Elves: Goal, help Pokémon fulfill their wishes

"Grandpa, tomorrow is my tenth birthday. Will mom and dad come back to see me?" The childish Chi Ri tugged at the corner of his grandfather's clothes and asked hopefully. His parents, as talented young scholars in the field of new energy, were "entangled" in an important topic with unprecedented potential and considerable prospects, so that they had rarely had the opportunity to return home from the research institute in recent years.

In the Pokémon world, ten years old means something special to many children:

Children who are ten years old or older can choose to become a Pokémon Trainer and start their journey by challenging gyms, collecting badges, and heading towards the Pokémon League, where all the heroes gather.

Children who are ten years old or older can also choose to become a coordination trainer, participate in local gorgeous competitions to win medals, and show off their style in the final grand celebration to compete to become the top coordination trainer;

Children who are ten years old or older can even aspire to become Pokémon breeders, receive systematic learning in Pokémon schools, accumulate experience in Pokémon breeding houses, or practice theories during travels and encounters...

There are so many roads that it is no exaggeration to say that they are watersheds.

Since Chi Ri showed a strong interest and talent in mechanical products since he was a child, his elders imagined that he would grow up to be a very outstanding mechanical engineer.

Grandfather smiled amiably, stopped writing in his notebook, and gently stroked Chiri's head with his calloused hands. He replied cheerfully, "Of course I will come back. After all, tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of my precious grandson's arrival in our family. In fact, they contacted me quietly a few days ago and mentioned that they had prepared a surprise for you."

"What's the surprise, Grandfather?"

Upon hearing this, Chi Ri’s eyes widened and he asked curiously.

Grandfather bent his kind eyebrows and shook his head slowly: "Although I don't know more specific details, but since it's a surprise, we should still keep it a little mysterious, right?"

With a heart full of longings, Chi Ri returned to his room and fell asleep quickly.

However, the next day, he failed to see his missed parents.

Chi Ri was taken into the car by his grandfather, who looked much more haggard and older.

"It is reported that a very serious experimental accident occurred at the New Energy Research Institute last night, resulting in the casualties of many staff members in the institute. What is even more distressing is that the Buckler couple, who have appeared on the covers of authoritative journals many times due to their outstanding contributions and far-reaching influence, have been selected as rising stars in the field of new energy exploration, and have attracted much attention from the scientific community, unfortunately died in this accident."

"After an investigation by the alliance's special team, it has been preliminarily determined that the cause of the accident was related to a sudden failure of the [plasma energy generator] newly trial-produced by the New Energy Research Institute, but the specific details are still being further verified."

"Our reporter will continue to follow up on the report for you..."

The car radio starts the morning news as the engine starts.

"Mom and Dad?" Hearing the accident location and his parents' surnames from the report, Chi Ri was struck by lightning. He couldn't tell whether it was the car engine that was shaking or his own body that was stiff as the blood stopped flowing. As a child, he longed to get a negative answer from the elders he trusted, "Grandfather, are those things in the news true?"

The heavy, gloomy atmosphere that had been shrouding the area since early morning seemed to have been explained.

But my grandfather just gripped the steering wheel tightly, gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Chi Ri turned his head and found that the old man in the driver's seat was in tears.

……

Although they have passed away, as the highest person in charge and safety supervisor of the New Energy Research Institute and the creator of the [Plasma Energy Generator], Chi Ri's parents still bear an unshirkable responsibility for the occurrence of this accident - and a considerable amount of scientific research liquidated damages and medical compensation followed.

The grandfather, who was already at the age of retirement, resolutely took over the mess. Even though he emptied his pockets and it was still not enough to fill the financial gap, he started working outside. As for the depressed and lost Chi Ri, he was entrusted to the temporary care of an old friend who lived in seclusion in the Mori Mansion.

At the time of parting, the grandfather, who was already exhausted physically and mentally, gently stroked Chi Ri's cheek, his voice hoarse as if there was an iron weight hanging in his throat: "Chi Ri, you must study hard, and never disappoint your parents who are silently watching you in heaven."

Whether it was comforting the families of the victims, cooperating with the investigations of the relevant departments, answering interviews with radio and newspaper reporters, accepting condolences from all walks of life, or taking care of the funeral affairs of his son and daughter-in-law, who made him so proud...

Chi Ri also knew that his grandfather had not slept for several days.

In order to prevent his last relatives from worrying more about him, he silently suppressed all the anxiety and sadness he had felt in the past period of time, pretended to be mature and sensible, and nodded in agreement.

During the week when his grandfather was gone, Chi Ri was madly instilling mechanical knowledge into his head. However, he could no longer draw pleasure from this process as before. Instead, it was as if his nerves were paralyzed and he had no time to think.

A few months later, Chi Ri received a package from his grandfather. Inside lay a red and yellow painted toy robot and a metal plate engraved with the words "Happy Birthday" - this was the so-called "surprise" that his parents had not had time to hand over to their son in person.

He later learned from communications with his grandfather that this exquisite toy robot was actually one of the few relatively intact things that the special investigation team found from the explosion center of the New Energy Research Institute. It returned to him after passing the inspection of the Alliance Risk Assessment Group and being properly repaired.

For a long time afterwards, Chi Ri was inseparable from the last gift his parents left him. Although he was only focusing on studying and gradually became indifferent to everything around him, he often wiped the toy robot and sobbed in the dead of night.

……

On an ordinary afternoon, Chi Ri was tinkering with his toy robot in the yard as usual. This was probably the only thing that could relieve his worries. However, at a microscopic level that could not be observed by the naked eye, countless ions were constantly gathering towards the toy robot.

When the quantitative change accumulated to a critical point that caused a qualitative change, the glass prism embedded in the toy robot's eye sockets suddenly shot out a strong light, directly onto a lawn mower in the corner.

"Buzzing—"

The lawn mower started moving without even being connected to a power source.

The sharp blade spun at high speed and crashed towards the red sun.

As the incident happened suddenly, the ten-year-old child's mind went blank at that moment and he could only subconsciously hold his head and crouch down to defend himself.

The imagined pain of being minced meat did not appear, and the lawn mower narrowly stopped less than a centimeter away from the red sun.

Just as I was wondering, a mysterious Pokémon jumped out of the lawn mower's motor, and circled around the scorching sun while laughing. Even the dry air was crackling due to the electricity it released.

"This posture... could it be a Pokémon?"

After hesitating for half a second, Chi Ri Shen wanted to touch the other person as if possessed by a ghost.

"Thorn-"

The fingers he stretched out shrank due to the stimulation of the electric current.

The strange Pokémon was seen hovering in front of the red sun, its orange head tilted, and its blue eyes immediately revealed a hint of apology - it seemed that the electric shock in self-defense just now was a conditioned reflex that it could not control.

And this was the first encounter between Chiri and Rotom.