Hey folks! Here's a story for my newest litle kid character Jules! ^w^

Seems the little guys on the hunt for a team... but not just ANY team. He's looking for the coolest, toughest, strongest team out there! He's looking for Team... Pre-K...

.......... so much for him being intelegent....

Anyway enjoy the story! ^w^

Janus owned by Tallen

Everybody else owned by me

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PCA - The Puppy that Followed Pre-K Home



Janus muttered as he retrieved his books from his locker. Ever since he’d first helped Andrew find his way to class the pichu had somehow managed to get the houndoom involved with him and his Team Pre-K. Not exactly the best thing for preserving his reputation for being a jerk, especially when the kids kept coming to him during class time. How did so many little kid like mon manage to find each other anyway? Especially at the PCA of all places.

“And how the frick do these things keep finden’ meh?” he asked nobody in particular as he felt someone tug gently on the back of his shirt and a rather high pitched voice asked him “Pardon me Mr? Could you help me please?" Janus winced at the sound and slowly turned, it couldn’t be… no way in HECK it could be…

He found himself looking down at what could only be described as a little riolu girl somewhere between ages four and five. The little puppy Pokemon smiled up to him eagerly, her tail wagging. Feck… it was ANOTHER one, how DID they find him? "...Eh... wot?" the kid smiled more "I'm looking for a group called team Pre-K." her puffy tail waged eagerly "Think you could help me find them please?"

Janus was mentally cussing up a storm as he kept his look of annoyed disinterest up "...Wot made yeh think I'd know 'bout 'em?" the little girl blinked "Oh, I'm sorry... I heard you were friends with them..." she tilts her head for a moment, thinking this over before smiling innocently again "Sorry to bother you then, thanks for the help Mr." and turned to go. Seeing her about to leave Janus gave a loud mental FECK “H-hol' it, kiddo! 'O... 'O told yeh I was friend wi' 'em?"

The riolu stopped and turned back to Janus "Umm... I think it was a pretty lopunny girl... I asked her if she knew where they were and she said that you might..." she grined eagerly, standing on her tippy toes in excitement "I'm looking to join them! They sound like a fun team! I bet we'll show everyone you don't have to evolve to be strong!" she giggled eagerly, tail wagging more. Janus just stood there, his jaw wide, wide open as he tried to process this "...Yeh wan' t' join this team... This team named Pre-K..."

"Yep! I even hear their leader is the son of a pro! I be he's soooooo cool!" she calls eagerly, jumping a little in excitement. Janus brain simply wasn’t made to handle this as he tried to disbelieve what the kid kept saying "...Yeh'll meet 'is team during practice on Tuesdays en Thursdays bout an hour after school..." He sighs. "Jes... why're yeh so inclined t' join th' team?" the kid grinned "Thanks Mr! Oh?" she smiled and giggled innocently "Well why not? They're all unevolved except one and they sound like a fun bunch! I bet we'll get along great!" she declared with innocent confidence "Besides if they don't let me join it's still a chance to make new friends, right?"

Janus raised one hand up to his face. He had no idea why there was such a concentration of unevolved, undersized children in the fighting school he had moved into from the other side of the world, nor why he had taken the fame to be friends with them. His best guess was a cosmic entity up above enjoyed watching him squirm. "...Yeh'll love 'em. 'Specially th' Dratini an' th' Munchlax."

"Yaaaay!" she shouted happily and eagerly offerd him a paw for a handshake "Thank you Mr... um..." she blushed a little and giggled "Sorry... what was your name?" she asked apologetically. He sighed as he rolled his eyes. "...I never gave it t' yeh." He looked down, stroking his horns with his hand. "...Janus Hanenbound. Wha' 'bout yeh?" It was too late to save his reputation, anyway. "I'm Jules! Jules Elapsi! Nice to meet you Mr. Janus!" she declared happily, grinning "I'm gonna be a pro someday so please don't forget me, okay?" she finished, giving the houndoom an innocent, puppy dog smile.

"Couldn' even if'n I tried..." He said weakly, trying to smile back, and failing. "...Yeh should go 'n find th' team, now, rite?" Jules blinked “Oh! Sight! See you around Mr. Janus! Soon I hope!" she called eagerly, dashing out of sight, fluffy tail trailing behind her like a streamer. "...Arceus 's testin' meh..." Janus sighed, turning around. "Fifth kid. FIFTH. What're th' odds?" He grumbled to himself. "...Jules... wait, Jules?" His jaw dropped as he turned around and just barely spotted the small Riolu before the small 'mon took a corner and disappeared from view. "Tha' lass was a BOY??"

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In the gym at that moment Team Pre-K was doing their best to get some team practice. The addition of Maddie to the group as a coach had helped considerable (her ability to diminish or right out stop Kimmie’s tantrums was a godsend) but the team still had a LONG way to go before they could even attempt to shake off the title of “Team Babies” that the disasters of their last few matches had gotten them.

“Come on Pampers don’t wimp out on me again! We’re having a match to see who’s gonna be the leader of this team right here and right NOW!!” Sammi roared as the dratini girl glared hell at her pichu team captain. “B-but S-Sammi….” Andrew squeaked timidly, holding his hands up submissively and stepping back from the tiny raging dragon “T-team leadership d-doesn’t w-work that way!” as Jane did her best to hold the little dragon back… meaning she simply grabbed onto the tip of Sammi’s tail and she wasn’t going anywhere.

“I don’t care! I’m sick of this! I joined this team to watch it succeed NOT to get laughed at by folks!!” she shouted, still pissed about their poor showing at the last match… even if it HAD been much better then their first one “Somehow I don’t think beating up on Andrew’s gonna help you there…” Petie muttered as he was cuddled like a plush toy by the giggling Kimmie “Oh just SHUT IT Teddy!!” she snapped back. “Sammi? Is this because Kimmie got to fight instead of you in the last match?” Maddie asked gently. The momentary jerk-kneed freeze from Sammi followed by the dirty look she shot the miltank confirmed it.

“There ARE better ways to tell us that than trying to beat up on little Andrew, you do know that don’t you?” Maddie went on, not phased by the glare. Sammi just grumbled and with one whip motion yanked her tail free of Jane’s grasp before folding her arms and pouting “Yeah… but this one makes me feel better and is a lot more fun… stupid cow…” she grumbled. Like always Maddie had a talent for bringing out Sammi’s “Standoffish, stubborn little girl” side whenever she was around her. “Hmmm… we’re gonna have to talk about that then… and Kimmie, stop hugging so tight. Petie is turning blue.” Maddie commented, making the togetic join Sammi in pouting as she loosened her grip and the teddiursa gasps for air.

“Chuuuuuu… a-anyway I t-thought w-we did okay in t-the m-match…” Andrew said softly… at the very least they’d stood a chance this time instead of making idiots of themselves from the get go, that was an improvement right? “C-can we g-get b-back to training t-though? T-the next team w-will be in here s-soon…” he asked, getting a chorus of grumbles and agreements from his team, making the pichu’s ears droop. They finally are able to do some decent team training and the only one with any enthusiasm for it was Maddie… this wasn’t good…

“Hello there!” a chipper young voice suddenly called out, the childish female pitch of it automatically had everybody looking at Kimmie who just stared back at them confused and for once innocent. Jane pointed to the door and everybody looked there just as a riolu girl who looked about four or five scurryed up to them “You guys are Team Pre-K right? I wanna join you!” the kid chirped eagerly, bouncing in place in excitement. Believe it or not it took a team composed of four mon who looked like they belong in daycare or grade school, one teenage toddler, and a girl who made her living and goal in life caring for children a full minute of awkward silence before it dawned on them that the fighting type in front of them might be older then she looked.

“Um… y-you want to j-JOIN us?” Andrew asked, still in sheer disbelief over that part. “Uh-huh! Can I? Pleeeeeeeeeease?” the girl asked eagerly, tail wagging before it suddenly stopped as she innocently counted out the number of mon in the gym, her tail and ears drooping when she reached Maddie and her count reached six. The cow giggled a little, walked over to the riolu, kneeled down, and hugged her “It’s okay little one, I’m just there coach. I’m sure there’s room on the team for a brave little boy like you.” She said reassuringly as she ruffled his hair, making him giggle.

“……. BOY?” all of team Pre-K asked at once, looks of disbelief on their faces. “Yeah, I’m a boy!!” the kid shouted indignantly, puffing up his chest to try and look tougher and just looking silly “I’m 100% a guy!” Maddie jus smiled and ruffled his head again, stepping back to be with the rest of Pre-K. “How in the name of Dragons Den did you know?” Sammi whispered to her cow coach as Jules continued to rant on about the fact he was a guy.

“Handle small children of species WITHOUT gender tell-tale signs for a long while and you’ll learn to tell by instinct.” Maddie said with a simple smile as Sammi just gave the cow a confused look before shaking her head “Whatever… crazy cow… anyway what the heck are we gonna do about him?” she says, pointing a finger at Jules who’s finally run out of breath. “W-well… um… I t-think we s-should let h-him join.” Andrew said softly, having been thinking this over since the initial shock of finding out Jules was a guy had worn off.

“Okay then Pampers; enlighten us to why we should let the kid in?” Sammi said sarcastically. “Well he IS shorter then us…” Petie piped up, trying to squirm free of Kimmie’s grasp “…… we need a better reason then THAT…” the dratini said, trying not to let on how much that fact excited her. “W-well he WOULD h-help the team… w-with f-fighting mon at least.” Andrew said softly, getting a confused look from everyone but Maddie who smiled and patted Andrew’s head proudly.

“… you wanna let us in on whatever idea Pampers came up with?” Sammie asked, tail swishing in impatience “Me, Petie, and Kimmie, are all weak to fighting.” Jane said finally catching up to the concept. By now Sammi was aggravated, not so much that she hadn’t caught on yet but that it left her, Petie and Kimmie left as the only ones still in the dark… and she’d sooner wear one of the togetic stupid dress up outfits then have them figure it out before her! “So? It’s not like he’s resistant to them or knows any moves that could actually help against one.” Jules puffed up at that comment “Hey! I know plenty of strong moves!”

Maddie smiled “Well Sammi, do you expect any mon with psychic or flying moves to come here looking to join this team?” she asked, leaving the dragon to blush and shake her head “Well then having another member besides you and Andrew that are not weak to fighting type moves would be a very good idea.” Sammi grumbled… not because she didn’t agree, but because it felt like they were settling for a lesser option… but the cow had a point. It just burned that Andrew got to make the call here.

During this whole chat between Sammi and Maddie Jules and Andrew had been talking “S-so your names J-Jules huh? N-nice to meet y-you.” Andrew said, shaking hands with the grinning riolu “Likewise! I can’t believe I’m shaking hands with you! Your dad is soooooooooooo COOL! I bet you’re just as cool as he is!” Jules said grinning, making Andrew blush and fidget “W-well… n-no…. b-but I’m t-trying to b-be…” hearing this just seemed to make Jules grin more “That’s awesome! I bet we can get stronger together!”

Watching this had Sammi on the verge of either hitting both the idiots or puking… or hitting them and then puking “Are this nursery rejects serious?” Sammi said, as Maddie smiled “Well I think it’s cute.” Kimmie just tilted her head a little “So the little puppy girl is gonna join the team?” she asked innocent. “Yes ditz girl the girly puppy is joining the team.” Sammi commented dryly “If your attention span lasted more then a few seconds you’d…” she stopped as Kimmie was long gone, leaving a dazed Petie rubbing his head where Kimmie had dropped him.

The togetic was now squeezing the life out of Jules as she cooed about how cute he was. As Andrew tried to get Kimmie to stop and Maddie rushed over to help Sammi sighed “… same thing she tried to do to me when she learned I was on the team… what is it the official team hazing or something?” finally sitting up Petie sighed “Little guy never knew what he was getting into… least she let go of me…”