A new day has started, and June 20th finally came. After eating our breakfast, we then checked out from our hotel and went to the train station. There, we met the Stone family again. As we wait for the train, we chatted for a bit. And 5 minutes later, the train finally came and we all board it.
The train ride from Viridian City to Pallet Town took us about 30 minutes. I still can't believe there's such things as roads and railroads in route 1. It doesn't feel like route 1 at all. But thankfully, there's still a lot of tall grasses and trees.
30 minutes later, we've finally arrived at the Pallet Town Station. We then took a bus to go to the lab. When we got there, we were greeted by the man himself, Professor Oak.
"Welcome, Professor Sycamore and Mr. Stone. Thank you for coming all the way here to Kanto. It's good to finally see you guys again." Professor Oak greets us in Unovic.
"It's good to see you too, Professor Oak. Thank you for inviting us as well." My uncle responded.
"Ho ho, I didn't expect to see Mr. Stone and Ms. Stone to come all the way over here. I thought you guys are always busy."
"Haha, we took some day off just for our son, and we kind of need a vacation as well." Mr. Stone responded.
"Ah, so that's how it is. Then please enjoy your time in Kanto."
Then, Professor Oak greets my mom.
"Ah, Yui-chan! Long time no see. How have you been?" He spoke in Hojokan.
"I'm fine Ohkido-san. How are you and the others are doing here?"
"We are doing fine. Hanako and Rin have missed you, you know?"
"Ara, then I have to visit them later."
This made me confused.
'Wait, My mom has met Professor Oak before? And what did she called him? Ohkido-san? Isn't that Professor Oak's name in Japanese? And who's Hanako and Rin?'
Professor Oak then looked at me, Steven, and Serena.
"You guys must be the participants, right? You must be Steven, Yuuta, and...." He spoke in Unovic.
"I'm Serena Alarie."
"Ah, right. The daughter of the famous Rhyhorn racer, Grace Alarie and Kalos ex-champion Arthur Alarie and also the little sister of the Kalos current champion, Calem Alarie."
I had a surprised Pikachu face on my face the moment he said that.
"Haha, I guess I never told you who she is." My uncle said.
'Wait, what!! She's Calem's sister in this world!? And her dad was the one who defeated my uncle?!'
"Woow! Your dad and your brother are a champion? That's so cool!" Steven said.
Meanwhile, I'm just staring at her with a look of disbelieve.
"Yu-Yuuta, stop staring at me like that!" She said while blushing a little bit.
"Oh, sorry. I was just surprised because you never talk about this before."
"Well, you never asked me."
Professor Oak then noticed that me and Steven already have our own Pokèmon.
"Oho, it seems like some of you already had your own Pokèmon. And you guys seem to have a really interresting ones as well."
"Oh yeah, this is Zen."
"Froakie!"
"And this is Tank."
"Beldum!"
"You guys are really lucky to have a Pokèmon this early, and a rare variants at that. You guys must've gotten this from an egg right?"
"Yeah, my uncle gave me when I was three."
"Me too, my dad gave me on my third birthday as a present."
"Hoho, how I envy your luck! Now then, shall we get going to the tent?"
"Okay!" Me, Steven, and Serena shouted.
"Ah, do any of you guys want to accompany your children to the tent?" Professor Oak asked.
"No thank you Professor. I think our son can take care of himself from here." Mr. Stone answered.
"I want to visit Rin and Hanako. So I'll be leaving my son and Serena in your care. What about you Augustine? Do you want to accompany them or do you have something else to do?"
"I think they will be fine. But I don't really have anything to do here."
"Do you want to come along with me then?"
"I-I guess I'll come along with you then."
"Is that so? Very well then! Say your farewell now to your parents and guardians, kids." Professor Oak said while smiling.
"Yuu-kun, be a good boy and don't cause Professor Oak troubles, okay!" She said in Kalosian.
"Okay mom!"
"Have fun!" My mom then kissed me on the forehead and hugged me as well.
"Uhm, professor. Thank you so much for bringing me here." Serena said.
"No problem. Be sure to have fun, okay!" My uncle said with a smile.
"Okay! Bye mom! Bye uncle!"
And so we went inside Professor Oak's lab.
Ah, Professor Oak's lab. The place where you get your first Pokèmon. The place where you do your first battle with your rival. The place where it all started.
But as we're walking, I don't get any feeling of nostalgia at all. It's like I'm in a completely different place. This place is so massive. The Professor Oak's lab that I know is just a tiny building near the player's house. But this one has a giant field with a lot of Pokèmons running around.
"Professor, what is that place?" I asked.
"Oh, that's the Corral. A place where a lot of Pokèmons can roam around freely. The campsite is located there." He pointed at a tent in a distance.
"Wow! Look at that! There's so many Pokèmons." Steven said.
"A-are we going to sleep outside?" Serena asked scaredly.
"Well, of course. This is a camp after all. It wouldn't be much of a camp if we sleep inside, right?" Professor Oak answered.
"Don't worry Serena, there's gonna be a lot of people there." I tried to ensure her.
"O-okay."
"Professor, may I ask a question?" I said.
"Sure, ask away."
"Are all the Pokèmons there yours?"
"No, a lot of them are someone else's."
"Then, why are they here?" Steven asked.
"That's because a trainer can only bring 6 Pokèmons max with them. If they have caught more than 6, then the rest of it will be transported here."
"How many Pokèmons are there?"
"There's approximately more than a thousand Pokèmons that has been stored here."
"Wooow! There's a thousand Pokèmons here? That's so cool!" Steven said.
"But, it seems like you have a lot less than a thousand there. Where are the rest of it?" I asked.
"Oho, a keen one aren't you? As expected of the son of Lucas Yves. Of course not all of them can fit in the Corral. A lot of them are being safely stored in the Pokèball storage room."
"The Pokèball Storage room? What's that?" I asked.
"It's just as the name said, Yuuta. It's a place to store all of the Pokèmons that are being stored in their Pokèballs."
'Well, I guess that was an obvious question. Why did I asked that? I should've know what it is.'
After we walked for a bit, a giant tent, probably about a small house size, with a mattress covered floor could be seen right in front of us.
"Woow! The tent is so big!" Steven said excitedly.
"No no no, isn't this too big to be called a tent." I said in disbelieve.
"Hoho, you will all be staying here in the next 3 days." Professor Oak said.
Suddenly, we hear a boy voice coming from inside.
"Gramps, is that you?" He said in Hojokan.
A boy with a brown-ish spiky hair came out of the tent.
'Who is he? He kinda looks like Blue.'
"Ah, Shigeru! can you guide your new friends here? I still need to do some preperations for the event."
"Woow! They have Pokèmons? That's so cool!"
"Ah, right. These two here, Yuuta and Serena are from Kalos. Can you speak in Unovic with them?"
"Okay gramps!" He responded in Unovic.
Professor Oak then leave the tent.
'Gramps? Isn't Professor Oak grandson is supposed to be Blue?'
The boy then introduced himself to us in Unovic.
"Hello, my name is Shigeru Ohkido! You can call me Shigeru."
"I'm Serena Alarie. You can call me Serena."
"I'm Yuuta Yves. You can call me Yuuta. And this Zen."
"Froakie!"
"I'm Steven Stone. You can call me Steven. And this is Tank."
"Bel!"
"Nice to meet you all. You can put your bags there." He pointed to a corner with a bag.
"It looks like we're not the first one who got here." Steven said.
"Oh, Satoshi came here earlier. He's just wandering on his own right now." Shigeru said.
"Then why are you here alone?" Steven asked.
"He's just so annoying. I don't really like playing with him." Shigeru responded.
'Hmm, an annoying kid? I wonder who it is?'
Suddenly, we hear a voice of a boy, shouting.
"Shigeruu! Come on play with me!" The boy shouted.
A boy with black hair, wearing a yellow and orange tank top and a blue shorts appeared in front of us.
'Wait, is that Ash Ketchum?'
"Woah! You guys already have Pokèmons? That's so cool! Can I play with them?" He shouted in Hojokan.
"Keep it down, you idiot! You're so loud! And can you speak in Unovic right now? We have some guests from Kalos here."
"Oh, they're from Kalos? How do I introduce my self in Unovic again?"
I then took the initiative to introduce my self first in Unovic. "Hello, I'm Yuuta Yves, this is Serena Alarie, we're both from Kalos. And this is Steven Stone He's from Hoenn."
"Oh. Uh Hello uh-uh me name is Katsumoto Satoshi. I uh from Kanto. Uh-uh good to meet you!" He said in broken Unovic.
'Satoshi? I think if I remember correctly, that's Ash's name in Japanese. So that's him?'
"*sigh* I told you to practice your Unovic fot this camp, right?" Shigeru said in Hojokan.
"Sh-shut up you jerk! It's not like you can speak in Unovic either!"
"Of course I can, because I'm not an idiot like you! Do you even understand what I'm saying right now?" Shigeru said in Unovic.
"Y-yes. I does!"
"Pfft, hahaha" Me, Steven, and Serena laughed together.
"Hey don't laugh!" Satoshi said in Hojokan.
After meeting Shigeru and Satoshi, more participants start to arrive. I'm starting to see more familiar faces as well.
One of them that caught my attention was a girl with a blonde hair, and she has a Pokèmon as well. I thought me and Steven are gonna be the only kid with a Pokèmon in this camp. And her Pokèmon is not just an ordinary Pokèmon, it's a freaking shiny Gible! If I have to guess, that's gotta be the Sinnoh nuzlocke run breaker, Cynthia. Holy crap! She's gonna have a freaking shiny Garchomp?
I haven't tried to talk with her, but she seemed to be an introvert. I only saw her talking with another girl named Dawn. Yes, that female character that you play as in Pokèmon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.
There was another person that stood out to me as well. She was a girl with a pale white skin and has a blonde hair. And She seemed to be scared of Pokèmons.
When she arrived here, she didn't want to enter the tent. She cried and ran to Professor Oak, saying that she doesn't want to stay in the tent because there are Pokèmons inside. Me and Steven then showed her that our Pokèmons, Zen and Tank won't do any harm to her by letting her to pet them. She was scared at first, but now she found them to be really cute.
She told us that her name was Lilie after that. If my memory serves me right, this girl is one of the characters in Pokèmon Sun/Moon. I don't know much about her because I didn't play Pokèmon Sun/Moon in my previous life.
After a while, all of the participants finally arrived. There are 15 childrens total in this event. Looks like not just anyone can participate in this event.
Professor Oak finally came back to the tent for some kind of opening ceremony. And thus, the Pokèmon Summer Camp has officially started. He then gives us a speech in Unovic.
"*Ahem* Good morning everyone! Thank you all for coming here. I hope you all are in your best condition right now, because we're going to have so much fun for the next 3 days! Now before we start, let me introduce my self first. Some of you may know me by Professor Oak. But that's just my nickname. My actual name is Yukinari Ohkido."
'So that is his Japanese name after all, huh. But why is he using his Japanese name? Is it because his a Kantonian?'
"As you all now, I'm a Pokèmon Professor. But I used to be a trainer as well back then."
"Woah!!" A lot of the kids were amazed.
'Huh, I wonder what kind of trainer he was back then?'
"Now then, do any of you have a question before we start?"
A girl with bobbed brown hair raises her hand.
"May I?"
"Ah, yes. What is your question?"
"What are we going to do for today?" She asked with a british accent.
'Wait, that accent. Is that Gloria?'
"Good question. Today, we're going to take a tour around the lab and then we're going to learn about Kantonian Pokèmons... Is there anymore question?"
No one raises their hands.
"No? Okay then, now let's get going! Follow me kids!"
"Okay!" We all shouted.
And so the Pokèmon Summer Camp has officially started.