I’m afraid I cannot do that. Legendary Pokémon or not, you’re on my home turf, and your actions here have been nothing short of terrorizing the city’s peace. First breaking into the Safari Zone on that Snorlax, now holding one of its employees hostage and ransacking their workplace!”

Looking back at the guard they had indeed trapped inside with them, Goldie’s brows crease with a flash of guilt in their eyes.

They turn back to Koga.

Goldie: “I was gonna let him go! I’m just trying to find someone that the Safari Zone is-”

Koga: “That is no excuse! You may be a Pokémon, but I’m under the impression you’re intelligent enough to understand there’s consequences to your actions. Should you refuse to cease and leave this place at once, you shall face them!”

Goldie readies to hold their ground, and Peanut does the same, followed by Copper. They catch sight of Cheese trembling in the corner of their eye, and turn to look at her.

Cheese: { “G-Goldie, what do we do?!” }

Her trainer glances at Koga, then looks back to her with a determined expression.

Goldie: “We gotta fight back! If we don’t, we might lose our chance to save Biggs!”

It’s clear Cheese wants to face this battle with that same amount of bravery. She had before in so many other battles, but… One look at that Arbok, and she almost seemed paralyzed.

Shaking like a leaf, she steps back.

Cheese: { “I- I can’t…” }

Reassuring claws press against her back. When she looks up again, Goldie’s face is now painted with understanding.

Goldie: “I’m scared too. But we’ll be okay!”

Peanut brandishes a thumbs up back at her.

Peanut: { “Just sit back for this one, Pipsqueak! I’ve got this one covered. I’ve wrestled with WAY nastier than a couple of STINK-BREATHS like these guys!” }

Copper: { “I-I’ll do my best, too!” }

Sensing the time to fight was nigh, Arbok and Weezing stalk closer. Cheese bites her lip, before whipping around to bounce onto Goldie’s back.

Cheese: { “Alright, but… I-If things get sticky, I’ll… I promise I’ll do my part…!” }

Goldie straightens themself so Cheese could climb on safely. Watching this all, Koga looks appalled.

Koga: “I'd heard the rumors that you psychically control Pokémon to fight for you. I'd found the notion absurd at first, but-”

That strikes a nerve, and Goldie emits a growl as they let light cloak them again, reshaping them back into their human form. Cheese remains steady on their shoulder as their feet touch the ground.

Goldie: “I don’t control them! They’re my friends! I’m a Pokémon trainer, and I’m gonna fight you like one!”

The sheer ferocity in their telepathic shout seems to take Koga by surprise, but whatever hesitance struck him then is only there for less than a blink.

Sensing their trainers resolve, Peanut and Copper march forward. Arbok and Weezing do the same. Not wasting anymore time, Goldie and Koga call out their first attacks in unison.

Goldie: “Fury Swipes!”

Koga: “Poison Fang!”

Arbok lunges again with its fangs bared, a purple energy gleaming off of them. Peanut leaps up to dodge, making the snake’s jaws snap around nothing but air. She deals an onslaught of clawed swipes at her opponent’s face, making it hiss and slither away.

Goldie: “Headbutt!”

Koga: “Sludge Bomb!”

Weezing rears back and launches a blob of purple sludge from the back of its throat, right at the oncoming Marowak. Copper jumps, slashing through it with his club and ramming into the enemy’s face. It grunts as it’s sent rolling back by the blow.

Once free, Arbok rounds back for another go at Peanut, snapping at any exposed spot it thinks it can reach. Every time, Peanut either evades with ease or parries with a punch to the snake’s nose, her attention completely honed in on its movements and predicting each strike.

Seeing this, Koga realizes an opportunity, and seizes it.

Koga: “Use Glare!”

With her gaze locked so fixedly on Arbok, it’s inevitable that she’s unable to dodge the way she has been when its eyes glare red and bore directly into hers. Just like that, her body starts to twitch before it fully seizes up with paralysis, leaving her at Arbok’s mercy.

Goldie: “Peanut-!”

Koga turns his attention to his other Pokémon.

Koga: “Use Heatwave!”

After thumping against a wall, Weezing recollects itself before carrying out its retaliation. Lowering to the ground, its body starts to glow red, before it unleashes a Heat Wave sweeping across the ground. Copper takes the billowing flames head-on, wielding his club once more and letting it swallow him. Instead of succumbing to the heat, his spinning weapon creates a barrier of air around him to keep it at bay until it subsides.

What he doesn’t expect is for Weezing to appear right above him once the flames no longer block his vision, and clamp its teeth down on his club. Caught off guard by this move, Copper attempts to pry it out of the Pokémon’s mouth, but that only spurs it to float up towards the ceiling and drag him into the air with it. The Marowak looks down at the height he’s been carried to, realizes it’s much too far a drop to simply let go, and starts to flail his legs around in panic.

Goldie: “Copper!”

At the sound of them crying out, Koga’s eyes fixate on Goldie. Seeing the trainer’s expression wrought with worry for the Pokémon fighting on their side, something in his gaze softens. It seems as if he’s reconsidering something; perhaps his prior assumption?

But then that waver is gone, and you hear him mutter to himself.

Koga: “I have no time to entertain this silly ruse. This Pokémon mustn’t be allowed to escape again!”

He calls out his next order, but this time, he points at Goldie.

Koga: “Arbok, use Glare again, on Latias!”

Eyes still aglow, Arbok’s head snaps towards its directed target. It happens so fast, and Goldie can’t look away before its gaze locks with theirs. In a heartbeat, they go stiff, their face frozen in a state of panic and their limbs locking in place.

Not long after, they lose the strength to keep their human disguise up, and collapse to the ground as it dissipates. Panicked, Cheese jumps off their shoulder and places her paws on their neck, trying to shake them out of it.

Cheese: { “Goldie! Get up!” }

The Arbok lurches closer, hissing lowly. Cheese freezes, gawking up at it in horror, but tries to push down her fear and lower onto all fours. Lightning crackles off her cheeks before she unleashes the most vicious Thunderbolt she can muster.

Arbok wails as it’s electrocuted, but Koga is quick to react. Flinging his wrist, he tosses a Pokéball out, releasing a Golbat.

Koga: “Use Supersonic!”

A grating sound echoes out of the Golbat’s gaping mouth, hitting Cheese point blank and fizzling out her lightning. The Pikachu begins to stumble around in a daze. Arbok takes this chance to wrap its tail around her tightly, trapping her in a coil. This action resurfacing her previous fear and sending it into overdrive, Cheese starts screaming at the top of her lungs, almost like she's dying.

Goldie's eyes shoot open hearing their partner's shrieks. They thrash around with weak and shuddering movements, trying to break free of the paralysis. They manage to lift a few inches off the ground with their paws, glaring at Koga with a kindling fury behind their eyes. Their pupils and iris flood with white, readying a psychic attack.

Koga falters for a moment, but reaches into one of his pockets and pulls out an Ultra Ball. A peculiar ball, with some kind of metal clamp wrapped around it. Wasting no more seconds, he flings it at Goldie.

Goldie moves tightens their focus moments before in preparation to stop it, but the paralysis flares at just the wrong time, making them stagger right as the ball comes flying at them. It strikes the top of their head, clicks open, and breaks down their form into light before absorbing them. Their bag, watch, and belt of Pokeballs are left falling to the floor.

The ball's lid snaps shut, and it thuds to the ground, rolling around as it fights to complete the capture. Prongs slide out of the metal clamp and around the sides of the Ultra Ball, tightening its hold on Goldie.

Blinking tears out of her eyes, Cheese reaches a shaking paw out towards the capsule.

Cheese: { "G-Goldie, no-!" }

Peanut tries to break through her own paralysis and sway forwards, but the Golbat swoops in and plants its feet into her back, holding her down. She tries with no avail to shake the stubborn bat off.

Peanut: { "G-g-get OFF OF M-ME!" }

The only one left with any freedom of movement is Copper. Yet still, his club is impounded by the Weezing, and unless he wants to drop down and fight without it, he can do nothing but swing helplessly from several feet above. His eyes fly between each of his captured team members, panic building as the gravity of their situation sits in.

And in the midst of the team's hopeless hour, Koga treads forwards, watching the ball continue to shake with a solemn frown.

His hand twitches at his side, and his head lowers. Just barely, you can hear things he's murmuring under his breath.

Koga: "I was warned that everything this Pokemon would say and do to try and dissuade me was just a ruse, but..."

He looks around at their distraught Pokemon.

Koga: "...Even the most skilled masters of deceit in this world would struggle to feign the amount of conviction I saw in that Pokemon's eyes."

His eyes drift to their scattered belongings. Items from their backpack had partially spilled out; food, a water bottle, a Pokedex, Pokeballs, a medical aid kit, a map... a thorough ensemble of all the essentials any truly dedicated trainer would think to keep on hand.

Koga: "...Just what would motivate a Pokemon to put together such an elaborate facade? A Legendary Pokemon, no less...?"

He looks down again. The ball is still shaking. Its hard to discern exactly what Goldie's chances are of actually breaking free.

Koga: "What would a creature- a supposed god gain from acting as a trainer? As a human...?

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