TYLER LEANS BACK AGAINST THE WALL, his heart beating way too fast for it to be healthy. He's been waiting for this moment for nearly his entire life - ever since 'Don't Stop' came on the radio that time, and teenage Tyler, who didn't even understand his own sexuality at this point in his life, fell madly in love with Michael Clifford.

Every time he catches sight of someone with his pink/blonde hair, Tyler freezes, until it passes by, and he realises that, yet again, it's just somebody else. There's far too many people with pink hair in Japan for Tyler's liking.

While he's looking in the opposite direction, somebody runs directly into the back of him and nearly kills him. As Tyler scrapes himself up off the floor, he meets the stranger's eyes, and lo and behold, as it always is in bad fanfic, Michael Clifford is stood there, looking more than a little confused.

"Oh! Oh, oh my god, I'm so sorry. Oh my god, I feel so bad." He says over and over again, and Tyler tries to shrug off his near-death experience, since, you know, Michael Clifford.

"It's fine! It's all good, do you want to go in?" Tyler stabs his thumb back towards the doorway of the Pokémon Centre, and he swears he has never seen a single human being look so excited.

Straightaway, Michael has gone again, and Tyler eventually finds him in the middle of a pile of Charizard plushies, grinning at each one as he stares at them. He looks to be a little burnt out, probably from touring, but the expression on his face is that of a small gamer child (which, to be fair, isn't that far from the truth).

"Which one do I get?" He asks, holding up what looks like the exact same Pokémon in two different colors to Tyler.

"I... The black one? Is that the shiny one? Shiny is better, right?"

Michael gasps and rolls his eyes. "No! This one is Mega Charizard Y, from Pokémon Y, and the black one is not shiny, it is Mega Charizard X, from Pokémon X."

After a few seconds of contemplation and Michael mock-glaring at him, Tyler points at Mega Charizard X, and he nods with a smile while throwing the denied Charizard back onto the shelf.

And Tyler will be completely honest. He never had a Pokémon phase when he was younger or ever (he might have played Pokémon Pearl when he was like eight, but after that, nothing), but there's something about watching Michael smile so happily at everything in the building and have so much fun that makes him see the series in a completely new light.