Chapter 62

For a moment, we both just stared at him. Me, just sheer flabbergasted, and I'm not sure about Hilda.

Seriously though, I was not expecting to run into Gary Motherfuckin' Oak today.

"Gary Oak?" Hilda was the first to respond, cocking her head to the side in interest, "As in the grandson of Professor Oak, the leading authority on all things pokemon. That Gary Oak?"

"One in the same baby cakes," Gary winked at her, "You probably saw the news interview about me starting my journey last month huh? Lemme tell you before you ask, I already have two badges." he continued on with a smirk, full on bragging.

"I wasn't going to ask that," Hilda snorted shaking her head, "But two badges in a month huh? That's really impressive." she glanced at me meaningfully.

"It's not bad," I rolled my eyes, "If you didn't at least have this much you being who you are, you wouldn't actually be worth battling." seriously, growing up under Professor Oak and having access to his wealth? With what I've learned since getting here, I'm not actually all that impressed at all really.

Hell what I've accomplished so far isn't impressive to me, never mind Gary who has probably been spamming TM's since the day he started his journey.

In game terms, he may as well have started with the max amount of rare candies.

Gary's eyes had mostly been on Hilda since he pulled up with his entourage, but now his attention shifted to me. He made to speak before pausing, tilting his head up and down and examining me, "Ain't you a bit young to be a trainer kid?" he smirked at me.

"I'm just that good, unlike you apparently." I smirked back at him.

Gary snorted, "Got your trainer license early then eh?" He caught on quick before shrugging, "I coulda done that myself if I wanted, I decided to wait till the normal age to start off at the same time as a guy I knew so I could prove how much better than him I really am, no head start like that needed."

He must be talking about Ash. For all Gary made fun of Ash in the early seasons, I remember he couldn't go two minutes in any of his appearances without talking about Ash or seeking him out. Even when he wasn't on screen he couldn't help but make sure Ash knew about him by writing on signs and shit on main routes.

"It's not exactly hard to do," I bullshitted, I don't know shit about how to get a trainer license and what is involved in it. I just appeared here with my trainer license already in existence, I should look into that at some point, "For reference, I've been a trainer for a month myself and I've got two badges as well." I added casually.

Gary's eyebrows rose, "Huh, guess there is a reason you got the license early then eh kid?" he lifted his arms from around the two cheerleaders and hopped out of the red convertible to stand in front of me and Hilda, "So how about it? You talk a good game, but can you back it up?"

"Any time, any place," I shrugged, "Just don't go crying to your grandpa when my pokemon mop the floor with yours mate."

"Aww, look at you, acting all tough in front of the babe you're travelling with," Gary mocked me right back and looked to Hilda, smirking, "How about you drop this kid and join up with me after I curb stomp him? I'm always game for new cheerleaders, especially one as good looking as you. You can ride the Gary express all the way to the top."

....Is this what I sound like? God I hope I don't sound like as big a cocky fuck as him. But, who am I kidding, I probably sound even cockier. Well, at least I can back it up and got here through my own effort and not my grandaddy's wallet I suppose.

"You're making an awful lot of assumptions kid," Hilda shook her head, "For one if I was that type of girl I'd have already been riding him." the fluffy haired girl jabbed her thumb at me.

"Heh." I puffed my chest proudly, damn right.

"That so?" Gary stroked his chin and looked at me, unbothered by the rejection and then turned back to Hilda, "If that's one, what's second?"

"You thinking you can actually beat Jord," Hilda smirked at him, "This kid's a freak of nature when it comes to training pokemon, if you only started last month I doubt you can even come close to beating him, I've got six badges and he creamed me." she boasted back.

I'd much rather cream her in a completely different way, and besides we only had a single short one on one, Pidgeotto vs Emboar and sure Emboar couldn't do much due to Pidgeotto's sheer speed, but it wasn't like we curb stomped her.

"You must not be all that as a trainer then," Gary snorted, "What makes the month he's been a trainer make him so much better than me being a trainer for a month?"

"I'm just better than you." I cut in and stared him right in the eye.

"You wish kid," the spiky haired Pallet native snorted, "Alright then, let's go here and now, me and you. Two on two, how does that sound?"

"Fine with me, let's do it." I agreed.

"Right then, down there should be fine for a quick rinse for your pokemon." Gary pointed down the grassy hill from the road we were on, where a large grassy field sat.

Gary didn't even wait for me to agree, instead he lifted his arm into the air and clicked his fingers. Like dogs, the girls in his car all hurriedly jumped out, having been silent all this time, each pulling out a pair of pom poms and hurrying after him.

"...Are you kidding me?" Hilda stared at the group of girls dryly, "Do these bitches have no shame?"

"Apparently not, gotta admit though, he's got style," I admired the way he had a bunch of good looking, curvy women all trailing after him and hanging on his every word, "They've got nothing on you, but not bad at all."

"They're gold diggers Jord," Hilda rolled her eyes as we made our way down the grassy hill, "You could probably have a bunch just like them trailing after you as well if you wanted."

"Really?" my interest was piqued, "I'll keep that in mind."

"You do that, but I'll be going my separate way from you if you do it." Hilda added.

"Understandable." I nodded. I mean, I wouldn't be up for travelling with her if she had a bunch of gigolo's that she was banging following along.

And there was no doubt in my mind Gary was banging those bitches. At least, I hope he is. If he's just using them as a status symbol to show off, then I'll have to revoke his man card and award him a beta male card.

"Alright, we'll keep things simple, on a count of three we'll release our pokemon, got it?" Gary called over to me when I took position a good thirty feet across from him, holding up a pokeball in his hand.

"Got it." I replied. I debated for a moment on what pokemon I should pick. Gary's strongest pokemon was always his starter, his Blastoise was a monster in the anime.

So no doubt his starter was one of the two he was gonna use, because he'll want to prove he's better than me.

In that case, I'll go with Shiftry as my first. That decided, I grabbed his pokeball from my belt.

As soon as I did, Gary started counting up.

"1!"

"2!"

"3!"

"Nidoking, Front and Centre!"

"Let's go Shiftry!"