Trainer Flora
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Flora did a double take at the last Ben's comment.
"You really don't know what a Pokemon is?!"
Oh Mew. This was like one of those movies she'd watched with her friends. She vaguely remembered the plot: the heroes from the present day get flung into the distant future where all Pokemon are extinct, and the cast had to break the timeline to bring back Pokemon to the future.
... Was that what was happening to her?
Whatever the case, she felt really grateful that she watched that movie, since it made it much easier to explain the whole concept to these guys. She wasn't sure what she'd say otherwise. She could be a good tutor if she needed to be, but explaining this without a guide would be like her trying to teach a blind person about colors.
"Well, Pokemon are mysterious creatures that live in my world." Her voice had a little quiver to it, partially from disbelief and partially from trepidation.
"They live everywhere, on the land, sea, skies, and even in the cities. We humans coexist with our Pokemon and help each other to live and thrive."
"There are some of us who use these Pokemon to battle, thats what a Trainer is. I am a Champion-ranked trainer back in my home region, so uh, I'm one of the strongest ones." She felt a little weird saying that, since she wasn't usually one to brag.
"Pokemon fight by using elemental attacks based on their 'types'. Meatball - Koraidon - here is a Dragon/Fighting type so moves of those types are what he excels at." She patted her steed's head, earning a little roar of appreciation from him.
"Some people like to train only one type of Pokemon, but I don't mind training Pokemon of any types."
Her throat was getting a bit sore. She wasn't used to talking a lot since her friends tended to do it for her. Luckily she had an easy way of showing them. Flora took out her Rotom Phone (which was encased in a cute Applin cover), opened the Pokedex App, and showed it to the Bens.
"Here, this is the Pokedex. It shows the information of all the Pokemon I've met and caught on my journey. I have the dexes for Paldea, Kitakami, and a part of Unova, but there's many more Pokemon I've never met or seen yet."
She was about to say more when suddenly the green Ben (not Benji) erupted in a flash of light, causing both Flora and Meatball to cry out in surprise and shield their eyes from the flash. When she looked back she was shocked to see that Ben was completely gone, replaced by a strange orange creature, unlike anything she'd seen or learned before! The whole transformation didn't seem organic like a Ditto or Zoroark, was it by machine?
"... What was that?" She asked weakly as Ben(?) went to search through their routes.
"Agias...." [I don't think that's a Pokemon...] Meatball commented, apparently paying attention to what was going on. Not that anyone would understand him.
... Maybe that movie was right. She was stuck in the future with weird future technology and no Pokemon.