Liberty is a Pokémon trainer. 10 years old, new to the whole thing. She is from Pallet Town. The Pokémon journey begins! Good ol' Route 1. Liberty is there with her starter Pokémon Cubone. She named him Relic. Who might Liberty share her adventures with? Someone she knows from Pallet Town? Someone from a neighboring town?

  Joe is a Pokemon (okay, so we both are too lazy, and dont know how to make the fancy e) trainer in the 'Has pokemon, has license' sense.  Random Pokemon RP's where Joe had a Pidgey who hung out with him predate Superbird, but we're calling this one Superbird anyways.

  Joe is *hackcough*teen years old, from the next town over but is visiting at the moment.  Joe knows Liberty is awesome, other way around may not be known. At least to Joe's wonky ego settings that don't register compliments.

Liberty always had a hard time figuring out Joe's age and when she asked someone once, they hacked and coughed. >.< But age or no, Liberty is in the middle of battling a wild Pokémon and captures it. Good ol' caterpie. Liberty spots Joe approaching and waves. "Hey Joe!"

  Anime is full of incredulous for their age situations anyways.  Such as 15 year olds that are seven feet tall and built like Mexican Wrestlers.  Joe waves hi to Liberty as she wanders over.  "Hi Liberty, congratulations on now having twice as many pokemon that hang around you than I do."  The Pidgey Eyes Joe with that 'well DUH, you lazy bastard' look.

  Hey, pokeballs cost money.  Not to mention Joe is less interested in amassing a pocket stored army that can devastate a small island nation and more reaching the convenience store alive.

Lucky is a black pursian, *cough* years old.  He watches the battle and licks his paw.

"Either of you interested in being my human?" he asks, "I don't have any starter humans, so I'll need a volunteer."

Liberty looks over to Lucky. Apparently, age-telling cold is contagious. "How is it you speak English when most Pokémon don't?" she asks, more enthralled by that than the fact he's black. Though that certainly didn't escape her notice either.

Relic looks over at Lucky and says, <Pokémon>"Very funny."</Pokémon> which to everyone else just sounds like "Bone."
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  Superbird is less amazed and more Angry Bird Face.  So, generic dislike between Birds and Cats going on here?  <Subtitles>Back off man, only room for one feeloader Mooching off Joe.</subtitles>  Yeah, nothing so dignified.

  "Hiring standards hit a lull for you, or what?" Joe asks of the Kitty.
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Lucky chuckles from Superbird's comment.

"I was taught English by a human who loved me," Lucky answers, doing the kitty-cat tail-wag, "Most pokemon I ask say they're not interested in learning English.  I was only kidding about taking either of you as my human.  I don't have any huméballs to capture you with."

He smirks and winks at Joe.

Liberty says, "Well if you want, I'll take you." she holds up a Pokéball. "What happened to the last human you were with?"

  "I'd feel less awkward about the Humeball thing if I tried to punch your face of or something just for making eye contact."  Sure, cramming someone into a softball sized container that shrinks to golf ball size could be considered kind of a jerkfaced move.  But it's harder to feel sympathy to a GIANT BEE after it tries to sting your eyeballs out.

  A surprisingly large amount of pokemon just offer high fives as he walks by though.  He's still trying to figure out how that voltorb managed that.
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Lucky eyes the pokeball and headshakes.  "No thanks, goldilocks," he says, "I just met you."

He nods to Joe.

"I don't understand the fixation with violence in both humans and pokemon.  I'll join up with a human all official and stuff once I know they'll not be using me as their gladiator."

Liberty gives Lucky a weird look. "You just asked for someone to volunteer to be your "human" and then turn around and say no thanks? Maybe you know English, but your communication skill is off. Anyway, if you want someone who won't use you for combat, then go with Joe. I can vouch for him. He has a reputation for being too lazy to bother with Pokémon battles."

Relic rolls his eyes. He looks at Liberty. <Pokémon>"Can we continue now?"</Pokémon>

Liberty looks over at Relic, "What's the rush, Relic?" not 100% solid evidence Liberty can speak Pokémon, but close enough to show she understands he's in a hurry.

  "If that guy didn't want me to punch him, he shouldn't have said 'let's battle', he should have said 'let's have pokemon fight while we watch'.  Then me and Bird could have both pointed and laughed at him."  Joe, you and Superbird still pointed and laughed at him anyways.

  "Though, I guess if you were dead set on following someone around with low expectations of you, I do seem to fit that bill."  Be the very best? Catch them all? YOU CRAZY!
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"I was poking fun of the way people talk about pokemon, blondie," Lucky says, "Instead of 'starter pokemon' I said 'starter human.'  The humor is in imagining a pokemon throwing a ball into the arena and out pops a human to do battle for the pokemon.  Rather than the other way around."

"I'll travel with you for a while, Joe.  Name's Lucky."

Blondie, Goldielocks, etc... "Name's Liberty." she says to Lucky. A bellsprout pops up! Relic faces the bellsprout. The two start battling right there in front of Lucky. Liberty just seems to be overseeing the battle, though her eyes follow it intently. She keeps the Pokéball handy that she was going to use on Lucky.

  Joe nods, "Nice to meet you Lucky, what did happen to the last Human you hung around with though?"  Sure, Liberty asked already, but maybe Joe would have a bit extra chance to have it answered now 'Lucky Joined Your Party!' fanfare has occurred for him.

  <subtitles>"I'm watching you Maaaaaan."</subtitles>  Ah, Superbird.  Ever the insane dramaqueeen.

  Joe facepalms at the Bellsprout "Stop trying to punch things with leaves!"

Lucky sighs as more violence ensues.

"Nice to meet you, Liberty."

"The nice human who taught me English died of old age."

The bellsprout is distracted by Joe for a moment and Relic thwaps it upside the sprout.

The battle is won and Liberty immediately captures the bellsprout. She then turns her attention back to Lucky. "Are you old? Or was the man already old when he found you?"

  Now, if this were Monster Rancher then the deadly horrors of your monsters dying of old age at the ripe old age of two, or maybe four (even robots and sentient obelisks) would be all too real and waiting just around the corner.  But this is Pokemon, when is the last time you saw one deal with old age?

  Also, Joe used Nonsensical Ramble! It was Super Effective!  Bellsprout Is Confused!

  "Well, sorry to hear that Lucky.  Wish I could go with more than that, but I don't think I ever met the guy."

"His name was Grendel," Lucky says, "And yeah.  He was really old when we met."

Liberty says, "Let's go for some ice cream." because ice cream is always a welcome change of topic. And Liberty has 3 Pokémon now, all of whom need a Pokécenter. She begins heading back towards Pallet Town.