>>12046296>Be a kid, turned ten a week or so before this happened>Beg parents to let me go to a professor to get a pokemon>The trips too long and we don't have strong enough pokemon to take us.>Get really depressed, run out of the house, determined to catch a pokemon in the pouring rain.>I try for hours to catch a Starly, Shinx or budew>I can't do it.>Get even more depressed, plus I'm soaked to the bone.>See a couple walking through town, obviously accomplished trainers, veterans even.>They see me covered in mud, soaked and trying not to cry.>ask what's the matter.>I tell them I can't have a pokemon because I can't catch one.>Each of them takes a pokeball off of their belt and hands them to me.>The Man gave me a Combee, but he told me that it would never evolve since it was male, so I would need to train it hard.>The woman gave me a Larvesta, and told me to be careful with it, since they often cause fires.>They leave town, and I never see them again. The man lied about the Combee. It was a female, I figure he lied just to see if I'd train it.
Turns out they are both deceased now, and those pokemon were the last two pokemon left behind by a bug catcher who died in a forest fire.
