*Luck is on a lunch break*

"One-one-five-eight-two!" You groan as the person in the seat next to yours stands up and heads to the stage. Given that the only careers of any note in this universe seem to involve Pokemon (trainer, gym leader, professor, crazy leader of a group of criminals/terrorists), this pretty much means that you're going nowhere fast.

The ceremony ends with the valedictorian giving a short speech, then that 'throwing your hat' thing, and it's off to Professor Oak's lab for the choosing of Pokémon. You, of course, aren't going.