Chapter 58

As expected, after the commotion we caused, we couldn't exactly stick around at the...what was the place called again? I'm sure Hilda told me the name of the place.

Honestly, I totally forget. Oh well, not important.

Really the people who saw it all were great and I basked in their adoration. They clearly had good sense to be on my side and I had boastingly informed them to watch out for me at the Indigo League. I got myself my first fans.

But yeah we, mostly me, caused a lot of crap and shit so we really did have to get a move on and not disrupt their time.

So away back to our room at the Pokemon Centre we went, ya' know?

Even so, I could not wipe the huge, shit eating grin off of my face. And how could I? I got myself a beast Krabby, and a Raboot on top of it. And most importantly of all. I got to wipe my ass with that little shit head Goh.

God what I wouldn't do to have encountered him alone without Hilda and no witnesses around. I'd have broken that little shits jaw and took a shit in his backpack.

"You seem happy." Hilda noted as she sat down on her bed opposite mine in the Pokemon Centre.

I shrugged, "What can I say," I replied, "Today has just been a really good day."

"I can see that," The brunette Unovan's eyebrow raised, "And you did make out pretty well today. That beast of a Krabby and even a starter pokemon. A Galarian one at that, I've never even seen one in person."

"Like I said, a good day," I leaned back on the bed and didn't bother commenting on the fact that shitting on Goh was the best part of it. That would open up way too many questions, "I'm surprised though." I raised an eyebrow right back at her.

"At what?" Hilda asked.

"At you," I couldn't help but snort, remembering the way she headbutted that little fucker and laid him out, "I wasn't expecting you to step up like that before I broke that punk ass bitch in half." it was pretty awesome though and funny as fuck.

Hilda shook her head, "I know you think I'm just some hot actress and director wannabe, but I'm not just some useless girl you know," she pointed out, "Not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty talented. I've been an actress since a young age, I passed all my school exams easily, I got trained in a bunch of different things over my career to fit parts and even when it comes to pokemon battling I'm pretty amazing, seriously do you know how impressive it is for someone to get as many badges as I did in my first year?"

My head involuntarily tilted to the side, "...It is?" I asked, focusing on that final bit she added on.

But Ash wasn't exactly what I'd call skilled during his first run and he got all his badges. And say what you will, but some of those fuckers were crazy. Battling atop volcanoes, broken psychics and electroshock torture battles.

Hilda shook her head and gave me a deadpan look, "The fact you don't even notice is the craziest part of it," she sighed before pinning me with another deadpan look, "Gym Leaders are the best of the best. For the most part, they're the highest authority in any town or city they reside in even above mayors and they are the main defenders of these places. Getting by all eight of them gives people an in to the Pokemon League and the chance at becoming either an Elite Four member or even a Champion if they're really that good. Pretty much the most powerful positions in the government and rulers of regions bar a few other people like Mr. Goodshow."

...Wait seriously the Champion and Elite Four had that much power? "What does that have to do with you being an amazing trainer?" I asked. Not that I was going to refute it. Hilda had some pretty awesome pokemon. Once the rest of her team evolved, like her Fraxure, she'd have one badass team.

Hilda sighed and shook her head at my apparent obliviousness, "It means that only the best of the best can get by a Gym Leader, they don't exactly give freebie wins and fight people with new pokemon regardless of how long you've been a trainer," she explained, "Remember what I told you? The Champion and Elite Four of any one region are its greatest defenders. The ones tasked with dealing with stuff like rampaging Legendary Pokemon. They cannot go easy on trainers wanting to go that path or baby them because it would more or less weaken trainers in the long run. People aren't supposed to be able to start their journey and beat a gym leader within a month of being a trainer, that's just crazy talk."

Now that I think about it. That does make a lot of sense. And in that context, Hilda getting six badges during her first year did really paint her as a really talented trainer. And now that I think about it, compared to Ash battling Misty in the anime, her sister Lily had a much crazier team of pokemon.

Then again, she was one of the sisters that trained that Gyarados that Misty used as her ace...in every single battle. Heh, funny how she used to get on at Ash about using his older pokemon in Johto like Charizard and mocked him about it, claiming he was unskilled and shit. More or less what I'm sure led to him deciding to 'start over' with new pokemon in each Region. Only for her to do the exact same.

And with a pokemon she hadn't raised herself. At least Ash fucking raised Charizard up.