After Naomi left, the social worker ushered me off to a waiting vehicle. Since I was young, I was of course stuck in the back seat… in a car seat. It wasn’t a full on one, but just one of those small ones mainly to manage the seat belt, but it still felt embarrassing for me to have to use it. Also that I had to pretend to not understand seat belts.
She barely spoke to me as we drove, instead talking to someone on her phone or listening to music. She liked country… exclusively, as far as I could tell. I don’t mind the occasional good country song, but it was not a genre I was too fond of.
Given that it had taken a week for the woman to get to the town, I’d expected the trip to last at least a few days, but we arrived at our destination that night. It was a bit late, but she seemed really happy to drop me off at a building and get out of there as soon as someone signed for me. Like I was just a package for her to deliver.
Yeah, I had quickly come to a conclusion that I didn’t like her. Hopefully she was only playing chauffeur, and not in charge of me beyond this.
The building I was ‘delivered’ to was where I figured I’d end up at least for a while.
An orphanage.
It was either going to be that or a foster family.
With how late it was, I was brought to the girls side of the living quarters and assigned to a room. It was one I’d be sharing with three other girls, all older than me. One was in her teens, the others were twins around ten. They did not appreciate me being foisted on them, not wanting to have to babysit a retard.
Yep, the witch who’d dropped me off hadn’t given much information about me, so when the caretaker found I had trouble speaking, she thought I had mental issues, and said something to that effect to my new roommates.
I might be powerful, but the glares I got still made me flinch a bit. However, there was nothing they could do but accept it. I’d just try to stay out of their way as much as possible.
That didn’t work out so well though. I stayed quiet when in the room, but it seemed that as a newcomer and being so young, at least one of them were expected to stay with me at all times. They didn’t want a mentally handicapped person causing trouble for the orphanage.
I don’t know if they ever got a report about me, but if they did, they did nothing about it.
This led to what you’d expect. Bullying. I became the target they used to take out their frustrations on… but not for long.
My rescuer? School.
I’d never been fond of it before, though I tended to excel due to not wanting to get in trouble. Now? I welcomed it with open arms. It was a place I could escape to and avoid them, at least for a while.
As I was apparently around five, I was put into kindergarten, so I’d get the full educational experience. Due to my ‘disability’ I was placed in the special needs class.
It was somewhat frustrating, having to learn how to speak, but at least the teachers were kind. You don’t become a teacher of this kind of class unless you have god-like patience.
It took two months before my speech was at least as good as others my age. I stayed silent around my roommates, though. The less attention I drew, the less they’d notice and bully me. Hiding with camouflage also helped. I also occasionally ‘yawned’ as night approached to get them to feel sleepy and go to bed.
Learning to read took longer, since I didn’t have the help I’d gotten from alakazam. At least I was in the right place to learn to read, though I’d learned earlier in my past life. As I knew the spoken part of the language, so once I knew what a word meant I was good to go.
My teachers realized I wasn’t actually special needs like their other charges, but they had to get me actually evaluated by a professional before I could be enrolled in the normal classes. I laughed, internally, when it came to light that I’d never been properly tested before being classified as special needs.
Even better, I was able to get the situation with my roommates out in the open and escape them. I’d had to borrow some recording equipment to do so, but since management didn’t take my complaints seriously, which were also recorded, I did what I had to do.
What I didn’t expect was that the situation would lead to the entire place getting shut down. The place was horrible, dirty (though we were forced to try to keep it clean, without proper supplies), fed us nasty and often expired food, rarely provided clothes unless they’d been donated, and was linked to a criminal organization.
The director and staff were all involved or aware. Not only did they embezzle the funds that were allocated, they’d ‘adopted’ out kids to people who didn’t really exist, so they’d just disappear.
The investigation uncovered so much dirt that the perpetrators were jailed for life, but without staff, there was no way to keep the place open, so all of us were shuffled off to orphanages in different cities.
Me? I got moved to a place called Pallet Town.
Sound familiar? It should, though that name wasn’t quite right anymore. Having been the home of several famous individuals, it had grown immensely and was definitely classed as a major city, but Pallet City just didn’t have the same ring, so they hadn’t changed the name.
I’d always intended to visit the place eventually, but what I found out was different than I expected.
The MC is kinda passive this chapter. She didn't even bother trying to correct people or prove them wrong. If all it took was taking some videos of the orphanage to get it shut down, it could've been BTFO'd within the week she arrived, although maybe she would've needed to 'borrow' someone's phone to do so. A wonder the 15-year-old hadn't done so already.
Was it a matter of the fear of appearing too characteristically adult-like with how proactive she would be with her problem solving? Or she was just biding time to get a bit more proficient in the language while her situation, while not great, was at least stable? Or 'why bother' since children are never going to be taken seriously anyways, even ones with TK. (actually, an 'unruly' psionic child would be likely seen as a monster instead)
Also, let me guess. Amourshipping + Generational timeskip = MC gets to be childhood friends with Ash's kid.
Shitty day = bad writing. Sorry.
She did try to complain first, though it was only briefly mentioned. Including that her multiple complaints were ignored. The videos led them to look deeper into the situation and found the poorly hidden links to other crimes.
She endured for a while, for multiple reasons.
1. Learning the language before rocking the boat and getting shoved who knows where.
2. Since adults tend to expect obedience from children, and she needed to be seen as a child. The video thing still broke that, and I might edit and add something to say how she explained it. Also maybe add the part the MC doesn't know about in a different POV: She'd been put on the 'adoption' list.
Since no one seemed to know, or perhaps care, that she was psychic it was easier to blend in without bringing attention to it. Had she bothered to at least read people's surface minds, which SO FAR she's been too ethical to do, she'd have acted FAAAR sooner. She knows better now.
As to your guess, I have no idea. Maybe, maybe not.
Gasp
Wonder what Goh will do if he founds Rynn is a Mew, like that is his dream and whatnot. Also a random though, if she were to be captured in a pokemon form, then she gets summon for some reason, like to try to befriend her, to battle, etc... and transform into a Perfect Human form, will she be able to be recalled back into her Pokeball? If not, she may then use her psychic powers to yank the ball from the trainer's hands and chuck it in her storage, then no one can capture her, as pokemons cannot be captured by multiple pokeballs.
Who is Goh? Do you mean God? Arceus? If so, then that she's on his world is something he's aware of and won't interfere with unless she does something really stupid.
If she gets tied to a pokeball, she's trapped and can be recalled at any time, even if she transforms, since the ball's link would already exist. However, they'd need to use a really powerful ball to control her, so her stealing and destroying a ball too weak to contain her to break the link is possible.
Her current plan is to basically have a barrier around her when vulnerable to prevent being hit by stuff, including pokeballs.
@Telerean Goh is one of Ash's friend in Pokemon Master Journey series his dream is to catch all pokemon including a Mew, he wants to understand all pokemon and he has a huge habitat where he leaves all the pokemon in, he only uses the scorbunny as his all time partner.
Also that comment on Arceus makes me think later she will do something stupid enough to get him involved. Hope she doesn't break the pokeball if she get's captured, like just chuck it in the storage bag forever. Also pokemon don't follow their trainers because of the ball, they have to have a certain number of Badges in the game to fully controll their attacks, in the series I think they have to actually earn their love, respect, admiration or fear in order to order them around.
Would it also trick the Dex Rotom? Or they use normal a Pokedex?
That Barrier idea sounds nice, also she can batter the balls with her tail. I have seen some pokemon literary refusing to go with the trainer and just smack the ball away without triggering them. Might be dangerous though if they trhow a Masterball at her as it has a 100% catch rate, don't know what that amounts to in real life, as I don't think game rules apply for everything.
@Ruiso Ah I see. Well if Goh is Ash's friend, then he's dead. Unless he was like 20-30 years younger, in which case he might be in a nursing home.
Having the badges is proof of strength, but they are just accessories. They hold no actual influence over the Pokémon. It's bonds that control Pokémon in this world, either ones of friendship or force. More details on the balls happen later on, though there will be no 100% catch rate, but Rynn will have to gain a good amount of strength to be able to resist that one. There's a reason they're so rare... not sure why yet, but I'll make something up. As a mew, she'd eventually break free, unless her trainer killed her first. She has a really long life span, so plenty of time to grow and escape.
Smacking a ball might work, but better safe than sorry, not letting it touch would be best. If she is caught, then because of the bond, she couldn't store the ball unless she was able to break the bond, which would destroy the ball anyway.
@Telerean interesting, Maybe if Ash was a Pokemon Hybrid he could still be alive and looking like a kid thus making the Master Journey series the current time and Goh being alive to meet her, though that is a lot of stuff just for her to meet him
@Ruiso If you would like him to be alive somewhere, you can think that, just don't expect to see him in my writing. I'd already decided I don't want to write existing characters. I don't know them well enough. So they're either dead or if they're not they will never be met or even talked about as if they still live.
@Telerean oh ok, no worries