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The next regions Henry and Andy travelled to were the Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova.
Even though Henry caught several more Pokémon, Andy didn’t catch any. There were opportunities enough, but none of the Pokémon he encountered were interesting enough to be added to his team. He did enjoy to see all the Pokémon in the regions and made plenty of notes about the things he learned about them. They competed in the Hoenn league together. For this event Andy borrowed some Pokémon from Henry to have a full party. Neither won the league, but Andy did get in the top ten and Henry battled his way to 4th place. After that Andy didn’t compete in official Pokémon league, but he did cheer his friend on.
There were plenty adventures, but those will be told some other time.
After the two friends had seen the Unova Region they longed to go back to their homes on Rhando island and so they did. At first they didn’t know what to do, but one day Henry talked to a few other trainers from Rhando Island. Like Henry and Andy, these three trainers had travelled the other regions and like Henry they had challenged the local gym leaders to participate in the local Pokémon Leagues. It soon became clear Henry and the other three trainers shared a dream. They wanted to have their own gym and there were no gyms in the area where they lived.
After weeks of planning, discussing and sending formal letters to the Pokémon League officials, they would create their own gyms and their own League. They wanted to call it the Rorie-League, named after the five Rorie islands. Henry would build his gym n Rhando island, in Mesperit City and he would have a ground gym. The gym on Ornitan would be a water type gym and would be owned by Alana Landrieu. On the volcanic island Resto a fire type gym would be lead by Liah McLean. Blake Johnson would own a flying type gym on Indelgy. The League would be held on the final island Evoru and as a catch a trainer could only use the types that belonged to the four gyms of the Rorie islands during the league.
As Henry was busy building his gym in Mesperit city, the other three trainers were building theirs. At the same time the stadium was being build on the final island, with funding of the islands government and the Pokémon League organisation. The entire project was overseen by the president of the Pokémon League Mr. Charles Goodshow.
This would put the Rorie islands on the map for trainers and Henry was excited about that.
Once the gyms were build the Pokémon League officials tested the skills of Henry and the other three to see if they were fit to be gym leaders and they were.
Meanwhile had Andy settled in Lilan Town, where he walked up the professor Maple and told her he had acquired vast amounts of knowledge on the Pokémon world and that he would be happy to share that knowledge, if she would hire him to work in her research facility, a lab that was part of the Oak Research Foundation chain. Hesitantly she offered him a job as assistant to do Pokémon research. Why she did hire him was a mystery to everyone, as all they could see was a trainer who was rather full of himself. Much to everyone’s surprise, Andy proved to be a decent researcher and indeed knowledgeable about Pokémon. He had after all observed a lot during his travels, as well as spoken with several experts on different fields. It wasn’t long before he was allowed his own office and to do his own research.
Both Henry and Andy had found their way in life and were doing the things they liked doing. Since the opening of the gyms and the Rorie League, trainers were coming to Rhando Island and Henry could see his dream getting fulfilled.
Andy enjoyed working at the research facility and learning more about Pokémon, but he wanted more in his life. He learned that he loved helping and teaching young trainers, something he noticed when he spent time at the gym of his friend.
When his brother Matt also returned to the island the two were sitting in a bar and an idea popped up. Matt started as a trainer, but he had chosen to become an archaeologist and went to a university instead of travelling the world, he had figured he could travel the world after that. So now he knew what he needed to know about being an archaeologist, but he didn’t have much experience as a trainer. Andy on the other hand had travelled around and had lots of practical experience, as well as strong trainer skills, but he found that he was now catching up on knowledge he could have had if he had gone to college, knowledge that was essential to be a good researcher. Lastly, children could get their first Pokémon at the age of ten and with that become a trainer, but there were plenty of parents who didn’t want their child to wander into the world alone at that age. Andy added that if he would have any children of himself, he wouldn’t let his child run around with a Pokémon and into adventure at that age. He hadn't started to travel until he was fourteen humself.
Together they came up with the idea of a Pokémon Academy where people from the ages ten and up could enrol in. The name they choose for the academy was the Rorie Academy. The Rorie Academy would be a set of buildings to offer several services. There would be a school in which a new trainer could learn the basics of being a Pokémon trainer, like learning about training, taking care of and battling with their Pokémon, as well as taking care of themselves on the road. Besides that they would learn what any child would learn at school, so that when they completed the course they could get into college later on if they so wished. That was one aspect of the Academy, the other was that already accomplished trainers could take courses the Academy offered and graduate as teacher, scientist, geologist, archaeologist, nurse or doctor, and at the same time work on their trainer skills. Not just trainers were welcome at the academy, people aiming to be breeders, coordinators and rangers were just as welcome, but also people who didn’t want to work with Pokémon, but who wanted to get a degree in one of the courses that were being offered. For anyone that aimed to be a trainer, breeder, coordinator or ranger the only requirement was that they were at least ten years old and had at least one Pokémon, as the academy would not provide that. The academy would work together with the research facility of professor Maple, who could offer new trainers their starter Pokémon.
It took a few years for the academy to be build, but eventually it was build, close to the research facility in Lilan Town. Andy continued working as researcher in the research facility, but took part-time job as teacher as well and he earned the title professor.