Junipers Prep-school for Young Trainers

You try and concentrate, what do you know about the regional school?

You cannot remember the research you did on your home world revealing much about it. Then I realized, through a sudden mental image, that Red had gone there and I gently attempt to access his memories:

Red used to go to the small regional prep-school for young trainers. People that were too young to begin their journeys or whose parents did not allow them to begin without completing the class everything was pretty much as one might imagine, except for Special Class.

Yes, the schools big surprise was special class, even Red could see that at the time. Professor Aurea Juniper, who ran the school, had a reputation for dangerous and unconventional teaching methods. For midterms she had blindfolded Red and the students, then had us each stick a pin onto a chart. When they took the blindfolds off and looked at the chart and found that they were either supposed to play the role of a certain kind of trainer or a starter Pokémon. Then they went to war on the soft short grass. Professor Aurea Juniper wanted them to understand fighting a bit more from the perspective of the Pokémon. Things got carried away and a few bloody noses resulted. Professor Poke and some of the parents were furious but Professor Aurea Juniper would only say, “Sometimes even war is necessary to teach us the value of Pokémon. I’d rather my students learned those lessons in school than in the arena, where it is already too late.”

Rumors in town reported that Professor Poke was going to report Aurea Juniper to the Overseers for inciting human on human ****. Even the Mayor was pretty annoyed, seeing as how his son’s nose was one of the ones that got bloodied. Mom and a nurse Joy (who was her friend back then) sat up late, drinking this worlds version of coffee and waited for Red to come home from the town meeting. It was after midnight when Red came in through the back door, tossed my cap on the table and said, “The vote was seven to six, no one is going to call the overseers, everyone is too scared. They wont close the school either, they don’t want to attract any more attention. They are all going to pretend it never happened.”

Red stayed in his room for a long time after that, the little guy was punishing himself for the part he played in jeopardizing the school and his precious Professor Aurea Juniper. Eventually, with Dahlias encouragement and because he couldn't take the solitude anymore, he returned to Junipers Prep-school for Young Trainers.