Chapter 102

As I was swinging Victreebel around, supporting his entire body weight in the air with both hands and celebrating our victory, an odd glint caught my eye.

Coming from my newly captured Blastoise's nest.

It was just a brief little sparkle that I would have totally missed if I wasn't spinning around in a circle with Victreebel.

"One sec." I said, placing Victreebel down, the large fly trap pokemon cocking his entire body slightly to the side in curiosity at why I stopped.

With my pokemon's eyes on me, I made my way over and climbed my wya up the rocks Blastoise had been perched upon.

When I got up to the top a few seconds later, I noticed it wasn't so much a nest, as it was a groove torn straight into the huge rocks themselves.

Quite impressive looking actually, since I know for a fact it isn't natural and the groove is both round and large enough for Blastoise's body to comfortably rest in.

Blastoise must have blasted this out using its cannons. Water pressure cutters at their finest.

Looking into the nest, I noted it was quite sparse. There was a leafy bedding to make it soft to rest on, and some berries spread about through the nest.

It took me a second to find what I was looking for, nestled between a few oran berries, there it sat.

It was a small, tiny even spherical opaque stone, with a flaming helix-like symbol held within of various light blues and a dash of brown in the middle.

I blinked.

Then my mouth dropped low and my eyes widened.

Holy shit!

Are you fucking kidding me?

I wasted no time in jumping down into the nest and quickly snatching the small stone up and bringing it up to my face to examine it closely.

Yeah.

There's no mistake.

This is a fucking mega stone.

And not just any mega stone, but a Blastoiseite at that. What the hell is it doing here?

I mean, I'm pretty sure it was already long since disproven that mega stones don't just form from mass gatherings of the type of pokemon they resonate with. If they were, they wouldn't be as hard to find at all.

…But that doesn't explain why this is here.

Granted, I do know that pokemon who can mega evolve have, while not quite a sixth sense, a natural ability to feel a mega stone that is compatible with them if they get within range.

That Manectric in the manga after all found the Manectite like that, and it was just randomly sitting around in a tree.

'Maybe this Blastoise just came across it luckily one day?' I thought.

I continued staring at it for a few moments, before slowly, a massive, massive grin spread across my face and I clenched my fist around the mega stone.

"Well, whatever." I laughed.

How Blastoise came across it doesn't really matter in the end. All that matters is that I have it.

A Blastoisenite.

And a Blastoise.

Now I just need to earn Blastoise's loyalty like the rest of my pokemon and get my hands on a key stone and I'll be able to mega evolve my Blastoise!

Ironic!

So super duper funnily ironic that the pokemon I caught for my main team, the most recent one, would have a mega stone.

If it were Pidgeotite and I had a keystone, I'd be able to mega evolve Pidgeot right here and now!

I couldn't help it, I burst into loud, echoing and victorious laughter.

Yes!

This is where it begins!

It's just one stone, but it's a start. Now, I need Pidgeotite, Charizardite, both in fact so I can try something out, Venusaurite, Gyaradosite, Sceptilite, Metagrossite-

Actually, I just need to get my hands on any and all mega stones I come across!

Which is exactly why I'm heading to Kalos!

…Well first I still have one more spot I need to hit up in Kanto before moving on. And I'll need to fly through the Orange Islands for the quickest route to Kalos and there's a few things there for me to pick up.

But eh, whatever.

I reigned in my laughter and turned towards my four pokemon. Fearow was giving me an odd, eyebrow-like raised look, while Bellossom, Victreebel and Milotic just watched on happily.

Apparently not at all disturbed by my crazy spontaneous laughter.

I hopped down out of Blastoise's former nest, mega stone in hand and approached my pokemon with a massive grin on my face.

"Things turned out even better than I thought they would you guys, great job," I said, praising them again, before raising the mega stone in my hand up into the air to let them see it, "Not only did we catch all those Squirtle, Wartortle and that Blastoise, but I even found this!"

Four pairs of eyes gave the stone in my hand curious looks and my grin just got larger, "Yeah, see this?" I said, waving it back and forth, "This is a real special stone, and to find ones like it is why we're heading to the Kalos Region soon, it's called a Mega Stone!"

"Row?" Fearow hopped over and leaned up, inspecting the small stone with a critical eye, before shrugging his wings and looking distinctly un-impressed.

"Yeah, they don't look all that impressive, huh?" I agreed with a laugh, "But don't let its small size fool you, these things are real special."

And small size was relative. Because this thing was about half the size of my palm, maybe a bit bigger, length wise and about as wide as a typical evolution stone.

Fearow shrugged again, "Well you might not see it, but I'm not joking," I snorted, "This is called a mega stone, specifically this is a Blastoiseite, and with it, and another stone called a key stone, it can let Blastoise evolve again temporarily into Mega Blastoise and getting a massive power boost."

That did it.

Fearow's eyes widened and his eyes darted back to look at the stone on shock. I nodded, "Yeah, that's why we're going to Kalos, because there's a bunch of pokemon that can mega evolve, like Pidgeot, Charizard and Gyarados just to name a few and I want to get my hands mega stones for them."

"Row, row fea!" Fearow eagerly pointed one of his wings at his chest and looked hopeful.

Sorry buddy, but I'm gonna have to burst that shining bubble of hope.

"Sorry mate, Fearow's can't mega evolve." I replied.

Fearow slumped over onto the ground immediately in depression, wings spread wide out in defeat.

He looked almost like a shaggy feather carpet.

"Yeah, so Pidgeot will be able to get even stronger as a Mega Pidgeot, gonna be killer for you to keep up with him now," I crouched down and pat his head, not being gentle about the assessment at all, Fearow buried his face in the ground, beak literally piercing into the ground as if it were butter as he avoided looking at me, "Mega evolution isn't unbeatable or anything mind you, it's just a power boost in the end. And I said it already before didn't I? You have the potential to beat legendaries, you don't need mega evolution to be a badass, you already are, I mean, remember, you kicked the shit out of that absurd Pikachu earlier, that stupidly strong Scizor right after it and then a Dragonite as well."

Not to mention that Wartortle which was decently tough that he took out in one hit.

Fearow's a beast for sure.

Fearow pushed up and hopped to his feet, chest puffed out proudly, "Fearow!" he spread his wings wide and posed cockily as if he was never slumped down in depression a few moments ago.

He sure recovered quick.

I laughed, reaching up to pat his head once more and looked at the other three. Milotic cocked her head and smiled gently at me, while Victreebel and Bellossom seemed totally nonplussed, not really caring.

…Well two of them don't really care for battling and getting stronger anyway. And Miloitic doesn't have a rivalry with Pidgeot to try and become the strongest try hard bird of my team.