[center][h2]Timothy Thorne – Team Star Recruit[/h2][/center]

His journey to become a trainer was progressing a little bit differently to how he had imagined.

What had started out as a meet-up so that he could be introduced to and meet some of the other members had suddenly turned to talk of Team Star’s purpose in the region and their goal of reaching the top of Mt Calagon, which then led to the topic of the overseers they would need to defeat along the way. A simple comment from Tim about how he was finding it difficult to get started as a new trainer caused a ripple of agreement to go through the group and brought out a surprising amount of vitriol from the others.

[i]‘The whole system is stacked against you’[/i], they said. [i]‘Unless you go to that professor and get one of his starters, then they practically lead you by the hand’[/i], another had continued. It seemed he wasn’t the only aspiring trainer to run into problems along the road and find their way to Team Star and soon enough his own voice was drowned out of the conversation as the others continued to rant about the [i]’privileged trainers’[/i] and the unfair advantages those chosen by the professor or those with connections with the overseers would receive. It was all news to him, who had never heard this kind of stuff before.

It made sense though; any trainer getting their first Pokémon from the professor had a leg up on the rest of them. No traipsing through the woods looking for a Pokémon for them, no having to save up money to buy their first Pokéball to catch it yourself; someone just handed them a rare and strong Pokémon and sent their on their way with a pat on the head. He had thought that was it, but when he thought about it, why would it stop there? What other advantages did having a professor of Pokémon backing your efforts get you?

How they led to them robbing a clothing store he wasn’t sure.

Sure, it was store run by this towns Overseer and, sure, the others had said some stuff about how the prices for winter gear were too high so that they could price poorer trainers out of being able to complete their journey, but Tim wasn’t really convince of all that. Even if it all *was* really expensive. At least he was only acting as lookout and wasn’t taking part in the robbery itself. He still felt uneasy about this whole thing, but just keeping watch wasn’t so bad.

Around twenty minutes after they had started Tim saw someone approach; two someone’s actually and they were approaching pretty quickly on the back of something that had to be a Pokémon. He turned around, placed a finger on either side of his mouth and let loose with his loudest, highest pitch whistle.

[color=f7941d]“Someone’s coming!”[/color]

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