

Erin was aghast and frozen as she stared at her mother who had just said the unimaginable. Her face switched instantly as she grinned and hugged her mom almost knocking her over as she wrapped her arms around her stomach.
"Thank you so much!!!" She let go of her mom and grabbed Stunky into a hug too.
The Pokemon ignored her and after a moment of complaining about the lack of love when everything was so good. She finally turned her own head to look at what distracted her Pokemon.
When she caught sight of the tall man her jaw dropped. As Stunky started hopping forward on her stubby legs Erin followed. He had just left the daycare but didn't seem to have a pokemon with him.
"Why are you so tall!?" She couldn't tell whether his surprise was from Stunky jumping up to his knees or being bombarded by a question.
Erin threw her hands up in exaggeration as he seemingly refused to answer.
"Tall! Like way up here I can't even reach your head!""Oh...uh...my pops I guess..." Erin rolled her eyes and grinned
"Where you from big guy?"He looked away and didn't answer, "You're odd. It's like you're a mysterious hero. You don't need to keep secrets you know." She laughed and picked up Stunky holding him up in front of herself.
"I want to go to Viridian City but I don't know how to get there." She glanced back at her mom unwilling to admit that she hadn't thought through every detail. She looked up at him hopefully
"There is a tournament there I'm going to.""But you don't have any Pokemon to fight with" Erin looked up at him confused letting Stunky down as she began to struggle trying to escape the childs hold. Her eyes opened as she finally noticed the brown creature crawl up over his shoulder.
"I'll be right back!" She ran off returning with lunch and her bag
."I'm ready"